“…The Jewish tradition also offers guidance for moral conduct in both children and adults, and how to motivate people to do the right thing despite weakness and temptation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Iconicity and accuracy in the world of testimonial literature -- Heterophobia -- Heterophobia: the feminist turn against men -- Casting the first stone -- Politicizing the personal -- Do they have to be wrong? On writing about rape -- Women on top -- MacKinnon as bully -- Academic affairs -- Why not a feminist overhaul of higher education? …”
Sumario

“…Great Maps takes a close look at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth. Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the "land of no sunshine" or the land of "people with no bowels"? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Catton -- What we still do not know : Moyar's treatment of global communism / William Stueck -- A one-sided picture of the Chinese-Vietnamese ties during the Vietnam War / Qiang Zhai -- Response one / Mark Moyar -- Debating Triumph forsaken as history -- Triumph impossible / James Dingeman -- Fighting stories / Charles Hill -- Imperial revanchism : attempting to recover a postwar "noble cause" / Scott Laderman -- Triumph forsaken as a path to setting the record straight / Robert Turner -- Governing the Vietnamese "masses" : the United States, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the notion of Triumph forsaken / Jessica M. …”

“…But if it is true that 'it's the economy, Stupid', why do incumbents in good economies sometimes lose? …”

“…Most unexpectedly, she discovers the brain's ability to do much, much better, with just a little help…”

“…It is for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world and explains how teachers, parents and grandparents can cultivate confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity, commitment and craftsmanship in children, at the same time as helping them to do well in public examinations. Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn shows, unequivocally, that schools can get the right results in the right way, so that the Rubys of tomorrow will emerge from their time at school able to talk with honest pleasure and reflective optimism about their schooling. …”

“…It is through this capacity that we are able not merely to respond discriminatively to objects, as animals do, but to bring them under concepts and so to make claims about them which can be true or false. …”

“…But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech? …”

“…"What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical philosophy, i.e. the practical philosophy that emerged with the watershed discovery of autonomy in the mid-1780s. …”

“…The traditional debates about this issue focus on threats to moral responsibility from causal determinism, and from the absence of the ability to do otherwise that may result; and articles in the volume appraise the most recent developments in these debates. …”

“…In contrast, Assessment Sensitivity begins with a clear account of what it is to be a relativist about truth, and uses this view to give satisfying accounts of what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, what might be the case, and what we ought to do. The book seeks to provide a richer framework for the description of linguistic practices than standard truth-conditional semantics affords: one that allows not just standard contextual sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context in which an expression is used), but assessment sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context from which a use of an expression is assessed). …”

“…The authors make the case that this is the perfect time to do this work and they exhibit how it can be accomplished. …”

“…They recognize that globalization has created massive inequalities, but these are inevitable, they say--and the best we can do is throw a sop to the "deplorables" to keep them from revolting. …”

“…Fiction and nonfiction literary works constitute a source to open young minds and to help them understand how and why people-themselves included-live as they do, or to question through critical lenses whether they could live otherwise. …”

“…What do we mean by "space" in the Iliad? The aim of this book is to offer a systematic and comprehensive presentation of the different types and functions of space in the earliest work of Greek literature. …”

“…The book’s findings contradict the film industry’s assertion that it is simply in the entertainment business, and examines how, while the majority of Hollywood films are strictly commercial ventures, hundreds of movies – ranging from Birth of a Nation to Capitalism – do indeed contain political messages. This new edition has been updated with new photos and cartoons, and includes two new chapters, one on Afghan-Iraqi war films and the other on the treatment of race and gender in Hollywood films, that are sure to stimulate discussion. …”

“…Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? …”

“…Why have films with diasporic family narratives increased in popularity in recent years? How do representations of the diasporic family differ from those of more dominant social groups? …”

“…"We all know that small classes are better than large classes; that children are best taught in groups according to their ability; that some schools are much better than others and that we should teach children according to their individual learning styles ... or do we? This book asks awkward questions about these and many other sacred cows of education. …”