How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
By: Robert Pondiscio
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questio…
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life
By: Charles Murray
3.73
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
For those starting out in their careers—and those who wish to advance more quickly—this is a deligh… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
By: Jay Mathews
3.82
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found the… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- teaching
- education
4. The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
By: Daniel Coyle , John Farrell
3.46
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A New York Times bestselling author explores cutting-edge brain science to learn where talent comes… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
5. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
By: Paul Tough
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and succe… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- teaching
- education
6. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
By: Christopher Emdin
3.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach… read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- sociology
7. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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8. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
By: Jonathan Kozol
3.70
Format: 368 pages,
National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American edu… read more
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9. If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
By: Dominick Dunne , O.J. Simpson , The Goldman Family , Pablo F. Fenjves
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, Cali… read more
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- nonfiction
"Jesus Christ, O.J.—what have you done?"-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
"You don`t get mood swings from eating cornflakes"-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
"Still, I've heard it said that all stories are basically love stories, and my story is no exception. This is a love story, too. And, like a lot of love stories, it doesn't have a happy ending."-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
10. Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
By: None
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
By: Diane Ravitch
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American … read more
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12. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- education
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
13. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
14. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- sociology
- education
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
15. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing ope… read more
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- politics
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- sociology
16. Charter Schools and Their Enemies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.40
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2021 Hayek Book PrizeA leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools agai… read more
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- parenting
- politics
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- nonfiction
- education
17. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
18. The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
By: Natalie Wexler
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle o… read more
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- politics
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
19. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
By: Jack Schneider
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways--and ho… read more
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- teaching
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- social justice
- education
- sociology
20. How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
By: Robert Pondiscio
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questio… read more
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- social justice
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- society
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21. Mr Katō Plays Family
By: Milena Michiko Flašar
3.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Kat ō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans o… read more
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