Nate is not your average sixth grader. Somehow he's always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He makes getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement. Nate has one day to prove that he is above the rest.

"Squeezed" weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things. Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular...

A series of essays which analyze the causes of conflict in the Middle East, how peace might be achieved, and the role which the United States should play in this region.

"Kid Confident explains the dynamic of social power, equal and unequal, in the context of friendships and with unfriendly peers"--

Enzo starts middle school after an amazing summer trip with his father, a new manager at a popular sporting goods company, with a prototype baseball cap that seems to bring Enzo popularity and success.

"We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)-the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their...