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Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls 17 reviews
Myra Sadker, David Sadker
Scribner, 1995
required reading for parents of girls
"Failing at Fairness" is a landmark book in the education of girls. Researchers Myra and David Sadker step away from the fuzzy assumptions we have about gender and concentrate on facts and specific behavior. The book is strongest on presenting the history of educating women, and defining specifically how girls are still getting shortchanged. The authors clearly lay out their analysis of what ...
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Four Hens and a Rooster 2 reviews
Lena Landstrom
R & S Books, 2005
delightful and goofy take on gender and chickens
This book had the whole family giggling. The hens contain their rooster's bullying tendancies. They attend a women's empowerment workshop to give them the skills they need. Balance is restored and harmony prevails.
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The Cow of No Color: Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the World3 reviews
Nina Jaffe, Steve Zeitlin
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 1998
THE COOLEST BOOK
I have read this book more than I can count, and I learn from it every time. It really helps me with life's choices and how not everything is found in front of your face.
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Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
Sharon R. Krause
Princeton University Press, 2008
Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In Civil Passions , Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Drawing ...
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Religion and the Constitution: Volume 2: Establishment and Fairness
Kent Greenawalt
Princeton University Press, 2008
Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should students in public schools be allowed to organize devotional Bible readings and prayers on school property? Does reciting "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance establish a preferred religion? What does the Constitution have to say ...
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The Power of Face Reading (2nd Edition)21 reviews
Rose Rosetree
Women's Intuition Worldwide., 2001
The best of the best!
I know this book. I know this author. Rose Rosetree is a woman of the highest integrity and she is a great force. She's been on this path for many years, researching ancient studies and particularly refining the hidden traits found in faces. Each one of her books is a gift. But the wisdom contained in this one, The Power of Face Reading, showers the reader with clues and tips on discovering the ...
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The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action 2 reviews
Terry H. Anderson
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
The origins of affirmative action
This is an important history of the origins of affirmative action as a social policy for remedying racial inequality in the United States. In contrast to popular belief, affirmative action did not emerge full-blown in the late 1960s, as Anderson demonstrates we can trace its origins to the 1930s and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policy agenda. The book proceeds through the post ...
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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement 4 reviews
John Rawls
Belknap Press, 2001
Profound
Rawls set himself the difficult task of accomplishing for political philosophy what Kant attempted for moral philosophy; developing a systematic logical rationale for an intuitively attactive body of thought that raises this body of thought to new levels. Kant attempted to find a rational basis for the Pietist Christian ethics that he grew up with; Rawls attempts to find a rational basis for ...
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It's Not Fair!1 review
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
HarperCollins, 2008
Not Just For Kids
One morning recently I was reading the newspaper when I heard my wife and 10-year-old son laughing. I thought they were reading a story from the paper together. Instead they were paging through 'It's Not Fair', flipping back and forth through the pages. So while it may be a book for younger children, I can attest to the fact that anyone of any age can enjoy it. Great message, fun book, from ...
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Be a Friend: Learning About Friendship and Fairness (Character Education Readers)
Regina Burch
Creative Teaching Press, 2002
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Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare
Marc Fleurbaey
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements? This book develops a theory of fairness incorporating a concern for personal responsibility, opportunities and freedom. With a critical perspective, it makes accessible the recent developments in economics and philosophy that define social justice in terms of equal opportunities. It also proposes new perspectives and original ...
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Boggin Blizzy and Sleeter the Cheater: A Book About Fairness (Building Christian Character)1 review
Michael P. Waite
Chariot Family Pub, 1988
great teaching tool
The books in this series are great for teaching life's little lessons. My boys like the stories and they learn something too - perfect
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The Value of Fairness: The Story of Nellie Bly (A Valuetale)
Ann Donegan Johnson
Value Communications, 1977
Demonstrates the value of fairness in the life of the turn-of-the-century journalist whose pen name was Nellie Bly.
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Fairness versus Welfare1 review
Louis Kaplow, Steven Shavell
Harvard University Press, 2006
All the world's a utility function...
I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the foundational question of how we should evaluate legal rules. I should think that the book would be particularly useful for law students struggling to understand what makes their professors tick. The authors put forth perhaps the strongest case for economic analysis of law to date, daring to confront head on the BIG question of ...
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Natural Justice2 reviews
Ken Binmore
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
Groundbreaking
Even though it is not always a s clear as it should have been, this is a brilliant book. To moral philosophy, Binmore applies Marx' famous dictum reversed: We have tried to change the world, now it is time to understand it. According to Binmore, prevailing theories have taught us little about how justice actually works. Instead of relying on evidence on the nature of ourselves and our societies, ...
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The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly52 reviews
Peter Hart, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Seven Stories Press, 2003
If you ever watched his show, read this book
If you have ever wathced his show (or listened to it) you must read thi book. It shows big O'Reilly's past, present and future lies. I just cannot understand how anyone can be such a liar and still be able to look into the mirror and smile...
Highly Recommended!
Check also :
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
State of Emergency: The Third ...
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The good guys, the bad guys, and the first amendment: Free speech vs. fairness in broadcasting1 review
Fred W Friendly
Random House, 1976
Here Comes the Fairness Doctrine Again
The latest hyperventilation in Washington is the return of the Fairness Doctrine to introduce more "fairness" into conservative talk radio. Fred Friendly's book is the definitive study of the effects of the fairness doctrine back in the days of limited media outlets.
In case study after case study, Friendly follows the rule from its inception and covers all the major court cases. The book is ...
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Brady Brady And the Most Important Game1 review
Mary Shaw, 2004
Brady Brady and the Most Important Game
Everyone loves hockey tournament time. Brady Brady and his friends were especially excited about their upcoming tournament. Not only was it the biggest tournament of the season but this year the Icehogs were hosting the event.
Brady had been dreaming about this year's tournament for quite a while. In his dreams, he scores the winning goal in the big game and the Icehogs win The Gold Stick. ...
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A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States
Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, ...
ILR Press, 2008
In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly 70 percent of the total U.S. population, maintain minimum wage standards above those set by the federal minimum wage. In A Measure of Fairness ...
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No Fair!: Kids Talk About Fairness (Kids Talk)
Loewen, Nancy
Picture Window Books, 2005
Life isn't always fair, or is it? Hear what Tina Truly has to say about fairness.
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