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Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the
influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful
dramatists of the Restoration theater. Behn led an unusually active
and eventful life for a woman of her era, traveling widely--to
Surinam in 1663 and to Antwerp in 1666, where Charles II sent her
as a spy during the Anglo-Dutch war. Returning to England she spent
some time in a debtor's prison and subsequently devoted herself to
writing, publishing numerous poems and almost twenty plays between
1670 and 1689.
Because of the overtly political nature of her work, much of
Behn's writing appeared anonymously and in many different versions.
"The Poetry of Aphra Behn" is the first accessible reprinting of
Aphra Behn's verses since the seventeenth century. Encompassing the
entirety of her oeuvre, from satirical writings to songs, love
poems, and verse epistles, the book is a testament to the life and
mind of a remarkable woman.
The special character of Globalization: Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow is the inclusion of a broad international and
multicultural spectrum of issues. The approach is systemic.
Political, economic, geographic, ecological, social, cultural,
ethnic, religious and historical processes are analyzed. Single and
joint impacts on globalization and cultural-geographic regions are
discussed. Globalization: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow explores
the idea that both human history and globalization provide a bridge
between the past and the future.
Reciprocity has been critical in the philosophy and social sciences
of the 20th century. Over the last seven decades, several countries
settled by European powers have become autonomous, and returning
has become a challenge. Consequently, writing on reciprocity as a
central theme requires time and implies a deep dedication to the
community. There is a need to explore the factors and policies
behind the study agendas and secret philosophies before and after
European involvement. Reciprocity and Its Practice in Social
Research aims to open the controlled consciousness of self as a
human being and then as a scholar to the community via the
methodological lens. It analyzes reciprocity from the Greek
tradition to Medeabale Arab to the early colonial or pre-colonial
period. It specifically addresses the benefit of social research on
the community and seeks ways to revolutionize and improve current
research and academic processes. Covering topics such as the
philosophy of science, indigenous science, and Western metaphysics,
this book is an essential resource for anthropologists,
philosophers, sociologists, university faculty and administration,
students of higher education, librarians, researchers, and
academicians.
"New York Times" bestselling author and educator Ron Clark
challenges parents, teachers, and communities everywhere embrace a
difference in the classroom and uplift, educate, and empower our
children.
Read this book to find out why so many across the country have
embraced these powerful rules.
- Set the electric tone on day one
- Teach your children how to study--don't expect it to come
naturally
- Don't constantly stress about test scores
- Not every child deserves a cookie
- Lift up your teachers. No, really, lift them up
- If kids like you all the time, you're doing something wrong
- Don't be a penny parent
Be different. Be bold. Join in.
This new edition of the SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research
represents the sixth generation of the ongoing conversation about
the discipline, practice, and conduct of qualitative inquiry. As
with earlier editions, the Sixth Edition is virtually a new
volume, with 27 of the 34 chapters representing new topics or
approaches not seen in the previous edition. To mark the
Handbook’s 30-year history, we are pleased to offer a bonus PART
VI in the eBook versions of the Sixth Edition: this additional
section brings together and reprints ten of the most famous or
game-changing contributions from the previous five editions.
This collection aims to fill in the deep gaps of vital
contributions that have been erased from the sexuality field,
illuminating the historical and current work, strategies,
solutions, and thoughts from sexologists that have been excluded
until now. Historically, the US sexuality field has not included
the experiences and wisdom of racialized sexologists, educators,
therapists, or professionals. Instead, sexuality professionals have
been trained using a color-free narrative that does an injustice by
excluding their work as well as failing to offer a fuller
examination of how they have expanded the field and held it
accountable. The result of this wholesale erasure is that today
many sexuality professionals understand these contributions as
extra or tangential, and not part of the full vision and history of
the field of sexology. Highlighting the voices and experiences of
those who have been racialized and thus excluded, isolated, erased,
and yet have still emerged as vital contributors to the North
American sexuality field, this text offers a significant shift in
the way we learn and understand sexuality, one that is expansive
and committed to liberation, healing, equity, and justice. Divided
into three sections addressing safety, movement, and oral
narratives, the contributors offer insightful and provoking
chapters that discuss reproductive justice, LGBTQ themes, racial
and social justice, and gender, and disability justice,
demonstrating how these sexologists have been leaders, past and
present, in change and progression. This futuristic textbook
includes correction, engaged reading, and lesson plans which offers
community workers and trainers an opportunity to use the text in
their non-traditional learning environments. Creating a path
forward that many believed was impossible, this accessible book is
for all who work in and around sexuality. It welcomes inquiry and
celebrates our humanity for the worlds we are building now and for
the future.
This is the first textbook designed to teach statistics to students
in aviation courses. All examples and exercises are grounded in an
aviation context, including flight instruction, air traffic
control, airport management, and human factors. Structured in six
parts, theiscovers the key foundational topics relative to
descriptive and inferential statistics, including hypothesis
testing, confidence intervals, z and t tests, correlation,
regression, ANOVA, and chi-square. In addition, this book promotes
both procedural knowledge and conceptual understanding. Detailed,
guided examples are presented from the perspective of conducting a
research study. Each analysis technique is clearly explained,
enabling readers to understand, carry out, and report results
correctly. Students are further supported by a range of pedagogical
features in each chapter, including objectives, a summary, and a
vocabulary check. Digital supplements comprise downloadable data
sets and short video lectures explaining key concepts. Instructors
also have access to PPT slides and an instructor’s manual that
consists of a test bank with multiple choice exams, exercises with
data sets, and solutions. This is the ideal statistics textbook for
aviation courses globally, especially in aviation statistics,
research methods in aviation, human factors, and related areas.
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