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      Force Under Pressure: How Cops Live and Why They Die

      Lawrence Blum

      Lawrence N. Blum describes the sources of danger, injuries, and victory to police officers in a down-to-earth, readable style. Blum’s main point is that there are missing ingredients in the…

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      I’m Not a Racist, but…: The Moral Quandary of Race

      Lawrence Blum

      In this text, Lawrence Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of colour can…

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      I’m Not a Racist, but…: The Moral Quandary of Race

      Lawrence Blum

      In this text, Lawrence Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of colour can…

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      Moral Perception and Particularity

      Lawrence A. Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

      Moral Perception and Particularity explores the moral import of emotions, motivation, perception, judgment, and group identifications as a corrective to moral philosophy’s standard focus on impartiality and rational principle.

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      Moral Perception and Particularity

      Lawrence A. Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

      This explores the moral import of emotions, motivation, perception, judgment, and group identifications as a corrective to moral philosophy’s standard focus on impartiality and rational principle.

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      Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education

      Lawrence Blum,Zoe Burkholder

      The promise of a free, high-quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American dream. But our widely segregated schools mean that many children of…

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      Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education

      Lawrence Blum,Zoe Burkholder

      The promise of a free, high-quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American dream. But our widely segregated schools mean that many children of…

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      High Schools, Race and America’s Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity and Community

      Lawrence Blum

      Offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students’ engagement with…

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      Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism

      This text emerged primarily as a response to recent research on a manifestation of real-life altruism, namely to recent studies of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during World War II. The…

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      Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological and Historical Perspectives on Altruism

      This text emerged primarily as a response to recent research on a manifestation of real-life altruism, namely to recent studies of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during World War II. The…

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      Growing for Justice

      Eleanor Drago-Severson, Jessica Blum-DeStefano, Deborah Brooks Lawrence

      Be the leader you want to see in the world.

      Educators committed to social justice enter into the work in markedly different ways. Drawing from research with 50 educational leaders…

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      Human Goodness: Origins, Manifestations, and Clinical Implications

      Each human heart possesses positive attributes such as altruism, kindness, concern, gratitude, and forgiveness. Human Goodness explores the origins of these traits through the use of clinical vignettes to help…

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      The Colour of Our Future: Does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa?

      Xolela Mangcu,Nina G Jablonski,Lawrence Blum,Steven Friedman

      The colour of our future makes a bold and ambitious contribution to the discourse on race. It addresses the tension between the promise of a post-racial society and the persistence…

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      Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader

      Focuses on the personal experience of teachers and the practical realities of teaching, revealing how our nation’s educators grapple with issues of race, class, gender in their daily lives. This…

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      Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held

      Virginia Held has made a mark on the fields of ethics, feminist philosophy, and social and political thought. These new essays by contemporary philosophers range over all of these areas…

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      Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held

      Virginia Held has made a mark on the fields of ethics, feminist philosophy, and social and political thought. These new essays by contemporary philosophers range over all of these areas…

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      The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self

      The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world-the oneness hypothesis -can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. This anthology…

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      Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society

      Approaching musical improvisation from the fields of ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory, this title covers topics such as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place…

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