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The New York Times bestselling author of Saving Freedom and cohost of Morning Joe assesses President Abraham Lincoln's deft timing for the Emancipation proclamation and its consequences for America. Abraham Lincoln's pragmatism combined with a devotion to higher ideals made him the American leader capable of accomplishing the seemingly impossible: saving the Union and ending slavery. The year was 1862. The Union's first large scale offensive,...

All around the world, people are choosing a new way of living: intentional, sustainable, harmonious communities, practicing mindfulness. Communal living expert and Plum Village Dharma Teacher David Viafora takes us on a tour of nine thriving mindfulness communities, from New Hampshire to Italy, and pinpoints the nine principles in any community that can create the conditions for joy and solidity.Research over the last few decades, both in the ...

The definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane's life and music, featuring exclusive contributions written by Ravi Coltrane, Wayne Coyne, Dev Hynes, Phil Lesh, Julie Mehretu, Carlos Santana, and Patti Smith.John Coltrane's impact on music and culture has endured far beyond his prolific career and untimely death in 1967 at age forty. His masterful saxophone style and groundbreaking compositions profoundly affected the evolution of mus...

Exalting Jesus in 1 & 2 Chronicles is part of the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series. Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this commentary series takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Each chapter explains and applies key passages, providing helpful outlines for study and teaching.

This is a collection of contemporary writers talking about Joan Didion's influence on them, their writing, the world, and moreFeaturing authors like Ann Friedman, host of the popular podcast Call Your Girlfriend, Jori Finkel, a regular contributor to The New York Times, and Tracy McMillan, host of Family or Finance on OWNAll contributors will reach out to their family, friends, and networks to help promote the bookEvents in Los Angeles and New...

Explore a nostalgic illustrated look back on the Network SouthEast passenger sector of British Rail.

A new selection of graphic stories by one of France's most influential artists, now translated into English.Nicole Claveloux's exquisitely surreal comics offer a mix of whimsy and melancholy, invention and candor that can be found nowhere else. In "Dead Season" -- her second collaboration with Edith Zha, who wrote her gorgeous dreamworld odyssey "The Green Hand" -- she follows a mismatched pair of investigators into a windswept seaside town. T...

How much is a life worth? It's 2010 and Frank has had about enough of left-wing crazies forcing their socialist policies on him, especially his unhinged sisters, one of whom has been caring for their mom in London. Meanwhile Frank's son is delivering death from a trailer on Creech Airforce Base where he controls a predator drone 7, 000 miles away in Afghanistan. And his sister's lesbian girlfriend, Angie (see what I mean), is on the ground in ...

THE VISUALIST is an entertaining memoir, an experiential narrative, and tale that allows the pop culture fan, filmmaker to be, or budding academic a world view into a mind engaged, an unfiltered dive into image making and narrative for multiple mediums across multiple platforms.The Visualist: Storytelling, Process and Image Making from 1983-2020: MTV to Hollywood, Madison Avenue to the New Digital Era - A visual memoir by Mark Pellington A per...

Keila Merino is nine years old when she and her family move to Arizona from Mexico. On her first day of 4th grade, she and her sister don't know anyone else besides each other. Feeling shy and uncertain and speaking only a few words of English, Keila finds an unlikely friend in her gym teacher, Mr. Jones. He shouts out instructions to the students as they play kickball and dodgeball, and at first Keila doesn't understand him and doesn't know w...

Das vorliegende Handbuch erschließt das Werk von Hans Blumenberg erstmals in umfassender Form. Renommierte Forscherinnen und Forscher legen werkgenetische und systematische Zugänge zu seinem komplexen OEuvre und erläutern die zentralen Begriffe sowie die verschiedenen Bezüge und Kontexte seiner Philosophie und die Eigenarten seines Schreibens. Auf diese Weise wird das Handbuch der Vielschichtigkeit von Blumenbergs Denken gerecht - und hat dami...

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In three comprehensive volumes, Logic of the Future presents a full panorama of Charles S. Peirce's important late writings. Among the most influential American thinkers, Peirce took his existential graphs to be his greatest contribution to human thought. The manuscripts from 1895-1913, most of which are published here for the first time, testify the richness and open-endedness of his theory of logic and its applications. They also invite us t...

Since the first works on Higher Education Administration in the 1970s no comprehensive work in terms of purpose and scope of Higher Education has been published. There have been important changes in people's aspirations vis-à-vis higher education globally. In parallel, the higher education systems, worldwide, have been undergoing constant transformation in response to these aspirations. From governments, employers and prospective students and ...

Since the first works on Higher Education Administration in the 1970s no comprehensive work in terms of purpose and scope of Higher Education has been published. There have been important changes in people's aspirations vis-à-vis higher education globally. In parallel, the higher education systems, worldwide, have been undergoing constant transformation in response to these aspirations. From governments, employers and prospective students and ...

From its birth as a settlement at the lowest crossing point of the River Taff, via periods a Roman garrison, Anglo-Norman fortress, feudal lordship, booming coal port and post-industrial invalid, through to todays confident capital of a fledgling Welsh democracy, Cardiff has accrued layer upon layer of fascinating history.In Secret Cardiff local author and writer Tony Woolway goes behind the faades of the familiar to discover the lesser-known ...

Der vorliegende Band gibt erstmals einen Überblick über Kompetenzorientierung in der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung und Theoriebildung, Ausbildung für pädagogische Berufe und in den diversen pädagogischen Praxisfeldern der Kompetenzwicklung über die Lebensspanne.Kompetenzorientierung ist spätestens seit den PISA-Untersuchungen zum Leitbegriff erziehungswissenschaftlicher Forschung und Theoriebildung wie pädagogischer Praxis geworden. E...

A comprehensive legal and economic analysis of economic evidence in EU competition law.

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