problem-based international epistemologies

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Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement (Critical Social Thought)

1 review
Jean Anyon

RoutledgeFalmer, 2005

Organizing for school change
Radical Possibilities is a well written description of several of the current crises in our nation, focusing on public education. Prof. Anyon excels at placing the public school crisis in its appropriate and complex economic context. I recommend the book to the well informed, well read reader. The book is well written and clearly organized. The later chapters offer a hope for change ...

From Disability to Possibility: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms

5 reviews
Patrick Schwarz

Heinemann, 2006

a must-read for those seeking social change
This is a small book with a big and very important message. I immediately bought ten copies and passed them to everyone I know who is seeking social change in schools and communities. Dr. Schwarz's book is part story, part philosophy, and part how-to manual. In this very hopeful text, the author challenges us to dream of what might be and to take practical steps to make those dreams into ...

Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-16 Education (2nd Edition)

1 review
Linda Torp, Sara Sage

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2002

Great Concept - poor follow through
The idea that this book is based upon is a great one - this gives the theoretical idea. Unfortunately it gives almost no assistance on implementation. It is not very useful. It would be more useful if it had more examples with information on: how much time should be expected to accomplish/solve the "problem". In my opinion (as a science teacher for 11 years) this is often done in a very ...

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

96 reviews
Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Thoughts on "The Art of Possibility."
The Art of Possibility is excellent. I think everyone should read it and seek to implement the suggestions made concerning how to diffuse highly emotional situations. It is very helpful in getting one to look at one's perspective of situations. In a nutshell, it would help individuals with conflicting opinions and ideas to resolve their differences. It would result with a win/win resolution.

Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Audio CD)

29 reviews
Mike Dooley

Totally Unique Thoughts, 2001

Will help you awaken your conciousness
This is a wonderful audiobook I listen to over and over again. There is so much information that I find it helpful for me to listen again and again to "get" it all. This is my second purchase of this set. The first I enjoyed so much I gave it to a friend. I listen nearly every day, sometimes several times a day (even if only for a few minutes at a time) to remind me that I am filled with the ...

Realm of Possibility

16 reviews
David Levithan

Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006

You Are Happy Even If You Are Afraid To Admit It - secret to all good YA books?
Though this book drags in a few of the poems, it's mostly very readable, as free-verse poetry tends to be if you read it quickly. Sexuality and sentimentality - or, if you like, adolescent angst - are heavily featured, but Levithan is so good at rendering them that the book hardly ever feels trite or emotionally abusive. However, the standout entry is clearly "The Patron Saint of Stoners," ...

The Possibility of an Island (Vintage International)

17 reviews
Michel Houellebecq

Vintage, 2007

A Canticle for Don Quixote
A profoundly sad and lyrical book, perhaps the author's masterpiece, in which the Spanish countryside of the mad knight, now modern, disillusioned, and no longer blind, is intertwined with the Spanish countryside of a future millennium that is bleak and all too plausible. If Walter Miller's apocalyptic classic touched us with its ironic depiction of a post-nuclear devastation planet that cycles ...

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

35 reviews
Simon Wiesenthal

Schocken, 1998

The Sunflower
This book focuses on a cogent question by way of a true story and invites response from all sorts of people with pertinent experience, providing biographies of these respondents. The topic is forgiveness. I found the analysis by Dennis Prager, an L.A. talk show host, the most understanding of Christian/Jewish outlooks and Jose Hobday's perhaps the best of the Christian contributions. I am eager ...

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

114 reviews
Jeffrey Sachs

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006

Amazing
What a wonderful book. I won't go into detail, as I think the first few reviews do a fine job, but this book is definitely worth reading.

Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking

1 review
Robert Schuller

Jove, 1986

AWESOME and INSPIRING
This is a once in a lifetime book that takes your breath away. Rev. Schullers words of encouragement, inspiration and success thinking is heads and shoulders above the field. Rest assured the Lord speaks through many people in this world, but Rev. Schuller has taken a leap forward that propels you into a Heaven on Earth feel good feeling. Thank you, Rev Schuller for this little book of great ...

Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
Marc Lamont Hill, Lalitha Vasudevan

Peter Lang Publishing, 2007

Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility provides new insights into the relationships between youth, pedagogy, and media, and points to unexamined possibilities for teaching, learning, and ethnographic research that emerge when media—including computer technologies, photography, popular music, and film—become central features of learning spaces that youth occupy. Through six empirically driven essays, all written by new scholars in ...

Walking One Another Home: Moments of Grace and Possibility in the Midst of Alzheimer's

2 reviews
Rita Bresnahan

Liguori Publications, 2003

Gifts received in the Midst of Pain
Walking One Another Home is a book not only for people dealing with Alzheimers in their family, but for everyone who has to walk a loved one home. Rita's openness in sharing her feelings on this pilgrimage, are not only touching but so very honest. It is in sharing her frustrations, and consequent revelations gained, that the author helps the reader learn how to let go of past and be present ...

The Possibility of Altruism

3 reviews
Thomas Nagel

Princeton University Press, 1979

analytic philosophy at its best
This is a first-class piece of analytic philosophy, with all the good and bad things that go along with that. It's not a page-turner, and it is pretty technical. But it's extremely precise, and it's tightly written. If you're a philosopher with Kantian inclinations, or someone who specializes in ethics and/or metaethics, you have to read it. If you're an intelligent person looking for some ...

A Guide to Possibility Land: Fifty-One Methods for Doing Brief, Respectful Therapy

8 reviews
William Hudson O'Hanlon, Sandy Beade, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

A vade mecum for creating possibilities
I gave 4 stars in an earlier review which was lost in the transfer. After re-reading the book, I like it even more. This is not a book that some people will take to right away. It is more like notes or hand-out on 51 therapeutic techniques. The line drawings of animals by Sandy Beadle have nothing to do with the content. The authors admit that this is a "weird collaboration". When you look ...

Ruby Lee the Bumble Bee: A Bee of Possibility

2 reviews
Dawn Matheson

Bumble Bee Publishing, 2006

Fun and 'kid-friendly'
Expertly written for children ages 3 to 8 by Dawn Matheson, and colorfully illustrated by Pamela Barcita, Ruby Lee The Bumble Bee: A Bee Of Possibility is the story of a very busy bee as she zips and zooms about in the garden. The lyrical text is fun to read and the unfolding story holds the laudable message to young readers that they, like the bees, should not focus on limitations but upon ...

Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery In 20th-Century Drawings
Anja Chavez

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 2005

Infinite Possibilities offers new perspectives on the phenomenon of seriality in the medium of drawings and the visual arts. It includes drawings from the 1960s to the present by twenty-nine artists from Japan, South America (Columbia), the United States, and Europe (Germany, England, Ireland). Whether looking at serial images in historical, political, mathematical, philosophical, or theoretical perspectives, Infinite Possibilities is a ...

Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility

23 reviews
Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus

Houghton Mifflin Co, 2007

A New Conversation
Superb! The gloom and doom and endless discussions of how we have wrecked the planet are pointless and depressing. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger make the case for a complete shift in consciousness and conversation around global warming, environmentalism and politics. A hopeful, aspiring and truly human approach to today's challenges.

The Possibilities of Organization

2 reviews
Barry Oshry

Power & Systems Training, 1986

Leadership and Partnership Possibilites---Easy to Grasp
Oshrey has a knack for making the realities and possiblites of organizational life and behavior simple and understandable. It provides insight into the world of burdened Tops, oppressed Bottoms, torn Middles, and screws Cusotmers, why the relationships don't work and some possibilites and staregies on how they might work. By looking at organizations as systems, the reader can get useful insights ...

The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace

8 reviews
Charles M. Sennott, 2002

Excellent and important book on the modern Middle East
_The Body and the Blood_ by Charles M. Sennott is an excellent, important, and timely book, one of the best I have ever read on the modern Middle East. In this work he sought to do three things; one, tour the lands that Jesus visited as chronicled in the New Testament, describing what these locales are like today, two, report the problems of the indigenous Christians of the Middle East, and ...

Career Patterns: A Kaleidoscope of Possibilities (2nd Edition)
Liz H. Harris-Tuck, Annette Price, ...

Prentice Hall, 2003

Preparing career enthusiasts for the reality of today's workplace by providing practical tools and methods necessary for self-direction and success, this indispensable book offers effective methods to help plan for an uncertain future, as well as develop skills for lifetime career planning. Actively involving users in the career planning process, it discusses the need for a flexible career plan that can adapt to changes in technology, ...

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