Michael Hess: 14 books
Der Korea-Krieg - Einige Aspekte zu Ursachen und Auswirkungen
Einige Aspekte zu Ursachen und Auswirkungen
Language: German
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Südasienkunde, Südostasienkunde, Note: 1,5, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Orient- und Asienwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als ich eine Dokumentation über das Massaker von Nogunri sah, bei dem hunderte koreanische Flüchtlinge...
by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The growth of for-profit providers in the K–16 education sector has generated more than its share of controversy. From the emergence of charter schools to post-secondary options like the University of Phoenix, for-profit providers have been lauded for their capacity to serve historically underserved...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Common Core Meets Education Reform
What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings...
Teaching America
The Case for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Stephanie Presber James, George R. Hughes, Donald R. Leal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
The Politics and Economics of Park Management examines national protected area systems, in both developed and developing countries, that have made a transformation from 'fortress parks' to a sustainable use model. The contributors—park management, academics, and members of nongovenmental organizations—contend...
Visualizing Modern China
Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters of well-illustrated original scholarship and a supplemental website providing resources for hundreds of images, the book introduces key themes of modern...
The Oneness Hypothesis
Beyond the Boundary of Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected...
Participatory Critical Rhetoric
Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Studying Rhetoric In Situ
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors argue that participatory critical rhetoric, as...
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork
A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...
Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall
Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes...
Weihnachtsgeschichten am Kamin 33
Gesammelt von Barbara Mürmann
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Der Zauber von Weihnachten in zauberhaften Geschichten Der Wind pfeift um die Häuser, er rüttelt an den Bäumen und Fensterläden. Es regnet, Sonne und Mond haben sich versteckt. Da springt die Tür auf, die Kinder wirbeln kalte Luft und Laub herein. Schnell heraus aus den Winterstiefeln und den...