Philosophy

Assessment for Learning in Waldorf Classrooms: How Waldorf Teachers Measure Student Progress Toward Lifelong Learning Goals

Author: 

Ciborski, Sara and Ireland, Helen-Ann

Credentials: 

Dr. Ciborski: Ph.D SUNY Albany , Ms.Ireland: M.Ed, Antioch/NE Graduate Center

This research work is an account of the assessment methods of Waldorf elementary school teachers. It also offers a full discussion Waldorf programs for teacher education, teacher evaluation systems, and requirements for school accreditation—these are what the Waldorf community submits as assurance that Waldorf teachers’ classroom assessments are valid, fair, and reliable.

Market: 
Waldorf Schools, Elementary teaching assessments, student assessments and the developmental approach, Common Core issues, non-cognitive skill sets, curricula, Accountability
Release Date: 
April 10 2015
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-68053-000-1
Price: 
$39.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
286
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

From Big Brother to Big Brother: Nihilism and Society in the Age of Screen

Author: 

Liddelow , Eden

Credentials: 

PhD (Melbourne), DipEd (LaTrobe) DALF(Paris), Author of AFTER ELECTRA: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction

“Brilliant,at times dazzling...Liddelow impresses with her intellectual audacity, sheer erudition and courage in tackling this difficult and uncomfortable terrain”

Dr Jennifer Rutherford,Australian Book Review

“Engaging and innovative analysis” Dr Tessa Hockly, Australian Literary Studies
“Using Nietzsche and Orwell as key textural elements Dr Liddelow discusses the modern novel, the role of art, Media, literature in America, England, France and Australia as well as the literary praxis of decline and nihilistic despair. Her work has amazing sweep and intellectual energy.”

Market: 
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies/Theory, post-colonialism, popular culture, film history, TV as a phenomena, Philosophy, Anglo-American Literature, French Literature, Australian Literature, Society and Value in the 21st Century, Art
Release Date: 
March 17th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-62-2
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
346
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Life and Death of Privacy in the West: the Ethnography of a Social and Aesthetic Concept

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Chicago, Professor, D/English University of Minnesota. Author of CULTURES OF MEMORY (Bethesda, Academica Press, 2011)

The Life and Death of Privacy in the West consists of four chapters: Privacy and the Private, Public and Private, Invasions of Privacy: Surveillance and Voyeurism, and the Erosion of Privacy. The first chapter tries to locate this entity (“What is privacy and why does it belong to us?

Market: 
Concept of Privacy, Social and Public Theory of interaction, Privacy in Western Literature, Aesthetics of Privacy, Voyeurism, Surveillance, Decartes, Sarte, Lacan, Bourdieu, Habermas, Foucault, Deleuze, Narcissism and Celebrity in popular culture, Hawthorne on voyeurism
Release Date: 
12/15/2012
ISBN: 
978-1-936320-53-0
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

War and Peace in Africa: Philosophy, Theology and the Politics of Confrontation

Author: 

Lutz, David W. ,Ph.D (Holy Cross College (USA) and The Catholic University of Eastern Africa) with Paul M. Shimiyu, George Ndemo Osengo and Opiyo A Oguta

Credentials: 

Editors are senior scholars and PhDs and conributors are Ph.Ds and MAs in East African /Central Africain Institutions.

This work is a major investigation of the questions of war and peace in Black Africa by Africans with an emphasis on the philosophical, theological and political underpinnings of contemporary African thought and practice. The voices are overwhelming African and the locus of contributors includes Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi. Some of the contributors, as well as the editors, have experienced war first hand and have played honorable roles in rebuilding or re-energizing intellectual communities in Africa that have been affected by atrocities, destruction and inter-tribal hatreds.

Market: 
African Studies, War and Africa, Moral Philosophy, Peace Studies [Africa], Terrorism and Violence in Civil Societies, Peace and Reconciliation, Theology (Catholic), Development Studies, East Africa, Justice and Community Studies, De-colonization and its aftermath
Release Date: 
February 15th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-09-7
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Bakhtin and Interactivity: A Conceptual Investigation of Advertising Communication

Author: 

Karimova, Gulnara Z.

Credentials: 

Ph.D D/Communication, Eastern Mediterranean University; Lecturer, Malaysian Univerity of Science and Technology

Dr. Karimova addresses current issues within the theory of interactivity. Such problems as defining interactivity and measuring level of interactivity have recently attracted a great interest among researchers. In spite of attempts of previous research to solve these problems, the field has not moved far from its preliminary phase. This book is an attempt to move away from this preliminary phase by applying Bakhtinian concepts of ‘dialogic relationships,’ ‘polyphony,’ ‘carnival,’ and ‘chronotope’.

Market: 
Communication and Media Studies, Social Sciences, Michael Bahktin theory/philosophy, Marketing, Cybernetics , Print Advertising & Product Branding
Release Date: 
July 15 2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-46-2
Price: 
$76.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Cultures of Memory: Memory Culture, Memory Crisis and the Age of Amnesia

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Chicago, Professor, D/English University of Minnesota

“There is,to my knowledge, no work in English that covers the field historically and across disciplines as this one does. It gives researchers in many disciplines the full picture of the range of memory studies and once more shows us the critical value of having a memory culture that is an essential construct of civilization and literary and historical culture.”
Ray Hanna, North American Book Reviews

Market: 
Memory Studies, Cultural Amnesia, Literary Studies, Neurosciences, cognitive development, Interdisciplinary Studies, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Genre Literature
Release Date: 
07/08/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-22-6
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
146
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Selfish Gene Philosophy: Narcissistic Giving

Author: 

Alper, Gerald

Credentials: 

Internationally recognized psychotherapist, Fellow of the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Author of seventeen research studies including The Myth of Self Help: The Dumbingdown of Complexity (2010, Academica Press)

In his latest work Professor Alper explores how his innovative concept of narcissistic giving—that is, the dysfunctional art in which one gives without actually giving & shy;--manifests itself all too often in the

Market: 
Social Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Interpersonal Relations, Cultural Studies, Philosophy
Release Date: 
08/25/2011
ISBN: 
Softback 9781936320-33-2
Price: 
$24.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Transcendent Mystery in Man: A Global Approach to Ecumenism

Author: 

Woznicki, Andrew

Credentials: 

PhD; University of Lublin: late Fleishacker Professor of Philosophy, University of San Francisco; STD- Toronto

Our new release by Professor Andrew N. Woznicki, The Transcendent Mystery in Man: A Global Approach to Ecumenism (Academica Press,2007,ISBN 193314615X) explores man as a being who is endowed not only with immanent but also with transcendent virtual power as well, and through both of them man is capax Dei. The author states that the twofold virtual power enables man to participate in divinity either in a form of an act of believing in the factually existing God, and/or in a form of self discovering of one’s own being as divine.

Market: 
Catholic Philosophy, Theology, Empirical Studies, Christian Ecumenism, Anthropology of Religion
Release Date: 
10/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-15-X
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
414
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Reflections on Liberty, Democracy and the Union

Author: 

McCartney, Robert, QC,MP; Foreword by John O’Sullivan

Credentials: 

Robert McCartney is the leader of the UK/Unionist Party, a member of Parliament and the Northern Ireland assembly and a Queen’s Counsel. A life-long resident of Ulster he has been a passionate advocate for reason and restraint in the Province. McCartney contributes to the Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Belfast Telegraph and The Irish Times

Robert McCartney’s trenchant and lucid expositions have been one of the few means by which the people of Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland have been able to appreciate the true nature of contemporary politics. His principled stand against terrorism by both extremes in Northern Ireland has been lauded by including Conor Cruise O’Brien, Lady Thatcher, John Major and Bertie Ahearn, the Irish Prime Minister. These essays on political liberty and the future of Ireland have never before been published in a single volume.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Modern British Politics, Political Philosophy, Ulster, 20th century
Release Date: 
2001
ISBN: 
Paperback: 1-930901-12-7 ; Hardcover: 1-930901-27-5
Price: 
$34.95 ; $64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
262
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Transfigured Light: Philosophy, Science and the Hermetic Imaginary

Author: 

Marvell, Leon

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Professor School of Communications and Creative Arts, Edith Cowan University, Australia

An original research monograph that investigates and re examines the ideas generated by the Hermetic tradition (the hermetic imaginary) to discuss the effects of this tradition on philosophy and science. Author posits several elements of the hermetic imaginary that have been influential in modern philosophy and science.

Table of contents:

Chapter1: Spirit of the Beehive: Hermetic Resonances in Cybernetics, AI and Cyberspace
Chapter2: Body Doubles

Market: 
Intellectual History, philosophy of science, historiography (theories of), Cultural theory
Release Date: 
06/2007
ISBN: 
978-1933146270 Cloth
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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