Mike Rose: 16 books

Featuring a new preface for the 10th anniversary As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose’s revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations,...

Why School? is a little book driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Drawing on forty years of teaching and research and "a profound understanding of the opportunities,...

“Shines a light on institutions that are teaching students, young and old, how to rebuild our economy and put America back to work” (President Bill Clinton). It’s a statistic that’s sure to surprise: Close to forty-five percent of postsecondary students in the United States today did...

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...

Mystery authors Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton serve up 32 short stories featuring detectives, killers, ghosts, radio deejays, thwarted authors, bungling criminals, Harry Houdini, Santa Claus, insurance salesmen, young lovers, talking vegetables, mistaken assumptions, and paranoid conclusions.

(If you like this book check out the sequel, DECEPTION AT DEVIL'S HARBOR.) When the body of an unscrupulous land developer washes in with the tide, there are more motives for murder than grains of sand on the beach at Devil's Harbor, Oregon. Vince Grabowski created an environmental...

(The sequel to DEATH AT DEVIL’S HARBOR) It’s bedlam by the bay. It’s chaos on the coast. It’s another dustup in Devil’s Harbor, that quirky Oregon community. When an image appears scorched into a breaded crab cake some say it’s a miracle. Others say it’s...

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...

Peace and Harm-Ony, High School Daze, & The Middle Ground.Betty and Veronica teach a valuable lesson in Peace and Harm-Ony when their mastery of demanding yoga poses leads to subbing for their instructor! Then, as Betty daydreams about her future, will she long for High School Daze? Finally, Veronica...

Portland, Oregon, 1997 Back in the 60s he tuned in, turned on, and dropped out into a life without deadlines or documentation. But now the aging flower child known as Paladin has run up against reality. High-tech thugs with guns want a package he didn’t deliver, cops like him for...

THE RHYTHM OF UNDERGROUND EVIL THREATENS TO UNLEASH HAVOC ON THE WORLD ABOVE THE SURFACE!!! After running away from home, sixteen-year-old Noah Keene and his thirteen-year-old sister are swept into the turmoil of a universe they never imagined—inside Humbug Mountain on the Oregon Coast....

Rock and Roll Reunions Can Be Murder! Portland's Tie-dyed Detective Cracks Another Case. (The sequel to THE HARD KARMA SHUFFLE)         When The Velvet Miasma self-destructed on stage in the mid seventies, band members vowed they'd never perform...

Bringing together 34 flash fiction stories from 14 authors, SPARK offers a host of stories to thrill, move, and challenge fans of short-short fiction. A woman physically at war with her mother's legacy inside her own body, a young girl given a vision of a utopic past at the end of the world, a man...

As of 2016 the Department for Education (DfE) want to ensure all trainee teachers have an understanding of emotional development and attachment, and so this book presents the key concepts that are essential for training in this area to ensure all teachers are up to date. Attachment issues and...