Going Back For Our Future

Author : Jon Pedersen,Kevin D. Finson,Barbara S. Spector,Paul Jablon
Publisher : IAP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623962555

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Going Back for Our Future by Jon Pedersen,Kevin D. Finson,Barbara S. Spector,Paul Jablon Pdf

This book is the first volume of an attempt to capture and record some of the answers to these questions—either from the pioneers themselves or from those persons who worked most closely with them. We know there are many pioneers and early trailblazers who are not included in this volume, but there are other volumes to follow. As we have posed questions, rummaged through files and oft-neglected books, and probed the memories of many individuals, we have come to realize our list of true pioneers is ever growing. There are names on the list that most of us readily recognize, and there are names of whom few of us have heard—yet who were significant in their roles as mentors or idea development and teaching. We quickly discovered that the “family tree” showing connections between these people is not a neat, clean simple branching tree, but is more like spaghetti. The connections are many, are intertwined, and all have their significance. The stories in this volume demonstrate how vital this network was in supporting the individual pioneers during their journey in difficult times and continues to be for those of us today in our own enterprise.

Author : Jon Pedersen,Kevin D. Finson,Barbara S. Spector
Publisher : IAP
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681231938

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Going Back to Our Future II by Jon Pedersen,Kevin D. Finson,Barbara S. Spector Pdf

"Who were the pioneers in science education, and what motivated them to do what they did?" This book is the second volume of an attempt to capture and record some of the answers to these questions—either from the pioneers themselves or from those persons who worked most closely with them. As with the first volume, we have attempted to include as many pioneers as possible, but we know that there are still many that are not included in this or the previous volume. As we have posed questions, rummaged through files and oft?neglected books, and probed the memories of many individuals, we have come to realize our list of true pioneers is ever growing. As we consider our list of pioneers, we know that there are names on the list that most of us readily recognize. We also fully realize that there are names of whom few of us have heard—yet who were significant in their roles as mentors or idea development and teaching. We continue to be impressed with our science education “family tree” ever branching out to more individuals and connections. The stories in this volume continue to demonstrate how vital this network was in supporting the individual pioneers during their journey in difficult times and continues to be for those of us today in our own enterprise.

Author : David Sirota
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345518804

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Back to Our Future by David Sirota Pdf

Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.

Author : Ching Kwan Lee,Ming Sing
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501740930

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Take Back Our Future by Ching Kwan Lee,Ming Sing Pdf

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience? Take Back Our Future argues that the Umbrella Movement was a response to China's internal colonization strategies—political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering—in post-handover Hong Kong. The contributors outline how this historic and transformative movement formulated new cultural categories and narratives, fueled the formation and expansion of civil society organizations and networks both for and against the regime, and spurred the regime's turn to repression and structural closure of dissent. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, Take Back Our Future demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472100269

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The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF by Mike Ashley Pdf

This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.

Author : Kiyomi Holland
Publisher : Accomplishing Innovative Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9798823200202

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HeARTwork by Kiyomi Holland Pdf

If you knew, come tomorrow, you would have no memory, what would you choose to do with today? We’re never allowed to pick and choose what memories we get to keep. Every single memory that has been graphed in your brain can be taken in a single instant. An injury or a surgery, gone right or wrong, can take away aspects of your life, even your personality. You’d never know it. The only choice for countering your memory loss would be relying on the people around you. You’d hear, second-hand, about the person you were and what you loved most. Relying only on others' memories of you, how would you want to be remembered? Kiyomi Holland is a young mother and wife who, after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, has taken up the pen to share her experience and fleeting thoughts. This heartfelt and at times humorous journey is her attempt to capture who she is in this moment as she comes to face her diagnosis, treatment, and beyond. Join her as she shares intimate revelations about life, love, and family. HeARTwork reminds us of the fragility of life and how very precious our memories are and encourages everyone to see their happiness, find the beauty in life, and remember the wealth that surrounds them. Pieced together in a combination of interviews as well as writings before and after surgery, this story allows you to walk hand-in-hand with Kiyomi’s thoughts and emotions. This revealing experience may inspire you to take a moment and self-reflect on your own life, love, and family--if today all your yesterdays were forgotten.

Author : Andrew G. Walker,Luke Bretherton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620328354

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Remembering Our Future by Andrew G. Walker,Luke Bretherton Pdf

How the issues of the past affect the future of Deep Church--a concept conceived by C. S. Lewis.Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant traditions drink from the well of a common tradition rooted in the early church. Many Evangelicals are now reengaging with the practice of the early church as they seek to live as disciples today. Remembering the past is essential for facing the future. In Remembering Our Future leaders and theologians reflect on a range of issues for which a vibrant contemporary faith requires a careful listening to the past. What is the place of tradition in the church's life? How should we interpret the Bible? How should we worship? What, in other words, might Deep Church look like?

Author : Patty Krawec
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506478265

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Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec Pdf

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history. This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and to unravel the history we have been taught.

Author : Osred
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781445768168

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Odinism by Osred Pdf

CHAPTERS: Our religious heritage. What is Odinism? Ancestor worship. Our earliest ancestors. The Indo-Europeans. Three lost Indo-European tribes. The nation of Odin. Religion, mythology, gods. Odin. Pagan, heathen and cretin. Odinist evolution. Odinist cosmology. The Odinist soul. Pagan afterlife. Clash of values. Rise of intolerance. Heathen victims of Christianity. Aethelfrith. Destruction of the Saxons. Odinist vengeance. Fall of Scandinavia. Porgeir's terrible choice. Odinism on the Borders. Christian economic strategy. Odinism in Christian churches. Period of Dual Faith: Women. Period of Dual Faith: Chartres Cathedral. Folk customs: Yule. Anglo-Saxondom and cognitive dissonance. Proto-Odinists: Jefferson. Swinburne. Murray. Wagner. Australian paganism. Limits of proto-Odinism. Odinist pioneers: Rud Mills. Evelyn Price. Ann Lennon. Else Christensen. Alec Christensen. Limits of early modern Odinism. Odinist transvaluation of values. Toward tomorrow.

Author : Mzwandile P. Ntsonta
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466947528

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Tragedy in the Making by Mzwandile P. Ntsonta Pdf

The book is entitled Tragedy In The Making. It's written after he the (author) experienced suffering, pain, struggle, and poverty for a very long time in his life because of wrong beliefs he subscribed to, wrong decisions and choices he have made. The truth is that people are overwhelmed by what they are going through in their daily living. People are trying so hard to make life work, and no matter how hard they try, they keep on failing. Because they are living their lives outside the parameters of God's will for their lives. Tragedy in the Making is trying to live the life we have designed for ourselves versus failing to live the life that God has designed for us. When you keep doing things in your own way, instead of God's way, you won't be able to manage your life—that is a promise. The source of the suffering in this book is the result of men not comprehending the purpose and the plan of God for creating them. When I observe and look around in the world today, I see a lot of ongoing suffering, pain, struggle, and poverty in God's people as well. I believe you can agree with me when I say, "Some of the things we see daily in this world are heartbreaking." Most leaders are responsible for the suffering and struggle that we see in people's lives. Whether be the heads of states, heads of institutions, or heads of families. Somehow, we are where we are today because someone has led us there. The solution in your suffering, sorrow, pain, and struggle can only be found in one only, and his name is Jesus Christ. He came to reconcile us with the Father. He came to restore us into our original state and mend a broken relationship between us and God our creator.

Author : Eyitemi Egwuenu
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504395014

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Ehi by Eyitemi Egwuenu Pdf

Realms of reality intersect. . . A young man wrestles with his destiny. . . Love swims through a river of broken melodies. . . An aeroplane takes a strange turn in the sky. . . In the shadow of war, in the sudden abyss of a long frozen night, when Hell walks the streets, redemption may come from the malice of an enemy, and destruction from the embrace of a friend. . . These are a few of the worlds you will enter in this collection of short stories. From the fascinating to the mysterious and back . . .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113737048

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Presidents
ISBN : HARVARD:32044121176929

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by United States. President Pdf

"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

Author : Office of the Federal Register
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0160777887

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Bk. 1 by Office of the Federal Register Pdf

Contains public messages and statements of the President of the United States released by the White House from January 1 to June 30, 2002.

Author : Preetam Oswal
Publisher : To Replace God
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789381770054

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To Replace God by Preetam Oswal Pdf

Seven friends meet once again during this kaalchakra. Their souls carry secrets from their previous life locked in memories. It is imperative for them to access them during this lifetime to achieve the ultimate ambition and desire... Purab discovers that his hometown has disappeared, following a curse from a mother whose daughter whom he could not save. It is the beginning of an amazing journey which connects him with seven friends, all from one of his previous lives. This mysterious trip takes Purab across cities in which he discovers his friends. In their quest to unravel memories from their souls, the friends have to solve the seven questions of life, each embedded within themselves, but resting within their souls. But at each step they are being helped by multiple unknown, but powerful, forces including one who is guiding them to the ultimate location The Invisible Temple where they will combine their immense power to replace God.