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Teaching and Learning History Online: A Guide for College
Instructors offers everything a new online history instructor needs
in one package, including how to structure courses, integrate
multimedia, and manage and grade discussions, as well as advice for
department chairs on curriculum management, student advising, and
more. In today's technological society, online courses are quickly
becoming the new normal in terms of collegiate instruction,
providing the ideal environment to "flip the classroom" and
encourage students to hone critical thinking skills by engaging
deeply with historical sources. While much of the attention in
online teaching focuses on STEM, business, and education courses,
online history courses have also proven consistently popular.
However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new history instructors are
rushed into online teaching with little or no training or
experience, creating a need for a guide to ease the transition from
classroom to online course development and teaching. A timely text,
this book aims to provide both new and experienced college history
teachers the information they need to develop dynamic online
courses.
Teaching and Learning History Online: A Guide for College
Instructors offers everything a new online history instructor needs
in one package, including how to structure courses, integrate
multimedia, and manage and grade discussions, as well as advice for
department chairs on curriculum management, student advising, and
more. In today's technological society, online courses are quickly
becoming the new normal in terms of collegiate instruction,
providing the ideal environment to "flip the classroom" and
encourage students to hone critical thinking skills by engaging
deeply with historical sources. While much of the attention in
online teaching focuses on STEM, business, and education courses,
online history courses have also proven consistently popular.
However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new history instructors are
rushed into online teaching with little or no training or
experience, creating a need for a guide to ease the transition from
classroom to online course development and teaching. A timely text,
this book aims to provide both new and experienced college history
teachers the information they need to develop dynamic online
courses.
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky
People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic
sexuality and its communities in the United States from the
post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered
networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared
principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to
transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine
harassment by law enforcement and win inclusion in American
society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who
engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission,
and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual
practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing
popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws
to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this
community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual
orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various
campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on
popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text's
historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific
dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. Its
clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology
of a movement that has long been neglected.
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky
People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic
sexuality and its communities in the United States from the
post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered
networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared
principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to
transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine
harassment by law enforcement and win inclusion in American
society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who
engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission,
and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual
practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing
popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws
to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this
community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual
orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various
campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on
popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text's
historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific
dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. Its
clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology
of a movement that has long been neglected.
An engaging survey of the fundamental concepts of mathematics and
the many ways math is used in everyday life. This is a stimulating
and simple reintroduction to all the math we all learned in high
school but have forgotten, using many examples of how math applies
to the real world. Highlights the math topics that are most
relevant to everyday concerns, such as how statistics can be
misleading and how interest on savings accounts accrues at
different interest rates. Also explores the most fundamental
mysteries and amazing properties, such as why two negative numbers
multiplied together make a positive number and why fractions can be
easily multiplied but not easily added. Uses a multitude of
examples from real life such as how extremely large numbers are
used to write unbreakable computer codes and how the slope of a
curve is used by biologists to calculate the rate of growth of
species. It walks the reader step by step through simple solutions
to each problem explored.
An engaging survey of the fundamental concepts of mathematics and
the many ways math is used in everyday life. This is a stimulating
and simple reintroduction to all the math we all learned in high
school but have forgotten, using many examples of how math applies
to the real world. Highlights the math topics that are most
relevant to everyday concerns, such as how statistics can be
misleading and how interest on savings accounts accrues at
different interest rates. Also explores the most fundamental
mysteries and amazing properties, such as why two negative numbers
multiplied together make a positive number and why fractions can be
easily multiplied but not easily added. Uses a multitude of
examples from real life such as how extremely large numbers are
used to write unbreakable computer codes and how the slope of a
curve is used by biologists to calculate the rate of growth of
species. It walks the reader step by step through simple solutions
to each problem explored.
The theory of Markov chains, although a special case of Markov
processes, is here developed for its own sake and presented on its
own merits. In general, the hypothesis of a denumerable state
space, which is the defining hypothesis of what we call a "chain"
here, generates more clear-cut questions and demands more precise
and definitive an swers. For example, the principal limit theorem (
1. 6, II. 10), still the object of research for general Markov
processes, is here in its neat final form; and the strong Markov
property ( 11. 9) is here always applicable. While probability
theory has advanced far enough that a degree of sophistication is
needed even in the limited context of this book, it is still
possible here to keep the proportion of definitions to theorems
relatively low. . From the standpoint of the general theory of
stochastic processes, a continuous parameter Markov chain appears
to be the first essentially discontinuous process that has been
studied in some detail. It is common that the sample functions of
such a chain have discontinuities worse than jumps, and these baser
discontinuities play a central role in the theory, of which the
mystery remains to be completely unraveled. In this connection the
basic concepts of separability and measurability, which are usually
applied only at an early stage of the discussion to establish a
certain smoothness of the sample functions, are here applied
constantly as indispensable tools.
Dieser Kurs richtet sich an Studienanfanger an Hoch- und
Fachhochschulen. Er legt in Form eines leicht lesbaren und
abwechslungsreichen Textes die Grundlagen der wichtigsten Gebiete
der Infinitesimalrechnung.
Differentiation Das Ziel dieses Buches ist es, dem Studenten und
dem Lehrer einen leicht lesbaren und abwechslungsreichen Text Die
Differentiation transzendenter Funktionen wird an die Hand zu
geben, der die wichtigsten Gebiete der Infi- aus zwei Griinden sehr
bald eingefiihrt. Zunachst sind die nitesimalrechnung in einer und
in mehreren Variablen so transzendenten Funktionen fUr die
praktischen Anwen- einfach wie moglich darbietet. dungen wesentlich
wichtiger als die Polynome. Zum zwei- ten laBt sich die Idee des
Grenzwertes an Hand der Ablei- Viele Studenten beschaftigen sich
mit hoherer Mathe- tung des Sinus und der logarithrnischen Funktion
wesent- matik, ehe der eine"oder andere sich entschlieBt, Mathema-
lich deutlicher veranschaulichen, als dies bei der Ableitung tik
als Hauptfach oder als Beruf auszuwahlen. Gerade des- von Polynomen
der Fall ist. (Dort namlich kann x ohne halb habe ich viele
Beispiele und Dbungen zusammengestellt, Schwierigkeiten auch gleich
Null sein.) sei es nun zur Anreicherung der Darstellung oder auch
zur Unterhaltung des Lesers; jedenfalls aber, urn dem Studen-
Anwendungen ten den Zusammenhang zwischen mathematischen Konzep-
ten und der realen Welt moglichst umfassend zu erschlieBen.
Zusatzlich zu den iiblichen geometrischen und physi- Dies gilt etwa
flir das Beispiel des Motors, die Ausschopfung kalischen
Anwendungen enthiilt der Text zahlreiche Veran- natiirlicher
Ressourcen, Beispiele aus dem Wirtschaftsleben schaulichungen aus
anderen Gebieten. In den Dbungen und oder der Weltraumfahrt.
Dieser vierte Band geht naher auf ausgewahlte Themen ein. Uber den
Reihen- und den Grenzwertbegriff sowie uber den in den fruheren
Banden dargelegten Funktions- und Ableitungsbegriff wird die
Taylorreihe erklart. Auch das Integral von Taylorreihen wird
behandelt. Ein zweites Themengebiet ist die
Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. Neben einer Einfuhrung werden
verschiedene Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilungen behandelt.
Wie in allen Banden wird das Gelernte durch ausgewahlte
Ubungsaufgaben vertieft. Der Band kann Studierenden angeboten
werden, sobald die Grundlagen der Differential- und
Integralrechnung behandelt worden sind. Er baut auf dem ersten und
zweiten Band des Einfuhrungskurses auf."
Der "Einfuhrungskurs Hohere Mathematik I" ist der Startband einer
Reihe, die leicht lesbar und abwechslungsreich gestaltet ist, und
die die wichtigsten Gebiete der Infinitesimalrechnung in einer und
mehreren Variablen bietet. Dieser erste Band enthalt die Gebiete:
Funktionen und ihre Schaubilder, Grenzwerte und Stetigkeit,
Einfache und partielle Ableitungen."
Das Fundament, auf dem das Gebaude der hoheren Analysis ruht, ist
die Lehre von den reellen Zahlen. Unausweichlich hat jede strenge
Behandlung der Grundlagen der Differential- und Integralrechnung
und der anschlieBenden Gebiete, ja selbst schon die strenge Behand-
lung etwa der Wurzel-oder Logarithmenrechnung hier ihren Ausgangs-
punkt zu nehmen. Sie erst schafft das Material. in dem dann
Arithmetik und Analysis fast ausschlieBlich arbeiten, mit dem sie
bauen konnen. Nicht von jeher war das Geftihl flir diese
Notwendigkeit vorhanden. Die groBen Schopfer der
Infinitesimalrechnung - LEIBNIZ und NEWfONl - und die nicht weniger
groBen Ausgestalter derselben, 2 unter denen vor aHem EULER zu
nennen ist, waren zu berauscht von dem gewaltigen Erkenntnisstrom,
der aus den neu erschlossenen Quellen floB, als daB sie sich zu
einer Kritik der Grundlagen veranlaBt fiihlten. Der Erfolg der
neuen Methode war ihnen eine hinreichende Gewlihr fUr die
Tragfestigkeit ihres Fundamentes. Erst als jener Strom abzuebben
begann, wagte sich die kritische Analyse an die Grund- begriffe:
etwa urn die Wende des 18. Jahrhunderts, vor aHem unter 3 dem
machtigen EinfluB von GAUSS wurden solche Bestrebungen starker und
sHirker. Aber es wahrte noch fast ein Jahrhundert, ehe hier die
wesentlichsten Dinge als vollig geklart angesehen werden durften.
This is the first study of the life and art of Sydney Chaplin,
Charlie Chaplin's brother, a person notable not only for his
importance in establishing his brother's career, but in several
other early Hollywood enterprises, including the founding of United
Artists and the Syd Chaplin Aircraft Corporation, America's first
domestic airline. Sydney also had a successful film career,
beginning in 1914 with Keystone and culminating with a string of
popular films for Warner Bros. in the 1920s. Sydney's film career
ended in 1929 because of an assault charge by an actress. This
incident proved to be only the last in a string of scandals, each
causing him to move to another place, another studio, or another
business venture.
Every year thousands of people visit the San Juan Islands off the
coast of Washington State. With a copy of "Exploring Coast Salish
Prehistory" in hand, they will enjoy an introduction both to
archaeology in general and to sites within San Juan Island National
Historic Park.
The Coast Salish people inhabited the San Juans for 5,000 years.
One important site on San Juan Island, Cattle Point, was a summer
camp where residents engaged in fishing and shellfish harvesting.
Native peoples' recollections of activities there have been
confirmed by physical evidence in the form of shell middens, fish
bones, and other artifacts.
Another San Juan site, English Camp, was a winter village site
for 2,000 years. Structural remains provide insight into how
people's lives and activities changed over time. Tools found at the
site have allowed archaeologists to deduce that early residents ate
camas bulbs and other plants, engaged in woodworking, weaving,
fishing, and carving, and manufactured and used stone tools.
Stein's discussions of the sites and archaeological practices
are enhanced by numerous illustrations. Clear photos of different
types of artifacts, topographical maps, and other images help the
reader to understand how people lived in the San Juans thousands of
years ago.
Julie K. Stein is a curator of archaeology at the Burke Museum
of Natural History and Culture; professor of anthropology; and
divisional dean of computing, facilities, and research in the
College of Arts and Sciences -- all at the University of
Washington.
This is the first comprehensive history of seventeenth-ccntury
Spanish theatrical music to be written in any language, and the
first book-length study devoted to the music of the Spanish baroque
in English. While particular aspects of the field have been
explored before, no previous single study has succeeded in defining
the place and function of music in the Spanish theatre of the
Golden Age, and the nature of the extant repertory. This book
explains the several musical-theatrical genres that flourished in
seventeenth-century Spain, answers essential questions about their
nature and development as court and public entertainments, and
looks at the anomalous production of three operas in a period
dominated by genres such as the semi-opera and the zarzuela. Based
on a thorough study of the extant music, the plays, numerous
historical documents, and descriptions from the period, the author
builds a complete picture through a historical and contextual
approach illustrated by musical and literary analysis. This book
considerably advances our understanding of the culture of the
baroque period in Spain, by making important statements about the
nature of the Spanish musical baroque and its relation to European
musical and theatrical developments. As such, it will be welcomed
by musicologists, hispanists, students of Spanish culture, and
historians of the arts and ideas.
This two-volume set documents the essential role of the sea and
maritime activity across history, from travel and food production
to commerce and conquest. In all eras, water transport has served
as the cheapest and most efficient means of moving cargo and people
over any significant distance. Only relatively recently have
railroads and aircraft provided an alternative. Most of the world's
bulk goods continue to travel primarily by ship over water. Even
today, 95 percent of the cargo that enters and leaves the United
States does so by ship. Similarly, people around the world rely on
the sea for food, and in recent years, the sea has become an
important source of oil and other resources, with the longterm
effects of our continuing efforts to extract resources from the sea
further highlighting environmental concerns that range from
pollution to the exhaustion of fish stocks. This chronologically
organized two-volume reference addresses the history of the sea,
beginning with ancient civilizations (4000 to 1000 BCE) and ending
with the modern era (1945 to the present day). Each of the eight
chapters is further broken down into sections that focus on
specific nations or regions, offering detailed descriptions of that
area of the world and shorter entries on specific topics,
individuals, and events. The book spans maritime history, covering
major seafaring peoples and nations; famous explorers, travelers,
and commanders; events, battles, and wars; key technologies,
including famous ships; important processes and ongoing events,
such as piracy and the slave trade; and more. Readers will benefit
from dozens of primary source documents-ranging from ancient
Egyptian tales of seafaring to texts by renowned travelers like
Marco Polo, Zheng He, and Ibn Battuta-that provide firsthand
accounts from the age of discovery as well as accounts of battle
from World War I and II and more modern accounts of the sea.
Provides a broad survey of the importance of the oceans for all of
human culture and civilization, including coverage of diverse
cultures such as the Polynesians, Vikings, Minoans, and many others
Describes the voyages of the great explorers and places them in a
broad multinational and multicultural perspective Traces the human
use of the sea over time, noting activities and historic events
such as piracy, the slave trade, fishing, and whaling, as well as
describing commerce in ancient and modern contexts
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