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The Edge of Reason
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues: “A timely masterpiece.”—Patricia S. Churchland, author of Touching a Nerve Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts, subject to easy dismissal. Julian Baggini argues eloquently that we must recover our reason and reassess its proper place, neither too highly exalted nor completely maligned. Rationality does not require a cold, sterile worldview—it simp...
Teachers' Narrative Inquiry as Professional Development
A collection of personal, contextualized stories of teachers assessing their own experiences in gaining expertise as language teachers. Preservice and inservice teachers will benefit from the insights provided in this book, as will Language Teacher Educators and education researchers.
Over the Edge
When Julian Thomas arrived home that night, as usual, his wife Chris, was depressed and in a drunken fog. To avoid her rage and rejection, he stayed away, reclining on the couch watching the Johnny Carson Show. He was contemplating the life between him and his wife...if only for my own sanity, I have to tell her, if not tonight, tomorrow morning for sure. Minutes later, he heard her say something from the bedroom. It sounded like... maybe...goodbye. Then came the sound of a single gunshot, it broke the silence like a clap of thunder. OVER THE EDGE is the suspenseful account of the true story of a Susan Haywardlookalike living during the tumult of California in the 1960s-1970s- a beautiful, intelligent, but troubled woman who shot herself - and her husband who tried in vain to help her.
Continuing Cooperative Development
By adopting a certain style of speaking and listening to colleagues for agreed periods of time, motivated teaching professionals can take individual control of their own development and increase the feeling of collegiality in their workplace. This book draws on more than ten years of experience using this framework around the world and provides authentic examples to guide the reader.
Triple-Edge Sword
Triple-Edge Sword By: Cornelius Harris Cornelius Harris is back with an even more striking follow-up to The War Within with Triple-Edge Sword, going deeper into Nigel and chronicling the struggles of accepting his identity, forcing him to imagine an even bigger world outside of rural Arkansas. Nigel will wrestle with reinventing himself, testing his loyalty and the boundaries of his moral reasoning and purpose beyond the fractured notions his environment sets for him. He dares to dream, but they become nightmares after Nigel realizes the dangerous and terrifying truth to the horrors he is capable of. Nigel must contend with his personalities, himself and his alters Julian and Dominique. Each begin to vie to be the dominate personality in this thrilling tale of survival and the consequences of a life of deceit, manipulation, addiction, betrayal, abuse, violence, and the abhorrent nature of evil, poverty, mental illness, and misery.
Dancing on the Edge
Dancing On The Edge is a five-part explosive new drama series for BBC2 set in the early 1930s following a black jazz band in London during times of extraordinary change.
The Edge of the World
This evocative, moving, and gorgeously detailed novel is the story of Alex Soberano, a contemporary man in crisis. A tremendously successful New York businessman, Alex finds it difficult to embrace joy and accept love. When his life threatens to boil over, he escapes for a brief respite on the West Coast. What waits for him there is something he never could have imagined. Intertwined with Alex's story are the stories of three people from different times and places whose lives affect him in surprising ways: * A woman from the South American city of Anhelo in 1928 that everyone knows as "Vidente." For decades, Vidente, has been one of Anhelo's most celebrated citizens because she has the abili...
People and Things from the Blount County, Alabama Southern Democrat 1920 - 1927
The Southern Democrat was established by Forney G. Stephens at Blountsville in 1894. After fellow newspaperman Lawrence H. Mathews of the Blount County News-Dispatch died in 1896, Stephens moved the Democrat to Oneonta. When the News-Dispatch folded in 1903, the Democrat was the preeminent Blount County newspaper. Stephens died in 1939, but the Democrat continued to publish in Oneonta for almost 100 years. In 1989 the old Southern Democrat was renamed the Blount Countain. Microfilm for the old Southern Democrat was acquired from the State Archives in Montgomery and studied page by page. Every mention of births, marriages, deaths, obituaries and news important to the history and development of Blount County was reproduced here. This book is vital for any serious student of Blount County, Alabama genealogy and history.
