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Chris Edwards
What if the great discoveries of science came in the "wrong" order? If human scholars are to understand how AI interprets the universe, we will need to understand the scientific…
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Edward Melton
Things That Fall and Other Chris Walker Stories is a collection of fictional short stories centered in the Rocky Mountains and involving activities and people found in the high country.
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Henry Louis Mencken
H.L. Mencken was America's most prominent iconoclastic journalist of the first half of the 20th century, and he still has a considerable following. Mencken's writings have been in print continuously…
O Sonata is a suite of renditions - performances, interpretations, transliterations, transmogrifications - of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonette an Orpheus, presented here as a parallel text.
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This is a comprehensive plan for education reform as school face teacher and staff shortages.
Thought experiments are responsible for several major intellectual revolutions throughout history. Given their importance it is surprising that they are not used more frequently as teaching tools. The history of…
This book connects a new history and philosophy of science with the history of education.
To Explain it All analyzes seven of the foundational works in the field of World History from H.G. Wells in 1920 to Susan Wise Bauer’s ongoing multi-volume work.
Edwards explores the major world historical trends in academia from the time of William McNeill and criticizes the failed world historical approach known as Big History.
Feminism is world history’s most significant historical force and should be presented in classrooms as the central narrative in world history from the Protestant Reformation to the present. Democratic ideals…
Insights on Insincerity analyzes the concept of insincerity thematically through four types of relationships: from authority to the subordinate, the subordinate to authority, among equals, and in the self and…
Toronto, the near future: a city ruined by greed. Homeless citizens fill parks by the thousands, their spaces artificially heated in the winter months-their lives in the hands of a…
This comprehensive textbook on the world economy, written specifically for non-specialists, compares neo-classical, neo-Ricardian and Marxist theories and policies in international economics.
This timely book has come to formalize these methods, build upon Bacon’s scientific research model, and to ultimately go beyond it.
The Connecting the Dots in World History: A Teacher’s Literacy-Based Curriculum series changes this by showing how effective a teacher-generated curriculum can be. These books can inspire other teachers to…
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the…
he Connecting-the-Dots in World History: A Teacher’s Literacy-Based Curriculum series changes this by showing how effective a teacher-generated curriculum can be. These books can inspire other teachers to create their…
The Connecting-the-Dots in World History: A Teacher’s Literacy-Based Curriculum series changes this by showing how effective a teacher-generated curriculum can be. These books can inspire other teachers to create their…
Most federal programs are unnecessary, actively damaging, or properly the responsibility of the states or the private sector. This book examines a huge range of programs that should be cut…
Most federal programs are unnecessary, actively damaging, or properly the responibility of the states or the private sector. This book examines a huge range of programs that should be cut…
A stunning new collection from the Crime Writers' Association (CWA). Editor Martin Edwards has curated this latest anthology from members of the world's most celebrated group of crime and mystery…
Dr Chris Edwards
Changing your gender from female to male takes balls. And if you’re going to do it in front of 500 coworkers at one of the top ad agencies in the…
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Chris Edwards,Paul Krendel
Since the 1980s, the institutional lease has undergone a gramatic transformation. This book sets out to explain the main changes that have occurred since the early 1990s (such as the…
Leading up to the triumph of the great Moon Landing was a dark time for the United States. With an enemy in the Soviet Union, America joined the space race…
Clare Erasmus
This practical handbook details how schools on a shoestring budget can work within school systems to embed mental wellbeing at the heart of a school’s philosophy. It includes practical advice…
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Charles Bufe
Taking up where Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great left off, 24 Reasons to Abandon Christianity reveals Christianity’s cruelty, dishonesty, fear-mongering, hypocrisy, misogyny, homophobia, dogmatism, and authoritarianism, and all of…
Chris Rhyss Edwards
What would you kill for? Is killing ever justified? Would you kill to protect someone you love? Is killing for your country an act of patriotism or murder? Is the…
Chris C Edwards
A small selection of poems, song lyrics and other random thoughts that had occured in my head at various points in my life. These writings cover from the age of…
