Social Reform

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    • The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
    • Auteur(s): Tressie McMillan Cottom
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 8 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials....

    Prix courant: 35,74$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 35,74$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • Auteur(s): Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrateur(s): Traci Odom
    • Durée: 8 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
    • Auteur(s): Lou Aronica, Ken Robinson
    • Narrateur(s): Ken Robinson PhD
    • Durée: 8 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Green
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Saltus
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art....

    Prix courant: 33,39$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,39$ ou 1 crédit

    • Rethinking School Practices and Policies
    • Auteur(s): Gillian Parekh
    • Narrateur(s): Chloe Dolandis
    • Durée: 5 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this down-to-earth guide, Dr. Gillian Parekh unpacks the realities of how ability and disability play out within schooling, including insights from students, teachers, and administrators about the barriers faced by students on the basis of ability....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
    • Auteur(s): Bettina L. Love
    • Narrateur(s): Bettina L. Love, Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 11 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915
    • Auteur(s): Matthew S. Seligmann
    • Narrateur(s): John Lee
    • Durée: 8 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A major architect of welfare reform as President of the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary, Winston Churchill also continued to push a radical social agenda while running the Navy....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
    • Auteur(s): James M. Lang
    • Narrateur(s): Caitlin Davies
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions - which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
    • Auteur(s): Bryan Caplan
    • Narrateur(s): Allan Robertson
    • Durée: 11 h
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 évaluations
    • Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • On the Principles of Democracy
    • Auteur(s): A. C. Grayling
    • Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
    • Durée: 6 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled, and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, and lowering the voting age to 16....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
    • Auteur(s): Leslie Valiant
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Perry
    • Durée: 7 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Rise of the American Mass Shooter
    • Auteur(s): Seamus McGraw
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Wayne
    • Durée: 6 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World
    • Auteur(s): Yong Zhao
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Zeller
    • Durée: 6 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? by award-winning writer Yong Zhao offers an entertaining, provocative insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both "the best and worst" in the world....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Corruption, Lax Oversight, and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
    • Auteur(s): Art Levine
    • Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
    • Durée: 12 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Prizewinning investigative journalist Art Levine offers a no-holds-barred and crucial call to action for America's broken mental health system....

    Prix courant: 22,48$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,48$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Year Inside College Admissions
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey J. Selingo
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times best-selling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office - one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Reform and Reaction in the American University
    • Auteur(s): Louis Menand
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
    • Durée: 4 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Louis Menand examines what professors and students might be better off without while assessing what is worth saving....

    Prix courant: 23,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Warning About America's Next Generation
    • Auteur(s): Jeremy S. Adams
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Abell
    • Durée: 6 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Do teachers have a front-row seat to America’s decline? Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so....

    Prix courant: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 14,56$ ou 1 crédit

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  • Prix courant: 12,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Rosa Luxemburg
    • Narrateur(s): Anne Makoto
    • Durée: 3 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Reform or Revolution is an 1899 pamphlet by Polish-German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg, in which she argues that trade unions, reformist political parties, and the expansion of social democracy could not create a socialist society....

    Prix courant: 25,98$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,98$ ou 1 crédit