Education in Rural America, Sher, Jonathan P.

Автор: Pigg, Kenneth
Название: The Future Of Rural America
ISBN: 0367292351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367292355
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book provides a timely and much-needed discussion of rural policy and the socioeconomic context within which such policy must operate. It offers prescriptions for moving rural America into the future and provides a broadening of the perspectives for the future basis of rural policy.

Автор: Sher, Jonathan P.
Название: Education In Rural America
ISBN: 0367167425 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367167424
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book explores the "conventional wisdom" of rural education in America and examines its merits in the light of both accumulated experience and recent research. It provides practical, well-argued suggestions for a public policy both humane and capable of realization in rural areas.

Автор: Rural Sociological Society,
Название: Persistent Poverty In Rural America
ISBN: 036728264X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367282646
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: A team of anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologists examine the leading explanations for why poverty persists in rural America

Автор: Johnson, Kenneth M
Название: The Impact Of Population Change On Business Activity In Rural America
ISBN: 0367292998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367292997
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the effects of population shifts on the business infrastructure that supplies goods and services to rural areas in the United States. It provides a detailed longitudinal treatment on the linkage between population change and the rural commercial infrastructure.

Автор: Nina Glasgow; E. Helen Berry; J. V. Oh Edmund
Название: Rural Aging in 21st Century America
ISBN: 9401781753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401781756
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 percent of the nonmetropolitan compared to 12 percent of the metropolitan population were 65 years of age and older. By definition rural communities have smaller sized populations, and more limited healthcare, transportation and other aging-relevant services than do urban areas. It is thus especially important to study and understand aging in rural environments. Rural Aging in 21st Century America contributes evidence-based, policy-relevant information on rural aging in the U.S. A primary objective of the book is to improve understanding of what makes the experience of rural aging different from aging in urban areas and to increase understanding of the aged change the nature of rural places. The book addresses unique features of rural aging across economic, racial/ethnic, migration and other structures and patterns, all with a focus on debunking myths about rural aging and to emphasize opportunities and challenges that rural places and older people experience.

Автор: Brewster Melanie E.
Название: Atheists in America
ISBN: 0231163584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231163583
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: An intimate psychological study of a largely invisible minority navigating life in a religious world.

Автор: Carter Prudence L., Welner Kevin G.
Название: Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance
ISBN: 0199982996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199982998
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Closing the Opportunity Gap offers accessible, research-based essays written by leading experts who highlight the disparities that exist in our public schools for the opportunity to learn instead of test scores and outcomes.

Автор: Troutt David Dante
Название: The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America
ISBN: 1479828807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479828807
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 27590.00 T
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Описание: American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governments.          Arguing that there are structural flaws in the American dream, Troutt investigates the role that place plays in our thinking and how we have organized our communities to create or deny opportunity. Legal rules and policies that promoted mobility for most citizens simultaneously stifled and segregated a growing minority by race, class and—most importantly—place.              A conversation about America at the crossroads, The Price of Paradise is a multilayered exploration of the legal, economic and cultural forces that contribute to the squeeze on the middle class, the hidden dangers of growing income and wealth inequality and the literature on how growth and consumption patterns are environmentally unsustainable. 

Автор: Edin Kathryn J., Shaefer H. Luke
Название: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
ISBN: 054481195X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544811959
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 14710.00 T
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Описание: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

"A remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about poverty in the United States." -- New York Times Book Review

"Powerful . . . Presents a deeply moving human face that brings the stunning numbers to life. It is an explosive book . . . The stories will make you angry and break your heart." -- American Prospect

Jessica Compton's family of four would have no income if she didn't donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.

After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't seen before -- households surviving on virtually no cash income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to one and a half million households, including about three million children.

Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Through this book's eye-opening analysis and many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.

"Harrowing . . . An] important and heart-rending book, in the tradition of Michael Harrington's The Other America." -- Los Angeles Times

Автор: Nolan, Jr
Название: What They Saw in America
ISBN: 1107146615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107146617
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Through the journeys of four foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - this book provides an intriguing perspective on America. It will be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars dealing with foreign intellectuals` observations of America, American studies, political science, and sociology.

Автор: Johnson
Название: Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America
ISBN: 140397893X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403978936
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This balanced and innovative collection uses different methodologies to approach the common theme of a region transformed in recent years by neoliberalism.

Автор: Riley Alexander
Название: Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America
ISBN: 1479868450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479868452
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 35110.00 T
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Описание: When United Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the gash it left in the ground became a national site of mourning. The flight’s 40 passengers became a media obsession, and countless books, movies, and articles told the tale of their heroic fight to band together and sacrifice their lives to stop Flight 93 from becoming a weapon of terror.  In Angel Patriots, Alexander Riley argues that by memorializing these individuals as patriots, we have woven them into much larger story of our nation—an existing web of narratives, values, dramatic frameworks, and cultural characters about what it means to be truly American.            Riley examines the symbolic impact and role of the Flight 93 disaster in the nation’s collective consciousness, delving into the spontaneous memorial efforts that blossomed in Shanksville immediately after the news of the crash spread; the ad-hoc sites honoring the victims that in time emerged, such as a Parks Department-maintained memorial close to the crash site and a Flight 93 Chapel created by a local Catholic priest; and finally, the creation of an official, permanent crash monument in Shanksville like those built for past American wars. Riley also analyzes the cultural narratives that evolved in films and in books around the events on the day of the crash and the lives and deaths of its “angel patriot” passengers, uncovering how these representations of the event reflect the myth of the authentic American nation—one that Americans believed was gravely threatened in the September 11 attacks. A profound and thought-provoking study, Angel Patriots unveils how, in the wake of 9/11, America mourned much more than the loss of life.