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Equations Inequalities and Vics GMAT Preparation Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides)

3 reviews
Manhattan GMAT Prep

MG Prep, Inc., 2007

A good refresher
Quantitative section on the GMAT can be a little tricky, even if you were pretty good at Math in your high school or in college. Why? Because the skills tested on the GMAT are different than the one you acquired in high school or college. I am an engineering major and I took multiple advanced Math courses in my college and yet, I benefited from the Manhattan Review quantitative books. Of ...

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

7 reviews
Paul Farmer

University of California Press, 2001

Buy it. Read it.
An enlightening and insightful book that passionately sets a higher standard for those involved in medicine or any type of humanitarian work. He is passionate about what he says, but careful not to make assumptions that have not been well documented and researched. The book challenged my thinking when it comes to health care, poverty, and our social duty to take action against injustices in the ...

Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra

9 reviews
Ray Steege, Kerry Bailey

McGraw-Hill, 1997

Better than elementary
This book, I must say, is very good companion for any high school or middle school students who want to master the subject. I like this intermediate algebra better than the elementary one--simply more interesting. But to well prepare yourself for college math/algebra, you only need this book: the most useful problem or resource book that I have ever read in English : Algebra: A study aid for ...

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American ...

13 reviews
Thomas J. Sugrue

Princeton University Press, 2005

Excellent history of urban decline
This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to prove that resistance to the civil rights movement had much deeper roots than the white backlash of the 1960s and 1970s. The author contends that resistance to the civil rights actually emerged as opposition to the New Deal coalition. Urban, anti-liberal, northern whites, as well as corporate ...

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

145 reviews
Jonathan Kozol

Harper Perennial, 1992

Great Book!
Wan to understand why our education system is in the shape that it's in? READ THIS BOOK! Explains why lower income schools perform the way they do....must have for any educator's collective of continuing education books. Worth reading twice!!

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

12 reviews
Ira Katznelson

W. W. Norton, 2006

LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves
Just finished an outstanding book by Ira Katznelson on the untold history of racial inequality in America. Those who oppose affirmative action should get it and see who has really benefitted from The New Deal, the Fair Deal, Social Security and the GI Bill after WWII. I cannot see how anyone can read this book and not agree with me that Lincoln did not free the slaves. The slaves were not freed ...

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

9 reviews
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006

If open to understanding the minority perspective
This book may annoy, irritate, and even infuriate some, but if any of these emotions arise, you might ask yourself "why do I feel so defensive?"...and I promise, you will gather a bit of enlightment. The book portrays the perspective of minority peoples in a way that will open your eyes. It IS one-sided, but not because the author is a "racist", rather, he feels (it's in his Author's Note) that ...

The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

14 reviews
Walter Benn Michaels

Holt Paperbacks, 2007

Resource distribution, not income distribution
This book has been analyzed extensively. So I'll be brief: WBM's suggestion to ameliorate income disparity is NOT income redistribution. It is RESOURCE (healthcare and education) redistribution. Real estate taxes fund schools - so wealthy suburbs have better public schools than low income neighborhoods. How does an individual parent solve this? Move to the better neighborhood! ...

Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes
Martin Marger

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and theories in social inequality. While focusing primarily on social class, it also deals broadly with other forms of social inequality, including racial/ethnic, gender, and political. In dealing with the various dimensions of inequality, the book explains how they overlap and interrelate.

Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy)

7 reviews
Robert H. Frank

University of California Press, 2007

The Good Old Days
Before the advent of neoconservative economic policies beginning with Ronald Reagan, the American middle class arising out of various New Deal reforms enjoyed the longest period of rising prosperity in U.S. history. The laws insuring social security, the right to form unions, the GI bill, certain banking reforms are among several of those adjustments that allowed the middle class of that 40 year ...

Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences (6th Edition)
Charles E. Hurst

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences, Fourth Edition conveys to readers a complex and up-to-date view of social inequality in the United States in a way that informs, draws them in, and encourages them to look at the inequality surrounding them. The book is based on the assumptions that social inequality is multidimensional and that in order to deal with inequality and its consequences we need to understand the theories ...

Respect in a World of Inequality

3 reviews
Richard Sennett

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

A Very Distinct Piece of Scholarship
When a "customer" of this book (not a "reader", for sure) can make a comment and leave it on Amazon labeled as the so-called "review", I think that a unique example of 'free speech'! It seems we have the right to say almost anything about a book we may not be educated enough to read or understand it.

The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities (Maa Problem Books ...

5 reviews
J. Michael Steele

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Wonderful Book
I rate this book with FIVE STARS ***** Somehow, the review rating software keeps changing the rating to two stars which is incorrect -- again I must emphasize it is FIVE STARS ****. Get it now -- don't wait! As might be expected from the title, Steele's book includes an in depth exploration of the Cauchy Schwarz. It, however, includes so much more -- for example, many, many useful ...

Introduction to Inequalities (New Mathematical Library)

3 reviews
Edwin F. Beckenbach, R. Bellman

Mathematical Association of America (MAA), 1975

An interesting study of inequalities.
This text provides an introduction to the inequalities that form the basis of real analysis, the theoretical foundation for calculus. The authors' treatment requires careful reading since there are many details to check in the derivations of the inequalities and the examples in which those inequalities are applied. In places, I found myself writing annotations in the margins where I found the ...

The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition, Vol. Two: Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, ...
Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, ...

Duke University Press, 2005

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader . The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today’s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and ...

IQ and Global Inequality

9 reviews
Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen

Washington Summit Publishers, 2006

An economics book with real math!
I am not an economist. I have been frustrated by the continual fuzzy, quasi-analytical approach I have read when reading in this field. Finally, someone "puts the math where their mouth is". This is a fabulous, insightful piece of work. The authors made some, but by no mean reckless, extensions in thought, but backed up by good observations. This is going to be a controversial piece of work due ...

Women and Health: Power, Technology, Inequality and Conflict in a Gendered World
Kathryn Strother Ratcliff

Allyn & Bacon, 2001

A critical and interdisciplinary examination of women and health, which challenges traditional viewpoints and highlights the importance of ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and ablebodiedness, as well as gender. Addresses issues of social justice, ethics and public policy. For anyone interested in women's health.

Punishment and Inequality in America

3 reviews
Bruce Western

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2007

A Prison Employee
This is a book the policy makers and students and everyone in-between would be well served by reading. It can be a little repetitive at times, but the author makes his points well. One of the strengths of this book is that through painstaking but necessary detail in the analysis, the author shows how incarceration damages the lives of those already affected by inequality. Most authors draw ...

Just Enough Carrots (MathStart 1)

6 reviews
Stuart J. Murphy

HarperTrophy, 1997

Math=Fun
A wonderful way to introduce the math concepts of comparing amounts.

The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

1 review
Tracy E. Ore

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008

College book, messages for everyone
I was required to read this book for one of my graduate classes and enjoyed the format and topics. The variety of authors and perspectives is interesting, and even though it talks down to the read in some of the section introductions, the overrall message becomes clear: the systems in place that support racism and bigotry are large and well supported, but you can still do something starting with ...

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