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Who were the pioneers in science education, and what motivated them
to do what they did?" This book is the second volume of an attempt
to capture and record some of the answers to these questions-either
from the pioneers themselves or from those persons who worked most
closely with them. As with the first volume, we have attempted to
include as many pioneers as possible, but we know that there are
still many that are not included in this or the previous volume. As
we have posed questions, rummaged through files and oft?neglected
books, and probed the memories of many individuals, we have come to
realize our list of true pioneers is ever growing. As we consider
our list of pioneers, we know that there are names on the list that
most of us readily recognize. We also fully realize that there are
names of whom few of us have heard-yet who were significant in
their roles as mentors or idea development and teaching. We
continue to be impressed with our science education "family tree"
ever branching out to more individuals and connections. The stories
in this volume continue to demonstrate how vital this network was
in supporting the individual pioneers during their journey in
difficult times and continues to be for those of us today in our
own enterprise.
A philosophical analysis of the rationality of the Christian faith
and the rationality of science aims at establishing the kind of
relationship that should exist between religion and science owing
to the human rational capacity as the uniting factor. If the human
being is one and that same human being is rational and capable of
science and religion, there should be a possibility of a
reconciliation of these two domains within his rational capacity.
The study takes into consideration the various models of the
relationship between science and religion and arrives at the fact
that conflicts that seem to arise are always due to lack of
intellectual honesty and the failure to accept the limits of one's
competence. This is a product of a scientific doctoral research.
Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is
the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death and live
forever? These "big" questions of human nature and human destiny
have boggled humanity's best minds for centuries. But they assumed
a particular urgency and saliency in 1920s Russia, just as the
country was emerging from nearly a decade of continuous warfare,
political turmoil, persistent famine, and deadly epidemics,
generating an enormous variety of fantastic social, scientific, and
literary experiments that sought to answer these "perpetual"
existential questions. This book investigates the interplay between
actual (scientific) and fictional (literary) experiments that
manipulated sex gonads in animals and humans, searched for "rays of
life" froze and thawed butterflies and bats, kept alive severed dog
heads, and produced various tissue extracts (hormones), all
fostering a powerful image of "science that conquers death."
Revolutionary Experiments explores the intersection between social
and scientific revolutions, documenting the rapid growth of
science's funding, institutions, personnel, public resonance, and
cultural authority in the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik
Revolution. It examines why and how biomedical sciences came to
occupy such a prominent place in the stories of numerous
litterateurs and in the culture and society of post-revolutionary
Russia more generally. Nikolai Krementsov argues that the
collective, though not necessarily coordinated, efforts of
scientists, their Bolshevik patrons, and their literary
fans/critics effectively transformed specialized knowledge
generated by experimental biomedical research into an influential
cultural resource that facilitated the establishment of large
specialized institutions, inspired numerous science-fiction
stories, displaced religious beliefs, and gave the millennia-old
dream of immortality new forms and new meanings in Bolshevik
Russia.
Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and
neglect. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are
made in the United States involving more than 6 million children.
The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized
nations - losing on average between four and seven children every
day to child abuse and neglect. The WHO reports that over 40
million children, below the age of 15, are subjected to child abuse
each year. Domestic violence in the home increases that risk
threefold. Child Abuse Investigation Field Guide is intended to be
a resource for anyone working with cases involving abuse, neglect
or sexual assault of children. It is designed to be a quick
reference and focuses on the best practices to use during a child
abuse investigation. The guide explains the Minimal Facts
Interview, the Forensic Interview, and the entire process from
report to court. It is understood that every state has different
statutes regarding these topics; however the objectives of
recognizing, reporting, and investigating cases of this nature are
the same. Just as every crime scene is different, every case
involving a child is different. Best practices and standard
procedures exist to help ensure cases are discovered, reported and
investigated properly, to ensure good documentation is obtained to
achieve prosecution and conviction. This field guide will be a
useful tool for law enforcement, child protective services, social
service caseworkers, child advocates, and other personnel and
agencies working for the welfare of children.
Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published
anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by
its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early
Christian history. Victorian Jesus explores the relationship
between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander
Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley's authorship a secret while
also trying to exploit the public interest. Ian Hesketh highlights
how Ecce Homo's reception encapsulates how Victorians came to terms
with rapidly changing religious views in the second half of the
nineteenth century. Hesketh critically examines Seeley's career and
public image, and the publication and reception of his
controversial work. Readers and commentators sought to discover the
author's identity in order to uncover the hidden meaning of the
book, and this engendered a lively debate about the ethics of
anonymous publishing. In Victorian Jesus, Ian Hesketh argues for
the centrality of this moment in the history of anonymity in book
and periodical publishing throughout the century.
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