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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Special education law and practice in public schools	Larry D. Bartlett,Greg R. Weisenstein,Susan Etscheidt,Larry Dean Bartlett	xvii, 380 p. : 23 cm	OL11617243W
Resilience education	Bonnie Benard,Joel H. Brown,Marianne D'Emidio-Caston,Joel H Brown	xvi, 105 p. : 26 cm	OL12325992W
Ateisten och den heliga staden	George Klein	xiv, 223 p. ; 24 cm	OL157915W
Reinventing discovery	Michael Nielsen	"In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive t…	OL15991453W
The better angels of our nature	Steven Pinker	From Goodreads: Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of viole…	OL16239379W
Parents Matter	Lesley Abbott	This book explores the important role of parents and the extended family in the lives of babies and young children. It complements and extends the DfES Birth to Three Matters framework, which support…	OL16982270W
Leonardo's foot	Carol Ann Rinzler	Step right up for a toe-curling cultural biography of humanity's earthbound extremity!	OL18014490W
Scienza e societa	Massimiano Bucchi	The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society's relationship to it. In recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter, and now in this fasci…	OL1838687W
For White folks who teach in the hood ... and the rest of y'all too	Christopher Emdin	"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience o…	OL19663716W
On becoming an effective teacher	Rogers, Carl R.	"On Becoming an Effective Teacher presents the final unpublished writings of Rogers and as such has a unique historical value. It also documents the research results of four highly relevant, related …	OL19704170W
The Logic of Scientific Discovery	Karl Popper	When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth c…	OL1984582W
Virtually human	Martine Aliana Rothblatt	"Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. …	OL19989971W
Galileo's middle finger	Alice Domurat Dreger	"An investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades…	OL19996771W
The crash detectives	Christine Negroni	"In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including t…	OL20041745W
Origins	Ariel Adrien Roth	Are the worlds of science and religion irreconcilable? Has modern science with its theory of evolution disproved the biblical account of the origin of life? If one accepts the biblical account of ori…	OL2288997W
The economics of science	James R. Wible	Science is difficult and costly to do well. This study systematically creates an economics of science. Many aspects of science are explored from an economic point of view. The scientist is treated as…	OL2661677W
John Dewey and the art of teaching	Michael J. B. Jackson,Judy C. Aycock,Douglas J. Simpson	"John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice is an engaging and accessible introduction to the art of teaching as seen through the eyes of John Dewey. Authors Dougl…	OL3029811W
Trust in Numbers	Theodore M. Porter	This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the cur…	OL3487518W
Biocosm	Seth Shostak,James N. Gardner	Publisher's description: Biocosm challenges both sides of the controversy over evolution and creationism. This carefully reasoned book proposes that life and intelligence have not emerged as a series…	OL4452366W
The Freedom Writers Diary	Freedom Writers,Erin Gruwell,The Freedom Writers,Zlata Filipović,Freedom Writers.	Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of th…	OL8526561W