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What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to
Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need
for the development of democracy in education. This volume
highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and
practical concern: the development of a critique of the philosophy
and policies of the new Right, and of credible alternative
policies.
A new approach to the analysis of cultural reproduction focusing on
the impact of economic change. The book demonstrates the
reinforcement of cultural stereotypes in recruitment caused by
interaction between corporate restructuring and the education
system.; This book is intended for academics, postgraduates and
advanced undergraduates in sociology with an interest in the
sociology of work and the sociology of education as well as
researchers and students within human resource management and
cultural studies.
Originally published 1987 Schooling Ordinary Kids looks at the
'invisible majority' of ordinary working-class pupils. The book
explains why these pupils are now at the centre of a major
educational crisis surrounding the soaring rates of youth
unemployment. The book is a timely examination of educational
inequalities, unemployment, and the new vocationalism. Drawing
extensively the study of schools in the urban centre of South Wales
the book highlights the need for an alternative politics of
education, if we were to meet the educational challenge of the
late-twentieth century. The new vocationalism is revealed here as a
policy for inequality both politically and in the classroom.
Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion provides a timely
reminder of persisting inequalities of class, race and gender as a
consequence of the changes which have engulfed Europe in less than
a decade. The contributors consider key debates including
democracy, social justice and citizenship. The book also examines
evidence that social and economic polarization is increasing, and
the prospect of a conspicuous and growing "underclass" in Europe's
urban centres is fast becoming a reality. This volume will be
particularly valuable for undergraduate and postgraduate students
in sociology.
Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion provides a timely
reminder of persisting inequalities of class, race and gender as a
consequence of the changes which have engulfed Europe in less than
a decade. The contributors consider key debates including
democracy, social justice and citizenship. The book also examines
evidence that social and economic polarization is increasing, and
the prospect of a conspicuous and growing "underclass" in Europe's
urban centres is fast becoming a reality. This volume will be
particularly valuable for undergraduate and postgraduate students
in sociology.
Programming for Electrical Engineers: MATLAB and Spice introduces
beginning engineering students to programming in Matlab and Spice
through engaged, problem-based learning and dedicated electrical
and computer engineering content. The book draws its problems and
examples specifically from electrical and computer engineering,
covering such topics as circuit analysis, signal processing, and
filter design. It teaches relevant computational techniques in the
context of solving common problems in electrical and computer
engineering, including mesh and nodal analysis, Fourier transforms,
and phasor analysis. Programming for Electrical Engineers: MATLAB
and Spice is unique among MATLAB textbooks for its dual focus on
introductory-level learning and discipline-specific content in
electrical and computer engineering. No other textbook on the
market currently targets this audience with the same attention to
discipline-specific content and engaged learning practices.
Although it is primarily an introduction to programming in MATLAB,
the book also has a chapter on circuit simulation using Spice, and
it includes materials required by ABET Accreditation reviews, such
as information on ethics, professional development, and lifelong
learning.
The study of education and social mobility has been a key area of
sociological research since the 1950s. The importance of this
research derives from the systematic analysis of functionalist
theories of industrialism. Functionalist theories assume that the
complementary demands of efficiency and justice result in more
'meritocratic' societies, characterized by high rates of social
mobility. Much of the sociological evidence has cast doubt on this
optimistic, if not utopian, claim that reform of the education
system could eliminate the influence of class, gender and ethnicity
on academic performance and occupational destinations. This book
brings together sixteen cutting-edge articles on education and
social mobility. It also includes an introductory essay offering a
guide to the main issues and controversies addressed by authors
from several countries. This comprehensive volume makes an
important contribution to our theoretical and empirical
understanding of the changing relationship between origins,
education and destinations. This timely collection is also relevant
to policy-makers as education and social mobility are firmly back
on both national and global political agendas, viewed as key to
creating fairer societies and more competitive economies. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal
of Sociology of Education.
A new approach to the analysis of cultural reproduction focusing on
the impact of economic change. The book demonstrates the
reinforcement of cultural stereotypes in recruitment caused by
interaction between corporate restructuring and the education
system.; This book is intended for academics, postgraduates and
advanced undergraduates in sociology with an interest in the
sociology of work and the sociology of education as well as
researchers and students within human resource management and
cultural studies.
This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
social structure and political sociology as well as academic
sociologists and libraries. It should have significant appeal to
researchers and students in European studies and others interested
in European integration.
What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to
Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need
for the development of democracy in education. This volume
highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and
practical concern: the development of a critique of the philosophy
and policies of the new Right, and of credible alternative
policies.
Originally published 1987 Schooling Ordinary Kids looks at the
'invisible majority' of ordinary working-class pupils. The book
explains why these pupils are now at the centre of a major
educational crisis surrounding the soaring rates of youth
unemployment. The book is a timely examination of educational
inequalities, unemployment, and the new vocationalism. Drawing
extensively the study of schools in the urban centre of South Wales
the book highlights the need for an alternative politics of
education, if we were to meet the educational challenge of the
late-twentieth century. The new vocationalism is revealed here as a
policy for inequality both politically and in the classroom.
The study of education and social mobility has been a key area of
sociological research since the 1950s. The importance of this
research derives from the systematic analysis of functionalist
theories of industrialism. Functionalist theories assume that the
complementary demands of efficiency and justice result in more
'meritocratic' societies, characterized by high rates of social
mobility. Much of the sociological evidence has cast doubt on this
optimistic, if not utopian, claim that reform of the education
system could eliminate the influence of class, gender and ethnicity
on academic performance and occupational destinations. This book
brings together sixteen cutting-edge articles on education and
social mobility. It also includes an introductory essay offering a
guide to the main issues and controversies addressed by authors
from several countries. This comprehensive volume makes an
important contribution to our theoretical and empirical
understanding of the changing relationship between origins,
education and destinations. This timely collection is also relevant
to policy-makers as education and social mobility are firmly back
on both national and global political agendas, viewed as key to
creating fairer societies and more competitive economies. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal
of Sociology of Education.
This book focuses on Christian faith and how faith if correctly
understood produces the miraculous. The author shares his testimony
of being miraculously healed of stage 4 cancer through faith; and
gives practical insight into how believers can experience the
miraculous through the Word, Image, and Action process. Finally,
this book from a biblical perspective shows that a clear
understanding of the process of faith and consistent pattern of
obedience produces an expected end of good success. Good success
that's available to every believer for every area of their lives
(i.e., health, healing, financial, relational, etc...).
For most of the twentieth century, the primary use of coal in the
United States was for electric power generation, and for most of
the history of power generation in the United States, coal has been
the dominant fuel used to produce electricity. Even as recently as
2011, coal was the fuel used for almost 42% of power generation in
the United States accounting for 93% of coal use. Industrial uses
represented the remaining 7%. However, in April 2012, coal's share
of the power generation market dropped to about 32% (according to
Energy Information Administration statistics), equal to that of
natural gas. Coal was the fuel of choice because of its
availability and the relatively low cost of producing electricity
in large, coal-burning power plants which took advantage of coal's
low-priced, high energy content to employ economies of scale in
steamelectric production. However, coal use for power generation
seems to be on the decline, and the magnitude of coal's role for
power generation is in question. Two major reasons are generally
seen as being responsible: the expectation of a dramatic rise in
natural gas supplies, and the impact of environmental regulations
on an aging base of coal-fired power plants. A recent drop in
natural gas prices has been enabled by increasing supplies of
natural gas largely due to horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing (i.e., fracking) of shale gas formations. If the
production can be sustained in an environmentally acceptable
manner, then a long-term, relatively inexpensive supply of natural
gas could result. Decreased natural gas prices are lowering
wholesale electricity prices, stimulating a major switch from coal
to gas-burning facilities. The electric utility industry values
diversity in fuel choice options since reliance on one fuel or
technology can leave electricity producers vulnerable to price and
supply volatility. However, an "inverse relationship" may be
developing for coal vs. natural gas as a power generation choice
based on market economics alone, and policies which allow one fuel
source to dominate may come at the detriment of the other.
Coal-fired power plants are among the largest sources of air
pollution in the United States. More than half a dozen separate
Clean Air Act programs could possibly be used to control emissions,
which makes compliance strategy potentially complicated for
utilities and difficult for regulators. Because the cost of the
most stringent available controls, for the entire industry, could
range into the tens of billions of dollars, some power companies
have fought hard and rather successfully to limit or delay
regulations affecting them, particularly with respect to plants
constructed before the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 were
passed. The expected retirement of approximately 27 GW of
coal-fired capacity by 2016 has been reported to the Energy
Information Administration (EIA) by coal plant owners and
operators, accounting for approximately 8.5% of U.S. coal-fired
capacity. While the costs of compliance with new Environmental
Protection Agency regulations are a factor, several other issues
are cited by coal plant owners and operators as contributing to
these retirement decisions including the age of coal-fired power
plants, flat to modest electricity demand growth, the availability
of previously underutilized natural gas combined-cycle power
plants, and the lower price of natural gas due to shale gas
development. Even coal plants which have made significant
modifications to meet existing EPA regulations are being closed or
mothballed due to a combination of low natural gas prices, and the
inability to sell power into other markets. EIA expects coal to be
a significant part of the U.S. power generation industry's future
to well past 2030. But given price competition from natural gas,
and emerging environmental regulations, that role will likely be
smaller than in recent decades. Coal-fired generation is likely to
face a challenging future.
U.S. wind power generation has experienced rapid growth in the last
20 years as total installed capacity has increased from 1,500
megawatts (MW) in 1992 to more than 50,000 MW in August of 2012.
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), wind
power provided approximately 3% of total U.S. electricity
generation in 2011. Two primary policies provide market and
financial incentives that support the wind industry and have
contributed to U.S. wind power growth: (1) production tax credit
(PTC)-a federal tax incentive of 2.2 cents for each kilowatt-hour
(kWh) of electricity produced by a qualified wind project (set to
expire for new projects at the end of 2012), and (2) renewable
portfolio standards (RPS)-state-level policies that encourage
renewable power by requiring that either a certain percentage of
electricity be generated by renewable energy sources or a certain
amount of qualified renewable electricity capacity be installed.
The concentration of wind power projects within competitive power
markets managed by regional transmission operators (RTOs), the
focus of this report, has resulted in several concerns expressed by
power generators and other market participants. Three specific
concerns explored in this report include: (1) How might wind power
affect wholesale market clearing prices? (2) Does wind power
contribute to negative wholesale power price events? and (3) Does
wind power impact electric system reliability? These concerns might
be considered during congressional debate about the future of wind
PTC incentives. When considering the potential impacts of wind
power on electric power markets, it is important to recognize that
wholesale power markets are both complex and multi-dimensional.
Wholesale power markets are influenced by a number of factors,
including weather, electricity demand, natural gas prices,
transmission constraints, and location. Therefore, determining the
direct impact of a single variable, in this case wind power, on the
financial economics of power generators can be difficult. In 2012,
wholesale electric power prices were down from recent highs in
2008, and lower price trends can result in financial pressure for
power generators in RTO markets. Arguably, however, the two primary
contributors to this decline are low natural gas prices and low
electricity demand. Wind power generation can potentially reduce
wholesale electricity prices, in certain locations and during
certain seasons and times of day, since wind typically bids a zero
($0.00) price into wholesale power markets. Additionally,
independent market monitor reports for three different RTOs each
indicate that wind generators will sometimes bid a negative
wholesale price in order to ensure electricity dispatch. The
ability of wind generators to bid negatively priced power is
generally attributed to value associated with PTC incentives and
the ability to sell renewable energy credits (REC). However,
wholesale power price reductions and negative electricity prices
associated with wind generation need to be considered in context
with other dimensions of organized power markets. The absolute
impact of wind electricity on the economics of power generators is
difficult to determine due to the many variables and dimensions
that influence wholesale power markets. With regard to how wind
power might impact electricity system reliability, two aspects of
reliability are typically discussed: (1) impacts to system
operations-the ability of the power system to manage the variable
and sometimes unpredictable nature of wind power production, and
(2) resource adequacy and capacity margins-the potential for wind
power generation to either influence power plant retirements or
contribute to market conditions that do not support investment in
new capacity resources.
A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.
A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.
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