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The Death of "Why?". The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Demo...
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Hardback. Obsessed with answers, we have lost sight of the power and value of questions. Schlesinger argues that we're besieged by cultural forces that urge us to avoid critical thinking and independent analysis. He profiles individuals and institutions renewing the practice of inquiry at a time when society demands such activity from us all. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781576755853
- ISBN
- 9781576755853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.94
€ 17.99
€ 16.94
Paperback. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439913949
- ISBN
- 9781439913949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.97
€ 37.99
€ 33.97
Paperback. Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465036585
- ISBN
- 9780465036585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.92
€ 19.99
€ 17.92
Hardcover. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSG; JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 123 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 598
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 50th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679644330
- ISBN
- 9780679644330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.25
€ 31.99
€ 26.25
Paperback. The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again. 352 pages, illustrations. The "Paul Revere and Tom Paine" (according to Bill Moyers) of media reform propose a bold and controversial response to the current crisis of journalism. Cateogry: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; KNTJ. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 28. Weight: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nation Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568586366
- ISBN
- 9781568586366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.73
€ 17.99
€ 17.73
The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf C...
Carol J.; Etc. . Ed(S): Erting
hardcover. Editor(s): Erting, Carol J.; etc. Num Pages: 942 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1864.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 942
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563680267
- ISBN
- 9781563680267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.87€ 98.90
€ 115.87
€ 98.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JNSC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563680731
- ISBN
- 9781563680731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.05
€ 33.05
paperback. This volume presents an assembly of essays that together offer a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America. Editor(s): Cleve, John Vickrey Van. Num Pages: 256 pages, figures, tables, references. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563683596
- ISBN
- 9781563683596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.03
€ 25.99
€ 21.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 44 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JKVM; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816680887
- ISBN
- 9780816680887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.27
€ 32.99
€ 27.27
Paperback. Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. Num Pages: 605 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1F; 1H; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 868. 605 pages, 2 tables. Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1F; 1H; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight: 842.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 605
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236424
- ISBN
- 9780520236424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
Hardback. Explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players including Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, and more, the author shows the importance of domestic upheaval on the election. Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742543911
- ISBN
- 9780742543911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.48
€ 27.99
€ 25.48
Hardcover. A vivid account of one of the most critical elections in American history. Sheds new light on this crucial contest and shows like no other work that the success of the fragile new government under the Constitution was tentative at best." Series: American Presidential Elections. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- 1st edition,
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700617425
- ISBN
- 9780700617425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.14
€ 57.14
Paperback. Series: A.C. Greene. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of North Texas Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 2 Reprint
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574414745
- ISBN
- 9781574414745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.50
€ 29.50
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415165297
- ISBN
- 9780415165297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 51.66
€ 52.99
€ 51.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- NAL
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451415301
- ISBN
- 9780451415301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.57
€ 23.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. The inside pilot's story of one of the most remarkable aircraft of the Second World War Num Pages: 96 pages, 70. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBWQ; JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445663128
- ISBN
- 9781445663128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.48
€ 28.48
Paperback. Liz Stephens has come from Los Angeles to Utah for graduate school, and her brief stint working on a Taco Bell commercial is not much in the way of preparation for taking on the real West. In The Days Are Gods Stephens chronicles a move that is far more than a shift in geographical coordinates. Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803243545
- ISBN
- 9780803243545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.89
€ 19.99
€ 18.89
Paperback. First published in 1984, this prize-winning history of the Manhattan Project is now available in paperback for the first time, fifty years after the explosion of the first atomic bomb. Num Pages: 233 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JWMN; PHN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826307682
- ISBN
- 9780826307682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Hardback. Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. This title uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; AS; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5346 x 3564 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592137282
- ISBN
- 9781592137282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.28
€ 81.28
paperback. Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. This title uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; AS; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592137299
- ISBN
- 9781592137299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.18
€ 34.99
€ 32.18