Authors:John Perry, Erna Perry,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: science, social, introduction, society, contemporary
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-03-08
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0205578675
ISBN-13: 9780205578672

This best-selling text offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social and cultural change are the pervasive realities of our era. One of the main themes of Contemporary Society is that the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial order in the modern world is fraught with difficulties, as was the transition from an agricultural to an industrial order in an earlier era. Within this framework, we can observe the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which tends to lead people away from community and a common purpose and often invites conflict and

Authors:John Perry, Erna Perry,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: science, social, introduction, society, contemporary
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2005-06-03
List price: $111.80
ISBN-10: 020545884X
ISBN-13: 9780205458844

This best-selling text offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social change is the pervasive reality of our era. One of the main themes of Contemporary Society is that the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial order in the modern world is fraught with difficulties, as was the transition from an agricultural to an industrial order in an earlier human era. This framework also illustrates the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which leads people away from community and a common purpose to conflict and disunity.

Authors:John Perry, Kathy Perry,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: schooling, home, guide, complete
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0737304227
ISBN-13: 9780737304220

Quickly becoming the choice of more and more American families, home schooling a child can be a daunting and exhausting task. When John and Kathy Perry decided to withdraw their sons from public school and teach them at home, they found much information decrying the state of education but little on how to develop a program to ensure academic success. The Complete Guide to Home Schooling presents step-by-step instructions for tailoring a curriculum to the individual, integrating academic home schooling with public school extracurricular opportunities, maintaining family energy and peace, and de

Authors:John Perry, Michael Bratman, John Martin Fischer,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: readings, contemporary, classical, philosophy, introduction
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2009-08-28
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0195390369
ISBN-13: 9780195390360

Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. Ideal for introductory philosophy courses, the text includes sections on God and evil, knowledge and reality, the philosophy of science, the mind/body problem, freedom of will, consciousness, ethics, political philosophy, existential issues, and philosophical puzzles and paradoxes. Insightful introductions to each part, study questions after each reading selection, and an extensive glossary of philosophical

Authors:John Perry, Michael Bratman, John Martin Fischer,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: readings, contemporary, classical, philosophy, introduction
Number of Pages: 840
Published: 2006-09-28
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0195169247
ISBN-13: 9780195169249

Introduction to Philosophy, Fourth Edition, is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. Building on the exceptionally successful tradition of previous editions, this edition for the first time incorporates the insights of a new coeditor, John Martin Fischer, and has been updated and revised to make it more accessible. Ideal for introductory philosophy courses, the text includes sections on the meaning of life, God and evil, knowledge and reality, the philosophy of science, the mind/body problem, freedom of will, consciousness, et

Author: John Perry
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: philosophy, topics, identity, personal
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2008-05-07
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0520256425
ISBN-13: 9780520256422

This volume brings together the vital contributions of distinguished past and contemporary philosophers to the important topic of personal identity. The essays range from John Locke’s classic seventeenth-century attempt to analyze personal identity in terms of memory, to twentieth-century defenses and criticisms of the Lockean view by Anthony Quinton, H.P. Grice, Sydney Shoemaker, David Hume, Joseph Butler, Thomas Reid, and Bernard Williams. New to the second edition are Shoemaker’s seminal essay "Persons and Their Pasts," selections from the important and previously unpublished Cl

Author: John Perry
Publisher: University of New South Wales Pre
Keywords: fieldwork, doing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0868405337
ISBN-13: 9780868405339

This book aims to introduce students to the conduct of fieldwork, the way in which anthropologists and sociologists go about the business of collecting the ‘facts’ that are the basis for later theory and description.