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Robbie Ramkat is die nuwe suksesreeks van die uiters gewilde
jeugskrywer Marc de Bel. Die Robbie ramkat-reeks (Roesty Spetter in
Nederlands) was vanaf hierdie eerste boek 'n groot sukses in
Nederland en Vlaandere. Met die vertaling in Afrikaans gaan die
effens vet maar dapper kat – op sy dag die “Kampioenkat van die
jaar” – nou ook die harte van jong Suid-Afrikaanse lesers verower.
Die bal van Bil Jart is die tweede boek in die geillustreerde reeks
van Marc de Bel. Kieta, Robbie se vriendinnetjie, gaan trek. Haar
eienaar moet die huurhuis verlaat omdat hy nie geld het om dit te
koop nie. 'n Groot jammerte, want dit hoef glad nie 'n probleem te
gewees het nie. Die man besit iets baie waardevols: Die bal van Bil
Jart, 'n unieke tennisbal met 'n handtekening daarop. Hierdie
kosbare bal is egter gesteel. Kieta is raadop...en Robbie is reg
vir aksie.
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Sin City (DVD)
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Adaptation of the award-winning comic series created by Frank
Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history,
the film paints a picture of the ultimate town through the eyes of
its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey
Rourke), whose desperate quest to find the killer of a prostitute
named Goldie (Jaime King) will lead him to the foulest edges of
town. Inhabiting many of those areas is Dwight (Clive Owen), a
photographer in league with the sordid ladies of Sin City, headed
by Gail (Rosario Dawson), who opens up a mess of trouble after
tangling with a corrupt cop by the name of Jackie Boy (Benicio Del
Toro). Finally, there's Hartigan (Bruce Willis), an ex-cop with a
heart problem who's hell-bent on protecting a stripper named Nancy
(Jessica Alba).
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Marvel Collection (DVD)
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Four-volume collection featuring Marvel Comics superheroes. In
'X-Men Origins - Wolverine' (2009) Hugh Jackman reprises his role
as clawed mutant Wolverine, formerly James Logan, in this
blockbuster action prequel. The film, set over the years leading up
to the events of the 2003 'X-Men' movie, follows the young Logan
from the first awakenings of his mutant powers in childhood up to
his amnesiac rebirth as Wolverine, and recounts his tumultuous
relationship with his ferocious half-brother, Victor Creed, aka
Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), and the events that lead him to sign
up to the ominous Weapon X programme. In 'Daredevil' (2003), Ben
Affleck stars as Matt Murdock who, after being blinded by a
spillage of toxic waste when he was a boy, develops his other
senses to an incredible degree, allowing him to navigate the city
with pinpoint accuracy. Now he works by day as a lawyer, and by
night he becomes the Daredevil when he uses his supersenses to
continue his fight against underworld supervillain Kingpin (Michael
Clarke Duncan). In 'Elektra' (2005) Jennifer Garner plays Elektra
Natchios, a hired assassin who is reunited with her old martial
arts master, Stick (Terence Stamp). When she is given an assignment
to kill Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and his daughter, Abby (Kristin
Prout), her conscience gets the better of her and she decides to
protect them instead, provoking the wrath of martial arts syndicate
'The Hand'. Finally, in 'Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer'
(2007), the sequel to the 2005 adaptation of the comic book, Sue
Storm, aka The Invisible Girl (Jessica Alba), and Reed Richards,
aka Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), prepare for their upcoming,
superhero-studded wedding celebration. But Reed is preoccupied by
reports of a bizarre, comet-like object hurtling toward the Earth
with tremendous force. When the object hits the island of
Manhattan, destroying much of the city in its wake, its identity
becomes resoundingly clear: 'it' is actually a psychotic villain
known as The Silver Surfer (voice of Laurence Fishburne) who aims
to destroy the Earth. Sue and Reed decide to summon Ben Grimm, aka
The Thing (Michael Chiklis), and Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch
(Chris Evans), to take on the Surfer - and end up battling not only
him, but an obnoxious army general (Andre Braugher) and the
cantankerous Victor Von Doom (Julian MacMahon), who has broken out
of the icy prison that held him captive at the end of the first
movie.
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive
history of maths Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But
despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the
stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives
of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell
introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have
been erased by history because of their race, gender or
nationality. From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the
ninth-century House of Wisdom, and the pioneering African American
mathematicians of the twentieth century, to the 'lady computers'
around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky,
we meet these fascinating trailblazers and see how they contributed
to our global knowledge today. Along the way, the mathematics
itself is explained extremely clearly, for example, calculus is
described using the authors' home baking, as they pose the
question: how much cake is in our cake? This revisionist,
completely accessible and radically inclusive history of
mathematics is as entertaining as it is important.
**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** The brand-new novel from the author
of the bestselling Shipyard Girls series. 1949, County Durham. From
the Shipyards of Sunderland to Lady of the Manor . . . When Angie
marries her sweetheart Quentin and moves into Cuthford Manor to
begin their new life together, she feels like the luckiest woman in
the world. But Quentin falls victim to a tragic accident and
Angie's life is left devastated. Now, along with the prospect of
rebuilding her life, she is faced with an impossible choice that
will have far-reaching consequences for herself and those she loves
most. Only with the help of her family, the community of Cuthford
Manor and her old friends from the Shipyards, will Angie draw on
the inner strength to find happiness again. Praise for Nancy
Revell: 'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the
heart!' Northern Echo 'Stirring and heartfelt storytelling'
Peterborough Evening Telegraph
The most groundbreaking meeting of Eastern philosophy and Western
culture to date. In this father-son dialgue, Revel and Ricard
explore the most fundamental questions of human existence and the
ways in which they are embraced by Eastern and Western thought. In
this meeting of the minds, they touch upon philosophy,
spirituality, science, politics, psychology and ethics. They raise
the enduring questions: does life have meaning? Why is there
suffering, war and hatred? Revel's perspective as an
internationally renowned philosopher and Ricard's as a
distinguished molecular-geneticist-turned-Buddhist-monk results in
a brilliant, accessible and accessible conversation-the most
eloquent meeting yet of Eastern & Western thought.
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Riddick (DVD)
Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff, Nolan Gerard Funk, Dave Bautista, …
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Third instalment in the Chronicles of Riddick film series directed
by David Twohy and starring Vin Diesel as the titular anti-hero.
After being betrayed and left for dead by those he once led,
Riddick must fight for his life against alien predators on a barren
and dangerous planet. In order to continue his quest of returning
to his home planet of Furya and saving his people from destruction
he activates an emergency beacon which alerts two ships to his
presence, but when the ship's crews appear they soon realise they
have become pawns in Riddick's plot for revenge...
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive
history of maths Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But
despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the
stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives
of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell
introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have
been erased by history because of their race, gender or
nationality. From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the
ninth-century House of Wisdom, and the pioneering African American
mathematicians of the twentieth century, to the 'lady computers'
around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky,
we meet these fascinating trailblazers and see how they contributed
to our global knowledge today. Along the way, the mathematics
itself is explained extremely clearly, for example, calculus is
described using the authors' home baking, as they pose the
question: how much cake is in our cake? This revisionist,
completely accessible and radically inclusive history of
mathematics is as entertaining as it is important.
Available for the first time with Macmillan's new online learning
tool, Achieve, Introductory Chemistry is the result of a unique
author vision to develop a robust combination of text and digital
resources that motivate and build student confidence while
providing a foundation for their success. Kevin Revell knows and
understands students today. Perfectly suited to the new Achieve
platform, Kevin's thoughtful and media-rich program, creates light
bulb moments for introductory chemistry students and provides
unrivaled support for instructors. The second edition of
Introductory Chemistry builds on the strengths of the first edition
- drawing students into the course through engagement and building
their foundational knowledge - while introducing new content and
resources to help students build critical thinking and
problem-solving skills. Revell's distinct author voice in the text
is mirrored in the digital content, allowing students flexibility
and ensuring a fully supported learning experience-whether using a
book or going completely digital in Achieve. Achieve supports
educators and students throughout the full flexible range of
instruction, including resources to support learning of core
concepts, visualization, problem-solving and assessment. Powerful
analytics and instructor support resources in Achieve pair with
exceptional Introductory Chemistry content to provide an unrivaled
learning experience. Now Supported in Achieve Achieve supports
educators and students throughout the full flexible range of
instruction, including resources to support learning of core
concepts, visualization, problem-solving and assessment. Powerful
analytics and instructor support resources in Achieve pair with
exceptional Introductory Chemistry content provides an unrivaled
learning experience. Features of Achieve include: A design guided
by learning science research. Co-designed through extensive
collaboration and testing by both students and faculty including
two levels of Institutional Review Board approval for every study
of Achieve An interactive e-book with embedded multimedia and
features for highlighting, note=taking and accessibility support A
flexible suite of resources to support learning core concepts,
visualization, problem-solving and assessment. A detailed gradebook
with insights for just-in-time teaching and reporting on student
and full class achievement by learning objective. Easy integration
and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions.
Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through
Inclusive Access programs. New media and assessment features in
Achieve include:
This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a
digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM)
system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade
(Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The
analysts distributed their time evenly between these two locations.
The human factors team from Brunel University, as part of the HFI
DTC, undertook a multi-faceted approach to the investigation,
including: - observation of people using the traditional analogue
MP/BM processes in the course of their work - cognitive work
analysis of the digital MP/BM system - analysis of the tasks and
goal structure required by the digital MP/BM - assessment against a
usability questionnaire - analysis of the distributed situation
awareness - an environmental survey. The book concludes with a
summary of the research project's findings and offers many valuable
insights. For example, the recommendations for short-term
improvements in the current generation of digital MP/BM system
address general design improvements, user-interface design
improvements, hardware improvements, infrastructure improvements
and support improvements. In looking forward to the next generation
digital MP/BM systems, general human factors design principles are
presented and human factors issues in digitising mission planning
are considered.
This text presents a four-step approach for applying communicative
concepts to driving automation, including: scoping, piloting,
designing, and testing. It further provides experimental data on
how practical human-human communication strategies can be applied
to interaction in automated vehicles. The book explores the role of
communication and the nature of situation awareness in automated
vehicles to ensure safe and usable automated vehicle operation. It
covers the issue of interaction in automated vehicles by providing
insight into communicative concepts, the transfer of control in
human-teams, and how these concepts can be applied in automated
vehicles. The theoretical framework is built on by presenting
experimental findings, design workshop output and providing a
demonstration of prototype generation for automated assistants that
addresses a wide range of performance outcomes within human-machine
interaction. Aimed at professionals, graduate students, and
academic researchers in the fields of ergonomics, automotive
engineering, transportation engineering, and human factors, this
text: Discusses experimental findings on how practical human-human
communication strategies can be applied to interaction in automated
vehicles. Provides a four-step approach for applying communicative
concepts to driving automation, including: scoping, piloting,
designing and testing. Explores the role of distributed situation
awareness in automated vehicles. Covers communication and system
awareness in response to multiple complex road scenarios. Provides
design guidelines for automation-human handover design.
Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching: Growth,
Inquiry, and Agency, (Second Edition), is a textbook for studies in
music education. Expanding upon the first edition, the authors
promote inquiry and reflection to facilitate teacher growth,
lifelong learning, and a disposition toward educational change. The
revised text responds to current calls for social change and
teacher education reform by reaffirming and intensifying the need
for music teachers to adopt a personal orientation toward their
work. A personal orientation encourages teachers to initiate their
own growth, engage in inquiry, and exercise agency in school
contexts. Strongly grounded in current theories and research in
teacher education, Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music
Teaching: Growth, Inquiry, and Agency strives to do the following:
Engage readers in analyzing their own experiences in order to
conceptualize the complexity of teaching Involve them in clarifying
their reasons for seeking a career in teaching Support their
insights, questions, and reflections about their work Promote a
reflective, critical attitude about schools in general as music
teachers are urged to think of themselves as change agents in
school settings Construct a moral purpose as a compass to guide
their current and future endeavors in the profession. Every chapter
includes a wealth of pedagogical features, including new
methodologies and examples of practice to engage the readers in
processes of inquiry and reflection. The second edition is
organized in two parts. Part I focuses on positioning music
teachers as learners in the profession, significantly expanding
concepts explored in the first edition that are central to a
personal orientation to professional growth. In the new edition, a
reconceptualized Chapter 5 challenges teachers to cultivate their
identities as change agents. The second half of the book-focusing
on becoming a student of music teaching- features five new
chapters. A provocative chapter on curriculum sets the stage for a
set of additional chapters that invite deeper considerations of the
commonplaces of teacher, learners, subject matter, and context. An
epilogue speaks directly to the power of agency, imagination, and
hope in teachers' lives.
Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching: Growth,
Inquiry, and Agency, (Second Edition), is a textbook for studies in
music education. Expanding upon the first edition, the authors
promote inquiry and reflection to facilitate teacher growth,
lifelong learning, and a disposition toward educational change. The
revised text responds to current calls for social change and
teacher education reform by reaffirming and intensifying the need
for music teachers to adopt a personal orientation toward their
work. A personal orientation encourages teachers to initiate their
own growth, engage in inquiry, and exercise agency in school
contexts. Strongly grounded in current theories and research in
teacher education, Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music
Teaching: Growth, Inquiry, and Agency strives to do the following:
Engage readers in analyzing their own experiences in order to
conceptualize the complexity of teaching Involve them in clarifying
their reasons for seeking a career in teaching Support their
insights, questions, and reflections about their work Promote a
reflective, critical attitude about schools in general as music
teachers are urged to think of themselves as change agents in
school settings Construct a moral purpose as a compass to guide
their current and future endeavors in the profession. Every chapter
includes a wealth of pedagogical features, including new
methodologies and examples of practice to engage the readers in
processes of inquiry and reflection. The second edition is
organized in two parts. Part I focuses on positioning music
teachers as learners in the profession, significantly expanding
concepts explored in the first edition that are central to a
personal orientation to professional growth. In the new edition, a
reconceptualized Chapter 5 challenges teachers to cultivate their
identities as change agents. The second half of the book-focusing
on becoming a student of music teaching- features five new
chapters. A provocative chapter on curriculum sets the stage for a
set of additional chapters that invite deeper considerations of the
commonplaces of teacher, learners, subject matter, and context. An
epilogue speaks directly to the power of agency, imagination, and
hope in teachers' lives.
Education and Extremisms addresses one of the most pressing
questions facing societies today: how is education to respond to
the challenge of extremism? It argues that the implementation of
new teaching techniques, curricular reforms or top-down changes to
education policy alone cannot solve the problem of extremism in
educational establishments across the world. Instead, the authors
of this thought-provoking volume argue that there is a need for
those concerned with radicalisation to reconsider the relationship
between instrumentalist ideologies shaping education and the
multiple forms of extremisms that exist. Beginning with a detailed
discussion of the complicated and contested nature of different
forms of extremism, including extremism of both a religious and
secular nature, the authors show that common assumptions in
contemporary discourses on education and extremism are problematic.
Chapters in the book provide a careful selection of pertinent and
topical case studies, policy analysis and insightful critique of
extremist discourses. Taken together, the chapters in the book make
a powerful case for re-engaging with liberal education in order to
foster values of individual and social enrichment, intellectual
freedom, criticality, open-mindedness, flexibility and reflection
as antidotes to extremist ideologies. Recognising recent criticisms
of liberalism and liberal education, the authors argue for a new
understanding of liberal education that is suitable for
multicultural societies in a rapidly globalising world. This book
is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate
students with an interest in religion, citizenship education,
liberalism, secularism, counter-terrorism, social policy, Muslim
education, youth studies and extremism. It is also relevant to
teacher educators, teachers and policymakers.
Driving automation and autonomy are already upon us and the
problems that were predicted twenty years ago are beginning to
appear. These problems include shortfalls in expected benefits,
equipment unreliability, driver skill fade, and error-inducing
equipment designs. Designing Interaction and Interfaces for
Automated Vehicles: User-Centred Ecological Design and Testing
investigates the difficult problem of how to interface drivers with
automated vehicles by offering an inclusive, human-centred design
process that focusses on human variability and capability in
interaction with interfaces. This book introduces a novel method
that combines both systems thinking and inclusive user-centred
design. It models driver interaction, provides design
specifications, concept designs, and the results of studies in
simulators on the test track, and in road going vehicles. This book
is for designers of systems interfaces, interactions, UX, Human
Factors and Ergonomics researchers and practitioners involved with
systems engineering and automotive academics._ "In this book, Prof
Stanton and colleagues show how Human Factors methods can be
applied to the tricky problem of interfacing human drivers with
vehicle automation. They have developed an approach to designing
the human-automation interaction for the handovers between the
driver and the vehicle. This approach has been tested in driving
simulators and, most interestingly, in real vehicles on British
motorways. The approach, called User-Centred Ecological Interface
Design, has been validated against driver behaviour and used to
support their ongoing work on vehicle automation. I highly
recommend this book for anyone interested, or involved, in
designing human-automation interaction in vehicles and beyond."
Professor Michael A. Regan, University of NSW Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus gives you a working knowledge of today's cutting edge tools - preparing you for the way you will be doing your job tomorrow. With contributions from seasoned manufacturing experts, the book provides a single-source reference to what's currently happening in modern manufacturing facilities. It covers:
· Agile Enterprise and Lean Manufacturing · Six Sigma-Introduction and Six Sigma-Design for Manufacturing and Assembly/ Design for Six Sigma (DFMA/DFSS) · ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000 · Process Analysis and Statistical Quality Control/Statistical Process Control (SQC/SPC) · Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) · Theory of Constraints/Constraints Management (TOC/CM) and Theory of Innovative Problem Solving (TIPS/TRIZ) · Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing Controls Integration · Design of Experiments (DOE) and Robust Design · Measurement Systems Analysis and much more
Organized so that the content is easy to find and easy to understand, Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus presents an endless supply of the tools and techniques available to the manufacturing professional who wishes to be well-informed. Nowhere else will you find all these modern manufacturing methods covered the way they are in this comprehensive resource.
This work addresses political and historiographical uses of
history. A group of leading historians and thinkers discuss
questions of collective identity and representation in relation to
the fluctuating concept of "Past" and its changing relevance. Among
the topics are Greek historiographical questions, Balkan history,
the Armenian problem, and the Plaestine historical narrative.
This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a
digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM)
system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade
(Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The
analysts distributed their time evenly between these two locations.
The human factors team from Brunel University, as part of the HFI
DTC, undertook a multi-faceted approach to the investigation,
including: - observation of people using the traditional analogue
MP/BM processes in the course of their work - cognitive work
analysis of the digital MP/BM system - analysis of the tasks and
goal structure required by the digital MP/BM - assessment against a
usability questionnaire - analysis of the distributed situation
awareness - an environmental survey. The book concludes with a
summary of the research project's findings and offers many valuable
insights. For example, the recommendations for short-term
improvements in the current generation of digital MP/BM system
address general design improvements, user-interface design
improvements, hardware improvements, infrastructure improvements
and support improvements. In looking forward to the next generation
digital MP/BM systems, general human factors design principles are
presented and human factors issues in digitising mission planning
are considered.
Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of
Political Crisis addresses the neoliberalization of the university,
what this means in real terms, and strategic pedagogical responses
to teaching within this context across disciplines and region.
Inspired by bell hooks' "transgressive school" and Donna Haraway's
"responsibility", this collection promotes a politics of care
within the classroom through new forms of organizational practices.
It engages with the challenges and possibilities of teaching
students about women and gender by examining the multiple
pedagogical, theoretical, and political dimensions of feminist
learning. The book revisits how we can reconfigure a feminist
politics of responsibility that is able to respond to or engage
with contemporary crises. It also conceptualizes crisis and
explains how it is transforming contemporary societies and
affecting individual vulnerabilities and institutional structures.
Finally, it offers practical cases from different European
locations, in which crisis and responsibility have served to
reformulate contemporary feminist pedagogies, altering curriculums,
reframing institutions, and affecting the process of teaching and
learning.
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