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Author | : Naoko Saito |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0823283097 |
In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology and procedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the human condition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito reads Dewey’s idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey’s notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology.
Author | : Sue Fliess |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541595513 |
The soft glow of a candle, the blink of a firefly, a burst of fireworks—light is everywhere in our world! Rhyming text and luminous illustrations follow four children as they experience many different forms of light. "[M]ultiple STEAM applications, from poetry and creative writing to introductions to energy and light to how the sun affects human life, and doubles as a great read-aloud or a starry bedtime story."—starred, Booklist
Author | : T. M. Doran |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1586176331 |
Between the two world wars, on a hike in the English countryside, Professor John Hill takes refuge from a violent storm in a cave. There he nearly loses his life, but he also makes an astonishing discovery -- an ancient manuscript housed in a cunningly crafted metal box. Though a philologist by profession, Hill cannot identify the language used in the manuscript and the time period in which it is was made, but he knows enough to make an educated guess -- that the book and its case are the fruits of a long-lost, but advanced civilization. The translation of the manuscript and the search for its origins become a life-long quest for Hill. As he uncovers an epic that both enchants and inspires him, he tracks down scholars from Oxford to Paris who can give him clues. Along the way, he meets several intriguing characters, including a man keenly interested in obtaining artifacts from a long-lost civilization that he believes was the creation of a superior race, and will help him fulfill his ambition to rule other men. Concluding that Hill must have found something that may help him in this quest, but knowing not what it is and where it is hidden, he has Hill, his friends at Oxford, and his family shadowed and threatened until finally he and Hill face off in a final, climatic confrontation. A story that features a giant pirate and slaver, a human chameleon on a perilous metaphysical journey, a mysterious hermit, and creatures both deadly and beautiful, this is a novel that explores the consequences of the predominant ideas of the 20th Century.
Author | : Eve Bunting |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2005-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547539916 |
Inspired by real events, master storyteller Eve Bunting recounts the harrowing yet hopeful story of a family, a war--and a dazzling discovery.
Author | : Sachiko Murata |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2000-08-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791446379 |
The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.
Author | : Raven Kennedy |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1405955031 |
PERFECT FOR FANS OF SARAH J. MAAS AND JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT 'Read this series NOW! I felt like I was in the story watching and holding my breath the entire time' 5***** Reader Review 'Sexy and touching all at the same time . . . and that plot twist, OMG' 5***** Reader Review _______ Locked inside a new kingdom, with no allies of my own, something has been set free inside me. Something dark. Something angry. It is my anger that calls out to him: King Ravinger. Sinister, powerful and entirely too seductive, his danger is only outweighed by my unrelenting attraction. But I won't be caught in a cage again. No, this time, it'll be me setting the trap . . . _______ 'A spectacularly written, engaging, imaginative retelling of the ancient myth of King Midas' 5***** Reader Review 'I literally devoured this book in one sitting' 5***** Reader Review Sunday Times bestseller April 2023
Author | : Elise Asher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781878818331 |
Well known as a painter, there is no American painter who is as good a poet and no American poet who is as good a painter as Elise Asher.
Author | : Lucille Clifton |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2023-08-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619322897 |
With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved voices of the 20th century. Though The Book of Light opens with thirty-nine names for light, we soon learn the most meaningful name is Lucille—daughter, mother, proud Black woman. Known for her ability to convey multitudes in few words, Clifton writes into the shadows—her father’s violations, a Black neighborhood bombed, death, loss—all while illuminating the full spectrum of human emotion: grief and celebration, anger and joy, empowerment and so much grace. A meeting place of myth and the Divine, The Book of Light exists “between starshine and clay” as Clifton’s personas allow us to bear the world’s weight with Atlas and witness conversations between Lucifer and God. While names and dates mark this text as a social commentary responding to her time, it is haunting how easily this collection serves as a political palimpsest of today. We leave these poems inspired—Clifton shows us Superman is not our hero. Our hero is the Black female narrator who decides to live. And what a life she creates! “Won’t you celebrate with me?”
Author | : Tom Fletcher |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1848662548 |
The Factory is the law - but Wild Alan is about to discover that law does not mean justice. The gargantuan Factory of Gleam is an ancient, hulking edifice of stone, metal and glass ruled over by chaste alchemists and astronomer priests. As millennia have passed, the population has decreased, and now only the central district is fully inhabited and operational; the outskirts have been left for the wilderness to reclaim. This decaying, lawless zone is the Discard, and Wild Alan's home. Clever, arrogant and perpetually angry, Wild Alan is both loved and loathed by the Discard's misfits. He's convinced that the Gleam authorities were behind the disaster that killed his parents and his ambition is to prove it. But he's about to uncover more than he bargained for. 'Anyone looking for a science fiction tale of grim darkness should definitely pick this one up'- Starburst
Author | : Martin Kemp |
Publisher | : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781848224674 |
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante's supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante's vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante's ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante's acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante's earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists' portrayal of unseeable brightness.