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The U. S. hockey team's victory at the 1980 Olympics was a "Miracle
on Ice"--a miracle largely brought about by the late Herb Brooks,
the legendary coach who forged that invincible team. Famously
antagonistic toward the press at Lake Placid, Brooks nonetheless
turned to sportswriter John Gilbert after each game, giving his
longtime friend and confidant what became the most comprehensive
coverage of the '80 team. This book is Gilbert's memoir of Brooks.
Neither strictly biography or tell-all expose, Herb Brooks: Born to
Coach is the story of an extraordinary man as it emerged in the
course of a remarkable friendship. Gilbert, writing for the
Minneapolis Tribune, first met Brooks during his coaching days at
the University of Minnesota, whose hockey program he resurrected in
the 1970's. The two became fast friends, and here, for the first
time, Gilbert relates anecdotes--his own and former players'--that
illuminate Brooks' oftentimes hard-nosed coaching methods, his
dramatic successes, and his incomparable character. From Brooks'
beginnings in East St. Paul and his stint with the 1960 gold
medal-winning Olympic team (from which he was famously the last
player cut), Gilbert goes on to dissect the coach's tenure with the
Gophers (including three national titles) and the Lake Placid
story, from the selection process and yearlong barnstorming tour to
the Games themselves. Throughout this and later chapters of Brooks'
career--including coaching turns with St. Cloud State University,
four NHL teams, and the 2002 U.S. Olympic squad--readers are
treated to impossibly colorful quotes, rare photographs from
Brooks' playing and coaching careers, and pertinent sidebar pieces
that originally appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune.
This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present
an international perspective on topical issues in science education
today. In order to identify what themes should be addressed in the
book, thirty-eight science educators from around the world
responded to the question: 'What issues are currently important in
science education in your country?' The outcome is this lively and
authoritative Reader, which features topics as varied as:
- globalisation
- assessment
- pupil's views on science education
- environmental education
- teaching approaches
- teacher development
- multimedia and ICT
- constructivism.
With a specially written introduction from the editor, providing
a much-needed context to the current education climate, students of
science education will find this Reader an important route map to
further reading and understanding.
This title was first published in 2000: Examines core issues with
respect to the effect of export restrictions, the impact on
processing and welfare, the consequences of foreign ownership of
the resource, and the possibility of utilizing export restrictions
as a retaliatory strategy against escalating tariff structures. It
also examines the impact of liberalization of processed good
markets. The book employs a combination of formal general
equilibrium modelling and counterfactual simulation using
computable general equilibrium (CGE) tecniques, with the New
Zealand forestry industry used as a case study throughout. The book
makes a contribution to the literature in this field by
incorporating foreign ownership into an extensive formal analysis
of processing incentives, develooping a new CGE model of the New
Zealand economy, utilizing this model to evaluate the costs of
export restrictions, and utilizing the GTAP to provide insights
into the possible effect of the APEC Early Voluntary Sector
Liberalization strategy.
This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present
an international perspective on topical issues in science education
today. In order to identify what themes should be addressed in the
book, thirty-eight science educators from around the world
responded to the question: 'What issues are currently important in
science education in your country?' The outcome is this lively and
authoritative Reader, which features topics as varied as:
- globalisation
- assessment
- pupil's views on science education
- environmental education
- teaching approaches
- teacher development
- multimedia and ICT
- constructivism.
With a specially written introduction from the editor, providing
a much-needed context to the current education climate, students of
science education will find this Reader an important route map to
further reading and understanding.
This title was first published in 2000: Examines core issues with
respect to the effect of export restrictions, the impact on
processing and welfare, the consequences of foreign ownership of
the resource, and the possibility of utilizing export restrictions
as a retaliatory strategy against escalating tariff structures. It
also examines the impact of liberalization of processed good
markets. The book employs a combination of formal general
equilibrium modelling and counterfactual simulation using
computable general equilibrium (CGE) tecniques, with the New
Zealand forestry industry used as a case study throughout. The book
makes a contribution to the literature in this field by
incorporating foreign ownership into an extensive formal analysis
of processing incentives, develooping a new CGE model of the New
Zealand economy, utilizing this model to evaluate the costs of
export restrictions, and utilizing the GTAP to provide insights
into the possible effect of the APEC Early Voluntary Sector
Liberalization strategy.
This text proposes a model of teacher development as social,
personal and professional development, and is based on the findings
of a three year New Zealand research project. The project
investigated the teacher development of some teachers of science
working to: implement the findings of the previous "Learning in
Science" projects; take into account students' thinking; and base
their thinking on a constructivist view of learning. The factors
that helped teacher development are discussed as is a view of
learning to underpin teacher development. This book is intended to
be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, teacher developers,
school managers and policy makers working in all curriculum areas.
This text proposes a model of teacher development as social,
personal and professional development, and is based on the findings
of a three year New Zealand research project. The project
investigated the teacher development of some teachers of science
working to: implement the findings of the previous "Learning in
Science" projects; take into account students' thinking; and base
their thinking on a constructivist view of learning. The factors
that helped teacher development are discussed as is a view of
learning to underpin teacher development. This book is intended to
be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, teacher developers,
school managers and policy makers working in all curriculum areas.
When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King
George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us."
In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political
history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the
housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new
interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy
sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution.
Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America
over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously
uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one's house became
an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new
dimensions of the origins of Americans' right to privacy. It also
traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to
independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts
to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to
imagine a new nation. Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that
the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses,
demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating
revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its
application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian
provinces. Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of
accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War,
profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that
the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the
Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of
domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation
with a civilian-led military.
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The Tempest (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare; Introduction by Simon Callow; Illustrated by John Gilbert
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The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features illustrations by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and an introduction by actor, writer and director Simon Callow.
Prospero has long been exiled from Italy and banished to a remote island with his daughter Miranda. He uses his magical powers to conjure up a fearsome storm, and his enemies, including his treacherous broth Antonio, are shipwrecked. There follows a play filled with murderous plots, drunken confusion, love and redemption. And along the way, the reader discovers an unmistakable message that this is Shakespeare’s own farewell to the stage.
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Much Ado About Nothing (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare; Introduction by Tiffany Stern; Illustrated by John Gilbert
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Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features illustrations by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and an introduction from Professor Tiffany Stern.
Whilst Beatrice and Benedick both despise love, exchanging insults and mockery rather than vows, for Hero and Claudio it is love at first sight. But as their marriage preparations begin, so too do Don John’s dirty tricks. Can his scheming get in the way of true love? And can an elaborate plan to bring fiery Beatrice and cynical Benedick closer together really come off? In Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, nothing is quite what it seems.
The aim of the proposed volume will be to present new developments
in the methodology and practice of CGE techniques as they apply to
recent issues in international trade policy. The volume will be of
interest to academic researchers working in trade policy analysis
and applied general equilibrium, advanced graduate students in
international economics, applied researchers in multilateral
organizations, and policymakers who need to work with and interpret
the results of CGE analysis.
Graphs are among the most important abstract data types in computer
science, and the algorithms that operate on them are critical to
modern life. Graphs have been shown to be powerful tools for
modeling complex problems because of their simplicity and
generality. Graph algorithms are one of the pillars of mathematics,
informing research in such diverse areas as combinatorial
optimization, complexity theory, and topology. Algorithms on graphs
are applied in many ways in today's world - from Web rankings to
metabolic networks, from finite element meshes to semantic graphs.
The current exponential growth in graph data has forced a shift to
parallel computing for executing graph algorithms. Implementing
parallel graph algorithms and achieving good parallel performance
have proven difficult. This book addresses these challenges by
exploiting the well-known duality between a canonical
representation of graphs as abstract collections of vertices and
edges and a sparse adjacency matrix representation. This linear
algebraic approach is widely accessible to scientists and engineers
who may not be formally trained in computer science. The authors
show how to leverage existing parallel matrix computation
techniques and the large amount of software infrastructure that
exists for these computations to implement efficient and scalable
parallel graph algorithms. The benefits of this approach are
reduced algorithmic complexity, ease of implementation, and
improved performance. Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear
Algebra is the first book to cover graph algorithms accessible to
engineers and scientists not trained in computer science but having
a strong linear algebra background, enabling them to quickly
understand and apply graph algorithms. It also covers array-based
graph algorithms, showing readers how to express canonical graph
algorithms using a highly elegant and efficient array notation and
how to tap into the large range of tools and techniques that have
been built for matrices and tensors; parallel array-based
algorithms, demonstrating with examples how to easily implement
parallel graph algorithms using array-based approaches, which
enables readers to address much larger graph problems; and
array-based theory for analyzing graphs, providing a template for
using array-based constructs to develop new theoretical approaches
for graph analysis.
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