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In both education and training, teachers are faced with many and
varied problems relating to their teaching and their students'
learning. Educational technology, in its widest sense, provides
teachers with methods and tools which, if properly used, can
alleviate some of these problems. The computer is one such tool,
offering, within certain limitations, some possible solutions.
Originally published in 1979, this book describes the use of the
computer as a resource and as a manager in education and training.
It discusses the use, potential and limitations of this technology
in helping the teacher and trainer. Beginning with a consideration
of the role of the computer as a mediator in the flow of
information between the student and his learning environment, the
book goes on to look at Computer Assisted Learning from an
educational viewpoint, the strength and weaknesses of a number of
different media, and the problems of managing modular courses and
course structures and handling information on students' performance
and progress. A chapter on informatics and education addresses the
problem of what both teachers and students should know about
computers, while the final chapter examines the practical problems
of prompting and organising the appropriate use of this technology.
Although the concept of public diplomacy has been part of America's
wartime strategy as far back as the Revolutionary War, the term
itself is relatively new. In the wake of the events of September 11
and the ensuing War on Terror, there has been an increasing
awareness of the negative global image of the United States and
intense concern over how communication may be used to improve that
image. Within that context, the concept and term public diplomacy
have become more notable among practitioners and the American
public. Yet public diplomacy has mostly been neglected by scholars
and only recently begun to attract academic attention. This volume
of The ANNALS commences the first collection of scholarly articles
focusing on public diplomacy--the practice through which
international actors attempt to advance the ends of policy by
engaging with foreign publics--and examines it as an international
phenomenon and an important component of statecraft. Most of the
papers of this compelling volume sprang from the Center on Public
Diplomacy, at the University of Southern California, which launched
the first master's degree program in public diplomacy. Although
many of the authors provide practitioner experiences to their work,
they write from the perspective of academic disciplines. The
opening section provides a solid foundation for the theoretical
understanding of public diplomacy, with six papers written from a
variety of disciplines, including communication, international
relations, history, and politics. Next, the focus turns to how
practitioners implement public diplomacy. By studying the popular
tools of public diplomacy, the second section considers the roles
of place branding, international broadcasting, and exchange
programs. Although grounded in American scholarship, this volume
acknowledges that the concept of public diplomacy is international.
Featuring case studies that stretch beyond the United States to
Venezuela, Cuba, and China, the final section provides an
international composition of the role public diplomacy.
Researchers, students, and practitioners alike will find this
leading-edge collection of articles to inspire future debate,
research, and inquiry in a field of study that is ripe for growth.
Secrecy and the Media is the first book to examine the development
of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication
of British national security secrets. It is based on official
documents, many of which have not previously been available to a
general audience, as well as on media sources. From Victorian
times, British governments have consistently seen the need, in the
public interest, to prevent the media publishing secret information
which would endanger national security. The UK media have meanwhile
continuously resisted official attempts to impose any form of
censorship, arguing that a free press is in the public interest.
Both sides have normally seen the pitfalls of attempting to resolve
this sometimes acrimonious conflict of interests by litigation, and
have together evolved a system of editorial self-regulation,
assisted by day-to-day independent expert advice, known
colloquially as the D-Notice System. The book traces the
development of this system from nineteenth-century colonial
campaigns, through two world wars, to modern operations and
counter-terrorism in the post-Cold War era, up to the beginning of
the Labour government in 1997. Examples are drawn from media,
political and official sources (some not yet open), and cover not
only defence issues (including Special Forces), but also the
activities of the secret intelligence services MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.
These cases relate principally to the UK, but also to American and
other allies' interests. The story of how this sometimes
controversial institution now operates in the modern world will be
essential reading for those in the media and government
departments, and for academics and students in the fields of
security, defence and intelligence, as well as being an accessible
expose for the general reader. Nicholas Wilkinson served in the
Royal Navy 1959-98, and from 1999 to 2004 he ran the independent
Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee. He was a Press
Complaints Commissioner from 2005 to 2008, and is a Cabinet Office
Historian.
This book shows how operator theory interacts with function theory
in one and several variables. The authors develop the theory in
detail, leading the reader to the cutting edge of contemporary
research. It starts with a treatment of the theory of bounded
holomorphic functions on the unit disc. Model theory and the
network realization formula are used to solve Nevanlinna-Pick
interpolation problems, and the same techniques are shown to work
on the bidisc, the symmetrized bidisc, and other domains. The
techniques are powerful enough to prove the Julia-Caratheodory
theorem on the bidisc, Lempert's theorem on invariant metrics in
convex domains, the Oka extension theorem, and to generalize
Loewner's matrix monotonicity results to several variables. In Part
II, the book gives an introduction to non-commutative function
theory, and shows how model theory and the network realization
formula can be used to understand functions of non-commuting
matrices.
This reference book provides traffic safety researchers and
practitioners with an international and multi-disciplinary
compendium of theoretical and methodological chapters. Together,
these chapters discuss the research and application of "Traffic
Safety Culture" as an important approach to traffic safety,
including the vision of zero traffic fatalities and serious
injuries. Traffic crashes are a significant cause of death and
debilitating injury worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income
countries. Whereas most traditional safety efforts teach safe
behavior (education), punish risky behavior (enforcement), or
design the environment to minimize crash injury resulting from
those behaviors (engineering), there is also the need to understand
the culture of our social environments that influence our concern
for traffic safety and choice of behaviors. As a result, there is
growing interest in the concept of Traffic Safety Culture. However,
this concept is relatively new and is not yet supported by a robust
theoretical foundation or amassed large body of research. The goal
of this book is to create a theoretical foundation and
methodological framework for using traffic safety culture,
including the discussion of best practices for developing,
implementing and evaluating culture-based strategies.
All buildings in the UK must now adhere to the recently published
wind code BS 6399-2. The introduction of a new code is often
traumatic, especially so in this case,as the previous code has been
in place for 25 years.The authors considerable practical knowledge
of wind engineering, together with his involvement in drafting this
standard and his experience in conducting workshops on this subject
make him the ideal person to convey the strengths and weaknesses of
BS 6399-2 in this guide.Following recent amendments to BS
6399-2(2002) this popular guide has been revised.
"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left
it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job". So concludes
Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was
transformed from isolation to belligerence in the years before the
attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was
lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host
of persuasive tactics to draw the U.S. to its rescue. With the help
of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford
philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton, no
section of America remained untouched and no methodfrom Secret
Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi
atrocities - remained untried. The British sought and won the
support of key journalists and broadcasters, including Edward R.
Murrow, Dorothy Thompson, and Walter Winchell: Hollywood film
makers also played a willing part. Cull details these and other
propaganda activities, covering the entire range of the British
effort. A fascinating story of how a foreign country promoted
America's involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal
to all those interested in the modern cultural and political
history of Britain and the United States.
In both education and training, teachers are faced with many and
varied problems relating to their teaching and their students'
learning. Educational technology, in its widest sense, provides
teachers with methods and tools which, if properly used, can
alleviate some of these problems. The computer is one such tool,
offering, within certain limitations, some possible solutions.
Originally published in 1979, this book describes the use of the
computer as a resource and as a manager in education and training.
It discusses the use, potential and limitations of this technology
in helping the teacher and trainer. Beginning with a consideration
of the role of the computer as a mediator in the flow of
information between the student and his learning environment, the
book goes on to look at Computer Assisted Learning from an
educational viewpoint, the strength and weaknesses of a number of
different media, and the problems of managing modular courses and
course structures and handling information on students' performance
and progress. A chapter on informatics and education addresses the
problem of what both teachers and students should know about
computers, while the final chapter examines the practical problems
of prompting and organising the appropriate use of this technology.
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of
all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor
of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to
Christianity. The book also contains treatments of Julian's laws,
inscriptions, coinage, as well as his artistic programme. Across
nineteen papers, international specialists in the field of Late
Antique Studies offer original interpretations of an extraordinary
figure: emperor and philosopher, soldier and accomplished writer.
Julian, his life and writings, are here considered as parts of the
tumult in politics, culture and religion during the Fourth Century
AD. New light is shed on Julian's distinctive literary style and
imperial agenda. The volume also includes an up-to-date,
consolidated bibliography.
It is now 30 years since the publication of seminal articles by
Robert Cox and Richard Ashley, which introduced the project of
critical theory to the international relations discipline. This
2007 book brings together a team of world-class scholars to assess
the impact of critical scholarship on the discipline over this
period and point to future directions for the critical project. The
book is an authoritative overview of the current position of
critical international relations theory. It is an essential
resource for those working in critical international relations
theory and for undergraduate and graduate courses on Internal
Relations theory.
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