Report.

Volume of pamphlets.

Slavery in America: or, An inquiry into the character and tendency of the American colonization and the American anit-slavery societies /

Earlier editions have title: An inquiry into the character and tendency of the American colonization, and American anti-slavery societies.

The Monthly religious magazine and theological review.

Editors: 1844-50, F. D. Huntington; 1859-70, E. H. Sears (1859-June 1870, with R. Ellis; July-Dec. 1870, with J. W. Thompson); 1871-74, J. H. Morison.

An address delivered at the centennial celebration, in Peterborough, N.H., Oct. 24, 1839 /

Cover title: Centennial at Peterborough, N.H.

The Democratic Dynamics of Government Consultations. Speaking Freely and Listening Properly

There is a growing use of consultation and e-consultation procedures by governments. This chapter seeks to examine the role of consultation as part of a new technology of government. Consultation on policy development can reinvigorate democratic engage- ment but often it can silence views through a sort of participatory disempowerment; it can loosen the democratic anchorage of the public service within the state. The chapter develops a governmentality perspective interrogating what participation, democratic engagement and free speech mean in this context, and how ideas of publicness are constructed, managed and controlled. The focus is on the nature of consultation, its relationship to ideas of free speech and speaking freely, and its potential to empower subaltern counterpublics which can formulate oppositional interpretations and urge alternative conclusions. The aim is to develop an idea of the democratic adequacy of the consultation process and draw out a sense of how democratic engagement here can be structured – for good or ill.

Memorabilia of the city of Perth: containing, A guide to Perth; Historical memoranda repecting Perth; charters relating to the privileges of Perth; list of the ministers, and rectors of the grammar school and academy: list of the subscribers for building the bridge, and the public seminaries; and the Rev. Alexander Duff's (late of Tibbermuir) Traditional account, in the town of Perth, of the death of John, Earl of Gowrie, and his brother, Mr. Alexander Ruthven, in 1600. Compiled from the best sources of information; chiefly from Mr Cant's notes to The muse's threnodie of Adamson.

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John Waldridge, The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks, SUNY Series in Islam (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). Pp. 323

In the Leaven of the Ancients, John Walbridge studies the appropriation of non–Peripatetic philosophical ideas by an anti–Aristotelian Islamic philosopher, Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi (d. 1191). He proposes a comprehensive explanation of the origin of Suhrawardi's philosophical system, a revival of the “wisdom of the Ancients” and its philosophical affiliations “grounded” in Greek philosophy (p. xiii). Walbridge attempts to uncover the reasons for Suhrawardi's rejection of the prevailing neo–Aristotelian synthesis in Islamic philosophy, Suhrawardi's knowledge and understanding of non–Aristotelian Greek philosophy, the ancient philosophers Suhrawardi was attempting to follow, the relationship between Suhrawardi's specific philosophical teachings (logic, ontology, physics, and metaphysics), and his understanding of non–Aristotelian ancient philosophy and the relationship between Suhrawardi's system and the major Greek philosophers, schools, and traditions—in particular the Presocratics, Plato, and the Stoics (p. 8). Copyright © 2003 Cambridge University Press

The John Dewey`s epistemology and informational literacy

The `reflexive thinking` concept is discussed in this article as a means of contextualizing John Dewey`s intellectual legacy. `Reflection` represents a fundamental element for the construction of the necessary competences to information seeking and use, and consequently to individual and collective development. Since the reflexive thinking habit in information literacy is a way of learning, some questions concerning teaching and learning processes are also investigated. The discussion is, therefore, supported by the supposition that reflexive thinking is a cognitive strategy that allows a deeper comprehension of related problems, phenomena, and processes by means of the perception of the relations and the identification of involved elements, as well as the analysis and interpretation of meanings, empowering the information literacy process.