Into a Timeless Realm
Into a Timeless Realm

Author: Michael J. Roads

Publisher: Hj Kramer

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780915811663

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At a time when he was facing many personal challenges, Michael Roads had an experience that was to change the course of his life. Awakening from sleep, his awareness split into two parts. His physical self remained in bed recording the amazing events experienced by a metaphysical aspect of self. Michael - in his light body - crossed into a timeless realm. In this remarkable first-person account, Michael Roads meets a wise and loving guide he comes to know as the Shepherd. He witnesses events that lead to the birth of modern civilization and the emergence of individuality in humankind. He sees consciousness split into many streams of expression and views possible future realities. He hears the song of creation, experiences the energy of the Source, and meets extraordinary beings from other galaxies and time frames. At once an encounter with the supernatural and a synergistic event that alters Michael forever, Into a Timeless Realm is ultimately a lesson in reaching beyond our normal limitations.

The Adventure of Philosophy
The Adventure of Philosophy

Author: Luis Navia

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1999-07-30

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0313389640

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Well-written and engaging, this volume explores the most important questions and issues that have absorbed philosophers over the past twenty-five centuries. The quest to define reality, the problem of the existence of God, the search for moral values, the problem of evil, the discovery of the self, and other philosophical issues are clearly outlined in six thematic chapters. The ideas of ancient, medieval, and modern philosophers are integrated into a reflective and compelling narrative, which aims at emphasizing the timeless relevance of these questions and concerns and at eliciting from the readers their own responses to the issues raised. The book includes a comprehensive bibliography and two extensive glossaries that outline the theories of all the philosophers mentioned and explain the main philosophical terms used in the text. Designed specifically for undergraduate students taking their first courses in philosophy and for anybody who wishes to gain acquaintance with the subject, this comprehensive volume sheds light on the significance of the philosophical adventure.

Adventures of Ideas
Adventures of Ideas

Author: Alfred North Whitehead

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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The title of this book, Adventures of Ideas, bears two meanings, both applicable to the subject-matter. One meaning is the effect of certain ideas in promoting the slow drift of mankind towards civilization. This is the Adventure of Ideas in the history of mankind. The other meaning is the author's adventure in framing a speculative scheme of ideas which shall be explanatory of the historical adventure. The book is in fact a study of the concept of civilization, and an endeavour to understand how it is that civilized beings arise. One point, emphasized throughout, is the importance of Adventure for the promotion and preservation of civilization.--from Preface (p. vii).

The Essential Vygotsky
The Essential Vygotsky

Author: Robert W. Rieber

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-20

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 0387306005

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Seventy years after his death, the visionary work of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934) continues to have a profound impact on psychology, sociology, education, and other varied disciplines. The Essential Vygotsky selects the most significant writings from all phases of his work, and material from all six volumes of his Collected Works, so that readers can introduce themselves to the pioneering concepts developed by this influential Russian therapist, scholar, and cultural theorist, including: • The cultural-historical approach • The role of language in creating the mind • The development of memory and perception • Defectology (abnormal psychology/learning disabilities/special education) • The Zone of Proximal Development Each section features an insightful introduction exploring relevant aspects of Vygotsky’s life and illuminating the revolutionary historical context in which these writings were conceived. Together, they reflect the studies he was conducting at the time of his death and the pathbreaking clinical observations that made his reputation. For years, these papers were available mainly in hastily translated underground editions; now The Essential Vygotsky distills them into their most accessible form. Readers will be impressed and inspired by his insights, his optimism, his prescience, and his humanity. These papers are particularly relevant for students of developmental psychology, language, special education, and the history of these fields.

Adventures in Aidland
Adventures in Aidland

Author: David Mosse

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0857451111

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Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development’s discursive regimes but, oddly enough, have paid scant attention to knowledge producers themselves, despite anthropologists being among them. This is the focus of this volume. It concerns the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction but is equally interested in the social life of development professionals, in the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, in networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and in the dilemmas of maintaining professional identities. Going well beyond obsolete debates about ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ anthropology, the book examines the transformations that occur as social scientific concepts and practices cross and re-cross the boundary between anthropological and policy making knowledge.

The Adventure of Relevance
The Adventure of Relevance

Author: Martin Savransky

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1137571462

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At a time where the relevance of the social sciences is under threat, this innovative book offers a speculative experimentation on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences to rethink what 'relevance' is, and to cultivate a new ethos of knowledge-making for an eventful world. Engaging a diverse a range of thinkers including Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze and Isabelle Stengers, as well as the American pragmatists John Dewey and William James, Martin Savransky challenges longstanding assumptions in the social sciences and argues that relevance is an event that is part and parcel of the immanent and situated processes by which things come to matter. He develops new conceptual tools for cultivating an empiricist ethos of inquiry that is attuned to the question of how things come to matter– an ethics that turns social inquiry into a veritable adventure. The result is an original and rigorous book that infuses knowledge-practices in the social sciences with new sensibilities, creative possibilities, and novel habits of thinking, knowing, and feeling.