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This insightful look into the long-ignored treatment of slaves by the Jesuit order sheds new light on The Society of Jesus during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
William Tecumseh Sherman is known primarily for having cut a
swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas during the
Civil War. From the fame of these years, however, he moved into an
eighteen-year phase of "insuring the tranquility" of the vast
region of the American West. As commander of the Division of the
Missouri from 1865 to 1869 and General of the Army of the United
States under President Grant from 1869 to 1883, Sherman facilitated
expansion and settlement in the West while suppressing the raids of
the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, Comanche, and Crow Indians. Robert
G. Athearn explores Sherman's and his army's roles in the settling
of the West, especially within the broad framework of railroad
construction, Indian policy, political infighting, and popular
opinion.
Gabriel Catren is a philosopher and a physicist working at the
Institut SPHERE--Science, Philosophie, Histoire (Universite Paris
Diderot--CNRS, Paris).The great poets and thinkers of modernity
described a situation we still inhabit today: the catastrophic
undermining of all foundations, the disorienting relativization of
all reference points, the prospect of abandonment to chance and
contingency alone--the shipwreck of Mallarme's Coup de des. In this
precise and poetic work of philosophy, Gabriel Catren sketches out
a new "phenoumenodelic" solution to this momentous ungrounding,
defiantly refusing both unrestrained contingency and arbitrary
refoundation. Mobilizing a formidable knowledge of the major
currents of modern thought, deftly articulating Kantian
transcendentalism and Spinozan immanentism, phenomenological
reduction and scientific realism, Catren argues that the projects
oriented by the infinite ideas of reason (Truth, Beauty, Justice,
Love) need not be abandoned in the face of the "exquisite crisis"
of modernity. Instead, the "shipwreck" is to be understood as a
suspension of finite subjectivity in the fullness of a
"phenoumenodelic pleroma," an atonal milieu ringing with unheard-of
possibilities. Announcing an ambitious program for the renewal of
transcendental philosophy, in Pleromatica Catren recomposes the
primary elements of modern thought into a startling new
configuration, introducing a vivid constellation of new concepts
with which to map out and navigate the vast space of this
"worldless daydream."
From the colonial period through the early nineteenth century,
Father Thomas J. Murphy writes a compelling chronology and in depth
analysis of Jesuit slaveholding in the state of Maryland.
Education is a perennially vexing issue in American life. What,
exactly, is the best system for teaching? Proponents of charter
schools believe that competition is the key; public schools will
improve if they have to compete for students. Charters themselves
are public schools, but ones run by any group accepting the
challenge of improving student performance in return for fewer
regulations and tight budget restrictions. In short, charter
schools have defined focus and clear accountability. Those opposing
the charter movement though, claim that charter schools are
divisive and distract attention from public school needs. Some
politicians have shown approval of charter schools, as evidenced by
President George W Bush's bill for funding charter programs. This
book aims to clear up some of the questions around charter schools
and can help answer the questions surrounding the future of the
American education system.
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Pastoral Theology
Thomas Murphy
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R1,152
Discovery Miles 11 520
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In April 1871, a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a
girl dying in the mud - her face cruelly slashed and her brains
protruding from her skull. The girl was Maria Jane Clouson, a maid
for the respectable Pook family, and who was pregnant at the time
of her death. When the blood-spattered clothes of the 20-year-old
Edmund Pook, alleged father of the dead girl's unborn child, were
discovered, the matter seemed open and shut. Yet there followed a
remarkable legal odyssey full of unexpected twists as the police
struggled to build a case. Paul Thomas Murphy recreated the drama
of an extraordinary murder case and conclusively identifies the
killer's true identity.
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