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Education Rights

Ann Blair

ISBN:

9781859419236

Publisher:

Cavendish Pub Ltd

Publication Date:

2009

Binding:

Hardcover

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Special Bulletin: Special Bulletin

Ann Blair; A Blair; Timothy T. Baldwin; Matthew Waddington

ISBN:

9780853089179

Publisher:

Jordans Pub

Publication Date:

2004

Binding:

Softcover

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Challenges to School Exclusion: Exclusion, Appeals and the Law

Ann Blair; Neville S. Harris; Karen Eden

ISBN:

9780415230810

Publisher:

Falmer Pr

Publication Date:

2000

Binding:

Softcover

Synopsis:
This is the first study to examine in detail the legal processes involved in challenging permanaent exlusion from school in the UK. The findings reveal serious deficiencies in the appeal system, including a failure to deal fairly with excluded children.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science

Ann Blair; Princeton University Press

ISBN:

9780691056753

Publisher:

Princeton Univ Pr

Publication Date:

1997

Binding:

Hardcover

Synopsis:
The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience,'' fueling a vigorous cycle of text- based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. He combined arguments from reason, experience, and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions.

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