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US: Xlibris, Corp.. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. Unmarked pages; Front wrapper creased at bottom right corner; Inscribed by author ""With appreciation to Moira Bailis"" and a copy laid in of poem by Bailis from 2002 NJPS, Inc. Spring Summer Contest publication. Book Description\n\nEditorial Reviews\n\nAbout the Author\nJames Stanley Barlow grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee. He and his wife Nell live in Leonia, N.J. and Bradenton FL. They have four children and eight grandchildren. A retired professor of philosophy (City U. of NY), he looks back on careers as air force navigator during WWII, Presbyterian minister, and college educator. His Ph. D. is from the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. His collection of poems Swimming Laps in August . . . was published In 2001. Besides poetry, his writings include The Fall into Consciousness: ""An Essay on Religion and Psychology.""

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Paperback. Good/None. Culture and Education Series 2000 Glossy white pictorial softcover with red and white titling. Spine is uncreased. Interior is clean and unmarked. Front cover is edgeworn, and spine heel bears small green circular sticker. 8vo. Photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: In this compelling and timely treatise, cultural theorist and educator [professor, University of Toronto] Peter Trifonas puts forth the first book-length study of Jacques Derrida's 'educational texts': that is, those writings most explicitly concerned with the ethics and politics of the historico- philosophical structures constituting the scene of teaching. 'The Ethics of Writing' engages these aspects of Derrida's work on the institution of education, especially as it relates to the philosopher's association with the GREPH (Groupe de Recherches sur… Read More

Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009. Paperback. Near Fine+/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Clean and bright pictorial softcover with sharp edges; like new. Spine is uncreased. Interior is unmarked. Small quarto. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W charts. 'Educators strive to create assessment cultures in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations. Bob Broad's 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on assessment practice is beginning to emerge as more and more writing departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches. For the authors of Organic Writing Assessment, the DCM… Read More

New York: MacMillan Company, 1945. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Signed. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Wait till you read this clever, charming inscription! You?ll want to have this book. Author's personal inscription penned in blue and dated on FFEP. Brick red cloth boards with dulled gilt titling on spine; spine is sun-faded at ends (where DJ is chipped away); lightly worn at edges and corners. Binding is sound. Pages are lightly toned with age, as expected. Interior is unmarked, except for a single instance of a light penciled line in the margin, which I successfully erased. Upper page edges dust-dulled. The price remains on the dustjacket thought the front endflap was clipped top and bottom, and has a vertical crease where it folded over the Brodart cover. The faded brick red DJ has a B&W print reproduction and ivory titling on front and spine, and a B&W photo of the author with her biography on the back; it's chipped at extremities and cracking along front hinge, but remains intact and… Read More

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Digital Culture Books, 2013. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Digital Humanities Tidy black cloth boards with silver titling on spine. Glossy black pictorial DJ. Binding is tight. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. Photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on campuses, the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content, and a generation of students that has never known a world without easy Internet access. Teaching History in the Digital Age serves as a guide for practitioners on how to fruitfully employ the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, and… Read More