I See Rude People: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society
In this funny, ferocious and freewheeling expose, Alkon gives you the tools you need to confront these abusers and restore common courtesy, respect and good manners to society...one chastened cellphone shouter at a time.
Drawing on almost 30 years of teaching experience, the author has created games based on cooperation and competition between young people and their social attitudes and perceptions. Educators, parents, and therapists can use these games to help children deal with the problems and questions of adolescence. The games tackle issues such as learning patience, self-confidence, love, and respect in fun and creative ways. They also teach children how to deal with aggression, have good boundaries, and be fair.
Stewart Shapiro's ambition in Vagueness in Context is to develop a comprehensive account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language like English. It is a commonplace that the extensions of vague terms vary according to their context: a person can be tall with respect to male accountants and not tall (even short) with respect to professional basketball players. The key feature of Shapiro's account is that the extensions of vague terms also vary in the course of conversations and that, in some cases, a competent speaker can go either way without sinning against the meaning of the words or the non-linguistic facts. As Shapiro sees it, vagueness is a linguistic phenomenon, due to the kinds of languages that humans speak; but vagueness is also due to the world we find ourselves in, as we try to communicate features of it to each other.
Ron Clark's New York Times Best
Seller, "The Essential 55," describes the 55 rules and expectations he
had of his students in Harlem and how he used manners and respect to
help his classes achieve outstanding test scores.
