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Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions.
In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis. Current...
Young, Gifted and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the achievement of African-American students in school.
In three separate but allied essays, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard place students'...
In Schools We Trust
Creating Communities of Learning in an era of Testing and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust.
Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win...
A God That Could Be Real
Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded readers
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Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them: too easily it can perpetuate conflict, vilify science, and undermine reason. Nancy...
The Power of Their Ideas
Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2002
Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education. With a new preface reflecting on the school's continuing success.
Overdiagnosed
Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument...
"You're in the Wrong Bathroom!"
And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues
From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical,...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted...
The Iron Cage
The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi, one of the most respected historians and political observers of the...
Resurrecting Empire
Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political...
Queer (In)Justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system
Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences--as "suspects," defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack...
Water Tossing Boulders
How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told.
On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister...
Divided We Fail
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality
In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended...
The Animals' Agenda
Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf
Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about just how intelligent and emotional animals are—did you know rats like to play and laugh,...