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In this book the editors consider the resistance to change among
teachers and learners despite all the evidence that science
participation brings benefits for both individuals and nations.
Beginning with biology, Stability and Change in Science Education:
Meeting Basic Learning Needs explores this balance in teaching and
learning science. The authors reflect upon this equilibrium as they
each present their work and its contribution. The book provides a
wide range of examples using the change/stability lens. Authors
from the Netherlands, Israel, Spain, Canada and the USA discuss how
they observe and consider both homeostasis and novelty in theory,
projects and other work. The book contains examples from science
educators in schools and in other science rich settings.
Contributors are: Lucy Avraamidou, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Michelle
Crowl, Marilynne Eichinger, Lars Guenther, Maria Heras, Phyllis
Katz, Joy Kubarek, Lucy R. McClain, Patricia Patrick, Wolff-Michael
Roth, Isabel Ruiz-Mallen, Lara Smetana, Hani Swirski, Heather
Toomey Zimmerman, and Bart Van de Laar.
HARDBACK - A collection of essays on time by Samuel K. K. Blankson.
His basic argument is that units of time (such as the year and its
subdivisions down to the seconds and even the cesium units, etc.),
replicate to make us see time as passing by. Time travel is not
possible from his point of view and he goes on to reject the
Minkowski theory of space-time as a distortion of relativity and
physics as a whole.
About "Uninformed Conscience" John F. Kavanaugh, S.J. says "If a
nation or church forms its people to accept assertions blindly,
without supporting evidence, it will form a community not of moral
agents but of menaces. They may be sincere, but they will be
sincere menaces." AMERICA, June 21-28, 2010, pg 9] Conscience
speaks to the meaning of Eucharist. If we buy in to the Eucharistic
Theology of the Cosmic Christ, we must be open to the vital coinage
of death. The multiplication of many from one is the miracle of
divine/ human hypostasis, the miracle of the largesse of symbiotic
life. The amplification of life speaks to the truth that less is
more, that unless the seed dies there is no flourishing and
amplification of life. Individuality resources multiplicity even as
multiplicity resources individuality; spirituality is
resurrection-consciousness, the energy of prevision and provision
that does not die but transforms and transfers into multiplicity.
Resurrection is the consciousness of self-reflective vitality.
About Eucharist, right as grain says it best. It is in dying that
we live; it is in giving that we receive; that we become one with
Other-the personal oneness of Eucharist in the Cosmic Christ.
Wisdom is Eucharistic consciousness, the intentional embrace of
transformation. In mindfulness we become the "good seed" that
greens the greater abundance of life. The greening of life from the
dying seed informs the adage "better to give than receive." And so
must be our individual relationship with each other and nature.
What Self Donation Is is about living the fulfilled, abundant life
of informed conscience, not by blind submission to cultural death
as imposed by worldview blindness of staticism and centrism. Faith
in absolutism is blind; openness to evolution is visionary.
Absolutism misinforms conscience and cultures premature death;
transformation informs and matures open life.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book is not about using gemstones for healing. The word
gemmotherapy is derived from the Latin "gemma," (bud), and Greek
"therapeia" (medical treatment). Gemmotherapy is a modern medical
intervention focusing on the cause of disease. Its remedies are a
type of extremely potent herbal products manufactured principally
from embryonic tissue of various trees and shrubs; but also from
seeds, catkins, rootlets, and sap. This book is about
scientifically-based, real medicine and powerful therapeutic
agents. It is a must read for professional or laypeople who want to
know about gemmotherapy and oligotherapy It serves at the core of a
college curriculum designed for medical doctors, naturopaths, and
other healthcare professionals in mainstream and complementary and
alternative medicines. It is a fascinating, well written book
providing readers with valuable reference tables and data about how
to confidently and effectively incorporate gemmotherapy into a
clinical or consultation-based practice.
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