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Last of the Knowers

Author: Roger Browning

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-12

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ISBN-13: 9780966076134

This is Roger Browning's carefully-crafted tale of a man trapped in the Container City, sitting atop its power-providing dam. Confined in this tightly-guarded city since childhood, Jim has only slowly-fading memories of his father's teachings, his mother's love, and his siblings - none of whom survived the forced relocation to the City.Under the constant surveillance of killer drones and their "dog" armies, Jim patiently works his way up the food chain, eagerly heeding rumors about the world beyond the drone boundaries and those who may have escaped to it - always looking for a way out. If you were living on swill and working as a slave - even a higher level one - and watching fellow enslaved "citizens" fade and disappear, or survive by using what little cover of night there might be, what would you do to escape? Would you kill? Would you risk your life? Would you believe that if you actually made it out, you'd battle your inner demons over a need to come back? After years of drudgery, the discovery of hidden technology spurs his daring escape planning, and opens a door to a series of amazing and challenging journeys - journeys filled with terror, quiet moments of peace, remembering and learning, struggle, success, unlikely partnerships, and some of the best-written action scenes you will ever experience. This carefully unfolding story will lull you? And then pull you to the edge of your chair.

Knowledge and Knowers

Author: Karl Maton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-11

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1134019645

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We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While knowledge should be central to educational research, it focuses on processes of knowing and condemns studies of knowledge as essentialist. This book unfolds a sophisticated theoretical framework for analysing knowledge practices: Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’. By extending and integrating the influential approaches of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein, LCT offers a practical means for overcoming knowledge-blindness without succumbing to essentialism or relativism. Through detailed studies of pressing issues in education, the book sets out the multi-dimensional conceptual toolkit of LCT and shows how it can be used in research. Chapters introduce concepts by exploring topics across the disciplinary and institutional maps of education: -how to enable cumulative learning at school and university -the unfounded popularity of ‘student-centred learning’ and constructivism -the rise and demise of British cultural studies in higher education -the positive role of canons -proclaimed ‘revolutions’ in social science -the ‘two cultures’ debate between science and humanities -how to build cumulative knowledge in research -the unpopularity of school Music -how current debates in economics and physics are creating major schisms in those fields. LCT is a rapidly growing approach to the study of education, knowledge and practice, and this landmark book is the first to systematically set out key aspects of this theory. It offers an explanatory framework for empirical research, applicable to a wide range of practices and social fields, and will be essential reading for all serious students and scholars of education and sociology.

Some Possible Solutions

Author: Helen Phillips

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1627793798

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A collection of short stories that "offers an idiosyncratic series of 'what-ifs' about our fragile human condition ... What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through everybody's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if your city was filled with doppelgangers of you? Forced to navigate these bizarre scenarios, Phillips' characters search for solutions to the problem of how to survive in an irrational, infinitely strange world"--

The Knowers

Author: Nina Martineck

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781986799119

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Skylar Rawlings knows that things are not right. The island she lives on is disconnected from everything, but she sees connections everywhere she looks. Her school says she has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, but she can concentrate on all kinds of things-if they're interesting enough. Like her math teacher lying about this field trip to the capital, the average IQ on this island being too high to be chance, or that time slows, speeds up, and sometimes stops altogether. Skylar knows her education is misleading, most people are oblivious, and the world certainly can't work like this. She knows she's missing something. What she doesn't know is that knowing has a cost.

The Feats of the Knowers of God

Author: Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad Aflākī

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 9789004121324

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This is a 14th-century biography of the famous Persian mystic poet and Knower of God , Jal l al-D n-e R m , in the form of a large compendium of Sufi-style teaching stories. It was commissioned by a grandson about fifty years after R m s death. The author-compiler, Afl k , includes chapters on Bah -e Valad (R m s father), Shams al-D n-e Tabr z (R m s great love), Solt n Valad and Am r ref (R m s son and grandson), and other transmitters of the spiritual Heritage of the Mowlav dervish order. The protagonists are portrayed as performing miracles and confronting critics and rivals. Circumstantial detail abounds, thus providing one of our few windows onto social and political life during the Salj q and Mongol period in Asia Minor. The translation has an extensive index of persons and concepts to assist readers and students.

Knowledge and Knowers

Author: Karl Maton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1134019637

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We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While knowledge should be central to educational research, it focuses on processes of knowing and condemns studies of knowledge as essentialist. This book unfolds a sophisticated theoretical framework for analysing knowledge practices: Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’. By extending and integrating the influential approaches of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein, LCT offers a practical means for overcoming knowledge-blindness without succumbing to essentialism or relativism. Through detailed studies of pressing issues in education, the book sets out the multi-dimensional conceptual toolkit of LCT and shows how it can be used in research. Chapters introduce concepts by exploring topics across the disciplinary and institutional maps of education: -how to enable cumulative learning at school and university -the unfounded popularity of ‘student-centred learning’ and constructivism -the rise and demise of British cultural studies in higher education -the positive role of canons -proclaimed ‘revolutions’ in social science -the ‘two cultures’ debate between science and humanities -how to build cumulative knowledge in research -the unpopularity of school Music -how current debates in economics and physics are creating major schisms in those fields. LCT is a rapidly growing approach to the study of education, knowledge and practice, and this landmark book is the first to systematically set out key aspects of this theory. It offers an explanatory framework for empirical research, applicable to a wide range of practices and social fields, and will be essential reading for all serious students and scholars of education and sociology.

Lost in the Cosmos

Author: Walker Percy

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1453216340

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“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy’s humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.

A Defense of Ignorance

Author: Cynthia Townley

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 0739151053

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This book develops new ideas in feminist epistemology by exploring diverse and sometimes positive roles for ignorance. The author argues that epistemic values cannot simply be reduced to the value of increasing knowledge and that ignorance is not merely inescapable for epistemic agents, but, rather, is valuable. She shows that ignorance-friendly epistemology offers a better descriptive and normative account of human epistemic practices. --publisher.