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  • Where the Highway Ends

    by Jim Garrison ...
    David Edward Trench was seventeen and hitchhiking across western Texas. He had ten dollars in his pocket, and everything he owned was in his backpack. He was wanted by the law in three states for small-time robberies, but none of that was going to matter to him after tonight. In three hours David would be dead.David looked up at the dark and threatening sky and moaned, Oh, man. Im going to really ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Oswald in New Orleans

    A Case for Conspiracy with the CIA

    by Harold Weisberg ...
    Harold Weisberg was foremost among the early trailblazers who saw the inadequacy of the Warren Report’s solution to the crime of the century. He tirelessly petitioned the government and used the courts to force release of withheld documents, and wrote dozens of books and manuscripts on the subject.Oswald in New Orleans focuses on the strange 1963 summer during which Lee Harvey Oswald was in New ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education

    Edited by Jason Goulah, Gonzalo Obelleiro, Jim Garrison ...
    Series Book 1 - Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education
    This book examines the contemporary relevance of the East-West ecology of thought and practice present in and inspired by the educational perspectives of American philosopher John Dewey (1859–1952) and the Japanese progenitors of sōka, or “value-creating,” approaches to life and education and the Soka organizations and institutions they advanced embodying and memorializing these in name and ethos: ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Rare Recording of Jim Garrison

    by Jim Garrison ...
    Narrated by Jim Garrison ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Jim Garrison (1921-1992) was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Garrison was able to subpoena the Zapruder film from Life magazine. As a result, the American public was able to see the film for the first time. Garrison made the case that the Kennedy assassination was too ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deweyan Transactionalism in Education

    Beyond Self-action and Inter-action

    Edited by Jim Garrison, Johan Öhman, Leif Östman ...
    Philosophers of education are largely unaware of Dewey's concept of transactionalism, yet it is implicit in much of his philosophy, educational or otherwise from the late 1890s onwards. Written by scholars from Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA, this book shows how transactionalism can offer an entirely new way of understanding teaching and learning, the individual and sociocultural ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Empirical Philosophical Investigations in Education and Embodied Experience

    by Joacim Andersson, Jim Garrison, Leif Östman ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Drawing on John Dewey and the later Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book employs philosophy as a conceptual resource to develop new methodological and analytical tools for conducting in situ empirical investigations. Chapter one explores the philosophies of Wittgenstein and Dewey. Chapter two exposits Deweyan ideas of embodiment, the primacy of the aesthetic encounter, and aesthetically expressive ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Dewey and Eros Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching

    by Jim Garrison ...
    "We become what we love," states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching.This provocative book represents a major new interpretation of Dewey's education philosophy. It is also an examination of what motivates us to teach and to learn, and begins with the idea of education of eros (i.e., passionate desire)-"the supreme aim of education" as the author puts it-and ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Democracy and Education Reconsidered

    Dewey After One Hundred Years

    by Jim Garrison, Stefan Neubert, Kersten Reich ...
    Democracy and Education Reconsidered highlights the continued relevance of John Dewey’s Democracy and Education while also examining the need to reconstruct and re-contextualize Dewey’s educational philosophy for our time. The authors propose ways of revising Dewey’s thought in light of the challenges facing contemporary education and society, and address other themes not touched upon heavily in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Richard Rorty

    Education, Philosophy, and Politics

    by Michael A. Peters, Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr., Steven Best, Ramin Farahmandpur, Jim Garrison, Douglas Kellner, James D. Marshall, Peter McLaren, Michael Peters, Björn Ramberg, Alberto Tosi Rodrigues, Juha Suoranta, Kenneth Wain ...
    Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions-appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence-that have dominated and shaped the history of Western philosophy since the time of Plato. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    On the Trail of the Assassins

    by Jim Garrison ...
    Narrated by Lyle Blaker ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 9 min

    More than fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his murder continues to haunt the American psyche and stands as a turning point in our nation's history. The Warren Commission rushed out its report in 1964, but questions continue to linger: Was there a conspiracy? Was there a coup at the highest levels of government?On March 1, 1967, New Orleans district attorney Jim ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Dewey

    by J.E. Tiles ...
    First Published in 1990. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Someone relatively new to philosophy might expect from the series title to have here a book about the disputes in which John ... Read more

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  • Knowledge, Belief, and Character

    Readings in Contemporary Virtue Epistemology

    by Guy Axtell, Alvin Goldman, Hilary Kornblith, John Greco, Linda Zagrebsky, James Montmarquet, Chirstopher Hookway, Ricard Paul, Casey Swank, Julia Driver0, Ernest Sosa1, Jonathan Dancy2, Laurence Bonjour3 ...
    Series series Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory
    There have been many books over the past decade, including outstanding collections of essays, on the topic of the ethical virtues and virtue-theoretic approaches in ethics. But the professional journals of philosophy have only recently seen a strong and growing interest in the intellectual virtues and in the development of virtue-theoretic approaches in epistemology. There have been four single ... Read more

    $38.99 USD