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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.
Children's literature has been taught in undergraduate classrooms
since the mid-1960s and has grown to become a staple of English
literature, library science, and education programs. Children's
literature classes are typically among the most popular course
offerings at any institution. It is easy to understand why;
children's literature classes promise students the opportunity to
revisit familiar works with fresh eyes. With the growth of the
children’s publishing industry and the celebration of recent
scholarly interventions in the field, the popularity of the
discipline is unlikely to abate. A central question of current
children’s literature scholarship and practice is how to
effectively address contemporary questions of social justice. This
collection offers a series of interventions for the practice of
teaching equity through children's literature in undergraduate
classrooms. It is intended for individuals who teach, or who are
interested in teaching, children’s literature to undergraduates.
It includes contributions from practitioners from a range of
institutional affiliations, disciplinary backgrounds,
nationalities, and career stages. Furthermore, this volume includes
contributions from scholars who belong to groups which are often
underrepresented within academia, due to race, nationality,
ethnicity, gender identity, disability, or other protected
characteristics.
Children's literature has been taught in undergraduate classrooms
since the mid-1960s and has grown to become a staple of English
literature, library science, and education programs. Children's
literature classes are typically among the most popular course
offerings at any institution. It is easy to understand why;
children's literature classes promise students the opportunity to
revisit familiar works with fresh eyes. With the growth of the
children’s publishing industry and the celebration of recent
scholarly interventions in the field, the popularity of the
discipline is unlikely to abate. A central question of current
children’s literature scholarship and practice is how to
effectively address contemporary questions of social justice. This
collection offers a series of interventions for the practice of
teaching equity through children's literature in undergraduate
classrooms. It is intended for individuals who teach, or who are
interested in teaching, children’s literature to undergraduates.
It includes contributions from practitioners from a range of
institutional affiliations, disciplinary backgrounds,
nationalities, and career stages. Furthermore, this volume includes
contributions from scholars who belong to groups which are often
underrepresented within academia, due to race, nationality,
ethnicity, gender identity, disability, or other protected
characteristics.
Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue
with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror
comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores,
instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white male fears
over America's changing sociological landscape. It examines two
eras: the pre-CCA period of the 1940s up to 1954, and the post-CCA
era to 1975. The book examines each of these periods through the
lenses of war, gender, and race, demonstrating that horror comics
at this time were centered on white male victimhood and the
monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. It is of
interest to scholars of horror, comics studies, and American
history. -- .
Shakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained
study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education,
and culture. This book tracks the role and development of
Shakespeare in education from the founding of modern Singapore to
the present day, drawing on sources such as government and school
records, the entire span of Singapore's newspaper archives,
playbills, interviews with educators and theatre professionals, and
existing academic sources. By uniting the critical interest in
Singaporean theatre with the substantial body of scholarship that
concerns global Shakespeare, the author overs a broad, yet
in-depth, exploration of the ways in which Singaporean approaches
to Shakespeare have been shaped by, and respond to, cultural work
going on elsewhere in Asia. A vital read for all students and
scholars of Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Singapore offers a unique
examination of the cultural impact of Shakespeare, beyond its usual
footing in the Western world.
Law, policy, and practice in the United States has long held that
students with disabilities - including those with intellectual
disabilities - have the right to a free and appropriate public
education, in a non-restrictive environment. Yet very few of these
students are fully included in general education classrooms.
Educational systems use loopholes to segregate students;
universities regularly fail to train teachers to include students;
and state regulators fail to provide the necessary leadership and
funding to implement policies of inclusion. Whatever Happened to
Inclusion? reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual
disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the
abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to
students with significant disabilities in America. The book then
describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation
programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion
of students with intellectual disabilities a reality.
The horror of the Holocaust lies not only in its brutality but in
its scale and logistics; it depended upon the machinery and logic
of a rational, industrialised, and empirically organised modern
society. The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman's
comics all identify deeply-rooted madness in post-Enlightenment
society. Spiegelman maintains, in other words, that the Holocaust
was not an aberration, but an inevitable consequence of
modernisation. In service of this argument, Smith offers a reading
of Spiegelman's comics, with a particular focus on his three main
collections: Breakdowns (1977 and 2008), Maus (1980 and 1991), and
In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). He draws upon a taxonomy of
terms from comic book scholarship, attempts to theorize madness
(including literary portrayals of trauma), and critical works on
Holocaust literature.
According to Joss Whedon, the creator of the short-lived series
Firefly (2002), the cult show is about "nine people looking into
the blackness of space and seeing nine different things." The
chronicles of crewmembers on a scruffy space freighter, Firefly ran
for only four months before its abrupt cancellation. In that brief
time, however, it established a reputation as one of the best
science-fiction programs of the new millennium: sharply written,
superbly cast, and set on an exotic multicultural frontier unlike
anything ever seen on the small screen. The show's large,
enthusiastic fan following supported a series of comics and a
theatrical film, Serenity (2005), that extended the story, deepened
the characters, and revealed new wonders and dangers on the
deep-space frontier. In Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's
Classic Series, Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith present a
collection that reflects on the program, the characters, and the
post-cancellation film and comics that grew out of the show. The
contributors to this volume offer fresh perspectives on familiar
characters and blaze new trails into unexplored areas of the
Firefly universe. Individual essays explore the series' place in
the history of the space-Western subgenre, the political economy of
the Alliance, and the uses of music and language in the series to
immerse audiences in a multicultural future. These essays look at
how the show offered viewers high adventure as well as engaged with
a range of themes that still resonate today. As such, Firefly
Revisited will intrigue the show's many fans, as well as Whedon
scholars and anyone interested in the twenty-first-century
renaissance of science-fiction television.
Both Sides of the Table is a set of evocative, heartfelt, personal,
and revealing stories, told by educators about how their
experiences with disability, personally and in the lives of family
members, has affected their understanding of disability. It uses
disability studies and critical theory lenses to understand the
autoethnographies of teachers and their personal relationships with
disability. The book takes a beginning look at the meaning of
autoethnography as a method of inquiry, as well as how it has been
(and will be) applied to exploring disability and the role of
education in creating and sustaining it. The title refers to the
context in which educators find themselves in Individualized
Education Plan (IEP) meetings for students with disabilities in
schools. There, educators often sit on the other side of the table
from people with disabilities, their families, and their allies. In
these chapters, the authors assume roles that place them,
literally, on both sides of IEP tables. They inscribe new meanings
- of relationships, of disability, of schools, of what it means to
be an educator and a learner. It is a proposal (or perhaps a gentle
manifesto) for what research, education, disability, and a utopian
revolutionary politics of social transformation could and should
look like.
Shakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained
study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education,
and culture. This book tracks the role and development of
Shakespeare in education from the founding of modern Singapore to
the present day, drawing on sources such as government and school
records, the entire span of Singapore's newspaper archives,
playbills, interviews with educators and theatre professionals, and
existing academic sources. By uniting the critical interest in
Singaporean theatre with the substantial body of scholarship that
concerns global Shakespeare, the author overs a broad, yet
in-depth, exploration of the ways in which Singaporean approaches
to Shakespeare have been shaped by, and respond to, cultural work
going on elsewhere in Asia. A vital read for all students and
scholars of Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Singapore offers a unique
examination of the cultural impact of Shakespeare, beyond its usual
footing in the Western world.
Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams
prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate
certificates required by all officers on commercial seagoing
vessels. From the formation of tides and tidal stream data, right
through to practice questions with answers, and even mock exam
papers, this book will provide you with all the reference material
you need in order to pass your exams.
The horror of the Holocaust lies not only in its brutality but in
its scale and logistics; it depended upon the machinery and logic
of a rational, industrialised, and empirically organised modern
society. The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman's
comics all identify deeply-rooted madness in post-Enlightenment
society. Spiegelman maintains, in other words, that the Holocaust
was not an aberration, but an inevitable consequence of
modernisation. In service of this argument, Smith offers a reading
of Spiegelman's comics, with a particular focus on his three main
collections: Breakdowns (1977 and 2008), Maus (1980 and 1991), and
In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). He draws upon a taxonomy of
terms from comic book scholarship, attempts to theorize madness
(including literary portrayals of trauma), and critical works on
Holocaust literature.
Law, policy, and practice in the United States has long held that
students with disabilities - including those with intellectual
disabilities - have the right to a free and appropriate public
education, in a non-restrictive environment. Yet very few of these
students are fully included in general education classrooms.
Educational systems use loopholes to segregate students;
universities regularly fail to train teachers to include students;
and state regulators fail to provide the necessary leadership and
funding to implement policies of inclusion. Whatever Happened to
Inclusion? reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual
disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the
abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to
students with significant disabilities in America. The book then
describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation
programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion
of students with intellectual disabilities a reality.
Despite all the jokes about the poor quality of physician
handwriting, physician adoption of computerized provider order
entry (CPOE) in hospitals still lags behind other industries' use
of technology. As of the end of 2010, less than 22% of hospitals
had deployed CPOE. Yet experts claim that this technology reduces
over 80% of medication errors and could prevent an estimated
522,000 serious medication errors annually in the US. Even though
the federal government has offered $20 billion dollars in
incentives to hospitals and health systems through the 2009
stimulus (the ARRA HITECH section of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009), many organizations are struggling to
implement advanced clinical information systems including CPOE. In
addition, industry experts estimate that the healthcare industry is
lacking as many as 40,000 persons with expertise in clinical
informatics necessary to make it all happen by the 2016 deadline
for these incentives. While the scientific literature contains
numerous studies and stories about CPOE, no one has written a
comprehensive, practical guide like Making CPOE Work. While early
adopters of CPOE were mainly academic hospitals, community
hospitals are now proceeding with CPOE projects and need a
comprehensive guide. Making CPOE Work is a book that will provide a
concise guide to help both new and experienced health informatics
teams successfully plan and implement CPOE. The book, in a
narrative style, draws on the author's decade-long experiences of
implementing CPOE at a variety of academic, pediatric and community
hospitals across the United States.
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond
anthropology. Indeed the case could be made that he has been
abandoned by anthropology and that his legacy has been transferred
to a more diffuse community of scholars interested in
interpretation. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence,
looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist.
To date, there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and
authoritative work published on this critical figure. Contributors
include an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars investigating
the three core components of contested legacy: theory, method, and
writing.
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond
anthropology. Indeed the case could be made that he has been
abandoned by anthropology and that his legacy has been transferred
to a more diffuse community of scholars interested in
interpretation. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence,
looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist.
To date, there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and
authoritative work published on this critical figure. Contributors
include an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars investigating
the three core components of contested legacy: theory, method, and
writing.
Getting into Academic Medicine provides a comprehensive yet
accessible guide for all doctors who are training to gain
postgraduate qualifications and further their academic career. It
explains what an academic career involves from diploma and masters
courses through to completing a PhD and holding professional
positions.
- How to prepare the ideal successful application so that you
stand out in the crowd
- Routes and options available so that you can decide which path
to take
- Mentorship guidance to steer you through possible career
pathways
- Practical advice, hints, tips, pearls of wisdom to help succeed
in a competitive landscape
- Specific, relevant examples will help you avoid common
pitfalls
Inspirational and encouraging this text presents an essential
survival guide preparing the candidate with background knowledge
and critical advice on the dos and don'ts of obtaining an academic
post.
Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams
prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate
certificates required by all officers on commercial seagoing
vessels. From the formation of tides and tidal stream data, right
through to practice questions with answers, and even mock exam
papers, this book will provide you with all the reference material
you need in order to pass your exams.
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," poems by Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, many more.
Despite all the jokes about the poor quality of physician
handwriting, physician adoption of computerized provider order
entry (CPOE) in hospitals still lags behind other industries' use
of technology. As of the end of 2010, less than 22% of hospitals
had deployed CPOE. Yet experts claim that this technology reduces
over 80% of medication errors and could prevent an estimated
522,000 serious medication errors annually in the US. Even though
the federal government has offered $20 billion dollars in
incentives to hospitals and health systems through the 2009
stimulus (the ARRA HITECH section of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009), many organizations are struggling to
implement advanced clinical information systems including CPOE. In
addition, industry experts estimate that the healthcare industry is
lacking as many as 40,000 persons with expertise in clinical
informatics necessary to make it all happen by the 2016 deadline
for these incentives. While the scientific literature contains
numerous studies and stories about CPOE, no one has written a
comprehensive, practical guide like Making CPOE Work. While early
adopters of CPOE were mainly academic hospitals, community
hospitals are now proceeding with CPOE projects and need a
comprehensive guide. Making CPOE Work is a book that will provide a
concise guide to help both new and experienced health informatics
teams successfully plan and implement CPOE. The book, in a
narrative style, draws on the author's decade-long experiences of
implementing CPOE at a variety of academic, pediatric and community
hospitals across the United States.
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