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This book is an anthology that deals with the problems and challenges of contemporary Indian education. This volume has 20 essays by eminent persons that discuss child-oriented ideas regarding curricula, books and the learning processes. Many writers in this book speak from a lifetime of engagement with education about issues as varied as globalisation and its impact on education to the importance of educational methods that do not discriminate between boys and girls, the disabled and the non-disabled, the rich and the poor. This book does not aim to merely report current educational research and pertinently, seeks to promote debate on difficult issues confronting us in education.
Bede (c. 673-735) was the leading intellectual figure of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and his writings had a profound influence on the development of English Christian thought. Among the many issues he wrote about, eschatology - the study of the day of judgment and the end of time - was a recurring theme. Whilst recent research has furthered our knowledge of this subject in the later Middle Ages, Dr Darby's book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Bede's eschatological thought and its impact upon the Anglo-Saxon period. Taking account of Bede's beliefs about the end of time, this book offers sophisticated insights into his life, his works and the role that eschatological thought played i...
In 'The Listening Eye', Dora Amy Elles, known by her pseudonym Patricia Wentworth, weaves a compelling narrative rich in meticulous character development and suspenseful plot turns. As part of her esteemed Miss Silver series, this novel remains true to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, resonating with the intricate plotting and psychological depth characteristic of the period. Elles' literary style in this work is both engaging and evocative, employing a nuanced approach that appeals to readers' intellects while satisfying their desire for period-authentic engagement. DigiCat Publishing's careful reproduction of 'The Listening Eye' ensures that the integrity of Elles's prose and storytell...
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Looks at the ways in which reformers expanded the popular base of Protestant churches through mass revivalism, social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and incorporation of independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada. Discusses the role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation, demonstrating the Protestantism was the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.
In 1918 , a one-month stint with the American Red Cross ambulance corps at the Italian front marked the beginning of Ernest Hemingway’s fascination with Italy—a place second only to Upper Michigan in stimulating his lifelong passion for geography and local expertise. Hemingway’s Italy offers a thorough reassessment of Italy’s importance in the author’s life and work during World War I and the 1920s, when he emerged as a promising young writer, and during his maturity in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This collection of eighteen essays presents a broad view of Hemingway’s personal and literary response to Italy. The contributors, some of the most distinguished Hemingway scholars,...
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