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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.
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.
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.
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.
Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based
teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems
are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning
artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies.
Game-based education provides rare data for measuring, assessing,
and evaluating not just a game's effectiveness but the acquisition
of information and knowledge that a student may gain through
playing a learning game. This book synthesizes contemporary
research, frameworks, and models centered on the design and
delivery of serious games that truly personalize the learning
experience. Scholars of educational technology, instructional
design, human performance, and more will find a comprehensive guide
to the history, practical implications, and data-collection
potential inherent to these fast-evolving tools.
Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based
teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems
are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning
artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies.
Game-based education provides rare data for measuring, assessing,
and evaluating not just a game's effectiveness but the acquisition
of information and knowledge that a student may gain through
playing a learning game. This book synthesizes contemporary
research, frameworks, and models centered on the design and
delivery of serious games that truly personalize the learning
experience. Scholars of educational technology, instructional
design, human performance, and more will find a comprehensive guide
to the history, practical implications, and data-collection
potential inherent to these fast-evolving tools.
Angola, slowly recovering from a twenty-seven year civil war, is
becoming a regional super-power in southern Africa. This rise can
be attributed to oil, diamonds, a battle-tested armed forces and a
political system that is dominated by one party - the Movimento
Popular de Libertacao de Angola (the Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola - MPLA). Problems remain to be solved. The
vast wealth is in the control of the elite while the vast majority
of the people live on less than two dollars per day. Corruption is
rife, the health and education system in shambles, landmines remain
a festering problem and the opposition is intimidated and split
into various factions. President Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled
Angola for almost thirty-eight years, has opted not to run for
re-election in the August 2017 elections. Instead his hand-picked
successor Joao Lourenco was elected president. Interestingly, dos
Santos has not surrendered his presidency of the party. This third
edition of Historical Dictionary of Angola contains a chronology,
an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on
important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations,
religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for
students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
Angola.
Indiana: An Interpretation is arguably the best single book about
Indiana. Originally published in 1947, John Bartlow Martin's work
sparked controversy in Indiana for challenging Hoosiers'
assumptions about their history and how they saw themselves and
their state. Although the book only covers the period from the
Civil War to just after World War II, Martin's interpretation of
the Hoosier character, thought, and way of living is still as
relevant today as when it was first written. A new afterword by
Martin biographer Ray E. Boomhower contextualizes the book for
today's readers and reveals why it has become a modern Indiana
classic.
A new perspective on the relationships among colleges,
universities, and the communities with which they are now
partnering. Colleges and universities have always had interesting
relationships with their external communities, whether they are
cities, towns, or something in between. In many cases, they are the
main economic driver for their regions-State College, Pennsylvania,
or Raleigh, North Carolina, for example-and in others, they exist
side by side with thriving industries. In The New American College
Town, James Martin, James E. Samels & Associates provide a
practical guide for planning a new kind of American college
town-one that moves beyond the nostalgia-tinged stereotype to
achieve collaborative objectives. What exactly is a college town in
America today? Examining the broad range of partnerships
transforming campuses and the communities around them, the book
opens by detailing twenty characteristics of new American college
towns. Subsequent chapters invite presidents, provosts, planners,
mayors, architects, and association directors to share their views
on how college town relationships are shaping new generations of
students and citizens. The book tackles urban and rural
institutions, as well as community colleges, and closes with
predictions about what college towns will look like in twenty-five
years. Contributors include presidents from Lehigh, Portland State,
New Jersey City, and Connecticut College, along with five college
town mayors and the current or former executive directors from the
International Town-Gown Association, the Association for the Study
of Higher Education, and others. The book also traces how town-gown
relations are expanding into innovative areas nationally and
internationally, moving beyond familiar student life programs and
services to hundred-million-dollar downtown developments. The first
comprehensive, single-volume resource designed for leaders on both
sides of these conversations, The New American College Town
includes action plans, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid in
developing transformative relationships between colleges and their
extended communities. Contributors: Robert C. Andringa, Aaron Aska,
Beth Bagwell, Katherine Bergeron, Kelly A. Cherwin, Phillip
DiChiara, Lorin Ditzler, Mauri A. Ditzler, Kevin E. Drumm, Erin
Flynn, Michael Fox, Joel Garreau, Susan Henderson, Andrew W. Hibel,
Patrick Hyland, Jr., Jay Kahn, James Martin, Miguel Martinez-Saenz,
Fred McGrail, Kim Nehls, Krisan Osterby, Tracee Reiser, Stuart
Rothenberger, Kate Rousmaniere, James E. Samels, Rick Seltzer, John
D. Simon, Jefferson A. Singer, Allison Starer, Wim Wiewel, Eugene
L. Zdziarski II
Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial
moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in
British theater: the establishment of secular and professional
theater in London in the 1580s, and the growing dissatisfaction
with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing
efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the
eighteenth century. From the often brutal spectacle of late
medieval mystery plays to early Romantic re-evaluations of
eighteenth-century appropriations of spectacles of pain, the essays
take up the significance of these watershed moments in British
theater and expand on recent work treating bodies in pain: what and
how pain means, how such meaning can be embodied, how such
embodiment can be dramatized, and how such dramatizations can be
put to use and made meaningful in a variety of contexts. Grouped
thematically, the essays interrogate individual plays and important
topics in terms of the volume's overriding concerns, among them
Tamburlaine and The Maid's Tragedy, revenge tragedy, Joshua
Reynolds on public executions, King Lear, Settle's Moroccan plays,
spectacles of injury, torture, and suffering, and Joanna Baillie's
Plays on the Passions. Collectively, these essays make an important
contribution to the increasingly interrelated histories of pain,
the body, and the theater.
Since the economic recession of 2008, colleges and universities
have looked for ways to lower costs while increasing incomes. Not
all have succeeded. Threatened closures and recent institutional
mergers point to what might be a coming trend in higher education.
The long-term economic weakness of colleges and universities means
schools need to become more strategic about how they consider
previously unthinkable options. This provocative book will be their
indispensable guide to managing the crisis. In Consolidating
Colleges and Merging Universities, James Martin and James E. Samels
bring together higher education leaders to talk about something
that few want to discuss: how institutions might cooperate with
their competitors to survive in this economic climate. Barring
that, Martin and Samels argue, some will shutter their campuses.
But closing, they emphasize, is a complex process that involves
more than just sending the students home and turning off the
lights. The first one-volume resource for presidents, trustees,
provosts, chief financial officers, and faculty leaders planning to
partner, merge, or close a college or university, the book offers
specific guidelines and action steps used successfully to create
multiple forms of partnership between higher education
institutions. The book includes contributions by twenty nationally
recognized leaders in partnership and strategic planning, as well
as an appendix detailing key college and university mergers and
closures since 2000. Each chapter includes informative responses
from practitioners who answer the question, "What is the single
most important lesson you would share with a planning team
designing a partnership or merger this year?" Responding to many
daunting questions now being raised nationally about institutional
fragility and sustainability, Consolidating Colleges and Merging
Universities is an honest and practical guide to the possibilities
and pitfalls of downsizing American higher education.
This is an incredibly useful tool in the year 3/4 classroom and
will be very popular with teachers. It is an ideal learning
consolidation tool for teachers and allows teachers the flexibility
of producing very cost effective, high quality learning resources
that are entertaining and engaging for children. The words chosen
for the word searches in this book are all taken from statutory
orders from the National Curriculum. This means you can be sure
that your children are covering the exact content that is age
apporopriate for their needs.
When Portugal's colonial rule in Angola ended in 1974, three
liberation groups--UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence
of Angola), FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), and
MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola)--agreed to a
tripartite movement for the fledgling nation. Conflicts quickly
arose and the MPLA, with Cuban and Soviet assistance, drove its
rivals from the capital, instigating a civil war, which continues
into three periods (1975-1991, 1992-94, and 1998-2002). This volume
covers the first period, focusing on the political history of the
UNITA movement and its struggles with the MPLA. The Angolan civil
war was the product of personal jealousies, contrasting ideologies,
and ethnic animosities. From its inception, the conflict between
UNITA and Angola's Marxist government was an international affair
involving the U. S., the USSR, China, and many African states: W.
Martin James III, who wrote his book near the close of the first
period of civil war, contends that despite Gorbachev's "new
thinking" and talk of peaceful solutions to regional conflicts,
Soviet policy toward Angola marked a reversion to the Brezhnev
Doctrine. The biggest MPLA-Cuban offenses occurred during
Gorbachev's tenure with Soviet advisers at the brigade level
directing an MPLA offensive. American policy toward Angola is also
examined here. This is the first book to emphasize the dynamic role
of UNITA in the Angolan liberation movement. James acknowledges
that the importance of foreign powers in guaranteeing a government
of national reconciliation. Just as important are strategies of
compromise requiring trust in a political context where it is
violated and submission for the common good where defiance is a
remnant of the colonial past. Foreign policy analysts, African area
specialists, and scholars of post-colonial history find this volume
indispensible.
Fully authorised, this is the first and only book on Moby and draws
from exclusive interviews conducted over the last seven years with
Moby himself, as well as in-depth insights provided by those
closest to him - fellow band members, his road crew, music writers
and his management. Illustrated with photos taken from Moby's own
extensive personal collection, this is the first and only vision of
his compelling climb to the top of the music charts and offers the
inside take on the enigma behind that success. Certain to be one of
the most in demand music books of 2001.
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role
in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the
faculty and serves as their key representative to the
administration while simultaneously acting as the administration's
spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has this essential
leadership position evolved over the past few decades, and what are
the best practices to adopt for succeeding in specific operational
areas? In seventeen essays written by some of the most successful
chief academic officers in the United States, The Provost's
Handbook outlines key topics related to the changing environment of
higher education while explaining what constitutes effective
leadership at the college and university level. How, for example,
does the provost lead in a time of disruption and shifting needs?
What skills should he or she nurture in new faculty? What role
should data and institutional research play in decision making? How
can a provost navigate the often stormy situations of shared
governance? These questions-and many more challenges presented by
this role-are addressed in this essential volume. Assembled by
James Martin and James E. Samels, accomplished authors and scholars
of leadership in higher education, The Provost's Handbook is
destined to become the go-to resource for deans, presidents,
trustees, and chief academic officers everywhere.
Its time for some manga mania! Bring to life ninja heroes, warrior
princesses, mecha monsters, wacky chibis and other cool manga
mainstays all in a few simple steps. Get creative with costumes,
wild with weapons, and daring with details. Then pull it all
together in your very own comic panels.
This is an incredibly useful tool in the year 4/5 classroom and
will be very popular with teachers. It is an ideal learning
consolidation tool for teachers and allows teachers the flexibility
of producing very cost effective, high qual- ity learning resources
that are entertaining and engaging for children. The words chosen
for the word searches in this book are all taken from statutory
orders from the National Curriculum. This means you can be sure
that your children are covering the exact content that is age
apporopri- ate for their needs. Word Searches y 4-yr 5 Paperback
edition by Martin James Author Martin James Edited by Alex Branston
ISBN-139781842854662 Format Paperback Pages 40 Product dimensions
206 x 295 x 3mm Weight 168g Condition New Language English ,
PRACTICAL FDG IMAGING provides the reader with a reference source
of cases with FDG images obtained both on dedicated PET tomographs
and hybrid scintillation cameras. The cases are presented in
thorough depth so that they are of value to both specialists and
residents in training who need to learn the indications and
interpretations of FDG images and the advantages and limitations of
hybrid scintillation cameras compared to dedicated PET tomographs.
This book is ideal for nuclear and radiology medicine residents, as
well as those practitioners who need to become familiar with this
technology. The first part of the book concentrates on the
technical aspects of FDG imaging. Part two is devoted to the
clinical applications in the fields of neurology, cardiology and
oncology.
Word Searches Yr 1-Yr 2 ISBN: 9781842854471 Book cover for word
searches yr 1-2 Word Searches for the busy Primary teacher Author:
Martin James, Series Editor: Dr Graham Lawler Contains 23 word
searches matched to the National Curriculum and it also contains
the answers. The book comes with a disc for the busy teacher to
simply print off the required word search, saving huge amounts of
time in lesson planning. Good quality effective teaching means
engaging learners in content that both challenges and stimulates
their thinking. This is why the word search is such a popular
activity. It engages the learner and provides an enjoyable
experience where literacy sessions can be enahnced with active
learner experiences. This helps learners to establish word
recognition, to improve their hand-eye co-ordination and to improve
their spelling. That is why this book is an important tool in the
learning resource toolkit of the busy teacher.
This practical guide is a comprehensive reference of cases with FDG images obtained on dedicated PET tomographs and hybrid scintillation gamma cameras. Dr. Dominique Delbeke and her collegues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, along with recognized international experts, provide the reader with in-depth coverage on all aspects of FDG imaging. Unique to this book is the up-to-date coverage on both the technical and clinical aspects of FDG imaging and its cases of those malignancies practitioners are likey to encounter in their daily practice. The text also presents normal and physiologic interpretation of FDG imaging, related pitfalls in imaging interpretation, and the role of FDG imaging in different types of body tumors. Enhanced with over 300 FDG images, this book will serve as an excellent stand-alone guide for nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, oncologists, and residents in their practice of clinical PET.
The Standard Model of elementary particle physics was tentatively
outlined in the early 1970s. The concepts of quarks, leptons,
neutrinos, gauge symmetries, chiral interactions, Higgs boson,
strong force, weak force, and electromagnetism were all put
together to form a unifying theory of elementary particles.
Furthermore, the model was developed within the context of
relativistic quantum field theory, making it compatible with all of
the laws of Einstein's Special Relativity. The successes of the
Standard Model over the years have been tremendous and enduring,
leading up to the recent discovery and continuing study of the
Higgs boson. This book is a comprehensive and technical
introduction to Standard Model physics. Martin and Wells provide
readers who have no prior knowledge of quantum field theory or
particle physics a firm foundation into the fundamentals of both.
The emphasis is on obtaining practical knowledge of how to
calculate cross-sections and decay rates. There is no better way to
understand the necessary abstract knowledge and solidify its
meaning than to learn how to apply it to the computation of
observables that can be measured in a laboratory. Beginning
graduate students, both experimental and theoretical, and advanced
undergraduate students interested in particle physics, will find
this to be an ideal one-semester textbook to begin their technical
learning of elementary particle physics.
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