Lays out a blueprint for providing equitable educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic strata, and particularly for the five million American children who live with the extreme material hardship…

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific…

Addresses why intergenerational cultural transmission is vital to humans, yet also considers how efforts to preserve disappearing cultures are sometimes misguided. Blending anthropological theory with case studies, this book teaches…

Once a symbol of modernity in the 1930s, Berlin became associated with injustice and the abuse of power. After 1945, it became the iconic city of the cold war. This…

Formerly a SkyLight publicationThis one-of-a-kind handbook presents the results of professional research in an accessible, readable format, featuring teaching strategies and real-life practices that work in today’s schools.

A cynical English reporter and a beautiful, headstrong, American Olympic hopeful are caught in a lethal game of international espionage during the 1936 Berlin Olympics in a riveting debut thriller…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

Trailing his pet turtle, a writer stumbles out into nighttime Berlin. Van Aaren’s photographs are complemented by texts by David Wagner. A poetic colloquy unfolds between the almost all-knowing turtle…