San Antonio College Library

This practical text shows readers sound principles of case study research put into practice, helping them to identify solutions to problems commonly encountered when doing case studies.

"Roots of War presents systematic archival, experimental, and survey research on three psychological factors leading to war--desire for power, exaggerated perception of threat, and justification for force -- set in comparative historical accounts of the unexpected 1914 escalation to world war and the peacefully - resolved 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.

Here is the story of motivated neighborhood parents organizing an entire community to help transform a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best. Author Jacqueline Edelberg, one of the neighborhood moms, provide an accessible and honest blueprint for reclaiming the public schools our children deserve.--[book jacket].

"In her landmark book Inner Lives of Deaf Children: Interviews and Analysis, Martha A. Sheridan explored the lifeworlds - the individual and collective elements and realities that are present within the participants' existential experiences, their relationships, and their truths - of seven deaf and hard of hearing children between the ages of seven and ten. What she discovered were deaf children with strengths, positive experiences, and positive relationships....

A study of the controversial national educational movement, Teach For America, follows a year in the lives of four TFA recruits at a high school in South Central Los Angeles as they deal with the challenges and opportunities of a program designed to overcome the inequities in the American educational system.