Sociology Education

CBD in all its forms has enormous potential, however, it's use remains illegal and controversial in some places. This CBD Oil guide bundle was designed to teach you everything you need to know about CBD oil. Created as a one-stop resource for anyone interested in CBD oil, this is the most comprehensive two-book guide available.

PCAT AudioLearn offers a complete science review for the Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) covering key topics in biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. You can study anytime, anywhere - on your commute to work or school, at the gym or while shopping, and before you go to sleep. You will remember the key points tested on the PCAT like the lyrics to your favorite song.

Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents - both the victims and the bullies - to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.

Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. In this “exceptional work of investigative journalism…laced with compassion, insight, and humor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Jeff Hobbs stunningly captures the challenges and triumphs of being a young person confronting the future — both their own and the cultures in which they live — in contemporary America.

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The voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in all her columns, for most of us share them. With her New York Times-based column, "Life in the 30s", Anna Quindlen valued to national attention, and this wonderful collection shows why. As she proved in Object Lessons and Thinking Out Loud, Anna Quindlen's views always fascinate.

Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent, but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors. From the backrooms of its mosques, Tube tunnels and nightclubs to the frontlines of its streets, Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough, worked on building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he's heard stories of heartbreaking failure, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion.

Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today's youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math competitions that it has spawned.

In the spring of 2013, a study showed that despite huge economic problems, 27 states were awarding their highest salaries to college football coaches. College football has doubled in size in the last decade thanks to generous tax breaks, lavish TV deals, and corporate sponsors eager to slap their logos on everything from scoreboards to footballs and uniforms. In one recent year, the 10 biggest programs took in $800 million from football, with profit margins far surpassing those of Fortune 500 companies.

The sea change of convenience and immediacy that has overtaken our lives has also led to a tremendous gap between what professionals and patients believe to be quality care. This has propagated the tragic environment where almost everyone hates going to the dentist. In The Patient First Manifesto, Dr. Bryan Laskin explains the counterintuitive reasons why patients still complain in our offices everyday, and why patients drive doctors crazy (or at least drive them to drink too often).

Have you ever wondered what the world’s top upper cervical doctors are doing in order to have the greatest practices on the planet? Would you like to learn how to take your practice to the next level from doctors that are already there? If you answered yes to any of these questions, listen to Dr. Bill Davis’ informative book. A comprehensive UC practice success manual, Upper Cervical Practice Mastery helps you achieve prosperity and abundance in your life and practice even if you're starting from zero.

Why do we get cancer? Is it all just carcinogens and unlucky genetics? The answer is no. This audiobook delves into the underlying reasons why some of us get cancer while others do not, and explains many of the mysteries of why we get sick. Why is a cancer diagnosis a death sentence for some and a life-changing opportunity for others? What allows some people, when given weeks to live, to be happy and healthy for decades to come? Most importantly, what lessons can we learn from those who have beaten illness, so that we can live happily and healthily without ever having to get sick?

Welcome to the world of psychotropic plants - plants that can affect your mental state! Across the globe, there has been a long tradition of using such plants for fun, for spiritual purposes, for self-exploration, for healing and sometimes for nefarious purposes. There’s a colourful spectrum of psychotropic plants and in the Psychotropic Plants audiobook, you’ll get an opportunity to explore plants at both ends of this spectrum, from the sedatives to the potent hallucinogenics.

Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright shows that schools are - and should be - so much more than this. Filled with funny, tender encounters and an unflinching focus on the profound challenges of daily life for both teachers and pupils, his book argues that we need urgently to think of school differently: as something more like a home than a factory, a community hub rather than a boot-camp or testing ground.

Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname "God's Harvard". Most of these students are home-schoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the Christian elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment, and science to wage the battle to take back a godless nation.

The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on education three years since the pandemic started. It presents the work of students in a course of comparative education policy analysis we taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the fall of 2022 as they worked with education authorities in various countries. The chapters in this book demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a severe blow to educational opportunities across the world. This was not just because of the shock caused by the health emergency, but also because of the fragility of school systems to sustain educational ...

Do you suffer from pains or inflammation? Are chronic injuries or toxins in your body causing you grief? Have you considered the benefits of cupping therapy? Most of us will suffer from some form of pain or discomfort at some stage of our lives. Some may suffer endlessly from chronic conditions that are barely touched by drugs and can leave sufferers feeling hopeless and depressed. But the good news is there is hope.

Rise Up! breaks down the origins of racial injustice and its continued impact today, connecting dots between the past and present. By including contemporary examples ripped from headlines and actionable ways young people can help create a more inclusive world, sociologist Crystal Fleming shares the knowledge and values that unite all antiracists: compassion, solidarity, respect, and courage in the face of adversity.

Brooke Hauser takes us deep inside a unique New York City high school over the course of a year as she follows diverse newcomers whose lives are at once ordinary and extraordinary, international headlines brought to life. No native English-speaking students attend the International High School, and more than twenty-eight languages fill the halls.

Author Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than 20 years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates systems of change where everyone can engage - not just analysts and policy-makers.