Sökt på: Böcker av Michael B. Katz
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Liberating Faith
This sweeping new anthology shows how religion has joined with and learned from movements for social justice, peace, and ecological wisdom. Liberating Faith surveys the entire …
The Making of Urban America
The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history …
Why Don't American Cities Burn?
At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for …
Spiritual Transformation and Healing
Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner's new volume is unique in exploring the meaning of spiritual transformation and healing with new research from a scientific perspective. An …
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City
In 1896 W. E. B. Du Bois began research that resulted three years later in the publication of his great classic of urban sociology and history, The Philadelphia Negro. Today, a …
Public Education Under Siege
Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever …
Improving Poor People
"e;There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them,"e; acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and …
Reconstructing American Education
One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among …
One Nation Divisible
American society today is hardly recognizable from what it was a century ago. Integrated schools, an information economy, and independently successful women are just a few of the …
Reconstructing American Education
One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among …
Improving Poor People
"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and …