Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity

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A set of creative writers here responds to the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are—where, for each of them, being somehow part of the academy. Their personal essays delineate the diverse, sometimes unexpected roles of place in shaping them, as writers and teachers in varied environments, through unique experiences and distinctive worldviews—in reconfiguring their conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between.

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The Teacher Rebellion

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Telling Right from Wrong Without the Help of God

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How do you tell right from wrong?  If you are a religious person, you probably rely at least in part upon the traditions and teachings of your faith.  But what if you do not believe in God, or if you believe that no human being or institution can speak for God?  How does an atheist or an agnostic make moral choices?  In this book Wilson Huhn shows how to construct and how to apply a system of telling right from wrong that does not depend upon belief in God. This is not a book that condemns or ridicules religion. Instead, Huhn shows how atheists and agnostics can integrate a number of elements, including religious teaching, secular philosophy, cognitive psychology, and common sense as components of their moral decisionmaking. At several points Huhn critiques the sufficiency of religious teaching, and he contrasts reality-based with faith-based thinking in a number of contexts, but the principal point of this book is to demonstrate all of the different considerations that people should take into account in telling right from wrong. Writing in simple, straightforward prose, this book is both profound and clear. Part I of the book shows how to construct a moral system, and Part II shows how to apply it to a number of difficult personal and social problems. Whether you are a religious person or an atheist, this book will challenge you to answer the question, How do I tell right from wrong?

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The Seventies Teacher's Book: Activities for Students of English as a Second or Foreign Language

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This is the teacher's book to accompany the student's book of the same name, "The Seventies: The Seventies: Activities for Students of English as a Second or Foreign Language." The teacher's book contains a rationale; chapter notes with; how to assess your students for speaking, listening, reading, writing, critical thinking, and vocabulary; supplementary history quizzes, music and vocabulary definitions matching reviews; a reference list of popular Seventies books and movies, and a dictionary of the words used in the students' book.

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Sowega: A Tale of Southern Justice

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Summary "What separates men from each other is not measured by physical distance; it is measured by the thoughts in their minds." The Author In this fictional version of a 1968 civil rights murder trial in Southwest Georgia, SOWEGA, Robert Lee "Jackpot" Jest, an uneducated young black man, is defended by an equally young white indigent defense lawyer. They come from entirely different worlds in Georgia. Attorney Clay Garland accepts the pro bono case when no other defense lawyer in Southwest Georgia would agree to defend him. Jackpot is charged with the murder of the local sheriff's grandson and is detained for over a year to avoid the real possibility of a lynching, an act not unknown to the political and racial heritage in Forrest County, Georgia. The pretrial events and the trial itself take the reader down what appears to be an obvious path to conclusion, only to be jolted in another direction. Clay encounters a retired army sergeant with connections to civil rights leaders in Atlanta, a voodoo Root Doctor, white supremacists, and the mafia-all of whose actions affect the outcome of the trial, a trial which gains national publicity and symbolizes as a microcosm the various opposing political and legal forces of the 1960s civil rights era in Georgia. Robert Lee Jest-a pawn on the chessboard of hate, prejudice, and Southern politics-emerges as an inspiration to Clay Garland. This is the story of how these two disparate young men come together in a common cause and the judicial proceedings that ultimately produced celebrity for one and Southern Justice for the other.

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Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif (Historical Dictionaries Of Peoples And Cultures)

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Dwelling in the highland areas of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and southwest China are hundreds of ethnic groups known as 'tribes' in popular literature. Some groups number barely more than one hundred, others millions. Together their population adds up to 80 million, more than any of the countries (bar China) they inhabit, yet in each they are designated and treated as "minorities." They have been forced to dwell in the highlands while their enemies have occupied the more fertile lowlands. This, coupled with the fact that they are so little known abroad and even at home, has caused their way of life and cultural distinctions to come in jeopardy.

This book offers hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on about 200 groups, the six countries they live in, some of their leaders, and their political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects. The chronology covers important events. The introduction discusses both the diversities and similarities of the groups' ethnicities, languages, religious practices, and customs. And the bibliography supplements the dictionary entries.

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The Beggars' Shore

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"Growing up where I did, I learned one lesson fast: if you like something--a racehorse, a prize fighter, the chances of the guy kneeling on a blanket in the alley making a hard eight--you back it with more than your opinion. You ante up.

Chicago's notorious Uptown neighborhood is the last stop on the down elevator, a dumping ground for people who have run out of road and choices. Joseph Askew, raised in a rigid and insular religious commune, walks out one day, searching. He starts his journey where the world's failures end theirs.

The "Word" on which Joseph was raised plays differently on the streets. The teenager learns a new set of rules from his teachers: transvestite prostitutes, small-change thieves, ex-pimps, and other denizens of a bleak shadowland where every occupant is constantly shape-shifting between predator and prey. The only exit sign is double-arrow neon: the jailhouse or the graveyard.

The Beggars' Shore is a story of pilgrimage, a journey where the destination is only "not here." Joseph tries to carve out a place for himself while working at a liquor store and squatting in a dilapidated flat with his girlfriend and her drug habit. Waiting for his big payday from the man known only as "the Printer," he dreams of building a future of his own. As the boy seeking manhood tries to gather the pieces of his life, he learns how much of the world can fall away from him. Evocative, powerful, and compelling, The Beggars' Shore is a masterful debut.

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