Focusing on the developmental stages of literacy, this book offers a clear framework for parents, educators, and policymakers to understand how children become fluent readers and writers. It highlights the unique challenges each child may face, addressing potential educational pitfalls and pathways to success. The nontechnical approach makes complex concepts accessible, while the candid discussion of both errors and successes in teaching reading promises to spark debate due to its clarity and scientific rigor.
Human Intelligence and National A political essay in sociobiology discusses the relationship between variable intelligence in ethnic and national cultures and their political impact on the international scene. The books's argument is developed from the theory presented in Dr. Itzkoff's four-volume «Evolution of Human Intelligence», also published by Peter Lang. Each national society to the extent that it reflects a fairly homogeneous ethnicity, also exhibits a unique intellectual profile. Its national intellectual capital is capable through the most advanced forms of education of rising to the capacity for abstract thought and action in meeting the technological requirements of modernity. National corporate intelligence will thus impact on the international community through its economic, military, and political power. The author applies his sociobiological model to the circumstances affecting formerly communist societies, Japan, the United States, the Third World, as well as the broader international scene.
Liberty's Dilemma is a diagnostic analysis of the falling away in the United States from the founders' vision of individual liberty and freedom of association. The founders never could have envisioned the enormous expansion of industrial and scientific power we have experienced, nor the national and international conflicts. Never could they have predicted the massive growth in power of the federal government - the kind of power they fought against in our initial struggle for independence and liberty. One significant consequence of these events for our future is the massive dependency of large portions of our present population and the consequent debilitating redistribution of the productive wealth of the independent classes. This growth of a seemingly permanent dependent class has gone largely unexplained. Liberty's Dilemma points to the declining intellectual capital in large portions of our society as cause. This is reflected in the disintegration of family life, lowering educational achievement levels, and the flight of our industrial and technological base. Until our leadership awakens to this fundamental issue of our intellectual capital deficits and their cause, the fundamental vision of liberty that was brought into reality by our Constitutional founders will have forever slipped beyond our political reach.
The book explores the evolutionary history of humans, emphasizing that we are fundamentally biological beings. It posits that culture arises from our brain's neurological functions and highlights intelligence as crucial for the success of the human super-species. The author argues that humanity has evolved to a stage where two distinct sub-species are now competing within the global ecology.
Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man by Seymour W. Itzkoff is currently one of the few books available in the English language that discusses the philosophy of twentieth-century German philosopher Ernst Cassirer. Itzkoff's study brings Cassirer's perspective directly into the contemporary debate over the evolution of human thought and its relationship to animal life. Further, Itzkoff places Cassirer directly in the context of recent philosophical thought, arguing for the importance of his Kantian perspective, a significance that is amply vindicated by the current interest in Cassirer's ideas. For this second edition, Seymour has written a new introduction and has added a new retrospective essay.
"The theme of this book involves the Holocaust [...]. Itzkoff's main concern is to understand and explain this event in the context of Jewish history and the unfolding meaning of Western civilizational experience"--Front flap.
Judaism's Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W.
Itzkoff's well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism's Promise
confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries
allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern world.
Written as a work of fiction, this book looks at the human condition 200 years in the future. Predicting the outcome of today's social policies, 2284: World Society, Iaian Vernier's Memoir is a cultural anthropology study that adds to Itzkoff's extensive writing on the topic.
