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In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world. Drawing on the stories of troubling - and hopeful - educational developments from around the world, Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education.
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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Impressive
- De Jean en 12-10-16
De: Mitchell Duneier
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The Myth of the Spoiled Child
- Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting
- De: Alfie Kohn
- Narrado por: Alfie Kohn
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Somehow, deeply conservative assumptions about how children behave and how parents raise them have become the conventional wisdom in our society. It's widely assumed that parents are both permissive and overprotective, unable to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. We're told that young people receive trophies, praise, and A's too easily, and suffer from inflated self-esteem and insufficient self-discipline. However, complaints about pushover parents and entitled kids are actually decades old and driven, it turns out, by ideology more than evidence.
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good theories, no tangible or practical ideas.
- De Ben en 05-12-15
De: Alfie Kohn
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The Power of Servant Leadership
- De: Robert K. Greenleaf
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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During the last decade, we have witnessed an unparalleled explosion of interest in the practice of "servant-leadership," as today's business leaders search for a new leadership model for the 21st century. Based on the seminal work of Robert K. Greenleaf, a former AT&T executive who coined the term almost 30 years ago, servant-leadership emphasizes an emerging approach to leadership--one which puts serving others, including employees, customers, and community, first.
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Not Just the Power of Servant Leadership
- De Marty en 04-25-11
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A Time to Build
- From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
- De: Yuval Levin
- Narrado por: Ford Enlow
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription.
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Incisive and Illuminating
- De Jakob en 01-26-23
De: Yuval Levin
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Raising White Kids
- Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
- De: Jennifer Harvey
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Talking about race means naming the reality of white privilege and hierarchy. How do we talk about race honestly, then, without making our children feel bad about being white? Most importantly, how do we do any of this in age-appropriate ways? While a great deal of public discussion exists in regard to the impact of race and racism on children of color, meaningful dialogue about and resources for understanding the impact of race on white children are woefully absent. Raising White Kids steps into that void.
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Distracting performance
- De Amazon Customer en 07-24-20
De: Jennifer Harvey
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- De: George M. Marsden
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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Such a relevant book to our current world
- De Adam Shields en 09-14-16
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Montessori: A Modern Approach
- The Classic Introduction to Montessori for Parents and Teachers
- De: Paula Polk Lillard
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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Montessori: A Modern Approach has been called the single best book for anyone - educator, childcare professional, and especially parent - seeking answers to the questions: What is the Montessori method? Are its revolutionary ideas about early childhood education relevant to today's world? And most important, especially for today's dual-career couples, Is a Montessori education right for my child?
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Great read!
- De laetitia Villamaux en 09-29-20
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Gifts Differing
- Understanding Personality Type
- De: Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers - with
- Narrado por: Patricia Rodriguez
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this audiobook distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career, and in your personal relationships.
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half/half
- De Lillianne en 03-19-19
De: Isabel Briggs Myers, y otros
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The Voice of Reason
- Essays in Objectivist Thought
- De: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor.
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Explains Everything Of Today
- De L. Nicholson en 11-20-15
De: Ayn Rand, y otros
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The Age of American Unreason
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought".
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Interesting, but explanation by redescription
- De T. Andrew Poehlman en 07-15-08
De: Susan Jacoby
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Confucius
- And the World He Created
- De: Michael Schuman
- Narrado por: Steven Menache
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius' influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as Western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the region, Confucius' doctrine has endured as the foundation of East Asian culture.
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all you need to know about the Chinese
- De Luke en 03-02-16
De: Michael Schuman
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Whistling Vivaldi
- How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
- De: Claude M. Steele
- Narrado por: DeMario Clarke
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities.
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Surprising, in a good way
- De Michael en 09-25-20
De: Claude M. Steele
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Nussbaum makes a compelling arguement for anyone who is trying to save the Humanities or advocate for why the Humanities are important for inclusion in public school systems to higher education. The book builds upon the idea of the importance of democracy, Socratic questioning, and provides historical and present day examples from the United States and around the world where Humanties programs are working, where they are under threat, and where the Humanities are being added back into programs for educational and economical reasons.
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