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Exam board: SQA Level: National 4 & 5 Subject: History First
teaching: September 2017 First assessment: Summer 2018 Fresh
stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting
History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today. Bringing
together lesser-told narratives, academic excellence, accessibility
and a sharp focus on assessment success, this series provides a
rich, relevant and representative History curriculum. > Connect
the past to the present. Overarching themes of social justice,
equality, change and power help students to understand the
importance of events and issues, then and now. > Go far beyond
other resources. With respect and aspiration for the transformative
power of History, this series incorporates the latest research,
challenges old interpretations and embeds diverse experiences
throughout. > Follow a clear and consistent structure. The key
issues in the specification form the chapters in each book, and the
content descriptors are subheadings within the chapters. Finding
the information that you need has never been easier. > Meet the
demands of the assessments. Connecting History develops the
knowledge and skills for success, with appropriate breadth, depth
and pace. The narrative and sources take centre stage and the
authors model the process of answering questions effectively
through that narrative, ensuring that students have enough key
points to achieve full marks. End-of-chapter activities consolidate
and extend learning. > Benefit from pedagogic and academic
expertise. The authors are highly experienced teachers and
examiners who know how to spark critical curiosity in students.
Each book has been rigorously reviewed by an academic from the
University of Glasgow, so you can rest assured that the content is
accurate and up to date.
Exam board: SQA Level: National 4 & 5 Subject: History First
teaching: September 2017 First assessment: Summer 2018 Fresh
stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting
History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today. Bringing
together lesser-told narratives, academic excellence, accessibility
and a sharp focus on assessment success, this series provides a
rich, relevant and representative History curriculum. > Connect
the past to the present. Overarching themes of social justice,
equality, change and power help students to understand the
importance of events and issues, then and now. > Go far beyond
other resources. With respect and aspiration for the transformative
power of History, this series incorporates the latest research,
challenges old interpretations and embeds diverse experiences
throughout. > Follow a clear and consistent structure. The key
issues in the specification form the chapters in each book, and the
content descriptors are subheadings within the chapters. Finding
the information that you need has never been easier. > Meet the
demands of the assessments. Connecting History develops the
knowledge and skills for success, with appropriate breadth, depth
and pace. The narrative and sources take centre stage and the
authors model the process of answering questions effectively
through that narrative, ensuring that students have enough key
points to achieve full marks. End-of-chapter activities consolidate
and extend learning. > Benefit from pedagogic and academic
expertise. The authors are highly experienced teachers and
examiners who know how to spark critical curiosity in students.
Each book has been rigorously reviewed by an academic from the
University of Glasgow, so you can rest assured that the content is
accurate and up to date.
You love your mother...You hate your mother...Mothers and
daughters. In perhaps no other relationship are our hopes so high,
and the dysfunction so disappointing. You feel locked into a
hurtful relationship that you must deal with, and it's wearing you
down. But Jesus knew the brokenness we would face in the world,
even in close places such as family relationships, and still He
promised the Counselor would come alongside us.As a daughter who
has struggled to maintain a healthy relationship with her mother,
author Teena Stewart will help you name your hurts, face the
barriers that stand in the way of a healthy relationship, and
forgive even the unforgivable. Learn how to cultivate a friendship,
communicate more effectively, and become the change you want to
see. There is hope for restoration and renewal.Click here to listen
to author Teena Stewart discuss Mothers and Daughters, as well as
her ministry with Java Journey, a non-profit coffee shop ministry.
This is a comprehensive study of the 2015 general election in
Britain designed not only for students and scholars of British
politics, but also for the interested reader. It looks at the
record of the Coalition government both in terms of its plans and
performance, particularly in relation to the economy, as the
starting point for understanding what happened. The authors go on
to examine the campaign during the run-up to polling day and to
explain why people voted the way they did. They also take a close
look at the various constituency battlegrounds across the country
showing how and why voting patterns varied across Britain. Finally,
they discuss the implications of the election outcome for the
future of the party system and British politics more generally.
This book provides important insights into an election which has
permanently changed the political geography of Britain.
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in
which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos;
memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and
queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national
and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
Probabilistic risk and hazard assessments are applied to a wide
range of engineering systems, mainly for regulatory reasons needed
for development consent, system certification and occupational
health and safety issues. The purpose of this book is to raise
awareness of the limitations, uncertainties and other issues
inherent in probabilistic risk analysis procedures. Probabilistic
Risk Assessment of Engineering Systems describes: the importance of
probabilistic risk assessment in decision making, i.e. risk
management; types of risk and probabilistic risk analysis
procedures; data needed for the conduct of probabilistic risk
analysis; and acceptable/tolerable risk and other risk acceptance
criteria. In essence, the book provides a multi-disciplinary and
integrated explanation of risk assessment procedures that will
enable the non-specialist reader to gain valuable insights into the
development of risk analysis procedures. Practising engineers and
graduate engineering students across a range of disciplines will
find this book immensely useful.
East/West Summit on the Holy Trinity Held in Moscow. Theologians
and philosophers, typically rivals, synergized in their pursuit of
truth and understanding regarding this central, unifying Christian
belief, demonstrating respective strengths in marvelous
complementary array. The next best thing to being there are the
papers that were presented and polished for this volume.
Pituitary Disease brings together an international panel of experts
who summarize the most recent and exciting advances in the
diagnosis and treatment of pituitary disease. Coverage includes
pathogenesis and pathology of pituitary tumors; clinical scenarios
underpinning each type of pituitary tumor as well as their
diagnosis and treatment. It is a useful resource for clinicians,
students or researchers with an interest in the pituitary and its
disorders.
This volume considers, at global and at local levels, the spread of
Spanish today and particularly its role in the face of processes of
globalization. Spanish is frequently the dominant language in this
contact situation. But how contested is its hegemony; and how far
does contact with it threaten other languages? How are these other,
weaker, minoritized languages prospering in a world where a few
strong, global languages may be taking over their linguistic
domains?
Entrepreneurial Profiles is intended to help students and
practitioners of entrepreneurship think about what it takes to
create a significant business - not what it will take, because
complexity, chaos and the fluidity of our changing environment
dictate that the 'requirements' for any particular business can, at
best, be known only in part, not just at inception, but at each
stage as a company develops and evolves. Thus, the focus here is on
what it may take to create a successful and significant business.
While differentiating elementary functions is merely a skill,
finding their integrals is an art. This practical introduction to
the art of integration gives readers the tools and confidence to
tackle common and uncommon integrals. After a review of the basic
properties of the Riemann integral, each chapter is devoted to a
particular technique of elementary integration. Thorough
explanations and plentiful worked examples prepare the reader for
the extensive exercises at the end of each chapter. These exercises
increase in difficulty from warm-up problems, through drill
examples, to challenging extensions which illustrate such advanced
topics as the irrationality of and e, the solution of the Basel
problem, Leibniz's series and Wallis's product. The author's
accessible and engaging manner will appeal to a wide audience,
including students, teachers and self-learners. The book can serve
as a complete introduction to finding elementary integrals, or as a
supplementary text for any beginning course in calculus.
Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the
Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women's
participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern
history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this
topic. Part one of the book focuses on heroines who fought for
Italy's Unification and on the anti-heroines, or brigantesse, who
opposed such a momentous change. Part two considers exceptional
individuals, such as Eva Kuhn Amendola, who combatted both with her
body and her pen, as well as collective female efforts during the
world wars, whether military or civilian. In part three, where the
context is twentieth-century society, the focus shifts to those
women engaged in less conventional conflicts who resorted to
different forms of revolt, including active non-violence. All of
the women presented across these chapters engage in combat to
protest a particular state of affairs and effect change, yet their
weapons range from the literal, like Peppa La Cannoniera's cannon,
to the metaphorical, like Letizia Battaglia's camera. Several of
the essays in this volume discuss fictional heroines who appear in
works of literature and film, though all are based on actual women
and reference real historical contexts. Italian Women at War
furthers the efforts begun decades ago to recognize Italian women
combatants, especially in light of the recent anniversary of the
Unification in 2011 and global discussions regarding the role of
women in the military. Its aim is not to glorify violence and war,
but to celebrate the active role of Italian women in the evolution
of their nation and to demystify the idea of the woman warrior, who
has always been viewed either as an extraordinary, almost mythical
creature or as an affront to the traditional feminine identity.
Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the
Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women's
participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern
history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this
topic. Part one of the book focuses on heroines who fought for
Italy's Unification and on the anti-heroines, or brigantesse, who
opposed such a momentous change. Part two considers exceptional
individuals, such as Eva Kuhn Amendola, who combatted both with her
body and her pen, as well as collective female efforts during the
world wars, whether military or civilian. In part three, where the
context is twentieth-century society, the focus shifts to those
women engaged in less conventional conflicts who resorted to
different forms of revolt, including active non-violence. All of
the women presented across these chapters engage in combat to
protest a particular state of affairs and effect change, yet their
weapons range from the literal, like Peppa La Cannoniera's cannon,
to the metaphorical, like Letizia Battaglia's camera. Several of
the essays in this volume discuss fictional heroines who appear in
works of literature and film, though all are based on actual women
and reference real historical contexts. Italian Women at War
furthers the efforts begun decades ago to recognize Italian women
combatants, especially in light of the recent anniversary of the
Unification in 2011 and global discussions regarding the role of
women in the military. Its aim is not to glorify violence and war,
but to celebrate the active role of Italian women in the evolution
of their nation and to demystify the idea of the woman warrior, who
has always been viewed either as an extraordinary, almost mythical
creature or as an affront to the traditional feminine identity.
Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional
classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to
both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms
for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the
enormous potential for technology to support the educational
enterprise in this emerging "creative" economy, technologies are
still not yet fully integrated in the classroom and their
association with educational outcomes is as-yet unclear. This book
profiles scholarly work from around the world to examine closely
the effectiveness of the newest media in education at bridging the
gaps among and between teachers, students and subject matter at all
levels, from K-12 through adult education. These pieces are
theory-based investigations with implications for future research,
theory and application. Contributors examine how the fields of
education and new media have evolved and are continuing to evolve
pedagogically and practically, from predominantly instructivist,
with a passive, one-way teaching format; to constructivist,
including teacher- and learner-controlled, sensorially immersive
and socially interactive exchanges. This book will be of interest
to students and faculty in the areas of new media in education,
including distance learning, online learning and "virtual"
learning.
Shelving Guide: Electrical Engineering In 1900 the great German
theoretical physicist Max Planck formulated a correct mathematical
description of blackbody radiation. Today, understanding the
behavior of a blackbody is of importance to many fields including
thermal and infrared systems engineering, pyrometry, astronomy,
meteorology, and illumination. This book gives an account of the
development of Planck's equation together with many of the other
functions closely related to it. Particular attention is paid to
the computational aspects employed in the evaluation of these
functions together with the various aids developed to facilitate
such calculations. The book is divided into three sections. Section
I - Thermal radiation and the blackbody problem are introduced and
discussed. Early developments made by experimentalists and
theoreticians are examined as they strove to understand the problem
of the blackbody. Section II - The development of Planck's equation
is explained as are the all-important fractional functions of the
first and second kinds which result when Planck's equation is
integrated between finite limits. A number of theoretical
developments are discussed that stem directly from Planck's law, as
are the various computational matters that arise when numerical
evaluation is required. Basic elements of radiometry that tie
together and use many of the theoretical and computational ideas
developed is also presented. Section III - A comprehensive account
of the various computational aids such as tables, nomograms,
graphs, and radiation slide rules devised and used by generations
of scientists and engineers when working with blackbody radiation
are presented as are more recent aids utilizing computers and
digital devices for real-time computations. Scientists and
engineers working in fields utilizing blac
Shelving Guide: Electrical Engineering In 1900 the great German
theoretical physicist Max Planck formulated a correct mathematical
description of blackbody radiation. Today, understanding the
behavior of a blackbody is of importance to many fields including
thermal and infrared systems engineering, pyrometry, astronomy,
meteorology, and illumination. This book gives an account of the
development of Planck's equation together with many of the other
functions closely related to it. Particular attention is paid to
the computational aspects employed in the evaluation of these
functions together with the various aids developed to facilitate
such calculations. The book is divided into three sections. Section
I - Thermal radiation and the blackbody problem are introduced and
discussed. Early developments made by experimentalists and
theoreticians are examined as they strove to understand the problem
of the blackbody. Section II - The development of Planck's equation
is explained as are the all-important fractional functions of the
first and second kinds which result when Planck's equation is
integrated between finite limits. A number of theoretical
developments are discussed that stem directly from Planck's law, as
are the various computational matters that arise when numerical
evaluation is required. Basic elements of radiometry that tie
together and use many of the theoretical and computational ideas
developed is also presented. Section III - A comprehensive account
of the various computational aids such as tables, nomograms,
graphs, and radiation slide rules devised and used by generations
of scientists and engineers when working with blackbody radiation
are presented as are more recent aids utilizing computers and
digital devices for real-time computations. Scientists and
engineers working in fields utilizing blackbody sources will find
this book to be a valuable guide in understanding many of the
computational aspects and nuances associated with Planck's equation
and its other closely related functions. With over 700 references,
it provides an excellent research resource.
This volume analyses the Principles Governing the Use by States of
Artificial Earth Satellites for International Direct Television
Broadcasting, adopted by a recorded vote of 107 for, 13 against,
with 13 abstentions by the United Nations General Assembly on
December 10, 1982, and proposes revisions which would lead to
future consideration and adoption, by consensus of these
Principles. These include, inter alia, a legal definition of
international direct television broadcasting by satellite (IDTBS)
to match the inherently global potential of the technology,
encompassing the international legal concepts of a new world
education, information and communication order (NWEICO) and the
common heritage, interest and benefit of all mankind (CHM).
Finally, extensive Appendixes provide the reader with comprehensive
United Nations documentation concerning the consideration by the
U.N. of the subject of international direct television broadcasting
by satellite and the elaboration and adoption by the United Nations
of the above mentioned Principles. Dr M. LeSueur Stewart, who is a
member of the California and Massachusetts Bars, has worked not
only as Attorney with an American television network but also as
producer and host of a public affairs radio talk program.
A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the
social world From social media posts and text messages to digital
government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a
deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives
unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social
sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning
tools are rapidly transforming the way science and business are
conducted. Text as Data shows how to combine new sources of data,
machine learning tools, and social science research design to
develop and evaluate new insights. Text as Data is organized around
the core tasks in research projects using text-representation,
discovery, measurement, prediction, and causal inference. The
authors offer a sequential, iterative, and inductive approach to
research design. Each research task is presented complete with
real-world applications, example methods, and a distinct style of
task-focused research. Bridging many divides-computer science and
social science, the qualitative and the quantitative, and industry
and academia-Text as Data is an ideal resource for anyone wanting
to analyze large collections of text in an era when data is
abundant and computation is cheap, but the enduring challenges of
social science remain. Overview of how to use text as data Research
design for a world of data deluge Examples from across the social
sciences and industry
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive
two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and
Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their
entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and
Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized
during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous
modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume II, Orisa, Stewart
scrutinizes the West African heritage and religious imagination of
Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century
to the present and explores their meaning-making traditions in the
wake of slavery and colonialism. She investigates the pivotal
periods of nineteenth-century liberated African resettlement, the
twentieth-century Black Power movement, and subsequent campaigns
for the civil right to religious freedom in Trinidad. Disrupting
syncretism frameworks, Stewart probes the salience of Africa as a
religious symbol and the prominence of Africana nations and
religious nationalisms in projects of black belonging and identity
formation, including those of Orisa mothers. Contributing to global
womanist thought and activism, Yoruba-Orisa spiritual mothers
disclose the fullness of the black religious imagination's
affective, hermeneutic, and political capacities.
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