VICE AND VIRTUE IN EVERYDAY LIFE has been a bestseller in college ethics for more than two decades because it is well-liked by both instructors and students. Instructors appreciate it for its philosophical breadth and seriousness. Students welcome the engaging topics and irresistible readings. VICE AND VIRTUE IN EVERYDAY LIFE provides students ...
The authors see the rampant growth of therapy in America as a symptom of all that is wrong with the country. Arguing against excessive political correctness and addiction-as-disease, and believing that therapy destroys the concept of personal responsibility, they propose some fairly radical changes in thinking: for instance, that addictive ...
Sommers argues against what she sees as the false, yet pervasive, notion that girls are shortchanged in schools, and marshals evidence for her thesis that boys are the at-risk population--especially in a politically correct culture fueled by a feminism that sometimes denigrates and demonizes them. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
Presents well-reasoned arguments against many feminists' reliance on misleading, politically-motivated "facts" about how women are victimized. The book has become the centre of debate about who really speaks for equality and for most American women.
Sommers argues against what she sees as the false, yet pervasive, notion that girls are short-changed in schools, and marshals evidence for her thesis that boys are the at-risk population--especially in a politically correct culture fueled by a feminism that sometimes denigrates and demonizes them. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
Sommers argues against what she sees as the false, yet pervasive, notion that girls are short-changed in schools, and marshals evidence for her thesis that boys are the at-risk population--especially in a politically correct culture fueled by a feminism that sometimes denigrates and demonizes them. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
Are women victims of a widespread bias in science and engineering, as a 2007 report of the National Academy of Sciences concluded? Or are there other, more plausible explanations for the paucity of women in various quantitative fields? What, if anything, should be done to encourage more women to become engineers and scientists? Anyone looking for ...
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