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So, educational reform is on the national agenda. We want better education with not much more money, students who want to learn, teachers who want to teach, industry who can select from our students without going abroad for talent. Everybody says they want it, but what's the problem here? This book has the simplest of purposes, which is to return students to their natural human accord with learning as the basis of educational reform. It describes how students have been separated from their innate proclivity to learn; how we have allowed the pervasive rationalism of our culture to dominate our...

Strategically placed on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago has always been an important transportation and trading hub. Early Native American settlers discovered Chicago's rich resources, French missionaries and trappers found the Chicago River an excellent portage to the Des Plaines, Illinois, and Mississippi Rivers, and merchants used it to ship lumber and grain to the rest of the world. Maritime Chicago tells the story of this city situated on a great "inland sea." From the thrill of two lakefront World's Fairs, to the unbelievable sorrow of the Eastland, which went down just a...