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Rescued himself as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, the author began a search in 1994 for men and women who had risked their own lives to save the lives of Jews during World War II. The result is this collection of their stories, written as a series of conversations interspersed with his own memories.

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The authors turn existing theories about Stranger Things Upside Down.

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A thought-provoking collection of essays explores the philosophical side of the comic book world, collecting the contributions of sixteen philosophers on a variety of subjects, including evil, justice, metaphysics, and the limits of violence. Original.

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The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a college entrance examination, which can be taken in any country and is recognized by universities in any country. This work offers two stories woven together: the birth and the growth of IB in the world and the United States, and the birth and growth of IB at Mount Vernon High.

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Offers a sympathetic, philosophical look at the supervillains. This title delves into the dark nature of supervillainy, examines the boundaries of good and evil, offers helpful advice to prospective supervillains, and untangles diabolical puzzles of identity and consciousness.

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Examines the nature of expert knowledge, the part that shows and the much larger part that is hidden, and offers an explanation of how it comes about. Hard work, practice, and experience are not enough to make an expert.

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In 1988, award-winning poet Nikki Grimes spent three weeks along the east coast of China. At the same time, artist and China native Ed Young was there writing and sketching his impressions in a personal journal. Both observed signs of the old China alongside the new, and both set what they saw on paper. Photos.

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The TQM movement is rapidly taking hold in the educational system, but so far it has stopped at the classroom door. This book is a manual for the next stage: the application of TQM methods in supervising and evaluating teachers, so that quality teaching becomes an attainable goal.

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The TQM movement is rapidly taking hold in the educational system, but so far it has stopped at the classroom door. This book is a manual for the next stage: the application of TQM methods in supervising and evaluating teachers, so that quality teaching becomes an attainable goal.

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Arthur C. Danto traces the evolution of the concept of beauty during the 20th century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art.

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Arthur C. Danto traces the evolution of the concept of beauty during the 20th century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art.

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Celebrating Eliot Deutsch's project promoting understanding of Asian philosophical ideas among Westerners, these essays discuss and comment on his ideas. Topics covered in the essays include mysticism, aesthetics and truth. Also included are Deutch's own replies to the essays.

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This work presents one woman's quest for wholeness and release from depression and despair through a series of drawings, active imagination and a lifetime of dreams. The illustrations are accompanied by the artist-author's narrative text describing her experience of the Black Madonna within.

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This examination of Simone de Beauvoir's form of existentialism pays special attention to her work, "The Ethics of Ambiguity", in which de Beauvoir draws from many thinkers in the continental tradition to argue that one's own freedom is intertwined with that of others.

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This examination of Simone de Beauvoir's form of existentialism pays special attention to her work, "The Ethics of Ambiguity", in which de Beauvoir draws from many thinkers in the continental tradition to argue that one's own freedom is intertwined with that of others.

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This reference aims to provide expert tasting notes on all high-quality vodkas and gins, from the most popular to the more obscure. It describes current and historical production methods, recent trends, and the different flavouring components of these liquors.

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Few novels have had more influence on individuals and literary culture than J D Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", that quickly became championed by youth who identified with the awkwardness and alienation of the novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield. In this title, philosophers take on the phonies in Holden Caulfield's world.

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Engagingly written for a lay audience, these essays consider a wealth of topics centered on the ethical, spiritual, mythic, and moral resonances in the adventures of Aslan, the Pevensie children, and the rest of the colorful cast.

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The first English translation of Hans Reichenbach's lucid doctoral thesis sheds new light on how Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" was understood in some quarters at the time. The source of several themes in his still influential "The Direction of Time, " the thesis shows Reichenbach's early focus on the interdependence of physics, probability, and epistemology.