Interviews with people from a wide range of ages and occupations - and quotes from icons of the past - address one of the most important and neglected questions of modern times: What is soul?"You want to see soul? Go look in the eyes of a newborn child, ‘cause that’s where it is. And the world is going to conspire to destroy that, or at least repress it. Don’t be ashamed to say you like something! Don’t be ashamed to experience something! It can’t hurt you! That’s part of the secre...

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the...

Applying a languaging perspective, this volume frames the teaching and learning of literacy, literature, language, and the language arts as social and linguistic actions that generate new questions to make visible social, cultural, psychological, linguistic, and educational processes. Chapter authors explore diverse aspects of a languaging framework, the perspective of language as a series of ongoing and evolving interactional social actions and processes over time. Based on their research...

Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inquiry-based approach to engage students in communicating and exploring ideas about literature. As a process of discovery, Dialogic Literary Argumentation facilitates conversation—"arguing-to-learn"—as a method to support students’ diverse perspectives and engagement with one another in order to develop individual and collective understandings of ...

The golden age of live television comes to vivid life with the memorable and entertaining tale of Jonny Dirby, who unintentionally captivates the imagination of America with his creation of the hit show Justice Girl. This fun, engrossing work of historical fiction transports listeners back to a time when television shows were chaotic tightrope acts balancing the agendas of actors, studio executives, advertisers, and politicians—and all of it broadcast live to fifty million viewers...

This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, ...

Are you chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Food? Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex?When you are chained by an addiction, it can ruin your life, devastate your family, destroy your relationships, derail your career, lower your grades, and make you physically ill.Do you want to break free from your addictions?If so, you need to optimize your brain. The brain plays a central role in your vulnerability to addicti...

Building on recent scholarship in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and social practice theories, this book reconceptualizes reading comprehension as intertextual practices.Rather than view reading comprehension as the interaction of a reader and a text, the book outlines reading comprehension as a set of dynamic social practices enacted by people in and across social events in which they together build and assign meaning to one or more written language texts. The interactive m...

Written by leaders in the field of literacy and language arts Education, this volume defines Dialogic Literary Argumentation, outlines its key principles, and provides in-depth analysis of classroom social practices and teacher-student interactions to illustrate the possibilities of a social perspective for a new vision of teaching, reading and understanding literature.Dialogic Literary Argumentation builds on the idea of arguing to learn to engage teachers and students in using li...

***The Teachings of Frances Ring***is a powerful collection of psychological insights, life lessons, and human truths drawn from the author's transformative experience with an extraordinary psychologist. Through personal storytelling and carefully preserved teachings, David Bloom shares timeless wisdom on relationships, emotional healing, parenting, self-awareness, and personal growth.Blending memoir with practical philosophy, the book presents clear and thought-provoking reflectio...

***The Teachings of Frances Ring***is a powerful collection of psychological insights, life lessons, and human truths drawn from the author's transformative experience with an extraordinary psychologist. Through personal storytelling and carefully preserved teachings, David Bloom shares timeless wisdom on relationships, emotional healing, parenting, self-awareness, and personal growth.Blending memoir with practical philosophy, the book presents clear and thought-provoking reflectio...

The authors present a social linguistic/social interactional approach to the discourse analysis of classroom language and literacy events. Building on recent theories in interactional sociolinguistics, literary theory, social anthropology, critical discourse analysis, and the New Literacy Studies, they describe a microethnographic approach to discourse analysis that provides a reflexive and recursive research process that continually questions what counts as knowledge in and of the interac...