Joel Best is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists (California, 2001), Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims (California, 1999), and Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims (1990).
17 Ebooks de Joel Best
Joel Best: More Damned Lies and Statistics
In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said ‘deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk, ‘ Joel Best continues hi …
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Joel Best: Flavor of the Month
While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seri …
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Joel Best: Everyone’s a Winner
Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians—of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read ‘USA—Number 1.’ Prizes proliferate i …
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Joel Best: Damned Lies and Statistics
Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best’s classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflec …
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€21.99
Joel Best: Stat-Spotting
Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our numbe …
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Eric Best & Joel Best: The Student Loan Mess
This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team—one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative res …
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Joel Best: American Nightmares
In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the America …
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Joel Best & Kathleen A. Bogle: Kids Gone Wild
The myths and truths of teen’s sexual behavior. Winner of the 2015 Brian Mc Connell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research To hear mainstream media sources …
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Joel Best: Stupidity Epidemic
Critics often warn that American schools are failing, and that our students are ill-prepared for the challenges the future holds, and may even be "the dumbest generation." We can think of t …
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Joel Best: Stupidity Epidemic
Critics often warn that American schools are failing, and that our students are ill-prepared for the challenges the future holds, and may even be "the dumbest generation." We can think of t …
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€46.32
Joel Best: Images of Issues
Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a p …
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€59.48
Joel Best: Images of Issues
Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a p …
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€59.16
Joel Best: Troubling Children
Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children- in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers h …
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€56.49
Joel Best: Troubling Children
Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children- in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers h …
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€56.54
Joel Best: Satanism Scare
Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected …
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€56.57
Joel Best: Satanism Scare
Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected …
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€56.74
Joel Best: Is That True?
Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evalua …
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