"In our modern time of division, who belongs to the we is an important and underexamined area of philosophical investigation. This book offers another way of understanding we-ness by adopting diverse linguo-cultural traditions in a philosophical investigation of selfhood"--
Information literacy is a complex subject that finally arrived at the doorstep of school libraries. For decades academic researchers have been trying to capture the essence of information literacy, its educational, cognitive and civic value. The collection of book chapters offered in "We Can Teach That" is a handbook that can be used as an ......
In the academic, education and library worlds we have been using the term information literacy to cover a very broad spectrum of different types of literacies. And here is the most interesting thing: school librarians have been teaching these literacies forever under the terms of library skills and research skills.
We Dared to Fly is the true story of the young menwho daily risked their lives on classified surveillance missions deep behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War.
We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance. But they were betrayed and the Nazis ......
America's Weird and Wonderful Races, Derbies, Pageants, and Eating Contests
Celebrate America's outrageous competitive fire *100 years of "see it to believe it" American contests *Includes dozens of mind-blowing, little-known competitions *Gorgeous design with 150 color and black-and-white photographs, plus sidebars From marathon dancing, to food eating contests, beauty pageants, pole sitting, rotten sneaker ......
This book explores the five books of the Psalms and the ways the psalmists ground their sermons and prayers in the nature and activity of the God of Israel. The canonical collection of the Psalter shows psalmists both doubting and trusting God, which together constitute the theology of the Psalter.
From the new Introduction by Peter Lawler: The Jesuit John Courtney Murray (1904-67) was, in his time, probably the best known and most widely respected American Catholic writer on the relationship between Catholic philosophy and theology and his countrys political life.
Democracy requires citizens who can argue as friends. Disagreement drives our democratic processes, but outrage and enmity degrade the civic fabric that enables us to govern ourselves. We Must Not Be Enemies explores the American tradition of civic debate and argues that the health of our democracy requires that we work to recover this tradition
