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"Governing the Commonwealth" provides middle-school students
with an introduction to Virginia's government: its structure,
processes, powers, and scope. The middle-school civics curriculum
requires teachers to cover Virginia's government, and there has not
been a useful text to do this until now.
Robert Dudley has written an accessible guide to Virginia's
government that not only covers the overall structure but also
provides information about Virginia's constitution and the history
of the people and the land. Each chapter includes two highlighted
sections--"Why It Matters" and "How It's Done in the Other
States"--that allow students to deepen their understanding and make
comparisons to other locations. Amy Smith, a veteran Fairfax County
Public Schools teacher, assisted the author with this book to
ensure that it would be understood by the students and that it
covered current Virginia Standards of Learning requirements.
In addition, Smith prepared a teacher's guide to assist all
teachers--especially new ones--with the process of implementing the
text in the classroom. For each chapter, the teacher's guide
includes a general overview, chapter objectives, in-class
activities, and much more. This book will be useful to all middle
schools in Virginia, homeschoolers, and the general public,
including aspiring citizens looking for a basic introduction to
Virginia's government, how it works, and its historical
development.
Distributed for George Mason University Press
For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome
corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The
products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s
as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist
thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social
progress. Robert Best, one of Britain’s leading industrialists in
this period, shared the goal of better mass education but was
troubled by Modernism’s promoters, for reasons that they found
hard to understand. If the few knew better than the many, and had
an obligation to elevate them whether they liked it or not, where
did this leave the democratic principles that our liberal society
prided itself on? Best felt that the campaign to popularise
Functionalist design took propaganda into territory that had
uncomfortable political overtones. In this extraordinary memoir,
written in the early 1950s but never previously published, Best
explored his concern about the sense of noblesse oblige that lay
behind such bodies as the Council of Industrial Design, set up in
1944 ostensibly to raise the saleability and quality of British
manufacturing but also, in his view, to brainwash the public into
denying what it liked in favour of more cultivated but untested
alternatives.
Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were born into privileged
middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s, where their father owned one
of the UK's most successful lighting factories, supplying
fashionable fittings to offices, hotels, restaurants and opera
houses all over the word. Sent to the most enlightened new school
of its day - Bedales - the boys not early enjoyed the freedom to
explore their own interests but also absorbed the inspirational
moral thinking of the school's founder and headmaster, J.H. Badley.
"From Bedales to the Boche" charts their history at the school
during its early years, and shows what Badley's idea of a
progressive education consisted of. It also shows how the boys
honed their ambitions to become music-hall entertainers, writing
and performing their own material at home and at school, and
eventually showing it to London impresarios. Their plans for the
stage were interrupted, however, by their father's insistence that
they study design at another progressive institution, the art
school in Duesseldorf headed until 1907 by Peter Behrens. Best's
account of his year there, and of Frank's the following year,
provides an amusing interlude ahead of the First World War. When
war broke out, the brothers enlisted at once into the Army Service
Corps (ASC), which took them to the battlefields of northern France
and to Dublin in 1916 to help quell the Easter Rising. Their
passion, however, going back to their experiments with flight while
at Bedales, was for the newly formed Royal Flying Corps, which they
entered in late 1916, joining the Corps' new school and embarking
on a training programme that Best describes in fascinating detail.
After six months of training, the brothers were sent to France
where the life expectancy of a pilot was about 4 months. Frank
lasted five weeks; his plane was shot down, his body never found.
In respect of his death, "From Bedales to the Boche" is rich in
pathos. Best ends by showing how he and his parents responded to
Frank's loss, and how he tried to rediscover and make sense of
Germany after the war was over.
Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains
a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley
presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the
persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time,
interdisciplinary perspective on today's patterns of alcohol
consumption and abuse, Dudley traces the link between the
fruit-eating behavior of arboreal primates and the evolution of the
sensory skills required to identify ripe and fermented fruits that
contain sugar and low levels of alcohol. In addition to introducing
this new theory of the relationship of humans to alcohol, the book
discusses the supporting research, implications of the hypothesis,
and the medical and social impacts of alcoholism. The Drunken
Monkey is designed for interested readers, scholars, and students
in comparative and evolutionary biology, biological anthropology,
medicine, and public health.
Presenting an innovative framework for tailoring
cognitive-behavioral interventions to each client's needs, this
accessible book is packed with practical pointers and sample
dialogues. Step by step, the authors show how to collaborate with
clients to develop and test conceptualizations that illuminate
personal strengths as well as problems, and that deepen in
explanatory power as treatment progresses. An extended case
illustration demonstrates the three-stage conceptualization process
over the entire course of therapy with a multiproblem client. The
approach emphasizes building resilience and coping while decreasing
psychological distress. Special features include self-assessment
checklists and learning exercises to help therapists build their
conceptualization skills.
From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan,
winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on
earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive
explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics
of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of
synthesis.
The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics.
Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics,
flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern
phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he
describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight
performance. The author then takes the next step by developing
evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins
of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in
determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight
and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration.
Dudley ranges widely--from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology
and swarming behavior--but his focus is the explanation of
functional design from evolutionary and ecological
perspectives.
The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been
recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses
that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect
flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in
biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.
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