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Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois
Phillip Luke Sinitiere · Northwestern University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
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In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, published when W. E. B. Du Bois was eighty-three years old, the brilliant black scholar announced that he was a "citizen of the world." Citizen of the World chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois's final three decades between the 1930s... |
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The Media Education Manifesto
David Buckingham · Polity
Pages: 140
Format: Hardcover
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In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas about 'media literacy' will lead us nowhere: we need a comprehensive and coherent educational approach. We all need to think critically... |
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School Libraries in a Time of Change: How to Survive and Thrive
Kathleen W. Craver · Libraries Unlimited
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
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By becoming practical futurists, school librarians can help their libraries not only to survive sweeping changes in education but to thrive. This book shows how to spot technological trends and use them to your library's advantage.School librarians will recognize the need to become... |
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Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
Daniel Pauly · Greystone Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years." - Ted Danson, actor, ocean activist, and co-author of Oceana "This wonderfully personal and accessible book by the world's greatest living fisheries biologist summarizes and expands on the causes of collapse... |
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Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice
Andrea Freeman · Stanford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood, became the mother of America's first surviving set of identical... |
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The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
Ben Cohen · Custom House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal.For decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking... |
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In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead
SusanDouglas · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Do you see women your age portrayed as puttering gardeners and docile grannies? Do you feel bombarded by anti-aging products that insist you must "defy" getting older? Do you feel invisible in professional and social situations? And have you had enough and are you ready to challenge... |
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