This book contributes to the radical literature on culture, identity and the politics of schooling. It addresses the challenge and the promise of school and social reform through what the author calls a critical multiculturalism. Peter McLaren's approach to what he calls predatory culture and his exploration of recent debates over the role of public institutions and the state within such culture offers the reader a combination of neo-Marxist and post-structuralist theory - referred to by the author as resistance of postmodernist critique. Readers are invited to construct a politics of...
This book contributes to the radical literature on culture, identity and the politics of schooling. It addresses the challenge and the promise of scho...
Of the many techniques that have been applied to the study of crystal defects, none has contributed more to our understanding of their nature and influence on the physical and chemical properties of crystalline materials than transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM is now used extensively by an increasing number of earth scientists for direct observation of defect microstructures in minerals and rocks. Transmission Electron Microscopy of Rocks and Minerals is an introduction to the principles of the technique and is the only book to date on the subject written specifically for geologists...
Of the many techniques that have been applied to the study of crystal defects, none has contributed more to our understanding of their nature and infl...