Dilly Dally Dewey
Title | Dilly Dally Dewey PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Rain and rainfall |
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The Dewey Decimal System
Title | The Dewey Decimal System PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Larson |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-04-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1617750409 |
This tale of a book-loving tough guy in a decimated Manhattan is “like Motherless Brooklyn dosed with Charlie Huston . . . Delirious and haunting” (Megan Abbott, author of Give Me Your Hand). After a flu pandemic, a large-scale terrorist attack, and the total collapse of Wall Street, New York City is reduced to a shadow of its former self. As the city struggles to dig itself out of the wreckage, a nameless, obsessive-compulsive veteran with a spotty memory, a love for literature, and a strong if complex moral code (that doesn’t preclude acts of extreme violence) has taken up residence at the main branch of the New York Public Library on Forty-second Street. Dubbed “Dewey Decimal” for his desire to reorganize the library’s stock, he gets by as bagman and muscle for New York City’s unscrupulous district attorney. He takes no pleasure in this kind of civic dirty work. He’d be perfectly content alone amongst his books. But this is not in the cards, as the DA calls on Dewey for a seemingly straightforward union-busting job. What unfolds throws Dewey into a mess of danger, shifting allegiances, and old vendettas, forcing him to face the darkness of his own past and the question of his buried identity . . . “The Dewey Decimal System is proof positive that the private detective will remain a serious and seriously enjoyable literary archetype.” —PopMatters
Dilly Dally
Title | Dilly Dally PDF eBook |
Author | William Stobbs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9780720707670 |
The Later Works, 1925-1953
Title | The Later Works, 1925-1953 PDF eBook |
Author | John Dewey |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780809315376 |
John Dewey's Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925. Irwin Edman wrote at that time that "with monumental care, detail and completeness, Professor Dewey has in this volume revealed the metaphysical heart that beats its unvarying alert tempo through all his writings, whatever their explicit themes." In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that "Dewey's Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings." The meticulously edited text published here as the first volume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953 spans that entire period in Dewey's thought by including two important and previously unpublished documents from the book's history: Dewey's unfinished new introduction written between 1947 and 1949, edited by the late Joseph Ratner, and Dewey's unedited final draft of that introduction written the year before his death. In the intervening years Dewey realized the impossibility of making his use of the word 'experience' understood. He wrote in his 1951 draft for a new introduction: "Were I to write (or rewrite) Experience and Nature today I would entitle the book Culture and Nature and the treatment of specific subject-matters would be correspondingly modified. I would abandon the term 'experience' because of my growing realization that the historical obstacles which prevented understanding of my use of 'experience' are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term 'culture' because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience."
The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 4, 1925 - 1953
Title | The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 4, 1925 - 1953 PDF eBook |
Author | John Dewey |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780809311620 |
This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures delivered April-May 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as "a criticism of philosophy as attempting to attain theoretical certainty." In the Philosophical Review Max C. Otto later elaborated: "Mr. Dewey wanted, so far as lay in his power, to crumble into dust, once and for all, 'the chief fortress of the classic philosophical tradition."
The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 8, 1925 - 1953
Title | The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 8, 1925 - 1953 PDF eBook |
Author | John Dewey |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780809328185 |
This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and two items from Intelligence in the Modern World. Freedom and Culture presents, as Steven M. Cahn points out, the essence of his philosophical position: a commitment to a free society, critical intelligence, and the education required for their advance.
Dictionary of Education
Title | Dictionary of Education PDF eBook |
Author | John Dewey |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2022-02-22 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 150407470X |
This comprehensive A-to-Z resource covers the eminent philosopher’s influential theories on education. One of the most prominent American philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey was also a major proponent of educational reform. He wrote extensively on teaching and pedagogy in works such as The School and Society, The Child and the Curriculum, and Democracy and Education, among others. Dictionary of Education is an authoritative reference volume on the subject of Dewey’s approach to learning. With smart, concise definitions, editor Ralph B. Winn has constructed an indispensable tool for anyone who wants ready access to Dewey’s ideas and his particular usage of terminology.