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First published in 1986. We all play the roles of teacher or learner many times in life, in school and home, on the job and even at play. How can we strengthen those roles, striving for deep understanding and sound thinking? Knowledge As Design demonstrates the strong but neglected unity between learning and critical and creative thinking. Author David Perkins discloses how the con­cept of design opens a doorway into a deeper exploration of an...

Presents current thinking on some of the theoretical issues and dilemmas in the conception and writing of literary history, by scholars from Europe, Australia and North America. Topics covered include the role of literary history in "new" societies and the problem of literary classification.

Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights, this study joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for ecological concerns. An unprecedented amount of writing advocated kindness to animals in England during the second half of the eighteenth century. This theme was carried through many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, scientific works to lit...

Embracing an exciting era of poetic ferment, this book traces the modern movement from its beginnings to its vital prime.

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This book presents not just the Romantic Wordsworth, but Wordsworth as part of a large historical movement in poetry, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing to the present day. It concentrates on the difficult, much discussed, but little analyzed problem of "sincerity" in poetry, which it treats both critically and historically, as a demand relatively new in Wordsworth's time and still with us.

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In 1997 a very select group of analysts, practitioners, and scholars assembled at the University of Oklahoma to lay the ground work for a new United States foreign policy that will promote our nation's ideals while protecting its vital interests in the post-cold war era. This carefully edited collection includes major policy statements and roundtable discussions by the best minds of our time as they devise criteria for the employment of milita...

Children's Musical / Cast: 10 principals, chorusScenery: Unit setThis exuberant, fun packed musical written for a large cast of young people features a glitzy rock 'n' roll score and plenty of action. Unless Joey Nobody and private detective Dirk Manley find Angelo's will in time, bogus heir Deanne la Domme, the glamorous film star, will sell Angelo's New York ice cream parlour to Crazy Flavors. So get out the bobby socks and join Chuck and th...

Excerpt from Manchester Up to Date: Story of the City, 1846-1896A deep glen, or ravine, extended northeasterly from the Valley Cemetery, and a brook that rippled down between the heavily Shaded banks.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 technology to digit...

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A genial, learned, and accessible overview of the classical problem of the relationship between thinking and being, thought and reality, knowing and truth, especially in its application to reading and understanding literature."--Harold Fromm, "Hudson Review." (Criticism)

From Archimedes' discovery of the principle of water displacement while taking a bath to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, from Brunelleschi's development of perspective drawing to the Impressionist revolution, from the taming of fire to the creation of the laser, "breakthrough thinking"-that is, a sudden, seemingly unaccountable moment of inspiration-has shaped and advanced civilization. But Nature invents, too-through evolutionary watersheds ...

Shows how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights.

Desde que Arquímedes descubrió el principio del desplazamiento del agua mientras se bañaba hasta la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein, desde el desarrollo de la perspectiva por parte de Brunelleschi a la revolución del impresionismo, del dominio del fuego a la creación del láser, el progreso de las ideas ?un repentino rapto de inspiración, en apariencia inexplicable? ha dado forma y ha hecho avanzar a la civilización. También ha modificado ...

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New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game"David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game, " rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning ac...

Your organization functions and grows through conversations-face-to-face and electronic, from the mailroom to the boardroom. The quality of those conversations determines how smart your organization is. This revelatory book shows you how the Round Table of Arthurian legend can help foster collaboration and transform today's world of business, nonprofits, and government. "When I want a group to work effectively, I turn immediately to my colleag...

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