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An original philosophical treatise on form and the foundations of social value.

George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" inhigher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anticanonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist approach anda...

Suitable for practitioners and policy advisers in the fields of environmental and natural resource management, this book combines adaptive management theory with case studies. While the book is designed primarily for practitioners and policy advisors in the fields of environmental and natural resource management, it will also provide a valuable reference for students and researchers with interests in environmental, natural resource and conserv...

A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.

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Excerpt from Life of Sir Walter Scott: With Critical Notices of His WritingsFor I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grandame's child, But half a plague and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, carest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art...

Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the American Academy of Dental Science, at Its Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting: Held in Boston, November 11, 1891 In responding to the kind invitation to be present with you this evening and take a part in your annual festivities, I wish first to congratulate you on the many evidences of strong vitality and growth I see in your society 3 and, second, to thank you for the compliment you have extended to me. B...

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In Nature, Truth, and Value nineteen scholars writing from across the humanities and sciences challenge the reigning theoretical and philosophical enterprises of deconstruction and postmodernism. With great erudition, ambition, and daring, all contributions have one thread in common--their abiding interest in the work of Frederick FerrZ, a thinker whose passion for intellectual inquiry remains unsurpassed. More specifically Nature, Truth, and ...

In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick Ferr . These essays, informed by the insights of Ferr and coming from manifold perspectives--ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions.

Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing ecosystem management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of ‘integrated natural resource management’. Conceptually, adaptive management is simply learning from past management actions to improve future planning and management. However, adaptive management has proved difficult to achieve in practice. With a view to facilitating better practice, this new book presen...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...