Social Class

H. Richard Milner IV focuses on a crucial issue in teacher training and professional education: the need to prepare teachers for the racially diverse student populations in their classrooms. The book, anchored in real-world experiences, centers on case studies that exemplify the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms. The case studies—of teachers in urban and suburban settings—are presented amid current discussions about race and teaching. In addition, the second edition includes a new chapter dedicated to opportunity gaps in education.

Mary Prince's 1831 book is one of the earliest narratives that revealed the ugly facts about slavery in the West Indies. The book begins with a brief description of her childhood, before recounting her adult experiences as a slave. Her strong spirit enabled her to survive and to take up the abolitionist cause.

Although he is guided and inspired by the people he respects, and despite the insufficiency of his knowledge and experience - an insufficiency shared by most (or all) other humans, Wallace Shawn can’t see any real alternative to trying to figure out his own answers to the most essential questions about the world he lives in.

This USMLE audiobook was written and narrated by Dr. Adeleke Adesina, board certified emergency medicine physician and founder of SmashUSMLE Review. This USMLE Endocrinology Masterclass is an excellent crash course for medical students studying for the USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, shelf exams and Step 3. The content is concise and focuses on the most commonly tested concepts in endocrinology for the USMLE exam.

Ruled by the evil White cockroaches, on an oppressive plantation, Anton Indigo, Antrea Violet, and a thousand other ants escape to seek freedom on Ant Farm. When they arrive, although their lives are not utopian, the tiny insects find themselves with much more freedom and prosperity than ever before. Can the ants maintain this positive new lifestyle? Or will some of the more power-hungry bugs prevail, and deteriorate the new society into the same nightmare from which they escaped in the first place?

The author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit - a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city's past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation's fabric.

The United States spends enormous sums on helping people—$3.8 trillion on healthcare, $182 billion on prisons, and $604 billion on higher education—and yet these systems routinely fail us. When we seek to improve how they function, our efforts focus on policy debates, technical solutions, funding, and data. But if these systems are to truly improve, we have to start with the human values behind them. Broken explores the deeply human dimensions we must consider if we want to rebuild the policies, technologies, processes, and most importantly, the heart we use to serve people.

You see, most people think that social media is little more than a time-vampire sucking away attention from more important aspects of your business...but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, social media marketing needn’t take much more than an hour of your day. And whats more, your social accounts can be automated - allowing you to grow your brand, audience, and customer base on auto-pilot!

Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality.

『이타적 자존감 수업』은 서울대학교 인성교육연구회 연구원인 저자가 인성연구에 약 10여 년간 몰두한 결과물이다. 저자는 인성문제로 갈등을 겪고 있는 아이들을 보면서 심각성을 깨닫고, 그때부터 올바른 인성을 키워주기 위한 실질적인 방법을 연구하기 시작했다. 이후 인성을 '생존적 자존감-이기적 자존감-이타적 자존감' 세 가지 자존감 개념으로 정리해 분석했고, 이를 사례로 쉽게 풀어냈다.

Equal but Different is based on my doctoral thesis, which investigated the intersection of race, gender, and social class in women leaders' career progression. The women leaders came up with strategies for gender transformation at leadership level. The audiobook presents life stories of women leaders in South Africa and abroad and men who believe in gender equality and have contributed toward this goal.

The world’s largest company, WalMart Stores, has revenues higher than the gross domestic product of all but twentyfive of the world’s countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost one hundred nations. The world’s largest asset manager, a New York company called BlackRock, controls assets greater than the national reserves of any country on the planet.

JTBC 대표 시사교양 프로그램이자, 불통의 시대를 지나 더 이상 침묵하지 않는 질문의 시대를 이끌어갈 대표 교양 도서 『차이나는 클라스』가 출간됐다. 국가·법·리더·역사 분야를 대표하는 9명의 강연자(문정인, 조한혜정, 조영태, 박준영, 이국운, 김준혁, 김종대, 한명기, 황석영)들은 중국과 미국의 패권 사이에서 우리가 어떤 선택을 해야 하는지, 저출산 위기 속에서 우리는 어떤 미래를 준비해야 하는지, 헌법에 담긴 국가의 정체성과 기본권은 무엇인지, 법의 진정한 주인은 누구인지, 국가를 이끄는 지도자들이 갖춰야 할 미덕은 무엇인지, 외세침략과 민주화의 역사를 통해 우리가 가슴 깊이 새겨야 할 것은 무엇인지 등 지금 우리에게 필요한 생존의 해법을, 질문자들과 함께 쌍방향 토론식 수업을 통해 모색한다.

Las mujeres trabajadoras y campesinas han estado a la vanguardia de grandes revoluciones y luchas sociales. Ahora, en los primeros años del siglo XXI, con una feminización del mundo laboral como nunca se había dado, la clase trabajadora tiene rostro de mujer y el movimiento de mujeres puede estar anunciando una recuperación más general de la lucha de clases contra el capitalismo patriarcal y racista. Esa es la hipótesis de este libro, y también nuestra esperanza.

Este es un libro de filosofía de guerrilla, una puesta en práctica de los presupuestos filosóficos que Marina Garcés planteaba en su libro anterior, Filosofía inacabada. Pensar radicalmente provoca que nos relacionemos con lo que somos y lo que hacemos a través de preguntas inesperadas con consecuencias no previstas. De esta manera, la filosofía crea su propio campo de batalla.

Los genes no son los responsables de la desigualdad pero llevan impresas las marcas que ha dejado a lo largo de nuestra historia. La creciente desigualdad en el siglo XXI es un grave problema social y sus causas y consecuencias provocan debates y controversias que implican desde agentes sociales y políticos hasta economistas. En Desigualdad, Carles Lalueza-Fox ofrece una visión totalmente nueva de este tema al examinar las huellas genéticas dejadas por la desigualdad en los humanos a lo largo de su historia.

This is Story Waters' most advanced course on 'how reality works.' It is recommended that you are familiar with his other recordings before listening (such as The Book of Introduction) as a foundation in his concepts is required for you to get the most out of this mind-bending reality-expanding recordings. The course was delivered across ten days and eight live broadcasts.

Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class", a strike wave - the first in over four decades - rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for students, and an end to years of austerity.

Meet Jack Reynolds. Making people laugh is his life's work. Jack's wacky MyTube channel is really starting to take off. The only problem is, for the truly epic posts, he needs a collaborator. And, well, he doesn't exactly have any friends. So Jack has to swallow his pride and join the new afterschool club, Speed Friendshipping. But who would make the best partner in comedy?

Author Natalie Foster, cofounder of the Economic Security Project, has had a front-row seat to the dramatic leaps forward in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new Guarantee Framework is rooted in real life experiences, collaborations with some of today's most important activists and visionaries, and a concrete sense of the policies that are possible—and ready to implement—in twenty-first-century America.