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  • Simply Responsible

    Basic Blame, Scant Praise, and Minimal Agency

    by Dr Matt King ...
    We evaluate people all the time for a wide variety of activities. We blame them for miscalculations, uninspired art, and committing crimes. We praise them for detailed brushwork, a superb pass, and their acts of kindness. We accomplish things, from solving crosswords to mastering guitar solos. We bungle our endeavors, whether this is letting a friend down or burning dinner. Sometimes these deeds ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Why Human Beings Need the Virtues

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Series series The Paul Carus Lectures
    "MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for not taking seriously the dependent and animal sides of human nature, thereby overemphasizing the powers of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Narrative Practice

    Continuing the Conversations

    by Michael White ...
    Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy.Michael White’s untimely death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a collection of the work he left behind—writings on topics dear to the psychotherapeutic world: turning points in therapy, conversations, resistance and therapist responsibility, couples therapy, and narrative ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Narrative Therapy

    by Martin Payne ...
    `A thought provoking and interesting book that will be of interest to nurses and others supporting patients′ - Accident and Emergency Nursing`It is a relevant and timely book that will remind therapists of the importance of the telling of client′s stories as an important component of the therapeutic process. Whatever approach we use, the client′s story will be a part of what we work with, so a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Challenge to Care in Schools

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Series series Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series
    After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and places care as central to current debates on standardization, accountability, privatization, and the continuous struggle between traditional and progressive methods of education. Rather then forcing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Dating - Philosophy for Everyone

    Flirting With Big Ideas

    by Fritz Allhoff ...
    DATINGPHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONESpeed dating, online dating, group blind dating, dating consultants… A booming dating industry is catering to an ever-increasing number of single adults in the twenty-first century, with the market for a mate now pulling in more than a billion dollars a year in the United States. So, how do we successfully attempt to navigate the dating minefield?Progressing from the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Knowledge Deficit

    Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyone Can Write

    Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing

    by Peter Elbow ...
    With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that had dominated composition pedagogy. This new collection of essays brings together the best of Elbow ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Learning

    by D. C. Phillips, Jonas F. Soltis ...
    Series series Thinking About Education Series
    Rather than simply outlining the classical and modern theories of learning, this widely adopted text brings the material to life through case studies that engage students in debates about what really happens in classrooms. Students are encouraged to test the strengths and weaknesses of each theory so that, ultimately, they will learn to formulate their own philosophies of teaching and learning.The ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • In Over Our Heads

    The Mental Demands of Modern Life

    by Robert Kegan ...
    If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental capacities, and showing what happens when we find ourselves, as we so often do, in over our heads. In ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics

    Aristotle, Lonergan, and Nussbaum on Emotions and Moral Insight

    by Robert J. Fitterer ...
    Since the Enlightenment, a great deal of ethical philosophy has presumed that rational human beings must set aside their emotions when seeking to make objective and sound moral decisions. Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics challenges this presumption, arguing that emotions such as compassion and love are powerful aids in the complex process of attaining objective moral truths in decisions and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • What People Believe When They Say That People Believe

    Folk Sociology and the Nature of Group Intentions

    by Todd Jones ...
    In modern life, we often hear people say things like, "Catholics don't believe in using birth control." There are many reasons that we want to know what groups of people (such as Catholics) are thinking and doing. But it's hard to understand which social situations are being described by such statements. It's also difficult to understand what speakers believe when they make such statements (even ... Read more

    $105.99 USD