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East Carolina University was founded by the State of North Carolina
in 1907 as a teacher training school meant to provide
professionally trained faculty for schools in the eastern part of
the state. Within two decades, the school matured into a teacher's
college. Although coeducational from the start, the vast majority
of the student body early on was female. Following World War II and
the gender transformation of higher education resulting from
successive GI Bills, East Carolina emerged with increasing balance
as the male student body grew to match the female population on
campus. In subsequent decades, East Carolina continued to expand
academically, emerging as a research university with a medical
school and a dental school. Today, ECU is a leading producer of
K-12 teachers in the Southeast as well as a leader nationwide in
training practitioners of family medicine. The impressive
development of East Carolina has flowed from its embodiment of the
school's ethic of service to the local community and, in the
broadest context, the best interests of humanity.
The 2008 US presidential campaign saw politicians utilizing all
types of new media -- Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, e-mail,
and cell phone texting ? to reach voters of all ages, ethnicities,
socio-economic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. This volume
examines the use of these media and considers the effectiveness of
reaching voters through these channels. It explores not only the
use of new media and technologies but also the role these tactics
played in attracting new voters and communicating with the
electorate during the 2008 presidential debates. Chapters focus on
how the technologies were used by candidates, the press, and
voters.
First published in 1991. The connection between housing and work is
one of the most discussed yet least understood aspects of modern
society. Housing and Labour Markets explores the different ways in
which housing and labour are linked and examines their central
significance in many of the key changes in society today. It
provides a wide-ranging analysis of the relationships between
housing and labour markets, with accounts of the different forms of
work, paid and unpaid, in which various types of households are
engaged. This edited collection addresses the varied impact of
restructuring in both housing and labour markets in different
localities and regions, including contributions from the USA and
Australia. By making an important input into the growing debate
over the inks between home and work, this book shows the direction
in which the debate should go, draws out the principal lines of
connection and suggests a way forward. The issues addressed in
Housing and Labour Markets will be of interest to a wide range of
social science disciplines, especially urban studies, economics,
sociology, geography and planning. Local government officers in
housing and planning will also find it makes an invaluable
contribution to developing links between housing and the workplace.
Our concepts of the sun have been altered by four new
developments--the discovery of apparent global solar oscillations,
an unsettled and unsettling deficit of neutrinos from the center of
the sun, a new elucidation of the role of solar wind, and some
disturbing historical facts that shake old concepts of solar
constancy and regularity. This volume brings together summaries of
these four developments in solar physics, written by the four
scientists whose work has prompted our new assessment of the sun.
First published in 1991. The connection between housing and work is
one of the most discussed yet least understood aspects of modern
society. Housing and Labour Markets explores the different ways in
which housing and labour are linked and examines their central
significance in many of the key changes in society today. It
provides a wide-ranging analysis of the relationships between
housing and labour markets, with accounts of the different forms of
work, paid and unpaid, in which various types of households are
engaged. This edited collection addresses the varied impact of
restructuring in both housing and labour markets in different
localities and regions, including contributions from the USA and
Australia. By making an important input into the growing debate
over the inks between home and work, this book shows the direction
in which the debate should go, draws out the principal lines of
connection and suggests a way forward. The issues addressed in
Housing and Labour Markets will be of interest to a wide range of
social science disciplines, especially urban studies, economics,
sociology, geography and planning. Local government officers in
housing and planning will also find it makes an invaluable
contribution to developing links between housing and the workplace.
The media have long played an important role in the modern
political process and the 2016 presidential campaign was no
different. From Trump's tweets and cable-show-call-ins to Sander's
social media machine to Clinton's "Trump Yourself" app and podcast,
journalism, social and digital media, and entertainment media were
front-and-center in 2016. Clearly, political media played a
dominant and disruptive role in our democratic process. This book
helps to explain the role of these media and communication outlets
in the 2016 presidential election. This thorough study of how
political communication evolved in 2016 examines the disruptive
role communication technology played in the 2016 presidential
primary campaign and general election and how voters sought and
received political information. The Presidency and Social Media
includes top scholars from leading research institutions using
various research methodologies to generate new understandings-both
theoretical and practical-for students, researchers, journalists,
and practitioners.
This text offers a way of understanding the global nature of cities, where their very openness has served to shape their dynamism and character. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life. The contributors assert that an association exists between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks.
Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that
power and space have been understood. It calls into question the
very idea that power is simply extended across a given territory or
network, and argues that power today has a new found 'reach'.
Topological shifts have subtly altered the reach of power, enabling
governments, corporations and NGOs alike to register their presence
through quieter, less brash forms of power than domination or overt
control. In a world in which proximity and distance increasingly
play across one another, topology offers an insight into how power
remains continuous under transformation: the same but different in
its ability to shape peoples' lives. Drawing upon a range of
political, economic and cultural illustrations, the book sets out a
clear and accessible account of the topological workings of power
in the contemporary moment. It will be invaluable for both students
and academics in human geography, politics, sociology, and cultural
studies.
Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that
power and space have been understood. It calls into question the
very idea that power is simply extended across a given territory or
network, and argues that power today has a new found 'reach'.
Topological shifts have subtly altered the reach of power, enabling
governments, corporations and NGOs alike to register their presence
through quieter, less brash forms of power than domination or overt
control. In a world in which proximity and distance increasingly
play across one another, topology offers an insight into how power
remains continuous under transformation: the same but different in
its ability to shape peoples' lives. Drawing upon a range of
political, economic and cultural illustrations, the book sets out a
clear and accessible account of the topological workings of power
in the contemporary moment. It will be invaluable for both students
and academics in human geography, politics, sociology, and cultural
studies.
Our concepts of the sun have been altered by four new
developments--the discovery of apparent global solar oscillations,
an unsettled and unsettling deficit of neutrinos from the center of
the sun, a new elucidation of the role of solar wind, and some
disturbing historical facts that shake old concepts of solar
constancy and regularity. This volume brings together summaries of
these four developments in solar physics, written by the four
scientists whose work has prompted our new assessment of the sun
This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature
from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis,
Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and many others, it reveals how
homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.
This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character. It explores cities as sites of movement, migration and settlement where different peoples, cultures and environments combine. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life. The contributors reveal the association between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks. eBook available with sample pages: PB:0415200725
For the first time in history, half of the worlds population is living in mega-cities. Never before have we confronted such a geography of the worlds people. Analysing cities through spatial understanding, City Worlds explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity. The authors outline new ways to address the ambiguities of cities: their promise and potential, their problems and threats.
Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region. The authors argue that a more balanced form of growth is possible - within and between regions as well as between social groups. This book shows that to grasp the complexities of growth we must rethink `the region' in time as well as in space.
The Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy will be part of
the handbook series Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy, published
by Springer. This series is being edited by Professor Huang Yong,
Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University and Editor of Dao: A
Journal of Comparative Philosophy. This volume includes original
essays by scholars from the U.S., Europe, Japan, and China,
discussing important philosophical writings by Japanese Confucian
philosophers. The main focus, historically, will be the
early-modern period (1600-1868), when much original Confucian
philosophizing occurred, and Confucianism in modern Japan. The Dao
Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy makes a significant
contribution to the Dao handbook series, and equally to the field
of Japanese philosophy. This new volume including original
philosophical studies will be a major contribution to the study of
Confucianism generally and Japanese philosophy in particular.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of midterm elections
from the lens of communications and media coverage. Using a wide
variety of methods, this contributed volume covers the differences,
similarities, and challenges unique to midterm elections.
The "Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy" will be
part of the handbook series "Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy,"
published by Springer. This series is being edited by Professor
Huang Yong, Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University and
Editor of "Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy." This volume
includes original essays by scholars from the U.S., Europe, Japan,
and China, discussing important philosophical writings by Japanese
Confucian philosophers. The main focus, historically, will be the
early-modern period (1600-1868), when much original Confucian
philosophizing occurred, and Confucianism in modern Japan.
The "Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy" makes a
significant contribution to the Dao handbook series, and equally to
the field of Japanese philosophy. This new volume including
original philosophical studies will be a major contribution to the
study of Confucianism generally and Japanese philosophy in
particular.
apparatus is generally not required for the making of My aim in
this book is simple. It is to set out in a logical useful
sedimentological experiments. Most of the equip way what I believe
is the minimum that the senior ment needed for those I describe can
be found in the kit undergraduate and beginning postgraduate
student in the Earth sciences should nowadays know of general chen,
bathroom or general laboratory, and the materials most often
required - sand, clay and flow-marking physics, in order to be able
to understand (rather than substances - are cheaply and widely
available. As form merely a descriptive knowledge of) the smaller
described, the experiments are for the most part purely scale
mechanically formed features of detrital sedi ments. In a sense,
this new book is a second edition of qualitative, but many can with
only little modification my earlier Physical processes oj
sedimentation (1970), be made the subject of a rewarding
quantitative exer which continues to attract readers and
purchasers, inas cise. The reader is urged to tryout these
experiments much as time has not caused me to change significantly
and to think up additional ones. Experimentation the essence of my
philosophy about the subject. Time should be as natural an activity
and mode of enquiry for has, however, brought many welcome new
practitioners a physical sedimentologist as the wielding of spade
and to the discipline of sedimentology, thrown up a hammer."
International in scope, this handbook provides an overview of the
historical developments and current status of the terrestrial radio
industry in some of the largest and most populated countries
throughout the world, with insightful and global perspectives by
prominent international media scholars and examinations of over 20
countries.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is no stranger to controversy. From racism
and social injustice, to the threat of AIDS, the continuing crisis
in the Middle East and the importance today of 'ubuntu' (the
concept of shared humanity), the Archbishop expresses his views
powerfully and honestly, showing how faith and politics are
inextricably linked. A forceful opponent of apartheid and later a
compelling leader of the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and has
remained a leading campaigner for human rights ever since. In 2009,
he was awarded the highest civilian award in the United States, the
Presidential Medal, by Barack Obama. This collection brings
together some of the Archbishop's key speeches, sermons, lectures
and exchanges from the past three decades, charting the trajectory
of his extraordinary career and showing why he remains one of the
world's best-loved and most outspoken religious figures. Edited by
John Allen, a journalist and former aide of the Archbishop, God is
Not a Christian reveals Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his own words.
John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures
of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of
humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare,
James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W. C.
Fields, and Woody Allen.
Jokes, paradoxes, riddles, and the art of non-sequitur are revealed
with great perception and insight in this illuminating account of
the relationship between humor and mathematics.--Joseph Williams,
New York Times
'Leave your mind alone, ' said a Thurber cartoon, and a really
complete and convincing analysis of what humour is might spoil all
jokes forever. This book avoids that danger. What it does. . .is
describe broadly several kinds of mathematical theory and apply
them to throw sidelights on how many kinds of jokes work.--New
Scientist
Many scholars nowadays write seriously about the ludicrous. Some
merely manage to be dull. A few--like Paulos--are brilliant in an
odd endeavor.--Los Angeles Times Book Review
The media have long played an important role in the modern
political process and the 2016 presidential campaign was no
different. From Trump's tweets and cable-show-call-ins to Sander's
social media machine to Clinton's "Trump Yourself" app and podcast,
journalism, social and digital media, and entertainment media were
front-and-center in 2016. Clearly, political media played a
dominant and disruptive role in our democratic process. This book
helps to explain the role of these media and communication outlets
in the 2016 presidential election. This thorough study of how
political communication evolved in 2016 examines the disruptive
role communication technology played in the 2016 presidential
primary campaign and general election and how voters sought and
received political information. The Presidency and Social Media
includes top scholars from leading research institutions using
various research methodologies to generate new understandings-both
theoretical and practical-for students, researchers, journalists,
and practitioners.
The 2008 US presidential campaign saw politicians utilizing all
types of new media -- Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, e-mail,
and cell phone texting - to reach voters of all ages, ethnicities,
socio-economic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. This volume
examines the use of these media and considers the effectiveness of
reaching voters through these channels. It explores not only the
use of new media and technologies but also the role these tactics
played in attracting new voters and communicating with the
electorate during the 2008 presidential debates. Chapters focus on
how the technologies were used by candidates, the press, and
voters.
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