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A powerful memory brings obvious advantages in educational, career
and social terms. At school and college those certificates that
provide a passport to a career depend heavily on what you can
remember in the exam room. In the world of work, being able to
recall details which slip the minds of colleagues will give you a
competitive edge. In addition, one of the secrets of being popular
with customers and friends is to remember their names and the
little things that make them feel they matter to you. This popular
book, now in its second edition, explains clearly how you can
maximise your memory in order to achieve your academic,
professional and personal goals.
This book explores the subject of human memory in all its
dimensions - how it works physiologically and chemically, how it
develops by conditioning and training, how it sometimes plays
tricks on us to protect us, how it can fail through physiological
damage and what we can do if it does. Now in its second edition, it
will be essential reading for students of psychology, nursing,
medicine and other disciplines concerned with understanding and
management of human behaviour.
It is generally accepted today, and also UK government policy, that
educational authorities must make provision for meeting the needs
of gifted children. But how should they go about it? There is so
much lack of agreement about what is the best strategy, about how
to identify the gifted youngsters and even about what the concept
of giftedness means. The author is a leading expert, who holds a
doctorate from Manchester University in this subject and is a
former Research Director of the Mensa Foundation for Gifted
Children. In plain English, in a balanced way and in a logical
order, he covers everything a teacher, or a parent needs to know to
meet the challenge of educating a gifted child.
In the 21st century people live on their wits. What determines how
successful they are in whatever they do is their mental ability
and, to a large extent, that depends on their memory quality. The
author and colleagues of London University discovered that memory
quality has even replaced IQ as the dominant predictor of school
outcomes. Deriving from such research, this book, now in its third
edition, contains a powerful system for enhancing memory quality.
Written in plain, concise language, it is simple, effective and
comprehensive in its application. It has been tested over and over
again on the young, the old, the bright and the not so bright and
it can be mastered in just 7 - 10 hours.
All social science courses offered at universities or colleges
include a research methods module, for which students are expected
to purchase a research methods book. These are invariably weighty
and expensive at a time when student funds are stretched. Dr
Marshall has produced a reader-friendly, plain English and
value-for-money solution. In this second edition, he explains the
various methods available to social researchers and the basic
principles, strengths and weakness involved in the use of both
quantitative and qualitative methods. Whether you are new to the
subject or an established practitioner this book should prove
valuable. Dr Marshall has had many years experience in research and
teaching in universities and colleges.
Sounding Forth the Trumpet brings to life one of the most crucial
epochs in America's history--the events leading up to and
precipitating the Civil War. In this enlightening book, readers
live through the Gold Rush, the Mexican War, the skirmishes of
Bleeding Kansas, and the emergence of Abraham Lincoln, as well as
the tragic issue of slavery.
From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, a history of
Orkney islands that dives deep into island culture, difference and
the evolution of folklore, belief and community memory. Peter
Marshall was born on Orkney, his ancestors farmers and farm
labourers on the northern island of Sanday. In fact, one of them
was murdered by a witch there in 1624. In this book, Marshall looks
afresh at the small island that has been treated by history as a
footnote, remote and peripheral. Through Orkney, we encounter a
wild, isolated place where language was different to the mainland,
neighbours depended entirely on each other and beliefs were pieced
together by communities over generations. We traverse three
centuries of religious, political and economic upheaval, a time
during which what we think of as modern Scotland, and then modern
Britain, was being forged and tested.
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This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a
long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker
period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500
BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South
Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its
sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the
18th–16th centuries BC and a row of three Late Bronze Age
sunken-floored roundhouses constructed in the 10th century BC.
Beneath these roundhouses, four inhumation graves contained
skeletons, two of which were remains of composite collections of
body parts with evidence for post-mortem soft tissue preservation
prior to burial. They have proved to be the first evidence for
mummification in Bronze Age Britain. Cladh Hallan's remarkable
stratigraphic sequence, preserved in the machair sand of South
Uist, includes a unique 500-year sequence of roundhouse life in
Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. One of the most important
results of the excavation has come from intensive environmental and
micro-debris sampling of house floors and outdoor areas to recover
patterns of discard and to interpret the spatial use of 15 domestic
interiors from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. From
Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse floors we gain intimate insights into
how daily life was organized within the house - where people
cooked, ate, worked and slept. Such evidence rarely survives from
prehistoric houses in Britain or Europe, and the results make a
profound contribution to long-running debates about the sunwise
organisation of roundhouse activities. Activity at Cladh Hallan
ended with the construction and abandonment of two unusual
double-roundhouses in the Early Iron Age. One appears to have been
a smokery and steam room, and the other was used for metalworking.
'e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations' enables IT
managers and directors to develop and implement IT strategies and
infrastructures for new models of doing business based on the
Internet.
The authors provide a brief introduction to the concepts and
strategic issues surrounding information warfare, managing
organizational knowledge, and the information economy. The virtual
organization is now an important business model for contemporary
business organizations and the flexibility and adaptability of the
virtual organization make it ideal for survival in today's highly
competitive and dynamically changing markets. Modern corporations
may utilize some of the features of the virtual organization to
develop the ideal organization to a greater or lesser extent
depending on individual business circumstances. This book covers
the issues involved in planning, realizing and managing such a
virtual organization, and the role of information and communication
technologies in supporting virtual organizations and virtual
organizing is addressed throughout.
Provides a comprehensive set of business models for an
e-business
Includes global cases and assignments and full web references
Focus on business issues rather than technology issues
If you really want to unlock your potential and become master of
your own life, you will need to remove the barriers to success,
including your own narrow expectations and those imposed by others.
This book will introduce you to techniques for overcoming the
limiting effects of past conditioning, misguided or obsolete
teachings and repressed conflicts. You will learn how to develop
your creativity, improve your ability to solve problems and manage
your social contacts to facilitate success.
From the very beginning it would seem that God had a plan for
America. From its discovery by Europeans to its settlement, from
the Revolution to Manifest Destiny, from the stirrings of civil
unrest to civil war, America was on a path. In our pluralistic
world, when textbooks are being rewritten in ways that obscure the
Judeo-Christian beginnings of our country, the books in the
Discovering God's Plan for America series help ground young readers
in a distinctly evangelical way of understanding early American
history.
As young readers look at their nation's development from God's
point of view, they will begin to have a clearer idea of how much
we owe to a very few--and how much is still at stake. These
engaging books bring history alive in a way that will inspire young
people to do their important part in shaping this nation into the
future.
Are you thinking of studying or training for an important
qualification? Do you know the best techniques for studying and
learning to ensure you achieve the best results as quickly as
possible? Whether you are at college or university, doing projects
or assignments, writing essays, receiving continuous assessment or
preparing for exams this is the book for you. Now in its third
edition, this practical book covers getting your thinking right,
organising yourself properly, finding and processing the
information you need, reading effectively, developing good writing
skills, thinking creatively, motivating yourself, and more.
Whatever your subject, age or background, start now and turn
yourself into a winning candidate.
This powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the
intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from
ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics -
and synthesizes them into a new philosophy of nature in which to
ground our moral values and social action. It traces the origins
and evolution of the dominant worldview that has built our
industrial, technocratic, man-centered civilization, and brought us
to the current ecological crisis. At the same time, it uncovers an
alternative cultural tradition in the world's different religions
and philosophies and describes how these ideas are now surfacing
and coalescing to form an ecological sensibility and a new vision
of nature which recognizes the inter-relatedness of all living
things. Finally, this book integrates these varied traditions with
modern physics and the science of ecology into a larger
philosophical whole that provides the environmental movement with a
comprehensive vision of an organic and sustainable society in
harmony with nature. As ecological disasters continue to threaten
our planet, becoming worse with every passing moment of
indifference, it has become clear that we must take action. We must
change our relationship with nature, and return to the days when
our lives were intimately connected to and dependent upon the
natural world. Nature's Web lays the foundations for that change by
explaining where our complex ideas about nature come from, why they
are wrong, and what we can do to change them.
Over the past 40 years, satellites have played a key role in
creating a global culture, spreading worldwide entertainment,
stimulating technological interchange, and promoting trade around
the world. "Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents"
addresses communications satellites not only in terms of the
technology and the services they provide, but also with
consideration of the technology's impact in socio-political,
security, economic, policy, news, entertainment, and cultural
spheres.
Editors Joseph N. Pelton, Robert J. Oslund, and Peter Marshall
bring together contributions that place satellites into a broad
context and examine how they influence and define today's world.
Written in a non-technical, reader-friendly style, chapters
investigate how satellite communications work and explore the role
of satellites in such arenas as:
*news and entertainment systems around the world;
*Internet, E-business, and the new global economy;
*global television and radio channels;
*military operations; and
*education, health services, economic development, and electronic
immigration.
"Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents" examines what
satellites have been and projects how they will evolve in the
future, articulating what they mean to the world today and
forecasting what they will mean tomorrow. As the definitive source
on communications satellites and their role in today's world, this
volume serves as a valuable, unique, and timely resource for
scholars and students in telecommunications, communication and
technology, mass communication and society, and broadcasting.
Over the past 40 years, satellites have played a key role in
creating a global culture, spreading worldwide entertainment,
stimulating technological interchange, and promoting trade around
the world. "Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents"
addresses communications satellites not only in terms of the
technology and the services they provide, but also with
consideration of the technology's impact in socio-political,
security, economic, policy, news, entertainment, and cultural
spheres.
Editors Joseph N. Pelton, Robert J. Oslund, and Peter Marshall
bring together contributions that place satellites into a broad
context and examine how they influence and define today's world.
Written in a non-technical, reader-friendly style, chapters
investigate how satellite communications work and explore the role
of satellites in such arenas as:
*news and entertainment systems around the world;
*Internet, E-business, and the new global economy;
*global television and radio channels;
*military operations; and
*education, health services, economic development, and electronic
immigration.
"Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents" examines what
satellites have been and projects how they will evolve in the
future, articulating what they mean to the world today and
forecasting what they will mean tomorrow. As the definitive source
on communications satellites and their role in today's world, this
volume serves as a valuable, unique, and timely resource for
scholars and students in telecommunications, communication and
technology, mass communication and society, and broadcasting.
This powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the
intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from
ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics -
and synthesizes them into a new philosophy of nature in which to
ground our moral values and social action. It traces the origins
and evolution of the dominant worldview that has built our
industrial, technocratic, man-centered civilization, and brought us
to the current ecological crisis. At the same time, it uncovers an
alternative cultural tradition in the world's different religions
and philosophies and describes how these ideas are now surfacing
and coalescing to form an ecological sensibility and a new vision
of nature which recognizes the inter-relatedness of all living
things. Finally, this book integrates these varied traditions with
modern physics and the science of ecology into a larger
philosophical whole that provides the environmental movement with a
comprehensive vision of an organic and sustainable society in
harmony with nature. As ecological disasters continue to threaten
our planet, becoming worse with every passing moment of
indifference, it has become clear that we must take action. We must
change our relationship with nature, and return to the days when
our lives were intimately connected to and dependent upon the
natural world. Nature's Web lays the foundations for that change by
explaining where our complex ideas about nature come from, why they
are wrong, and what we can do to change them.
'e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations' enables IT
managers and directors to develop and implement IT strategies and
infrastructures for new models of doing business based on the
Internet. The authors provide a brief introduction to the concepts
and strategic issues surrounding information warfare, managing
organizational knowledge, and the information economy. The virtual
organization is now an important business model for contemporary
business organizations and the flexibility and adaptability of the
virtual organization make it ideal for survival in today's highly
competitive and dynamically changing markets. Modern corporations
may utilize some of the features of the virtual organization to
develop the ideal organization to a greater or lesser extent
depending on individual business circumstances. This book covers
the issues involved in planning, realizing and managing such a
virtual organization, and the role of information and communication
technologies in supporting virtual organizations and virtual
organizing is addressed throughout.
An in-depth investigation into key debates about death and the
afterlife - during an after the Protestant Reformation
This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism
in the early modern period through a series of interlocking essays
on single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court,
Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates
key themes in the history of the Catholic gentry. Despite their
persistent adherence to Catholicism, in no sense did the
Throckmortons inhabit a 'recusant bubble'. Family members regularly
played leading roles on the national political stage, from Sir
George Throckmorton's resistance to the break with Rome in the
1530s, to Sir Robert George Throckmorton's election as the first
English Catholic MP in 1831. Taking a long-term approach, the
volume charts the strategies employed by various members of the
family to allow them to remain politically active and socially
influential within a solidly Protestant nation. In so doing, it
contributes to ongoing attempts to integrate the study of
Catholicism into the mainstream of English social and political
history, transcending its traditional status as a 'special
interest' category, remote from or subordinate to the central
narratives of historical change. It will be particularly welcomed
by historians of the sixteenth through to the nineteenth century,
who increasingly recognise the importance of both Catholicism and
anti-Catholicism as central themes in English cultural and
political life.
Henry VIII's decision to declare himself supreme head of the church
in England, and thereby set himself in opposition to the authority
of the papacy, had momentous consequences for the country and his
subjects. At a stroke people were forced to reconsider assumptions
about their identity and loyalties, in rapidly shifting political
and theological circumstances. Whilst many studies have
investigated Catholic and Protestant identities during the reigns
of Elizabeth and Mary, much less is understood about the processes
of religious identity-formation during Henry's reign. In this
volume Peter Marshall explores a wide range of evidence that
underlines the complex web of overlapping and competing identities
that people were forced to assume as a religiously conservative
king sought to take control of his national church. Investigating
broad issues of conversion, polemic and propaganda, scripture,
exile, forgery and miracles, ...
Psychology can be a bewildering subject of study - so many
theories, so much factual knowledge to acquire. This book makes a
really great starting point for newcomers to the subject. Rather
than just presenting lumps of psychological knowledge, it will
teach you the skill of thinking like a psychologist. Never again
will you be stuck for something worthwhile to say in a tutorial or
to add value to an essay. Whether you are an undergraduate,
A-level, or open access student, this reader-friendly companion,
now in its second edition, will set you on the right path.
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