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The Dyslexia Debate Revisited


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1316514447 | 451 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
In every country, and in every language, a significant proportion of children struggle to master the skill of reading. In 2014, The Dyslexia Debate examined the problematic interpretation of the term ‘dyslexia’ as well as questioning its efficacy as a diagnosis. Ten years on, The Dyslexia Debate Revisited reflects on the changes in dyslexia assessment and treatment over the last decade, including the introduction of dyslexia legislation in many US states. Addressing the critical responses to their original challenge of the dyslexia construct, Julian G. Elliott and Elena L. Grigorenko also consider why, despite scientific critiques, existing dyslexia conceptions and assessment practices continue to be highly attractive to many professionals, individuals, and families. Based on current scientific knowledge, the authors strive to promote a shared understanding of reading difficulties and emphasize the importance of providing timely and appropriate intervention and support to anyone who faces difficulties with learning to read.

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Madame Blavatsky Revisited


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English | 2006 | ISBN: 0595414494 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 4.4 mb
If this work is of men it will come to nothing: but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it -Rabbi Gamaliel, Acts 5:38?39Was Theosophical Society founder Helena P. Blavatsky a prophetess or charlatan? Since the 1870’s detractors have lambasted both her character and ideas. Yet, H.P.B.’s reputation has continued to grow.Theosophy’s non-dogmatic and ecumenical approach to spirituality offers 21st Century seekers a viable alternative to religious fundamentalism.Today thousands of people on every continent belong to the Theosophical Society. All of Madame’s books and articles remain in print. The freshness and wit of her letters make them seem as if they were written yesterday. Though controversial, she’s withstood time’s test. Madame Blavatsky Revisited tells H.P.B.’s remarkable story in an entertaining manner.

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Garsington Revisited The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date


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English | ISBN: 0861967372 | 2017 | 456 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Lady Ottoline Morrell was the foremost host of the Bloomsbury set, offering sustenance and friendship to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Duncan Grant and her lover Bertrand Russell, to name but a few. This book is a revised and updated edition of the author’s original biography of Ottoline first published in 1975 worldwide. It has been updated, with vignettes about her sources, including lunch at ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Charleston with Duncan Grant, and a ship’s tumbler of sherry with David Garnett as a prelude to discussing "skeletons in Ottoline’s cupboard"). Her sources in Texas where she read more than 8,000 letters to Ottoline including 2,500 letters from Bertrand Russell, can now be located in new footnotes. Darroch remains as impressed as ever by Ottoline’s courage and determination to forgo the comfortable life of an aristocrat to mix with – and champion – some of the 20th century’s leading artists and writers. The definitive biography.

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Althusser Revisited. Problematic, Symptomatic Reading, ISA and History of Marxism A Textological Reading


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English | ISBN: 3942575248 | 2014 | 364 pages | EPUB | 324 KB
"This original textological analysis work reads the epoch making texts of outstanding Marxist philosopher, Althusser’s For Marx (1965), Reading Capital (1965), Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1971) which includes, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses and the author delves into other texts of him to support the analysis. Althusser, again and again becomes a major topic of discussion. Behind him stood two others: the young, morbid Catholic one and the older, gloomy Pre-Modernity classical materialist one. Putting it more precisely, these existential figures are factual images that Althusser had, in the past, intentionally concealed. This leads to an interpretative dramatization and an inexplicable mystery. A formerly dazzling yet fictive sage and a multi-faceted yet intentionally-concealed person both present themselves in the research realm. Traditional academic circles were thrown into disorder and discomfiture when the accepted, singular conception of a scientific, Marxist Althusser’s original consistent image is destroyed, leaving only a mist that gradually dissipates. As Lacan put it, with the shedding of its coverings, the original vacancy further revealed itself. This is another victory of ""the Other"". Nanjing’s keen researcher Zhang Yibing, whom we know from his three other successful textological readings, discovers Marxist Althusser shifting to an Althusser with four distinct facets. Zhang argues, the precondition of exploring this mystery is to demonstrate Althusser’s complex, painful and obscure life and the mystery of his paradoxical thoughts. Contemporary researchers only make a distinction between the four different Althussers, but they fail to find integrated research logic. According to my understanding, there still exists continuity between the four Althussers. This is an anti-teleological viewpoint of non-subject and pseudo-subject that takes the absence of individual subject as the core."

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The Foundations of Chaos Revisited From Poincaré to Recent Advancements


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English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 268 ages | ISBN : 331929699X | 9.5 MB
With contributions from a number of pioneering researchers in the field, this collection is aimed not only at researchers and scientists in nonlinear dynamics but also at a broader audience interested in understanding and exploring how modern chaos theory has developed since the days of Poincaré.

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Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution–Revisited


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1997 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 0198206682 | PDF | 17 MB
This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill’s classic and groundbreaking examination of the motivations behind the English Revolution, first published in 1965. In addition to the text of the original, Dr Hill provides thirteen new chapters which take account of other publications since the first edition, bringing his work up-to-date in a stimulating and enjoyable way.

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Genesis Flood Revisited


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English | ISBN: 1683443233 | 2022 | 670 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 7 MB
Modeled after the 1961 ground-breaking book The Genesis Flood by Drs. Whitcomb and Morris, this detailed work builds on that classic volume with new insights from decades of work by the author, Dr. Andrew Snelling, and numerous colleagues. This recent revolution in geology and the explosion in geological research have established an even firmer basis for understanding the biblical Flood with a God-honoring foundation – the absolute authority and inerrancy of God’s Word.

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Barbarism Revisited New Perspectives on an Old Concept


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2015 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 9004307923 | PDF | 9 MB
The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses?The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism’s genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has functioned as the negative outside separating a civilized interior from a barbarian exterior; as the middle term in-between savagery and civilization in evolutionary models; as a repressed aspect of the civilized psyche; as concomitant with civilization; as a term that confuses fixed notions of space and time; or as an affirmative notion in philosophy and art, signifying radical change and regeneration.Proposing an original interdisciplinary approach to barbarism, this volume includes both overviews of the concept’s travels as well as specific case studies of its workings in art, literature, philosophy, film, ethnography, design, and popular culture in various periods, geopolitical contexts, and intellectual traditions. Through this kaleidoscopic view of the concept, it recasts the history of ideas not only as a task for historians, but also literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.

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The Trophic Spectrum Revisited


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English | 2011 | ISBN: 9048154952 | 152 Pages | PDF | 5.5 MB
These proceedings of a workshop of the International Association for Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology are directed specifically at the relationship between phytoplankton ecology and the trophic status of water bodies.

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