Drawing upon the work of philosopher John Dewey, A Deweyan Approach to Teaching Literary Inquiry describes an inquiry-based, process-oriented approach to making meaning from literary texts.Beginning with a Deweyan examination of why we teach literature, the book then presents its central argument that textual inquiry should be at the heart of literary education. The chapters systematically address each step in the meaning-making process, offering practical, classroom-teste...

Thanks to Optix you never truly see the truth right ahead of you. An implant created for you to perceive the perfect world. The ever dutiful Optix architect Lamorna Cruickshanks devoted her life to fooling us all. Now see what happens when that truth is hidden from everyone in this tech-fantasy coming of age fairy tale. Can Lamorna save the world?

Wayne and Jemma have a great friendship but Jemma had always wanted more. An invite to her parents house brings about anInteresting proposition from her parents.

Each chapter is dedicated to a different figure, such as social reformers, politicians, or intellectuals, exploring their lives, achievements, and the impact they left on British society. These figures might include notable names like William Ewart Gladstone in politics or Charles Darwin in science. Joy offers readers both a personal and professional look at these men, discussing their motivations, challenges, and the broader historical context in which they lived.Through these portraits, ...

The epic story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cannot be told without including its dedication to speechmaking and eloquence. Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards collect important speeches from a broad range of sources that highlight the history, diversity, and centrality of public speaking in Latter-day Saint life. An expert introduces each speech while offering perspective on its place in Latter-day Saint history. The collected works express a diversity of...

If you are attracted to the title, you may be divorced as I am and looking for love later in life. In this book I share what I have learned about love which is working in a relationship that began when I was eighty and a beautiful woman, also divorced, walked into my life and stayed. The followed points summarize what Mary Anne and I have learned about love and are practicing in our life together. Rumi: "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find the barriers within you...

John Wesley (1703-1791) was an English cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day."The old-time, narrow, sectarian view of Wesley as the Founder of Methodism, and therefore the patron-saint and peculiar property of one denomination, dispraised and undervalued by all others, has largely given ...

Ten Englishmen of the nineteenth century presents a series of biographical sketches that examine the lives, decisions, and influence of notable figures who shaped England’s political and military landscape. The work begins by outlining the rationale for selecting these individuals, emphasizing how their actions intersected with broader social and historical developments. Early passages establish the context of a nation navigating conflict, reform, and shifting global responsibilities, high...

Features access to video tutorials!Designed to help architects, planners, and landscape architects use freehand sketching to quickly and creatively generate design concepts, Freehand Drawing and Discovery uses an array of cross-disciplinary examples to help readers develop their drawing skills. Taking a "both/and" approach, this book provides step-by-step guidance on drawing tools and techniques and offers practical suggestions on how to use these skills i...

The pups are back! After searching for and finding Easter, we have this little book, In Search of Easter. Leo, Tadd, and Oliver from Minnesota have young ones of their own. Mark and Jenny adopted a young Scottie and the book opens with the family attending an Easter egg hunt. When the search and rescue dogs and pups find all the eggs, Scottie is happy, but no one else is. On the way home, Jenny says she wishes people searched for Jesus and Easter the way they search for eggs. Scot...

To say that we are embodied subjects is to affirm that we are both extended and conscious: both a part of the material world and a place where that world comes to presence. The ambiguity inherent in our being both can be put in terms of a double “being in.” Thus, while it is true that the world is in consciousness taken as a place of appearing, it is equally true that, taken as embodied, consciousness is in the world. How can our selfhood support both descriptions? Starting with Husserl’s ...

Resolutions is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Samuel James Richards. These are stories about ordinary people facing extraordinary situations, narratives which explore questions about the future of technology and humanity. Resolutions is all about the way things end. By the final conclusion, you will have smiled, shuddered, and will take away some food for thought.Story summaries:"That's No Moon" - a three-part space opera inspired by one of the mos...