This book takes readers on a tour of a day in the life of a public elementary school in an effort to give parents and other stakeholders a sense of the realities of the classroom. The tour reveals ten worrisome things about today’s schools and considers what to do about them. Dillon emphasizes the need for future schools to be places filled with adventure and high purpose, with classrooms small enough to waste only a minimum of time. They should be free from stifling levels of bureaucracy,...

This book presents a lively and accessible way to use the ancient figure of Socrates to teach modern psychology that avoids the didactic lecture and sterile textbook. In the online age, is a living teacher even needed? What can college students learn face-to-face from a teacher they cannot learn anywhere else? The answer is what most teachers already seek to do: help students think critically, clearly define concepts, logically reason from premises to conclusions, engage in thoughtful and ...

This collection of essays examines the way complexes and archetypes manifest in the particulars of our personal and social lives. Through theoretical chapters and practical case analyses, the book’s authors provide key insights which address questions of personal identity, gender in the psyche, individuation in the unmarried, to have or not to have children, the mythical dimensions of university unrest, as well as the psychological significance of video games, pop culture icons, and declin...

Nematodes are small multicellular organisms that have been used as biological models since the 1960s. For example, Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living nematode worm, about 1mm in length, that lives in temperate soil environments. It is made up of about 1000 cells, and has a short life cycle of only two weeks. It was the first multicellular organism to have its whole genome sequenced. The book summarizes the importance of nematodes as model organisms in the fields of genetics, developme...

In "The Essential Works of Goethe," the illustrious German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe presents a masterful compilation of his literary contributions, which encompass poetry, drama, philosophy, and scientific writings. Richly woven with the threads of Romanticism and Enlightenment thought, this anthology showcases Goethe's profound explorations of human existence, the nuances of love, nature's beauty, and the quest for self-knowledge. His eloquent prose and vivid imagery invite reade...

The Essential Works of Goethe gathers the astonishing range of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's achievement: lyric poetry of crystalline intensity, dramatic masterpieces such as Faust, searching prose fiction, and reflective writings that helped define modern European letters. Moving between Sturm und Drang passion, Weimar Classicism's disciplined humanism, and early Romantic inwardness, the volume reveals Goethe's distinctive fusion of sensuous observation, philosophical inquiry, and formal m...

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches of church formation and leadership come together from the disciplines of organizational behavior, theology, sociology, history, and law, to foster the creation of a new code of ethics that is bo...

As described in the Old Testament, God promises Hebrews eternal bliss if they follow ten commandments and associated rules. The New overhauls the Old, defining the way to Heaven via the heart rather than the hand. These promises became known as “covenants” over time. And like in any contractual engagement, anyone signing onto such agreement is best served by fully understanding both the terms and parties involved. We rarely do, however. Yet, when our eternal life is on the line, is a littl...

This book offers a selection of stories about teaching, learning, and school life that you can use in a variety of PD formats and settings.Grouped into four categories—students, teachers, administrators, and parents—these tales offer a powerful entry point for thinking and reflecting on your school environment in a new and meaningful way. Each brief tale is presented to spark a 10–15 minute group discussion that will help educators think more deeply about the complex, human problem...

Kevin never smiles at school, but he is different at home. He jumps up and down when his favorite football team scores a touchdown, and screams "CANNONBALL!" when he jumps into the swimming pool. But at school he feels that he isn't 'okay.' Other kids in his class are much quicker at putting their hands up and answering the teacher's questions, and Kevin feels that he will never catch up. One day, his reading teacher asks him to help out with the school store, and Kevin slowly begins to re...

Mactaggart is the rascally skipper of the puffer The Maggie, a flimsy rust-bucket which hauls freight up and down the west coast of Scotland. When wealthy American businessman Calvin B. Marshall, General Overseas Manager of World-International Airways, wants to transport a precious cargo to his newly bought mansion on Kiltarra in the Western Isles, Mactaggart manages to trick Marshall's agent into hiring The Maggie for GBP300, a sum that might be useful for some much-needed repair...

FDNY Captain Nolan Daly was in trouble with the good folks at EEO. Again. He could have attended the annual class, sat still, kept his mouth shut for two hours and gone home. But he was tired of being told how to think. Daly wasn't racist, sexist, homophobic or any of the other labels they threw at him. It always amazed him that the people who preached acceptance, inclusion and diversity were only talking about those who agreed with them. If your opinion differed from theirs, you were not ...