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This volume offers an innovative and counter-intuitive study of how
and why artificial intelligence-infused weapon systems will affect
the strategic stability between nuclear-armed states. Johnson
demystifies the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in
the context of nuclear weapons and, more broadly, future warfare.
The book highlights the potential, multifaceted intersections of
this and other disruptive technology - robotics and autonomy,
cyber, drone swarming, big data analytics, and quantum
communications - with nuclear stability. Anticipating and preparing
for the consequences of the AI-empowered weapon systems are fast
becoming a critical task for national security and statecraft.
Johnson considers the impact of these trends on deterrence,
military escalation, and strategic stability between nuclear-armed
states - especially China and the United States. The book draws on
a wealth of political and cognitive science, strategic studies, and
technical analysis to shed light on the coalescence of developments
in AI and other disruptive emerging technologies. Artificial
intelligence and the future of warfare sketches a clear picture of
the potential impact of AI on the digitized battlefield and
broadens our understanding of critical questions for international
affairs. AI will profoundly change how wars are fought, and how
decision-makers think about nuclear deterrence, escalation
management, and strategic stability - but not for the reasons you
might think. -- .
Introduction to Teaching: Helping Students Learn provides students
and instructors with the tools with which they can achieve the many
goals of today's Introduction to Education course or its
equivalent. The book introduces prospective teachers to the dynamic
world of teaching and learning and to the realities of the
classroom experience by providing engaging student-focused
activities, rich real-life examples, and thoughtful reflective
exercises that will encourage students to think critically and to
develop their own ideas and personal philosophy of education. This
active learning approach enables prospective teachers to develop
both a knowledge core about education and the critical tools they
will need to meet the challenges they will face as educators in
today's fast-paced, highly connected society. By exposing students
to the realities of teaching, the book will help students decide if
teaching is the right career for them. This text is built around
two themes that are central to an exploration of the professional
education field: student learning and diverse voices. As students
consider a teaching career, it is important that they not lose
sight of what is the most fundamental goal of education-to help
students learn. The text will encourage students to examine each
aspect of education as it relates to student learning.
Additionally, as students explore the possibilities in being a
teacher, they will begin to develop their own philosophy of
education. This text will provide the prospective teacher with
opportunities to explore multiple perspectives on a variety of
issues of importance to today's teachers, and encourage the reader
to develop his or her own personal voice as an educator and to make
that voice heard in the educational community.
Collected in this volume are the best articles and symposia from
Poverty & Race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of The Poverty
& Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washington, DC-based
national public interest organization founded in 1990. Poverty
& Race in America includes over six-dozen works originally
published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been
updated and revised. The contributors represent the best of
progressive thought and activism on America's two most salient, and
seemingly intractable, domestic problems-race and poverty. Divided
into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race,
poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty &
Race in America is especially concerned with the links between and
among these areas, both for purposes of analysis and policy
prescriptions. Featuring a foreword by Congressman Jesse L.
Jackson, Jr., this edited collection will be of great interest to
policy makers and human rights activists and hopefully stimulate
creative thought and action to bring an end to racism and poverty.
Collected in this volume are the best articles and symposia from
Poverty & Race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of The Poverty
& Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washington, DC-based
national public interest organization founded in 1990. Poverty
& Race in America includes over six-dozen works originally
published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been
updated and revised. The contributors represent the best of
progressive thought and activism on America's two most salient, and
seemingly intractable, domestic problems-race and poverty. Divided
into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race,
poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty &
Race in America is especially concerned with the links between and
among these areas, both for purposes of analysis and policy
prescriptions. Featuring a foreword by Congressman Jesse L.
Jackson, Jr., this edited collection will be of great interest to
policy makers and human rights activists and hopefully stimulate
creative thought and action to bring an end to racism and poverty.
Discover the universal language of childhood!
"Play, Development, and Early Education" challenges the reader
to discover what play is and how to incorporate it into a
curriculum for children from toddlerhood through the primary
grades. The nature of play as a mode for learning is examined
through three core ideas: the quality of play in early childhood,
play as a means of self-expression, and play as a channel of
communication to achieving social sense. In addition, the text
addresses the role of parents in supporting and elaborating play,
the direct connections between research and play practice, and the
value of play in relation to the total development (cognitive,
affective, emotional, social, and physical) of "all" children.
Praise for "Play, Development, and Early Education"
""To say that I am impressed with this text would be making an
understatement of the year. We in early childhood education have
needed such a text for a long time.""
Dr. Ramona E. Patterson, South Louisiana Community College
""The authors have written an extensive account showing the
scope and depth of children's play including the current trends,
research, and informed opinions on the importance of childhood
play.""
Regina C.M. Williams, Central Ohio Technical College
About the authors
James E. Johnson is Professor of Early Childhood Education at The
Pennsylvania State University. His scholarly activities center
around children's play, early childhood programs, and the
educational role of the family. He has authored textbooks on early
childhood programs and play.
James F. Christie is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at
Arizona State University. His researchinterests include children's
play and early literacy development. He has co-authored two other
textbooks with Allyn & Bacon on early literacy.
Francis Wardle studied play in Guatemala and Brazil, and is an
international expert on outdoor play for young children. Currently
Dr. Wardle teaches at Red Rocks Community College and the
University of Phoenix--Colorado Campus, consults for Head Start,
and writes both books, including an introductory early childhood
education textbook for Allyn & Bacon, and articles for a
variety of national publications.
This book offers a timely and compelling explanation for the
deterioration of U.S.-China security relations during the Obama
Presidency. The U.S.-China relationship has become one of (if not
the most) vital features of contemporary world politics, and with
arrival the Donald Trump to the White House in 2017, this vital
geopolitical relationship sits at a precarious and dangerous
crossroads. This book assesses a wide array of sources to
systematically unpack the policy rhythms, drivers, and dynamics
that defined the course of Sino-American security relations during
the Obama-era. It fills several gaps in the literature on
international security and conflict and offers a nuanced and
innovative comparative approach to examine individual military
domains. The case study chapters draw on recent Chinese and English
sources - on military doctrine, capabilities, and defense strategy
- to build a clear understanding the main sources of U.S.-China
misperceptions, and highlight the problems these assessments can
create for the conduct of statecraft across strategically
competitive geopolitical dyads. The book builds a sobering picture
of U.S.-China relations that will appeal to specialists and
generalists alike with an interest in future warfare, emerging
military-technologies, military studies, arms control, and foreign
policy issues in the Asia-Pacific region more broadly.
This book offers a timely and compelling explanation for the
deterioration of U.S.-China security relations during the Obama
Presidency. The U.S.-China relationship has become one of (if not
the most) vital features of contemporary world politics, and with
arrival the Donald Trump to the White House in 2017, this vital
geopolitical relationship sits at a precarious and dangerous
crossroads. This book assesses a wide array of sources to
systematically unpack the policy rhythms, drivers, and dynamics
that defined the course of Sino-American security relations during
the Obama-era. It fills several gaps in the literature on
international security and conflict and offers a nuanced and
innovative comparative approach to examine individual military
domains. The case study chapters draw on recent Chinese and English
sources - on military doctrine, capabilities, and defense strategy
- to build a clear understanding the main sources of U.S.-China
misperceptions, and highlight the problems these assessments can
create for the conduct of statecraft across strategically
competitive geopolitical dyads. The book builds a sobering picture
of U.S.-China relations that will appeal to specialists and
generalists alike with an interest in future warfare, emerging
military-technologies, military studies, arms control, and foreign
policy issues in the Asia-Pacific region more broadly.
The slug test can provide valuable information for hydrogeologic
investigations ranging from assessments of sites of groundwater
contamination to the monitoring of well deterioration through time.
Inappropriate procedures in one or more phases of a test program,
however, can introduce considerable error into the resulting
parameter estimates. The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug
Tests, Second Edition remedies that problem by explaining virtually
all there is to know regarding the design, performance, and
analysis of slug tests. The first edition has become the standard
reference for all aspects of slug tests; this revised edition
updates the earlier material and expands the topical coverage with
new developments that have come to the fore in the intervening
years between editions. Features: Describes and demonstrates the
eight key steps for the performance and analysis of slug tests
Presents new methods for the analysis of tests in unconfined
aquifers and in highly permeable settings Expands topical coverage
of LNAPL baildown tests and slug tests in small diameter wells
Includes numerous flow charts that illustrate easy-to-use
strategies for selection of analysis methods, and field examples
demonstrate how each method should be used to get the most out of
test data Offers straightforward practical guidelines that
summarize the major points of each chapter Written for practicing
groundwater consultants and engineers, The Design, Performance, and
Analysis of Slug Tests, Second Edition will enable readers to get
more reliable information from slug tests and increase the utility
of this widely-used field method.
Will AI make accidental nuclear war more likely? If so, how might
these risks be reduced? AI and the Bomb provides a coherent,
innovative, and multidisciplinary examination of the potential
effects of AI technology on nuclear strategy and escalation risk.
It addresses a gap in the international relations and strategic
studies literature, and its findings have significant theoretical
and policy ramifications for using AI technology in the nuclear
enterprise. The book advances an innovative theoretical framework
to consider AI technology and atomic risk, drawing on insights from
political psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and strategic
studies. In this multidisciplinary work, James Johnson unpacks the
seminal cognitive-psychological features of the Cold War-era
scholarship, and offers a novel explanation of why these matter for
AI applications and strategic thinking. The study offers crucial
insights for policymakers and contributes to the literature that
examines the impact of military force and technological change.
Here is, to quote the eminent historian Nathan Irvin Huggins, "one
of the finest American autobiographies written in this century."
Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson began
his career as a high-school principal. He went on to attain success
as a songwriter on Broadway and as the compiler of the definitive
"Book of American Negro Spirituals," But he achieved one of his
greatest triumphs in 1912, when, under a pseudonym, he published
"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"--a classic novel about a
musician who rejects his black roots, a novel that is still in
print today in multiple paperback editions. Johnson went on to be,
from 1920 to 1930, the first African-American head of the NAACP,
fighting tirelessly for the passage of a federal anti-lynching law.
His life story is that of a truly remarkable man who triumphed over
a system of institutionalized racism to become one of black
America's leading educators, men of letters, and reformers.
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