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Increasing Academic Achievement with the Trivium of Classical Education
Provides a brief summation of classical education, its history, and how its implementation increases academic achievement.
The Spirit of American Philosophy
"Each of the book's six sections explores a particular relationship in a historical chronological framework. The first section explores the relationship of the individual to a religious context as expressed in the Mayflower Compact and selections from the writings of Cotton, Winthrop, Wise, Edwards, Channing, Royce, and Whitehead. It then turns to the governmental context of individuality as seen in the writings of Adams, Hamilton, Madison, Lincoln, Thoreau, Holmes, and Dewey. The moral context and its ramifications are epitomized in selections from Franklin, Adams, Sumner, George, Veblen, and James. The importance of rationality and education is emphasized in the writings from Paine, Jefferson, Mann, Peirce, James and Dewey. The metaphysical perspective of individualism is portrayed in writings by Emerson, James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, and Dewey. The sixth and last chapter attempts to define our age and its technological complexity as seen in the contemporary writings of Cohen, Lewis, Quine, Randall, Hartshorne, and Nagel" --
Marsden Hartley's Maine
Marsden Hartley had a lifelong personal and aesthetic engagement with Maine, where he was born in 1877 and where he died at age sixty-six. As an important member of the artistic circle promoted by Alfred Stieglitz, Hartley began his career by painting the mountains of western Maine. He subsequently led a peripatetic life, traveling throughout Europe and North America and only occasionally visiting his native state. By midlife, however, his itinerant existence had taken an emotional toll, and he confided to Stieglitz that he wanted “so earnestly a ‘place’ to be.” Finally returning to the state in his later years, he transformed his identity from urbane sophisticate to “the painter f...
20 years of Criminology at the NICC
This book marks the 20th anniversary of the Department of Criminology of the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology (NICC). On the occasion of this anniversary, a series of research seminars were organised, during which NICC researchers, practitioners and international experts engaged in a dialogue on several key research themes. They discussed the future of the Department of Criminology and put the work of the NICC into perspective, both nationally and internationally. The results of these exchanges are bundled in this book.
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