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7 reviews
Charles R Swanson, Neil C. Chamelin, ...

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008

The best in a long line of boring criminal justice books!!!
This book is by far one of the best of the criminal justice books that I have ever read. If it wasn't required reading for my Criminal Investigations class, I just might have picked it up and read it on my own. This book is one of the most interesting and easy to read books that has ever been required reading. The photography in the text helps with the topics in the reading much more than ...

Police Administration: Structures, Processes, and Behavior (7th Edition)

4 reviews
Charles R. Swanson, Leonard Territo, ...

Prentice Hall, 2007

Satisfied
This book came in the mail brand new, just like it was supposed to be. It got to my house the day before classes started so it had really fast shipping. It was also about $30 less than the price at the college bookstore. Definitely a good buy.

The Ethics of Authenticity

6 reviews
Charles Taylor

Harvard University Press, 1992

A Great Little Overview of Integral Ethics
Lately I'd been reading various critiques of modernity- Leo Strauss and Alan Bloom, the "neoconservatives", and conservatives in general, who see nothing but a great moral and intellectual decay in modern society, beset by postmodern relativism and an intellectual trap that can't be escaped short of "noble" (read: blatant) lies. While I found many of their arguments quite convincing, something ...

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

14 reviews
Charles Taylor

Harvard University Press, 1992

A True Classic!
Sources of the Self is an exceptional piece of scholarship. In SOS, Taylor engages in a course of philosophical anthropology to demonstrate that our understanding of the self as interior is by no means universal. For Taylor, understandings of the self are inextricably linked to our understandings of the good. Thus, self-understanding is directed by evolving conceptions of the source and location ...

Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition

5 reviews
Charles Taylor

Princeton University Press, 1994

A timely debate, with an emphasis on the philosophical.
One web page which I recently encountered urged the USA to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism, and thereby become the first great nation to make this postmodern leap; ahead of the U.K., and all of the other states which have considered such a move. Yet Canada and Australia have been formally self-designated as multicultural states for decades. What has been the result, and what does ...

Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice: Vol. 2 - 2nd Edition, Revised: Combustion, Fuels, ...

7 reviews
Charles Fayette Taylor

The MIT Press, 1985

still a classic, but where is a 3rd edition?
Sadly there will be no 3rd edition by Taylor. He died in 1996, at the age of 102. These volumes remain classics. Written by a person whose life spanned most of the development of the internal combustion engine, and who worked for the Wright brothers. The book gives an excellent education in the basic physics of the engine. Nor does the book confine itself to a strict 4 stroke engine. It also ...

A Secular Age

17 reviews
Charles Taylor

Belknap Press, 2007

Landmark portrait of modernity
An exhaustive, very learned string of reviews on Taylor's study can be found at "The Immanent Frame" ([...]), a blog maintained by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). After all that has been said, I will only add that Taylor's book is work of synthetic and imaginative genius. It offers very comprehensive insight into the condition and history of modernity without subscribing to a ...

The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia

9 reviews
Charles Taylor, Editors of Kingfisher

Kingfisher, 2006

Homeschoolers need this book
For homeschooling (and indeed for any child who loves to learn), there are two names to look out for: Kingfisher and Usborne. Like the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, the Science Encyclopedia forms a core study guide for homeschoolers. The book is divided into ten main sections, which gives you the option of concentrating on a broad topic, and picking out individual subjects within that topic. ...

The Skilled Pastor: Counseling As the Practice of Theology

4 reviews
Charles W. Taylor

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1991

Counseling as the practice of theology
Professor Taylor combines remarkable theological insight with equally remarkable understanding of what's needed in real-life pastoral situations: theory and practice are interwoven. Taylor's main thesis is "The way to help persons deal with their problems is to help them change the beliefs that contribute to their distressing feelings and behaviors. Thus, the goal...is to help people change ...

Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet)

6 reviews
Charles Taylor

Duke University Press, 2004

Lucid Brilliance
Charles Taylor is one of the Western world's foremost intellectuals and theorists of what is broadly called "modernity" which begins somewhere around the 16th century and continues today, even as it is challenged by so-called "post-modernists". The current work puts the concept of modernity into a theoretical framework which Taylor terms the "social imaginary" (hence the title of the book). ...

Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate (Special Report (Carnegie Foundation for the ...

1 review
Charles E. Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, ...

Jossey-Bass, 1997

Remarkably thorough and extremely well done!
Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate by Charles E. Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, and Gene I. Maeroff (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1997) In the Carnegie Foundation report, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate, authors Charles E. Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber and Gene I. Maeroff create an even more inclusive vision of scholarship from the late Ernest L. ...

The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public

Harvard Education Press, 2008

In The Transformation of Great American School Districts, William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban education reform can best be understood as a long process of institutional change, rather than as a series of failed projects. They examine the core assumptions that underlay the Progressive Era model of public education apolitical governance, local control, professional hierarchy, and the logic of confidence and ...

Hegel

2 reviews
Charles Taylor

Cambridge University Press, 1977

Making the case for Hegel
Since I'm not half through, I wouldn't be reviewing this if anyone else had stepped up. I'm enjoying the book. Hegel's been a sore spot ever since the seminar on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" where I felt like a complete illiterate trying to read him (in translation no less). Since Hegel's practically the definition of "pseudo-philosophy" in the English-speaking world, it's fascinating to read ...

Premarital Guidance (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling)

2 reviews
Charles W. Taylor

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1999

Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter 1 -- Four Aspects of Premarital Guidance (1. Religious marital preparation; 2. Couples' issues and tasks: Getting a blessing, Leaving, and Cleaving; 3. Pastoral Resources: the pastoral person, Scripture, Christian tradition, contemporary theology and ethics, covenant communities, prayer and rites; 4. Bringing together issues and resources) Chapter 2 -- Skills for Couple Care ...

Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series)

5 reviews
Charles Taylor

Harvard University Press, 2003

A reflection on religious belief and the state
This book is a collection of a series of lectures Charles Taylor gave reflecting on the legacy of William James. In thinking about James' work, Taylor reflects on the tensions between private religous experience and public religious expression; the problem of belief and unbelief; and the implications our religious beliefs have for our political organization. It is almost impossible to do ...

Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education
Charles Taylor Kerchner, David J. Menefee-Libey, ...

Harvard Education Press, 2008

Drawing on a four-year study of the last 40 years of education reform in Los Angeles, Learning from L.A. captures the sweeping change in American education. It puts forth a provocative argument: while school reformers and education historians have tended to focus on the success or failure of individual initiatives, they have overlooked the fact that, over the past several decades, the institution of public education itself has been ...

The Disenchantment of the World

2 reviews
Marcel Gauchet

Princeton University Press, 1999

one of the major books of the eighties in France. Secularisa
This book was published already in 1985 in France and has had an significant influence in intellectual circles. The main argument of Gauchet is that secularisation of society (the word "désenchantement" directly refers to Max Weber's Entzauberaung) is both rooted in christianity and a process against christianity. The christian religion, by laying down the ground for it, made it possible for ...

The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich

2 reviews
David Cayley

House of Anansi Press, 2005

Challenge Yourself.
Although labeled and promoted as a book on christianity this work is much more. Anyone with a serious interest in history, social issues, social psychology or what one might do to make the world a better place will find plenty to think about in this very interesting read. I have no religious inclinations and found the aproach of looking for documented truth rather than proselytizing refreshing. ...

Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Philosophical Papers, Vol 2)
Charles Taylor

Cambridge University Press, 1985

Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental traditions in philosophy. A selection of his published papers is presented here in two volumes, structured to indicate the direction and essential unity of the work. He starts from a polemical concern ...

Blu-ray Disc Demystified
Jim Taylor, Michael Zink, ...

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008

The Latest Tips and Techniques for Getting the Maximum from Blu-ray Technology Blu-ray Disc Demystified provides the most current information and applications available for this popular high-definition optical disc format. Written by a team of experts with a wide range of experience in DVD and high-definition production, this thorough, skill-building guide details Blu-ray's many features, formats, and applications. Blu-ray Disc ...

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