Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Conversations on Common Things
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Conversations on Common Things
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixConversations on Common Things
Author: Conversations on Common Things Or Guide to Knowledge ...
Author: Conversations On Common Things
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019388518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by the pioneering humanitarian and social reformer Dorothea Dix, this guide to knowledge is designed to help readers gain a better understanding of the world around them. Covering topics ranging from astronomy and geography to history and literature, Conversations on Common Things is an essential resource for anyone seeking to broaden their intellectual horizons. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Difficult Conversations
Author: Douglas StonePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593511697
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask" We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. you'll learn how to: · Decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversation · Start a conversation without defensiveness · Listen for the meaning of what is not said · Stay balanced in the face of attacks and accusations · Move from emotion to productive problem solving
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Author: Object Lessons
Author: Sarah Anne CarterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019022505X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.
Author: C. B. Norton
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