Critical Conditions

Author : Stephen White
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781101157978
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Conditions written by Stephen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Stephen White comes the sixth suspense thriller featuring psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory.Summoned to the hospital to learn the motives behind a teenage girl's suicide attempt, Alan discovers that the girl's young stepsister lies near death in another hospital with a heart disease. Denied an experimental new treatment that could save her life by her parent's managed-care provider, the stepsister has become a symbol of a health care system more concerned with costs than with the lives of its patients. And when a wealthy executive of the family's HMO is found dead, Alan and Denver detective Sam Purdy uncover the truth that links the teenage girl to his death, and the truth behind a family willing to kill in the name of love...and revenge.

Author : Diana Lawrence-Brown
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807772798
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Condition Critical—Key Principles for Equitable and Inclusive Education written by Diana Lawrence-Brown and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book provides a unique merging of disability studies, critical multiculturalism, and social justice advocacy to develop both the knowledge base and the essential insights for understanding and implementing fully inclusive education. Although inclusion is often viewed in schools as primarily serving students with disabilities, this volume expands the definition to include students with a broad range of traditionally marginalized differences (including but not limited to disabilities, cultural/linguistic/racial background, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and class). Chapters provide 12 key principles important to developing and applying a critical perspective toward educating diverse students and promoting equity and inclusion. Book Features: Personal stories that make concepts accessible to new and pre-service teachers. Application exercises ideal for courses and professional development workshops. Highlight boxes that raise additional questions for discussion and debate. Interactive, multimodal instructional activities to use with many kinds of learners. Additional activities and resources available online at www.tcpress.com. Contributors: Subini Annamma, Laura Atkinson, David J. Connor, Elizabeth Z. Dejewski, David Feingold, Ana Maria García, Kathryn Henn-Reinke, Jodell Heroux, Kathleen Kotel, Elizabeth B. Kozleski, Valerie Owen, Susan Peters, Julie Ramirez, Maryl A. Randel, Janet Sauer, Stacey N. Skoning, Graciela Slesaransky-Poe, Robin M. Smith, Jeannie Zeitli “A powerful call to challenge rigid school practices that attempt to sort and level students. This extremely clear guide helps us move from critique to action, interweaving difficult matters of income disparity, language and religious marginalization, racism, and gender expression and identity. The authors inspire us to engage in the hard work of justice- and equity-oriented pedagogy and to do so collectively, with humor and with passion.” —Celia Oyler, professor of education, Teachers College, Columbia University “Condition Critical offers a critical framework for valuing and responding to student differences grounded in an expansive view of social justice, equity, access, and excellence. Accessible and engaging, each chapter skillfully weaves together first-person narratives, opportunities for self-reflection, and practical examples of key classroom practices. The result is a thoughtful and inspiring book that does more than critique the status quo, it points the way to transforming classrooms and schools for all.” —Beth Ferri, associate professor, School of Education, Syracuse University

Author : Horace L. Fairlamb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456654
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Conditions written by Horace L. Fairlamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge: hermeneutics challenges epistemology, politics challenges science, identity theory challenges critical theory, pragmatism challenges formalism, and so on. Horace Fairlamb contends that philosophy's foundationist quest has usually been misconceived as a choice between a 'super-science' and theoretical anarchy. Through an examination of the history of foundationism, and detailed analysis of the work of leading theorists including Fish, Foucault, Derrida, Gadamer and Habermas, Dr Fairlamb argues for a less reductive and less arbitrary conception of knowledge and meaning. The result in this 1994 book is a sophisticated critique of contemporary theory with implications for philosophers as well as literary theorists, and an important contribution to the re-evaluation of theoretical discourse.

Author : Michael Hays
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816620229
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Conditions written by Michael Hays and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant, masterfully executed contribution to the debate surrounding the "New Historicism."

Author : Charles C. Hwang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Conditions for Ignition and Propagation of Mine Fires written by Charles C. Hwang and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Conditions for Drop and Jet Shattering written by Gerald Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods for Assessing Channel Conditions Related to Scour-critical Conditions at Bridges in Tennessee written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Echo Heron
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Condition Critical written by Echo Heron and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1994 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ENTERTAINING...GRITTY, BEHIND-THE-SCENES DETAILS OF HOSPITAL OPERATIONS." --Booklist "In the prologue of this book, Echo Heron, RN, states: Nurses are able to do what they do because they are rich in the gifts of healing, compassion and love. She then goes on to illustrate that statement with 18 chapters of amusing and moving true stories of her career in critical care and in the emergency room." --Chicago Tribune "Heron gives a voice to her fellow nurses (a savvy, wisecracking, take-no-guff voice) and turns them into real people." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Although Heron provides enough personal detail to make the book a very good read, its importance lies in her depiction of how sick people really function, what nurses do to help them, and how little physicians, hospitals and our society understand or value that work." --The Washington Post Book World AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD(c) From the Paperback edition.

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : Bradford Books
ISBN 13 : 9780262561280
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Critical Condition written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by Bradford Books. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Jerry Fodor contrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky, and Richard Dawkins. Several of these essays are published here for the first time. The rest originated as book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, or in journals of philosophy or psychology. The topics examined include cognitive architecture, the nature of concepts, and the status of Darwinism in psychology. Fodor constructs a version of the Representational Theory of Mind that blends Intentional Realism, Computational Reductionism, Nativism, and Semantic Atomism.

Author : Gabriel Riera
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148307X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alain Badiou written by Gabriel Riera and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little doubt that Alain Badiou is one of the most challenging and controversial figures in contemporary philosophy. This volume of essays brings together leading commentators from both sides of the Atlantic to provide an introduction to Badiou's work through critical studies of his more productive and controversial ideas. Over the course of three decades, his numerous and extensive texts have challenged traditional views on ontology, mathematics, aesthetics, literature, politics, ethics, philosophy, and sexual difference. His texts on Plato, Saint Paul, Pascal, Lacan, Althusser, Heidegger, MallarmeŒ, Pessoa, and Beckett are among the most perceptive and penetrating essays on contemporary philosophical and literary culture. In addition to providing insight into the basic conceptual apparatus of Badiou's philosophy, the essays also offer a more substantial critical assessment of the import of his main theses for different disciplines.