Understanding The F Word

Author : David McGowan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1475906897

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Understanding the F-Word by David McGowan Pdf

By offering a radical review of the last one hundred years of US history, this work is intended as a counterpoint to the rampant revisionism of the flurry of books glorifying the "American Century". Beginning with the rather bold and decidedly controversial assertion that the current political system in place in the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century is fascism, the first part of this book attempts to justify that claim by first defining exactly what fascism iscorrecting various widely-held misconceptionsand then analyzing how closely we as a nation conform to that definition. Also included is a review of some of the hidden history and key events of World War II. Part II offers a retrospective of the twentieth century American presidential administrations, to demonstrate that the steady and inexorable march towards overt fascism was a defining characteristic that remained unchanged. The final section looks at the still very much alive eugenics movement, and analyzes the role played by the psychiatric establishment in validating the fascist state. This book will surely find no shortage of detractors, but if read with an open mind, it just may change the way you view the world.

Author : Jurgita Bukauskaite
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000866551

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Understanding Domestic Violence as a Gender-based Human Rights Violation by Jurgita Bukauskaite Pdf

Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need. Through a variety of key case studies, it reveals significant gaps in the legal conceptualisation of domestic violence between human rights standards on the one hand and the national legal systems examined—those of Ireland and Lithuania—on the other. The book reveals that, contrary to gender-based universal human rights approaches and despite recent legislative reforms, the legal concept of domestic violence is gender-blind. It fails to capture gender-based empirical realities on the ground, rendering national legal systems devoid of an empirically informed theoretical basis for addressing the problem. Despite the differences in the contextual backgrounds of the two case study countries, the legislation on domestic violence is underpinned by patriarchal beliefs in both. This book employs a gender-based examination of the issue that will be of key interest to scholars, legal practitioners, civil society actors, and students of feminist legal theory, gender equality, gender in international law, gender and human rights and conceptual democracy.

Author : Thomas R. Guskey,Jane M. Bailey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412940863

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Developing Standards-Based Report Cards by Thomas R. Guskey,Jane M. Bailey Pdf

Providing a clear framework, this volume helps school leaders align assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and develop more detailed reports of children's learning and progress.

Author : Joyce VanTassel-Baska,Tamra Stambaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000493962

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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by Joyce VanTassel-Baska,Tamra Stambaugh Pdf

The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts, using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary. Students in grades K-1 will learn to comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities in Jacob's Ladder, Grades K-1 (2nd ed.). Geared for students in grades K-1, this book, a revision of the Primary Level 1 book, includes stories and ladder tasks carefully selected for young children to develop oral communication and listening skills in addition to the other ladder goals. This book provides stories focused on picture analysis, read alouds, classics, and original works. Optional Student Workbook Packs In addition to this teacher's guide, companion student workbooks are available for Grades K-1

Author : Wolff-Michael Roth,Alfredo Jornet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319398686

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Understanding Educational Psychology by Wolff-Michael Roth,Alfredo Jornet Pdf

This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L. S. Vygotsky, who had turned to the philosopher Spinoza to develop a holistic approach to psychology, an approach that no longer dichotomized the body and mind, intellect and affect, or the individual and the social. In this approach, there is only one substance, which manifests itself in different ways in the thinking body, including as biology and culture. The manifestation as culture is premised on the existence of the social. In much of current educational psychology, there are unresolved contradictions that have their origin in the opposition between body and mind, individual and collective, and structure and process—including the different nature of intellect and affect or the difference between knowledge and its application. Many of the same contradictions are repeated in constructivist approaches, which do not overcome dichotomies but rather acerbate them by individualizing and intellectualizing our knowledgeable participation in recognizably exhibiting and producing the everyday cultural world. Interestingly enough, L. S. Vygotsky, who is often used as a referent for making arguments about inter- and intrasubjective “mental” “constructions,” developed, towards the end of his life, a Spinozist approach according to which there is only one substance. This one substance manifests itself in two radically different ways: body (material, biology) and mind (society, culture). But there are not two substances that are combined into a unit; there is only one substance. Once such an approach is adopted, the classical question of cognitive scientists about how symbols are grounded in the world comes to be recognized as an artefact of the theory. Drawing on empirical materials from different learning settings—including parent-child, school, and workplace settings—this book explores the opportunities and implications that this non-dualist approach has for educational research and practice.

Author : Kevin B. Burk
Publisher : Serendipity Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 0975968211

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The Relationship Handbook by Kevin B. Burk Pdf

In this comprehensive guide to human relationships, Burk helps readers discover the secrets of how to create commitment, rekindle romance, spark the flame of passion, and enhance intimacy.

Author : J. Dean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230283213

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Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics by J. Dean Pdf

Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with both narratives of feminist decline and re-emergence, it draws on poststructuralist political theory to assess current forms of activism in the UK and present a provocative account of recent developments in feminist politics.

Author : Kirk, Mary
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781599047881

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Gender and Information Technology: Moving Beyond Access to Co-Create Global Partnership by Kirk, Mary Pdf

"This book explores the decline in female involvement in technology and other discrimination related to the industry"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John Danner,Mark Coopersmith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119017691

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The Other "F" Word by John Danner,Mark Coopersmith Pdf

Leverage the power of failure in your organization Nobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater success you crave. The Other "F" Word shows how successful leaders and teams are putting failure to work every day - to re-engage employees, spark innovation and accelerate growth. Authors Danner and Coopersmith - with their rare blend of senior-level executive experience, global advising, teaching acumen and cross-discipline perspective - share these valuable new practices, and show how they can improve results across your organization. Based on exclusive interviews with prominent leaders and insightful examples from their own in-depth work, the book features a practical seven-stage framework to liberate failure as a force to advance your leadership agenda. After all, everyone creates and confronts failure on a daily basis. Why not use it to your advantage? The Other "F" Word shows you how to: Start an open, productive conversation about failure across your organization Reduce the fear of failure that stifles initiative, creativity and engagement Anticipate, prepare for and respond to failure, so you can leverage it when it happens Harness failure as a catalyst to drive innovation, improve performance and strengthen culture Failure's like gravity – pervasive and powerful. Whether you're a leader or team member of a startup, a growing business, or an established enterprise, failure is today's lesson for tomorrow. Let The Other "F" Word show you how to apply this lesson and take your company where it needs to go.

Author : Roman Blaise
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465391988

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Understanding The Complex Reality Of The School Bus Driver's Job by Roman Blaise Pdf

ROMAN BLAISE BLAISE “Understanding the Complex Reality of the SCHOOL BUS DRIVER’S JOB” is the testimony of a school bus driver named Roman Blaise. Throughout the school year, trying to please everyone and answer every question; screaming at the students for their safety on the bus, also smiling, playing and even dancing for them. When necessary, requiring order out of troublemakers, caution out of harassment of other drivers, fairness out of indifference. This book contains important tools of prevention, asks for more children’s understanding, talks about what Roman Blaise has seen and heard, raises various problems encountered by school bus drivers, laments the loss of a colleague. It also questions the system of things and is waiting for answers, forces drivers to learn to adapt to students, raises the barrier of communication between immigrant drivers and students, and tests the driver’s conscience. It ends the last school day with the tears of a black kindergartener who will miss forever the affection of his dear white female teacher. Everyone endowed with the passion to know, should reserve in his libray a space for this fascinating book, “Understanding the Complex Reality of the SCHOOL BUS DRIVER’S JOB”. ROMAN

Author : Al Danks
Publisher : Alton Danks
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781948081627

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Spirit-guided Exegesis by Al Danks Pdf

Why is Spirit-guided Exegesis helpful? Because the Holy Spirit guides us into the truth in exegesis in the same way he guides us into all truth, Spirit-guided Exegesis is helpful to those who seek to learn more about how the Holy Spirit guides us into truth and what we must do to be guided. The discussion and example in this book are a valuable addition to The Guiding Into Truth Work of the Holy Spirit. Spirit-guided Exegesis shares how the Holy Spirit guides us into truth and our role being guided in the context of exegesis. Because of this, this book is also helpful to those who seek the Holy Spirit’s help in the process of exegesis. Spirit-guided Exegesis will contribute answers to the following questions posed by Dr. John W. Wyckoff in his book Pneuma and Logos: - What, if any, is the relationship of the Holy Spirit to biblical hermeneutics? - If the Holy Spirit is involved, what is the nature and content of knowledge gained as a result of this involvement? - Who qualifies as a Spirit-guided interpreter: with whom does the Holy Spirit work in the process? - How does the Holy Spirit work with the interpreter; what is the nature of the Spirit’s role in relationship to that of the human interpreter? - What is the human role in interpretation when the Holy Spirit is involved? Unfortunately, in his research, he found that “those who posited a role of the spirit in interpretation did not provide extensive descriptions of this work. Specifics regarding ‘how’ the Holy Spirit assisted the interpreter to understand the message were not given. also, these interpreters did not indicate in concrete, cognitive terms how the understanding given by the Holy Spirit differed from that gained by ordinary means.” Spirit-guided Exegesis will contribute answers to the questions posed by Dr. Wyckoff. It will discuss - Our role in working with the Holy Spirit in the processes of exegesis and hermeneutics. - The Holy Spirit’s role in the processes. - How the Holy Spirit guides us in the processes.

Author : Quentin J Sch Robert Herbert Woods Jr,Robert Herbert Woods,Schultze Quentin J.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781458755315

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Understanding Evangelical Media by Quentin J Sch Robert Herbert Woods Jr,Robert Herbert Woods,Schultze Quentin J. Pdf

As long as there has been a church, there has been Christian communication - people of the book bearing the good news from one place to another, persuading, teaching and even delighting an ever-broadening audience with the message of the gospel. Amid ongoing advances in technology and an ever-more-multicultural context, however, the time...

Author : Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar,Brian W. Kulik
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739179277

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American Fascism and the New Deal by Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar,Brian W. Kulik Pdf

American Fascism and the New Deal demonstrate how fascist ideas gained popularity in the Associated Farmers of California during the 1930s and 40s. It shows that the politics of the intervening decades created economic and political policies that planted the seeds for these fascist ideas by forming alliances between the corporate-private realm and the state-public realm. These same alliances made FDR and subsequent political figures rethink the direction they wanted to take American democracy. Through a careful analysis of the Associated Farmers of California, Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar and Brian Kulik show how the AFC formed positions in direct alliance with fascist ideas, but also why these ideas resonate with so many people even to this day. The analysis presented in American Fascism and the New Deal will be of particular interest to sociologists, especially social movement theorists; Chicana/o studies scholars; political scientists; business ethicists; and historians.

Author : Andrew Siegel
Publisher : Rogue Wave Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Diet
ISBN : 9780983061717

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Promiscuous Eating: Understanding and Ending Our Self-Destructive Relationship with Food by Andrew Siegel Pdf

Author : Colin Lever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317861591

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Understanding Challenging Behaviour in Inclusive Classrooms by Colin Lever Pdf

It is no great secret that managing disruptive behaviour in any classroom, from infants to sixth form, is one of the most stressful aspects of teaching. Rules and sanctions can be effective up to a point, but often fail to take into consideration individual differences in children and the difficulties they might be experiencing in their school or home life. In his new book, Colin Lever uses real childrens voices to help you begin to understand why children might behave in the way that they do, offering ideas and strategies to help prevent challenging behaviour occurring in the first place. Whether it serves as a reference manual, a useful checklist or as an aide to help you plan and prepare for your lessons, this book should be essential reading for every teacher.