Over the years I have accumulated in my garage and closets photo albums, journals, notes, letters, movies, video tapes, and boxes of "stuff" that my family and my wife Martha's family have randomly saved. I don't represent the accounts as facts. They are what I remember, which is why it is called a memoir. All of these tell stories about lives and my goal has been to organize them, identify the people in the pictures, and tell their stories so that I can have a better understanding of from...

Angus was born in Falmouth, a village on Cape Cod. His father is a commercial fisherman and his mother runs their small fish store. His grandfather was the famous Captain Appleby, who sailed a large three-masted cargo schooner which was lost in a storm off Cape Hatteras.Angus is expected to follow his fathers footsteps and become a fisherman--however, Angus has his grandfathers love for sailing and, against his fathers wishes, he secretly takes sailing lessons. He has a dream to so...

This book examines the history of conflict in education through the lens of specific case studies from schools in rural areas of New York.Education has historically been a major source of conflict among citizens, voters, and residents in the United States. From the colonists in New England's efforts to educate their children in the late 1800s, to the debates over mask mandates at schools emerging from Covid-19, the dissonance between pro-local democracy national na...

Power -- a word we all know and by which we can imagine what lies behind this term. Power - the majority of people want it, but not everyone knows how to achieve it. Power - has seven important pillars and can have both positive and negative effects for the powerful and the powerless. I would like to provide you with knowledge about power that you will not find anywhere else in such detail. I will also show you why hardly anyone can really handle power. If you want to gain power, you canno...

An informal, individual retreat with the works of the great Indian Jesuit psychologist and spiritual master, Anthony de Mello, SJ.

Using case studies and an auto-ethnographic study of rural education history in New York State, Casey Thomas Jakubowski provides an introduction to recent events in state-level educational policy implementation. Rural Education History: State Policy Meets Local Implementation argues that rural communities are subjected to urbanormative policy, especially in their schools, and provides voice to an understudied phenomena in an under researched region. The chapters combine sociology, policy, ...

The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as objects rather than other selves — in ways that are fundamentally unreasonable.This book examines what follows from seeing people as deliberating and acting in wa...

Atlas of Endoscopic UltrasonographyAtlas of Endoscopic Ultrasonography, Second Edition offers an outstanding visual guide to this very common diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic tool. With contributions from noted experts in the field, the Atlas contains 400 high-quality color and black and white images obtained from real cases, each accompanied by detailed annotation to aid readers in their understanding of this popular technical procedure. In addition,...

Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluenceexamines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice, through oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals. This book applies critical communication methods and perspectives to interrogate the pressing yet mind-boggling dilemma currently faced in environmental studies and policy: that clean water, the very stuff of lif...

Vintage photographs explore the rich history and the wonderful neighborhoods of Northwest Bronx and it's legacy of well-known denizens. New York City is comprised of five distinct boroughs, and each borough is made of dozens of neighborhoods. Northwest Bronx has a particularly rich history and is home to Wave Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, the New York Botanical Garden, and a variety of colleges and universities. Famous Americans from all walks of life took up roost here-- Ma...

Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with this unique American thinker as they engage his wor...

Why is one person a believer and another an atheist? Why does one person demand facts for verification, while another trusts feelings? Why are some who hear voices declared psychotic while others are called saints? The answers to these questions are not mere speculation or amusing distraction; rather they are the essential components in developing curiosity, open-mindedness and tolerance for differences.Meaning in Myth speaks to the various ways in which we all construct our myth, ...