Category: History Theory

By Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3319249371

ISBN-13: 9783319249377

ISBN-10: 3319249398

ISBN-13: 9783319249391

This vital publication builds on fresh courses in lifelong studying which specialise in studying and schooling in later lifestyles. This paintings breaks new floor in overseas understandings of what constitutes later lifestyles studying throughout different cultures in manifold nations or areas the world over. Containing forty two separate country/regional analyses of later lifestyles studying, the final importance is living in insiders’ conceptualisations and critique of this rising sub-field of lifelong studying and grownup education.

International views on older grownup schooling offers new appreciation of what's taking place in nations from Europe (14), Africa (10), the Americas (7), Asia (9) and Australasia (2), as authored through grownup educators and/or social gerontologists in respective geographical components. those analyses are contextualised via a radical creation and demanding appraisal the place traits and clean insights are published. the result of this e-book is a never-before on hand critique of what it capacity to be an older learner in particular international locations, and the accompanying possibilities and obstacles for studying and education.

The sub-title of analysis, coverage and perform conveys the territory that authors traverse during which rhetoric and fact are interrogated. insurance in chapters comprises conceptual research, old styles of provision, coverage advancements, theoretical views, examine experiences, demanding situations confronted via nations and “success tales” of later existence studying. the ensuing impression is a shiny portrayal of an enormous array of studying that happens in later existence around the globe.

Brian Findsen is Professor of schooling and Postgraduate chief for Te Whiringa tuition of academic management and coverage, school of schooling, collage of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Marvin Formosa is Head of the dept of Gerontology, college for Social wellness, collage of Malta, and Director of the overseas Institute on getting old (United countries - Malta).

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By Richard M. Weaver

"In what has develop into a vintage paintings, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and provides a pragmatic therapy. He asserts that the area is intelligible, and that guy is loose. The catastrophes of our age are the product now not of necessity yet of unintelligent selection. A medication, he submits, is feasible. It lies within the correct use of man's cause, within the renewed attractiveness of an absolute truth, and in the reputation that ideas--like actions--have consequences."--Page four of cover.  Read more...

By Colin Campbell, Bert A. Rockman

ISBN-10: 1566430135

ISBN-13: 9781566430135

This paintings presents analyses by way of political scientists of President Clinton's functionality in an period of divided govt. one of the frustrations pointed out by way of this staff of observers are Clinton's failure to outline or adhere to his time table as a "New Democrat", carrying on with difficulties brought on by his administration kind and personality matters, and his lack of ability to finish the gridlock among the presidency and Congress, regardless of the Democratic majorities in either homes of Congress in the course of his first years in workplace. The e-book assesses the Clinton presidency at mid-term, together with the separation-of-powers procedure, the President's crew, relatives with Congress, the courts, the administrative department, political events, curiosity teams, public opinion, family and overseas guidelines, and presidential management. a last, precis bankruptcy considers the result of the 1994 midterm elections and the clients for the long run.

By Richard M. Rorty, Kent Puckett

ISBN-10: 0971757526

ISBN-13: 9780971757523

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By Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace

ISBN-10: 1108001572

ISBN-13: 9781108001571

Released in 1831, this paintings kinds a part of a suite of introductory volumes advised via Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, the Lord Chancellor, for the Society of the Diffusion of priceless wisdom. as a result of remarkable mathematical skill of its writer, even though, it outgrew its unique plan and has due to the fact been obvious as a slightly extra bold undertaking. Praised by means of Somerville's modern Sir John Herschel for its presentation of basic astronomical theories and the mechanical rules hired of their derivation, the paintings used to be a journey de strength of medical and technical exposition. it truly is specially notable either for its author's company grab of the topic, specifically given her loss of formal mathematical education, and for its transparent define of Newtonian philosophy for a well-liked viewers.

By M. Fitzpatrick

ISBN-10: 1137019972

ISBN-13: 9781137019974

ISBN-10: 1349437395

ISBN-13: 9781349437399

During this state-of-the-field anthology, major students within the fields of eu imperial heritage and highbrow background discover the character of eu imperialism through the 'long 19th century', scrutinizing the precise dating among a number of the varieties of liberalism in Europe and some of the imperial initiatives of Europe.

By Bo Rothstein

ISBN-10: 0511129378

ISBN-13: 9780511129377

ISBN-10: 0511130902

ISBN-13: 9780511130908

ISBN-10: 0521612829

ISBN-13: 9780521612821

ISBN-10: 0521848296

ISBN-13: 9780521848299

Bo Rothstein explores how social capital and social belief are generated and what governments can do approximately it. He argues that it's the life of common and neutral political associations including public rules which counterpoint social and monetary equality that creates social capital.

By Nichter, Luke; Nixon, Richard Milhous

ISBN-10: 1107094585

ISBN-13: 9781107094581

The U.S.-European courting is still the nearest and most crucial alliance on the earth. considering 1945, successive American presidents every one positioned their very own touches on transatlantic kin, however the literature has reached in simple terms into the presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1963-9). this primary examine of transatlantic family through the period of Richard Nixon exhibits a fancy, turbulent interval in which the postwar interval got here to an finish, and the fashionable period got here to be on each side of the Atlantic by way of political, monetary, and armed forces kinfolk

By Joseph H. Pleck; Jack Sawyer

ISBN-10: 0135743192

ISBN-13: 9780135743195

By Leonard V. Kaplan, Charles L. Cohen

ISBN-10: 0739126172

ISBN-13: 9780739126172

ISBN-10: 0739126180

ISBN-13: 9780739126189

ISBN-10: 0739144316

ISBN-13: 9780739144312

Emerging calls in either the USA and in a foreign country for theologizing nationwide agendas have renewed examinations approximately no matter if liberal states can accommodate such courses with out both endangering electorate' rights or trivializing non secular matters. traditional knowledge means that theology is inevitably unfriendly to the liberal kingdom, yet neither philosophical research nor empirical argument has convincingly proven that end. studying the matter from a number of views together with legislation, philosophy, background, political thought, and non secular reports, the essays in Theology and the Soul of the Liberal nation recommend the probabilities for and boundaries on what theological mirrored image may possibly give a contribution to liberal polities around the globe. Theology and the Soul of the Liberal nation develops those concerns less than 5 headings. half One explores 'The Nature of spiritual Argument' because it can inflect discussions of public coverage, political conception, jurisprudence, and schooling. half , 'Theologies of the Marketplace,' notes that theology can via turns be hugely severe, impartial, or maybe inordinately supportive of marketplace operations. half 3, 'European Perspectives,' reports and develops arguments from Abraham Kuyper, Karl Barth, and French post-modernists touching on how one may well combine theological discourse into the general public sphere. half 4 deals Israel, Pakistan and Tibet as 'Asian views' on how theology may possibly comport with liberalism in lately created states (or, within the final case, a diasporic government-in-exile) the place strong spiritual constituencies make 'secular' civil motion tremendous not easy. ultimately, half V, 'Religion and Terror,' probes the vexed dating among conceptions of divine and human justice, the place the imperatives of theology and nation confront one another such a lot nakedly. jointly, Theology and the Soul of the Liberal kingdom means that the liberal country can't maintain theology out of public discourse and should even make the most of its intervention, yet that their intersection, if very likely valuable, is usually fraught.