In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?
Cuz means both "cousin" and "because." In this searing...
In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the ...
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education's value and purpose within the larger society. Rarely have these separate approaches been brought into the same conversation. "Education, Justice, and Democracy" does just that, offering an intensive discussion by highly respected scholars across empirical and philosophical disciplines. The contributors explore how the institutions...
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focu...
Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that...
Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American demo...
How have online protestslike the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation s decision to defund Planned Parenthoodchanged the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around current political issues? The ways in which we gather information about current events and communicate it with others have been transformed by the rapid rise of digital media. The political is no longer confined to the institutional and electoral arenas, and that has profound implications for how we understand citizenship and political participation. ...
How have online protestslike the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation s decision to defund Planned Parenthoodchanged the nature of political actio...
How have online protests-like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood-changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around current political issues? The ways in which we gather information about current events and communicate it with others have been transformed by the rapid rise of digital media. The political is no longer confined to the institutional and electoral arenas, and that has profound implications for how we understand citizenship and political participation. ...
How have online protests-like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood-changed the nature of political act...
Dating is hard. Dating online is hard. Dating online in your thirties is hard. Dating online in your thirties after being in a ten-year relationship is hard. What's not hard? Meeting men who aren't really single. Having your time wasted. Receiving unsolicited pictures of genitalia. Said genitalia. When did dating become so complicated? I just want to find a nice, good looking man who replies to my entire text message and doesn't text me "WYD" every hour. I just want to find a fun loving, intelligent man who doesn't have a Master's Degree in Cheating, Shenanigans and Tomfoolery-and isn't...
Dating is hard. Dating online is hard. Dating online in your thirties is hard. Dating online in your thirties after being in a ten-year relationship i...
A 30 day guide to creating a life you love one step at a time. Combining biblical insight and proven life coaching tools, Wake Up to Amazing will walk you through 30 days of thought provoking exercises to journal your way to designing a life you love.
A 30 day guide to creating a life you love one step at a time. Combining biblical insight and proven life coaching tools, Wake Up to Amazing will walk...
