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Originally published in 1991, this book provides the reader with a
comprehensive synthesis of developments, issues and practices
related to a self-direction in learning. it presents strategies for
facilitating self-directed learning as an instructional method and
for enhancing learner self-direction as an aspect of adult
personality. The idea of self-directed learning is not a new one
but has received renewed attention in education circles and has
particular significance for the adult education sector.
This book focuses on the political-economic dimensions of the food
crisis, with case studies from the four regions-Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and the Middle East-of the Third World. It examines
various international factors that influence agricultural
development in the Third World.
This book, Land, Power, and Poverty, explores the development of
the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society
and the role in the conflicts of five governments of the region
Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
This book focuses on the political-economic dimensions of the food
crisis, with case studies from the four regions-Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and the Middle East-of the Third World. It examines
various international factors that influence agricultural
development in the Third World.
This book, Land, Power, and Poverty, explores the development of
the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society
and the role in the conflicts of five governments of the region
Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
Whether you are a theatre major looking forward to a career in the
arts or a non-major interested in an overview to increase your
appreciation as an audience member, THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE, 11th
Edition, provides an engaging, insightful, and informative resource
that will enrich your theatre experience throughout your life.
Written by highly respected teachers and theatre historians, the
text has earned its reputation as one of the most comprehensive,
authoritative surveys of the theatre. Its vibrant treatment of
theatre practice--past and present--catalogs the origins of theatre
through postmodernism and performance art. The Eleventh Edition
includes an all-new chapter devoted to musical theatre, new "Then
and Now" boxes that link theatre history to present-day, and
numerous new photos--including photos of actors you will quickly
recognize from film and television.
Known as the "bible" of theatre history, Brockett and Hildy's
History of the Theatre is the most comprehensive and widely used
survey of theatre history in the market. This 40th Anniversary
Edition retains all of the traditional features that have made
History of the Theatre the most successful text of its kind
including worldwide coverage, more than 530 photos and
illustrations, useful maps, and the expertise of Oscar G. Brockett
and Franklin J. Hildy, two of the most widely respected theatre
historians in the field. This tenth edition provides the most
thorough and accurate assessment of theatre history available and
includes contemporary milestones in theatre history.
Geometric Methods in System Theory In automatic control there are a
large number of applications of a fairly simple type for which the
motion of the state variables is not free to evolve in a vector
space but rather must satisfy some constraints. Examples are
numerous; in a switched, lossless electrical network energy is
conserved and the state evolves on an ellipsoid surface defined by
x'Qx equals a constant; in the control of finite state, continuous
time, Markov processes the state evolves on the set x'x = 1, xi ~
O. The control of rigid body motions and trajectory control leads
to problems of this type. There has been under way now for some
time an effort to build up enough control theory to enable one to
treat these problems in a more or less routine way. It is important
to emphasise that the ordinary vector space-linear theory often
gives the wrong insight and thus should not be relied upon.
Originally published in 1991, this book provides the reader with a
comprehensive synthesis of developments, issues and practices
related to a self-direction in learning. it presents strategies for
facilitating self-directed learning as an instructional method and
for enhancing learner self-direction as an aspect of adult
personality. The idea of self-directed learning is not a new one
but has received renewed attention in education circles and has
particular significance for the adult education sector.
Invaluable guidance for complete integration of sustainability into
reporting and performance management systems
Global businesses are under close scrutiny from lawmakers,
regulators, and their diverse stakeholders to focus on
sustainability and accept responsibility for their multiple bottom
line performance. "Business Sustainability and Accountability"
examines business sustainability and accountability reporting and
their integration into strategy, governance, risk assessment,
performance management and the reporting process. This book also
highlights how people, business and resources collaborate in a
business sustainability and accountability model.Looks at business
sustainability and accountability reporting and assurance and their
incorporation into the reporting processFocuses on how the business
sustainability and accountability model are impacted by the
collaboration of people, business, and resourcesPresents laws,
rules, regulations, standards and best practices relevant to
business sustainability performance, reporting and assurance
Organizations worldwide recognize the importance of all five
EGSEE dimensions of sustainability performance and accountability
reporting. However, how to actually assess sustainability risk,
implement sustainability reporting, and obtain sustainability
assurance remain a major challenge and best practices are evolving.
Straightforward and comprehensive "Business Sustainability and
Accountability" hits on all of the hottest topics around
sustainability including multiple bottom line (EGSEE) performance
and reporting, related financial and non-financial key performance
indicators (KPIs), business social responsibility and environmental
reporting.
What does Medial Frontal Cortex Signal During Behavior? Insights
from Behavioral Neurophysiology, Volume 158 addresses and
highlights a question that has remained central to cognitive and
systems neuroscience since its inception, namely, what does the
medial frontal cortex do? With insights from 17 of the fields
leading teams of scientists, this volume attempts to address this
question covering several topics with chapters including What do
single unit responses in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex mean?,
Social Processing by the Primate Medial Frontal Cortex, Medial
frontal cortex and the temporal control of action, The midcingulate
cortex and temporal integration, and more. Additional chapters
cover The anterior cingulate cortex and event-based modulation of
autonomic states, Integration of value and action in medial
prefrontal neural systems, Secondary motor cortex: broadcasting and
biasing animal's decisions through long-range circuits, The
prefrontal cortex in social cognition, Representing task strategies
in the medial prefrontal cortex, Prefrontal contributions to action
control in rodents, From affective to cognitive processings:
functional organization of the medial frontal cortex, and much
more.
A highly practical guide for new instructors teaching in any
setting
Regardless of the context, teaching is a tall task--and for
those teaching adults, unique challenges await. "Teaching Adults: A
Practical Guide for New Teachers" is chock-full of ideas that can
be read quickly and implemented immediately in formal and informal
settings, in classrooms and workplaces; in short, wherever adults
are learning.
Written with straightforward language that eschews jargon, yet
grounded in theory, research, and practice in adult education, the
book will benefit readers who have not previously been exposed to
these ideas as well as more experienced teachers who seek new ways
to reach adult learners. The book will serve as a resource to
revisit from time to time as readers face new challenges and
questions in teaching adults.
Readers will delve into to a variety of topics, including: A
general teaching framework, including the author's four keys to
effective teachingAn in-depth exploration of the primary components
of effective teachingAn examination of the unique challenges
involved with teaching adults, including how to best create a
positive learning environment, overcoming resistance to learning,
motivation techniques, and dealing with difficult or disruptive
learners
The book elucidates the techniques required to connect with
adult learners and provide instruction that is specifically
tailored to the unique learning needs of these students.
The Exeter Assembly was founded in 1691 as a meeting place for
Nonconformist ministers in Devon and Cornwall. Its Minutes, edited
here with an introduction, provide evidence of Nonconformist
activity in the two counties in their most active period. They
include information about the education and ordination of potential
ministers, church finances, and religious controversies. They will
interest historians of religion in the period, and particularly
Nonconformity, as well as scholars interested in the history of
Devon and Cornwall.
The term "control theory" refers to the body of results -
theoretical, numerical and algorithmic - which have been developed
to influence the evolution of the state of a given system in order
to meet a prescribed performance criterion. Systems of interest to
control theory may be of very different natures. This monograph is
concerned with models that can be described by partial differential
equations of evolution. It contains five major contributions and is
connected to the CIME Course on Control of Partial Differential
Equations that took place in Cetraro (CS, Italy), July 19 - 23,
2010. Specifically, it covers the stabilization of evolution
equations, control of the Liouville equation, control in fluid
mechanics, control and numerics for the wave equation, and Carleman
estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations with application to
control. We are confident this work will provide an authoritative
reference work for all scientists who are interested in this field,
representing at the same time a friendly introduction to, and an
updated account of, some of the most active trends in current
research.
This work is aimed at mathematics and engineering graduate students
and researchers in the areas of optimization, dynamical systems,
control sys tems, signal processing, and linear algebra. The
motivation for the results developed here arises from advanced
engineering applications and the emer gence of highly parallel
computing machines for tackling such applications. The problems
solved are those of linear algebra and linear systems the ory, and
include such topics as diagonalizing a symmetric matrix, singular
value decomposition, balanced realizations, linear programming,
sensitivity minimization, and eigenvalue assignment by feedback
control. The tools are those, not only of linear algebra and
systems theory, but also of differential geometry. The problems are
solved via dynamical sys tems implementation, either in continuous
time or discrete time, which is ideally suited to distributed
parallel processing. The problems tackled are indirectly or
directly concerned with dynamical systems themselves, so there is
feedback in that dynamical systems are used to understand and
optimize dynamical systems. One key to the new research results has
been the recent discovery of rather deep existence and uniqueness
results for the solution of certain matrix least squares
optimization problems in geomet ric invariant theory. These
problems, as well as many other optimization problems arising in
linear algebra and systems theory, do not always admit solutions
which can be found by algebraic methods."
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