隐士是中国历史上一个非常独特的文化现象。在那为数众多的历代隐士群体中，纵然也有不少佛、道教的信徒，但他们却主要不是出于宗教信仰而隐居的。他们的隐居，主要是为了实现自我，按自己喜欢的生活方式过自己的生活。他们的隐居，开始也许是出于一种政治态度和政治选择，逐渐就转化、发展成一种生活方式和人生价值追求，并最终趋向一种审美境界和文化追求。在这个过程中，隐士们以自己的种种价值认定、人生实践和文化创造极大地影响了中国的历史文化传统。《适性任情的审美人生：隐逸文化与休闲》对中国古代隐逸文化做了认真地梳理、耙块，并探讨了中国隐逸文化的理想与价值追求、精神。

隐士是中国历史上一个非常独特的文化现象。在那为数众多的历代隐士群体中，纵然也有不少佛、道教的信徒，但他们却主要不是出于宗教信仰而隐居的。他们的隐居，主要是为了实现自我，按自己喜欢的生活方式过自己的生活。他们的隐居，开始也许是出于一种政治态度和政治选择，逐渐就转化、发展成一种生活方式和人生价值追求，并最终趋向一种审美境界和文化追求。在这个过程中，隐士们以自己的种种价值认定、人生实践和文化创造极大地影响了中国的历史文化传统。《适性任情的审美人生：隐逸文化与休闲》对中国古代隐逸文化做了认真地梳理、耙块，并探讨了中国隐逸文化的理想与价值追求、精神。

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In the first book to focus on the traumatic effects caused bycliques in our schools, an acclaimed parenting-advice team offers afresh perspective and an innovative eight-step program to turnaround the culture of cruelty that torments all students. There have always been "in crowds," but today's social pressuresforce children into explosive, destructive, and evenlife-threatening situations. No matter what role your child playsin this schoolhouse drama--clique leader, victim, or innocentbystander--this book is a must-read. Giannetti and Sagarese havehoned in on this little-understood phenomenon and come up withinsights that parents can use immediately. Read Cliques tounderstand: * Who the clique leaders are in your child's school * What you can do NOW to help your child avoid abuse * Times during the day when cliques are visible to adults * Where in your school you should start to lobby for change * Why your "innocent bystander" may not be so innocent * How you c

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For the first time in trade paperback-a classic memoir of NavySEALs in action. In gripping prose, Captain Robert A. Gormly tells about his daysas a leader in the Navy SEALs- taking readers into the night, intothe water, and into battle on some of the most hair-raisingmissions ever assigned. Trained to a fine fighting edge just in time for Vietnam, Gormlyserved two tours of duty and engaged in top-secret missions in thePersian Gulf. Here, he shares his viewpoint and hisexperience-including what is perhaps the most graphic de*ionever of SEAL action in the invasion of Grenada. Gormly takesreaders behind the myth of this awesome team, revealing how theirlives depend on their unprecedented expertise and unparalleledcourage.

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For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, "the allure ofteaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroomagain and again, issues from an ideal that lies directly at itsheart: Teaching, at its best, is an enterprise that helps humanbeings reach the full measure of their humanity." In Teaching Toward Freedom, Ayers illuminates the hope as well asthe conflict that characterize the entire project of education: howit can be used in authoritarian and dehumanizing ways in theservice of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing socialorder-an idea he abhors-or, as he envisions it, as an undertakingto help students become more fully human, more engaged, moreparticipatory, more free. Drawing on his own classroom experiencesand those of his many colleagues, as well as on popular culture,film, poetry, and novels, Ayers redraws the lines concerning how weteach and why, and the surprising things we uncover when we allowstudents to become visible, vocal authors of their own texts andcreators of

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Novice and seasoned gardeners alike will discover sprig uponsprig of useful information in this rich combination herbprimer/cookbook. Drawing from her own organic gardeningexperience--a 20-year labor of love inspired by an attempt to makeher family "entirely self-sufficient"--author Carole Ottesen tellsthe story of growing and cooking with more than 100 healing herbs.A helpful sketch of each plant shares a full page with its generalfacts (including botanical name, use, and harvest time). AfterOttesen discusses her own relationship to the herb--buying Mexicanmint after her tarragon plants expired; discovering plants of gotukola for sale at the local garden center--she relates interestingfacts regarding the herb's historical use, its various healingproperties, whether it's approved by the German Commission E, andhow the little treasure prospered (or didn't) in her own garden.She also offers a handful of savory recipes showcasing the featuredherb. Here, Ottesen's schooling at l'Academie de Cuisine inBethe