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For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth
of Scotland as a school inspector. From orkney to campbeltown and
Jura to Dundee, he visited hundreds of schools and met thousands of
teachers and pupils. In these memoirs, first published in 1928, he
paints an insightful yet humorous picture of life in the country's
schools after the 1872 education Act, which brought free schooling
for all Scottish children between the ages of five and ten.
For more than four decades, Molecular Biology of the Cell has
distilled the vast amount of scientific knowledge to illuminate
basic principles, enduring concepts, and cutting-edge research. The
Seventh Edition has been extensively revised and updated with the
latest research, and has been thoroughly vetted by experts and
instructors. The classic companion text, The Problems Book, has
been reimagined as the Digital Problems Book in Smartwork, an
interactive digital assessment course with a wide selection of
questions and automatic-grading functionality. The digital format
with embedded animations and dynamic question types makes the
Digital Problems Book in Smartwork easier to assign than ever
before-for both in-person and online classes.
Most photovoltaic (PV) installations utilise heavy conventional
glass or polycarbonate panels, and even newly developed thin
plastic or metal films for PV cell use may fracture during both
construction and application. Textile fabrics, the most widespread
flexible materials in everyday use, offer a solution to the need
for lightweight, flexible solar PV generators. Solar Textiles: The
Flexible Solution for Solar Power is about the incorporation and
operation of solar cells on textile fabrics. The combination of
textile manufacturing and solar PV cell technology opens up further
avenues for both the textile and semiconductor industries. Thus,
this book reflects the progressively increasing commercial interest
in PV cell technology and the versatility that their integration in
textiles provides. Discusses textiles as electrical substrates
Explains the photovoltaic effect and associated parameters Offers
special consideration of solar cells on textiles Compares fibres
and fabrics and how to implement PV activity on a textile Describes
manufacturing methods outside of semiconductor technology Includes
applications open only to textiles This work is aimed at textile
technologists, electronic engineers, solar technologists, civil
engineers and designers in building fabrics and architecture.
The identity implications have been overlooked from discussions on
devolution, which have tended to focus on constitutional, legal and
financial issues. In this volume, contributors from the communities
under discussion explore the ways in which devolution is
experienced and understood by citizens from the devolved regions of
the UK. The additional inclusion of a US perspective allows
parallels with American federalism to be drawn out. Informed by a
discursive/textual/communication approach to identity, Devolution
and Identity offers a range of theoretical and empirical
perspectives, including both macro- and micro-level analyses of
devolution and identity processes. Themes covered include discourse
and interaction, national identity, flags and emblems, gender
representation, newspaper letters, regional marketing, language
ideology, history and culture, artistic practice, minority
identities and political ideology. In exploring the impact of the
devolution process on both individual and group identities, this
book provides a richer understanding of the devolution process
itself, as well as a new understanding of the relationship between
socio-political structures and identity.
Instrumental Jazz Arranging consists of a systematic presentation
of the essential techniques and materials of jazz arranging.
Authors Mike Tomaro and John Wilson draw upon 50+ years of combined
teaching experience to bring you a book that addresses all of the
basic needs for beginning arrangers. Topics include
counterpoint/linear writing, jazz harmony, compositional
techniques, and orchestration. All topics serve to address issues
concerned with true arranging in great detail. The book may be used
in both individual and classroom instructional situations. The
accompanying CDs - 170 tracks in all! - include many of the
examples in the book, plus templates for assignments formatted for
Finale .
Most photovoltaic (PV) installations utilise heavy conventional
glass or polycarbonate panels, and even newly developed thin
plastic or metal films for PV cell use may fracture during both
construction and application. Textile fabrics, the most widespread
flexible materials in everyday use, offer a solution to the need
for lightweight, flexible solar PV generators. Solar Textiles: The
Flexible Solution for Solar Power is about the incorporation and
operation of solar cells on textile fabrics. The combination of
textile manufacturing and solar PV cell technology opens up further
avenues for both the textile and semiconductor industries. Thus,
this book reflects the progressively increasing commercial interest
in PV cell technology and the versatility that their integration in
textiles provides. Discusses textiles as electrical substrates
Explains the photovoltaic effect and associated parameters Offers
special consideration of solar cells on textiles Compares fibres
and fabrics and how to implement PV activity on a textile Describes
manufacturing methods outside of semiconductor technology Includes
applications open only to textiles This work is aimed at textile
technologists, electronic engineers, solar technologists, civil
engineers and designers in building fabrics and architecture.
The Routledge Companion to Business History is a definitive work of
reference, and authoritative, international source on business
history. Compiled by leading scholars in the field, it offers both
researchers and students an introduction and overview of current
scholarship in this expanding discipline. Drawing on a wealth of
international contributions, this volume expands the field and
explores how business history interacts theoretically and
methodologically with other fields. It charts the origins and
development of business history and its global reach from Latin
America and Africa, to North America and Europe. With this
multi-perspective approach, it illustrates the unique contribution
of business history and its relationship with a range of other
disciplines, from finance and banking to gender issues in
corporations. The Routledge Companion to Business History is a
vital source of reference for students and researchers in the
fields of business history, corporate governance and business
ethics. "This collection is an excellent starting point for
understanding the field and finding areas where business history,
management theory, and social science can intersect." Canadian
Business History Newsletter, January 2019
First published in 1988. This book provides a lucid and
exceptionally well-informed account at the controversial
relationship between politics and leisure. The author combines
historical and sociological material to show the ways in which
'leisure' has often been a fiercely disputed battleground. Free
time and free space have always posed a threat to political
authorities, while providing room for experimentation and
expression for the citizenry. This has led to extensive attempts at
leisure regulation; John Wilson examines the purposes and
effectiveness of such regulation in the fields of games sexuality,
the mass media, and gambling. He is able to draw on evidence of
leisure planning and policy from a wide variety of political
regimes, from communist and socialist through social democrat to
liberal, conservative, and fascist. The importance of the
relationship between political forces and leisure, in subjects as
disparate as the future of the Olympic games and the future of full
employment, has rarely been so evident. John Wilson has provided an
excellent guide to its intricacies.
Originally published in 1974 Values and Moral Development in Higher
Education deals practically with various aspects of the impact of
higher educational processes, recognising a need for these to be
inter-related and understood within a common framework. It takes
the form of a set of contributions whose authors have sought to
relate their perspectives and experiences by reference to John
Wilson's philosophical analyses of the nature of moral maturity and
the possible aims of moral education, and, where possible, to each
other.
Originally published in 1981 Student Learning in Higher Education
fills an important gap by bringing together in a concise and
readable form, research from Britain, the USA and elsewhere, and by
discussing the curricular implications for staff who wish to assist
their students to see meaning in their studies. It focuses on
issues of general relevance, explores major research questions and
outlines different methodologies and approaches. It discusses what
is meant by 'meaningful' learning and describes typical learning
tasks encountered by arts and science students. It looks at how
students decide what to study on a course and how assessment
demands shape both their perceptions of what should be learned, and
their study behaviour. As well as considering the ways in which
students change and develop over their years in college, the book
also discusses the relative importance of teaching and informal
influences, such as the student peer group. This book attempts to
provide a 'state of the art' review of the literature in a field of
central concern for all who prepare students for, or work within,
higher education.
The aim of this book is to bring academic work on contemporary
issues in financial institutions and markets. The general theme is
designed to allow for a wide range of topics covering the diverse
nature of academic research in banking and finance. As a
consequence the contributions cover a wide range of issues across a
broad spectrum, including: bank business models, bank competition
and stability, credit card pricing and risk; bank supervision; and
international investments. This book was originally published as a
special issue of The European Journal of Finance.
Originally published in 1981 Student Learning in Higher Education
fills an important gap by bringing together in a concise and
readable form, research from Britain, the USA and elsewhere, and by
discussing the curricular implications for staff who wish to assist
their students to see meaning in their studies. It focuses on
issues of general relevance, explores major research questions and
outlines different methodologies and approaches. It discusses what
is meant by 'meaningful' learning and describes typical learning
tasks encountered by arts and science students. It looks at how
students decide what to study on a course and how assessment
demands shape both their perceptions of what should be learned, and
their study behaviour. As well as considering the ways in which
students change and develop over their years in college, the book
also discusses the relative importance of teaching and informal
influences, such as the student peer group. This book attempts to
provide a 'state of the art' review of the literature in a field of
central concern for all who prepare students for, or work within,
higher education.
Originally published in 1974 Values and Moral Development in Higher
Education deals practically with various aspects of the impact of
higher educational processes, recognising a need for these to be
inter-related and understood within a common framework. It takes
the form of a set of contributions whose authors have sought to
relate their perspectives and experiences by reference to John
Wilson's philosophical analyses of the nature of moral maturity and
the possible aims of moral education, and, where possible, to each
other.
First published in 1962, The Faith of an Artist presents assembled
personal statements of more than twenty men of creative genius in
the present generation- poets, painters, architects and dramatists,
novelists, and composers. These are all men of acknowledged
eminence in their field: Graham Greene and Picasso, Cocteau,
Vaughan Williams, and Le Corbusier speak directly to us of their
lives, their artistic endeavours, and their personal creeds. From
their statement the reader may not only gain insight into the
inspiration which has fired them and the struggles which they have
faced, but also be made aware of the personal and social beliefs of
men whose creative desires have forced them to think out of their
position in relation to society. Their criticism- often radical- is
highly relevant not only to the artistic media in which they have
accomplished so much, but to the society in which we all live. This
book is an essential read for students of literature and Art.
First published in 1962, Public Schools and Private Practice
discusses various facets of public schools in Britain from a
factual point of view. John Wilson brings crucial themes like
public appearance and private life; the public-school community;
discipline, religion, and morality; domestic conditions and
financing of public schools; political status of public schooling;
educational assessment; and future of public schools, to understand
questions like what is it like to be a boy or a master at public
schools? Do public schools develop a boy's character more
successfully than other schools? Or should the public schools be
thrown more widely open to the public? This book is an interesting
historical document for scholars and researchers of British
education and education in general.
First published in 1977, Philosophy and Practical Education
attempts to relate philosophy with education. It deals with themes
like school, discipline, authority, curriculum, subjects, autonomy
etc. to 1) discuss topics which are necessarily of direct practical
concern to teachers and educators; 2) to showcase that an increase
in our conceptual clarity suggests, fairly unambiguously, certain
kinds of practical action; and as 3) they have not been properly
dealt with in existing philosophical literature. This book is an
essential read for educators, teachers, and curriculum developers.
This book showcases recent academic work on contemporary issues in
financial institutions and markets. It covers a broad range of
topics, highlighting the diverse nature of academic research in
banking and finance. As a consequence the contributions cover a
wide range of issues across a broad spectrum, including: capital
structure arbitrage, credit rating agencies, credit default swap
spreads, market power in the banking industry and stock returns.
This timely collection offers fresh insights and understandings
into the ongoing debates within and between the academic and
professional finance communities. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the European Journal of Finance.
It is sometimes said that the philosophy of education is not a
serious and coherent philosophical area of inquiry. John Wilson
examines this argument, taking it as the starting point for his
book. He believes that most 'philosophy of education' until now has
been little more than the promotion of particular ideologies, and
that progress can be made only by a more analytical approach. The
central problems lies in establishing a few basic concepts,
principles and categories and questions which will form the
skeleton of the subject. He therefore outlines the nature of
'philosophy of education' and defines some of its major problems by
examining key notions such as the value of education, the nature
and implications of learning and what should be learned.
The concept of 'normality' or mental health is a difficult one to
define, but educators and social psychologists must have a clear
definition of it in order to proceed with practical work. In this
stimulating and informative book, originally published in 1968, Mr
Wilson discusses the idea of mental health, both as a general
concept and specifically as it affects the teacher as educator. He
deals with the problems of learning and the 'difficult' child, not
confining his suggestions within the boundaries of curricular
teaching but exploring the wider aspect of moral education.
It is sometimes said that the philosophy of education is not a
serious and coherent philosophical area of inquiry. John Wilson
examines this argument, taking it as the starting point for his
book. He believes that most 'philosophy of education' until now has
been little more than the promotion of particular ideologies, and
that progress can be made only by a more analytical approach. The
central problems lies in establishing a few basic concepts,
principles and categories and questions which will form the
skeleton of the subject. He therefore outlines the nature of
'philosophy of education' and defines some of its major problems by
examining key notions such as the value of education, the nature
and implications of learning and what should be learned.
First published in 1928, this book is the personal account of John
Wilson's experiences as a School Inspector, encompassing 50 years
knowledge of social and educational conditions in the Highlands and
Islands.
First published in 1988. This book provides a lucid and
exceptionally well-informed account at the controversial
relationship between politics and leisure. The author combines
historical and sociological material to show the ways in which
'leisure' has often been a fiercely disputed battleground. Free
time and free space have always posed a threat to political
authorities, while providing room for experimentation and
expression for the citizenry. This has led to extensive attempts at
leisure regulation; John Wilson examines the purposes and
effectiveness of such regulation in the fields of games sexuality,
the mass media, and gambling. He is able to draw on evidence of
leisure planning and policy from a wide variety of political
regimes, from communist and socialist through social democrat to
liberal, conservative, and fascist. The importance of the
relationship between political forces and leisure, in subjects as
disparate as the future of the Olympic games and the future of full
employment, has rarely been so evident. John Wilson has provided an
excellent guide to its intricacies.
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