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View book details for Mathematical Metaphors, Memories, and Mindsets
An Examination of Personal, Social, and Cultural Influences on the Perception of Mathematics
United States students continue to have difficulties with the subject of mathematics. Sometimes it is believed that students arent smart enough to master mathematics or that mathematics is just too difficult for all but the chosen few. This book offers …
View book details for Protest Movements and Parties of the Left
Affirming Disruption
How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics? This book …
View book details for Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe
Causes, Characteristics and Consequences
Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but …
View book details for Assessing European Neighbourhood Policy
Perspectives from the Literature
Several events in the past few years have dramatically shown how the interests of European citizens are directly affected by the stability, security and prosperity of their neighbouring regions. At the same time, the European Union and its member states …
View book details for The Trauma of Doctrine
New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God
The Trauma of Doctrine is a theological investigation into the effects of abuse trauma upon the experience of Christian faith, the psychological mechanics of these effects, their resonances with Christian Scripture, and neglected research-informed strategies for cultivating post-traumatic resilience. Paul …
View book details for The Insurgency of the Spirit
Jesus's Liberation Animist Spirituality, Empire, and Creating Christian Protectors
The Insurgency of the Spirit taps mutli-disciplinary methodologies of post-colonial biblical scholarship and anthropology, liberation theologies, indigenous studies, grief/trauma research, and nature-meditation writings to shape a constructive retrieval of the animist Jesus. The vision that emerges is one that sets …
The politics of everyday life is to be found, time and again, in meandering movements, in making connections across and between things in the rough and tumble of the seemingly banal, fragmentary and quotidian experiences that make up our day-to-day …
View book details for The Paradox of Fiscal Austerity
How Cutting Deficits Saved the Modern World
If governments followed the optimal fiscal policy path, surpluses in good times would counter necessary deficits during economic downturns, leading to worldwide balance. The world, however, has chosen to go in a different direction in recent decades, avoiding thrift in …
View book details for Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Before, During, and After the Holocaust
Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide …
Liaison roles are generally commonplace in medical and health sciences libraries as librarians strive to develop and enhance relationships and collaborations with clinicians and faculty. While the liaison of the past acted primarily as the main contact between respective departments …
View book details for Corrupting Youth
History and Principles of Philosophical Enquiry
A practical guide to facilitating philosophical conversations with groups (especially in schools) based on philosophical and pedagogical principles derived from the ancient Greek philosophers but supported my modern-day research and pedagogical practices. It divides facilitation up into basic, expert and …
View book details for Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Know-It-All Version
Welcome to Know-It-All Shakespeare. Developed by a high-school English teacher, this series puts the richness of the Bard directly in your hand in a friendly and important way. Rather than just including a few footnotes, some sidenotes, and a frustratingly …
View book details for Thinking and Playing Music
Intentional Strategies for Optimal Practice and Performance
Thinking and Playing Music: Intentional Strategies for Optimal Practice and Performance distills cutting-edge teaching and learning methods for musicians of all levels, investigating topics in cognitive science that apply directly to musical development. Containing over one-hundred musical examples, many from …
View book details for Principals and Teachers Cant Do It All
Other Factors that Impact the Success of Students and Schools
Today, the entire success of a school seems to be the responsibility of the principal and the teachers. The thesis of this book is that principals and teachers can only take a school so far because of other factors that …
View book details for Lope de Aguirre, Hugo Chavez, and the Latin American Left
The Wrath of Liberation
Lope de Aguirre, Anti-imperialism, and the Latin American Left: The Wrath of Liberation examines why anti-imperialist projects have the tendency to become tyrannies, with a focus on Latin America. Alfredo Ignacio Poggi discusses the figure of Lope de Aguirre, the …
John T. Hogans The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato assesses the roles of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in Athens defeat in Thucydides Peloponnesian War. Comparing Thucydides presentation of political leadership with ideas in Platos Statesman as …
View book details for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions through the Ages
This is the first book to consider the development of all three cultural heritage institutions libraries, archives, and museums and their interactions with society and culture from ancient history to the present day in Western Europe, the United Kingdom, and …
View book details for Problematic Sexual Behavior in Schools
How to Spot It and What to Do about It
Problematic sexual behavior in children can be challenging to understand, difficult to talk about, and hard to manage in school and community settings. Without a systemic approach for addressing these behaviors, communities run the risk of exposing their children to …
View book details for Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
The Truth is Translated
Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature was an early expression of a self-understanding of philosophy that has, …
View book details for The Cosmopolitan Ideal
Challenges and Opportunities
Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within philosophy and the social sciences. Its critics, though, suggest that contemporary cosmopolitanism is abstract and ultimately meaningless, or that it is the globalized expression of a very European, and modern, ideal. This …
View book details for Engaged Clinical Practice
Preparing Mentor Teachers and University-Based Educators to Support Teacher Candidate Learning and Development
Clinical experiences, supported by well-prepared mentor teachers and university-based teacher educators, are essential for developing successful teacher candidates. While the design and structure of these significant learning opportunities often vary among preparation programs, a common feature is teacher candidates work …
View book details for The Thought of Matter
Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence
Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years. From the speculative realism/materialism of Quentin Meillassoux to the New Materialism of many modern Marxisms, the interest in a return to or rehabilitation of materialism is on the rise. What is not …
View book details for Wallowing in Mediocrity
Or Rising Above the Dismal State of Education
Wallowing in Mediocrity: Or Rising Above the Dismal State of Education provides a comprehensive comparative look at educational programs in several key countries across the globe. The myriad advantages of these countries programs are counterpoised to the many fault lines …
View book details for A Journey for Two
Mother and Daughter Caregiving Relationships
Explores the mother-daughter relationship in the context of caregivingJeanne Lord provides valuable emotional support and information for daughter caregivers to mother patients during a stressful and uncertain time. It is unique in that it offers not only personal insights from …
View book details for Technology, Modernity, and Democracy
Essays by Andrew Feenberg
This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.According to critical theory …
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