Democratic Education Stretched Thin

Democratic Education Stretched ThinArgues that the complexity of our pluralistic social world demands an enriched conception of democratic education. Is a democratic education promoting the ideals of human equality and individual liberty still tenable in a postmodern world of increasingly diverse and competing interests? Drawing on contemporary political theorists, including Michael Walzer and John Rawls, and also on philosophers such as Descartes and Hume, David J. Blacker addresses

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modern fencing manual for training in the tradition of the southern Italian school of the late Renaissance

dealing with every aspect of life after diagnosis

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This book emphasizes the contribution of the "insurance state" to the achievement of individual security and explores how programs of income assistance could protect the individual against the strong income fluctuations so prevalent in the new job market

It relies on first-person accounts by prisoners' wives

This is nothing less than a psychoanalysis of philosophy

Atlas of Pulmonary Cytopathology With Histopathologic Correlations offers concrete diagnostic guidance for anatomic pathologists to accurately identify pulmonary disease using exfoliative and fine needle aspiration techniques

Journell analyzes data that include studies of high school civics/government teachers during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections and how they integrated television programs

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