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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

An exploration of the volunteer networks for moral reforms of late Georgian and Victorian England.

Many of the things discovered by accident are important in our everyday lives: Teflon, Velcro, nylon, x-rays, penicillin, safety glass, sugar substitutes, and polyethylene and other plastics. And we owe a debt to accident for some of our deepest scientific knowledge, including Newton's theory of gravitation, the Big Bang theory of Creation, and the discovery of DNA. Even the Rosetta Stone, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the ruins of Pompeii came to...

This resource for leaders of professional learning communities examines the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to work effectively with teachers, parents, administrators, students, and their school community members at large. Schools as Professional Learning Communities, Second Edition, a one-stop sourcebook for building a learning community, presents research-based activities and strategies that offer ongoing support for teachers. A...

The writing of Iris Murdoch has long been of interest to both literature enthusiasts and students of philosophy. The years Murdoch spent studying philosophy at Oxford and Cambridge left an indelible imprint on her body of work, which is widely recognized as some of the best literature produced in 20th century Britain. This anthology of international essays addresses both Murdoch's philosophy and writing in the context of Continental philosophy...

The chemist has a vast range of high-tech catalysts to use when working in fine chemical synthesis but the catalysts are generally hard to use and require both time, skill and experience to handle properly. The "Catalysts for Fine Chemical Synthesis" series contains tested and validated procedures which provide a unique range resources for chemists who work in organic chemistry...". of great value to synthetic organic chemists..." (The Chemist...

Endangered Species" is a book that speaks to boys and young men, in particular. There are a great number of young men who have never had the experience or benefit of having a positive male role model and/or mentor involved in their lives for an extended period of time. The book itself serves like a mentor and provides sage advice, statistical data and empowering supportive content to help them realize the potential that can be reached regardle...

When Rage Doesn't Help - A Mother's Pain is the 52 day account of the experience and circumstances involving the hospital stay and suspicious death of Keoni Pacheco as told by his mother - Yong Johnson. The circumstances for which Mrs. Johnson and her family had to contend with were so incredibly unreal and abnormal that Yong began to journal the occurences of each day, which became the premise from which this must read book was written.

This book places a chronological narrative of events in the context of the long term changes that colored them, such as increases in life expectancy, major strides in technology, vanished empires, shrunken white hegemony, and the evolving role of women.

This book places a chronological narrative of events in the context of the long term changes that colored them, such as increases in life expectancy, major strides in technology, vanished empires, shrunken white hegemony, and the evolving role of women.

This book places a chronological narrative of events in the context of the long term changes that colored them, such as increases in life expectancy, major strides in technology, vanished empires, shrunken white hegemony, and the evolving role of women.

Offering a dazzling overview of a turbulent century, "The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century" explores the dramatic events and underlying trends that made the twentieth century the most transformative in human history. Despite two devastating World Wars and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased significantly alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transformed, America has assumed undispu...

How is it that the small continent of Europe has exerted so profound an influence on the rest of the world? J. M. Robertss sweeping history traces the development of European identity over the course of thousands of years.

How is it that the small continent of Europe has exerted so profound an influence on the rest of the world? J. M. Robertss sweeping history traces the development of European identity over the course of thousands of years.

Seeing the UnseenEducating in the Twilight Zone of God's GloryA breakthrough in thinking and practical psychology. Reviewers have likened his style to that of C. S. Lewis and Philip Yancy.Dana Roberts believes that modern psychotherapy, romanticism, repetitious advertising and electronic entertainment haven weakened our mind. It's hurt the reasoning voice inside our head-the theater of our mental images.-what the Bible calls the heart. It enab...

As a pair of Christians, Angelic Communicators, Reiki Teachers, and Authors living in a post-modern world seemingly beseiged by problems of all shapes and sizes, Sandye Roberts and Arthur L. Jones, III can fully appreciate the need for enlightment by many who are currently hoping for the best while preparing for the worse. Their Non-fiction book, DIVINE INTERVENTION: A Guide To Reiki Angels and Archangels, offers its readers 43 specific Member...

This book, first published in 1991, describes how and why conflicts over environmental injustice are created and eventually resolved.

Lavishly illustrated account of forty magnificent country houses, destroyed in the last century.

This book describes and explores the poetics implied in Irigaray's An Ethics of Sexual Difference and develops a hermeneutics of being-two through readings of three major post-symbolist poets. Irigaray scholars will be interested in the interpolation of her ethics as a critical poetics, while scholars in comparative literature will find sustained feminist engagement with Bonnefoy and Perse, as well as discussion of their influence on the Ameri...

This book introduces some of the specific contexts in which today's counsellors and psychotherapists find themselves working. It draws upon the experience of counsellors active in their field and uses relevant examples of the potential pitfalls and rewards of counselling in diverse institutional settings. Counsellors are introduced to the regulatory, legislative, economic, social and cultural considerations relevant to the confidential work be...