Climbing Parnassus

Climbing Parnassus
Author: Tracy Lee Simmons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-03-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1684516056

In Climbing Parnassus, winner of the 2005 Paideia Prize, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. He also shows how these languages have played a crucial role in the development of authentic Humanism, the foundation of the West's cultural order and America's understanding of itself as a union of citizens. Simmons's persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in and of the classical languages constitutes a bracing reminder of the genuine aims of a truly liberal education.

Climbing Parnassus

Climbing Parnassus
Author: Tracy Lee Simmons
Publisher: ISI Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002-04
Genre: Education
ISBN:

"Tracy Lee Simmons readily concedes that there is little reason to hope for a widespread renascence in the teaching of Greek and Latin to our nation's schoolchildren. But he argues that, whatever its immediate prospects, an education in the classical languages is of inestimable personal and cultural value.".

The Clash of Orthodoxies

The Clash of Orthodoxies
Author: Robert P. George
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1684516048

In The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, Robert George tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Secular liberals typically suppose that their positions on morally charged issues of public policy are the fruit of pure reason, while those of their morally conservative opponents reflect an irrational religious faith. George shows that this supposition is wrong on both counts. Challenging liberalism's claim to represent the triumph of reason, George argues that on controversial issues like abortion, euthanasia, same-sex unions, civil rights and liberties, and the place of religion in public life, traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs are rationally superior to secular liberal alternatives. The Clash of Orthodoxies is a profoundly important contribution to our contemporary national conversation about the proper role of religion in politics. The lucid and persuasive prose of Robert George, one of America's most prominent public intellectuals, will shock liberals out of an unwarranted complacency and provide powerful ammunition for embattled defenders of traditional morality.

Heavy Green

Heavy Green
Author: Sam Lightner, Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-04-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692835739

By 1967 the Pentagon could see that stopping the flow of weapons into South Vietnam was the only way the United States could win the war. Key to this effort was the aerial bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but the weather and air defenses of North Vietnam made that task nearly impossible. With the help of the Thai Special Forces and the Laotian hill tribes, the CIA put into place a covert program that could pinpoint each of the bombing raids. It was clear this top secret operation would tilt the axis of the war, and the North Vietnamese had to counter it. Meticulously researched and based on information that remained classified for 20 years, Heavy Green tells the story of this secret operation and the daring raid that intended to bring it down.

What's in Your Pocket?

What's in Your Pocket?
Author: Heather L. Montgomery
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1623541220

Charles Darwin, George Washington Carver, and Jane Goodall were once curious kids with pockets full of treasures! When you find something strange and wonderful, do you put it in your pocket? Meet nine scientists who, as kids, explored the great outdoors and collected "treasures": seedpods, fossils, worms, and more. Observing, sorting, and classifying their finds taught these kids scientific skills--and sometimes led to groundbreaking discoveries. Author Heather Montgomery has all the science flair of a new Bill Nye. Book includes the Heather's tips for responsible collecting.

Writing on Water

Writing on Water
Author: David Rothenberg
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780262681360

Water and its multifaceted relationship to humans, as portrayed by a wide range of writers and photographers.

Northern Irish Poetry

Northern Irish Poetry
Author: E. Kennedy-Andrews
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2014-08-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137330392

Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating and enriching itself through cross-cultural interaction and hybridity.

The Lies About Truth

The Lies About Truth
Author: Courtney Stevens
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062245430

In the same vein as Jandy Nelson and Gayle Forman comes a novel from the gifted author of Faking Normal, Courtney C. Stevens, about hope and courage and the struggle to overcome the pain of loss. Sadie Kingston is living in the aftermath. A year after surviving a car accident that killed her friend Trent and left her body and face scarred, she can't move forward. The only person who seems to understand her is Trent's brother, Max. As Sadie begins to fall for Max, she's unsure if she is truly healed enough to be with him. But Max looks at her scars and doesn't shy away. And Max knows about the list she writes in the sand at the beach every night, the list of things that Sadie knows she must accomplish before she can move on from the accident. And while he can help her with number six (kiss someone without flinching), she knows she's on her own with number three (forgive Gina and Gray) and the rest of the seemingly impossible tasks that must be made possible before she can live in the now again.