Walt Whitman explores the freedom of the wanderer, the sorrow of the pallbearer, and the spirit of the adventurer in his remarkable collection of poems, Leaves Of Grass. Both an explorer of cultural thought and a lover of sensual pleasure, Whitman champions the cause of common men, and revels in emotional and physical love. In plain and beautiful language, Whitman redefined the world of poetry.This The Poetry of Walt Whitman on A+ AUDIO study guide was written by ...

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #5: April 2019Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink

Focused Biblical Scholarship to Teach the TextThe Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understa...

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance of their privileges-freedom of speech, security, wealth-an increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of poverty, famine and war.What is needed, the writers suggest, is a deliberate decision to extend the principles and values of democracy to the sphere of international relat...

Encounter with God is Scripture Union's daily Bible reading guide designed to lead you to a deeper understanding about what God is saying to you and to his world today. You'll find its thorough and energetic investigation of the whole Bible inspiring and stimulating. And you'll discover that its biblical exposition is complemented by pastoral warmth from a strong field of writers and contributors. As well as daily content, feature articles provide insights into Christian spirituality, tack...

The high profile reporting of child sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile over decades has had far reaching-consequences, raising public awareness and concern, yet we continue to uncover new cases of institutional abuse which have been taking place under the radar for years.This book distils the learning from 80+ public inquiries relating to Savile as well as related cases of institutional abuse and analyses the key findings. It examines what we now know about offending within o...

Petite Classics for Easiest Piano Booklet FPopular Classics for Beginner and Novice Pianists by SilverTonalities!Letter Names Embedded in NoteheadsFor Quick and Easy Reading!Booklet F includes:Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss JuniorFur Elise by Ludwig van BeethovenGrandfather’s Waltz Nutcracker Suite by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A New Politics for Philosophy: Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss presents meticulous readings of key philosophical works of towering figures from both the classical and modern intellectual traditions: Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss. Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars explores questions of the nature or identity of the philosopher. The chapters touch on topics ranging from Plato’s Charmides, A...

Cupcakes, panda bears, break-ups, wearing sunglasses at night... The local and the universal come together in these 37 short stories, brought into English by different translators from all over the world. This project aims to show there are all kinds of ways to bring across an author's voice in translation… at least 37 of them (one for each story). Translators include literary translation students, first-time and up-and-coming literary translators, world-renowned translators who have won m...

Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts on the environment and food system. In addition, agricultural land use in Africa today faces major challenges including increased costs, climate change and a need to transform to more sustainab...

Nonostante il brutale conflitto in corso, il Rojava curdo-siriano sta consapevolmente sperimentando forme di democrazia diretta in grado di proporre a un Medio Oriente martoriato un modelLo di società antagonista sia ai regimi dittatoriali alla Assad sia ai regimi teocratici alla ISIS. Rifacendosi al confederalismo democratico elaborato dal leader curdo Abdullah Òcalan, detenuto in un carcere turco dal 1999, la popolazione del Rojava ha iniziato ad autogovernarsi attraverso una rete di ass...

Petite Classics for Easiest Piano Booklet IPopular Classics for Beginner and Novice Pianists by SilverTonalities!Letter Names Embedded in NoteheadsFor Quick and Easy Reading!Booklet I includes:Fur Elise by Ludwig van BeethovenRoses from the South Op 388 by Johann StraussWaltz of the Flowers Nutcracker Suite by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky