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The next decade will be transformative for the higher education
sector. Government funding is decreasing. Through their marketing
activities universities have created the 'student consumer.' The
student consumer is prepared to shop around, compare prices and
value, and once purchased expects a return on their investment.
Disruptive innovations are challenging traditional forms of
learning and in many cases are viewed as better alternatives to
traditional learning in the classroom. Competition from private
educational providers is increasing. Their cost base is lower, and
their customer focus is superior. In short, universities around the
world are facing a perfect storm. While experts don't expect the
higher education sector to collapse under these challenges, they do
believe that for some institutions the future looks bleak. If
universities are to avoid closures or mergers, they will need to
adopt a market-oriented approach. This timely book urges readers to
view students as customers and focuses on how universities need to
reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. Striking a
difference between market-oriented and marketing, the authors
provide various examples of institutions around the world that are
making efforts to reposition themselves. Additionally, this book
delves into the issue of undervalued faculty, arguing that
education practices are in desperate need of being reimagined due
to the abundance of MOOCs and adaptive and experiential learning
practices within universities these days. Both university and
academic leaders alike, including presidents, provosts, deans, and
faculty will find value in the instructional aspects of this book
as they relate to their involvement with institutional advancement
agendas as well as providing insight into the changing nature of
higher education and the evolving definition of what an academic
career now entails.
Finding my father was a wonderful feeling; forgiving him was
even better. I have been set free, and now I can look at all the
houses he built and the St. Louis arch in four states: South
Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Missouri.
The next decade will be transformative for the higher education
sector. Government funding is decreasing. Through their marketing
activities universities have created the 'student consumer.' The
student consumer is prepared to shop around, compare prices and
value, and once purchased expects a return on their investment.
Disruptive innovations are challenging traditional forms of
learning and in many cases are viewed as better alternatives to
traditional learning in the classroom. Competition from private
educational providers is increasing. Their cost base is lower, and
their customer focus is superior. In short, universities around the
world are facing a perfect storm. While experts don't expect the
higher education sector to collapse under these challenges, they do
believe that for some institutions the future looks bleak. If
universities are to avoid closures or mergers, they will need to
adopt a market-oriented approach. This timely book urges readers to
view students as customers and focuses on how universities need to
reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. Striking a
difference between market-oriented and marketing, the authors
provide various examples of institutions around the world that are
making efforts to reposition themselves. Additionally, this book
delves into the issue of undervalued faculty, arguing that
education practices are in desperate need of being reimagined due
to the abundance of MOOCs and adaptive and experiential learning
practices within universities these days. Both university and
academic leaders alike, including presidents, provosts, deans, and
faculty will find value in the instructional aspects of this book
as they relate to their involvement with institutional advancement
agendas as well as providing insight into the changing nature of
higher education and the evolving definition of what an academic
career now entails.
When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country
had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political
systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished,
agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of
the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically
arid. Yet, southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by
the 1920s and 1930s. World War I brought southerners into contact
with modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall
created an inherent tension between the region's existing
agricultural social structure and the processes of modernization,
leading to distal modernism, a form of writing that combines
elements of modernism to depict non-modern social structures.
Critics have struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption
of modern southern literature, sometimes called the Southern
Renaissance. ,br> Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, David
A. Davis argues southern modernism was not a self-generating
outburst of writing, but a response to the disruptions modernity
generated in the region. In World War I and Southern Modernism,
Davis examines dozens of works of literature by writers, including
William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the
South during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact
between the North and the South, southerners who served in combat,
and the developing southern economy. Davis also provides a new lens
for this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the
military and changing gender roles.
"An Evening With JonBenet Ramsey" begins with a full-length play,
"Cowboy's Sweetheart," which imagines the life of a sexually abused
and murdered child as it might have evolved had she lived. The play
is followed by two essays which consider the JonBenet Ramsey case
from a number of perspectives. The result is an incisive critique
of the media and a compelling study of the psychological
consequences of what is a national epidemic: the sexual abuse of
children.
Email: [email protected]
Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director
Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre
and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English
language commercial and art film projects.
This book examines the portrayal of Israel as a royal-priestly
nation within Exodus and against the background of biblical and
ancient Near Eastern thought. Central to the work is a literary
study of Exodus 19:4GCo6 and a demonstration of the pivotal role
these verses and their main image have within Exodus. This elective
and honorific designation of YahwehGCOs cherished people has a
particular focus on the privilege of access to him in his heavenly
temple. The paradigm of the royal grant of privileged status has
profound implications for our understanding of the Sinai covenant.
"Baggy Pants Comedy takes readers inside the burlesque houses of
Depression-era America to explore the role of comedy in a show
remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque
comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of
comedy, working in a genre that relied not on scripts but on a
remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. The
book opens a long-neglected area of American folklore, presenting
dozens of fondly-remembered routines like "Who's On First" and
"Niagara Falls (Slowly I Turned)," as well as long-forgotten
classics in print for the first time"--
The volume covers wide-ranging topics from Theory: structure of
finite fields, normal bases, polynomials, function fields, APN
functions. Computation: algorithms and complexity, polynomial
factorization, decomposition and irreducibility testing, sequences
and functions. Applications: algebraic coding theory, cryptography,
algebraic geometry over finite fields, finite incidence geometry,
designs, combinatorics, quantum information science.
The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous
publications about irregular (or "metalinguistic") negations. A
total of ten distinct negatives-several previously unclassified-are
analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different
implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but
completely conventional. The author argues that two of the
irregular negative meanings are implicatures. The others are
semantically rather than pragmatically ambiguous. Since their
ambiguity is neither lexical nor structural, direct irregular
negatives satisfy the standard definition of idioms as
syntactically complex expressions whose meaning is
non-compositional. Unlike stereotypical idioms, idiomatic negatives
lack fixed syntactic forms and are highly compositional. The final
chapter analyzes other "free form" idioms, including irregular
interrogatives and comparatives, self-restricted verb phrases,
numerical verb phrases, and transparent propositional attitude and
speech act reports.
Dr. Myrtle A. Davis has assembled a panel of cutting-edge
scientists to describe their best methods for detecting,
illuminating, and quantifying apoptotic mechanisms in a way that is
useful for the design of toxicology and pharmacology studies. These
state-of-the-art techniques include flow cytometric, fluorometric,
and laser scanning methods for quantifying and characterizing
apoptosis, as well as protocols for the use of DNA microarray
technology, high throughput screens, and ELISA. Immunocytochemical
methods for measuring biochemical and molecular endpoints in tissue
sections will be highly useful for those carrying out studies in
whole animal models as opposed to cell culture systems.
Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry
again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and
the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food
and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products
associated with the South, the connections between them have not
been thoroughly explored until now.
Southern food has become the subject of increasingly
self-conscious intellectual consideration. The Southern Foodways
Alliance, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, food-themed issues
of "Oxford American" and "Southern Cultures," and a spate of new
scholarly and popular books demonstrate this interest. "Writing in
the Kitchen" explores the relationship between food and literature
and makes a major contribution to the study of both southern
literature and of southern foodways and culture more widely.
This collection examines food writing in a range of literary
expressions, including cookbooks, agricultural journals, novels,
stories, and poems. Contributors interpret how authors use food to
explore the changing South, considering the ways race, ethnicity,
class, gender, and region affect how and what people eat. They
describe foods from specific southern places such as New Orleans
and Appalachia, engage both the historical and contemporary South,
and study the food traditions of ethnicities as they manifest
through the written word.
During the second half of the 20th century, Murray Rosenblatt
was one of the most celebrated and leading figures in probability
and statistics. Among his many contributions, Rosenblatt conducted
seminal work on density estimation, central limit theorems under
strong mixing conditions, spectral domain methodology, long memory
processes and Markov processes. He has published over 130 papers
and 5 books, many as relevant today as when they first appeared
decades ago. Murray Rosenblatt was one of the founding members of
the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at
San Diego (UCSD) and served as advisor to over twenty PhD students.
He maintains a close association with UCSD in his role as Professor
Emeritus.
This volume is a celebration of Murray Rosenblatt's stellar
research career that spans over six decades, and includes some of
his most interesting and influential papers. Several leading
experts provide commentary and reflections on various directions of
Murray's research portfolio."
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The Ant Bully (DVD)
Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Regina King, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Computer-animated comedy adventure. Lucas Nickle (voice of Zach
Tyler Eisen) is a ten-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a
new town, and Lucas isn't enjoying it much. He hasn't made any
friends yet, his big sister ignores him, his parents (Larry Miller
and Cheri Oteri) are occupied with their upcoming vacation in
Mexico, and his loving but slightly crazy grandmother (Lily Tomlin)
is convinced space aliens are casing out the neighbourhood. To make
matters worse, the local bully has found Lucas and is making his
life miserable, so the boy looks for someone he can push around -
and he soon finds a large colony of ants in his yard. Lucas takes
out his frustrations by stomping, drowning, and burying the bugs,
not realising that the ants see him as a threat to their safety and
aren't about take his attacks lying down. Zoc (Nicolas Cage) is a
'wizard ant' who creates a formula that shrinks Lucas to the size
of an insect, and the tiny boy is brought before the leader of the
Ant Council (Ricardo Montalban) and the Queen of the Colony (Meryl
Streep) to answer for his crimes against the ants. Showing
compassion, the queen sentences Lucas not to death, but to live
among them and see how difficult their circumstances can be.
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