LIBROS DEL AUTOR: polka

11 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: polka

  • Coping with Educational Crises
    John E. McKenna / Monica J. VanHusen / Walter S. Polka
    Coping with Educational Crises: Approaches from School Leaders Who Did It provides readers with perspectives and research-based strategies regarding the leadership approaches employed by school district administrators at all levels of organizational responsibility including superintendents of schools; assistant superintendents; program directors and coordinators; principals; as...
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    38,44 €

  • On Poetry and Philosophy
    Brayton Polka
    Brayton Polka’s book, On Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking Metaphorically with Wordsworth and Kant, is unique in bringing poetry and philosophy together in a single study. The poet and the philosopher whom he makes central to his project are both revolutionary founders of modernity, Wordsworth of romantic poetry and Kant of critical philosophy. Both the poet and the philosopher, ...
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    33,64 €

  • Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche
    Brayton Polka
    Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche argues that the operas and writings of Wagner contradict the values that are fundamental to modernity. Analyzing Wagner’s works in contrast to the philosophical thought of Nietzsche, Brayton Polka examines how Wagner breaks with Nietzsche and their common influencer, Schopenhauer. ...
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    54,49 €

  • Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible
    Brayton Polka
    This book analyzes the ideas central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an altogether false conception of the fundamental ideas of the Bible and of Christianity, which leaves his philosophy irredeemably contradictory. ...
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    61,53 €

  • Confronting Oppressive Assessments
    Polka
    This book is about doing what’s right for public education in the United States in this age of intensive curriculum convergence, planned instructional standardization, and oppressive accountability procedures. Information is presented about why and how educators, parents, students, community members, and policy-makers have decided to protest against current state and federal ed...
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    48,96 €

  • Living on the Horns of Dilemmas
    Frank Calzi / Peter Litchka / Peter R. Litchka / Peter RLitchka / Walter Polka / Walter S. Polka / Walter SPh.D DrPolka / Walter SPolka
    This book is based on the professional experiences and research findings of Drs. Litchka, Polka, and Calzi who possess a combined total professional experience of over 100 years as educators in the United States, including over 75 years as public school administrators and over 30 years as chief school officers. The authors have also spent a combined 30 plus years in researching...
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    41,00 €

  • Shakespeare and Interpretation, or What You Will
    Brayton Polka
    Brayton Polka takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. He calls upon the Bible and the ideas of major European thinkers, above all, Kierkegaard and Spinoza, to argue that the concept of interpretation that underlies both Shakespeare’s...
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    67,95 €

  • Clash of Two Cultures
    E. Polka (Scott George E. Polka (Scott) / EPolka (Scott George EPolka (Scott)
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    21,46 €

  • Between Philosophy and Religion, Vol. I
    Brayton Polka
    In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works—on religion, politics, and ethics—in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. This book and its companion volume are essential reading for any scholar of Spinoza. ...
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    77,24 €

  • Between Philosophy and Religion, Vol. II
    Brayton Polka
    In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works--on religion, politics, and ethics--in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. This book and its companion volume will be essential reading for any scholar of Spinoza. ...
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    76,98 €

  • Dark Side of Educational Leadership
    Peter R. Litchka / Peter RLitchka / Walter S. Polka / Walter SPh.D DrPolka / Walter SPolka
    A valuable resource to institutions of higher education and various state and national superintendent organizations and agencies, The Dark Side of Educational Leadership provides valuable insights into specific resiliency behaviors that contribute to superintendents’ abilities to overcome the trauma associated with being a professional victim. Specifically illuminating those is...
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    52,95 €