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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The flipped classroom method, particularly when used with digital
video, has recently attracted many supporters within the education
field. Now more than ever, language arts educators can benefit
tremendously from incorporating flipped classroom techniques into
their curriculum. Applying the Flipped Classroom Model to English
Language Arts Education provides a comprehensive examination of the
latest strategies for incorporating the flipped classroom technique
into English language courses. Highlighting innovative practices
and applications in many areas, such as curriculum development,
digital tools, and instructional design, this book is an ideal
reference source for academicians, educators, students,
practitioners, and researchers who are interested in the
advancement of the flipped classroom model in curriculums.
Offering a new perspective on the widely discussed debate on how
the international community would respond to a nuclear-armed Iran,
this critical research challenges the prevailing wisdom that a
nuclear Iran would provoke a nuclear proliferation cascade in the
Middle East.Hobbs and Moran assess the proliferation calculus of
four key countries, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Syria, as well
exploring the possibility that Iran would transfer nuclear
materials to terrorists groups. The authors conclude that a nuclear
domino effect would be highly unlikely, even in the face of an
Iranian bomb, thus undermining one of the major arguments used in
support of pre-emptive military action against Iran's nuclear
facilities.A range of policy measures are outlined, that could be
enacted by the international community to further reduce the risk
of a regional proliferation cascade, making this text a must-read
for policy makers, security and international relations scholars
and all those with an interest in the Middle East.
This edited book provides an insight into the new approaches,
challenges and opportunities that characterise open source
intelligence (OSINT) at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It does so by considering the impacts of OSINT on three important
contemporary security issues: nuclear proliferation, humanitarian
crises and terrorism.
The financial services revolution has transformed what was once a
backwater into a glamorous and dangerous part of modern economies.
Intense competition and ferocious struggles for advantage in world
markets are the signs of revolutionary change. Michael Moran's book
breaks new ground by examining the politics of that revolution.
Moran compares the struggles between private interests and public
agencies in three great world financial centres - New York, London
and Tokyo.
The use of phones in the classroom is a controversial topic that
receives a variety of reactions and can have political
ramifications. In various school districts across different states,
as well as in some countries, cell phone usage has been banned in
the classroom to combat what administrators say is a distracted
student population. However, research demonstrates that cell phones
can have a positive effect on learning and engagement. Instead of
banning cell phones, some teachers have found ways to incorporate
educational apps, gaming apps, and social media into course
materials. Although much research has emerged involving the
integration of technology and digital literacies in English
language arts (ELA) classrooms, mobile phone use as a discrete
construct has not been explored widely. Affordances and Constraints
of Mobile Phone Use in English Language Arts Classrooms aims to
shine a light on the controversial topic of mobile phones in the
English language arts classroom, focusing on comparing the
opportunities that they afford students, as well as the negative
effects they can have on learning. The chapters within this book
examine learning outcomes, best practices, and practical
applications for using mobile phones in ELA and adds to the body of
literature on mobile phone use in secondary classrooms in general,
standing as a unique resource on mobile phones in the language arts
curriculum. While highlighting topics that include gaming
applications, online learning, student engagement, and classroom
management, this book is ideally designed for inservice and
preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators,
practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and
students who are interested in learning more about the pluses and
minuses of mobile phone use in ELA.
This book equips school psychologists and other mental health
professionals with a comprehensive understanding of mental health
and well-being in adolescent girls. The text places adolescent
girls in a developmental and social-cultural context and outlines
factors that can shape girls' well-being including family, peers,
and media. Chapters discuss trajectories that might result in
mental distress and dysfunction in adolescent girls and identify
pathways to their optimal development. Additionally, the book
reviews the domains of well-being including physical health and
habits, emotional well-being, healthy relationships, and identity
and agency. Each chapter includes theory-informed and empirically
supported interventions to help promote girls' positive physical
and socio-emotional development and culminates in a list of further
recommended resources for the reader. Well-Being in Adolescent
Girls is a valuable resource for school psychologists, counselors,
and other mental health professionals working with adolescents
along with those in graduate-level courses in school psychology and
school counseling programs.
New times. Expanded worlds. Emerging possibilities. In Using
Virtual Reality in English Language Arts Education, authors from
multiple institutions across the United States and abroad share
practical insights for teaching English language arts with virtual
and augmented realities. These chapters draw on multiple theories
and ideas to share perspectives from practicing and prospective
teachers, as well as young learners themselves, about how to use
applications and tools to transform teaching and learning.
Collectively, this book advances innovation for using virtual and
augmented realities as educational, inclusive spaces for teaching
English language arts and literacy subject matter while supporting
learners in developing the mindset for creativity, innovation, and
even emotional empathy.
* An accessible and reader-friendly book on teaching grammar using
digital tools for pre-service and in-service teachers * Includes 10
fun, creative lesson plans on teaching grammar through digital
literacy * Michelle Devereaux and Darren Crovitz speak and present
on teaching grammar and are stars in the field.
This book equips school psychologists and other mental health
professionals with a comprehensive understanding of mental health
and well-being in adolescent girls. The text places adolescent
girls in a developmental and social-cultural context and outlines
factors that can shape girls' well-being including family, peers,
and media. Chapters discuss trajectories that might result in
mental distress and dysfunction in adolescent girls and identify
pathways to their optimal development. Additionally, the book
reviews the domains of well-being including physical health and
habits, emotional well-being, healthy relationships, and identity
and agency. Each chapter includes theory-informed and empirically
supported interventions to help promote girls' positive physical
and socio-emotional development and culminates in a list of further
recommended resources for the reader. Well-Being in Adolescent
Girls is a valuable resource for school psychologists, counselors,
and other mental health professionals working with adolescents
along with those in graduate-level courses in school psychology and
school counseling programs.
New times. Expanded worlds. Emerging possibilities. In Using
Virtual Reality in English Language Arts Education, authors from
multiple institutions across the United States and abroad share
practical insights for teaching English language arts with virtual
and augmented realities. These chapters draw on multiple theories
and ideas to share perspectives from practicing and prospective
teachers, as well as young learners themselves, about how to use
applications and tools to transform teaching and learning.
Collectively, this book advances innovation for using virtual and
augmented realities as educational, inclusive spaces for teaching
English language arts and literacy subject matter while supporting
learners in developing the mindset for creativity, innovation, and
even emotional empathy.
* An accessible and reader-friendly book on teaching grammar using
digital tools for pre-service and in-service teachers * Includes 10
fun, creative lesson plans on teaching grammar through digital
literacy * Michelle Devereaux and Darren Crovitz speak and present
on teaching grammar and are stars in the field.
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The third
edition of this indispensable book in radio interferometry provides
extensive updates to the second edition, including results and
technical advances from the past decade; discussion of arrays that
now span the full range of the radio part of the electromagnetic
spectrum observable from the ground, 10 MHz to 1 THz; an analysis
of factors that affect array speed; and an expanded discussion of
digital signal-processing techniques and of scintillation phenomena
and the effects of atmospheric water vapor on image distortion,
among many other topics. With its comprehensiveness and detailed
exposition of all aspects of the theory and practice of radio
interferometry and synthesis imaging, this book has established
itself as a standard reference in the field. It begins with an
overview of the basic principles of radio astronomy, a short
history of the development of radio interferometry, and an
elementary discussion of the operation of an interferometer. From
this foundation, it delves into the underlying relationships of
interferometry, sets forth the coordinate systems and parameters to
describe synthesis imaging, and examines configurations of antennas
for multielement synthesis arrays. Various aspects of the design
and response of receiving systems are discussed, as well as the
special requirements of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI),
image reconstruction, and recent developments in image enhancement
techniques and astrometric observations. Also discussed are
propagation effects in the media between the source and the
observer, and radio interference, factors that limit performance.
Related techniques are introduced, including intensity
interferometry, optical interferometry, lunar occultations,
tracking of satellites in Earth orbit, interferometry for remote
Earth sensing, and holographic measurements of antenna surfaces.
This book will benefit anyone who is interested in radio
interferometry techniques for astronomy, astrometry, geodesy, or
electrical engineering.
This edited book provides an insight into the new approaches,
challenges and opportunities that characterise open source
intelligence (OSINT) at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It does so by considering the impacts of OSINT on three important
contemporary security issues: nuclear proliferation, humanitarian
crises and terrorism.
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The third
edition of this indispensable book in radio interferometry provides
extensive updates to the second edition, including results and
technical advances from the past decade; discussion of arrays that
now span the full range of the radio part of the electromagnetic
spectrum observable from the ground, 10 MHz to 1 THz; an analysis
of factors that affect array speed; and an expanded discussion of
digital signal-processing techniques and of scintillation phenomena
and the effects of atmospheric water vapor on image distortion,
among many other topics. With its comprehensiveness and detailed
exposition of all aspects of the theory and practice of radio
interferometry and synthesis imaging, this book has established
itself as a standard reference in the field. It begins with an
overview of the basic principles of radio astronomy, a short
history of the development of radio interferometry, and an
elementary discussion of the operation of an interferometer. From
this foundation, it delves into the underlying relationships of
interferometry, sets forth the coordinate systems and parameters to
describe synthesis imaging, and examines configurations of antennas
for multielement synthesis arrays. Various aspects of the design
and response of receiving systems are discussed, as well as the
special requirements of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI),
image reconstruction, and recent developments in image enhancement
techniques and astrometric observations. Also discussed are
propagation effects in the media between the source and the
observer, and radio interference, factors that limit performance.
Related techniques are introduced, including intensity
interferometry, optical interferometry, lunar occultations,
tracking of satellites in Earth orbit, interferometry for remote
Earth sensing, and holographic measurements of antenna surfaces.
This book will benefit anyone who is interested in radio
interferometry techniques for astronomy, astrometry, geodesy, or
electrical engineering.
Quantum entanglement, also called the quantum non-local connection,
is a property of the quantum mechanical state of a system
containing two or more objects, where the objects that make up the
system are linked in a way that one cannot adequately describe the
quantum state of a constituent of the system without full mention
of its counterparts, even if the individual objects are spatially
separated. Entanglement is one of the properties of quantum
mechanics that caused many physicists, including Albert Einstein,
to dislike this formulation of quantum mechanical theory. This book
presents current research in the study of quantum entanglement,
including entanglement in quantum-classical hybrids and quantum
entanglement using multi dark soliton correlation for multivariable
quantum routers.
Conflict: How Soldiers Make Impossible Decisions is about making
hard choices-where all outcomes are potentially negative. The
authors draw on interviews conducted with soldiers about the
situations they faced and the decisions they made at war. These are
vivid and sometimes distressing stories. They form the data from
which the authors explore the cognitive processes associated with
choice, commitment to action and (sometimes) error, as well as goal
directed thinking, innovation and courage. By referring to real
cases, Conflict invites readers to consider their own responses
under extreme circumstances and ask themselves how they would
choose between difficult options. In doing so this book will go
some way to helping readers understand what it feels like when
choosing between least-worst decisions.
The use of phones in the classroom is a controversial topic that
receives a variety of reactions and can have political
ramifications. In various school districts across different states,
as well as in some countries, cell phone usage has been banned in
the classroom to combat what administrators say is a distracted
student population. However, research demonstrates that cell phones
can have a positive effect on learning and engagement. Instead of
banning cell phones, some teachers have found ways to incorporate
educational apps, gaming apps, and social media into course
materials. Although much research has emerged involving the
integration of technology and digital literacies in English
language arts (ELA) classrooms, mobile phone use as a discrete
construct has not been explored widely. Affordances and Constraints
of Mobile Phone Use in English Language Arts Classrooms aims to
shine a light on the controversial topic of mobile phones in the
English language arts classroom, focusing on comparing the
opportunities that they afford students, as well as the negative
effects they can have on learning. The chapters within this book
examine learning outcomes, best practices, and practical
applications for using mobile phones in ELA and adds to the body of
literature on mobile phone use in secondary classrooms in general,
standing as a unique resource on mobile phones in the language arts
curriculum. While highlighting topics that include gaming
applications, online learning, student engagement, and classroom
management, this book is ideally designed for inservice and
preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators,
practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and
students who are interested in learning more about the pluses and
minuses of mobile phone use in ELA.
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