Publication date: 2002-01-11
Dewey code: 370.1
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Review Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy Of Love / Westview Press:Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, best known for his work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, challenged education plans that contributed to the marginalization of minorities and the poor. Freire believed that education should be used for liberation by helping learners reflect on their experiences historically, giving immediate reality to issues of racism, sexism, and the exploitation of workers. Known as one of the most influential theoretical innovators of the twentieth century, his views have left a significant mark on progressive thinkers about education and liberation. Reinventing Paulo Freire is an homage to him by protégé Antonia Darder. Here, she explores the legacy of Freire, interviews eight former students who studied him- now teachers themselves, and reflects on the teaching practice as demonstrated by Freire himself. The interviews take the form of first person narratives; the epilogue consists simply of a letter and a poem.
Publication date: 2004-03-24
Dewey code: 940.548173
List Price: $31.99
Price: $73.73
Review Pizza and Mortars: Ba-muoi-ba & Body Bags / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 1985-01-01
Dewey code: 347.7151014
List Price: $35.00
Price: $116.81
Review The Judges of New Brunswick and Their Times (Sources in the History of Atlantic Canada) / Acadiensis:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-07-05
Dewey code: 940
List Price: $90.00
Price: $86.00
Review Theodosius: The Empire at Bay (Roman Imperial Biographies) / Routledge:Emperor Theodosius (379-95) was the last Roman emperor to rule a unified empire of East and West and his reign represents a turning point in the policies and fortunes of the Late Roman Empire. In this imperial biography, Stephen Williams and Gerry Friell bring together literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence concerning this Roman emperor, studying his military and political struggles, which he fought heroically but ultimately in vain. Summoned from retirement to the throne after the disastrous Roman defeat by the Goths at Adrianople, Theodosius was called on to rebuild the armies and put the shattered state back together. He instituted a new policy towards the barbarians, in which diplomacy played a larger role than military might, at a time of increasing frontier dangers and acute manpower shortage. He was also the founder of the established Apostolic Catholic Church. Unlike other Christian emperors, he suppressed both heresy and paganism and enforced orthodoxy by law. The path was a diffucult one, but Theodosius (and his successor, Stilicho) had little choice. This study demonstrates how a series of political misfortunes led to the separation of the Eastern and Western empires which meant that the overlordship of Rome in Europe dwindled into mere ceremonial. The authors examine the emperor and his character and the state of the Roman empire, putting his reign in the context of the troubled times.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-01-15
Dewey code: 109
List Price: $33.90
Price: $72.93
Review Mahatma Gandhi: Autobiografia / Arkano Books:Pocos personajes historicos despiertan un interes tan universal como el de este extraordinario caudillo de la paz, que fue el llamado Mahatma (Alma Grande) Gandhi, lider del movimiento nacionalista de la India y organizador de la resistencia civil contra la dominacion inglesa.
Creator: Oskari Kuusela
Publication date: 2007-09-17
Dewey code: 192
List Price: $95.95
Price: $73.66
Review Wittgenstein and His Interpreters / Wiley-Blackwell:Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein. The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a range of perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy of Wittgenstein Written by leading experts from America, Britain, and Europe Provides a much needed overview of the complex landscape of Wittgenstein exegesis and Wittgensteinian approaches to philosophy Assesses the current state, aims, and future of Wittgenstein scholarship An essential guide for both students and scholars.
Creator: R.A. Sunyaev
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-04-23
Dewey code: 530.092
List Price: $119.95
Price: $72.94
Review Zeldovich: Reminiscences / CRC:Ya. B. Zeldovich was undoubtedly one of the greatest physicists and cosmologists of the 20th century. This volume presents reminiscences about this exemplary academician, providing biographical and historical insights from colleagues who knew him best. Zeldovich's achievements are outlined, including those in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology; the theory of combustion; and the Soviet atomic and hydrogen bomb project. This monograph contains incisive commentary on Soviet science and the impact that Zeldovich had on future generations, not only in the former Soviet Union but throughout the international physics community. Zeldovich: Reminiscences is a useful reference text for students of astrophysics and the history of science.
Publication date: 2005-03-03
Dewey code: 943.6424004924073
List Price: $78.50
Price: $75.92
Review On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught To Hate / State University of New York Press:
Creator: Edna H. Hong
Publication date: 1998-05-11
Dewey code: 198.9
List Price: $95.00
Price: $75.96
Review The Point of View : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 22 / Princeton University Press:As a spiritual autobiography, Kierkegaard's The Point of View for My Work as an Author stands with such great works as Augustine's Confessions and Newman's Apologia pro vita sua-but with a difference. It is neither a confessional autobiography nor a defense. It is an author's story of a lifetime of writing, his understanding of the common aim and comprehensive coherence of the maze of his greatly varied pseudonymous and signed works. In an earlier work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard acknowledged his authorship of the series of pseudonymous works that began with Either/Or. With the imminent publication of the second edition of Either/Or, the pseudonymous series would come full circle, and Kierkegaard again intended to cease writing. Now was the time for a direct "report to history" on the authorship as a whole. In addition to the resulting Point of View, which was published posthumously, the present volume also contains the companion pieces Armed Neutrality and On My Work as an Author, a contemporary substitute for the postponed Point of View. Supplementary entries taken from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers document the context and the development of the writings on the authorship as a whole. In addition, they disclose Kierkegaard's considerations as he wrestled with decisions about publishing the three works and other works that were the "fruit of the year 1848. [+]the year of my richest productivity. ".
Publication date: 2006-04
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $82.00
Price: $78.00
Review Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times (Great Barrington Books) / Paradigm Publishers:Not long after co-authoring "The Port Huron Statement", the charter document of 1960s activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wright Mills. It is published here for the first time, along with newly written essays by Hayden and by prominent social theorists who are experts on Mills and his ongoing influence today. Hayden cogently traces Mills's scholarship and his progressive activism to the events and thinkers of earlier generations. Ideas in major books by Mills (The Power Elite, New Men of Power, White Collar, Character and Social Structure, The Sociological Imagination) can now be better understood in light of the influences on Mills during and before his time, including the impact of two world wars, the Great Depression and the New Deal, the failures of the Soviet state, and changing relations between workers and industry in America and worldwide. The book thus brings us a new and much more complete understanding of Mills's political theories and philosophy. With only one previous biography of Mills in print, this book is a major contribution.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 909
Price: $19.95
Review Letter to My Descendants / Univ Pr of Southern Denmark:
Creator: Patrick O'Leary
Publication date: 1983-06
Dewey code: 070.924
Price: $25.50
Review Regency Editor Life of John Scott / Aberdeen Univ Pr:
Authors
- Christine E. Jackson
- Peter Davis
Dewey code: 508.092
List Price: $168.00
Price: $105.00
Review Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History / Continuum:This biography of Sir William Jardine (1800-1874), the foremost Scottish naturalist of the 19th century, uses original source material (manuscripts, correspondence, etc. ). Despite Jardine's considerable achievements as ornithologist, ichthyologist, publisher and catalyst of Victorian science, no comprehensive biography exists. Jardine owned the finest private natural history museum and library in Britain and made natural history available to anyone who could read by issuing 40 small volumes on birds, mammals, fishes and insects.
Publication date: 2007-05-15
Dewey code: 348.731
List Price: $82.00
Price: $82.00
Review What Good Is Legislative History?: Justice Scalia in the Federal Courts of Appeals / William S. Hein & Company:
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 537.534
List Price: $90.00
Price: $81.29
Review Spectroscopy With Coherent Radiation: Selected Papers of Norman F. Ramsey With Commentary (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics , Vol 21) / World Scientific Publishing Company:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 609
Price: $13.95
Review Afraid / Vantage Pr:
Publication date: 2007-06-12
Price: $31.26
Review Border-Line Insanity / Trafford Publishing:Border-Line Insanity offers the reader an insight into the life of a conscripted soldier in the South African army during the dark days of apartheid. In 1984 I was thrust into a scary world of strict order and discipline as a teenage school graduate, experiencing subtle brain washing as I became moulded into a white soldier for the mandatory two-year term. The reader is taken through the training, character building and bonds of camaraderie, before being dispatched into a bush life ripe with fear on the border line of South-West Africa/Namibia and Angola. From one patrol to the next we experienced the insanities that came with the hardship as we survived with an iron will under intense heat and heavy rainfall upon a land we scorned. Having seen and smelled innocent death on one border, only to have three troops from my section captured on another, and held prisoner under deplorable conditions in Mozambique. Experiencing real life fears in 1988, as we massed up in a mechanized armoured brigade as Citizen Force soldiers on the South-West African/Angolan border, in wait for an attack against Cuban and Angolan forces, with our fate a living hell in itself. With the army still breathing deeply in me, I left South Africa (after having served two and a half years) for a solo backpacking adventure across exotic parts of the world and behind the iron curtain, which lasted five years. In 2003 I returned to an independent Namibia to bury some tension, anxiety and hatred for a people, a land and a life where much of my ill feeling had been born only to fester silently for many years ahead. In so doing I had come full circle to closing a chapter never to be lived again and one certainly never to be forgotten.
Authors
- Richard H. Hoffman
- Richard H. Hoffman Lt. Col. USAF
Publication date: 2000-02-15
Dewey code: 940.547243
List Price: $31.99
Price: $73.93
Review Stalag 17B / Xlibris Corporation:Richard H. Hoffman was born in West Virginia, and raised in Ohio and Delaware. During World War II, he was a prisoner of war at Germany's Stalag 17B. After discharge he joined the United States Air Force Reserve and was commissioned. He served during the Korean and Southeast Asian conflicts as an intelligence officer and historian.
Creator: J. Pitt
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1978-02-28
Dewey code: 509.24
List Price: $185.00
Price: $129.43
Review New Perspectives on Galileo (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science) / Springer:
Creator: Richard Louis Bencriscutto
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.99
Price: $73.65
Review Sugar Shack / Xlibris Corporation:On March 15, 1976, a significant stronghold and foundation of sexism began to crumble when the first male stripper took the stage of the Lake Geneva Sugar Shack. Dana Montana, past and present owner and operator of the Sugar Shack, struck a blow that severed the sacred soul of the position that men have taken throughout human history: that a woman is a man's possession, to be exploited economically, emotionally, politically and sexually. What Hugh Hefner offered men, Dana Montana provided for women. She turned the tables on the sex exploitation industry. Among the many hallmarks of the American Feminist movement, Dana Montana's courageous and contentious decision to provide sexual fantasy fulfillment for women, sent a social seismic wave through our culture that continues to generate aftershocks. Ms. Montana was not driven by a desire to rise to the forefront of a great cause; she was driven to fulfill the most basic of human needs-to love and be loved, and the most fundamental of all needs-to survive. Will she be remembered in the same breath as Susan B. Anthony, who wrote and submitted to congress the right-to-vote amendment? She should be. Now, over twenty years later, it is time to look back, at the life of Dana Montana and assess her influence on the world we live in today. [+]When Betty Friedan's, The Feminine Mystique, was published in 1963, provoking the second significant wave of the American Feminist movement, Dana Montana was being fitted for a "Bunny" costume at the Chicago Playboy Club. Although the consciousness of the country was being raised regarding women's rights issues, Dana was positioning herself to exploit her particular personal assets in an institutionalized bastion of antifeminism; Playboy International, Inc. During the next ten years, rapidly changing events, both in Dana's personal life and in the moral life of our country, eventually led to a Monday evening in March when Elliot Lanzanna, for the first time ever, began to strip away one of the most significant barriers blocking equality for women in America and in the World.
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