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xxi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"As Muslims grow in numbers, and as Islam's role in world affairs becomes larger, we've begun to see the breakdown in a united fellowship among believers. Certainly the misunderstandings and friction between Islamic civilization and the modern West continue. But even within Islam, Iran's clerics are split, militant fundamentalists clash with students from Islamic universities, moderate Muslim-Americans look nothing like wahhabis from Saudi Arabia....
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John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.
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Riddell memorial lectures volume 15th ser
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121 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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viii, 219 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"First published in Portuguese in 1968, [this book] was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and continues to possess a special urgency as the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in urban centers around the world continues. The 50th anniversary edition includes a new introduction by Donaldo Macedo, an afterword by Ira Shor,...
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xv, 612 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"The essays of Pursuits of Happiness are articulations of Eva Brann's 'vocational' happiness of thinking things through. To Ms. Brann our inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is the right not to an 'endless chase,' but rather the right to the actual practice of happiness, as in the 'pursuit of a vocation.' With essays like 'Tips on Reading Homer' and 'The Greatness of Great Books' she keeps at her calling: to understand the world around us,...
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147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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English
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"Action/Abstraction Redefined is the first exhibition catalog that analyzes modern Native American art, inspired by abstract expressionism, color field, and hard-edge painting. The publication features paintings and works on paper from the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts' (MoCNA) permanent collection, created in the 1960s and 1970s. The artists in the Action/Abstraction Redefined exhibition challenged stereotypical expectations of Indian art...
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