This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education – the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggl
Examining the relationship between social divisions and school, Smyth (education, U. of Ballarat and emeritus, Flinders U., Australia) and Wrigley (school improvement, Leeds Metropolitan U., England)
In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young urb
In November 2008 Barack Obama was elected as President of the United States after a campaign that promised change and renewal. Many in the United States - and Europe - hoped for a new beginning. But w
A contemporary of the ancient Greek philosophy, pre-Chin thought presents a non-religious and non-metaphysical perspective on ethics. In order to make Chinese ethics theoretically more accessible to t
Shigley (English, Weber State U.) demonstrates that Bishop's poems are much more rhetorical than they initially seem. Bishop armed her poems with paradox, oxymorons, and strangely androgynous speakers
In this posthumous but positive textual reconciliation, Yoshida (English and cultural studies, Indiana U. Bloomington) compares the overarching and seemingly conflicting themes of these lions of liter
During the Middle Ages, the story of Cressida's infidelity to Troilus intrigued writers, and different versions of this tale continued to be retold and reworked through the Renaissance. This study foc
Finds in Bonald's arguments not an attempt to return to a traditional social order or pre-scientific way of thinking, but a call for the unlimited power of the state over groups and individuals. Shows
