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The Academic Revolution by Christopher Jencks
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.51The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well. Without attempting a... -
The Homeless by Christopher Jencks 9780674405967
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $31.82How widespread is homelessness, how did it happen, and what can be done about it? These are the questions explored by Christopher Jencks, America's foremost analyst of social problems. Jencks... -
The Urban Underclass by Christopher Jencks
Booksplease Price: $31.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815746058Author Christopher JencksFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Brookings... -
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass by Christopher Jencks 9780060975340
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975340Author Christopher JencksFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher... -
Why Historically Black Colleges and Universities Matter: 25 Years of Historical Research for Justice Marybeth Gasman 9780807786741
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $41.14With a personal and narrative style, preeminent educational historian Marybeth Gasman presents her research pertaining to HBCUs conducted over her 25-year career. In addition to conducting historical... -
Why Historically Black Colleges and Universities Matter: 25 Years of Historical Research for Justice Marybeth Gasman 9780807786758
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $117.20With a personal and narrative style, preeminent educational historian Marybeth Gasman presents her research pertaining to HBCUs conducted over her 25-year career. In addition to conducting historical... -
Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-Term Care in America by Victor R. Fuchs 9780226267869
Booksplease Price: $120.85Does the US government spend too little or too much on child care? How can education dollars be spent more efficiently? Should the government's role in medical care increase or decrease? In this... -
The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender David Grusky 9780813344843
RRP: $101.90Booksplease Price: $90.60Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most... -
The Uses of the University: Fifth Edition by Clark Kerr 9780674005327
Booksplease Price: $48.05America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on... -
Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education by Jim Carl 9780313393273
Booksplease Price: $67.09This book reveals that, far from being the result of a groundswell of support for parental choice in American education, the origins of school vouchers are seated in identity politics, religious... -
Old Dartmouth On Trial: The Transformation of the Academic Community in Nineteenth-Century America by Marilyn Tobias 9780814781685
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $56.51In Old Dartmouth On Trial, Marilyn Tobias successfully integrates into her account a number of existing studies on nineteenth-century colleges and universities, illuminating larger issues in the... -
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth by Claude S. Fischer
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.05As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America... -
Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success by Samuel Bowles 9780691136202
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting...