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Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing - Lorraine M. Mcdonnell - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, McDonnell analyzes the design and implementation of statewide testing in California, Kentucky, and North Carolina in the 1990s. McDonnell draws lessons from these stories for the federal No Child Left Behind act, with its sweeping directives for high-stakes testing.

DKK 593.00

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A Democracy at War - William L. O'neill - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

During World War II, America’s democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a broad-ranging social, political, military, and diplomatic history, William O’Neill reveals how the U.S. won its victory despite its reluctance to enter the war, and despite proceeding by costly half-measures even after committing to battle.

DKK 285.00

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Measuring Up - Daniel Koretz - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education.

DKK 225.00

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Exiles at Home - Shirley Elizabeth Thompson - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. In tracing the experiences of creoles of color, Thompson illuminates the role ordinary Americans played in shaping an understanding of identity and belonging.

DKK 615.00

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Home in America - Thomas Dumm - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Americans encounter their homes in ways comforting and haunting: as an imagined refuge or a place of mastery and domination, a destination or a place to escape. Drawing on literature, personal experience, and the histories of slavery, incarceration, and homesteading, Thomas Dumm offers a meditation on the richness and poverty of the idea of home.

DKK 301.00

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At Home in the World - Timothy Brennan - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

This passionate book is a bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself cosmopolitanism. Brennan traces his subject from Orwell to Kristeva, from “third world” writing to the Nobel Prize. A critical call to arms, the book strips the false and heedless from the new cosmopolitanism in order to revitalize the idea.

DKK 371.00

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At Home in the Studio - Laura R. Prieto - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

This engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from the late eighteenth century through the 1930s.

DKK 651.00

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The Hungry Mind - Susan Engel - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Susan Engel offers a highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how educators can put curiosity at the center of the classroom.

DKK 206.00

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Reading the Mountains of Home - John C Elder - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Small farms once occupied the heights that Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. This book is a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter.

DKK 277.00

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Stealing the State - Steven L. Solnick - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Solnick argues that the Soviet system fell victim not to stalemate at the top nor to revolution from below, but to opportunism from within. In case studies on the Communist Youth League, the system of job assignments for university graduates, and military conscription, he tells the story from a new perspective, testing Western theories of reform.

DKK 666.00

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Pompeii - Paul Zanker - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture shows us the images that marked Pompeii's development from country town to Roman imperial city. At home or in public, at work or at ease, Pompeians and their world come alive in Zanker's masterly rendering.

DKK 316.00

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What We Know about Childcare - Virginia D. Allhusen - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Quality childcare, the authors show, may be more beneficial to children than staying home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be more unruly than children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and benefit from engaging with other children.

DKK 643.00

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Testing Prayer - Candy Gunther Brown - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Drawing on medical records, surveys of prayer recipients, prospective clinical trials, and multiyear follow-up observations and interviews, Brown shows that the widespread perception of prayer’s healing power has demonstrable social effects which can in some cases produce improvements in health that can be scientifically verified.

DKK 326.00

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Pictures at an Execution - Wendy Lesser - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book is about murder—in life and in art—and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lesser’s investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.

DKK 262.00

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Feminism’s Forgotten Fight - Kirsten Swinth - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Kirsten Swinth reconstructs the comprehensive vision of feminism’s second wave at a time when its principles are under renewed attack. In the struggle for equality at home and at work, it was not feminism that failed to deliver on the promise that women can have it all, but a society that balked at making the changes for which activists fought.

DKK 379.00

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Gnys at Wrk - Glenda L. Bissex - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

At age five, the author's son posted this sign over his workbench: DO NAT DSTRB GNYS AT WRK. The “work” from which he refused to be disturbed was typical for children—learning to read and write. Glenda Bissex goes beyond the chronicle of this accomplishment to provide the first in–depth case study of a child’s confrontation with written language.

DKK 340.00

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Testing the Literary - Alexander Des Forges - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Alexander Des Forges reads shiwen from a literary perspective, showing how the examination essay redefined prose aesthetics, transformed the work of writing, and marked the aesthetic as a key arena for contestation of authority as candidates, examiners, and critics joined to form a dominant social class of literary producers.

DKK 493.00

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The Challenge of Congressional Representation - Richard F. Fenno - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

At a moment when Congress is viewed by a skeptical public as hyper-partisan and dysfunctional, Richard Fenno provides a variegated picture of American representational politics. The Challenge of Congressional Representation offers an up-close-and-personal look at the complex relationship between members of Congress and their constituents back home.

DKK 418.00

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God at Play - Mhaimbhat - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mhaimbhat’s God at Play, or Li?acaritra, is a remarkable biography of the medieval religious figure Chakradhar Svami, considered by the Mahanubhavs to be an incarnation of the supreme god. The first volume of this new English translation, accompanied by the Marathi text, describes Chakradhar’s early life, wanderings, and the gathering of disciples.

DKK 289.00

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Saints at the Limits - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle Ages—as cults and retellings attest. These Byzantine Greek stories, translated into English here for the first time, continue to resonate with readers seeking to understand universal fears and desires.

DKK 289.00

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Promise and Peril - Christopher Mcknight Nichols - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.

DKK 262.00

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Daughters of Alchemy - Meredith K. Ray - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.

DKK 431.00

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Odyssey, Volume I - Homer - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus’ journey home from the Trojan War and the temptations, delays, and dangers he faced at every turn.

DKK 268.00

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Odyssey, Volume II - Homer - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk