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Robin Williams, Peter Dinklage and Mila Kunis star in this comedy
drama directed by Phil Alden Robinson. Henry Altmann (Williams), a
cynical and curmudgeonly Brooklynite, undergoes a drastic
transformation when he is mistakenly told by Dr. Sharon Gill
(Kunis) he only has 90 minutes to live. Desperate to make amends
with the people closest to him before he dies, he leaves the
doctor's surgery frantically and sets off on a path of redemption.
Meanwhile, Sharon, who has realised her mistake but has become
aware of a potentially life-threatening brain aneurysm, tries to
track Henry down to get him into care.
Golf Course Management & Construction presents a comprehensive
summary and assessment of technical and scientific research on the
environmental effects of turfgrass system construction and
maintenance. Although the book focuses on golf courses, it also
discusses turfgrass systems for residential and commercial lawns,
parks, and greenways. The book is an excellent introduction to the
concepts of nonpoint source environmental impacts of turfgrass
management for turfgrass scientists and specialists, landscape and
golf course architects, turfgrass system and golf course
developers, golf course superintendents, environmental scientists,
and land-use regulators.
Father Leslie Walker's classic translation of Machiavelli's
"Discourses" has long been acknowledged as the best available
English language version of this seminal work in political theory.
Yet it has been unavailable for several years. Much more than a
translation, the introductory volume of "The Discourses of
Machiavelli" is a landmark in literature. The second volume
contains notes, tables, and indexes. Together, they comprise the
fullest and probably the best scholarly edition in any language.
"The Discourses of Machiavelli" will be a necessary addition to any
library with an interest in Renaissance studies or political
theory.
Golf Course Management & Construction presents a comprehensive
summary and assessment of technical and scientific research on the
environmental effects of turfgrass system construction and
maintenance. Although the book focuses on golf courses, it also
discusses turfgrass systems for residential and commercial lawns,
parks, and greenways. The book is an excellent introduction to the
concepts of nonpoint source environmental impacts of turfgrass
management for turfgrass scientists and specialists, landscape and
golf course architects, turfgrass system and golf course
developers, golf course superintendents, environmental scientists,
and land-use regulators.
The results of this project should enhance our ability to
proactively improve the protection of public health. Equating the
presence of pathogens to broad land use categories may help
mitigate risks. As millions of dollars are spent on pathogen and
storm event monitoring, a better understanding of the pathogen
contributions from specific origins will improve watershed
management approaches and help mitigate public health risks. This
project may also advance sampling procedures needed for effective
monitoring, and enhance the ability of wastewater treatment
facilities to evaluate priorities for long term control planning
and compliance. Available Online Only
The early elementary years are a critical time for children to
acquire physical skills. While many books detail the motor skills
children need to learn, few focus on how to teach those skills.
That's where Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition,
comes in. This practical text, formerly titled Teaching the Nuts
and Bolts of Physical Education, does just that, because motor
skills are the nuts and bolts of physical education. "We believe
that instruction can be motivating and enjoyable," says lead author
Vonnie Colvin. "Although fun is not the goal of education, it can
be a very motivating by-product. When children are motivated and
they receive sound instruction, they focus more on learning."
Through Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, elementary physical
educators will guide their students in mastering the critical
elements of 8 locomotor and 17 manipulative skills. "The approach
offers a perfect balance between sound pedagogy and fun activities
that will engage your students and keep them learning," Colvin
says. Value-Packed Resource The text offers teachers a multitude of
tools and ideas to foster student learning: Sequenced illustrations
of four to six critical elements necessary for the skill to be
correctly performed Cue words to help students remember each
critical element Partner skill check assessments that help partners
evaluate each other's progress Success builders to reinforce
correct performance Activities for practicing the entire skill
Troubleshooting charts to address problem areas and help students
learn and improve Scripted lesson plans that guide teachers through
the instruction sequence New Content This latest edition also
includes new content and teaching aids: Video clips of each skill,
performed at regular speed and in slow motion to show correct
execution and to further enhance understanding Video clips showing
one or more incorrect critical elements so PETE students and
teachers can learn to detect errors and provide cues and
corrections Sidebars on promoting social and emotional health
within the skill lessons to foster student well-being Sidebars on
how to adapt lessons to meet the needs of children with different
abilities (These don't take the place of an adapted physical
education book, individualized education program, or 504 plan, but
they do help ensure all children can be included in the lesson.)
Sidebars for at-home modifications to help remote learners and
homeschoolers, with lists of typical home items that can be used in
place of typical physical education equipment. For example, a
balled-up pair of socks can become a ball, and many plastic bags
can combine to become a soccer ball. Ancillaries On HK's delivery
and learning platform, HKPropel, teachers can access the
aforementioned video clips as well as reproducible forms,
troubleshooting charts, illustrations of critical elements, and
animations of critical elements for the 17 manipulative and 8
locomotor skills. Teaching Foundational Skills This new edition of
Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, written by authors with a
combined 140 years of teaching experience, will help children learn
fundamental motor skills that provide the foundation for acquiring
future sports skills. "The skills covered in this book represent
the fundamentals of building a successful physical education
curriculum for children," says Colvin. "This book is a collection
of teaching strategies and ideas that are kid tested, and they have
been very successful in our elementary schools." Note: A code for
accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.
Highlighting the voices and experiences of Black graduate students
at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this book
features the perspectives of students from a variety of academic
backgrounds and institutional settings. Contributors discuss their
motivation to attend an HBCU for graduate studies, their
experiences, and how these helped prepare them for their career. To
be prepared to serve the increasing number of Black students with
access to graduate programs at HBCUs, university administrators,
faculty, and staff require a better understanding of these
students' needs and how to meet them. Addressing some of today's
most urgent issues and educational challenges, this book expands
the literature on HBCUs and provides insight into the role their
graduate schools play in building a diverse academic and
professional community.
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance,
Technology and Law Reform Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental
rethink from businesses and governments across the globe. To make
the ambitious goals a reality, trillions of dollars need to be
harnessed to mobilise finance and accelerate progress towards the
SDGs. Bringing together leaders from the World Bank, the financial
and business sectors, the startup community and academia, this
important, topically relevant volume explains what the SDGs are,
how they came about and how they can be accelerated. Real-world
case studies and authoritative insights address how to direct
investment of existing financial resources and re-align the global
financial system to reflect the SDGs. In depth chapters discuss how
financial institutions, such as UBS Wealth Management, Manulife
Asset Management and Moody's Rating Agency are supporting the SDGs.
The opportunities arising from Blockchain, Big Data, Digital
Identity and cutting-edge FinTech and RegTech applications are
explored, whilst the relevance of sustainable and transparent
global supply chains is underscored. Significant attention is paid
to law reform which can accelerate progress of the SDGs through SME
Financing, Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer Lending and tax
restructuring. To achieve the 'World We Want', much needs to be
done. The recommendations contained within this book are critical
for supporting a fundamental shift in thinking from business and
governments around the world, and for building a more just and
prosperous future for all.
Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed
themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet
running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong currents of
chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those
undercurrents in order to present an alternative history of
nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works
of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that beset
nineteenth-century thinkers and how that crisis revealed itself in
portrayals of addiction, split personalities, and religious mania.
Victorian England will never look the same.
In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used
elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about
gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical
research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material
culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of
not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and
racial domination. Even as it acknowledges the significant limits
imposed on slaves' access to elegant clothing, Exquisite Slaves
also showcases the insistence and ingenuity with which slaves
dressed to convey their own sense of humanity and dignity. Building
on other scholars' work on slaves' agency and subjectivity in
examining how they made use of myriad legal discourses and forums,
Exquisite Slaves argues for the importance of understanding the
body itself as a site of claims-making.
In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used
elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about
gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical
research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material
culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of
not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and
racial domination. Even as it acknowledges the significant limits
imposed on slaves' access to elegant clothing, Exquisite Slaves
also showcases the insistence and ingenuity with which slaves
dressed to convey their own sense of humanity and dignity. Building
on other scholars' work on slaves' agency and subjectivity in
examining how they made use of myriad legal discourses and forums,
Exquisite Slaves argues for the importance of understanding the
body itself as a site of claims-making.
With the growth of public and private data stores and the emergence
of off-the-shelf data-mining technology, recommendation systems
have emerged that specifically address the unique challenges of
navigating and interpreting software engineering data. This book
collects, structures and formalizes knowledge on recommendation
systems in software engineering. It adopts a pragmatic approach
with an explicit focus on system design, implementation, and
evaluation. The book is divided into three parts: "Part I -
Techniques" introduces basics for building recommenders in software
engineering, including techniques for collecting and processing
software engineering data, but also for presenting recommendations
to users as part of their workflow. "Part II - Evaluation"
summarizes methods and experimental designs for evaluating
recommendations in software engineering. "Part III - Applications"
describes needs, issues and solution concepts involved in entire
recommendation systems for specific software engineering tasks,
focusing on the engineering insights required to make effective
recommendations. The book is complemented by the webpage
rsse.org/book, which includes free supplemental materials for
readers of this book and anyone interested in recommendation
systems in software engineering, including lecture slides, data
sets, source code, and an overview of people, groups, papers and
tools with regard to recommendation systems in software
engineering. The book is particularly well-suited for graduate
students and researchers building new recommendation systems for
software engineering applications or in other high-tech fields. It
may also serve as the basis for graduate courses on recommendation
systems, applied data mining or software engineering. Software
engineering practitioners developing recommendation systems or
similar applications with predictive functionality will also
benefit from the broad spectrum of topics covered.
With the growth of public and private data stores and the
emergence of off-the-shelf data-mining technology, recommendation
systems have emerged that specifically address the unique
challenges of navigating and interpreting software engineering
data.
This book collects, structures and formalizes knowledge on
recommendation systems in software engineering. It adopts a
pragmatic approach with an explicit focus on system design,
implementation, and evaluation. The book is divided into three
parts: "Part I - Techniques" introduces basics for building
recommenders in software engineering, including techniques for
collecting and processing software engineering data, but also for
presenting recommendations to users as part of their workflow."Part
II - Evaluation" summarizes methods and experimental designs for
evaluating recommendations in software engineering."Part III -
Applications" describes needs, issues and solution concepts
involved in entire recommendation systems for specific software
engineering tasks, focusing on the engineering insights required to
make effective recommendations. The book is complemented by the
webpage rsse.org/book, which includes free supplemental materials
for readers of this book and anyone interested in recommendation
systems in software engineering, including lecture slides, data
sets, source code, and an overview of people, groups, papers and
tools with regard to recommendation systems in software
engineering.
The book is particularly well-suited for graduate students and
researchers building new recommendation systems for software
engineering applications or in other high-tech fields. It may also
serve as the basis for graduate courses on recommendation systems,
applied data mining or software engineering. Software engineering
practitioners developing recommendation systems or similar
applications with predictive functionality will also benefit from
the broad spectrum of topics covered."
Elizabeth I as Icon examines how the image and memory of the queen has been used and viewed in the 400 years since her death. Beginning with how Elizabeth created her iconic status during her reign, the book goes on to explore ways in which this image has evolved over the years. Walker shows that centuries of social, cultural and political agenda have been given public appeal by the use of the dead queen's image, and looks at her representation within children's literature, the suffragette movement, the two world wars, and within popular culture, including the Hollywood film Elizabeth.
This book was written to furnish a starting point for the study of
algebraic geometry. The topics presented and methods of presenting
them were chosen with the following ideas in mind; to keep the
treat ment as elementary as possible, to introduce some of the
recently devel oped algebraic methods of handling problems of
algebraic geometry, to show how these methods are related to the
older analytic and geometric methods, and to apply the general
methods to specific geometric prob lems. These criteria led to a
selection of topics from the theory of curves, centering around
birational transformations and linear series. Experience in
teaching the material showed the need of an intro duction to the
underlying algebra and projective geometry, so this is supplied in
the first two chapters. The inclusion of this material makes the
book almost entirely self-contained. Methods of presentation, proof
of theorems, and problems, have been adapted from various sources.
We should mention, in particular, Severi-Laffier, Vorlesungen uber
Algebraische Geometrie, van der Waerden, Algebraische Geometrie and
Moderne Algebra, and lecture notes of S. Lefschetz and O. Zariski.
We also wish to thank Mr. R. L. Beinert and Prof. G. L. Walker for
suggestions and assistance with the proof, and particularly Prof.
Saunders MacLane for a very careful examination and criticism of an
early version of the work. R. J. WALKER Cornell University December
1, 1949 Contents Preface ."
Audit was a buzz word of the late '80s and early '90s, but in
anaesthetic practice the important issues are quality of service
and safety of the patient and audit is used to monitor and agree
standards for these two.
With contributions from leading figures in anaesthetic audit,
"Quality and Safety in Anaesthesia" describes the important work
already done and addresses vital aspects such as risk management,
resource management, standards and postgraduate training, critical
incidents and human error, use of computers, design of equipment
for safety and managing a department of anaesthesia.
This book relates the process of quality assurance to the drive to
improve the quality of anaesthetic practice. It should be useful
for all those working or thinking about working in anaesthetic
departments, and will be revealing to all those with an interest in
quality and audit.
The Evolution of a UCC Style focuses on the development of themes
that define the United Church of Christ (UCC). Walker examines the
ethos and culture of the UCC rather than simply describing its
structures, and addresses the themes of inclusiveness, diversity of
theological heritage (Reformation, Enlightenment, and Pietism),
congregational polity (the one and the many), liberal theological
approach, and ecumenical spirit. She also takes a look at the
tensions and boundaries contained within each theme.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Blogging
provides an accessible study of a now everyday phenomenon and
places it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context.
The second edition takes into account the most recent research and
developments and provides current analyses of new tools for
microblogging and visual blogging. Jill Walker Rettberg discusses
the ways blogs are integrated into today's mainstream social media
ecology, where comments and links from Twitter and Facebook may be
more important than the network between blogs that was significant
five years ago, and questions the shift towards increased
commercialization and corporate control of blogs. The new edition
also analyses how smart phones with cameras and social media have
led a shift towards more visual emphasis in blogs, with photographs
and graphics increasingly foregrounded. Authored by a
scholar-blogger, this engaging book is packed with examples that
show how blogging and related genres are changing media and
communication. It gives definitions and explains how blogs work,
shows how blogs relate to the historical development of publishing
and communication and looks at the ways blogs structure social
networks.
We have rapidly grown used to the idea, particularly since the
declaration of a worldwide war on terrorism, that between Islam and
the West there exists a deep historical and ideological gulf.
Christopher J. Walker turns such accepted views on their head and
paints instead a picture of two belief systems that have a long
history of toleration and mutual influence. Indeed, Islam has given
a great deal to civilisation: essentially modern notions of free
enquiry, rational experimentation, rational experimentation and the
independence of science from religious authority are legacies of
the Islamic world. Islam and the West is a thought-provoking study
covering some of the cardinal encounters between Islamic and
Western countries.
Highlighting the voices and experiences of Black graduate students
at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this book
features the perspectives of students from a variety of academic
backgrounds and institutional settings. Contributors discuss their
motivation to attend an HBCU for graduate studies, their
experiences, and how these helped prepare them for their career. To
be prepared to serve the increasing number of Black students with
access to graduate programs at HBCUs, university administrators,
faculty, and staff require a better understanding of these
students' needs and how to meet them. Addressing some of today's
most urgent issues and educational challenges, this book expands
the literature on HBCUs and provides insight into the role their
graduate schools play in building a diverse academic and
professional community.
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