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Have you ever been far away from city lights and noticed the
stars like diamonds in the sky? Many people have, and have been
deeply moved and amazed by the experience. "Touching the Universe"
chronicles the adventures of author Steve Coe as he shares his love
of the night sky. Coe is willing to travel far and wide to view new
vistas of the universe.
Each chapter in "Touching the Universe" contains Coe's
observations of the night sky on each of the twenty nights he
recalls in detail here. To set the scene for each of the nights, he
discusses what led up to choosing each night; then he explains what
he observed and learned as he perfected his observation skills.
Share with Coe the joy of getting away from the city lights and
setting up a telescope under dark skies. Follow a comet as it
brightens and forms a tail; see a star cluster or nebula that will
take your breath away. Viewing the stars and galaxies that inhabit
the night sky provides peace and calm in a way that isn't available
anywhere else.
This book by dynamic scholars James Whisker and John Coe examines
the short life of the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, one of the
most overlooked individuals in the pantheon of leaders in the Third
Reich. Born to German mercantile parents in the Baltic region of
the Russian Empire, he was a student in Russia during the Bolshevik
Revolution. Deeply influenced by the anti-Semitic forgery The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a propaganda pamphlet distributed
by the tsar's secret police, he carried it to Germany, where he
introduced it to Adolf Hitler. Rosenberg leaned heavily on
heterodox Christian writings that challenged mainstream Christian
thought. He revived interest in a variety of philosophies and
individuals long forgotten, such as the cosmic dualistic Cathars
and the mystic Master Eckart von Hochheim. Rosenberg came to view
history from a perspective often called "Scientific Racism," which
held that the history of humankind had been marked by a struggle
between the Aryan race and their supposed inferiors. Race was the
newest subject for the application of cosmic dualism, which is the
spiritual belief that two fundamental concepts exist. Rosenberg
identified the Nazis' task as creating a bulwark against Semitic
influences from Europe generally and Germany in particular, and to
do so by any means necessary. Rosenberg figured in a long
anti-Jewish tradition in Germany, a tortured legacy that began with
Martin Luther and continued through many of the prominent German
figures of the nineteenth century. Indeed, Rosenberg considered his
magnum opus, The Myth of the 20th Century, to be the logical
successor work to Foundations of the 19th Century by the composer
Richard Wagner's son-in-law Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and other Western positions in the
Asia-Pacific World in December 1941, it was unprepared to go to war
with the United States and the Western Democracies generally and
even realized it could not win. Its navy and air force were
impressive, and its army could battle impressively against China,
but Japanese small arms were terrible. Japan's tanks could not
compete with their opposite numbers. The Empire's logistical base
was undeveloped for modern warfare. While the Allies could produce
large numbers of trained many pilots, Japan produced very few. When
its elite airmen were lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942,
Japan could not replace them. At sea, Japan built battleships when
it needed more aircraft carriers. The Japanese military never even
attempted to win World War II by a simple and direct plan. Its
planners consistently assumed that the enemy would do precisely
what they assumed and countenanced no alternative analyses of
facts.
Internationally there is an increasing trend to publish and feed
back information to schools and teachers on their functioning.
School improvement is often the central goal, though accountability
and the promotion of parental/student school choice also play an
important role.Practical initiatives and research in this field
have often failed to recognize the full complexity of improving
schools through school performance feedback. Relevant questions
are, for example, to what extent: the information fed back to
schools is valued and understood by them; the school performance
feedback enables appropriate diagnosis and remediation to take
place in schools; the use of the feedback generates conflicts and
tensions for teachers and administrators; the features of the
implementation process and school organization influence the
utilization of school performance feedback systems; schools do
actually improve as a result of performance feedback; and the
feedback systems have unintended effects. This book fills the gap
by including: a thorough conceptualization of school feedback as a
performance enhancing mechanism, and the prerequisites for
utilizing this information in schools; a typology of school
performance indicators; a review of the research on the impact of
feeding back performance information to individuals and to
organizations; evidence on the process, problems and impact of
school performance feedback from an international variety of
contexts (Australia, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA); and
reflections on these experiences within the theoretical framework,
leading to recommended strategies for school improvement through
performance feedback.
Expand the scope of your social work practice or education program
Computers and Information Technology in Social Work: Education,
Training, and Practice discusses the impact that recent
technological advances have had on social work practice and
education. This unique book covers a wide range of topics for
social workers and educators highlighting various aspects of
technology applied to assist those in helping professions. You'll
learn how computers can be used in child protective cases and the
benefits of videoconferencing in social work programs. Computers
and Information Technology in Social Work will show you how new
advances in technology can improve your social work practice or
education program.Computers and Information Technology in Social
Work examines many different aspects of technology and demonstrates
how they can be applied to assist you in making a positive impact
on the communities, clients, and organizations that you serve. This
guide offers specific methods and suggestions for providing
students with better services and enhanced instruction on the use
of current technologies in social work practice.Computers and
Information Technology in Social Work is packed with innovative
concepts that will improve your effectiveness through the use of
advanced technology. You will: discover the impact that video
conferencing technology can have on the delivery of social services
to rural populations and undeveloped areas of the world gain
insight into the lives of isolated and vulnerable people, such as
those in a breast cancer support group, who can directly benefit
from technological advances like video conferencing learn how
television can be used by social work practitioners to positively
impact communities by providing programs that teach self-advocacy
and provide outreach and peer support examine World Wide Web-based
instructional resources to help students access information on
their own time, at their own pace, and from any computer location
discover a World Wide Web-based conferencing program that allows
professors expanded opportunities for teaching, learning, and
communicationDerived from papers that were presented at a week-long
conference sponsored by the University of South Carolina College of
Social Work, Computers and Information Technology in Social Work
presents exciting and innovative ideas and projects to keep you
abreast of technical developments in the field and how they can
best assist your practice. The unique ideas presented in this book
will enable you to provide more effective services to your clients
with the help of information technology.
Expand the scope of your social work practice or education program
Computers and Information Technology in Social Work: Education,
Training, and Practice discusses the impact that recent
technological advances have had on social work practice and
education. This unique book covers a wide range of topics for
social workers and educators highlighting various aspects of
technology applied to assist those in helping professions. You'll
learn how computers can be used in child protective cases and the
benefits of videoconferencing in social work programs. Computers
and Information Technology in Social Work will show you how new
advances in technology can improve your social work practice or
education program. Computers and Information Technology in Social
Work examines many different aspects of technology and demonstrates
how they can be applied to assist you in making a positive impact
on the communities, clients, and organizations that you serve. This
guide offers specific methods and suggestions for providing
students with better services and enhanced instruction on the use
of current technologies in social work practice.Computers and
Information Technology in Social Work is packed with innovative
concepts that will improve your effectiveness through the use of
advanced technology.You will: discover the impact that video
conferencing technology can have on the delivery of social services
to rural populations and undeveloped areas of the world gain
insight into the lives of isolated and vulnerable people, such as
those in a breast cancer support group, who can directly benefit
from technological advances like video conferencing learn how
television can be used by social work practitioners to positively
impact communities by providing programs that teach self-advocacy
and provide outreach and peer support examine World Wide Web-based
instructional resources to help students access information on
their own time, at their own pace, and from any computer location
discover a World Wide Web-based conferencing program that allows
professors expanded opportunities for teaching, learning, and
communication Derived from papers that were presented at a
week-long conference sponsored by the University of South Carolina
College of Social Work, Computers and Information Technology in
Social Work presents exciting and innovative ideas and projects to
keep you abreast of technical developments in the field and how
they can best assist your practice.The unique ideas presented in
this book will enable you to provide more effective services to
your clients with the help of information technology.
Internationally there is an increasing trend to publish and feed
back information to schools and teachers on their functioning.
School improvement is often the central goal, though accountability
and the promotion of parental/student school choice also play an
important role.Practical initiatives and research in this field
have often failed to recognize the full complexity of improving
schools through school performance feedback. Relevant questions
are, for example, to what extent: the information fed back to
schools is valued and understood by them; the school performance
feedback enables appropriate diagnosis and remediation to take
place in schools; the use of the feedback generates conflicts and
tensions for teachers and administrators; the features of the
implementation process and school organization influence the
utilization of school performance feedback systems; schools do
actually improve as a result of performance feedback; and the
feedback systems have unintended effects.
This book fills the gap by including: a thorough conceptualization
of school feedback as a performance enhancing mechanism, and the
prerequisites for utilizing this information in schools; a typology
of school performance indicators; a review of the research on the
impact of feeding back performance information to individuals and
to organizations; evidence on the process, problems and impact of
school performance feedback from an international variety of
contexts (Australia, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA); and
reflections on these experiences within the theoretical framework,
leading to recommended strategies for school improvement through
performance feedback.
This book provides a practical approach to applying statistics to a
wide variety of studies or projects. It will help bring together
the biophysical and socioeconomic aspects, that are increasingly
seen as integral to successful natural resources management. The
topics covered include types of study in NRM, planning, data
management and analysis. The book has been written for advanced
students and professionals in all disciplines in agriculture,
forestry, rural development, environmental and related sciences.
This updated second edition has all of the information needed for
your successful forays into deep sky observing. Coe uses his years
of experience to give detailed practical advice about how to find
the best observing site, how to make the most of the time spent
there, and what equipment and instruments to take along. There are
comprehensive lists of deep sky objects of all kinds, along with
Steve's own observations describing how they look through
telescopes with apertures ranging from 4 inches to 36 inches (0.1 -
0.9 meters).Binocular observing also gets its due, while the lists
of objects have been amended to highlight only the best targets. A
new index makes finding targets easier than ever before, while the
selection of viewing targets has been revised from the first
edition. Most of all, this book is all about how to enjoy
astronomy. The author's enthusiasm and sense of wonder shine
through every page as he invites you along on a tour of some of the
most beautiful and fascinating sites in the deep sky, with the
improved object list making sure your choice of a faint cluster,
hazy nebula or distant galaxy will all be equally rewarding.
Bulletin Of The Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, Technical
Series, V3, No. 6.
Have you ever been far away from city lights and noticed the
stars like diamonds in the sky? Many people have, and have been
deeply moved and amazed by the experience. "Touching the Universe"
chronicles the adventures of author Steve Coe as he shares his love
of the night sky. Coe is willing to travel far and wide to view new
vistas of the universe.
Each chapter in "Touching the Universe" contains Coe's
observations of the night sky on each of the twenty nights he
recalls in detail here. To set the scene for each of the nights, he
discusses what led up to choosing each night; then he explains what
he observed and learned as he perfected his observation skills.
Share with Coe the joy of getting away from the city lights and
setting up a telescope under dark skies. Follow a comet as it
brightens and forms a tail; see a star cluster or nebula that will
take your breath away. Viewing the stars and galaxies that inhabit
the night sky provides peace and calm in a way that isn't available
anywhere else.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
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