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Miseducation: A History of Ignorance-Making in America and Abroad
by A. J. AnguloA provocative collection that explores how intentional ignorance seeps into formal education.Honorable Mention for the PROSE Education Theory Award of the Association of American PublishersIgnorance, or the study of ignorance, is having a moment. Ignorance plays a powerful role in shaping public opinion, channeling our politics, and even directing scholarly research. The first collection of essays to grapple with the historical interplay between education and ignorance, Miseducation finds ignorance—and its social production through naïveté, passivity, and active agency—at the center of many pivotal historical developments. Ignorance allowed Americans to maintain the institution of slavery, Nazis to promote ideas of race that fomented genocide in the 1930s, and tobacco companies to downplay the dangers of cigarettes. Today, ignorance enables some to deny the fossil record and others to ignore climate science. A. J. Angulo brings together seventeen experts from across the scholarly spectrum to explore how intentional ignorance seeps into formal education. Each chapter identifies education as a critical site for advancing our still-limited understanding of what exactly ignorance is, where it comes from, and how it is diffused, maintained, and regulated in society.Miseducation also challenges the notion that schools are, ideally, unimpeachable sites of knowledge production, access, and equity. By investigating how laws, myths, national aspirations, and global relations have recast and, at times, distorted the key purposes of education, this pathbreaking book sheds light on the role of ignorance in shaping ideas, public opinion, and policy.
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It
by Richard Sander Stuart Taylor Jr.Two legal experts make the explosive argument that affirmative action hurts minority studentsOCO educational and career chances OCo and that liberals are in denial about it. "
Mission (Un)Popular
by Anna HumphreyEasier said than done. But, if Margot can learn to control her big mouth (and hair), there is hope. The new girl, Em, from New York, needs a friend too, now that the popular girls have decided she's "weird." More accurately, Em is "intimidating." She dresses like a rock star and doesn't seem to care what anyone thinks of her???especially Sarah J., the most popular girl in the seventh grade. Em has an agenda for change at Manning Middle School and wants Margot on her side.
Mission to Mercury
by Hugh WaltersThe four intrepid astronauts, headed by Chris Godfrey, look forward with enthusiasm to their trip to Mercury until the new crew member turns out to be a girl! Gail Patrick is being sent along to test mental telepathy as a means of communication. Her twin sister, Gill, will remain in the control room on earth to receive and send messages into space.
Mixed Signals (Nancy Drew Files #63)
by Carolyn KeeneNancy has joined Ned on campus for Emerson College’s homecoming weekend, and that means pep rallies, parades, and, of course, the annual gridiron clash with archrival Russell University. But when danger takes the field, the cheers turn to tears—because winning is crucial when a player’s life is on the line.
Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)
by Paul Lawrence FarberThis book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against miscegenation, or race mixing, espousing the common opinion that it would produce biologically dysfunctional offspring. By the 1960s the scientific community roundly refuted this theory. Paul Lawrence Farber traces this revolutionary shift in scientific thought, explaining how developments in modern population biology, genetics, and anthropology proved that opposition to race mixing was a social prejudice with no justification in scientific knowledge.In the 1960s, this new knowledge helped to change attitudes toward race and discrimination, especially among college students. Their embrace of social integration caused tension on campuses across the country. Students rebelled against administrative interference in their private lives, and university regulations against interracial dating became a flashpoint in the campus revolts that revolutionized American educational institutions. Farber’s provocative study is a personal one, featuring interviews with mixed-race couples and stories from the author’s student years at the University of Pittsburgh. As such, Mixing Races offers a unique perspective on how contentious debates taking place on college campuses reflected radical shifts in race relations in the larger society.
Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
by Aren Z. AizuraThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor.
Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest (Themes in Global Social Change)
by Paul AlmeidaWhat are the conditions and factors that drive people to protest against government economic policies in the developing world?Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association (2015)Paul Almeida’s comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the forces that spark mass mobilizations against state economic policy, whether those factors are electricity rate hikes or water and health care privatization. Many scholars have explained connections between global economic changes and local economic conditions, but most of the research has remained at the macro level. Mobilizing Democracy contributes to our knowledge about the protest groups "on the ground" and what makes some localities successful at mobilizing and others less successful. His work enhances our understanding of what ingredients contribute to effective protest movements as well as how multiple protagonists—labor unions, students, teachers, indigenous groups, nongovernmental organizations, women’s groups, environmental organizations, and oppositional political parties—coalesce to make protest more likely to win major concessions.Based on extensive field research, archival data of thousands of protest events, and interviews with dozens of Central American activists, Mobilizing Democracy brings the international consequences of privatization, trade liberalization, and welfare-state downsizing in the global South into focus and shows how persistent activism and network building are reactivated in these social movements. Almeida enables our comprehension of global and local politics and policy by answering the question, "If all politics is local, then how do the politics of globalization manifest themselves?" Detailed graphs and maps provide a synthesis of the quantitative and qualitative data in this important study. Written in clear, accessible prose, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of political science, social movements, anthropology, Latin American studies, and labor studies.
Mockingjay: The Hunger Games; Catching Fire; Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3)
by Suzanne CollinsThe greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and authors in recent publishing history!
Modeling With Mathematics: A Fourth Year Course
by Nancy Crisler Gary Simundza COMAP (The Consortium for Mathematics Its Appl Region 4 Education CenterModeling Mathematics is focused, organized, and easy to follow. The book teaches the students how to read, write, and understand the unique language of mathematics and this prepares them for every type of problem-solving and assessment situation.
Modeling, Functions, and Graphs: Algebra for College Students
by Katherine Yoshiwara Bruce YoshiwaraThe Fourth Edition of Yoshiwara and Yoshiwara's MODELING, FUNCTIONS, AND GRAPHS: ALGEBRA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS includes content found in a typical algebra course, along with introductions to curve-fitting and display of data. Yoshiwara and Yoshiwara focus on three core themes throughout their textbook: Modeling, Functions, and Graphs. In their work of modeling and functions, the authors utilize the Rule of Four, which is that all problems should be considered using algebraic, numerical, graphical, and verbal methods. The authors motivate students to acquire the skills and techniques of algebra by placing them in the context of simple applications that use real-life data.
Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition (12th edition)
by Paul Eschholz Alfred RosaModels for Writers is designed to help you learn to write by providing you with a collection of model essays--that is, essays that are examples of good writing.
Models of Family Therapy: The Essential Guide
by Williams A. Griffin Shannon M. GreeneModels of Family Therapy provides an overview of established family therapy models. All classification schemes of family therapy models must reduce ideological complexity, ignore overlap, and generalize for the purposes of category inclusion and exclusion. Nonetheless, orientation differences do exist and the authors make these differences clear by placing ideas and methods into categories. To facilitate learning how the dimensions of each model "fit" with other models, this book enhances comparability by using the same general outline in all chapters. In these outlines, the critical components of each model are broken down into a few core assumptions, terms, techniques, and methods. These critical components are summarized consistent with their description in the original publications. Some of these models include structural, strategic, behavioral, psychoeducational, and experiential therapy. Because of the style of presentation, this book can be useful as a primary text or supplement in a marriage and family therapy course. In addition, graduate students and professionals can benefit from this guidebook in order to prepare for any state or national examination on marriage and family therapy.
Modern Automotive Technology
by James E. DuffyModern Automotive Technology supports career readiness for those wishing to pursue a job in the automotive industry. Organized around the ASE automobile test areas, it details the construction, operation, diagnosis, service, and repair of late-model automobiles and light trucks. Student-focused content is presented using a building block approach that starts with the fundamental principles of system operation and progresses gradually to complex diagnostic and service procedures. Thorough coverage of the latest developments in the automotive field, including hybrid technology and direct gasoline injection, helps prepare students to service and repair today’s complex vehicles. Modern Automotive Technology is also a perfect reference for those preparing for the ASE automobile certification tests.
Modern Automotive Technology
by James E. DuffyModern Automotive Technology will take your students from class to career. Redesigned for today’s learner, students will encounter the latest technologies with revised content and visuals. Organized around the ASE automobile and light truck test areas, the content details the construction, operation, diagnosis, service, and repair of late-model automobiles and light trucks. Students will be immersed in content that prepares them for the technical and soft skill demands of a modern workplace. Online materials have been designed as integral parts of the content package to engage students.
Modern Automotive Technology (Workbook)
by James E. DuffyOrganized to follow the textbook on a chapter-by-chapter basis, providing questions to help the student review the material presented in the chapter.
Modern Cabinetmaking, Sixth Edition
by William D. Umstattd Charles W. Davis Patrick A. MolzahnModern Cabinetmaking provides comprehensive coverage of cabinetmaking. The text provides an in-depth treatment of cabinetmaking, covering the industry, design and layout, materials, machining processes, cabinet construction, and finishing. This title also includes coverage of manufactured products and construction processes used in the cabinetmaking industry. Its rigorous subject treatment and new content correlate to the Woodwork Career Alliance (WCA) industry credentialing standards and SkillsUSA.
Modern Carpentry: Teaching Package Teacher's Resource Binder
by Howard Bud Smith Willis H. Wagner Mark W. HuthNIMAC-sourced textbook
Modern Commercial Wiring
by Harvey N. HolzmanModern Commercial Wiring covers safety, tools, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and design, providing effective, student-friendly instruction regarding the complex wiring requirements associated with commercial installations. Updated to the current 2023 National Electrical Code® (NEC), the text provides many opportunities for learning, researching, and applying the code. Specialized areas, such as motor control, emergency power systems, hazardous locations, and pool and fountain installations, are included.
Modern Electricity, Controls, and Motors for HVACR
by Ernesto ReinaModern Electricity, Controls, and Motors for HVACR provides students with concise, modern coverage of electrical concepts and applications they will encounter in the field. Designed to build on and apply fundamental electrical concepts to modern HVACR technologies and systems, this comprehensive, postsecondary text provides thorough coverage of electricity, circuits, power, motors and controls; modern technologies and systems such as DDC (direct digital controls) and BAS (building automation systems); and the tools and skills required by technicians to find success in the field, such as reading meters and schematics. Special features throughout the text, such as Service Calls and Procedures, provide hands-on application to the content being introduced in each chapter.
Modern Human Relations at Work (11th Edition)
by Kathryn W. HegarThis book includes many practical examples and techniques, as well as experiential and application-oriented exercises that show you how human relations concepts and skills can increase productivity and job satisfaction in the workplace. The 11th edition's 14 chapters are brimming with self-assessment and self-study tools that make learning fun, insightful, and useful.
Modern Japan
by Peter DuusJapan's rise to world prominence --first as an aggressively westernizing Asian nation, then as a major imperialist power, and finally its resurgence as a postwar economic giant. The text has been completely revised to reflect recent events including Japan's role in WWII, women's history, and Japan's rise to become a leading economic power. The text is 1) The Fall of the Tokugawa On 2) The Pursuit of Wealth and Power, 1868-1905 3) Political Change, Crisis, and War, 1905-1945 4) Peace, Prosperity, and Stability
Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg Robert S. SmithDesigned for students who may not have extensive backgrounds in economics, the text balances theoretical coverage with examples of practical applications that allow students to see concepts in action.
Modern Languages Study Guides: Film Study Guide for AS/A-level French
by Hélène BeaugyFilm analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and director's technique, as well as specialist terminology.Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Intouchables (Untouchables), this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the film and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.- Strengthen language skills with relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout- Aim for top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to enhance exam response- Build confidence with knowledge-check questions at the end of every chapter- Revise effectively with pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout- Feel prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner commentary