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  • What Place for the A Priori?

    by Michael J. Shaffer, Michael L. Veber ...
    This book deals with questions about the nature of a priori knowledge and its relation to empirical knowledge. Until the twentieth century, it was more or less taken for granted that there was such a thing as a priori knowledge, that is, knowledge whose source is in reason and reflection rather than sensory experience. With a few notable exceptions, philosophers believed that mathematics, logic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism

    by Michael J. Shaffer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • In Memory of Self and Comrades

    Thomas Wallace Colley’s Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry

    by Michael K. Shaffer ...
    Series series Voices of the Civil War
    Thomas W. Colley served in one of the most active and famous units in the Civil War, the 1st Virginia Cavalry, which fought in battles in the Eastern Theater, from First Manassas/Bull Run to the defense of Petersburg. Colley was born November 11, 1837, outside Abingdon, Virginia, and grew up knowing the daily demands of life on a farm. In May 1861, along with the other members of the Washington ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Washington County, Virginia, in the Civil War

    by Michael K. Shaffer ...
    Series series
    The citizens of Washington County, Virginia gave up their sons and daughters to the Confederate cause of the Civil War. Contributing six Confederate generals as well as Union officers, the region is emblematic of communities throughout the nation that sacrificed during the war. Though the sounds of cannon fire and gunshots were only heard at a distance, Washington County was the breadbasket for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Case Studies for Special Education Law

    One Foot in the Real World, the Other Grounded in the Law

    Edited by Michael B. Shaffer, Linda Dowell ...
    Series series From disability to ABILITY
    Let's face it: studying Special Education Law is difficult and can be quite tedious. If it were not a part of the requirements for most advanced administrative degrees in education, many students would prefer to skip the course. However, skipping the study of Special Education Law would be quite detrimental to the anticipated and actual experience not only of principals, but also of many other ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Participatory Governance

    Planning, Conflict Mediation and Public Decision-Making in Civil Society

    Edited by W. Robert Lovan, Michael Murray, Ron Shaffer ...
    In recent years a new participatory governance dynamic has been redefining relationships and responsibilities in the planning and implementation of policies and programs. Participatory governance not only crosses public, private and associational sectors, but is also intra-organizational. It allows for individual and collective participation, and challenges longstanding norms of institutional ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • From Pushups to Angel’s Wings

    Great Things Happen When Boys Read

    by Ruth Jefferson, Michael Shaffer ...
    Ever feel at a loss when you are wondering how to inspire kids to develop a love of reading? Then this book is for you! Anyone interested in kids and their success will find this a great read! The authors have compiled tales of achievement, based on real-life teaching and administrative experiences with boys who were reluctant readers. Each chapter contains an inspiring story meant to bolster your ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Unraveling Reform Rhetoric

    What Educators Need to Know and Understand

    by Jeff Swensson, John Ellis, Michael Shaffer ...
    Traditional public educators in the US have too little information about the free market of schooling, otherwise known as privatization/choice education. As a result, traditional public education colleagues have lost sight of where they are and how they got there. In this primer, educators, parents/caregivers, and policymakers are offered an examination of the forces and factors that undercut ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Defining the Good School

    Educational Adequacy Requires More than Minimums

    by Jeff Swensson, Michael Shaffer ...
    The deck is stacked against educators and parents/caregivers looking for educational adequacy in contemporary US education. Too often, satisfactory quality in the good public school is identified based on opinion, the dubious value of standardized test results, and marketing ploys. Moreover, the contemporary purpose of US education and the definition of educational adequacy are wild cards that ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to International Economic Law

    by Gregory Shaffer, Michael Waibel ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides the first concise and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • An Educator's GPS

    Fending Off the Free Market of Schooling for America's Students

    by Jeff Swensson, John Ellis, Michael Shaffer ...
    The time has come to focus on teaching and learning that all American students deserve. Quality instruction that engages all students with thinking skills that create successful intelligence for the future of all students is offered throughout traditional public education in the US. But, an adult-centered perspective about schooling—free market theory—stands in the way of sustaining and improving ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2

    The Americas and Europe

    by Brent M.S. Campney, Amy Chazkel, Stephen P Frank, Dean J Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema Santamaría, Ryan Shaffer, Hannah Skoda ...
    In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues.The volume's European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal institutions fueled ... Read more

    $21.59 USD