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The 9th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) was part
of Lord Kitchener's "New Army" made up initially of men from the
north midlands This is their story complete with pictures of many
of the men The 9th Battalion was not an elite force, but a group of
ordinary working men who felt compelled to serve their country but
found themselves in the most extra-ordinary military conflagration
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It's mutiny on the high seas in this light-hearted lesson in
playing well with others. When Salty Jack pretends his bedroom is a
pirate ship, his friends help him tie ropes to serve as rigging and
sheets to serve as sails. Crewmates Scallywag Sanjay and Barnacle
Bob hoist the sails, and soon the friends are cruising past flying
fish and secret caves. But their daring adventure goes to the dogs
when Captain Salty Jack barks out too many orders and Millie the
Mermaid abandons ship, setting an example for the rest of the crew.
When Jack discovers it's not as much fun playing alone, he must
figure out a way to get his friends back. Children will discover,
along with Captain Jack, that an adventure can be even more
thrilling when everyone is allowed to share their creative ideas,
and even steer the ship.
This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands
undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and
1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow
vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their
importance for fish, in particular, for the Nile tilapia.
Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual
diversity of children's literature across the globe, The Routledge
Companion to International Children's Literature is the first
volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the
world. With particular focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America, the
collection raises awareness of children's literature and related
media as they exist in large regions of the world to which
'mainstream' European and North American scholarship pays very
little attention. Sections cover: * Concepts and theories *
Historical contexts and national identity * Cultural forms and
children's texts * Traditional story and adaptation * Picture books
across the majority world * Trends in children's and young adult
literatures. Exposition of the literary, cultural and historical
contexts in which children's literature is produced, together with
an exploration of intersections between these literatures and more
extensively researched areas, will enhance access and understanding
for a large range of international readers. The essays offer an
ideal introduction for those newly approaching literature for
children in specific areas, looking for new insights and
interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in directions for
future scholarship.
Advances in Financial Economics, volume 18, will present research
on corporate governance both in the US and globally. Papers will
deal with the role played by boards of directors, internal
organization design and governance mechanisms, franchise
agreements, the effect of regulation and policy, the market for
corporate control, and strategic alliances. The volume will aim at
providing a deeper understanding of corporate governance practices,
trends, innovations and challenges using international data.
Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita emigrated from Japan in the early
twentieth century and settled in Seattle's Japanese American
immigrant community. By the 1930s he was established as a prominent
member of the Northwest art scene and allied with the region's
progressive artists. On the day Pearl Harbor was bombed Tokita
started a diary that he vowed to keep until the war ended. In it he
recorded with expressiveness and insight the events, fears, rumors,
and restrictions-and his own emotional turmoil-before and during
his detention at Minidoka. This beautiful and poignant biography of
Tokita uses his paintings and wartime diary to vividly illustrate
the experiences, uncertainties, joys, and anxieties of Japanese
Americans during the World War II internment and the more
optimistic times that preceded it. It contextualizes Tokita's
paintings and diary within the art community and Japanese America
and introduces readers to an amazing man who embraced life despite
living through challenging and disheartening times.
Winner of the Children's Literature Association Honor Book Award
This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in
children's literature scholarship. In all cultures, children's
literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual
development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of
agency and the circumstances that frame an individual's decisions
and capacities to make choices and act upon them. Such issues of
selfhood fall under the heading subjectivity. Attention to the
representation of subjectivity in literature enables us to consider
how values are formed and changed, how emotions are cultivated, and
how maturation is experienced. Because subjectivities emerge in
social contexts, they vary from place to place. This book brings
together essays by scholars from several Asian countries - Japan,
India, Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, and
The Philippines - to address subjectivities in fiction and film
within frameworks that include social change, multiculturalism,
post-colonialism, globalization, and glocalization. Few scholars of
western children's literature have a ready understanding of what
subjectivity entails in children's literature and film from Asian
countries, especially where Buddhist or Confucian thought remains
influential. This volume will impact scholarship and pedagogy both
within the countries represented and in countries with established
traditions in teaching and research, offering a major contribution
to the flow of ideas between different academic and educational
cultures.
What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another
time and cultural context and for a different audience? This
first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths,
heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales,
'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from European cultures.
One chapter is devoted to various retellings of classics, from
Shakespeare to "Wind in the Willows." The authors offer a general
theory of what motivates the retelling of stories, and how stories
express the aspirations of a society. An important function of
stories is to introduce children to a cultural heritage, and to
transmit a body of shared allusions and experiences that expresses
a society's central values and assumptions. However, the cultural
heritage may be modified through a pervasive tendency of retellings
to produce socially conservative outcomes because of ethnocentric,
androcentric and class-based assumptions in the source stories that
persist into retellings. Therefore, some stories, such as classical
myths, are particularly resistant to feminist reinterpretations,
for example, while other types, such as folktales, are more
malleable. In examining such possibilities, the book evaluates the
processes of interpretation apparent in retellings. Index included.
Winner of the Children's Literature Association Honor Book Award
This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in
children's literature scholarship. In all cultures, children's
literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual
development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of
agency and the circumstances that frame an individual's decisions
and capacities to make choices and act upon them. Such issues of
selfhood fall under the heading subjectivity. Attention to the
representation of subjectivity in literature enables us to consider
how values are formed and changed, how emotions are cultivated, and
how maturation is experienced. Because subjectivities emerge in
social contexts, they vary from place to place. This book brings
together essays by scholars from several Asian countries - Japan,
India, Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, and
The Philippines - to address subjectivities in fiction and film
within frameworks that include social change, multiculturalism,
post-colonialism, globalization, and glocalization. Few scholars of
western children's literature have a ready understanding of what
subjectivity entails in children's literature and film from Asian
countries, especially where Buddhist or Confucian thought remains
influential. This volume will impact scholarship and pedagogy both
within the countries represented and in countries with established
traditions in teaching and research, offering a major contribution
to the flow of ideas between different academic and educational
cultures.
Ways of Being Male is the first book ever dedicated solely to the study of masculinity in children's literature. Employing international discourses in literary criticism, feminism, social sciences, film theory, psychoanalytic criticism, and queer theory, John Stephens and the contributors examine how contemporary debates on the concept of maleness is reflected and addressed in fiction and film for young audiences.
What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural cotntext and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, herioc legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from European cultures. One chapter is devoted to various retellings of classics, from Shakespeare to "Wind in the Willows." The authors offer a general theory of what motivates the retelling of stories, and how stories express the aspirations of a society. An important function of stories is to introduce children to a cultural heritage, and to transmit a body of shared allusions and experiences that expresses a society's central values and assumptions. However, the cultural heritage may be modified through a pervasive tendency of retellings to produce socially convervative outcomes because of ethnocentric, androcentric and class-based assumptions in the source stories that persist into retellings. Therefore, some stories, such as classical myths, are particularly resistant to feminist reinterpretations, for example, while other types, such as folktales, are more malleable. In examining such possibilites, the book evaluates the processes of interpretation apparent in retellings.
Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual
diversity of children's literature across the globe, The Routledge
Companion to International Children's Literature is the first
volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the
world. With particular focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America, the
collection raises awareness of children's literature and related
media as they exist in large regions of the world to which
'mainstream' European and North American scholarship pays very
little attention. Sections cover: * Concepts and theories *
Historical contexts and national identity * Cultural forms and
children's texts * Traditional story and adaptation * Picture books
across the majority world * Trends in children's and young adult
literatures. Exposition of the literary, cultural and historical
contexts in which children's literature is produced, together with
an exploration of intersections between these literatures and more
extensively researched areas, will enhance access and understanding
for a large range of international readers. The essays offer an
ideal introduction for those newly approaching literature for
children in specific areas, looking for new insights and
interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in directions for
future scholarship.
This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands
undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and
1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow
vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their
importance for fish, in particular, for the Nile tilapia.
In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance
of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the
time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider
contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis
(which is designed for students and serious general readers of
history as well as the specialist) is not a straight narrative
history; rather, it is an examination of the humanists, artists and
patrons who were the instruments of this change; the contemporary
factors that favoured it; and the elements of ancient thought they
revived.
Failure informs more generously and reliably than success. Failure
is the best indicator of what's working and what's not in any
complex system or enterprise. All failures will inevitably reveal
latent defects and/or failure modes that are invariably buried
within the people, processes, materials, design, manufacturing, and
management that comprise the complex system. In this new framework
from former NASA aerospace professionals, Newman and Wander employ
a unique system failure case study (SFCS) paradigm, originally
developed to stimulate systems thinking and lessons learning at
NASA, that combines storytelling and systems engineering designed
to enhance organizational learning. The authors employ the SFCS
approach to explore a vast array of failure events in multiple
sectors of transportation, industry, aerospace, construction, and
critical infrastructure. They provide an Integrated Analysis
seeking trends, patterns, and universally applicable insights that
readers can use to recognize areas of potential vulnerability
within their own activities. The authors then identify specific
actions within the span of control of enterprise leaders, project
managers, process owners and operators which can be implemented to
manage risk in high consequence, high risk activities.
Failure informs more generously and reliably than success. Failure
is the best indicator of what's working and what's not in any
complex system or enterprise. All failures will inevitably reveal
latent defects and/or failure modes that are invariably buried
within the people, processes, materials, design, manufacturing, and
management that comprise the complex system. In this new framework
from former NASA aerospace professionals, Newman and Wander employ
a unique system failure case study (SFCS) paradigm, originally
developed to stimulate systems thinking and lessons learning at
NASA, that combines storytelling and systems engineering designed
to enhance organizational learning. The authors employ the SFCS
approach to explore a vast array of failure events in multiple
sectors of transportation, industry, aerospace, construction, and
critical infrastructure. They provide an Integrated Analysis
seeking trends, patterns, and universally applicable insights that
readers can use to recognize areas of potential vulnerability
within their own activities. The authors then identify specific
actions within the span of control of enterprise leaders, project
managers, process owners and operators which can be implemented to
manage risk in high consequence, high risk activities.
The monograph written by John Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin Adams and
Ba-Tuong Vo is devoted to the field of autonomous robot systems,
which have been receiving a great deal of attention by the research
community in the latest few years. The contents are focused on the
problem of representing the environment and its uncertainty in
terms of feature based maps. Random Finite Sets are adopted as the
fundamental tool to represent a map, and a general framework is
proposed for feature management, data association and state
estimation. The approaches are tested in a number of experiments on
both ground based and marine based facilities.
Proteins, Pep tides and Amino Acids SourceBook is the second in a
series of reference books conceived to cover the explosive growth
in commercially available biological reagents. The success of our
first reference work, Source Book of Enzymes published in 1997,
encouraged us to continue this series. Choosing proteins, peptides,
and amino acids as the subject matter for the second volume was
simple, given their preeminence in regulating biochemical processes
and their importance to modern molecular biology. The SourceBook
series was inspired by our difficulty in locating a suitable
replacement for a depleted reagent in the midst of an urgent
research project. To our dismay, we found the reagent supplier out
of business and the product line no longer available. Other reagent
catalogs on our library bookshelf offered a narrow selection and
incom plete functional information. We were ultimately able to
locate a satisfactory alternative only by making countless
inquiries and paging through innumerable product catalogs and
technical data sheets. We needed-but could not find-a single
resource that cataloged available compounds, organized them in a
logical and accessible format, provided critical technical
information to distinguish one from another, and told us where we
could buy them.
The monograph written by John Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin Adams and
Ba-Tuong Vo is devoted to the field of autonomous robot systems,
which have been receiving a great deal of attention by the research
community in the latest few years. The contents are focused on the
problem of representing the environment and its uncertainty in
terms of feature based maps. Random Finite Sets are adopted as the
fundamental tool to represent a map, and a general framework is
proposed for feature management, data association and state
estimation. The approaches are tested in a number of experiments on
both ground based and marine based facilities.
Given the substantial impact of feminism on children s
literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as
no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on
issues of female representation. The question of how the same
patriarchal ideology structured representations of male bodies and
behaviors was until very recently a marginal discussion. Now that
masculinity has emerges as an overt theme in children s literature
and film, critical consideration of the subject is timely, if not
long overdue.
Ways of Being Male addresses this new concern in an
unprecedented collection of essays examining how contemporary
debates about masculinity are reflected in fiction and film for
young adults. An outstanding team of scholars elucidates the ways
in which different versions of male identity are constructed and
presented to young audiences. The contributors, drawn from a
variety of academic disciplines, employ international discourses in
literary criticism, feminism, social sciences, film theory,
psychoanalytic criticism, and queer theory in their wide-ranging
exploration of male representation. With its illuminating array of
perspectives, this pioneering survey brings a long neglected
subject into sharp focus. "
Ninjas, Robots, and Baseball, oh, my! Join beloved childrens
illustrator John Steven Gurney and rookie to the Fernwood Valley
Fuzzies, Blossom Honey Possum, as they play ball in this triple
play. Will the Fuzzies win a home run against the Rocky Ridge Red
Claws? Will they learn the ins and outs of manga baseball before
competing with the Sashimi City Ninjas in a "Ninja Baseball Blast"?
And, why are the Geartown Clankees more like "R.B.I. Robots"?
Collecting the first three Fuzzy Baseball graphic novels.
It's the first of April in Green Lawn! Mr. Paskey, owner of the Book Nook, plays an April Fools' Day prank on Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. They hatch a plan to get back at him, but then the bookstore is robbed--no joke! Can the kids track down the crook? Or will this April Fools' be an April fail?
The alphabet may be over, but the mysteries continue in this ninth A to Z Mysteries Super Edition, featuring a 26-letter secret message hidden in the illustrations.
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