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Author : Lucy Taylor
Publisher : Rhinoceros
ISBN 13 : 9781563335525
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unnatural Acts and Other Stories written by Lucy Taylor and published by Rhinoceros. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel S. Wineburg
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on the P
ISBN 13 : 9781566398565
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts written by Samuel S. Wineburg and published by Critical Perspectives on the P. This book was released on 2001 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts written by Donald Barthelme and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Wineburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635735X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) written by Sam Wineburg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 045123877X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unnatural Acts written by Stuart Woods and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpt from Stuart Woods's next thrilling Stone Barrinton novel, Collateral damage (p. (379-387)).
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 045123877X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unnatural Acts written by Stuart Woods and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpt from Stuart Woods's next thrilling Stone Barrinton novel, Collateral damage (p. (379-387)).
Author : Mara Hvistendahl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459614577
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Mara Hvistendahl and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--
Author : David L. Dotlich
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787961817
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unnatural Leadership written by David L. Dotlich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by David Dotlich and Peter Cairo-- two of the country's top executive coaches and educators-- Unnatural Leadership debunks the common notion of the natural leader as a flawless figure. The book describes the truth about being a real leader in a business environment turned upside down by e-commerce, diversity, security concerns, globalization, and matrix structures. Drawing on personal experience working with successful leaders in top-tier companies throughout the world, Dotlich and Cairo identify a style of leadership used by those who succeed in complicated business and people situations, a style that maximizes a leader's strengths and acknowledges weaknesses.
Author : Theodore Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195309683
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Acts of God written by Theodore Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see natural disasters as random outbursts of nature or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how business and government decisions have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property.
Author : Vivian Patraka
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253335326
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spectacular Suffering written by Vivian Patraka and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying texts ranging from plays and performances to films and museums, this book explores the struggle to represent the landscape of the Holocaust.
