Bøger af Michael Young

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future "Meritocracy

D. Michael Young has recently retired from over 30 years in the physical therapy/rehabilitation field, having worked in nursing homes, home health, and hospital settings. He currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC. He was born into a Christian Methodist family in Salisbury, NC, and has always been involved in Bible studies, church committees, missions, and volunteer endeavors. He is a graduate of Wofford College, a private Methodist college in Spartanburg, SC. He has always reached out to assist the less fortunate and share the love of Christ in everything he has done. His hope with this book is to fully inspire the readers to realize their blessings, to be grateful to their creator, and to give generously to those in need.

First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The argument is that a new style of family life has emerged.

First published in 1968, Learning Begins at Home records an attempt by two researchers to initiate and assess an innovation in a school in a working-class neighbourhood.

Originally published in 1965, this title looks at programmed learning, language laboratories, curricular reform, educational television, team teaching ¿ these are just some of the fashions that were going to change education in the following decade quite as much as the introduction of comprehensive schools.

Lab Monkey: I Survived, is the gripping true story of the life of Michael Young, an African American male born into poverty and subjected to secret involuntary medical testing and experiments disguised as treatment for his already debilitating condition of cataracts. Young leaves no stone unturned as he tells the story of his childhood life of going in and out of the hospital weeks and sometimes months at a time. Many of the other children never made it home. Michael is one who lived to tell it all. This is his story . . . Lab Monkey.

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future "Meritocracy

James VI & I had a series of notorious male favourites. These affairs were almost certainly sexual. They diminished the majesty of the monarchy and raised the spectre of a sodomitical court and effeminized nation. It is a story of political intrigue coloured by sodomy, pederasty, and gender instability as backdrop to the English Civil War.

A study of family life in the East End of London in the 1950s, based on extensive interviews and case studies, which examines the consequences of moving families from urban to suburban public housing.

Based on a major three-year research project, this book makes clear how planners have frequently failed to understand real human needs. It also provides a portrait of the resilience and generosity of spirit which went at least some way to compensate for the deprivations of inner-city working-class life.