This clear, learner-friendly text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. The text covers all the basics of critical thinking, beginning where students are, not where we think they should be. Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting in an exceptionally versatile text.

Product Description: The Promise of Progressivism: Angelo Patri and Urban Education is a biography of the well-known progressive educator during the first half of the twentieth century. A follower of John Dewey, Patri was the principal of two large community-oriented progressive schools in the Bronx from 1907 to 1944...read more

Product Description: On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, ex-SEAL Coby MacKenzie is training a secret special-operations unit called Ghost Eagle 1, Team Kamehameha. On the team are Shane Waters, Will Bottoms, and Kalee Jourden. They are 16 years old. Also on the team are Eiji Ahana and Roby MacKenzie, ages 14 and 13...read more

Provides unique coverage of the prediction and experimentation necessary for making predictions. Covers computational fluid dynamics and its relationship to direct numerical simulation used throughout the industry. Covers vortex methods developed to calculate and evaluate turbulent flows. Includes chapters on the state-of-the-art applications of research such as control of turbulence. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Written for a core course on critical thinking, this novel. deals with realistic issues of college life. The fictional. characters engage in critical thinking--making sound judge-. ments about events occurring on the college campus...read more

Product Description: This book traces and analyzes the relationships between educational developments and liberal journalism, as represented by The Nation and The New Republic, from 1914 to 1941. James Wallace provides new perspectives on journalists, activists, and educators like Randolph Bourne, John Dewey, Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, Oswald Villard, and Agnes de Lima...read more