Sentences with phrase «recent cultural achievements»
From the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies, to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all, Afterburn offers cutting - edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the choices in our hands.
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Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.
In a recent review of studies documenting Latino students» poor achievement in schools relative to other populations, however, Losey (1995) has been critical of investigations claiming a «cultural mismatch» between home and school since many do not, in her words, «collect or analyze data from real - life interactions in actual settings» (p. 288).