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This volume of essays is based upon papers that were delivered at
Quinnipiac University's Great Hunger Conference in September 2000.
It considers the Great Hunger both as a historical moment that had
a devastating and enduring impact on Ireland, and as a social,
political, and demographic process that shaped the culture and
people of both Ireland and North America. The chapters are grouped
thematically into three parts. The first, Silence, takes as its
point of departure the ways in which the Great Hunger created
silences, both at the time of the Famine and in the subsequent
historical memory of the Irish people. The second section, Memory,
addresses the legacy of the Famine in the lives and work of the
generation that lived through it and those who came after, both in
Ireland and among the Irish Diaspora. The final section,
Commemoration, considers how the Famine has become a focal point
during the past decade in popular memory, particularly through
varied efforts to memorialize the Famine and to integrate it into
educational curricula. The book also includes an introduction by
Christine Kinealy that discusses recent historical scholarship on
the Famine, and a preface by David A. Valone that describes the
ongoing educational and scholarly activities related to the Great
Hunger at Quinnipiac University.
Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends
and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of
higher education around the globe. This book comes at a pivotal
moment where many universities are offering their courses in
offshore locations. Students who could once not access an
international qualification can now do so without leaving their
home country. The book clearly defines and takes an in-depth look
at the various types of transnational education, including:
institutions that have campuses abroad, teach specific courses
abroad, and form partnerships with diverse schools to teach
jointly. Teaching in Transnational Higher Education serves as a
forum for debate on such insightful topics as: the modification of
teaching to adapt to the needs of diverse students the use of
technology in the classroom the view of higher education as a
marketable service the importance of cultural awareness and
understanding in a transnational classroom the complexities of
assuring quality education across borders The authors choose to
highlight a broad sampling of transnational programs including
those in: Zambia, China, and the United Arab Emirates among others.
Interviews with students and teachers participating in these
programs of study make this an enjoyable and unique portrait of
higher education that is invaluable to those who teach and learn
around the world. Lee Dunn is a lecturer and academic developer in
the Teaching and Learning Centre at Southern Cross University.
Michelle Wallace is an Associate Professor in the Graduate College
of Management at Southern Cross University.
"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for
recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease.
The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been
recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease
as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors
explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which
evidence suggested the existence of brown lung in the mills, yet
nothing was done. What the story of byssinosis makes clear is that
the economic and political power of private owners and managers can
hinder and shape the work of health investigators.
A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those
professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their
traditional teaching practices. Increased use of IT, flexible
assessment methods and quality assurance all affect assessment, and
the need to diversify and adapt traditional assessment practices to
suit new modes of learning is clearer than ever. The Student
Assessment Handbook looks at the effectiveness of traditional
methods in the present day and provides guidelines on how these
methods may be developed to suit today's teaching environments. It
is a practical resource with case studies, reflection boxes and
diagnostic tools to help the reader apply the principles to
everyday teaching. The book provides advice on a wide range of
topics including: * assessing to promote particular kinds of
learning outcomes * using meaningful assessment techniques to
assess large groups * the implications of flexible learning on
timing and pacing of assessment * the pros and cons of online
assessment * tackling Web plagiarism and the authentication of
student work * mentoring assessment standards * assessing generic
skills and quality assurance.
A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those
professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their
traditional teaching practices. Increased use of IT, flexible
assessment methods and quality assurance all affect assessment, and
the need to diversify and adapt traditional assessment practices to
suit new modes of learning is clearer than ever. The Student
Assessment Handbook looks at the effectiveness of traditional
methods in the present day and provides guidelines on how these
methods may be developed to suit today's teaching environments. It
is a practical resource with case studies, reflection boxes and
diagnostic tools to help the reader apply the principles to
everyday teaching. The book provides advice on a wide range of
topics including: * assessing to promote particular kinds of
learning outcomes * using meaningful assessment techniques to
assess large groups * the implications of flexible learning on
timing and pacing of assessment * the pros and cons of online
assessment * tackling Web plagiarism and the authentication of
student work * mentoring assessment standards * assessing generic
skills and quality assurance.
Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and
improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr.
Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an
international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion
of his eightieth birthday, a symposium was held at which invited
speakers discussed his contributions to a wide range of
environmental issues. This book, collecting many of the invited
papers, provides fascinating insights into the life and work of one
of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and social
activists. Chapters contributed by other activists, scientists, and
scholars including Ralph Nader, Tony Mazzocchi and Peter Montague
cover many of Dr. Commoner's major contributions.
"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for
recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease.
The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been
recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease
as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors
explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which
evidence suggested the existence of brown lung in the mills, yet
nothing was done. What the story of byssinosis makes clear is that
the economic and political power of private owners and managers can
hinder and shape the work of health investigators.
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When Maeve & Adrian flew to Mexico to meet the designer of a
new computer game, the last thing they expected was to find
themselves traveling to another world to learn how to protect this
world and a myriad of mysterious Other Worlds from a millenia-old
threat...
Tessie, the Tooth Fairy, retires to the Outer Banks beaches of NC
to follow her dreams to do somethng no fairy has ever done. She
soon becomes enchanted with her new home in this coastal paradise
as well as with an adorable girl named Georgia as she watches her
playing on the beach. Tessie holds fast to her dream by using her
magical fairy dust to transform herself into the first beach fairy
ever. Later, she sprinkles fairy dust on Georgia and her grand mom
too so she can manipulate their thoughts and make beach fairy
visits a reality for Georgia and all children on beach vacations.
An educational, entertaining and beautifully illustrated book about
the praying mantis. The book includes limericks, science fun facts,
care of the praying mantis, puzzles and a finger puppet project.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG96-B2115Boston: Chapple, 1908. vi, 263 p.: ill.; 21 cm
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This book shows how tenant farmers evicted from Ireland made a new
life in the United States. In 1847, in the third year of Ireland's
Great Famine and the thirteenth year of their rent strike against
the Crown, hundreds of tenant farmers in Ballykilcline, County
Roscommon, were evicted by the Queen's agents and shipped to New
York. Mary Lee Dunn tells their story in this meticulously
researched book. Using numerous Irish and U.S. sources and with
descendants' help, she traces dozens of the evictees to Rutland,
Vermont, as railroads and marble quarries transformed the local
economy. She follows the immigrants up to 1870 and learns not only
what happened to them but also what light American experience and
records cast on their Irish ""rebellion.""Dunn begins with
Ireland's pre-Famine social and political landscape as context for
the Ballykilcline strike. The tenants had rented earlier from the
Mahons of Strokestown, whose former property now houses Ireland's
Famine Museum. In 1847, landlord Denis Mahon evicted and sent
nearly a thousand tenants to Quebec, where half died before or just
after reaching the Grosse Ile quarantine station. Mahon was gunned
down months later. His murder provoked an international controversy
involving the Vatican. An early suspect in the case was a man from
Ballykilcline.In the United States, many of the immigrants
resettled in clusters in several locations, including Vermont,
Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, and New York. In Vermont they found jobs
in the marble quarries, but some of them lost their homes again in
quarry labor actions after 1859. Others prospered in their new
lives. A number of Ballykilcline families who stopped in Rutland
later moved west; one had a son kidnapped by Indians in
Minnesota.Readers who have Irish Famine roots will gain a sense of
their own ""back story"" from this account of Ireland and the
native Irish, and scholars in the field of immigration studies will
find it particularly useful.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends
and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of
higher education around the globe. This book comes at a pivotal
moment where many universities are offering their courses in
offshore locations. Students who could once not access an
international qualification can now do so without leaving their
home country. The book clearly defines and takes an in-depth look
at the various types of transnational education, including:
institutions that have campuses abroad, teach specific courses
abroad, and form partnerships with diverse schools to teach
jointly.Teaching in Transnational Higher Education serves as a
forum for debate on such insightful topics as: the modification of
teaching to adapt to the needs of diverse students; the use of
technology in the classroom; the view of higher education as a
marketable service; the importance of cultural awareness and
understanding in a transnational classroom; and, the complexities
of assuring quality education across borders. The authors choose to
highlight a broad sampling of transnational programs including
those in: Zambia, China, and the United Arab Emirates, among
others. Interviews with students and teachers participating in
these programs of study make this an enjoyable and unique portrait
of higher education that is invaluable to those who teach and learn
around the world.Lee Dunn is a lecturer and academic developer in
the Teaching and Learning Centre at Southern Cross University.
Michelle Wallace is an Associate Professor in the Graduate College
of Management at Southern Cross University.
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