Compte Rendu

Compte Rendu
Author:
Publisher: IGME
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1985
Genre: Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN: 9788474743319

If Schools Didn't Exist

If Schools Didn't Exist
Author: Nils Christie
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0262358484

A classic in the philosophy of education, considering the fundamental purpose and function of schools, translated into English for the first time. This classic 1971 work on the fundamental purpose and function of schools belongs on the same shelf as other landmark works of the era, including Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and John Holt's How Children Fail. Nils Christie's If School Didn't Exist, translated into English for the first time, departs from these works by not considering schooling (and deschooling) as much as schools and their specific community and social contexts. Christie argues that schools should be proving grounds for how to live together in society rather than assembly lines producing future citizens and employees.

The Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials

The Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials
Author: James D. Hardy, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512819832

Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure. William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.

Fictional Characters, Real Problems

Fictional Characters, Real Problems
Author: Garry Hagberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198715714

These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature.

Signs, Wonders, and Gifts

Signs, Wonders, and Gifts
Author: Jennifer Eyl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0190924659

In much of the scholarship on Paul, activities such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and miracle healings are either ignored or treated as singular occurrences. Typically, these practices are categorized in such a way that shields Paul and his followers from the influence of so-called paganism. In Signs, Wonders, and Gifts, Jennifer Eyl masterfully argues that Paul did, in fact, engage in range of divinatory and wonder-working practices that were widely recognized and accepted across the ancient Mediterranean. Eyl redescribes, reclassifies, and recontextualizes Paul's repertoire vis- -vis such widespread, similar practices. Situating these activities within the larger framework of reciprocity that dominated human-divine relationships in antiquity, she demonstrates that divine powers and divine communication were bestowed as benefactions toward Paul and his gentile followers in proportion to their faithfulness and loyalty.