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Myth America exposes the lag of major American institutions behind the demands of the 21st century and the reinforcement of this lag by the media and schools miseducating the public. The author shows how the priorities of these institutions are undermining rather than achieving ecological sustainability and social justice. Corporate power is driving public policy and Americans are being propagandized in the name of education to believe that ca...

This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him.

Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States provides a colorful introduction for students and nonspecialists alike to the scope of musical styles and venues in America from colonial to contemporary times. Covering all aspects of music, including classical, ragtime, blues, jazz, popular, minstrel shows, and music on radio and television and in film, the text also contains a variety of photographs and illustrations, three time l...

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A Christian Response to the New Genetics appeals to both secular and religious readers in the center of the great debate over our new genetic powers. These essays affirm many traditional Christian perspectives and virtues, while also introducing new insights.

Currently, there are three approaches to studying American Indians: from how white Americans approach Indian studies, from the dynamics or exchange of Indian-white relations and from the Indian point of view. Donald Fixico, an American Indian, has been teaching and writing history for a quarter of a century. This book is the direct result of his experience as a scholar who 'thinks like an Indian' in an academic environment created predominantl...

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A young lad struggles through puberty, then fights hard to uphold a promise made to his father to remain a virgin until marriage which results in many humorous sexual scenarios requiring great self-discipline.

Beim Schauen & Bauen räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen entwickeln Die "Spiele mit dem Somawürfel" dienen der Förderung des räumlichen Vorstellungsvermögens und des Problemlöseverhaltens: Auf verschiedene spielerische Arten werden Figuren aus Körpern von ebenen Darstellungen in ein räumliches Gebilde und umgekehrt umgesetzt. Dabei werden geometrische Grunderfahrungen erweitert, intensive Handlungserfahrungen ermöglicht und anspruchsvolle Denkpro...

The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy demonstrates how William Faulkner's fictional works, normally considered extremely complex and incomprehensible, can be thoroughly understood and explicated. The volume urges scholars of Faulkner, and literature in general, to liberate themselves from ideological bondage.

Der Hauptteil des Buches ist als Quellenedition ausgestaltet. Hier sind neben den eigentlichen Verfassungstexten und deren Änderungen weitere in den Kontext gehörende Vorschriften und Entwurfstexte sowie die zuletzt im Jahre 1918 geltende Fassung der preußischen Verfassung authentisch in chronologischer Reihenfolge abgedruckt. Die dort vorgenommene erstmalige Transkription der z. Zt. im Original auffindbaren (handschriftlichen) Verfassungsentw...

E. A. Sutherland accepts the counsel of Mrs. White and realized that nothing is too hard for the Lord when one accepts His plan and dedicates himself to following the blueprint. Although many times he could not understand "why" or "how, " Sutherland relied on God's omnipotence. The results of his abiding trust became a silent witness to the permanency of the vision in the achievements of the educational work at Madison and many other self-supp...

A continuation of the ongoing Oxford University's Centre for the Study of Values in Education and Business. The papers deal with the interactive effect of business and education as well as the moral and ethical concerns underpinning each.

A pastor-tested, non-preachy resource for leading a congregation in weekly devotional thoughts on the offering throughout an entire year.

The 15 original essays in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophyexplore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates aboutcontemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's mostimportant thinkers. Attention is devoted to the influence of the work of W. E. B. DuBois, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wright, and Frantz Fanon. Questions about race inEuropean philosophy -- especially in the work of Nietzsche, Heideg...

Chasing Technoscience brings together four prominent figures who make technoscience, or science embodied in its technologies, a central theme of their work. Through lively personal interviews and substantive essays, the ideas of Andrew Pickering, Don Ihde, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour are brought to bear on the question of materiality in technoscience. The work of these theorists is then compared and critiqued in essays by colleagues.