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The Writer's Workshop: Imitating Your Way to Better Writing
The Writer’s Workshop takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old. Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other hand, helps students learn to write in the way the great writers of the past themselves learned: by carefully imitating masters of the craft, including Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Charles Dickens, Sojourner Truth, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. By living in their workshops and apprenticing to these and other masters, apprentice writers—like apprentice musicians, painters, and blacksmiths of the past—will rapidly improve the complexity of their art and discover their own native voices. Interspersed into chapters full of sound practical advice and challenging assignments are reflections on Great Ideas from “Realism and Impressionism” to “Nominalism and Modern Science.” Perfect for the college or even high school writing classroom—as well as a marvelous book for homeschoolers and others who would like to improve their own writing—The Writer’s Workshop is a fine practical guide, and Dr. Roper a friendly yet demanding teacher-mentor. .
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Imitating Christ
Being a humble Christian does not make you a wimp--it makes you powerful! It’s tough to be humble today--whether at home or in your community of relationships R. T. Kendall wants Christians to understand that out of that meekness comes majesty and success. He carefully explains answers to questions like: • What does it mean to have the mind of Christ? • What motivated Jesus? • How can you become a servant to others? • When was Jesus vindicated, and who vindicated Him? He outlines Christ's capabilities, conscience, and credibility, inviting readers to dig deeper in their relationship with the Father..
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The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Imitating, and Influencing the Actions of Others
Humans, like other primates, are intensely social creatures One of the major functions of our brains must be to enable us to be as skilful in social interactions as we are in our interactions with the physical world (e.g. recognising objects and grasping them). Furthermore, any differences between human brains and those of our nearest relatives, the great apes, are likely to be linked to our unique achievements in social interaction and communication rather than our motor or perceptual skills. Unique to humans is the ability to mentalise (or mind read), that is to perceive and communicate mental states, such as beliefs and desires. A key problem facing science is to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying our ability to read other minds and to show how these mechanisms evolved. To solve this problem we need to do experiments in which people (or animals) interact with one another rather than behaving in isolation. Such experiments are now being conducted in increasing numbers and many of the leading exponents of such experiments have contributed to this volume. 'The Neuroscience of Social Interactions' will be an important step in uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying social interactions - undoubtedly one of the major programmes for neuroscience in the 21st century..
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Imitating Nature - From Barbs on a Weed to Velcro (Imitating Nature)
Fascinated by the sticking ability of the burs from wild plants, Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, uncovered the secret of the microscopic hooked tips that clung tightly to the loops in clothes and animal hair. His efforts to imitate nature's design culminated in the development of Velcro hook and loop tape. The story of the invention of Velcro is combined with a look at nature's perfect fastening system..
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Imitating and Fishing Natural Fish Foods: Everything an Angler Needs to Know About the Foods that Trout Eat and How to Imitate Them
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