Books with author Robert Orci

Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich philosophy and ethics curriculum at KS3 with 18 ready-made, flexible and high quality KS3 lessons.The first unit 'Philosophy of religion' explores the ideas of influential Western philosophers focusing on questions surrounding human knowledge and the existence of God. The second unit ‘Ethics’ explores questions about right and wrong, human nature and artificial intelligence.· Ignite pupils’ interest with engaging content and questions that spark discussion and help pupils think critically about philosophy and ethics· Give pupils a firm foundation that will help them excel at GCSE 9-1 Religious Studies· Assess pupils’ understanding with questions for each lesson, including discursive questions to provide extended writing and essay practice· Aid pupils' long-term memory with a knowledge organiser and quiz at the end of each unit covering key ideas, vocabulary and people· Ease teacher workload by providing expert subject knowledge and tried and tested lessons that make it easy to implement a carefully sequenced, broad and balanced curriculum at KS3

Provide students with a strong understanding of religion with high quality, engaging and content-rich resources building a firm foundation for the new RS GCSE. Deliver a rich, coherent RE course at KS3 and equip pupils with a deep understanding of religion with ready-made, flexible and high quality KS3 lessons from Collins. ‘Knowing Religion’ is written by an author team of experienced RE teachers and led by series editor Robert Orme of West London Free School. • Discover the history and beliefs of Islam as well as Islam in the modern world • Start teaching straight away with Teacher Guide resources available on Collins Connect, including teaching ideas and support along with answers to questions in the student books • Give pupils the grounding they need to excel at GCSE RS • Ignite an interest in religion through a compelling narrative, fascinating facts and extraordinary people • Aid pupil memory with a ‘knowledge organiser’ at the end of each unit covering key vocabulary, people, places, and dates • Spark discussion and assess understanding with questions for each lesson including longer-form discursive questions to provide extended writing and essay practice • Each book structured as 16 lessons to offer flexibility and map onto the school timetable with ease • The ‘Knowing Religion’ series also includes resources on Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism

Robert M. Pirsig is an American author and philosopher known for his book ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’. He was a bright student and very curious to understand various singularities of life. He lost interest in studies and dropped out of school. He served the U.S Army for a short while before returning back to earn a bachelorette in Eastern Philosophy. His curiosity to further research on Eastern philosophy made him study at ‘Banaras Hindu University’. After coming back to his native, he started working as a freelance journalist and technical writer while writing short stories. His writing skills encouraged him to publish his first philosophical book ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values’. He had recorded his philosophical discoveries during his motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California. His next book ‘Lila: An Inquiry into Morals’ was a semi-autobiographical book and has been acknowledged to have developed the ‘Metaphysics of Quality’.

Created complete, equipped for sporadic multiplication and later for auto-fertilization, the restless sex, intensely bored by the process of procreation, presently invented an auxiliary and labeled him. A fool proceeding, for the inherited mania for invention obsessed him and he began to invent gods. The only kind of gods that his imagination could conceive were various varieties of supermen, stronger, more cruel, craftier than he. And with these he continued to derive satisfaction by scaring himself. But the restless sex remained restless; the invention of the sign of Mars, far from bringing content, merely increased the capacity of the sex for fidgeting. And its insatiate curiosity concerning its own handiwork increased. This handiwork, however, fulfilled rather casually the purpose of its inventor, and devoted the most of its time to the invention of gods, endowing the most powerful of them with all its own cowardice, vanity, intolerance and ferocity. "He made us," they explained with a modesty attributable only to forgetfulness. "Believe in him or he'll damn you. And if he doesn't, we will!" they shouted to one another. And appointed representatives of various denominations to deal exclusively in damnation.