States of Desire Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment by Vicki Mahaffey
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Overview: States of Desire shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the …
Genre: Nonfiction > General
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After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic by Alun Anderson
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Overview: The Arctic like the canary in the coal mine has reacted more quickly and dramatically to global warming than many had anticipated. Hundreds of scientists are urgently trying to predict just how the Arctic will change and how those changes will in turn affect the rest of the planet. But plenty of other people, driven by profit rather than data, are interested as well. The riches of the world’s last virgin territory have spurred the reawakening of old geopolitical rivalries. The United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, and the Danish territory of Greenland all control areas around the Arctic Ocean. We face a new era of oil rigs and drill ships, of tankers taking shortcuts from Yokohama to Rotterdam, as well as a potential fight over the Arctic’s treasures. Alongside the winners from an open Arctic sea are the many losers, from the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia and Scandinavia to the Inuit hunters of Alaska, Greenland, and Canada. Other creatures that rely on the vast expanses of sea ice, including seals, birds, and whales and the ecosystems within which they live—may disappear to be replaced by different creatures. Combining science, business, politics, and adven-ture, Alun Anderson takes the reader to the ends of the earth for what may be the last narrative portrait of this rapidly changing land of unparalleled global significance.
Genre: Non Fiction, Science
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Teaching as a Conserving Activity by Neil Postman
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Overview: During the ’60s when Teaching as a Subversive Activity was being prepared, Postman saw society as rigid, non-innovative, and authoritarian. Thus, it became the function of the school to subvert the forces in that dominant society. In 1979 when this book was released, Postman saw the larger society as influenced in powerful and destructive ways by the omnipresent media, particularly television. Television, which he dubs the first curriculum, (school is the second) trades most effectively on nonsequential learning, discontinuous content, immediate gratification, present-centered learning, nonanalytical and non-judgemental acceptance of the learner.
The first curriculum, argues Postman, “unreadies” all youth for the second and thereby seriously endangers the formal school curriculum. It is the function of the schools always to offer the counter-argument. Education must try to conserve while the rest of society is being innovative; ergo, Teaching as a Conserving Activity.
In order to serve the thermostatic role, schools must get to the business of putting forward the case for what is not happening in the culture. In order to do this they need to abandon their utopian thesis which includes, as a partial list, teaching sex education and ethnic pride, trying to educate the whole child, providing motivation for learning, being concerned with any type of psychotherapy, and having prayers in the school.
What the school should teach at all levels, elementary through graduate school, is the philosophy of science, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, semantics, and media ecology. These subjects should be taught in a context of historical continuities in an environment that insists on formal language, a dress code, and manners of a high level.
This book is profound, lucid, and convincing, particularly as Postman analyzes the impact that television has had on the culture and in the schools.
Genre: Nonfiction | Education
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Pregnancy Notes: Before, During & After by Rujuta Diwekar
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Overview: If you are preparing for pregnancy, are pregnant or have just delivered, Pregnancy Notes has got you covered. Rujuta Diwekar takes you through the journey, with tips for even before you get pregnant, till after you deliver your bundle of joy. Each stage includes notes on food, exercise and recovery. Also included are heritage recipes from across the country, so you can mine the wisdom of our grandmothers. This is a must-have guide for every woman.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Guide
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English Idioms in Use Intermediate by Michael McCarthy
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Overview: This new reference and practice book looks at the most colourful and fun area of vocabulary – idioms. This material will appeal to students from intermediate level upwards who want to understand the English which native speakers really use day to day.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Reference
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