Society and Social Sciences

The Rules of the Game is an examination of Standard Written American English (SWAE), which is the dialect of educated people, and an analysis of the characteristics of that dialect.

K-12 schools and higher education institutions are experiencing steady racial and cultural shifts that are affecting interactions, relationships, and ultimately, school and student success.

This book is a must read for anyone who has a passion for leadership.

The Cognitive Rigor Matrix superposes two of the most common tools used in K-12 education: Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and Depth of Knowledge.

Planning for Success demonstrates the power of applied listening through focus, meaning, and understanding context.

This book is a result of research into ten technologies currently under development that will directly affect community colleges and universities, most within the next 5-20 years and a few within the next 20-30 years.

The book is a unique and necessary contribution to the literature on school administration.

"e;Igniting School Performance"e; begins with a simple question.

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music.

All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations.

Relationships are everything in successful systems, and connections are cultivated by our actions and our words.

Traditional public educators in the US have too little information about the free market of schooling, otherwise known as privatization/choice education.

Do you teach math to Spanish-Speaking ELLs (especially K-8)?

With chapters from experienced teachers and school and district leaders, this text provides a wealth of practical strategies and inspirational guidance on incorporating social-emotional and ethical learning across a district and educational community.

Today we are moving into an information revolution that is every bit as life altering as the previous industrial revolution.

WINNER OF THE 2025 DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYLONGLISTED FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'What a joy to see a new sun rising in the poetic sky!

Help young children to understand and talk about their feelings with this beautifully illustrated book of activities.

Gunther Anders's prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English.

An articulation of any kind of global understanding of belonging, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, especially in a world that is so deeply wounded by subjugation, colonialisms and genocides.

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality.

What are the core features of an anarchist ethics?

What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 ended 42 years of Communist rule.

The attention paid to protest groups and social movements has rarely been higher, be it the Occupy movement, austerity protests, or student demonstrations.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

Crazy Culture is a series of broadsides against many widely held misconceptions in both academe and the general public, who is often seen clustering under the politically correct banner of multiculturalism.

What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today?

Identity plays an important part in terms of how we imagine our relationship with the state and governing bodies.

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is one of the most influential and best-known sociologists of the past century.

Head Games is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process.

How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society?

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

Navigating government documents is a task that requires considerable knowledge of specialized terms and acronyms.

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world?

A perfect stocking filler this Christmas!

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented.

Why is the Golden Rule so central in almost every culture and religion?

WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - CareerFiguring out your next move after transitioning out of the military should start before your last day.

Why Are You Here?

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others.

Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions is the essential companion for all jobseekers.

This is a practical guidebook for conducting field research on cultural issues.

People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas.

Human rights and development cannot be understood separately.

What role did women's leadership play in the introduction and revival of the Montessori Method in America?

This book argues that a sense of affinity for land and space constitutes the foundation of human agency and underlies all social activity of human beings from a personal level to family, nation, region, and the world.

This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster.

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Concerning Children reflects her innovative thinking on the social and economic construction of motherhood.

This book is written to examine Russian public opinion, culture and society in the context of the lies, liars and untruths consistent with, but not exclusively part of, the rule of Russia's second (and fourth) post-Soviet President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.