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The Enigmatic Academy

Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education

By: Christian J. Churchill,Gerald Levy

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The Enigmatic Academy

Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education

By: Christian J. Churchill,Gerald Levy

The Enigmatic Academy is a provocative look at the purpose and practice of education in America. Authors Christian Churchill and Gerald Levy use three case studies—a liberal arts college, a boarding school, and a Job Corps center—to illustrate how class, bureaucratic, and secular-religious dimensions of education prepare youth for participation in American foreign and domestic policy at all levels. The authors describe how schools contribute to the formation of a bureaucratic character; how middle and upper class students are trained for leadership positions in corporations, government, and the military; and how the education of lower class students often serves more powerful classes and institutions. Exploring how youth and their educators encounter the complexities of ideology and bureaucracy in school, The Enigmatic Academy deepens our understanding of the flawed redemptive relationship between education and society in the United States. Paradoxically, these three studied schools all prepare students to participate in a society whose values they oppose.

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Temple University Press

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1439907854

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9781439907856

Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

By: Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

By: Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

The story of General Nathaniel Lyon, whom the author aptly calls a “Missouri Yankee,” is a drama of stirring political-military events breaking on the Western Border in the spring of 1861. In exactly 90 days, Missouri was forever lost to the Confederacy. The Lyon story is high tragedy staged at the sanguine second battle of the American Civil War—Wilson’s Creek. Colonel Hans Christian Adamson in Rebellion in Missouri combines all the necessary elements in the dramatic story. He expertly re-examines Lyon’s generalship of the Union Army of the West. He ably reflects upon the significance of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek now, a century later, in the light of all the evidence. Moreover, he brings to us, during the centennial year of Lyon’s death, a monumental biography of Lyon. The others are eulogistic and written in the stilted and artificial speech of the eighteen sixties.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786256428

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9781786256423

Evolution and Creationism

A Documentary and Reference Guide

By: Christian C. Young,Mark A. Largent

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Evolution and Creationism

A Documentary and Reference Guide

By: Christian C. Young,Mark A. Largent

As recently seen by the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case, the evolution versus creation debate never goes away. The best way to understand these debates is to read the arguments of the individuals involved. This reference work provides over 40 of the most important documents to help readers understand the debate in the eyes of the people of the time. Each document is from a major participant in the debates — from the predecessors of Darwin to the judges of the influential court cases of the present day. The editors have included an introduction and analysis of each document that places it within historical and scientific context. Evolution and Creationism: A Documentary and Reference Guide aims to enhance our understanding of the debate by presenting over 40 documents that shed light on the origins, goals, and history of the ongoing debate. The volume examines such topics as Darwin's theory of natural selection, the rise of Fundamentalism and its opposition to evolution, and evolution and its discontents at the beginning of the 21st century. In addition, the work includes an extensive bibliography and reference guide to relevant print and electronic resources.

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318

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313086737

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9780313086731

Origins of Biogeography

The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography

By: Malte Christian Ebach

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Origins of Biogeography

The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography

By: Malte Christian Ebach

This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses on the important pioneering work of earlier practitioners such as Zimmermann, Stromeyer, de Candolle and Humboldt. Tracing the academic history of biogeography over the decades and centuries, this book recounts the early schisms in phyto and zoogeography, the shedding of its bonds to taxonomy, its adoption of an ecological framework and its beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century. This book assesses the contributions of key figures such as Zimmermann, Humboldt and Wallace and reminds us of the forgotten influence of plant and animal geographers including Stromeyer, Prichard and de Candolle, whose early attempts at classifying animal and plant geography would inform later progress.“/p> The Origins of Biogeography is a science historiography aimed at biogeographers, who have little access to a detailed history of the practices of early plant and animal geographers. This book will also reveal how biological classification has shaped 18th and 19th century plant and animal geography and why it is relevant to the 21st bio geographer.

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185

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Springer

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9401799997

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9789401799997

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

By: Christian Bonah,David Cantor,Mathias Dörries

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Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

By: Christian Bonah,David Cantor,Mathias Dörries

This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a complicated array of contradictory attitudes towards meat and human health. They show how meat came to be regarded as a central part of a modern healthy diet and trace critiques of meat-eating and the meat industry.

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Routledge

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131732319X

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9781317323198

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The Enigmatic Academy

The Enigmatic Academy

Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

Evolution and Creationism

Evolution and Creationism

Origins of Biogeography

Origins of Biogeography

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

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