|
Showing 1 - 25 of
79 matches in All Departments
Fostering Mental Health Literacy through Adolescent Literature
provides educators a starting point for engaging students in the
study of adolescent literature that features mental health themes
with the intended goal of developing students' mental health
literacy while simultaneously attending to English Language Arts
content and literacy standards. Each chapter, co-authored by a
literacy expert and mental health specialist, features a specific
adolescent novel and provides middle and high school teachers
background information on the novel's featured mental health
theme(s), along with pedagogical approaches for guiding readers
into, through, and out of the novel. In doing so, this text seeks
to raise awareness of mental health issues thereby reducing
associated stigma and normalizing individual and peer mental health
experiences for all adolescents.
Fostering Mental Health Literacy through Adolescent Literature
provides educators a starting point for engaging students in the
study of adolescent literature that features mental health themes
with the intended goal of developing students' mental health
literacy while simultaneously attending to English Language Arts
content and literacy standards. Each chapter, co-authored by a
literacy expert and mental health specialist, features a specific
adolescent novel and provides middle and high school teachers
background information on the novel's featured mental health
theme(s), along with pedagogical approaches for guiding readers
into, through, and out of the novel. In doing so, this text seeks
to raise awareness of mental health issues thereby reducing
associated stigma and normalizing individual and peer mental health
experiences for all adolescents.
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores
fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental
and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of
natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change
to endangered species protection and traditional health-based
environmental regulation. Regulatory laws and institutions
themselves strongly influence the direction of scientific research
by creating a system of rewards and penalties for science. As a
consequence, regulatory laws or institutions that are designed
naively end up incentivizing scientists to generate and then
publish only those results that further the substantive regulatory
goals preferred by the scientists. By relying so heavily on science
to dictate policy, regulatory laws and institutions encourage
scientists to use their assessment of the state of the science to
further their own preferred scientific and regulatory policy
agendas. Additionally, many environmental and natural resource
regulatory agencies have been instructed by legislatures to rely
heavily upon science in their rulemaking. In areas of rapidly
evolving science, regulatory agencies are inevitably looking for
scientific consensus prematurely, before the scientific process has
worked through competing hypotheses and evidence. The contributors
in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science
should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the
political or legal demand for regulatory action and the actual
state of evolving scientific knowledge.
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores
fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental
and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of
natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change
to endangered species protection and traditional health-based
environmental regulation. Regulatory laws and institutions
themselves strongly influence the direction of scientific research
by creating a system of rewards and penalties for science. As a
consequence, regulatory laws or institutions that are designed
naively end up incentivizing scientists to generate and then
publish only those results that further the substantive regulatory
goals preferred by the scientists. By relying so heavily on science
to dictate policy, regulatory laws and institutions encourage
scientists to use their assessment of the state of the science to
further their own preferred scientific and regulatory policy
agendas. Additionally, many environmental and natural resource
regulatory agencies have been instructed by legislatures to rely
heavily upon science in their rulemaking. In areas of rapidly
evolving science, regulatory agencies are inevitably looking for
scientific consensus prematurely, before the scientific process has
worked through competing hypotheses and evidence. The contributors
in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science
should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the
political or legal demand for regulatory action and the actual
state of evolving scientific knowledge.
Our brain is the source of everything that makes us human:
language, creativity, rationality, emotion, communication, culture,
politics. The neuroscienceshave given us, in recent decades,
fundamental new insights into how the brain works and what that
means for how we see ourselves as individuals and ascommunities.
Now - with the help of new advances in nanotechnology - brain
science proposes to go further: to study its molecular foundations,
to repair brainfunctions, to create mind-machine interfaces, and to
enhance human mental capacities in radical ways. This book explores
the convergence of these tworevolutionary scientific fields and the
implications of this convergence for the future of human societies.
In the process, the book offers a significant new approachto
technology assessment, one which operates in real-time, alongside
the innovation process, to inform the ways in which new fields of
science and technologyemerge in, get shaped by, and help shape
human societies."
This collection brings together established scholars and new names
in the field of Tudor drama studies. Through a range of traditional
and theoretical approaches, the essays address the neglected early
and mid-Tudor period before the rise of the 'mature' drama of
Marlowe and Shakespeare in the 1590s. New Ideas for research topics
and pedagogical methods are discussed in the essays, which each
provide original arguments about specific texts and/or performances
while also providing an advanced introduction to a concentrated
area of Tudor drama studies. While the continuation of mystery play
performances and morality plays through the first three-quarters of
the sixteenth century have been discussed with some consistency in
the academy, other types of drama (e.g. folk or school plays) have
received short shrift, and critical theory has been slow in coming
to this scholarship. This collection begins to fill in these
deficiencies and suggest fruitful directions for a twenty-first
century revival in pre-Shakespearean Tudor drama studies.
In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts.
Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives,
digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay
between text and food, in which every element of dining, from
preparation to purgation, had its equivalent in the literary
sphere. Following the advice of the poet George Herbert, this essay
collection "looks to the mouth", unfolding the charged relationship
between ingestion and expression in a wide variety of texts and
contexts. With contributions from leading scholars in the field,
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words fills a
significant gap in our understanding of early modern cultural
history. Situated at the lively intersection between literary,
historical and bibliographical studies, it opens new lines of
dialogue between the study of material textuality and the history
of the body.
In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts.
Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives,
digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay
between text and food, in which every element of dining, from
preparation to purgation, had its equivalent in the literary
sphere. Following the advice of the poet George Herbert, this essay
collection "looks to the mouth", unfolding the charged relationship
between ingestion and expression in a wide variety of texts and
contexts. With contributions from leading scholars in the field,
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words fills a
significant gap in our understanding of early modern cultural
history. Situated at the lively intersection between literary,
historical and bibliographical studies, it opens new lines of
dialogue between the study of material textuality and the history
of the body.
Our brain is the source of everything that makes us human:
language, creativity, rationality, emotion, communication, culture,
politics. The neurosciences have given us, in recent decades,
fundamental new insights into how the brain works and what that
means for how we see ourselves as individuals and as communities.
Now - with the help of new advances in nanotechnology - brain
science proposes to go further: to study its molecular foundations,
to repair brain functions, to create mind-machine interfaces, and
to enhance human mental capacities in radical ways. This book
explores the convergence of these two revolutionary scientific
fields and the implications of this convergence for the future of
human societies. In the process, the book offers a significant new
approach to technology assessment, one which operates in real-time,
alongside the innovation process, to inform the ways in which new
fields of science and technology emerge in, get shaped by, and help
shape human societies.
The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with
annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and
cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the
popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story
by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old
author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva,
the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together
creature can be read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris.
Victor, "the modern Prometheus," tried to do what he perhaps should
have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often
discussed in literary-historical terms-as a seminal example of
romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science
fiction-Mary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific
developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of
synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate
engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully
for readers with a background or interest in science and
engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of
creativity and responsibility. This edition of Frankenstein pairs
the original 1818 version of the manuscript-meticulously
line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world's
preeminent authorities on the text-with annotations and essays by
leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of
scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result
is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most
thought-provoking and influential novels ever written. Essays by
Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine
Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred
Nordmann
Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his
contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of
the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and
Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence;
his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was
the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed
through his hands, some of which he used to engage in moneylending
and land speculation. He also bought books, lots of them, amassing
one of the largest libraries in early modern London. In 1597, all
of this was brought to a halt when Stonley, aged around
seventy-seven, was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison, convicted of
embezzling the spectacular sum of GBP13,000 from the Exchequer. His
property was sold off, and an inventory was made of his house on
Aldersgate Street. This provides our most detailed guide to his
lost library. By chance, we also have three handwritten volumes of
accounts, in which he earlier itemized his spending on food,
clothing, travel, and books. It is here that we learn that on June
12, 1593, he bought "the Venus & Adhonay per Shakspere"-the
earliest known record of a purchase of Shakespeare's first
publication. In Shakespeare's First Reader, Jason Scott-Warren sets
Stonley's journals and inventories of goods alongside a wealth of
archival evidence to put his life and library back together again.
He shows how Stonley's books were integral to the material worlds
he inhabited and the social networks he formed with communities of
merchants, printers, recusants, and spies. Through a combination of
book history and biography, Shakespeare's First Reader provides a
compelling "bio-bibliography"-the story of how one early modern
gentleman lived in and through his library.
During the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a
program of dramatic reform to counter the unprecedented failures of
the market economy exposed by the Great Depression. Contrary to the
views of today's conservative critics, this book argues that New
Dealers were not 'anticapitalist' in the ways in which they
approached the problems confronting society. Rather, they were
reformers who were deeply interested in fixing the problems of
capitalism, if at times unsure of the best tools to use for the
job. In undertaking their reforms, the New Dealers profoundly
changed the United States in ways that still resonate today. Lively
and engaging, this narrative history focuses on the impact of
political and economic change on social and cultural relations.
Historically, philosophers of biology have tended to sidestep the
problem of development by focusing primarily on evolutionary
biology and, more recently, on molecular biology and genetics.
Quite often too, development has been misunderstood as simply, or
even primarily, a matter of gene activation and regulation.
Nowadays a growing number of philosophers of science are focusing
their analyses on the complexities of development, and in
Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution Jason Scott Robert explores
the nature of development against current trends in biological
theory and practice and looks at the interrelations between
development and evolution (evo-devo), an area of resurgent
biological interest. Clearly written, this book should be of
interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science
and the philosophy of biology.
Providing the first historical study of New Deal public works
programs and their role in transforming the American economy,
landscape, and political system during the 20th century.
Reconstructing the story of how reformers used public authority to
reshape the nation, Jason Scott Smith argues that the New Deal
produced a revolution in state-sponsored economic development. The
scale and scope of this dramatic federal investment in
infrastructure laid crucial foundations - sometimes literally - for
postwar growth, presaging the national highways and the
military-industrial complex. This impressive and exhaustively
researched analysis underscores the importance of the New Deal in
comprehending political and economic change in modern America by
placing political economy at the center of the 'new political
history'. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, Smith provides
a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the relationship between the
New Deal's welfare state and American liberalism.
Historically, philosophers of biology have tended to sidestep the
problem of development by focusing primarily on evolutionary
biology and, more recently, on molecular biology and genetics.
Quite often too, development has been misunderstood as simply, or
even primarily, a matter of gene activation and regulation.
Nowadays a growing number of philosophers of science are focusing
their analyses on the complexities of development, and in
Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution Jason Scott Robert explores
the nature of development against current trends in biological
theory and practice and looks at the interrelations between
development and evolution (evo-devo), an area of resurgent
biological interest. Clearly written, this book should be of
interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science
and the philosophy of biology.
During the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a
program of dramatic reform to counter the unprecedented failures of
the market economy exposed by the Great Depression. Contrary to the
views of today's conservative critics, this book argues that New
Dealers were not 'anticapitalist' in the ways in which they
approached the problems confronting society. Rather, they were
reformers who were deeply interested in fixing the problems of
capitalism, if at times unsure of the best tools to use for the
job. In undertaking their reforms, the New Dealers profoundly
changed the United States in ways that still resonate today. Lively
and engaging, this narrative history focuses on the impact of
political and economic change on social and cultural relations.
This book offers an innovative reassessment of one of the most colourful denizens of the English Renaissance court, Sir John Harington (1560-1612). Based upon a wealth of new evidence, it shows how Harington used his writings to play the patronage system, reconstructing his complex and often devious designs.
|
You may like...
The Gone World
Tom Sweterlitsch
Paperback
(1)
R310
R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
Not Alone
Sarah K Jackson
Hardcover
R529
R482
Discovery Miles 4 820
|