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The popular mind often associates scepticism with irreligion, and critical distance with unbelief. In this view, reason and faith, or scientific method and religious dogma, are not only different but indeed antagonistic means of viewing the world, understanding human existence, and conducting one's life. Pierre Bayle's scepticism was of a singularly distinct sort. He argued not that religion is untrue, but that the discourses proper to theolog...

This anthology of 23 separate contributions written and illustrated by London firefighters during the 1940-1941 Blitz forms a unique record of one of the most fiery and dramatic periods of British History.

Ein neues Schuljahr beginnt in der altehrwürdigen Welton Academy, einem Internat für Jungen. Todd Anderson und seine Freunde sind fasziniert von ihrem neuen Englischlehrer John Keating mit seinen unkonventionellen Ansichten und Unterrichtsmethoden. Er ermuntert die Jungen, Klischees zu vermeiden und die Dinge mit anderen Augen zu betrachten. Von seiner Begeisterung angesteckt, erwecken die Jungen den Club der toten Dichter wieder zum Leben. Do...

This classic study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV, has long been out of print. Here Elias shows how courtiers - and finally even the king himself - were entrapped in web of etiquette and ceremony, how their expenses, even down to details of their houses and household, were dictated by their rank rather than their income.

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This is a story about a little girl who has been separated from her daddy for a long time. Her daddy is in the military and had to go to work very far away. The little girl goes through many changes while her daddy is away. She tells how she has grown and how she can now do things that she could not do before her daddy left. She has been writing to him and sending him pictures. She has even been keeping a calendar to mark the passing days. She...

This volume summarizes the community school experiences of the Children's Aid Society and Beacons in New York City and other places, university assisted models in Philadelphia, school system generated community schools in Chicago, communitywide councils in Evansville, Indiana, and Portland, Oregon, and Boston's Full-Service Schools Roundtable. The efforts of the Public Education Network to build public will for collaboration and California's s...

Two handsomely produced editions of this award-winning story coincide with the release of the major independent film directed by Ang Lee and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.