Social Reform

Liste de produits
    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Durée: 8 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-08-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

    Prix courant: 27,72$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,72$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
    • Auteur(s): John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Puttonen
    • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 évaluations
    • Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

    Prix courant: 16,16$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 16,16$ 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

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    • How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
    • Auteur(s): Salman Khan
    • Narrateur(s): Salman Khan
    • Durée: 6 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): E.D. Hirsch Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Fields
    • Durée: 12 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Our school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn....

    Prix courant: 30,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • Auteur(s): Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrateur(s): Machelle Williams
    • Durée: 7 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
    • Auteur(s): Linda Åkeson McGurk
    • Narrateur(s): Ann Richardson
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 évaluations
    • Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • Auteur(s): Daniel Markovits
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 14 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
    • Auteur(s): Natalie Wexler
    • Narrateur(s): Natalie Wexler
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
    • Auteur(s): Paul Tough
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,13$ 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: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,18$ 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

    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • Auteur(s): Shane Bauer
    • Narrateur(s): James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 évaluations
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Quest to Remake the American High School
    • Auteur(s): Jal Mehta, Sarah Fine
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 16 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education - one that will set the agenda for schools of the future....

    Prix courant: 35,66$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 35,66$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • Auteur(s): Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 8 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system....

    Prix courant: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • And How They Got That Way
    • Auteur(s): Amanda Ripley
    • Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
    • Durée: 7 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-08-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • How do other countries create "smarter" kids? In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Science Behind the Genius
    • Auteur(s): Angeline Stoll Lillard
    • Narrateur(s): Chelsea Stephens
    • Durée: 19 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Élyse-Andrée Héroux
    • Narrateur(s): Pauline Marois
    • Durée: 14 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-25
    • Langue: Français
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 évaluations
    • Qui est Pauline Marois? Chacun a probablement déjà une opinion formée de longue date sur cette femme au parcours – il faut bien l’admettre – d’exception....

    Prix courant: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,09$ 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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

    • Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
    • Auteur(s): Carla Shalaby
    • Narrateur(s): Luci Christian Bell
    • Durée: 7 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers"....

    Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit