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Gentlefolk in the Making

Studies in the History of English Courtesy Literature and Related Topics from 1531 to 1774

By: John E. Mason

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Gentlefolk in the Making

Studies in the History of English Courtesy Literature and Related Topics from 1531 to 1774

By: John E. Mason

A detailed compilation of books on polite conduct from Elyot's The Governour to Chesterfield's Letters, with generous quotations from the more important ones.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512804312

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9781512804317

Beginning Teaching

Stories from the Classroom

By: Sandy Schuck,Peter Aubusson,John Buchanan,Tom Russell

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Beginning Teaching

Stories from the Classroom

By: Sandy Schuck,Peter Aubusson,John Buchanan,Tom Russell

The experiences of the first years of new teachers’ professional lives are critical to their decisions about embracing or leaving the teaching profession. Writ large, these experiences have the potential to either underpin or undermine the growth and development of the teaching profession. This book offers a research-based account of beginning teachers’ experiences, told from their own perspectives and often in their own words. Beginning Teaching: Stories from the Classroom provides valuable source material to inform teacher education practices. The authors draw on more than 20 years of research on the professional learning, retention and attrition of beginning teachers to provide evocative illustrations of the challenges and successes that occur in the early years of teaching. The compelling and coherent narratives will appeal not only to student and graduate teachers but also to program designers, coaches and senior managers in schools. Above all, the book speaks to teacher educators in the hope that the experiences discussed here will suggest ways of supporting student teachers to grow and flourish once they launch their careers in the profession. These evocative stories express beginning teachers’ anguish and elation and also provide testimony to their resilience and perseverance in an altruistic profession. The analysis and interpretation of their stories will challenge and uplift; inspire and shame; give cause for celebration and melancholy; generate empathy and provoke introspection. Above all else, these stories call for change.

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159

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400739001

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9789400739000

Historical Sketch of the old sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, during its three Campaigns in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864

By: John W. Hanson

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Historical Sketch of the old sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, during its three Campaigns in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864

By: John W. Hanson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866. Containing the History of the several Companies previous to 1861, and the Name and Military Record of each Man connected with the Regiment during the War.

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358

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752578963

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9783752578966

History of Lonia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan

By: John S. Schenck

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History of Lonia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan

By: John S. Schenck

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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694

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3385422043

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9783385422049

A Social History of Education in England

By: John Lawson,Harold Silver

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A Social History of Education in England

By: John Lawson,Harold Silver

Originally published in 1973,this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance; it looks at the different parts played by church and state, and the influence of new social and educational philosophies.

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523

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Routledge

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1134531958

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9781134531950

Word and Church

Essays in Christian Dogmatics

By: John Webster

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Word and Church

Essays in Christian Dogmatics

By: John Webster

In Word and Church readers are treated to chapters that examine the field of Christian Dogmatics, presenting a clear trajectory in the work of John Webster, that moves from interpretation of 20th-century Protestant theology to doctrinal construction. Webster addresses the modern traditions of Christian divinity, and the topics which come to the fore in making sense of these traditions: the nature of the Bible and its interpretation; the place of Jesus Christ in modern theological culture; and the basis and shape of human agency. As a whole the book boldly indicates how dilemmas or inadequacies in modern treatments of these topics might be clarified by more direct employment of language about God and the gospel. The classic chapters present the work of one of the world's leading contemporary theologians at his creative best. For this Cornerstones edition the author has provided a new preface in which he contextualizes the work within his current theology.

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306

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567658929

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9780567658920

Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

Embedded Speeches, Audience Responses, and Authorial Persuasion

By: John M. Duncan

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Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

Embedded Speeches, Audience Responses, and Authorial Persuasion

By: John M. Duncan

A detailed comparative analysis of speaker-audience interactions in Greek historiography, Josephus, and Acts that examines historians’ use of speeches as a means of instructing/persuading their readers and highlights Luke’s distinctive depiction of the apostles as adaptable yet frequently alienating orators.

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BRILL

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9004524037

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9789004524033

The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals

A Study of Medieval Vault Erection

By: John Fitchen

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The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals

A Study of Medieval Vault Erection

By: John Fitchen

This study enables us to appreciate more fully the technical expertise and improvements which enabled the creative spirit of the day to find such splendid embodiment". -- James Lingwood, Oxford Art Journal Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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371

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University of Chicago Press

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0226252035

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9780226252032

Secularism in Antebellum America

By: John Lardas Modern

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Secularism in Antebellum America

By: John Lardas Modern

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226533255

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9780226533254

Taking Heaven by Storm

Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America

By: John H. Wigger

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Taking Heaven by Storm

Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America

By: John H. Wigger

In 1770 there were fewer than 1,000 Methodists in America. Fifty years later, the church counted more than 250,000 adherents. Identifying Methodism as America's most significant large-scale popular religious movement of the antebellum period, John H. Wigger reveals what made Methodism so attractive to post-revolutionary America. Taking Heaven by Storm shows how Methodism fed into popular religious enthusiasm as well as the social and economic ambitions of the "middling people on the make"--skilled artisans, shopkeepers, small planters, petty merchants--who constituted its core. Wigger describes how the movement expanded its reach and fostered communal intimacy and "intemperate zeal" by means of an efficient system of itinerant and local preachers, class meetings, love feasts, quarterly meetings, and camp meetings. He also examines the important role of African Americans and women in early American Methodism and explains how the movement's willingness to accept impressions, dreams, and visions as evidence of the work and call of God circumvented conventional assumptions about education, social standing, gender, and race. A pivotal text on the role of religion in American life, Taking Heaven by Storm shows how the enthusiastic, egalitarian, entrepreneurial, lay-oriented spirit of early American Methodism continues to shape popular religion today.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069943

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9780252069949

A Graeco-Roman Rhetorical Reading of the Farewell Discourse

By: John C. Stube

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A Graeco-Roman Rhetorical Reading of the Farewell Discourse

By: John C. Stube

This title gives a thorough analysis of The Farewell Discourse (John 13-17), which is a unique and climactic portion of John's Gospel that serves as a hinge on which the entire Gospel narrative pivots from Jesus' public ministry to his Passion. Jesus is presented by the evangelist, with his words and actions, defining and modeling what his disciples are to be in their own soon-approaching ministry to the community of believers and to the world. He is shown giving persuasive words of comfort, encouragement, instruction, and motivation to his disciples as he prepares them to continue his mission after his departure.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567581063

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9780567581068

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Gentlefolk in the Making

Gentlefolk in the Making

Beginning Teaching

Beginning Teaching

Historical Sketch of the old sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, during its three Campaigns in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864

Historical Sketch of the old sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, during its three Campaigns in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864

History of Lonia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan

History of Lonia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan

A Social History of Education in England

A Social History of Education in England

Word and Church

Word and Church

Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals

The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals

Secularism in Antebellum America

Secularism in Antebellum America

Taking Heaven by Storm

Taking Heaven by Storm

A Graeco-Roman Rhetorical Reading of the Farewell Discourse

A Graeco-Roman Rhetorical Reading of the Farewell Discourse

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