The pleasure of reading the Education," wrote Alfred Kazin,"is the pleasure of reading a work of literature made up,literally, from historical facts . . . It is the pleasure of seeinghistory come alive, of seeing it move, of seeing behind history tothe actions and actors. It is the pleasure of seeing revealed thehumanity so often concealed in history. His political ideals shaped by two presidentialancestors--great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John QuincyAdams--Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original mindsto confront the American scene from the Civil War to the FirstWorld War. Privately printed in 1907 and published to wide acclaimshortly after the author's death in 1918, Adams's Education is lessa memoir and more a work of brilliant history which charts thegreat transformation in nineteenth-century American intellectuallife. A work of profound lyricism, enormous humanity, andremarkable prescience, The Education of Henry Adams presents aworld poised between the certainties

Esteemed historians of education David Tyack, Carl Kaestle,Diane Ravitch, James Anderson, and Larry Cuban journey throughhistory and across the nation to recapture the idealism of oureducation pioneers, Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann. We learn how,in the first quarter of the twentieth century, massive immigration,child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled schoolattendance and transformed public education, and how in the 1950spublic schools became a major battleground in the fight forequality for minorities and women. The debate rages on: Do today'sreforms challenge our forebears' notion of a common school for allAmericans? Or are they our only recourse today? This lavishly illustrated companion book to the acclaimed PBSdocumentary, School, is essential reading for anyone who caresabout public education.

“Food is the chief of all things, the universal medicine. .. . Food transmutes directly into body, mind, and spirit . . .creates our day-to-day health and happiness.” —from The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health Even inmedical schools, alternative medicine is blossoming. Two thirds ofthem now offer courses in complementary healing practices,including nutrition. At the heart of this revolution ismacrobiotics, a simple, elegant, and delicious way of eating whosehealth benefits are being confirmed at an impressive rate byresearchers around the world. Macrobiotics is based on the laws of yin and yang—the complementaryenergies that flow throughout the universe and quicken every cellof our bodies and every morsel of the food we eat. Michio Kushi andAlex Jack, distinguished educators of the macrobiotic way, believethat almost every human ailment from the common cold to cancer canbe helped, and often cured, by balancing the flow of energy (the ki ) inside us. The most effective way to do this is to eatthe

Adopting a broad historical perspective, the author analyzesthe intricacies of the German identity. He encapsulates both thesituation today and its roots in the past. A new afterword bringsthis edition up-to-date. --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.

Forensic science has helped bring bo justice some of the most evil,devious and dangerous criminals in history. Using advanced technology,dogged research and intelligent analysis,forensic scientists can follow a trail of DNA,fingerprints,ballistics records and microscopic fibres directly to a criminal.Featuring accounts of hundreds of real-life crime investigations and illustrated with more than 450 photographs,Crime investigation takes a global look at how forensic science has evolved from ancient times to today's Crime Investigation takes a global look at how forensic science has evolved from ancient times to today's sophisticated technologies,including:Infrared spectrometers which can iedntify the exact nature of clothing fibres left by suspes·CT scanners,used to pinpoint weapons in suitcases ·Software programmes and specialist modelers able to rebuild a victim's tacial features over a bare skull·DNA profiling -a revolutionary tool which has allowed investigators to solve ‘cold case' decades old,using

Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, andfeeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasinglydifficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. Wemay not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus,insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused bynutritional deficiency. Green Smoothie Revolution takes aim at thissilent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets. Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack apowerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglectedfruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for ourbusy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200recipes, Green Smoothie Revolution offers both simplicity (4 ripepears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enoughvariety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealthof options.

Mustang Designer tells the story of American wartime fighterdevelopment, including engines and armaments, as part of anationwide program of aircraft builders and fliers, focusing onEdgar Schmued, the designer of the Mustang. The P-51 Mustang iswidely regarded as the best propeller-driven fighter that everflew. What many might not realize is that the plane's developer wasa German migrant. This book tells of how Schmued created a weaponthat would ultimately prove lethal to the aspirations of those whohad seized control over his native land.

The Touch of Healing offers readers the means togreater health, vitality, and self-understanding through thepractice of an ancient oriental healing art and practical holisticphilosophy called Jin Shin Jystsu. Gentle touching similar toacupressure is used to release tension that accumulates and is atthe root of dysfunction, disease, and imbalance. The authorsexplain the natural life force that runs through the body anddemonstrate with case studies, detailed analysis, and more than 30illustrations, how to integrate this system into one's life. Thekey healing points and body flows, known as "Safety Energy Locks,"are presented with step-by-step instructions on how to utilize themfor healing and greater self-awareness. Many self-help practicesare also offered that address a wide array of common ailments,including headaches, digestive disorders, fatigue, depression, andarthritis along with pre*ive exercises for relief of emotionalailments such as loss of confidence, anxiety, and depression.

Designed to help parents avoid the miseducation of youngchildren. Dr. Elkind shows us the very real difference between themind of a pre-school child and that of a school age child.

An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible waythey intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author HarukiMurakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would beenough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about itas well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwinedobsessions with running and writing, full of vivid memories andinsights, including the eureka moment when he decided to become awriter. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich andrevelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly privatewriter and for the exploding population of athletes who findsimilar satisfaction in athletic pursuit.

The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychologymovement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of"client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, butthat influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychologythat the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten. Anew introduction by Peter Kramer sheds light on the significance ofDr. Rogers's work today. New discoveries in the field ofpsychopharmacology, especially that of the antidepressant Prozac,have spawned a quick-fix drug revolution that has obscured thepsychotherapeutic relationship. As the pendulum slowly swings backtoward an appreciation of the therapeutic encounter, Dr. Rogers's"client-centered therapy" becomes particularly timely andimportant.

Based on a nationwide survey and confidential interviews withmore than three thousand men, bestselling author of For WomenOnly , Shaunti Feldhahn, has written a startling andunprecedented exploration of how men in the workplace tend tothink, which even the most astute women might otherwise miss. In The Male Factor, Feldhahn investigates and quantifies theprivate thoughts that men almost never publicly reveal or admit to,but that every woman will want to know. Never before has an author gotten inside the hearts and minds ofmen in the workplace—from CEOs to managers, from lawyers to factoryworkers—to get a comprehensive and confidential picture of what mencommonly think about their female colleagues, how they viewflextime and equal compensation, what their expected “rules” of theworkplace are, what managing emotion means, and how that lowcut topis perceived. Because the men in the surveys and interviews wereguaranteed anonymity, they talk in a candid and uncensored wayabout their daily interactions

The long-awaited revised edition! It’s no secret that breastfeeding is the normal, healthy way tonourish and nurture your baby. Dedicated to supporting nursing andexpectant mothers, the internationally respected La Leche Leaguehas set the standard for educating and empowering mothers in thisnatural art for generations. Now their classic bestselling guidehas been retooled, refocused, and updated for today’s mothers andlifestyles. Working mothers, stay-at-home moms, single moms, andmothers of multiples will all benefit from the book’s range ofnursing advice, stories, and information—from preparing forbreastfeeding during pregnancy to feeding cues, from nursingpositions to expressing and storing breast milk. With all-newphotos and illustrations, this ultimate support bible offers ? real-mom wisdom on breastfeeding comfortably—from avoiding sorenipples to simply enjoying the amazing bonding experience ? new insights into old approaches toward latching and attaching,ages and stag

In this incisive analysis of generals, John Keegan examinesthe meaning of heroism as represented by Alexander the Great,Wellington, Grant, and Hitler, and argues that generalship, likewarfare itself, is a cultural activity that has, through the years,required a change in the very nature of leadership. 16 pages ofphotos.

Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delightin this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dippedinto over time, or used as a reference guide to each period inSicily’s fascinating tale. Emigration of people from Sicily oftenovershadows the importance of the people who immigrated to theisland through the centuries. These have included several whobecame Sicily’s rulers, along with Jews, Ligurians, and Albanians.Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans,Hohenstaufens, Spaniards, Bourbons, the Savoy Kingdom of Italy andthe modern era have all held sway, and left lasting influences onthe island’s culture and architecture. Sicily’s character has alsobeen determined by what passed it by: events that affected Europegenerally, namely the Crusades and Columbus’s discovery of theAmericas, remarkably had little influence on Italy’s most famousisland. Maps, biographical notes, suggestions for further reading,a glossary, pronunciation keys, and much more ma

Good-bye, Old School. Hello, Bold School! In 2005, Maya Frost and her husband sold everything and left theirsuburban American lifestyle behind in order to have an adventureabroad. The tricky part: they had to shepherd their four teenagedaughters through high school and into college. This hilarious andconspiratorial how-to handbook describes the affordable,accessible, and stunningly advantageous options they stumbled uponthat any American student can leverage to get an outrageouslyrelevant global education. Ready to ditch the drama of the traditional hypercompetitiveSAT/AP/GPA path? Meet the bold American students who arecatapulting into the global economy at twenty with a red-hotcollege diploma, sizzling 21st-century skills, a blazing sense ofdirection–and no debt. You’ll discover: ? the one thing preventing your student from blasting forward ? why Advanced Placement isn’t so advanced ? why international programs fail to provide a truly globaleducation ? the most critical time for your student to st

在线阅读本书 Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporateAmerica they don't share half of the power. Only four of the Fortune 500 company CEOs are women, and it's only been inthe last few years that even half of the Fortune 500companies have more than one female officer. A major reason for this? Most women were never taught how to playthe game of business. Throughout her career in the supercompetitive, male-dominated mediaindustry, Gail Evans, one of the country's most powerfulexecutives, has met innumerable women who tell her that they feellost in the workplace, almost as if they were playing a gamewithout knowing the directions. She tells them that's exactly the case: Business is indeed a game,and like any game, there are rules to playing well. For the mostpart, Gail has discovered, women don't know them. Men know these rules because they wrote them, but women oftenfeel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speakup, when to ask for responsibi

From the best-selling author of "The Rise of the CreativeClass" comes a brilliant new book on the surprising importance ofplace, with advice on how to find the right place for you. It's amantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn'tmatter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in theAlps or a cottage in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valleystart-up.According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Globalizationis not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasinglyrelevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Where welive determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the peoplewe meet and the 'mating markets' in which we participate. Andeverything we think we know about cities and their economic rolesis up for grabs."Who's Your City?" is the first book to report onthe growing body of research on what qualities of cities and townsactually make people happy in their lives. Choosing a place to liveis as important as choosing a spouse or career, but until n

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells herincredible story Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton,finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of how shefound herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuousmusical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the mostlegendary muse in the history of rock and roll. The woman whoinspired Harrison’s song “Something” and Clapton’s anthem “Layla,”Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny andheartbreaking–and totally honest.

Prepare your child for a lifetime of learning andwonder. Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled withopportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, thisbeautifully illustrated read-aloud anthology offers preschoolersthe fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive timein school—and for the rest of their lives. Millions of childrenhave benefited from the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series, developedin consultation with parents, educators, and the most distinguisheddevelopmental psychologists. In addition to valuable advice toparents, including what it means for a child to be ready forkindergarten, special sidebars throughout the book help parentsmake reading aloud fun and interactive, suggesting questions toask, connections to make, and games to play to enrich theirpreschooler’s learning experience.

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the BrazosRiver in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meantthat if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful andsometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, aswould the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked outan existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretchof the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoevoyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumnweather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violentskirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courageand cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people andthe land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a centuryafter its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a trueAmerican classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and apowerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changingnatural env

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges. Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more. This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The concepts are sometimes intricat