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Civic Education
What Makes Students Learn
Sound democratic decisions rely on a citizenry with at least a partial mastery of the rules and workings of democratic government. American high schools, where students learn the basics of citizenship, thus ought to...
Police Violence
Understanding and Controlling Police Abuse of Force
Although the prevalence of police-citizen conflict has diminished in recent decades, police use of excessive force remains a concern of police departments nationwide. This timely book focuses on what is known and what still...
Visible Deeds of Music
Art and Music from Wagner to Cage
This provocative book explores the cross-fertilization between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reassessing the work of a wide range of composers and artists including Richard Wagner,...
Tuned In and Fired Up
How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom
We treasure the occasions when a classroom of students becomes totally focused, absorbed by ideas. How can teachers make these special moments happen more often? Every teacher has powerful memories of...
Greek Gods, Human Lives
What We Can Learn from Myths
Why the Greek myths, more than those of any other culture, continue to captivate us The mythology of ancient Greece has fascinated readers for two millennia and has formed the basis of Western...
America’s Inadvertent Empire
A thought-provoking and timely analysis of American power, with unexpected conclusions about the most serious threat we face in coming decades The United States finds itself at the center of a...
The Degaev Affair
Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia
A committed terrorist in Russia, an admired professor in America: the astounding story of Sergei Degaev’s double life, told in full detail for the first time Sergei Degaev (1857–1921), a political...
Journey of Purpose
Reflections on the Presidency, Multiculturalism, and Third Parties
In this inspiring book, one of the most respected senior figures in American politics defines his political philosophy for the country as we approach the end of the twentieth century. For many years Paul Tsongas, the former...
Seeing in the Dark
Reflections on Dreams and Dreaming
What is the relation between waking experience and dreams, and between dreams and literary creativity? In this book Bert States explores the nature of dream imagery, the metaphorical processes in dreaming, and the nature and...
The American Classics
A Personal Essay
An eminent liteary critic enumerates and explores five American classics How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of...