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  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN STEM EDUCATION
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    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN STEM EDUCATION
    FAN OUYANG, PENGCHENG JIAO, BRUCE M. MCLAREN AND AMIR H. ALAVI
    Artificial intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for STEM education in K-12, higher education, and professional education contexts. This book summarizes AI in education (AIED) with a particular focus on the research, practice, and technological paradigmatic shifts of AIED in recent years. The 23 chapters in this edited collection track the paradigmatic shifts of AIED in STE...

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  • BIRTH CONTROL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
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    BIRTH CONTROL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
    ANGUS MCLAREN
    The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their assumption that the progressive adoption of birth control was largely a matter of the ...

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  • NATURAL DUALISM AND MENTAL DISORDER
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    NATURAL DUALISM AND MENTAL DISORDER
    NIALL MCLAREN
    This book presents an integrative, dualist model of mental disorder for psychiatry, as a counter to the so-called "biomedical" approach that dominates the field today. Starting with the humanist concept that mental disorder is real, it uses a computational approach to build a genuinely bio-psycho-social model. This shows that mental disorder is primarily psychological in nature...

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  • LAND AND FREEDOM
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    LAND AND FREEDOM
    A. R. BUCK / NANCY E. WRIGHT / JOHN MCLAREN
    Conflicts caused by competing concepts of property are the subject of this book that reshapes study of the relationship between law and society in Australasia and North America. Chapters analyse decisions made by governments and courts upon questions of policy and law in terms of their consequences for rights and models of personhood. Late twentieth-century decisions concerning...

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  • REPRODUCTIVE RITUALS
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    REPRODUCTIVE RITUALS
    ANGUS MCLAREN
    Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms a...

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  • EDUCATION IN A SMALL DEMOCRACY
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    EDUCATION IN A SMALL DEMOCRACY
    IAN A. MCLAREN
    Originally published in 1974. Here is a detailed discussion of educational change in New Zealand with implications which should provoke a fresh approach both to the educational tradition in Britain and to the problems of other educational systems which are subject to democratic control. It is primarily concerned with developments in the quarter-century between 1945 and 1970. Wi...

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  • REVOLUTIONARY MULTICULTURALISM
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    REVOLUTIONARY MULTICULTURALISM
    PETER MCLAREN
    This work by one of North America's leading educational theorists and cultural critics culminates a decade of social analyses that focuses on the political economy of schooling, Paulo Freire and literacy education, hip-hop culture, and multicultural education. Peter McLaren also examines the work of Baudrillard as well as Bourdieu's reflexive sociology.Always in McLaren's work ...

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  • SOCIAL INTRAPRENEURISM AND ALL THAT JAZZ
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    SOCIAL INTRAPRENEURISM AND ALL THAT JAZZ
    DAVID GRAYSON / MELODY MCLAREN / HEIKO SPITZECK
    In response to the world’s rapidly growing social, economic and environmental challenges, a growing wave of "social intrapreneurs" are harnessing the power of large companies to create new business solutions to address societal problems. Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz reveals how these highly creative social innovators are improvizing alliances across, as well as beyo...

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  • ESCAPING UTOPIA
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    ESCAPING UTOPIA
    JANJA LALICH / KARLA MCLAREN
    We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. ...

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  • NAZI GERMANY AND IMPERIAL JAPAN
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    NAZI GERMANY AND IMPERIAL JAPAN
    IAN A. MCLAREN / JOHANNA MENZEL MESKILL
    Alliances between sovereign states are among the least stable political associations. Despite professions of fidelity and common purpose, most are effective for only short periods, and only as long as it suits their interests. The German-Japanese alliance of World War II was not so much a marriage of convenience as a long and uneasy engagement. It was maintained because breakin...

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  • NATURAL REGULATION OF ANIMAL POPULATIONS
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    NATURAL REGULATION OF ANIMAL POPULATIONS
    IAN A. MCLAREN
    Surveying an area dense with conflicting observations and ideas, this volume vividly depicts the current state of knowledge as well as the great diversity of opinion in the field of population ecology. Ten papers by outstanding authorities focus on three main issues-the effects of environment and population density on population dynamics, the influence of animal behavior on pop...

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  • LIFE IN SCHOOLS
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    LIFE IN SCHOOLS
    PETER MCLAREN
    This new edition brings McLaren's popular, classic textbook into a new era of Common Core Standards and online education. The book is renowned for its clear, provocative classroom narratives and its coverage of political, economic, and social factors that are undervalued in other educational textbooks. An international committee of experts ranked Life in Schools among the top t...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
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    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
    PATRICIA GENOE MCLAREN
    The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue. Written by a team of globally renowned scholars, this comprehensive companion analyses management and organizational history, reflecting on the most influential periods and highlighting gaps for future research. From the impact of the Cold War to Global War...

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  • POLITICAL HISTORY OF JAPAN DURING THE MEIJI ERA, 1867-1912
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    POLITICAL HISTORY OF JAPAN DURING THE MEIJI ERA, 1867-1912
    WALTER WALLACE MCLAREN
    First Published in 1966. In this book, the author has endeavours to supply the information which is essential to the formation of accurate judgments as to the meaning of Japanese policy by reviewing her modern political history, describing her system of government, and explaining her national ambitions. McLaren presents a careful survey of the evolution of the existing politica...

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  • COUNTERNARRATIVES
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    COUNTERNARRATIVES
    HENRY A. GIROUX / COLIN LANKSHEAR / PETER MCLAREN / MICHAEL PETERS
    To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern counternarratives" as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education withi...

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  • A SHORT HISTORY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IN WESTERN EUROPE
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    A SHORT HISTORY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IN WESTERN EUROPE
    ANDREW MCLAREN CARSTAIRS
    This book provides a concise and accessible account of the historical experience of European parliaments – why different electoral systems were adopted, how they have functioned, how they have affected the development of political parties, and in what respects they have been found over time to be either suitable or unsatisfactory. The book begins with a summary of the main elec...

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  • CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES OF CONSUMPTION
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    CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES OF CONSUMPTION
    SANDLIN, JENNIFER A. / MCLAREN, PETER
    "Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways…. This is the promise, the hope, and the agenda that is offered."--Norman K. Denzin, From the Foreword "Its focus on learning, education and pedagogy gives this book a particular relevance and significance in contemporary cultural stu...

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  • EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE
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    EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE
    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
    How can the life and teachings of Jesus impact the most critical global problems in our world today? For the last twenty years, Brian McLaren has been unable to escape this life-shaping question. In Everything Must Change, he unveils a fresh and provocative vision of Jesus and his teachings, and how his message of hope can ignite purpose and passion to change the economic, envi...

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  • CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
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    CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
    LAUREN M. MCLAREN
    Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which shares many similar characteristics, has not? Spain, Italy and Turkey have shared common historical features which would have been disruptive to any new democracy; however they represent a wide array of democratization experiences. Provid...

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  • CHINESE WOMEN - LIVING AND WORKING
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    CHINESE WOMEN - LIVING AND WORKING
    ANNE MCLAREN
    This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and do...

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  • FREIREIAN PEDAGOGY, PRAXIS, AND POSSIBILITIES
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    FREIREIAN PEDAGOGY, PRAXIS, AND POSSIBILITIES
    STANLEY S. STEINER / H. MARK KRANK / ROBERT E. BAHRUTH / PETER MCLAREN
    Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In t...

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  • BIOS INSTANT NOTES IN SPORT AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY
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    BIOS INSTANT NOTES IN SPORT AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY
    KAREN BIRCH / KEITH GEORGE / DON MCLAREN
    Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Physiology looks at the key topics in exercise physiology and examines how each of the physiological systems responds to acute and chronic exercise. As well as reviewing special topics such as nutrition, altitude, temperature, and ergogenic acids, it assesses the importance of exercise to health and quality of life and considers the importanc...

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  • CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND PREDATORY CULTURE
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    CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND PREDATORY CULTURE
    PETER MCLAREN
    This book is a principled, accessible and highly stimulating discussion of a politics of resistance for today. Ranging widely over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, it will be required reading for students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science. ...

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  • CULTURAL STUDIES
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    CULTURAL STUDIES
    HENRY A. GRIOUX / PETER MCLAREN
    Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding. ...

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  • MALNUTRITION AND THE EYE
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    MALNUTRITION AND THE EYE
    MCLAREN, DONALD
    Malnutrition and the Eye ...

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  • NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH
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    NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH
    LINDSAY MCLAREN / JUDITH GREEN / RONALD LABONTE
    In an era where debates about public health research, policy, and practice are central to the wider socio-political discourse, this invaluable volume brings together key themes from the last 15 years of critical scholarship in and of public health. The book provides both empirical examples and the conceptual tools for rethinking the role of public health in society, challenging...

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  • CHEMICAL MANIPULATION OF CROP GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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    CHEMICAL MANIPULATION OF CROP GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
    J S MCLAREN
    Chemical Manipulation of Crop Growth and Development presents a critical review of the plant growth regulators in field crops. It discusses the strategies to discover plant growth regulators for agronomic crops; the methods of modifying stomatal movement; and the possible use of chemicals for photorespiration control. Some of the topics covered in the book are the hormonal con...

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  • REPRODUCTION BY DESIGN
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    REPRODUCTION BY DESIGN
    ANGUS MCLAREN
    Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the modern world.   That debate continues today, and to understand the history of o...

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  • NAKED SPIRITUALITY
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    NAKED SPIRITUALITY
    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
    "Rich, brilliant . . . wonderfully readable and personal, filled with insight and wisdom, it invites us into practices that can transform our lives." —Marcus J. Borg, author of Speaking Christian In the same way he revitalized our faith in A New Kind of Christianity, church leader Brian McLaren reinvigorates our approach to spiritual fulfillment in Naked Spirituality—by tearing...

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  • A NEW KIND OF CHRISTIANITY
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    A NEW KIND OF CHRISTIANITY
    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
    "McLaren is considered one of the country's most influential evangelicals, and his new book . . . takes aim at some core doctrinal beliefs." —NPR's Morning Edition A New Kind of Christianity is Brian D. McLaren's much anticipated follow-up to his breakthrough work of the emergent-church movement, A New Kind of Christian. Named by Time magazine as one of America's top twenty-fiv...

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