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It's the year 1932 long before the age of mobile phones and T.V.
It's the time when great adventures took place. Ben and his two
partners in the white hand gang, Max and Joe (Josephine) discover
the skeleton of a pirate in a secret cave. Their quest to find the
pirates' missing treasure gets them trapped in the mountain lair of
an army of trolls lost in time. Their plight is further deepened or
so they think, when they stumble into the presence of a bewitched
dragon.
By illustrating a wide range of specific applications in all major
industries, this work broadens the coverage of X-ray diffraction
beyond basic tenets, research and academic principles. The book
serves as a guide to solving problems faced everyday in the
laboratory, and offers a review of the current theory and practice
of X-ray diffraction, major advances and potential uses.
Exploring the relationship between the writer and what he/she
happens to be writing, this text by one of the foremost scholars in
the field of literacy and cognition is a unique and original
examination of writing--as a craft and as a cognitive activity. The
book is concerned with the physical activity of writing, the way
the nervous system recruits the muscles to move the pen or
manipulate the typewriter. It considers the necessary disciplines
of writing, such as knowledge of the conventions of grammar,
spelling, and punctuation. In particular, there is a concern with
how the skills underlying all these aspects of writing are learned
and orchestrated.
This second edition includes many new insights from the author's
significant experience and from recent research, providing a
framework for thinking about the act of writing in both theoretical
and practical ways. A completely new chapter on computers and
writing is included, as well as more about the role of reading in
learning to write, about learning to write at all ages, and about
such controversial issues as whether and how genre theory should be
taught.
Written in nontechnical language, this text will continue to be
accessible and stimulating to a wide range of readers concerned
with writing, literacy, thinking, and education. Furthermore, it
has an educational orientation, therefore proving relevant and
useful to anyone who teaches about writing or endeavors to teach
writing.
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an advanced
level understanding of geometry in advanced pure mathematics.
Chapter by chapter, readers will be led from a foundation level
understanding to advanced level understanding. This is the perfect
text for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for
support in algebraic geometry, geometric group theory, modular
group, holomorphic dynamics and hyperbolic geometry, syzygies and
minimal resolutions, and minimal surfaces.Geometry in Advanced Pure
Mathematics is the fourth volume of the LTCC Advanced Mathematics
Series. This series is the first to provide advanced introductions
to mathematical science topics to advanced students of mathematics.
Edited by the three joint heads of the London Taught Course Centre
for PhD Students in the Mathematical Sciences (LTCC), each book
supports readers in broadening their mathematical knowledge outside
of their immediate research disciplines while also covering
specialized key areas.
This is a concise reference book on analysis and mathematical
physics, leading readers from a foundation to advanced level
understanding of the topic. This is the perfect text for graduate
or PhD mathematical-science students looking for support in topics
such as distributions, Fourier transforms and microlocal analysis,
C* Algebras, value distribution of meromorphic functions,
noncommutative differential geometry, differential geometry and
mathematical physics, mathematical problems of general relativity,
and special functions of mathematical physics.Analysis and
Mathematical Physics is the sixth volume of the LTCC Advanced
Mathematics Series. This series is the first to provide advanced
introductions to mathematical science topics to advanced students
of mathematics. Edited by the three joint heads of the London
Taught Course Centre for PhD Students in the Mathematical Sciences
(LTCC), each book supports readers in broadening their mathematical
knowledge outside of their immediate research disciplines while
also covering specialized key areas.
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an advanced
level understanding of dynamical and complex systems. It is the
perfect text for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students
looking for support in topics such as applied dynamical systems,
Lotka-Volterra dynamical systems, applied dynamical systems theory,
dynamical systems in cosmology, aperiodic order, and complex
systems dynamics.Dynamical and Complex Systems is the fifth volume
of the LTCC Advanced Mathematics Series. This series is the first
to provide advanced introductions to mathematical science topics to
advanced students of mathematics. Edited by the three joint heads
of the London Taught Course Centre for PhD Students in the
Mathematical Sciences (LTCC), each book supports readers in
broadening their mathematical knowledge outside of their immediate
research disciplines while also covering specialized key areas.
Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed as an essential
contributor to research on the nature of reading and as an
originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading
instruction. In his publications his aim has always been to support
teachers, to encourage them to make teaching decisions based on
knowledge and understanding, to analyze what their students are
trying to do and why what the students are doing doesn't always
correspond with what they are expected to do. Now the major topics
addressed in his work are available in one volume, Landmarks in
Literacy, a thoughtfully crafted selection of 16 of his key
writings. In the World Library of Educationalists, international
scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they
judge to be their finest works so the world can read them in a
single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the
themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the
development of a field, as well as the development of the field
itself.
This book is a guide to advanced techniques used widely in applied
mathematical sciences research. Chapter by chapter, readers will be
led from a foundation level understanding to advanced level
understanding. This is the perfect text for graduate or PhD
mathematical-science students looking for support in techniques
such as practical analytical methods, finite elements and symmetry
methods for differential equations.Advanced Techniques in Applied
Mathematics is the first volume of the LTCC Advanced Mathematics
Series. This series is the first to provide advanced introductions
to mathematical science topics to advanced students of mathematics.
Edited by the three joint heads of the London Taught Course Centre
for PhD Students in the Mathematical Sciences (LTCC), each book
supports readers in broadening their mathematical knowledge outside
of their immediate research disciplines while also covering
specialized key areas.
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an advanced
level understanding of algebra, logic and combinatorics. Perfect
for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for help
in understanding the fundamentals of the topic, it also explores
more specific areas such as invariant theory of finite groups,
model theory, and enumerative combinatorics.Algebra, Logic and
Combinatorics is the third volume of the LTCC Advanced Mathematics
Series. This series is the first to provide advanced introductions
to mathematical science topics to advanced students of mathematics.
Edited by the three joint heads of the London Taught Course Centre
for PhD Students in the Mathematical Sciences (LTCC), each book
supports readers in broadening their mathematical knowledge outside
of their immediate research disciplines while also covering
specialized key areas.
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an advanced
level understanding of algebra, logic and combinatorics. Perfect
for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for help
in understanding the fundamentals of the topic, it also explores
more specific areas such as invariant theory of finite groups,
model theory, and enumerative combinatorics.Algebra, Logic and
Combinatorics is the third volume of the LTCC Advanced Mathematics
Series. This series is the first to provide advanced introductions
to mathematical science topics to advanced students of mathematics.
Edited by the three joint heads of the London Taught Course Centre
for PhD Students in the Mathematical Sciences (LTCC), each book
supports readers in broadening their mathematical knowledge outside
of their immediate research disciplines while also covering
specialized key areas.
This book is a guide to advanced techniques used widely in applied
mathematical sciences research. Chapter by chapter, readers will be
led from a foundation level understanding to advanced level
understanding. This is the perfect text for graduate or PhD
mathematical-science students looking for support in techniques
such as practical analytical methods, finite elements and symmetry
methods for differential equations.Advanced Techniques in Applied
Mathematics is the first volume of the LTCC Advanced Mathematics
Series. This series is the first to provide advanced introductions
to mathematical science topics to advanced students of mathematics.
Edited by the three joint heads of the London Taught Course Centre
for PhD Students in the Mathematical Sciences (LTCC), each book
supports readers in broadening their mathematical knowledge outside
of their immediate research disciplines while also covering
specialized key areas.
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an
advanced-level understanding of fluid and solid mechanics. Perfect
for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for help
in understanding the fundamentals of the topic, it also explores
more specific areas such as multi-deck theory, time-mean turbulent
shear flows, non-linear free surface flows, and internal fluid
dynamics.Fluid and Solid Mechanics is the second volume of the LTCC
Advanced Mathematics Series. This series is the first to provide
advanced introductions to mathematical science topics to advanced
students of mathematics. Edited by the three joint heads of the
London Taught Course Centre for PhD Students in the Mathematical
Sciences (LTCC), each book supports readers in broadening their
mathematical knowledge outside of their immediate research
disciplines while also covering specialized key areas.
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an
advanced-level understanding of fluid and solid mechanics. Perfect
for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for help
in understanding the fundamentals of the topic, it also explores
more specific areas such as multi-deck theory, time-mean turbulent
shear flows, non-linear free surface flows, and internal fluid
dynamics.Fluid and Solid Mechanics is the second volume of the LTCC
Advanced Mathematics Series. This series is the first to provide
advanced introductions to mathematical science topics to advanced
students of mathematics. Edited by the three joint heads of the
London Taught Course Centre for PhD Students in the Mathematical
Sciences (LTCC), each book supports readers in broadening their
mathematical knowledge outside of their immediate research
disciplines while also covering specialized key areas.
Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory
when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a
leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text
Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental
aspects of the complex human act of reading - linguistic,
physiological, psychological, and social - and of what is involved
in learning to read. The text critically examines current theories,
instructional practices, and controversies, covering a wide range
of disciplines but always remains accessible. Careful attention is
given to the ideological clash that continues between whole
language and direct instruction and currently permeates every
aspect of theory and research into reading and reading instruction.
In every edition, including the present one, Smith has steadfastly
resisted giving teachers a recipe for teaching reading, while
aiming to help them make their own decisions, based on research
about reading, which is accessible to anyone, and their experience
and personal knowledge of their students, which only they possess.
To aid readers in making up their own minds, each chapter concludes
with a brief statement of "Issues." Understanding Reading, Sixth
Edition is matchless in integrating a wide range of topics relative
to reading while, at the same time, being highly readable and
user-friendly for instructors, students, and practitioners.
Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed as an essential
contributor to research on the nature of reading and as an
originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading
instruction. In his publications his aim has always been to support
teachers, to encourage them to make teaching decisions based on
knowledge and understanding, to analyze what their students are
trying to do and why what the students are doing doesn't always
correspond with what they are expected to do. Now the major topics
addressed in his work are available in one volume, Landmarks in
Literacy, a thoughtfully crafted selection of 16 of his key
writings. In the World Library of Educationalists, international
scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they
judge to be their finest works so the world can read them in a
single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the
themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the
development of a field, as well as the development of the field
itself.
First published in 1962, Frank Smith Fussner's introduction to
the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the
period of the renaissance and reformation (1580-1640) is an
influential and thoroughly-researched work. It offers an
introduction not only to the context of the period and the
important English historians of the era, but also provides a
thorough historiographical approach which deals with the purpose,
method, content, style and significance of these historians within
the framework of this 'historical revolution'.
First published in 1962, Frank Smith Fussner's introduction to
the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the
period of the renaissance and reformation (1580-1640) is an
influential and thoroughly-researched work. It offers an
introduction not only to the context of the period and the
important English historians of the era, but also provides a
thorough historiographical approach which deals with the purpose,
method, content, style and significance of these historians within
the framework of this 'historical revolution'.
This book delves into how we come to terms with ourselves, with
other people, and with the world in general. It is about how we
come to be what we are, and to think the way we do. It is a book
about i influences /i on this process. A particular influence to
which Smith gives central consideration is language, not just in
terms of the communicative networks in which it engages us--the
"information" that presents itself to us--but in the largely
unsuspected framework for thought that lies within language itself.
He also considers deeply the role of technology. br br This is a
book of description, not of explanations--these are two quite
different intellectual territories. Smith writes about what can be
observed, not philosophized about. Thus he does not discuss the
inner workings of the human brain. His claim is that what he is
interested in--thinking, learning, understanding, remembering--have
never been found in the brain. The aim is to describe the scope and
limits for how we can be seen to think, learn, understand, and
remember--but not to "explain" such behavior by recourse to
hypothetical inner entities. br i /i br i Ourselves /i speaks
especially to educators. It outlines the possibilities and
limitations inherent in all of us. It delineates who we are, but
also stresses that no two people are the same, that what we become
depends on our journeys in life and the people we encounter on the
way. The formal part of learning that is called i education /i is
particularly sensitive to the role of people who organize critical
experiences for us, our teachers. The brief summaries at the end of
each chapter reinforce and highlight points that are of particular
relevance to teachers. brResearchers, professionals, and graduate
students across the fields of literacy education, psychology of
reading, learning theory, human learning, educational psychology,
and psycholinguistics will find this book compelling. br
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
Exploring the relationship between the writer and what he/she
happens to be writing, this text by one of the foremost scholars in
the field of literacy and cognition is a unique and original
examination of writing--as a craft and as a cognitive activity. The
book is concerned with the physical activity of writing, the way
the nervous system recruits the muscles to move the pen or
manipulate the typewriter. It considers the necessary disciplines
of writing, such as knowledge of the conventions of grammar,
spelling, and punctuation. In particular, there is a concern with
how the skills underlying all these aspects of writing are learned
and orchestrated.
This second edition includes many new insights from the author's
significant experience and from recent research, providing a
framework for thinking about the act of writing in both theoretical
and practical ways. A completely new chapter on computers and
writing is included, as well as more about the role of reading in
learning to write, about learning to write at all ages, and about
such controversial issues as whether and how genre theory should be
taught.
Written in nontechnical language, this text will continue to be
accessible and stimulating to a wide range of readers concerned
with writing, literacy, thinking, and education. Furthermore, it
has an educational orientation, therefore proving relevant and
useful to anyone who teaches about writing or endeavors to teach
writing.
One of the central questions facing anyone involved in education is
can you actually teach anyone to think? To begin to answer this
question, it is necessary to know what thinking means. Frank Smith
is one of the most influential writers in education today. His work
on reading in particular has had a seminal effect on classroom
practice throughout the English-speaking world. At the core of all
his work has been this issue of the nature of thought. In this
book, he analyzes the language of thinking and then moves on to
look at different aspects of the thinking process: everyday
thought, creative and critical thought. Finally he looks critically
at the various methods currently advocated for teaching children to
think, arguing that learning to think is in the end less a matter
of instruction than of experience and opportunity.
When a devoted family nanny disappears without trace, DCI Paget and
his team are summoned to investigate. High-flying English Member of
Parliament Stephen Lorrimer and his wife Julia are the parents of a
bright five-year-old son, Michael, who has severe hearing and
speech impediments. Michael is devoted to his carer Justine, and
when she disappears he is inconsolable. Julia is quick to report to
DCI Neil Paget the girl's failure to return after leaving the house
for Sunday service at the local church where she worshipped
regularly. Paget and his team try to piece together her movements;
but they encounter little hard evidence, and very little in the way
of witnesses, so each day that passes without a sighting of the
devout and solitary Justine leads to increased fears for her
safety.
Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory
when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a
leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text
Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental
aspects of the complex human act of reading - linguistic,
physiological, psychological, and social - and of what is involved
in learning to read. The text critically examines current theories,
instructional practices, and controversies, covering a wide range
of disciplines but always remains accessible. Careful attention is
given to the ideological clash that continues between whole
language and direct instruction and currently permeates every
aspect of theory and research into reading and reading instruction.
In every edition, including the present one, Smith has steadfastly
resisted giving teachers a recipe for teaching reading, while
aiming to help them make their own decisions, based on research
about reading, which is accessible to anyone, and their experience
and personal knowledge of their students, which only they possess.
To aid readers in making up their own minds, each chapter concludes
with a brief statement of "Issues." Understanding Reading, Sixth
Edition is matchless in integrating a wide range of topics relative
to reading while, at the same time, being highly readable and
user-friendly for instructors, students, and practitioners.
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