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A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.
Educators are familiar with Alfred North Whitehead's three stages of education: romance, precision, and generalization. Philosophers are familiar with his metaphysical theories about the primacy of temporal processes. In Modes of Learning, George Allan brings these two sides of Whitehead's thought together for the first time in a book suitable...
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The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one! With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work. You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It, explains how to negotiate salary, network with musicians, prepare for tours and much more. Blaze includes stories from the road that will entertain Blues fans...
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Este libro ofrece análisis detallados del riesgo que corren la Tierra y la humanidad, y denuncia las amenazas que se ciernen sobre nosotros, pero sobre todo presenta una perspectiva de esperanza, de que si somos solidarios y cooperativos podremos dar un salto de calidad hacia un mundo más cuidadoso con la Madre Tierra, más justo, tierno y fraterno con los compañeros de viaje de este planeta.
En este sentido, la obra está en sintonía con las...
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A provocative, entertaining but ultimately serious examination of rock's most essential questions: Beatles or Stones? Which is the best air guitar to play? Does Rush suck? And what is the meaning of Billy Joel? Metaphysical Graffiti is a book for music fans, humor fans, and, if a meaningful ontological category, fans of philosophy too. It is a provocative, inflammatory, hilarious, but ultimately serious book about the essential questions of rock-Beatles...
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Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question-"Where do we fit in the universe?"-is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance. Now, welcome to the Anthropocene you battered,...
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Nobody meant for this to happen.
Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide.
Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women.
YouTube never planned to radicalize young men.
But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships.
Social warming has happened gradually — as a by-product of our preposterously...
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La variedad en la forma de vivir y expresar la propia identidad sexual y de género es una realidad manifiesta en nuestra sociedad. Acercarse a la disforia de género, de los menores en concreto, conlleva poner en la palestra la realidad del sufrimiento de muchas personas que no se reconocen a sí mismas y que cuando se miran en el espejo no se aceptan ni se quieren. Desdeñar esta situación refiriéndose a ella como ideológica o de «personas raras...
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Thinking is a dynamic process resulting from practices of integration. Thought encounters in openness, wonder, receptivity, and contemplation confer upon us intellectual work that is uniquely our own. Digital patterns, however, distract us from these creative encounters. Our intellectual searching is weakened and fragmented by frenetic consumption of information. We miss out on reason's innate pull toward integration and concrete reality. This book...
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Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal cultures, immigrants and newcomers, gay/lesbian youth, rural-urban divides, mental health, and so forth. Presenting...
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Can playing a game lead to world peace? If it's John Hunter's World Peace Game, it just might. In Hunter's classroom, students take on the roles of presidents, tribal leaders, diplomats, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations, standoffs and summits, they strive to resolve a sequence of many-layered, interconnected scenarios, from nuclear proliferation to tribal warfare.
Now, Hunter shares inspiring stories from over thirty years...
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The Reasonings of Buju Banton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla is three exclusive interviews, ten exclusive photos, and 104 links to music and tales. An engaging literal account of how three prodigious talents ply and impact a nation of millions with their reactionary music.
Now, in The Reasonings of Buju Banton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla, the 8th book in the series, you can get inside the minds of some of the most important artists who have made their mark...
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Después de los acuerdos de paz, y en medio de un contexto de posconflicto, la construcción de una cultura para la paz es uno de los mayores desafíos colectivos que se deben asumir desde los centros educativos para sustentar y orientar las acciones previstas en el posacuerdo. A través de la educación se pueden transformar nuevas formas de sociabilidad, basadas en procesos de justicia y respeto a los derechos humanos, la diversidad cultural y la...
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A fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of the document. Like Henry Petroski's The Pencil, David Levy's Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age. We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds-letters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages-yet we rarely stop to reflect on their...
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Impelled by runaway spending and rampant corruption, America's much-beloved games of college basketball and football are being, threatened. The specter of billion-dollar sums being, showered on coaches, voracious athletic directors, hordes of support staff and lavish comforts for fans has led to a near-deafening roar to pay the players. The injustice of such sums being amassed, in the main, from the labor of young men of color many of whom come from...
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What does it mean to teach with empathy?
Whether it's planning and delivering instruction or just interacting with others throughout the day, every action you take is an opportunity to demonstrate empathy toward your students, your colleagues, and yourself.
"I'm already empathetic to my students and their stories," you may be thinking. But a teacher's actions, even unintentional and especially uninformed, can be implicitly shaming, compounding any...
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Shocked by 9/11, the Great Recession, digital anxiety, and ecological collapse, the West suffers from nostalgia. People everywhere yearn for a utopian version of the past that never existed. Desperate for relief, many long to escape from the present. Some will stop at nothing to achieve it. In his essential new book, Grafton Tanner, author of Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts, argues that our nostalgia today is partly a...
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Último discípulo de Edmund Husserl, considerado "el Sócrates de Praga" por el compromiso político que adoptó al final de su vida como primer portavoz del movimiento cívico Carta 77, Jan Patočka ha influido fuertemente en el pensamiento fenomenológico actual a través de su concepción de una fenomenología asubjetiva y la caracterización de la existencia humana como movimiento. Interioridad y mundo ofrece por primera vez la traducción en...
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William G. Bowen (1933–2016) was president emeritus of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Princeton University and founding chairman of JSTOR and ITHAKA. His many books include The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions and Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education (both Princeton). Kevin M. Guthrie is an executive and entrepreneur with expertise in higher education...
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Une étude approfondie de la notion d'innéité
Dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, la notion d'innéité est revenue au premier plan du débat intellectuel avec trois phénomènes connexes. Le premier est l'essor de la génétique moléculaire, qui confortait l'idée d'un programme contenu dans le génome, programme que l'individu biologique viendrait réaliser. Le second est la linguistique chomskyenne, qui a mis l'accent sur la nécessité...