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  • Book cover of Problems in Philosophy of Education

    Problems in Philosophy of Education canvasses several of the leading issues in philosophy of education. These include the disconnect between the disciplines of philosophy and philosophy of education, the strained relationship between educational practice and philosophy of education, the role of educational research in philosophy of education, and the lack of an independent scholarship for philosophy of education. James Scott Johnson argues for a philosophy of education separate and distinct from both the disciplines of philosophy and education and claims that philosophy of education should raise and address its own questions and concerns. Supporting this is a model of how philosophy of education should originate basic questions, together with a set of philosophic presuppositions regarding the model's logic, ethics, politics, and relationship to science and social science.

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  • Book cover of Cinematic Cold War

    The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat. As Tony Shaw and Denise Youngblood show, Hollywood sought to export American ideals in movies like Rambo, and the Soviet film industry fought back by showcasing Communist ideals in a positive light, primarily for their own citizens. The two camps traded cinematic blows for more than four decades. The first book-length comparative survey of cinema's vital role in disseminating Cold War ideologies, Shaw and Youngblood's study focuses on ten films—five American and five Soviet—that in both obvious and subtle ways provided a crucial outlet for the global "debate" between democratic and communist ideologies. For each nation, the authors outline industry leaders, structure, audiences, politics, and international reach and explore the varied relationships linking each film industry to its respective government. They then present five comparative case studies, each pairing an American with a Soviet film: Man on a Tightrope with The Meeting on the Elbe; Roman Holiday with Spring on Zarechnaya Street; Fail-Safe with Nine Days in One Year; Bananas with Officers; Rambo: First Blood Part II with Incident at Map Grid 36-80. Shaw breathes new life into familiar American films by Elia Kazan and Woody Allen, while Youngblood helps readers comprehend Soviet films most have never seen. Collectively, their commentaries track the Cold War in its entirety—from its formative phase through periods of thaw and self-doubt to the resurgence of mutual animosity during the Reagan years-and enable readers to identify competing core propaganda themes such as decadence versus morality, technology versus humanity, and freedom versus authority. As the authors show, such themes blurred notions regarding "propaganda" and "entertainment," terms that were often interchangeable and mutually reinforcing during the Cold War. Featuring engaging commentary and evocative images from the films discussed, Cinematic Cold War offers a shrewd analysis of how the silver screen functioned on both sides of the Iron Curtain. As such it should have great appeal for anyone interested in the Cold War or the cinematic arts.

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  • Book cover of Losing Military Supremacy

    "Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. Andrei Martyanov's book is an absolute 'must read' for any person wanting to understand the reality of modern warfare and super-power competition." THE SAKER While exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of their conviction and its global ramifications are. This view of its exceptionalism has led the US to grossly misinterpret—sometimes deliberately—the causative factors of key events of the past two centuries. Accordingly, the wrong conclusions have been derived, and very wrong lessons learned. Nowhere has this been more manifest than in American military thought and its actual application of military power. Time after time the American military has failed to match lofty declarations about its superiority, producing instead a mediocre record of military accomplishments. Starting from the Korean War the United States hasn’t won a single war against a technologically inferior, but mentally tough enemy. The technological dimension of American “strategy” has completely overshadowed any concern with the social, cultural, operational and even tactical requirements of military (and political) conflict. With a new Cold War with Russia emerging, the United States enters a new period of geopolitical turbulence completely unprepared in any meaningful way—intellectually, economically, militarily or culturally—to face a reality which was hidden for the last 70+ years behind the curtain of never-ending Chalabi moments and a strategic delusion concerning Russia, whose history the US viewed through a Solzhenitsified caricature kept alive by a powerful neocon lobby, which even today dominates US policy makers’ minds. Martyanov’s former Soviet military background enables deep insight into the fundamental issues of warfare and military power as a function of national power—assessed correctly, not through the lens of Wall Street “economic” indices and a FIRE economy, but through the numbers of enclosed technological cycles and culture, much of which has been shaped in Russia by continental warfare and which is practically absent in the US.

  • Book cover of Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Australia) (2018 Edition)

    Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Australia) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

  • Book cover of Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain
    John Evans

     · 2015

    This illustrated 1872 work describes Stone Age weapons, tools and ornaments, from cave and river-bed deposits as well as settlements.

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  • Book cover of Christianity Not Mysterious
    John Toland

     · 2013

    This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1702 edition. Excerpt: ... Christianity not mysterious: or, A treatise shewing, that there is nothing in the gospel contrary to reason, nor above it. To which is added, An apology for mr. Toland John Toland Christianity not Mysterious: OR, A TREATISE Shewing, That there is nothing in the GOSPEL Contrary to R E A S O N, Nor Above it: And that ho Christian Doctrine can be properly calPd A MYSTERY. By JOHNTOLJND. To which is Added, An Apology for Mr. Toland, in rela- tion to the Parliament of Ireland's ordering*this Book to be burnt. We need riot desire a better Evidence that any Man is in the wrong, than to hear him declare against Reafon, and thereby tt at wledg that Reason is against him. Arch-bishop Tillocson. London DEGREES Printed in the-Year 1702. most disgraceful and Violent things for loVe of the Truth. -- tet if we make a juji Computation, and take in the Primitive Martyrs with the Prophets and Apoftles themselves, the professed Defenders of Truth, only for Truth's fake, will be found to he a small handful with respect to the numerous *Partitans of Error. And such is the deplorable Condition of our Age3 that a Man dares not openly and directly own what he thinks of DiVme Matters, tho it be neVer so true and beneficial, if it but Very slightly differs from what is received by any Tarty, or that is establish'd by Law, but he is either forced to keep perpetual Silence, or to propose his Sentiments to the World, by "way of Paradox, under a borrow d or fitlitious Name. To mention the least part of the Inconveniences they expose themselves to, who .. >, have haVe the (jourage to aft more aboveboard, is too melancholy a Theme, and Visible enough to be lamented by all that are truly generous and Vertuous. The PraVity of most Mens Disposi