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This timely and incisive book combines an introduction to the core
legal and policy issues presented by climate change with a deeper
analysis of decisions that will define the path forward. Offering a
guide to key terms, concepts, and legal principles in the field,
this book will help readers develop a sophisticated perspective on
issues central to climate change law and policy. Building a pathway
to literacy in climate change policy, chapters provide an
accessible overview of key energy regulations and laws governing
energy projects, legal mechanisms to regulate GHG emissions, and
the role of state and local governments in developing mitigation
and adaptation policy, particularly in the building and
transportation sectors. The authors highlight the relationship
between human rights and climate change using the framework of
human rights law, analyze the use of litigation to compel climate
change mitigation and adaptation and suggest ways to achieve
international cooperation. Providing a deep understanding of
ongoing debates about the design and implementation of climate
change law and policy, this book will be an essential resource for
students and researchers of environmental and climate change law,
governance, and regulation. It will also be useful for policymakers
and practitioners in the field for its practical insights into
future developments and solutions.
Oxford Successful Agricultural Sciences is a trusted Agricultural
Sciences course that is used by teachers all over South Africa. The
rich, relevant, and age appropriate content fully covers the
National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS),
ensuring that learners stay interested throughout the year.
Features: topics are structured according to CAPS which makes the
course easy to use in the classroom; scaffolded content and
concepts provide learners with a solid foundation for success in
exams; a wealth and variety of activities consolidate knowledge and
skills, and provide ample practice to ensure exam success; an exam
section with exam tips and practice papers helps learners prepare
for formal assessment and exams; full colour photographs of animal
breeds, as well as primary and secondary minerals provide easy
recognition; a website feature in the margin guides learners to
important government and agricultural websites to find relevant
information and statistics; "Did you know?" features provide
interesting additional information on the content.
As more and more music literature is published each year,
librarians, scholars, and bibliographers are turning to music
bibliography to retain control over the flood of information. Based
on the Conference of Music Bibliography, this timely book provides
vital information on the most important aspects of the scholarly
practice of music bibliography. Foundations in Music Bibliography
provides librarians with great insight into bibliographic issues
they face every day including bibliographic control of primary and
secondary sources, the emergence of enumerative and analytical
bibliography, bibliographic instruction, and bibliographic
lacunae.Foundations in Music Bibliography features the perspectives
of prominent scholars and music librarians on contemporary issues
in music bibliography often encountered by music librarians. It
offers practical insights and includes chapters on teaching
students how to use microcomputer programs to search music
bibliographies, organizing a graduate course in music bibliography,
and researching film music bibliography. The book also provides a
supplement to Steven D. Westcott 's A Comprehensive Bibliography of
Music for Film and Television. This insightful volume demonstrates
the many ways that bibliography relates music publications to each
other and endows grander meaning to individual scholarly
observations. Some of the fascinating topics covered by Foundations
in Music Bibliography include: the history of thematic catalogs
indexing Gregorian chant manuscripts general principles of
bibliographic instruction analyses of Debussy discographies musical
ephemera and their importance in various types of musicological
research bibliographical lacunae (i.e. lack of access to visual
sources, failure to control primary sources, and lack of
communication with the rest of the performing arts)Foundations in
Music Bibliography shows librarians how bibliography can be used to
help music students and researchers find the information they need
among the innumerable available sources. It is an indispensable
asset to the shelves of all music reference libraries that wish to
provide their patrons with the latest bibliographic tools.
Created to be small and compact for easy traveling, this study
guide provides all the lights, shapes, and symbols used out in the
sea. How do you signal that a vessel is in distress or has run
aground? International signals and symbols are also provided, as is
an alphabetical listing of phonetic and Morse Code. In addition to
preparing marine students, this book is a valuable tool for the
seasoned mariner or private boater who wants to sharpen their
skills and make themselves safer and more prudent on the water. Its
cargo-pocket size and lightly laminated pages means it can be taken
on the "road" with the marine and endure in a maritime environment.
First published in 1993: This book is an outgrowth of fiber optic
design courses given by the author.
Making Technology Work in Schools is an easy-to-use guide for
transforming your school into a learner-centered, tech-rich
environment. School systems are increasingly adopting ambitious new
educational technologies, but how do you make sure they are
yielding effective teaching and learning experiences? The authors'
proven, intuitive practices speak directly to academic coaches,
school technology leads, district technology directors, and
teachers on special assignment who are responsible for introducing
new tools and programs. After reading this book, you will be able
to better prepare the educators you serve to empower their
learners, whether digitally savvy or not, to be engaged,
collaborative, and better prepared for college and careers.
Making Technology Work in Schools is an easy-to-use guide for
transforming your school into a learner-centered, tech-rich
environment. School systems are increasingly adopting ambitious new
educational technologies, but how do you make sure they are
yielding effective teaching and learning experiences? The authors'
proven, intuitive practices speak directly to academic coaches,
school technology leads, district technology directors, and
teachers on special assignment who are responsible for introducing
new tools and programs. After reading this book, you will be able
to better prepare the educators you serve to empower their
learners, whether digitally savvy or not, to be engaged,
collaborative, and better prepared for college and careers.
First published in 1993: This book is an outgrowth of fiber optic
design courses given by the author.
In the opening chapters the author records his father Toby's
remarkable career in PR. This began just before World War II with
Toby becoming responsible for taking the initiative away from
Germany's propoganda machine controlled by the well organized and
funded Nazi party. After the war Toby was one of the first
political spin-doctors, worked for the Conservative Party and later
rose to be the doyen of commercial and international PR in the UK.
Later in the book, Donough picks up his own story and this really
comes to life when he joins the Irish Guards. He then treats us to
four years of amusing military recollections. On leaving, the
author started civilian work in a London that is just beginning to
come alive - the Swinging Sixties have arrived. Like his father he
goes into PR and records a memoir of the most colourful people of
the period. The glamorous certainly feature - Joanna Lumley,
Jacqueline Bisset and Charlotte Rampling are just some. His
involvement in the opening of the trendiest nightclub of the
period, Sibylla's, with its guest list of all the greats of rock n'
roll is another seminal moment.
Where products develop ever more rapidly, the law may face
difficulties in responding accordingly to new security threats
which may arise. In the field of product liability, an
extraordinary need for legal development has thus been perceived,
with legislators and judges feeling compelled to find new solutions
and to look across borders for these. In the detailed reports in
this book, the World Tort Law Society proves that it is in an ideal
position to examine the most significant concepts. The report on
North America studies the special regime for product liability from
its origin in the case law of the US; the European report is
centred around the EU Product Liability Directive with its merits
and faults; and the influence of these two systems as well as new
answers are shown in the reports on Asia, Russia and four key
jurisdictions in the rest of the world. Similar questions are
discussed worldwide: How can a strict liability regime for products
be justified, and can it be justified in all cases? How does the
special regime relate to general rules of tort law? Should services
be subject to a similar regime? The Members of the Society seek to
provoke thought for solutions to these pervasive problems. In this
spirit, the volume's comparative conclusions invite discussion, and
the book includes four responses to that call from eminent tort
lawyers from different legal backgrounds.
Digital video, audio, and text have never been more popular, and
educators need to know how to make new media work in all types of
learning environments. The Educator's Guide to Producing New Media
and Open Educational Resources provides practical advice on how to
produce and use open access resources to support student learning.
This realistic "how-to" guide is written for education
professionals in any discipline seeking to transform their
instruction with technology.
Causal uncertainty is a wide-spread phenomenon. Courts are often
unable to determine whether a defendant's tortious conduct was a
factual cause of a plaintiff's harm. Yet, sometimes courts can
determine the probability that the defendant caused the plaintiff's
harm, although often there is considerable variance in the
probability estimate based on the available evidence. The
conventional way to cope with this uncertainty has been to apply
the evidentiary rule of 'standard of proof'. The application of
this 'all or nothing' rule can lead to unfairness by absolving
defendants who acted tortiously and may also create undesirable
incentives that result in greater wrongful conduct and injustice to
victims. Some courts have decided that this 'no-liability' outcome
is undesirable. They have adopted rules of proportional liability
that compensate plaintiffs according to the probability that their
harm was caused by the defendant's tortious conduct. In 2005 the
Principles of European Tort Law (PETL) made a breakthrough in this
regard by embracing rules of proportional liability. This project,
building on PETL, endeavours to make further inquiries into the
desirable scope of proportional liability and to offer a more
detailed view of its meaning, implications, and ramifications.
This leading casebook covers all major aspects of tort law with
expertly edited cases and original text. The principal focus of
this book is the law of negligence, strict liability, and no-fault
legislation as alternative approaches to compensating the victims
of accidental harm and creating optimal incentives for safety. The
chapter on intentional torts has been restructured to facilitate
its use to start off the course for those instructors desiring to
do so. The book also includes comprehensive chapters on products
liability, damages and insurance, defamation, privacy, economic
torts, and a revamped and updated chapter on alternatives to tort
law, including the "tort reforms" of the past half century. Notes
and questions following principal cases are designed to supplement
students' knowledge about the subject matter of the case and
related areas as well as to encourage them to think critically
about judicial opinions and tort policy. This Eleventh Edition
reflects evolving developments in recent case law and legislative
activity, as well as materials and commentary ranging from the
soon-to-be completed Third Restatement project on Intentional Torts
to continuing tort issues arising from the Internet to important
civil justice issues of the day.
Within the social and political upheaval of American cities in the
decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century, a new scientific
discipline, psychology, strove to carve out a place for itself. In
this new history of early American psychology, Christopher D. Green
highlights the urban contexts in which much of early American
psychology developed and tells the stories of well-known early
psychologists, including William James, G. Stanley Hall, John
Dewey, and James McKeen Cattell, detailing how early psychologists
attempted to alleviate the turmoil around them. American
psychologists sought out the daunting intellectual, emotional, and
social challenges that were threatening to destabilize the nation's
burgeoning urban areas and proposed novel solutions, sometimes to
positive and sometimes to negative effect. Their contributions
helped develop our modern ideas about the mind, person, and
society. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in
the history of psychology.
Four chapters represent the intense current effort to understand the way in which the mitochondrion controls the activation of the final stages of cell death. Another four articles attack the problem from the other side. How do specific insults in particular human or mouse neuro-degenerative diseases translate into mechanisms that will not only allow us to better understand what is happening in these patients but also, with luck, allow for development of more efficient and specific drugs in the future? Firstly, the concept of a central common cell death pathway, originally derived from studies on the nematode, has been an outstanding productive paradigm in bringing together different strands of research. Secondly, truly striking links have been made between results obtained in the culture dish (or even cell-free systems) and the diseased human brain.
Digital video, audio, and text have never been more popular, and
educators need to know how to make new media work in all types of
learning environments. The Educator's Guide to Producing New Media
and Open Educational Resources provides practical advice on how to
produce and use open access resources to support student learning.
This realistic "how-to" guide is written for education
professionals in any discipline seeking to transform their
instruction with technology.
Within the social and political upheaval of American cities in the
decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century, a new scientific
discipline, psychology, strove to carve out a place for itself. In
this new history of early American psychology, Christopher D. Green
highlights the urban contexts in which much of early American
psychology developed and tells the stories of well-known early
psychologists, including William James, G. Stanley Hall, John
Dewey, and James McKeen Cattell, detailing how early psychologists
attempted to alleviate the turmoil around them. American
psychologists sought out the daunting intellectual, emotional, and
social challenges that were threatening to destabilize the nation's
burgeoning urban areas and proposed novel solutions, sometimes to
positive and sometimes to negative effect. Their contributions
helped develop our modern ideas about the mind, person, and
society. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in
the history of psychology.
Oxford suksesvolle landbouwetenskappe is 'n
landbouwetenskappekursus wat deur onderwysers regdeur Suid-Afrika
vertrou en gebruik word. Die ryk, relevante en ouderdomsgepaste
inhoud dek die Nasionale Kurrikulum - en
Assesseringsbeleidverklaring (KABV) ten volle, en verseker dat
leerders regdeur die jaar belangstelling behou. Kenmerke:
onderwerpe is volgens die KABV gestruktureer, wat die kursus maklik
maak om in die klaskamer te gebruik; spesiale ondersteuning van
inhoud en begrippe bied leerders 'n vaste grondslag vir sukses in
die eksamens; 'n groot klomp en verskeidenheid aktiwiteite
konsolideer kennis en vaardighede, en verskaf baie oefening om
sukses in die eksamens te verseker; 'n eksamenafdeling met
eksamenwenke en oefenvraestelle help leerders om vir formele
assessering en eksamens voor te berei; volkleurfoto's van
diererasse, asook primere en sekondere minerale maak dit maklik
herkenbaar; 'n webwerf-kenmerk in die kantlyn lei leerders na
belangrike Regerings- en Landbouwebwerwe om relevante inligting en
statistieke te vind; "Het jy geweet?" - kenmerk verskaf
interessante bykomende inligting oor die inhoud.
Donald Trump won a significant victory in Iowa in 2016. Although
Iowa was carried by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Trump won the
popular vote in 93 of its 99 counties, 32 of which were carried by
Obama in 2012. What explains this significant victory, in which a
third of Iowa's counties were flipped? Through a mixed-methods
approach, this volume demonstrates that Trump's electoral victory
was shaped by three key factors: firstly, the electorate's desire
for "change" in Washington, D.C.; secondly, Trump's successful
appeals to both the Republican base and white, working-class voters
who had previously supported Barack Obama; and thirdly, Iowa's
conservative ideological tendency regarding immigration and race.
While contributing to emerging literature on the 2016 presidential
elections, this book also serves to aid educators with a published
resource on Iowa's electoral politics.
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and
eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how
did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual,
and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what
challenges do they face today?
Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by
describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison
and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what
is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling
throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among
different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more
settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and
cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and
spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American
life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great
diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400
different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways
of life varied according to the environments they settled in and
adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress
how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their
sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United
States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support
their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives
meaningful.
Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of
Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a
historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account
of the wide array of Native peoples in America.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and
style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of
life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the
newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about
the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from
philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
"I have not seen a more teacher-friendly resource for using the Web
in the classroom. The authors took both novices and experts into
consideration. A must-have in every school." -Elizabeth Alvarez,
Math and Science Coach Chicago Public Schools, IL "A user-friendly
tool on many levels. I would recommend this book to media
specialists, instructional technology teachers, and district
coordinators for both content and technology." -April DeGennaro,
Gifted Education Teacher Peeples Elementary School, Fayetteville,
GA Translate Web technology into practical applications for the
daily curriculum! Designed for novices and experienced users, this
comprehensive guide includes all the need-to-know aspects of using
the World Wide Web to support student learning. Making the Most of
the Web in Your Classroom covers the language of the Web, describes
Web-editing software, and shows how to use Web tools that offer
unique learning opportunities for students. This book examines
issues of student safety, appropriate "netiquette," and copyright
and other legal considerations and provides field-tested
strategies, examples, and reproducibles to help teachers create
powerful learning opportunities. Educators will be able to meet
ISTE NETS technology and content standards as they: Design and
build Web sites Help students develop their own Internet projects
Evaluate and manage Web projects Featuring a list of key terms in
each chapter, this timely resource will motivate your students and
help make technology a seamless part of your classroom instruction.
A Conductor's Guide to Nineteenth-Century Choral-Orchestral Works,
the fifth in the ongoing series of books, addresses works of the
Romantic era, from composers such as Beach, Beethoven, Brahms,
Dvorak, Faure, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Rossini, Saint-Saens,
Schubert, Scriabin, and Verdi. Jonathan D. Green has amassed a
varied collection of significant choral-orchestral works, arranged
by composer. Each section begins with a brief biographical sketch,
including a selected bibliography, then lists the composer's works.
Green presents important details of each work, including the
approximate duration, text sources, the voices and instruments
required for the performance, editions currently available, and
locations of manuscript materials. Green also provides notes and
comments on performance issues, and he evaluates the solo roles and
the level of difficulty of each piece. The sections conclude with a
selective discography and bibliography. The information is vital
for aiding conductors in choosing repertoire appropriate to their
needs and the abilities of their ensembles and can help scholars
with further research.
A Conductor's Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of the Classical
Period, Part I: Haydn and Mozart is the fourth volume in Jonathan
Green's innovative study of the vast body of choral-orchestral
repertoire. A treasure-trove for conductors of choir and
orchestras, in this volume all of the masses, oratorios, cantatas,
litanies, vespers, and minor sacred works of Haydn and Mozart are
carefully examined. For each work, the author has compiled the text
source, duration, date of composition, date and place of premiere,
location of manuscript materials, commercially available editions,
a selected discography, a bibliography, and a brief history of the
work. Most importantly, the performance concerns for the choir,
orchestra, and soloists of each work are evaluated and described.
This will prove to be an invaluable programming aid for conductors
and a touchstone for anyone embarking on research into this music.
This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works is a
continuation of the author's previous study of twentieth century
works with English texts. Green examines nearly one hundred works,
from Rachmaninov's Vesna to Penderecki's Song of Songs. For each
work, he provides a biography of the composer, complete
instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing
materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliography of the
composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has
been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems,
rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both the choir and
orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The composers
represented in this work include Bela Bartok, Leonard Bernstein,
Ernest Bloch, Maurice Durufe, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith,
Arthur Honegger, Leos Janacek, Gyorgy Ligeti, Gustav Mahler, Carl
Orff, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Anton
Webern, and Kurt Weill. Written as a field guide for conductors and
others involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra,
this text will prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an
invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation.
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