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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.
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Borderers (Hardcover)
Carla Barringer Rabinowitz; Illustrated by Mark Wright
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This volume focuses on teaching Classics in carceral contexts in
the US and offers an overview of the range of incarcerated adults,
their circumstances, and the ways in which they are approaching and
reinterpreting Greek and Roman texts. Classics and Prison Education
in the US examines how different incarcerated adults – male,
female, or gender non-conforming; young or old; serving long
sentences or about to be released – are reading and discussing
Classical texts, and what this may entail. Moreover, it provides a
sophisticated examination of the best pedagogical practices for
teaching in a prison setting and for preparing returning citizens,
as well as a considered discussion of the possible dangers of
engaging in such teaching – whether because of the potential
complicity with the carceral state, or because of the historical
position of Classics in elitist education. This edited volume will
be a resource for those interested in Classics pedagogy, as well as
the role that Classics can play in different areas of society and
education, and the impact it can have.
EMU - A Swedish Perspective provides a comprehensive and up-to-date
survey of the EMU project. The main advantages and disadvantages of
a single currency are evaluated. A key feature of the analysis is
the attempt to integrate economic and political aspects. The book
is a revised version of the report by the Swedish Government
Commission on the EMU. Although the analysis focuses on the
consequences for Sweden of joining versus not joining the monetary
union, it is highly relevant for the discussion in all EU
countries. The book provides an in-depth analysis of how the
demands on economic policy will be affected by the monetary union.
Various chapters discuss monetary policy and inflation, fiscal
policy, unemployment and labour markets, the transition to monetary
union, and the exchange-rate arrangements between participants and
non-participants. Other chapters analyse the importance of the EMU
for European political integration, democratic aspects, and how
membership in the monetary union will affect the possibilities for
an individual member state to exert influence within the EU. EMU -
A Swedish Perspective should be of interest to professional
economists and political scientists, students, and all others who
want to form an opinion about the monetary union on the basis of a
balanced assessment of the consequences. EMU - A Swedish
Perspective provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the
EMU project. The main advantages and disadvantages of a single
currency are evaluated. A key feature of the analysis is the
attempt to integrate economic and political aspects. The book is a
revised version of the report by the Swedish Government Commission
on the EMU. Although the analysis focuses on the consequences for
Sweden of joining versus not joining the monetary union, it is
highly relevant for the discussion in all EU countries.
Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building's occupants and
their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design
decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in
the future. This book, first published in 1988, includes a review
of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and
pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs.
Post-Occupancy Evaluation categorizes the approaches to building
evaluation by describing the three levels of POE effort -
indicative, investigative, and diagnostic, each differing in terms
of time, resources, and personnel needed. In its scope
Post-Occupancy Evaluation is both comprehensive and specific;
professionals in the design and planning disciplines will find it
an invaluable resource for understanding the theory behind POE's
and the procedures needed to put the theory into practice.
This volume represents a broad survey of current research in the
fields of nonlinear analysis and nonlinear differential equations.
It is dedicated to Djairo G. de Figueiredo on the occasion of his
70th birthday. The collection of 34 research and survey articles
reflects the wide range of interests of Djairo de Figueiredo,
including:
- various types of nonlinear partial differential equations and
systems, in particular equations of elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic
and mixed type;
- equations of SchrAdinger, Maxwell, Navier-Stokes,
Bernoulli-Euler, Seiberg-Witten, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg;
- existence, uniqueness and multiplicity of solutions;
- critical Sobolev growth and connected phenomena;
- qualitative properties, regularity and shape of solutions;
- inequalities, a-priori estimates and asymptotic behavior;
- various applications to models such as asymptotic membranes,
nonlinear plates and inhomogeneous fluids.
The contributions of so many distinguished mathematicians to this
volume document the importance and lasting influence of the
mathematical research of Djairo de Figueiredo. The book thus is a
source of new ideas and results and should appeal to graduate
students and mathematicians interested in nonlinear problems.
This volume contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research
Workshop on Periodic Solutions of Hamiltonian Systems held in II
Ciocco, Italy on October 13-17, 1986. It also contains some papers
that were an outgrowth of the meeting. On behalf of the members of
the Organizing Committee, who are also the editors of these
proceedings, I thank all those whose contributions made this volume
possible and the NATO Science Committee for their generous
financial support. Special thanks are due to Mrs. Sally Ross who
typed all of the papers in her usual outstanding fashion. Paul H.
Rabinowitz Madison, Wisconsin April 2, 1987 xi 1 PERIODIC SOLUTIONS
OF SINGULAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Antonio Ambrosetti Vittorio Coti
Zelati Scuola Normale Superiore SISSA Piazza dei Cavalieri Strada
Costiera 11 56100 Pisa, Italy 34014 Trieste, Italy ABSTRACT. The
paper contains a discussion on some recent advances in the
existence of periodic solutions of some second order dynamical
systems with singular potentials. The aim of this paper is to
discuss some recent advances in th.e existence of periodic
solutions of some second order dynamical systems with singular
potentials.
An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of
his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic
encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life. At a
pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring of 1934,
eighteen-year-old Sarah Schwartz bought her mother, Shenka, a
green, wooden-handled bottle opener. Decades later, Sarah would
tear up telling her son Richard, "Your bubbe always worked so hard.
Twenty cents, it cost me." How could that unremarkable item, and
others like it, reveal the untold history of a Jewish immigrant
family, their chances and their choices over the course of an
eventful century? By unearthing the personal meaning and historical
significance of simple everyday objects, Richard Rabinowitz offers
an intimate portrait connecting Sarah, Shenka, and the rest of his
family to the twentieth-century transformations of American life.
During the Depression, Sarah-born on a Polish battlefield in World
War I, scarred by pogroms, pressed too early into adult
responsibilities-receives a gift of French perfume, her fiance
Dave's response to the stigma of poverty. Later we watch Dave load
folding chairs into his car for a state-park outing, signaling both
the postwar detachment from city life and his own escape from
failures to be a good "provider" for those he loves. Objects of
Love and Regret is closely wedded to the lives of American Jewish
immigrants and their children, yet Rabinowitz invites all of us to
contemplate the material world that anchors our own memories.
Beautifully written, absorbing, and emotionally vivid, this is a
memoir that brings us back to the striving, the dreams, the
successes, and the tragedies that are part of every family's story.
Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals.
This book will inform and enhance the process of recruiting new
personnel with its insights and practical suggestions for a
successful search. This book also offers current thinking and
research to help school boards and policy makers retain the
professional leaders they have. This book is a must-read for
principals and board members alike. While the departure of
ineffective principals can be beneficial for schools, frequent
turnover negatively impacts students’ achievements. Today, when
effective and powerful educational leadership is critical for
quality teaching and student achievement, the numbers of principal
candidates are diminishing and of incumbents waning. This book
explores the central issues of principal development, appointment,
and retention policies and practices. Its chapters ask what school
boards, policymakers, and principals can do to ensure
accountability, transparency, responsiveness, stability, equity,
and inclusiveness to assure the longevity of school leaders within
the system. Principal Recruitment and Retention presents the
research findings of seventeen international scholars in the field
over ten chapters. These scholars survey their respective
situations from their home countries of United States of America,
New Zealand, Israel and Turkey. The problems are similar; the
solutions will be edifying.
Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals.
This book will inform and enhance the process of recruiting new
personnel with its insights and practical suggestions for a
successful search. This book also offers current thinking and
research to help school boards and policy makers retain the
professional leaders they have. This book is a must-read for
principals and board members alike. While the departure of
ineffective principals can be beneficial for schools, frequent
turnover negatively impacts students’ achievements. Today, when
effective and powerful educational leadership is critical for
quality teaching and student achievement, the numbers of principal
candidates are diminishing and of incumbents waning. This book
explores the central issues of principal development, appointment,
and retention policies and practices. Its chapters ask what school
boards, policymakers, and principals can do to ensure
accountability, transparency, responsiveness, stability, equity,
and inclusiveness to assure the longevity of school leaders within
the system. Principal Recruitment and Retention presents the
research findings of seventeen international scholars in the field
over ten chapters. These scholars survey their respective
situations from their home countries of United States of America,
New Zealand, Israel and Turkey. The problems are similar; the
solutions will be edifying.
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Phaedrus (Paperback)
Plato; Translated by W.C. Helmbold, W G Rabinowitz
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This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by
revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that
feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are
Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen,
Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices
may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white
women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family
relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics.
Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is "peopled with
questioning, caring, socially committed women writers."
Human-wildlife conflict is a major issue in conservation. As people
encroach into natural habitats, and as conservation efforts restore
wildlife to areas where they may have been absent for generations,
contact between people and wild animals is growing. Some species,
even the beautiful and endangered, can have serious impacts on
human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy
crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds left unattended.
Historically, people have responded to these threats by killing
wildlife wherever possible, and this has led to the endangerment of
many species that are difficult neighbours. The urgent need to
conserve such species, however, demands coexistence of people and
endangered wildlife. This book presents a variety of solutions to
human-wildlife conflicts, including novel and traditional farming
practices, offsetting the costs of wildlife damage through hunting
and tourism, and the development of local and national policies.
This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in
literacy and language arts subject areas. The discussion of each
area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum
transformation for the area by grade level and then by eight
organizing tools, including content standards, relationships with
and among students and their families, and evaluation of student
learning and teaching effectiveness. The volume is designed to
speak with PK-12 teachers as colleagues in the multicultural
curriculum transformation work. Readers are exposed to "things to
think about," but also given curricular examples to work with or
from in going about the actual, concrete work of curriculum change.
This work supports PK-12 teachers to independently multiculturally
adapt existing curriculum, to create new multicultural curriculum
differentiated by content areas and grade levels, and by providing
ample examples of what such multicultural transformed literacy and
language arts curricula looks like in practice.
This volume focuses on teaching Classics in carceral contexts in
the US and offers an overview of the range of incarcerated adults,
their circumstances, and the ways in which they are approaching and
reinterpreting Greek and Roman texts. Classics and Prison Education
in the US examines how different incarcerated adults - male,
female, or gender non-conforming; young or old; serving long
sentences or about to be released - are reading and discussing
Classical texts, and what this may entail. Moreover, it provides a
sophisticated examination of the best pedagogical practices for
teaching in a prison setting and for preparing returning citizens,
as well as a considered discussion of the possible dangers of
engaging in such teaching - whether because of the potential
complicity with the carceral state, or because of the historical
position of Classics in elitist education. This edited volume will
be a resource for those interested in Classics pedagogy, as well as
the role that Classics can play in different areas of society and
education, and the impact it can have.
Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect
regarding Israel's famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly that
it is an exception. More specifically, it is largely accepted that
the 1969 Nixon-Meir understanding, which formally established
Israel's policy of nuclear ambiguity and transformed it from an
undeclared Israeli strategy into a long-lasting undisclosed
bilateral agreement, was in fact a singularity, aimed at allowing
Washington to turn a blind eye to the existence of an Israeli
arsenal. According to conventional wisdom, this nuclear bargain was
a foreign policy exception on behalf of Washington, an exception
which reflected a relationship growing closer and warmer between
the superpower leading the free world and its small Cold War
associate. Contrary to the orthodox narrative, this research
demonstrates that this was not the case. The 1969 bargain was not,
in fact, an exception, but rather the first of three Cold War era
deals on nuclear tests brokered by Washington with its Cold War
associates, the other two being Pakistan and South Africa. These
two deals are not well known and until now were discussed and
explored in the literature in a very limited fashion. Bargaining on
Nuclear Tests places the role of nuclear tests by American
associates, as well as Washington's attempts to prevent and delay
them, at the heart of a new nuclear history narrative.
Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the
origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the
Lukacs-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from
its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a
means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in
classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian
desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this
methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin's
classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time
has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the
epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders
seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through
readings of Gogol's Dead Souls-a uniquely problematic work, and one
which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic-Dostoevsky's
Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy's War and
Peace, this book redefines "epic" and how we understand the sweep
of Russian literature as a whole.
This volume presents and discusses current research that makes the
connection between cognitive theory and instructional application.
Addressing two general issues, the first set of chapters specifies
the relation between cognitive theory and the development and
evaluation of instruction, while the second set deals with the
questions involved in understanding and assessing cognitive skills.
The outstanding feature of these chapters is that they all present
in-depth discussions of the theoretical issues underlying
instructional decisions. Many present specific implementations that
provide examples of concrete applications of theory. In addition,
the settings for implementing these examples span a broad range of
instructional areas and environments, illustrating the generality
and transferability of the application of theory to practice.
This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by
revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that
feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are
Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen,
Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices
may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white
women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family
relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics.
Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is "peopled with
questioning, caring, socially committed women writers."
Medical students lack role models in rural primary care,
contributing to the shortage of family care physicians in rural
areas. This book addresses that need by profiling graduates from
the Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP) of Jefferson Medical
College, Thomas Jefferson University, who now practice rural family
medicine. The text challenges pre-med undergraduates, medical
students, and family physicians to consider rural family practice
and is an excellent resource for pre-med and medical school
advisors. In-depth profiles reveal the everyday reality of the
physician shortage through poignant stories and candid dialogue.
They cover the social and professional issues that rural family
physicians face, highlighting topics such as the meaning of rural
family practice, the roles of medical schools and hospitals, health
care policy, rural obstetrics, and telemedicine. The concluding
chapter summarizes the professional and personal lessons learned
and outlines the future of rural family practice.
While there are Pediatric Urology texts for Pediatric Urologists
and for General Urologists, there are none for Primary Care
Physicians. This book is written specifically for the primary care
physician, the initial contact for the many children with urologic
conditions. This text will assist the primary care physician in the
recognition of and participation in the care of children with these
common problems. These include both congenital and acquired
conditions. Management may involve medical and/or surgical
intervention. The contributing authors were selected for their
internationally recognized expertise and straight forward
educational styles. Pediatric Urology for the Primary Care
Physician will significantly help our primary care colleagues in
the evaluation and management of children with genito-urinary
problems.
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