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9781612052632 | Paradigm Pub, September 30, 2012, cover price $98.00

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Product Description: Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system...read more
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9780415508131 | Routledge, February 22, 2012, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system.

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Product Description: During a time of social upheaval abroad and labor protests in America, we should ask: why do citizens, especially young people, so seldom act to leverage their power, assemble for protests, and build organizations to reclaim the possibilities offered by a future in which democracy matters? Looking at a broad range of topics from youth and the promise of new media technologies, to declining funding of schools, the economic Darwinism of globalization, and the need for a formative democratic political culture--Henry Giroux's new book is a compelling account of the erosion in recent decades of the very idea of the social in America and in other societies...read more
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9781612050560 | Paradigm Pub, January 30, 2012, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: During a time of social upheaval abroad and labor protests in America, we should ask: why do citizens, especially young people, so seldom act to leverage their power, assemble for protests, and build organizations to reclaim the possibilities offered by a future in which democracy matters?

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Product Description: During a time of social upheaval abroad and labor protests in America, we should ask: why do citizens, especially young people, so seldom act to leverage their power, assemble for protests, and build organizations to reclaim the possibilities offered by a future in which democracy matters? Looking at a broad range of topics from youth and the promise of new media technologies, to declining funding of schools, the economic Darwinism of globalization, and the need for a formative democratic political culture--Henry Giroux's new book is a compelling account of the erosion in recent decades of the very idea of the social in America and in other societies...read more
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9781612050553 | Paradigm Pub, November 30, 2011, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: During a time of social upheaval abroad and labor protests in America, we should ask: why do citizens, especially young people, so seldom act to leverage their power, assemble for protests, and build organizations to reclaim the possibilities offered by a future in which democracy matters?

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Product Description: Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines the shift in American society away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the growing social disinvestment in youth in the last decade...read more
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9781433112171 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 2011, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines the shift in American society away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the growing social disinvestment in youth in the last decade.

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9781433112164 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 15, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines the shift in American society away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the growing social disinvestment in youth in the last decade.

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Product Description: A sweeping survey of the current state of Critical Pedagogy, offering inspiration to everybody invested in the future of radical educational change.
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9781441168191 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, June 30, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: A sweeping survey of the current state of Critical Pedagogy, offering inspiration to everybody invested in the future of radical educational change.

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9781441116222 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, June 30, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A sweeping survey of the current state of Critical Pedagogy, offering inspiration to everybody invested in the future of radical educational change.

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Product Description: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism capitalizes upon the popularity of zombies, exploring the relevance of the metaphor they provide for examining the political and pedagogical conditions that have produced a growing culture of sadism, cruelty, disposability, and death in America...read more
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9781433112270 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 15, 2010, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism capitalizes upon the popularity of zombies, exploring the relevance of the metaphor they provide for examining the political and pedagogical conditions that have produced a growing culture of sadism, cruelty, disposability, and death in America.

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9781433112263 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 1, 2010, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism capitalizes upon the popularity of zombies, exploring the relevance of the metaphor they provide for examining the political and pedagogical conditions that have produced a growing culture of sadism, cruelty, disposability, and death in America.

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Product Description: The United States embarked on a war on terror that defended torture as a matter of official policy and furthered an already emergent culture of cruelty. As torture became normalized in the Bush era, it not only corrupted American ideals and political culture, it also passed over to the dark side in sanctioning the unimaginable and unspeakable: the torture of children...read more
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9781594518256 | Paradigm Pub, June 30, 2010, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: The United States embarked on a war on terror that defended torture as a matter of official policy and furthered an already emergent culture of cruelty.

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Product Description: As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation. To many of his supporters, his quest for pragmatism and realism has become a weakness rather than a strength...read more
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9781594518522, titled "Politics After Hope: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy" | Paradigm Pub, April 30, 2010, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation.

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9781594518539, titled "Politics After Hope: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race and Democracy" | Paradigm Pub, April 30, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation.

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Product Description: How are children—and their parents—affected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children...read more
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9780847691098 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An examination of the diverse ways that Disney--arguably the world's most influential corporation--implements its goals of shaping a world culture of consumerism while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment

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9781442201439 | Upd exp edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 16, 2010), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: How are children—and their parents—affected by the world's most influential corporation?
9780847691104 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An examination of the diverse ways that Disney--arguably the world's most influential corporation--implements its goals of shaping a world culture of consumerism while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment.

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9781442201446 | 2 expanded edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 16, 2010), cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies. In this volume, popular culture has been thematically treated as it appears in a variety of media, including movies, digital games, advertising, television, popular songs, and the internet...read more
By Zvi Bekerman (editor), Nicholas C. Burbules (editor), Henry A. Giroux (editor) and Diana Silberman Keller (editor)
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9781433102318 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 2008, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies.

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Product Description: With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in a new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life from schooling to health care to old age...read more
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9781594515200 | Paradigm Pub, February 1, 2008, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in a new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life from schooling to health care to old age.

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9781594515217 | Paradigm Pub, February 1, 2008, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in a new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life from schooling to health care to old age.

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Product Description: President Eisenhower originally included academic in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. Giroux tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex--and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America...read more
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9781594514227 | Paradigm Pub, July 30, 2007, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: President Eisenhower originally included academic in the draft of his oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial complex.

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9781594514234 | Paradigm Pub, July 30, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: President Eisenhower originally included academic in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex.

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Uses the handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to examine the strengthening of antidemocratic forces and their threat to freedoms in the United States.
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9781594513282 | Paradigm Pub, September 6, 2006, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Uses the handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to examine the strengthening of antidemocratic forces and their threat to freedoms in the United States.

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9781594513299 | Paradigm Pub, July 1, 2006, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Uses the handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to examine the strengthening of antidemocratic forces and their threat to freedoms in the United States.

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Product Description: For more than 20 years Henry Giroux has challenged readers to address the political exploitation and manipulation of American youth. Now, this compelling new book offers a comprehensive selection of Giroux's best works. From his most influential classics to new, never before published essays, America on the Edge offers an overview of Giroux's philosophies throughout his career...read more
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9781403971609, titled "America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and Education" | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 2006, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: For more than 20 years Henry Giroux has challenged readers to address the political exploitation and manipulation of American youth.

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9781403971593 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: For more than 20 years Henry Giroux has challenged readers to address the political exploitation and manipulation of American youth.

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Product Description: Higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, it is attacked by businesses who want to refashion institutions in the image of the marketplace. Higher education is the target of cultural conservatives who have undermined academic freedom and access by deriding the academy as a hotbed of left-multicultural-radicalism and anti-Americanism...read more
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9781403964236 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 10, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Higher education is under siege.

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9781403972903 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 17, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Higher education is under siege.

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Product Description: Prominent social critic Henry Giroux explores how new forms of media are challenging the very nature of politics in his most poignant and striking book to date.The emergence of the spectacle of terror as a new form of politics raises important questions about how fear and anxiety can be marketed, how terrorism can be used to recruit people in support of authoritarian causes, and how the spectacle of terrorism works in an age of injustices, deep insecurities, disembodied social relations, fragmented communities, and a growing militarization of everyday life...read more
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9781594512391 | Paradigm Pub, March 1, 2006, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Prominent social critic Henry Giroux explores how new forms of media are challenging the very nature of politics in his most poignant and striking book to date.

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9781594512407 | Paradigm Pub, March 1, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Prominent social critic Henry Giroux explores how new forms of media are challenging the very nature of politics in his most poignant and striking book to date.

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Product Description: In Against the New Authoritarianism, Giroux divests Bush and America’s thinly disguised rhetoric of being the world’s defender of freedom and democracy to reveal the terrifying specter of proto-fascism. He follows Adorno’s lead in suggesting that education, while being one of the many sites that disseminates the discourses of imperialism, nationalism, militarism, and violence, has the potential—and indeed, it is the solution—to identify, challenge, and destroy these unethical ideologies that threaten human freedom, peace, and democracy in America and around the world...read more
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9781894037235 | Arbeiter Ring Pub, September 15, 2005, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In Against the New Authoritarianism, Giroux divests Bush and America’s thinly disguised rhetoric of being the world’s defender of freedom and democracy to reveal the terrifying specter of proto-fascism.

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Product Description: This book examines the relationship between democracy and schooling and argues that schools are one of the few spheres left where youth can learn the knowledge and skills necessary to become engaged, critical citizens. Not only is the legacy of democracy addressed through the work of John Dewey and others, but the democratic possibilities of schooling are analyzed through a range of issues extending from the politics of teacher authority to the importance of student voices...read more
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9781594510342 | Updated edition (Paradigm Pub, July 30, 2005), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This book examines the relationship between democracy and schooling and argues that schools are one of the few spheres left where youth can learn the knowledge and skills necessary to become engaged, critical citizens.

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9781594510359 | Updated edition (Paradigm Pub, July 30, 2005), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This book examines the relationship between democracy and schooling and argues that schools are one of the few spheres left where youth can learn the knowledge and skills necessary to become engaged, critical citizens.

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Product Description: The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy...read more
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9780415951487 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2005), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work.

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Product Description: The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy...read more
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9780415904667 | Routledge, December 1, 1991, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Since 1992, Border Crossings has showcased Henry Giroux's extraordinary range as a thinker by bringing together a series of essays that refigure the relationship between post-modernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy.

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9780415951494 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2005), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work.
9780415904674 | Routledge, December 1, 1991, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Since 1992, Border Crossings has showcased Henry Giroux's extraordinary range as a thinker by bringing together a series of essays that refigure the relationship between post-modernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy.

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Product Description: Neo-liberalism has become the most influential ideology of our times. It guides both Democratic and Republican policies and, increasingly, those of European and developing countries worldwide. In The Terror of Neoliberalism, influential cultural critic Henry Giroux assesses the impact of neoliberalism and points to better approaches to building real democracy...read more
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9781594510106 | Paradigm Pub, September 30, 2004, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Neo-liberalism has become the most influential ideology of our times.
9781551930541, titled "Terror Of Neoliberalism" | Broadview Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: "Published Under the Garamond Imprint For copyright reasons, this title is only available in Canada.

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9781594510113 | Paradigm Pub, September 30, 2004, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Neo-liberalism has become the most influential ideology of our times.

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Product Description: This book tackles the role education can play in the peaceful and productive globalization of difference. The authors focus on how the politics of difference influences and is influenced by educational programs, and provisions in Canadian, and in other parts of the world...read more
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9781551302669 | Canadian Scholars Pr, August 3, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book tackles the role education can play in the peaceful and productive globalization of difference.

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Product Description: is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary popular culture.
By Charles R. Acland (contributor), Neil Campbell (editor), Krista Comer (contributor) and Henry A. Giroux (contributor)
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9780415971973 | Routledge, June 30, 2004, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary popular culture.

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9780873678520 | Phi Delta Kappa Intl Inc, June 30, 2004, cover price $11.95

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