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In this ground-breaking book Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states. Although there are local variations, the most striking feature is the sameness of educational systems. How did this happen? How was education globalized? Spring explains and analyzes this phenomenon and its consequences for human life and the future improvement of social and economic organizations.

Everyone in Christina's circle of friends and relatives are surprised when she, a native Texan, marries David, a native Michigander. After he dies in a car accident, she and her three children move back to her hometown in Texas. They are faced with many physical, emotional, and spiritual trials as they adjust to their new life without David. During these trials, she and her family learn to rely not only on their faith, family, and friends, but also realize that people and events are not always what they seem to be. Will Christina find peace and happiness again as she re-acquaints herself...

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A threatening text, an empty bottle of heparin, a sick dog, and missing property all lead Christina and the police chief of Alva, Texas, to conclude that the person they have locked up in Dallas was either working with someone, or another individual is threatening the Sanders family.

As threats escalate, not only toward Christina's family but the residents of Alva, it becomes apparent that there are evil forces, human and spiritual, at work.

When the first explosion rocks the town, the Sanders family and their friends are thrown into a life-and-death situation. As memories...

The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.

This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the "American rebellion" at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America.

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As a member of the One Race, Chanta must allow Payne to take her through the transformation or die. Even...

In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and manage their populations, and to examine forms of education that claim to free people from authoritarian control.

Wheels in the Head, a critically original work now in its third edition, is widely used as a text for courses on philosophical, social, political, and historical...