Reading is one of the most effective ways to combat moral illiteracy and build a child's character. This book, featuring evaluations of more than 300 books for children - is designed to help parents and teachers find the best books available for teaching moral values. The books are divided into categories ranging from fables and fairytales through ...
The true story of the 6-year-old girl who single-handedly integrated an all-white New Orleans public school in 1960. Each day Ruby had to walk through throngs of screaming protestors to enter a classroom that was devoid of other students because they had been kept home by their angry parents. An afterward explains how, after many months, the ...
The expert tuition and approach to rapid learning in Accelerated SQL Server 2008, one of the first SQL Server 2008 books available, will enable SQL Server and other database professionals to make the leap to the latest release of Microsoft s flagship database management system quickly. Take full advantage of the new features of SQL Server 2008, ...
A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Described as "an admirably complete look at the best recent writing on medicine" by the Detroit Free Press, the book includes well ...
"A moving and often inspiring account of how individuals try to be responsible for their world".--Washington Post. In this passionate book filled with profound stories, a Pulitzer Prize winner explores the compelling nature of idealism--what inspires it and sustains it, how it is expressed, and its importance to both individuals and society.
This work takes us to three remote rural areas in the USA to hear the tales of the residents - the poor, the rich, and those in between - as they talk about their families, work, hard times, and their hopes. It provides an insight into the dynamics of poverty, politics and community change.
The author, a psychiatrist and writer, explores the results of more than 30 years of talking and listening to children around the world about their inner lives. He evokes their thoughts and feelings about the meaning of life, and at the same time their insights into the religious beliefs of adults.
Through portraits of leaders who led exemplary lives, and through essays on the impact of stories, the distinguished Harvard psychologist Robert Coles reminds us of the importance of inspiration and influence in our moral development.
The uplifting story of a Teach for America volunteer in the rural Mississippi Delta has been praised by Robert Coles as "a compelling and important moral witness to education efforts today."
This anthology unites voices exploring their experiences with childhood poverty, including poetry, essays, and short fiction. Unknown writers, like high school students and the first female Navajo surgeon, are joined by literary greats Ralph Ellison, Richard Ford, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.
Erik Erikson is recognized as one of the world's leading figures in the field of pscyhoanalysis and human development. His ideas about the stages of development, the sources of identity, and the interdependence of individual growth and historical change have revised our understanding of the nature and course of psychological growth. Erikson, whose ...
This vivid, inspirational, and authoritative book will open new possibilities for children by telling the stories of how ten of the past century's greatest leaders changed the world in important ways. Kids will delight to read about these amazing people and what they accomplished through their words and actions. Realistic illustrations, ...
Through intimate letters, interviews, and stories, this narrative reveals the impact that a life-changing retreat had on a group of inmates at the highest level maximum-security state prison in Alabama. The 38 participants in the first-ever intensive, silent 10-day program inside the walls of a corrections facility - many serving life sentences ...
In this psychological analysis of popular children's books, the author argues that picture books are powerful tools for conveying messages about moral principles and assumptions about class, gender, and race. Her examinations include Margaret Wise Brown's GOODNIGHT MOON, Maurice Sendak's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, and Beatrix Potter's THE TALE OF ...
The French writer, philosopher, and mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the most original spiritual personalities of the 20th century. Now Coles presents a brilliant portrait of the beloved and controversial figure who was a spiritual influence on T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Adrienne Rich, and Albert Camus.
In the wise and often witty Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose, Brian Mahan considers the question of how it is possible to create a meaningful spiritual life while living in a culture that measures us by what we have rather than who we are. Drawing on nearly two decades of teaching experience. Brian Mahan shares stories of personal struggle and ...
Argues that micro-managing activities and experiences impedes the happiness and healthy development of today's children, and offers solutions for nurturing what really matters.
Lengthy, revealing interviews by a noted child psychologist with men and women past the age of 70 who live alone. Over 40 pages of photographs by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma accompany the text, revealing the faces of age and experience.
A study of documentary writing and photography by the noted psychiatrist and Harvard ethicist. Coles focuses on the ways in which researchers can affect, reshape, or misrepresent what they see.
Throughout her long working life, Dorothea Lange was an exceptional, often brilliant photographer. In the historic decade of the thirties, she was more - a pioneer, a shaper of the medium, and a motivator of the national conscience. Lange's direct, compelling studies of people forced from the land are both a faithful chronicle and a landmark of ...
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