A provocative and often hilarious look at teaching -- a beautifully written book that will resonate with anyone who's been a teacher or been taught in America. Gerald Newman, acclaimed author of The Rise of English Nationalism and holder of the Kent State University Distinguished Teaching Award, surveys his youth, education, students, and career in a memoir sparkling with humor and full of arresting portrayals of school life from both sides of the instructor's desk. Sketching his background and confessing his youthful follies and pranks, Newman arrives at his maverick schooldays, depicting a jolly parade of familiar types -- teachers, principals, geeks and Greeks, zany profs and silver-tongued "grandees of the lecture hall." Tracing his progress through the University of Washington, then Harvard, then his thirty-year career at Kent State after the infamous May 4th shooting (1970), he addresses the teacher's main mission to "Fix Stupid," amusingly revisiting battles with wayward students, John Birchers, Henry Kissinger, and other Harvard profs and sundry academics, administrators, and "woke" enthusiasts at Kent State. A historian, he shows his own shaping by great outside forces -- World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, American political controversy, trendy intellectual fashions. He includes valuable teaching tips, laugh-out-loud accounts of educational travels, and biting commentary on the current political scene. This is a big book, containing much more than one man's life story, written in a light-hearted and entertaining spirit by a very keen observer.
To appreciate and understand John Steinbecks stories, students must comprehend what it was like to live during the Great Depression, and they must understand the working man to whom Steinbeck was attempting to appeal. Through direct quotations; biographical details; and in-depth discussions of his style, themes, and form, this text will allow readers to ponder and interpret Steinbecks works.
Marshall Freidman, head of Psychiatry at the prestigious Hunter Newman Center, made a terrible misdiagnosis concerning Rose Shaw. He thought she is a lovely, fragile, complex woman who loves him. In truth she is a dangerous woman about to give him a lesson in obsession, sexual perversion, and murder. Every belief that Marshall held no longer seems true. It wasn't love that changed him... it was evil. But how could the devil be so good?
This book looks at the physical, emotional, historical, and societal effects of PCP, also known as angel dust. The authors cite numerous examples of the problems associated with PCP and give the reader a list of places to go for help.
THE NIGHT IS GONE: Why Pope Francis Canonizes Cardinal Newman is 'a keynote address' to the world on the coming canonization of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of our times, John Henry Newman, - a theologian who had the most robust power on the Second Vatican Council. As we hold our breathe to hear him declared Doctor of the Church, the book offers a vital key to appreciating the timelessness of his scholarship, his moral emotional susceptibilities, and the spiritual energies of one of our most dazzling saints and scholars, widely admired for holiness of life, the clarity of his theological style, an outcome of his challenging, disciplined and measured life. Topics range from John Henry Newman's relevance today to the primacy of mercy; from new evangelization and the Pontificate of Francis to the enlargement of the mind and African theology. Combining the best of Newman's thought provoking theological strokes and literary elegance in a securely woven and delicate discourse, this book addresses not only Saint Newman's importance today, but how he will continue to be important in a future, uncertain world. In this way, THE NIGHT IS GONE: Why Pope Francis Canonizes Cardinal Newman burnishes Gerald Jumbam Nyuykongmo's credentials as a brilliant living Newman scholar.
A look at the history of and societal factors involved in racism, as well as how to deal with prejudice against people based on skin color and its manifestations.
The Rise of English Nationalism is a tour de force reinterpretation of English history and culture in the era of King George III. Where historians have often seen England as having been bypassed by the phenomenom of nationalism, Newman, equally at home with history and literature, shows instead that England was probably the first modern country to experience it, and reveals its vibrations throughout English cultural, social, literary and political life. The result is a remarkable synthesis from a comprehensive new angle of vision, lucidly and often wittily written. Both armchair historian and serious scholar will enjoy The Rise of English Nationalism .
The Rise of English Nationalism is a tour de force reinterpretation of English history and culture in the era of King George III. Where historians have often seen England as having been bypassed by the phenomenom of nationalism, Newman, equally at home with history and literature, shows instead that England was probably the first modern country to experience it, and reveals its vibrations throughout English cultural, social, literary and political life. The result is a remarkable synthesis from a comprehensive new angle of vision, lucidly and often wittily written. Both armchair historian and serious scholar will enjoy The Rise of English Nationalism .
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