How the Working Class Shaped the Guerillas' Victory
Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerillas. In this unique and stimulating book, Stephen Cushion turns the conventional wisdom on its head, and argues that the Cuban working class played a much more decisive ......
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between provides an account of poetic education as an alternative to aesthetic education. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics and philosophy of play, Homan argues that rather than the cultivation of taste, education is the cultivation of formation and a learning to listen.
Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning
This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.
Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning
This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.
This richly illustrated book celebrates some outstanding trees that exemplify why our Wet Tropics is both biologically diverse and visually stunning. Compiled over several years, author Rupert Russell with photographers Paul Curtis and Steven Nowakowski, showcase the finest examples of our rich tree heritage in far North Queensland.
Illustrated Insights for Ecological Restoration from Volunteer Stewards
The Chicago metropolitan area is home to far more protected nature than most people realize. Over half a million acres of protected land known as the Chicago Wilderness are owned and managed by county forest preserve districts and other public and private sector partners. But there's a critical factor of the Chicago Wilderness conservation effort ......
How Can Waldorf Education Meet the Needs of Children?
Dr. Michaela Gloeckler begins by focusing on the "pedagogical law" as suggested by Rudolf Steiner in his lecture course Education for Special Needs. She illumines the comprehensiveness of that law--the insight it offers into the functions of our fourfold human nature and the karmic effects of our fourfold activity from one life to another. She ......
A holistic guide to developing and sustaining a positive school culture
A head teacher's insightful and engaging account of how to go about developing a shared vision and threading it through the school's strategic direction and day-to-day operations.