Charles Taylor
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Charles Taylor is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University; K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University; Jürgen Habermas, Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main; Steven C. Rockefeller, Professor of Religion at Middlebury College; Michael Walzer, Permanent Member of the Faculty at the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced...
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A new biography highlights the remarkable life of Reverend Archie Ivy who is the senior pastor at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has been pastor there for 25 years and has made New Hope an integral part of Milwaukee's central city. His church ministry has made a significant difference in the city including housing a charter school, offering a food bank and working for economic justice for the poor. He says "the church...
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"A resource that every Minority Student Organization and those who advise them should have!" Leadership training is critical if we are serious about preparing students to assume leadership roles. Too often we assume that new leadership will automatically spring up on its own. Those of you who work in student services know that is not the case and that we have a responsibility to help our students acquire leadership skills. This guide is intended to...
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Assessment that works! This booklet explains assessment in clear, easy-to-understand language. This manual includes everything you'll need to put together an effective assessment plan. "This assessment handbook is a valuable tool that de-mystifies the process of conducting program assessment for faculty and administrators. The handbook tackles the complex process of assessment and presents concrete steps, tips, and strategies that help faculty and...
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A multicultural retreat is a structured activity that allows white students and students of color an opportunity to learn about other cultures by experiencing and sharing it firsthand. Participants who may not know each other spend several days and nights in a secluded setting, communicating, eating, rooming and working together. "A group of caring but skeptical students assemble themselves to dialogue about some of the most sensitive issues their...
6) Evaluating Your College's Commitment to the Recruitment & Retention of Students of color: Self-Evalu
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Use this self-evaluation booklet to determine if your campus fully supports racial diversity This booklet allows you to perform a self-evaluation of 17 program areas ranging from pre-collegiate activities to alumni activities to determine if they are meeting the needs of your students of color. Two of the greatest challenges campuses face is the recruitment and retention of students of color. After over 30 years of research, the picture is clearing...
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The Diversity Institute on Wheels takes you into the heart of communities of color. If you come with an open mind, you'll leave with a filled heart! "This has literally been a transformative experience for me!"-Annette, Institute Participant Campuses hoping to improve relationships with their African, Latino, Asian, and Native American (ALANA) communities should consider sponsoring a Diversity Institute on Wheels in their cities. Think of the Diversity...
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A cross is burned in the yard of two black Lakeside Univ students. When campus officials call the incident a harmless prank, both black and white student organizations, launch a series of protests to force the administration into conducting a full investigation. Instead, the administration devises a divide and conquer scheme to create a rift between black and white students. As black students turn up the pressure, the campus stands on the verge of...
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The Carmen Porco Story: Journey Toward Justice biography provides a compelling and beautifully written account of Rev. Carmen Porco's life journey. It shows how he has used his housing ministry to help lift people out of poverty. Although Rev. Porco went through one of the country's finest seminary schools, he is not a traditional pastor by any means. He pastors to the residents who live in the low-income complexes he manages. They are his housing...
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Según Descartes, el conocimiento existe en forma de ideas, que supuestamente representan el mundo. Esta epistemología -ideas que median entre la realidad externa y nuestra mente- sigue ejerciendo un control sobre el pensamiento occidental. Sin embargo, como muestran Dreyfus y Taylor, el conocimiento consiste en mucho más que en las representaciones explícitas que formulamos. Ganamos en conocimiento del mundo mediante un compromiso corporal con...
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In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as the corruption of the best is the worst, is that Jesus' call to love more abundantly became the basis for new forms of power in the hands of those who organized and administered this New Testament. Illich also explores the invention of technology, the road from...
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When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather and Taxi Driver . . . but the riches found in the overlooked B movies of the time, rolled out wherever they might find an audience, unexpectedly tell an eye-opening story about post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America. Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the secrets of...
13) The Water Cycle
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Flip Flop the Raindrop is a special, brave, and curious raindrop who was born wearing flip-flops. He loves adventures and playing cloud games with his friends.
During his adventures, he encounters storms, thunder, lighting, and strong winds. But he is brave. As his curiosity grew, so did Flip Flop the Raindrop and his friends
From condensation, with storm clouds forming around the raindrops, they began to fall quickly to earth, landing on trees,...
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First published in 1933, this volume is a collection of Christian messages from Dr. Charles Forbes Taylor, "given in the heat of the day to many thousands of busy people-business men and women, young people from banks, offices, factory and college; housewives downtown shopping-with the ever-drifting crowd found in any large city."
Dr. Taylor's aim through these spiritual messages was to provide "courage, inspire hope, stir faith, and bring cheer,-with...
15) Ignes Fatui
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In Ignes Fatui, Charles Thomas Taylor examines various misapprehensions and misconceptions that interfere with clear rational thought. The title of the book, a loanword from Medieval Latin, means "foolish fires"-lights that occasionally appear in the nighttime over marshy ground and are frequently attributable to the combination of gases emitted by decomposed organic matter. The term is sometimes used in modern times to suggest deceptive thoughts,...
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Experience World War II from the perspective of a married couple in this collection of letters exchanged between an American serviceman and his wife.
During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings,...
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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does-or should-religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jürgen Habermas, best...
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Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a common scapegoat but not the root cause. More basic are social and economic transformations eroding the foundations of democracy, ruling elites trying to lock in their own privilege, and cultural perversions like making individualistic freedom the enemy of democracy's other crucial ideals of equality and solidarity. In Degenerations of Democracy three of our most prominent intellectuals investigate democracy...