books about: dismantling

books about: dismantling

books:

Dismantling

The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning

Stanley Aronowitz

Beacon Press, 2001

When it comes to looking at education, nothing maches it
This is the best book on the crisis in higher education ever written. What makes it so significant is that Aronowitz never underestimates the value of education, just as he convincingly demonstrates that few colleges are invested in actully cultivating the critical ...

Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education

Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton

New Press, 1997

a readable (mostly) academic book!
This is an excellent book that I sat down to read for a class and it turned out to be actually compelling in many parts. The case studies (most of them) were excellent and persuasive. The book would have been better from more of this style all around, and maybe some ...

Dismantling the Hills (Pitt Poetry Series)
Michael McGriff

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008

WINNER OF THE 2007 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE Dismantling the Hills is a testament to working-class, rural American life. In a world of machinists, loggers, mill workers, and hairdressers, the poems collected here bear witness to a landscape, an industry, and a people teetering on the edge of ruin. From tightly constructed narratives to ...

Dismantling the Big Bang

Alex Williams, John Hartnett

Master Books, 2005

More than worth the time, money, and effort to read.
I purchased this book perhaps two months ago or so (January of 2006). I finished it within 24 hours. That is not to imply it is a simple book, nor that I am incredibly intelligent, but that I found it to be highly interesting, well-written, and very informative. Of ...

Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America (Facets)

Joseph Barndt

Fortress Press, 2007

A Classic in the Sociology of Racism
In recent years an ideology that Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla Silva from Duke University calls "color-blind racism" has permeated United State's popular culture. Most white Americans now report in surveys that race is no longer a feature of U.S. political, social and ...

Demolition: The Art of Demolishing, Dismantling, Imploding, Toppling and Razing

Helene Liss, Inc., Loizeaux Family of Controlled Demolition, ...

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2000

Neil's Review of "Demolition"
Well, BLOW ME DOWN!! Finally, a "consumer" oriented book about EXPLOSIVE DEMOLITION! I've been hoping for such a book as long as I can remember! I just purchased my copy today (12-27-00), and have had nothing short of a BLAST with it! The photos are truly stunning, ...

Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God

Scott Hahn, Benjamin Wiker

Emmaus Road Publishing, 2008

I pity Dawkins
Hahn and Wiker expose the irrational and poor logic of Dawkins, even providing several quotes by prominent atheists to demonstrate that Dawkins is philosophically uneducated and that his book is not taken seriously by anyone who knows anything about the debate. Of ...

Dismantling Discontent: Buddha's Way Through Darwin's World

Charles Fisher

Elite Books, 2007

Tricycle Winter 2007-Darwin's Dharma/Meditating on Evolution
Felix Holmgren reviews for Tricycle. "Evolutionary theory is science when science is having a really good day. Born out of the patience and curiosity of generations of naturalists, it is far more down-to-earth than any other major scientific theory, yet it is ...

Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing (The Culture and Politics of Health Care ...

Dana Beth Weinberg

Cornell University Press, 2004

The "true" colour of healthcare...
Although this book is based in the U.S., so much is the same in Canada. I would highly recommend this book for nurses [who may be trying to figure out 'what it's all about Alfie'], for nursing students and no doubt, the public - so they can gain a better understanding ...

Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category

Michael Allen Williams

Princeton University Press, 1999

The definitive argument for reviving the spirit
Michael Allen Williams has produced an outstanding work which I suspect will pull the rug out from under the feet of anyone who thought they understood Gnosticism. His approach is so thorough and so fresh that I still haven't gotten up from off the ground. Here are ...

Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism
Thad Kousser

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This study of the effects that term limit laws (restrictions on the number of years for which legislators can serve) have had on politics and policy in American states, combines interviews of capitol insiders with archival records and statistical analysis. The final conclusion--that term limits have had an adverse effect on the professional ...

The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic ...

Barry Bluestone, Bennett Harrison

Basic Books (Short Disc), 1984

An Enduring Classic
Out of print? This book should never be out of print. But then again, Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game was almost destroyed during the Second World War. Greatness is sometimes fragile. Barry is something of a personal hero of mine so I do have a bias of sorts regarding ...

Dismantling Cancer

Francisco Contreras, Md

Authentic, 2005

Excellent information on Cancer
This book had a lot of great information that explains how cancer starts and grows and how we can make our bodies less suseptible to cancer. The Dr speaks in easy to understand terms

Dismantling Educational Inequality: A Cultural-historical Approach To Closing The Achievement Gap (Adolescent ...
Pedro R. Portes

Peter Lang Publishing, 2005

This long-awaited, solution-oriented book helps readers understand how inequality is organized in our public educational system. A four-component developmental model provides a policy-oriented framework that takes into account how children are socialized in and out of schools. Given an educational system that produces unequal opportunities ...

Miss Margaret Ridpath and the Dismantling of the Universe

Don Robertson

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977

What it's about --
From the back cover: "Miss Margaret Ridpath, raised in a midwest world of rigid proprieties and repressed passions . . . learning of sensual love in the arms of another woman's husband . . . facing the searing trials of life with courage and pride . . . and moving ...