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So, you want to be an academy trust leader? This book will show you
how. Sir David Carter started his career as a music teacher in
several comprehensive schools before spending thirty years in
school leadership before becoming one of the first Regional Schools
Commissioners and then National School Commissioner. He knows what
it feels like to be responsible for multiple schools and how the
best leaders make large-scale collaboration work for their
teachers, pupils, parents and the whole community. This book will
share the recipe for understanding the purpose of academy trust
leadership and give insider knowledge of how to do it well and with
all stakeholders at the forefront of your mission.
Encompasses the poetry requirements in National Curriculum
programmes of study for Speaking and Listening, Reading and
Writing. The text identifies eight ways for children to experience
poetry: listening; speaking; reading; memorising; conversation;
through the arts; writing; and performing. It then shows how
teachers can use all these modes to develop pupils' perceptions and
responses to poetry, including planning programmes and assessing
outcomes.
The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 butterfly
and moth species from around the world. Authoritative text,
crystal-clear photography, and a systematic approach make this the
most comprehensive and concise pocket guide to the butterflies and
moths of the world. Packed with more than 600 full-colour
photographs of over 500 species, this handy reference book is
designed to cut through the process of identification and help you
to recognize a species quickly and easily. Expertly written and
thoroughly vetted, each entry combines a precise description with
annotated photographs to highlight the characteristics and
distinguishing features of each butterfly or moth, while also
providing at-a-glance facts for quick reference. Dive straight into
this nifty nature book to discover: - Each entry includes
at-a-glance facts for quick reference. - Close-up photography shows
key details and highlights distinguishing features, showing upper-
and undersides and males and females where distinct. - Includes
beautifully detailed illustrations of caterpillars for some
species, so you can spot the species at any time of life The
introduction explains the difference between butterflies and moths,
details the life cycle from egg to adult, rearing your own
specimens, and offers guidance for finding and observing live
specimens in the wild. A concise glossary defines technical and
scientific terms. Compact enough to take out into the field, DK
Handbooks: Butterflies & Moths makes identifying these
beautiful insects easier than ever before.
Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the
relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia.
Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian
cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal
significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a
range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age
cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relations
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The book looks
first at how social divisions inform the ways in which Australians
from different social backgrounds and positions engage with the
genres, institutions and particular works of culture and cultural
figures across six cultural fields: the visual arts, literature,
music, heritage, television and sport. It then examines how
Australians' cultural preferences across these fields interact
within the Australian 'space of lifestyles'. The close attention
paid to class here includes an engagement with role of 'middlebrow'
cultures in Australia and the role played by new forms of
Indigenous cultural capital in the emergence of an Indigenous
middle class. The rich survey data is complemented throughout by
in-depth qualitative data provided by interviews with survey
participants. These are discussed more closely in the final part of
the book which explores the gendered, political, personal and
community associations of cultural tastes across Australia's
Anglo-Celtic, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese and Indian populations.
The distinctive ethical issues associated with how Australians
relate to Indigenous culture are also examined. In the light it
throws on the formations of cultural capital in a multicultural
settler colonial society, Fields, Capitals, Habitus makes a
landmark contribution to cultural capital research.
Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the
relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia.
Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian
cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal
significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a
range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age
cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relations
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The book looks
first at how social divisions inform the ways in which Australians
from different social backgrounds and positions engage with the
genres, institutions and particular works of culture and cultural
figures across six cultural fields: the visual arts, literature,
music, heritage, television and sport. It then examines how
Australians' cultural preferences across these fields interact
within the Australian 'space of lifestyles'. The close attention
paid to class here includes an engagement with role of 'middlebrow'
cultures in Australia and the role played by new forms of
Indigenous cultural capital in the emergence of an Indigenous
middle class. The rich survey data is complemented throughout by
in-depth qualitative data provided by interviews with survey
participants. These are discussed more closely in the final part of
the book which explores the gendered, political, personal and
community associations of cultural tastes across Australia's
Anglo-Celtic, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese and Indian populations.
The distinctive ethical issues associated with how Australians
relate to Indigenous culture are also examined. In the light it
throws on the formations of cultural capital in a multicultural
settler colonial society, Fields, Capitals, Habitus makes a
landmark contribution to cultural capital research.
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Night Flight (Paperback)
Antoine De Saint-Exupery; Translated by David Carter
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Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the
airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy
night-time thunderstorm in Argentina. As conditions get worse and
the radio communication with Fabien becomes increasingly difficult,
Riviere begins to question his uncompromising methods, and his
distress turns to guilt when the pilot's wife comes to find him in
search of answers. Based on Saint-Exupery's own experiences as a
commercial pilot, Night Flight is a haunting and lyrical
examination of duty, destiny and the individual, as well as an
authentic and tragic portrayal of the intrepid early days of human
air travel.
This original volume describes the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major automatic speech translation projects. The SLT system can translate between English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning, using a vocabulary of about 1500 words, and with an accuracy of about 75%. The authors detail the language processing components, largely built on top of the SRI Core Language Engine, using a combination of general grammars and techniques that allow them to be rapidly customized to specific domains. They base speech recognition on Hidden Markov Mode technology, and use versions of the SRI DECIPHER system. This account of SLT is an essential resource for researchers interested in knowing what is achievable in spoken-language translation today.
This text, the second in a two-volume set examining the process of
educational reform, describes case studies on the change process of
education, as it impacts on the individual at work.; The authors
provide interesting comparisons of similar changes occuring within
education in different national settings, including Australia, New
Zealand, Israel, the USA and the UK. The case studies are based on
three themes: systematic change; the transition from policy to
practice; and curriculum contexts. The effects of governmental
control over the curriculum and attempts to reform education by
legislation are explained and the similarities are seen as
marginalisation of professional educators, corporatisation of
education systems, instrumentalisation of curriculum and the
inability of those in power to draw from past knowledge on
educational change.; Written to stand alone, this book can also be
read in conjunction with volume 1, "International Perspectives on
Educational Reform and Policy Implementation", which examines the
historical, social and economic influences on education policy
reform. The authors argue that change takes a predictable format
and, once understood, can be directed and managed. The books are
intended to be of interest to all involved in the planning and
implementation of change, together pointing the way to effective
management of such change processes.
This text, the second in a two-volume set examining the process of
educational reform, describes case studies on the change process of
education, as it impacts on the individual at work.;The authors
provide interesting comparisons of similar changes occuring within
education in different national settings, including Australia, New
Zealand, Israel, the USA and the UK. The case studies are based on
three themes: systematic change; the transition from policy to
practice; and curriculum contexts. The effects of governmental
control over the curriculum and attempts to reform education by
legislation are explained and the similarities are seen as
marginalisation of professional educators, corporatisation of
education systems, instrumentalisation of curriculum and the
inability of those in power to draw from past knowledge on
educational change.;Written to stand alone, this book can also be
read in conjunction with volume 1, "International Perspectives on
Educational Reform and Policy Implementation", which examines the
historical, social and economic influences on education policy
reform. The authors argue that change takes a predictable format
and, once understood, can be directed and m
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative
volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the
field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia
and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and
publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present
day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction
are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of
the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's
writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical
fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and
belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of
Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major
change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and
issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many
parts of the country.
Modern English translations of several of the most important essays
of Winckelmann, one of the fathers of art history and archaeology
and a strong influence on Goethe and Schiller and Weimar
Classicism. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been
recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major
force in the development of archaeology and the study of ancient
Greek architecture. He also exerted an influence on the Weimar
Classicism of Goethe and Schiller, for whom his description of
Greek sculpture as evoking "edle Einfalt und stille Groesse" (noble
simplicity and a calm greatness) became a watchword. He contributed
to modern scientific archaeology through his application of
empirically derived categories of style to the analysis of
classical works of art and architecture, and was one of the first
to undertake detailed empirical examinations of artifacts and
describe them precisely in a way that enabled reasoned conclusions
to be drawn about ancient societies and their cultures. Yet several
of his important essays are not available in modern English
translation. The present volume remedies this situation by
collecting four of Winckelmann's most seminal essays on art along
with several shorter pieces on the topic, two major if brief essays
on architecture, and one longer essay on archaeology. Paired with
thisis an introduction covering Winckelmann's life and work. David
Carter is retired as Professor of Communicative English at Yonsei
University, Seoul, Korea, and is former Lecturer in German Studies
at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his recently published
translations from German are Klaus Mann's novel Alexander (2008)
and On Cocaine (2011), a collection of Sigmund Freud's writings on
the topic.
From the very beginnings of cinema in America the Western has been
a central genre. The hazardous lives of the settlers, their
conflict with Native Americans ('the Indians'), the lawless
frontier towns, outlaws and cattle rustlers, all found their way
into the new medium of film. Folk heroes and heroines, such as
Jesse and Frank James, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Calamity Jane
and Annie Oakley, were all eagerly seized on by filmmakers.
Writers, from the very popular to the very literary, from Zane Grey
to Owen Wister and James Fennimore Cooper, were plundered for
storylines. The Western became popular worldwide too because it
offered escape, adventure, stunning landscapes and romance; also
themes that concerned people everywhere including survival, law and
order, defence of family, and dreams of a new and better world.
David Carter's book, The Western, starts with an introduction to
the real American West and its famous historical figures, and
traces the development of the genre from popular literature,
through the early silent films, the sound era, the Golden Age of
classic Westerns, TV and 'spaghetti westerns', to the
self-reflexive and revisionist Westerns of recent decades. This
book provides a basic work of reference for all the major directors
and noteworthy films of the genre. The great Hollywood directors
are all here, such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Michael
Curtiz, Sam Peckinpah and Henry Hathaway, and great stars including
John Wayne, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane
Russell and Clint Eastwood.
Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading cultural analysts, its concerns range broadly across the cultural sector encompassing art and heritage institutions, publishing, broadcasting, tourism, museums, the music industry, film and youth cultures.
Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading cultural analysts, its concerns range broadly across the cultural sector encompassing art and heritage institutions, publishing, broadcasting, tourism, museums, the music industry, film and youth cultures.
A battle of wits between the nimblest French thief and the
shrewdest British detective This volume contains two adventures
which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes,
the world's most famous detective. In 'The Blonde Lady', Holmes
must discover the identity of a mysterious female thief who is
linked to Lupin, while in 'The Jewish Lamp' he finds out that the
theft of a lamp containing a precious jewel conceals an astonishing
secret. While their tone is at times ironic and firmly
tongue-in-cheek, the two stories in Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes
bear all the hallmarks of classic detective fiction, and will put a
smile on the lips and set the pulses racing of all fans of mystery
and detective fiction.
This book presents a detailed description of Spoken Language
Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of
automatic speech translation. The SLT system can translate between
English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning,
using a vocabulary of about 1500 words, and with an accuracy of
about 75 per cent. The greater part of the book describes the
language processing components, which are largely built on top of
the SRI Core Language Engine, using a combination of general
grammars and techniques that allow them to be rapidly customized to
specific domains. Speech recognition is based on Hidden Markov Mode
technology, and uses versions of the SRI DECIPHER system. This
account of the Spoken Language Translator should be an essential
resource both for those who wish to know what is achievable in
spoken-language translation today, and for those who wish to
understand how to achieve it.
The businesses behind Dubai Sports City, the branding of David
Beckham, and the presence and popularity of fantasy sports leagues
on the internet are unmistakable indicators that the sports and the
entertainment industries are quickly becoming one and the same.
But, you needn't travel far or be a hard core sports fan to
appreciate this fact. Whether you play Madden NFL on the Wii, use
Nike+ along with your iPod to monitor your workouts, or channel
surf and take note of the number of athlete-driven commercials,
evidence of this transformation is ubiquitous in today's sports
viewing and consuming experience. In recent years, the rapid
convergence of sports and entertainment has been key to the sports
business industry's continued growth and financial success. Money
Games not only analyzes how industry stakeholders have monetized
this convergence, but also provides readers with answers to this
core question: how can the sports business continue to profit from
the blurring of sports and entertainment? Author David M. Carter
considers a wide array of implications for television content,
video gaming, athlete branding, the Internet, mobile technology,
gambling, sports-anchored real estate development, venue
technology, and corporate marketing-in short, those areas where
business opportunities exist now that sports and entertainment have
become one. Money Games is a must-read for professionals and future
leaders of the sports and entertainment industries, and sports fans
will also find an intriguing story about the evolution of the games
that they cherish and follow.
Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) is a difficult film to
categorize. It partakes of various genres, blurring the
distinctions between them. It is science fiction, but it does not
contain many of the ingredients associated with that genre. It can
also be identified as a kind of heist film, and there are shades of
film noir as well, not only because of the heist motifs but also
due to its character types. It can also be described as
psychological thriller, telling the story of one man's attempt to
flee his past and regain access to his family, of his coming to
terms with the death of his wife. In addition, it plays with time,
questioning the certainty of consciously experienced real time, and
revealing that the personal experience of the passing of time is
variable. The film also explores the nature of the mind and how
dreams are related to the conscious and unconscious mind. David
Carter's contribution to the Constellation series covers all of
these facets of a complex yet highly successful film, as well as
considering it in the context of the director's other work.
While they remain marginalised by the mainstream media, conspiracy
theories are a growing influence on the contemporary political
imagination, thanks mostly to 'conspiracy cinema' - documentaries,
freely available over the internet, that present a conspiratorial
explanation for an event or series of events.
Provides a basic introduction and general advice for people wishing
to develop their skills as actors or actresses. It is aimed at both
the amateur enthusiast and those wishing to pursue their interest
further and undertake professional training. Advice is given on the
basic skills which every actor needs to develop, such as breathing,
voice control, the use of body language, timing and handling the
audience. The importance of understanding a text and the
interaction of the characters within it is also considered.
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