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This practical guide is full of examples that show how parents can use this problem-solving process -- every day, in every kind of parenting situation. Crary also describes typical development stages, so parents are sure their expectations for their kids are reasonable. She clarifies the difference between normal behavior and defiance and irresponsibility.

This book is intended to help the reader grow spiritually and come into a closer relationship with God. It consists of twelve short chapters, each of which addresses an aspect of spiritual growth and maturity. The topics include: What is spiritual maturity, how can we determine if we are growing spiritually, keys to a closer relationship with God, and having a better understanding of the ways of God.

Each chapter has discussion questions at the end so the book can be read for personal benefit or be used by a group for study and discussion.

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Alice Crary's Inside Ethics is a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals.

We have come to think of human beings and animals as elements of a morally indifferent reality that reveals itself only to neutral or science-based methods. This little-commented-on trend, which shapes the work of moral philosophers and popular ethical writers alike, has pernicious effects, distorting our understanding of the difficulty of moral thinking. Inside Ethics traces the roots of existing views to tendencies in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind....

In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.

Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices...

Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century.

Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature...