“…What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. …”

“…Almost a third of American Millennials (not to mention their Gen-X elders) have chosen to live a life free from institutional religion. Many of those who do remain in the denominations and faith expressions in which they were raised tend to practice their faith in ways rather more syncretic and casual than previous generations. …”

“…"Why do so many promising ideas generated by education research fail to penetrate the world of classroom practice? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Still and Moving / Mary Corliss -- 2001: A Space Odyssey -- The 400 Blows -- 8 1/2 -- Aguirre, the Wrath of God -- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul -- All About Eve -- The Apartment -- Apocalypse Now -- The Apu Trilogy -- Battleship Potemkin -- Beauty and the Beast -- Belle de Jour -- The Bicycle Thief -- The Big Sleep -- Blowup -- Body Heat -- Bonnie and Clyde -- Bride of Frankenstein -- Broken Blossoms -- Casablanca -- Chinatown -- Citizen Kane -- City Lights -- Days of Heaven -- The Decalogue -- Detour -- Do the Right Thing -- Double Indemnity -- Dracula -- Dr. …”

“…These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people - boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanours and social classes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sexting: exposure, protocol and collective privacy 14. Conclusion: what do media developments tell us about privacy?…”

“…To see administrative service as a biblically rooted gift can help those involved in this way of life to find deeper and more satisfying spiritual meaning in what they do…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ozolins -- Democracy, civil society and education / Janis T. Ozolins -- Do we need a Catholic philosophy of education? / William Sweet -- Confucian secular formation and Catholic education : (Or the spiritual education of the Jun Zi) / Alfredo Co -- Education and human formation : A Freirean perspective / Peter Roberts -- Holistic formation in Asia / Noel Sheth -- MacIntyre, rationality and universities / Steven Stolz -- Values as a basis for human education - Personalistic approach / Wladyslaw Zuziak -- The promise and risk of the university : Secular education in Paul Ricoeur / Jecko Bello -- Teleological pragmatism : A MacIntyre-shaped university education / Philip Matthews -- Values education and Christological personhood : Philosophical and practical implications / Renee Kohler-Ryan and Sandy Lynch -- Education towards critical consciousness and emancipation : Adorno's critique of Halbbildung and the tension between formation and conformation / Ranier Carlo V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creative writing: fiction: the magic of writing -- Theatre: embracing vulnerability -- Visual arts: on ideas -- Songwriting: tapping into the sounds of the universe -- Creative writing: poetry: inviting creative writing -- Dance: looking for artistry -- Music: I channel the child in me -- Theatre: inside the Tardis -- Dance: choreography: learning to be a cairn -- World languages: French: let the beauty we love be what we do -- Social studies: thinking outside the blocks -- Literature: naivete, imagination, and a glimpse of the sublime -- Mathematics: the mess of mathematics -- Physics: beginning with the totally unexpected -- General science: once upon a time, there were no acids -- Arts/dance education: visceral creativity -- Educational psychology: one piece jumpsuit -- Intuition in CPS: the missing link -- G/T resource room: cars on blocks and road kills -- The mirror: creativity and being seen: the creativity journey of a teacher -- Elementary administration: imagining school communities -- School counseling: that uh-oh feeling…”

“…Immersing readers into the key realms of business success and exploring the full spectrum of essential communications practices, they gain knowledge and trade skills of immense value, including: The basics of positive, proactive, strategic communications for individuals and organizations What it means to be a PR expert in the creative industry and to do great work An introduction to essential business imperatives, with high-level instruction on creativity, strategy, leadership, management, marketing, and much more Customer service and all it entails Extensive exploration of the PR toolset and its application in real-world marketing scenarios This book brings home all instruction with sophisticated questions and challenges, ensuring readers have every opportunity to comprehend and grow, step by step -- Editor…”

“…TV shows - influencing what they like, what they do, what they know, and how they think. A family transplanted from the 1940's into the present day would certainly be stunned by a fundamentally different world: instead of gathering in the living room for a shared evening of radio, they would be scattered around the house to indulge their individual interests on one of a hundred cable channels; instead of a society with rigid racial and ethnic divisions, they would see people of different ethnicities in passionate embraces; and they would see a very different set of values reflected across the board. …”
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“…The Continuity Debate The topic of this book is the historical struggle to define and defend a realnumber continuum which could do the work limit theory required of it. These definitions drew heavily on philosophical and foundational assumptions, and each raises numerous philosophical questions of its own. …”

“…But a more equal division of a given amount of income could speed the process of environmental degradation--for example, if the poor value the preservation of the environment less than the rich do, or if the consumption patterns of the poor entail proportionally greater environmental degradation than that of the rich. …”
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“…Based on one of the largest studies ever undertaken of what primary schools do to improve literacy, this book reports what Professor Ted Wragg and his research team found. …”

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“…"The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dollar -- Which drawer do you use? / Trudy H. Peterson -- The Machine-Readable Branch, National Archives and Records Service, January 1984-January 1986 / Richard Myers -- Comments of former branch chief, 1986-1988 / Edie Hedlin -- Early intervention : the NHPRC's Electronic Records Program / Mark Conrad…”

“…A comprehensive introduction to all the main aspects of the American legal system, this book supplies the fundamentals of American law to a number of audiences, including business people, government officials, and others whose work regularly involves legal issues and who want to understand the law (and lawyers) better than they do now; and general readers, from students to senior citizens, who recognize that an appreciation of our legal system is an important part of being an educated person. …”