Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education

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Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education explores the untapped potential that narrative and experiential approaches have for understanding multicultural issues in education. The research featured in the book reflects an exciting new way of thinking about human experience. The studies focus on the lives of students, teachers, parents, and communities, highlighting experiences seldom discussed in the literature. Most importantly, the work emphasizes the understanding of experience and transforming this understanding into social and educational significance.

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It's a great textbook to learn about other cultures. Reading the textbook makes people less ignorant and more tolerable. Thank you.

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No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900

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No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what this particular set of public institutions has meant to this particular city over the last hundred years, and to ponder what its loss might mean as well. Opdycke suggests that if these public hospitals close or convert to private management--as is currently being discussed--then a vital element of the civic life of New York City will be irretrievably lost.

The story is told primarily through the history of Bellevue Hospital, the largest public hospital in the city and the oldest in the nation. Following Bellevue through the twentieth century, Opdycke meticulously charts the fluctuating fortunes of the city's public hospital system. Readers will learn how medical technology, urban politics, changing immigration patterns, economic booms and busts, labor unions, health insurance, Medicaid, and managed care have interacted to shape both the social and professional environments of New York's public hospitals. Having entered the twentieth century with high hopes for a grand expansion, Bellevue now faces financial and political pressures so acute that its very future is in doubt.

In order to give context to the Bellevue experience, Opdycke also tracks the history of a private facility over the same century: New York Hospital. By noting the points at which the paths of these two mighty institutions have overlapped--as well as the ways in which they have diverged--this book clearly and persuasively highlights the significance of public hospitals to the city. No One Was Turned Away shows that private facilities like New York Hospital have generally provided superb care for their patients, but that in every era they have also excluded certain groups. This exclusion has occurred for various reasons, such as patients' diagnoses, their social characteristics, behavior, or financial status--or simply because of a lack of unoccupied beds. Fortunately, however, year in and year out, Bellevue and its fellow public facilities have acted as the city's medical safety net.

Opdycke's book maintains that public hospitals will be as essential in the future as they have been in the past. This is a thoughtful and well-written study that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of medicine, public policy, urban affairs, or the City of New York.

No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900 Review

Having spent most of my life in inner city academic medical institutions, I thought I knew much about the healthcare of the underprivileged. Having never worked in a truly public hospital, however, it wasn't until I read Opdyke's very readable book comparing a traditional academic, private hospital (New York Hospital) with a public one (Bellvue) that I could understand the real difference between the two. The book is well-written and easily read. There are sufficient facts to support her premises. It is a mark the book's worth, that I only lament that the author condensed some time periods that could have been even more detailed. Still, this is a must read for anyone commited to healthcare, but who has never had the experience of working in a public hospital. It raises many important issues that must be solved if universal healthcare is ever to become a reality in this country. Five stars!

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Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

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Examine how a community of support in Nineteenth-Century Paris became a blueprint for modern sexual identity!

A unique social history, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris is a valuable addition to the growing field of gay and lesbian studies. The book examines the interaction between the city's male homosexual subculture and Parisian authority figures who attempted to maintain political and social order during the early years of the French Third Republic by using laws against public indecency and sexual assault to treat same-sex sexuality as a crime. Faced with a constant cycle of surveillance, harassment, and arrest, the city's gay men survived the hostile urban environment by forming a community of support that had a widespread and lasting influence on the development of modern sexual identities.

Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris is based on a statistical analysis of more than 800 working-class and middle-class men who were arrested or investigated by Parisian police between 1873 and 1879. Their stories, presented through long and short case studies, represent nearly 2,000 names recorded by police in � �Pederasts and Others,� a ledger detailing the arrests of male homosexuals for public offenses against decency and other minor offenses. (The term “pederast �� identified those suspected of same-sex sexual activity, not the modern definition that indicates homosexual relations with a minor.) The ledger entries reveal specific habits, attitudes, values, and characteristics about these men that set them apart� �the same traits that identified them as part of a community based on their behavior and relationships.

Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines:

• the forces of authority
• the laws regarding same-sex sexual behavior
• the role of the police
• the role of the magistrates
• the role of the doctors
• the common characteristics of the city's male homosexual subculture
• the sexual behaviors of the Paris underground
• the geography of the subculture

and takes an expanded look at three case studies:

• �A Decadent Aristocrat and A Delinquent Boy”
• “Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets �
• � Love and Death in Gay Paris”

Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris also includes tables, appendices, and maps linked to statistical data. The book is an essential resource for historians, sociologists, sexologists, criminologists, and other scholars working in the fields of gay and lesbian studies, urban studies, social and cultural history, and French history.

Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) Review

Don't let the title deceive you. There are cross-generational couplings discussed, but this is not a book on man-boy matters. In the 1800s and to this day, Francophones, of various opinions on gay rights, say "pederast" rather than "gay."

Lord Alfred Douglas' comment about "the love that dare not speak its name" really concerned the fin-de-siecle, Anglophone world. But its inapplicability to other countries and times hasn't changed the facts that little is known about other people we would now call "gays." So the author does a great job about letting us know about gay men in Paris more than a century ago. The author almost begins by saying, "This won't discuss elites like Gide and Proust, I'm speaking of the ordinary man." Thus, in a way, this is an anti-classist work. It speaks of those at the bottom of the class structure, at times.

I always thought France got rid of its sodomy laws a century before Britain does because Napoleon was being a nice guy. However, the author does a great job in saying how the philosophes and the French Revolution affected thinkings in France. Just as abolitionists didn't necessarily advocate miscegenation, antidiscrimination laws, or integrated neighborhoods, the philosophes could not be equated with modern supporters of gay rights. Just because the Francophone world lacked de jure homophobia didn't mean they didn't have the de facto type.

Still, this book falls short at times. The author writes in one sentence, "Judges would convict 'indecent' men because the offense was a misdemeanor and they wanted to focus on felonies." Okay, after he said that, then there was no need to have a chapter about judges actions; it's already been concisely stated. Next he has a whole chapter on wardens' or criminologists' thoughts on gayness, but it really only covers four books. It's great he had access to those books, but any college-educated person with similar access could have written the same chapter.

In obeisance to ideas on constructionism, the author never translates terms that could help modern readers. He mentions men who beat up gay clients, but never calls them "rough trade." He mentions men who only practiced homosexuality while incarcerated but never says "prison gay." Though Bray said Anglophones did not equate effeminates with sodomites until the late 1700s, this author quotes a man that used feminine nouns and adjectives to describe gay men and the author never comments upon it.

The examples in this book come at the end. Non-academic readers may want to start there or only read that portion of the text. These stories are not "respectable" in a Brokeback Mountain-type of way. They involve prostitution, public sexual activity, and other things that prudish readers may consider salacious. But hey, authors have to work with what they have and this author wanted to discuss those who got caught by police, not those who could successfully hide and thus not be written about.

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Permutation, Parametric, and Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses (Springer Series in Statistics)

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Permutation, Parametric, and Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses (Springer Series in Statistics) Review

This is the second edition of a popular text on permutation methods which just came out in February 2000. Dr. Good has been an expert on permutation tests for over 25 years. In the 1980s he was the editor of a journal called Randomization which dealt specifically with the latest developments in permutation methods. He has also contributed to the scholarly research on this subject with a number of useful publications. In addition through his company he has done a great deal of consulting and has written many reviews on statistical software. He brings all of this valuable experience to the table in this book which emphasizes the wide variety of practical applications for this powerful tool. Permutation methods are gaining increasing popularity along with other resampling methods because of the amazing improvement in speed of digital computers over the past 15 years. This is emphasized in the book which is written at an elementary level for practitioners. It also is filled with practical advice and applications from Dr. Good's many years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. The book has expanded from 228 to 270 pages with additional references and expansion of chapters 12 and 13 which incorporate computing advances over the 6 years since the publication of the first edition.

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Plotinus: The Enneads (LP Classic Reprint Series)

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The best edition to dateof the unabridged definitive Stephen MacKenna translation.

Plotinus: The Enneads (LP Classic Reprint Series) Review

Plotinus ought to be read and digested by anyone who asks the ultimate question. Ultimately, his words point to a central experience - and presuppose that we wish to tread the same way. Western philosophy has had a lot of 'stick' in recent years, an inevitable reaction - given the fact that since the 18th c., much if not most Western philosophy has become a head trip - a tangle of knots. Modern philosophers like Heidegger have located the problem further back - with Platonism, and it has become a common place to see all Western philosophy as chopped logic, resulting in a fragmented perception of reality. Everything Plotinus says - points to a crowning experience, what he termed 'henosis' - realising a state of 'at-onement.' Hence, any idea of identifying Plotinus use of the term 'Nous' (translated as 'intellect' in English) with its narrower, modern equivalent, would be a fatal misunderstanding. Plotinus leaves no room for distinctions between the knower and the known, presenting a marked parallel with Buddhist intuitions. Given the extensive influence that Buddhism has exerted upon western culture in recent years, it would be a crime to ignore the fruit-ful parallels afforded by Plotinus. More to the point, a reading of Plotinus raises some serious questions about the verdict of people like Heidegger - when it comes to the history of Western philosophy. Moreover, it would not do to whinge about the Christian refutation of 'pagans,'as if the Church ignored Plotinus. His ideas influenced the early Church fathers - an influence that continued with people like Aquinus, Augustine - Eckhart etc.Hence, Heidegger's view of Western philosophy/theology as a kind of degeneration and fragmentation of 'Being' - is open to question, and one wonders why a whole generation of scholars like him, have persistently ignored what philosophers like Plotinus had to say. It is not all 'bad news.' A certain kind of 'Platonism' may well amount to what Nietzsche called 'the palest and thinnest ideas of all,' but by the same token, another form of it helped shape the intuitions of Meister Eckhart, and inspired Renaissance thinkers like Ficino. W.Y. Evans-Wentz, the noted American scholar-gypsy, a Rhodes scholar who sat at the feet of eminent Tibetan Lamas, and helped pave the way for a Western absorption of Buddhist ideas, held Plotinus in great esteem - seeing a perennial philosophy in the best of Western and Oriental civilisation.Hence, the Paul Brunton foundation endeavoured to promote a proper study of Plotinus' thought. Stephen Mackenna's translation of the Enneads was a labour of love, and gave his life to the task. It taxed Mackenna's strength, some portions of the text being completed by people like B.S. Page. The Larson edition is of especial value here, examining the nuance of various terms found in Plotinus' work - all told, the best single volume edition of the Enneads. Thanks to John Dillon's endeavours, an economically priced, abridged version of Mackenna's work is available in p/back. Dillon's comments are well worth taking into account. A.H. Armstrong's translation (with the Greek text) is available in separate volumes, but the Larson/Mackenna version - with plentiful notes, cross references etc., is the best buy for the general reader who wants to devote some time to the idioms used by Plotinus. Nobody finds Plotinus an easy read, but as the other reviews testify, those who allow Plotinus' intuitions to play upon their minds, and read between the lines, will find their vision enlarged. It is no small thing to discover that our microcosmic selves participate in the life of the divine energeia - embodying some-thing of its power, enabling us to share in the life of the whole - to feel and know that we are at one with it. Like the Yi-Ching, the Upanishads, or Prajnaparamita, Plotinus' is one of those seminal influences, providing the pinnacle of insight for a whole civilisation. Wells may be forgotten or blocked over, but the water is always there to drink. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment Comment

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