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The Search for Meaning: A Short History

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ford, Dennis, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, In "The Search for Meaning: A Short History, "Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to their bare essentials, showing the difference between viewing the world from a religious point of view and that of a naturalist, and comparing a scientific worldview to a philosophical one. Ford investigates the contributions of the Greeks, Kant, and William James, and brings the discussion up to date with contemporary thinkers. He proffers the refreshing idea that in today's world, the answers provided by traditional religions to increasingly difficult questions have lost their currency for many and that the reductive or rationalist answers provided by science and postmodernism are themselves rife with unexamined assumptions.

Doing Teacher-Research

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Roth, W. -M, W.-M, PUBLISHER: Sense Publishers, There are many teachers who think about doing research in their own classes and schools but who are perplexed by what appears to be involved. This book is intended for these perplexed practitioners, to provide them with an easily understandable narrative about the concrete praxis of doing research in their classrooms or in those of their teacher peers teaching next door or in the same school. The fundamental idea underlying this book is to provide an easily accessible but nevertheless intellectually honest text that allows teachers to increase their agency with respect to better understanding their praxis and the events in their classrooms by means of research. The author draws on his experience of doing teacher-research while being a high school teacher and department head. Roth uses six concrete research studies that he has conducted alone or with peers to describe the salient parts of any teacher-researcher investigation including: what topic to study; issues of ethics and permissions from students, school, and parents; how and what sources to collect; how to structure resources; how to construct data from the materials; how to derive claims; and how to write a report/research study. Roth chose the case-based approach because cases provide the details necessary for understanding why and how he, as teacher-researcher, has made certain decisions, and what he would do differently today.Using this case-based approach, he allows readers to tie methods choices to situations that they likely are familiar with.

War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pritchard, David M., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Athens is famous for its direct democracy and its innovative culture. Not widely known is its contemporaneous military revolution. Athens invented or perfected new forms of combat, strategy and military organisation and was directly responsible for raising the scale of Greek warfare to a different order of magnitude. The timing of this revolution is striking: it followed directly the popular uprising of 508 BC and coincided with the flowering of Athenian culture, which was largely brought about by democracy. This raises the intriguing possibility that popular government was one of the major causes of Athenian military success. Ancient writers may have thought as much, but the traditional assumptions of ancient historians and political scientists have meant that the impact of democracy on war has received almost no scholarly attention. This volume brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and political scientists to explore this important but neglected problem from multiple perspectives.

New Essays on Wise Blood

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kreyling, Michael / Elliot, Emory / Kreyling, Michael, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, These new critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only question our understanding of the "Southern Gothic," but launch a new inquiry into the nature and history of O'Connor's critical reputation. Perceived as a "classic" American writer despite the double setbacks of being a woman and a twentieth-century author, O'Connor continues to speak with striking clarity and disturbing vision to successive generations.

Acct Workshop-Ch 1-17 Acct 19e

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wanlass / Wanless / Warren, PUBLISHER: Thomson South-Western, The most successful higher education text of all time keeps getting better. The authors adapt their proven approach to accounting's evolving role in business and use the preparation of financial statements as the framework for understanding what accounting is all about. Designed for the introductory accounting course offered at community colleges, career colleges, and four-year schools, Accounting, 19e provides a solid foundation of accounting concepts with unique features to show how users can use accounting to understand business.

Rationing Education: Policy, Practice, Reform and Equity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gillborn, David / Youdell, Deborah, PUBLISHER: Open University Press, Recent educational reforms have raised standards of achievement but have also resulted in growing inequalities based on gender, 'race' and social class. School by school 'league tables' play a central role in the reforms. These have created an A-to-C economy where schools and teachers are judged on the proportion of students attaining five or more grades at levels A-to-C. To satisfy these demands schools are embracing new and ever more selective attempts to identify 'ability'. Their assumptions and practices embody a new IQism: a simple, narrow and regressive ideology of intelligence that labels working class and minority students as likely failures and justifies rationing provision to support those (often white, middle class boys) already marked for success. This book reports detailed research in two secondary schools showing the real costs of reform in terms of the pressures on teachers and the rationing of educational opportunity.

A More Excellent Way: Be in Health: Pathways of Wholeness,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wright, Henry W., PUBLISHER: Whitaker House, The root of psychological and biological disease is spiritual. Author Henry W. Wright not only equips the church with respect to defeating sickness, but he also demystifies it by showing, from God's perspective, why mankind has disease in the first place. A More Excellent Way is a valuable resource in assisting spiritual leaders, health-care professionals, and all individuals in understanding the spiritual dynamics behind diseases of the body, spirit, and soul.

An Essay on Contraction

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fuhrmann, Andre / Fuhrmann, A., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The book generalises earlier theories of belief change to cover all kinds of changes of sets by sets. The principal focus is still on changes of belief sets in response to new evidence, but the formal theory extends to all domains with a closure operation and a preference structure including, for example, systems of action. Contraction is the key notion; all other changes can be defined. Various new applications of the theory are outlined. A sentential version of contraction, subtraction, is proposed as a formal counterpart to 'except'-locutions in natural language. Connections are emphasised with other areas at the interface between philosophical logic and artificial intelligence such as reasoning from default assumptions or from inconsistent premises. A relation of merge inference is proposed as a means of retrieving maximal but nontrivial information from inconsistent premises. Merge inference respects certain anti-Boolean intuitions while avoiding a revision of classical logic.

Charting Made Incredibly Easy!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Springhouse, PUBLISHER: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Now nurses can chart the Incredibly Easy way with this remarkable reference. They'll find easy-to-follow directions for charting thoroughly and accurately in all clinical situations. And they'll learn to improve speed and efficiency, reduce legal risks, and meet requirements for licensing, accreditation, and reimbursement. Contents include charting basics: understanding charting, the nursing process, plans of care, and charting systems; charting in contemporary health care: acute care, home health care, longterm care, and rehabilitation; and special topics: enhancing charting, avoiding legal pitfalls, and documenting procedures.

Interfaces in High-Tc Superconducting Systems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shinde, Subhash L. / Rudman, David A., PUBLISHER: Springer, Because the new high-temperature superconductors cannot be grown as large single crystals, interfaces and junctions play an important role in their properties. The chapters in this book, each by leading researchers in the field, examine the state of our understanding of such interfaces. Chapters cover such topics as studies of YCBO films by transmission-electron, scanning-tunneling, and atomic-force microscopy; microstructure, interfacial interactions, and twin boundary structures in YCBO films; grain-boundary Josephson junctions; and overlayer formation.

The Early Modern Atlantic Economy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McCusker, John J. / Morgan, Kenneth O. / Morgan, Kenneth, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This book throws new light on the interlocking commercial relationships of the Atlantic trading world during the centuries ending with the American and French Revolutions. Grouped under four themes--the role of merchants and their connections; the development of trades; imperial economies; and colonial working societies--and written by an international team of economic historians, these essays increase our knowledge and understanding of the transatlantic economy. Contributions include studies of individual businessmen, labor patterns, port cities, branches of trade, and comparative studies of trading nations.

The Self-Help Guide for Special Kids and Their Parents

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Matthews, Joan / Williams, James, PUBLISHER: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, James Williams is an SP or special person -- he was diagnosed with autism during early childhood. His mother, Joan Matthews, is an NP or normal person. As James grew up, his different perception of the world and the lack of understanding from NPs created problems. As a result, James and Joan decided to write a book of their practical solutions. The Self-Help Guide is that book.

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kaku, Michio, PUBLISHER: Anchor Books, Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships--the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of "Star Trek, Star Wars, "and" Back to the Future," renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe's physical laws may permit in the near and distant future. Entertaining, informative, and imaginative, Physics of the Impossible" "probes the very limits of human ingenuity and scientific possibility.

Science, Sense and Soul: The Mystical-Physical Nature of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blood, Casey, PUBLISHER: Renaissance Books, In a world of political and social turmoil, can science tell us anything helpful? Can we make practical use of mysticism-the essence of religion-with its promise of a higher spiritual truth? Is it true that physics and biological science are incompatible with religion? Or can they be fruitfully reconciled? In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Casey Blood shows how quantum physics does indeed explain the true nature of the physical universe. He tells us how neuroscientists can provide an understanding of the way the brain makes sense of our inner and outer worlds. He also shows that neuroscience, in conjunction with a basic knowledge of mysticism, can clarify how and why meditation techniques and other mystical practices work. Most satisfying of all, he paints a world picture in which quantum physics is no only compatible with mysticism but also gives us a deeper understanding of spiritual matters. For Dr. Blood, three diverse disciplines-quantum physics, neuroscience, and mysticism-rather than being in conflict, give a unified picture of human existence. Together they show that the spiritual world has an immense effect on what happens here and now. And they suggest that spiritual practices can enable society to match human aspirations. Though the subjects are profound, "Science, Sense & Soul "is written in a clear, uncomplicated, readable style. The three sections on physics, neuroscience, and mysticism are mini-courses in the basics of those fields of inquiry. These three strands are then interwoven into an intricate design that illuminates the structure of and reason for human existence.

Continental Philosophy of Social Science: Hermeneutics,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sherratt, Yvonne, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the continental traditional approach to social science in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogical and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherrat demonstrates how these modes of thinking developed through the ages to become part of twentieth-century disciplines.

The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cuthbert, Alexander, PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishers, "The Form of Cities "offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge. Complements "Designing Cities" by the same author (Blackwell, ).

The Life and Ministry of William Booth: Founder of the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Green, Roger Joseph, PUBLISHER: Abingdon Press, Throughout his life, William Booth sought to minister to the least, the last, and the lost. Booth, together with his wife Catherine, founded and organized the world-wide mission still known as The Salvation Army. Booth's focus on the poor and marginalized comes directly from his theological convictions and his relationship with the Methodist movement in Great Britain, Particularly his understanding of John Wesley's doctrine of sanctification and emphasis on social activism. This grounding was the matrix from which Booth transformed his world.

Business, Ethics, and the Law

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Spencer, H. / Hodapp, Paul F., PUBLISHER: University Press of America, This anthology of journal articles and legal decisions is intended to provide business students with material that will be valuable to them after they graduate. It is hoped that each selection will raise questions and provoke discussion, and to encourage students to focus on evaluating business policies rather than on understanding moral theory. Contents: Ethics in the Law; Business Ethics; The Modern Business Manager; Moral Psychology; Employment in a Contract Society; Employment Privacy; Employment Discrimination; The Future of Business.

Wordsworth: The Prelude the Text

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wordsworth, William / De Selincourt, Ernest / Gill, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry. Written between and , the text was intensively revised in Wordsworth's later years. This volume contains the original version of , which was read to Coleridge. The poem was first published in , after the poet's death, and is available in Wordsworth's Poetical Works. To facilitate comparison, line numbers of the text have been placed in square brackets on the right-hand side of the page.

A Guide to Coding Compliance [With 2 CDROMs]

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Becker, Joanne M., PUBLISHER: Cengage Learning, A Guide to Coding Compliance provides guidelines on performing coding compliance reviews and developing a coding compliance program. Real-life case studies tie fundamental knowledge with practical solutions to many compliance situations that providers face today. For the coding and billing manager the text serves as a practical guide in answering some of the most common coding and compliance issues faced today. For students the text lays a foundation for understanding the legal requirements, payer specific instructions and the importance of quality coding. Acquista Ora

The Deer on Mount Ranier

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hanson, Anders, PUBLISHER: SandCastle, - Appropriate size type, moderate spacing between words and lines of text - Familiar to less familiar topics and contents - Some new concepts or ideas - Variety of simple and complex sentences - Text provides significant information - Natural oral language with descriptive language - Some challenging vocabulary - Full range of punctuation - Photographs and illustrations provide moderate support of text and enhance understanding of content - Variety of text layouts and type styles - Multiple lines of text - Innovative mix of nonfiction and fiction in each book - Full-color photographs - Full-color illustrations - Rhyming Riddle - Glossary - Word List

A Church in Captivity: The Greek Orthodox Church of America

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Matsoukas, George Edmund, PUBLISHER: iUniverse, It is a disconcerting fact that decisions for Orthodox Christians living in North America are currently dictated by interests of foreign governments and patriarchates, all which contribute to spiritual indifference among the faithful. This collection of essays explores the loss of autonomy and unification within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and offers ways to create an all-encompassing church that respects cultures and philosophies. George Matsoukas, Executive Director of Orthodox Christian Laity in West Palm Beach, Florida and an active member of his local parish, diocese, and archdiocese, chronologically presents personal essays that respond to regression in the life of the church during a seven-year period. He encourages constructive change through effective communication and a partnership between the church and the laity, ultimately resulting in a church that is able to meet the spiritual needs of all its members. Matsoukas provides insight on such topics as: Transitions within administrative structures Relationships with mother churches Parish life including the role of women in the church Matsoukas is passionate about creating a unified transformation and makes a well-informed case for a increasing the laity's role in the Orthodox Church in America and for the simultaneous liberation of this church from its historical oversight in various mother countries.

Principles of Development

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wolpert, Lewis / Smith, Jim / Lawrence, Peter, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Completely updated and revised in a new edition, Principles of Development presents major principles and concepts in the field for an undergraduate audience. Emphasizing gene control as the key to understanding development, the third edition is written in accessible prose, utilizing an impressive art program - 650 full color figures - as well as summaries and diagrams throughout the text to illuminate conceptually challenging material. In addition, the third edition presents carefully selected articles for further reading that expound on principles covered in the text.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fly Fishing, 2nd Edition

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shook, Michael D., PUBLISHER: Alpha Books, "A revised and expanded edition that will hook fishing enthusiasts." From understanding how to areada fish to devising strategies for stream, river, and dam fishing to creating and casting flies, the updated "Complete Idiotas Guidea to Fly Fishing" offers both beginning and seasoned fishing buffs a comprehensive overview of this specialized sport. a Photographs, illustrations, and detailed instructions on casting and fly tying technique a Updated coverage of technology and equipment including rods, reels, and line materials a Tips on preparing for a fly fishing trip

Wildlife Population Growth Rates

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sibly, Richard / Hone, Jim / Clutton-Brock, Tim, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The core message of this study is that key insights emerge from understanding what determines population growth rate, and that application of the approach will make ecology a more predictive science. What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? Despite great progress in the twentieth century, much more remains to be done before we can provide full answers to these classic questions in ecology. This book takes an original approach by describing and deploying progressive research methods.

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