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Reviews 2010 Volume 3

• DeLissovoy, N. (2008) Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation.

• Giroux, H. (2009) Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?

• Grollios, G. (2009) Paulo Freire and the Curriculum.

• Macedo, Donaldo & Steinberg, Shirley (Eds.) (2007) Media Literacy: A Reader.

• Wacquant, Loïc (2009) Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity.

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