Moral Education

Moral EducationThe great French sociologist and philosopher Emile Durkheim is best known for his classic book Suicide (1897), a landmark in social psychology. Among his other major works is this study in the sociology of education, which features 18 lectures by an influential theorist who discusses his ideas on the school as the appropriate setting for moral education. The first element in developing a moral being, he maintains, is instilling a sense of discipline,

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feathered serpents from pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan sources

and narrow trimmings on doorways and windows

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This helpful workbook-style "bridge" book introduces students to the foundations of advanced mathematics

weekend craft

reactors for measuring reaction rates and the steady-state approximation

The two-part selection of puzzles and paradoxes begins with examinations of the nature of infinity and some curious systems related to Gödel's theorem

Three are based on concertos written by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar

Twenty-four legendary figures — among others

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First published: Blaisdell Publishing Co