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This early work was written for the beginning leather craftsman.
Intended as a course of study in leatherwork for elementary and
secondary school pupils in the art and industrial art fields, it is
thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any arts
and crafts enthusiast or historian. Many of the earliest books,
particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing
these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions,
using the original text and artwork.
Burns and Thompson help to remedy the lack of a forum for current
research on television by bringing together, in this volume, some
of the best recent research in television studies. This work will
begin to fill the gap in literature on television studies as a
discipline. In compiling these 13 papers, the editors maintain a
balance of timely interest and lasting relevance. The contributors
study the texts of current TV dramatic and comic series, such as
Dallas and Cheers, as well as current trends in nonfiction TV, such
as network and local news coverage. Each analysis of a specific
television text is complimented with rigorous theoretical
argumentation. Students and scholars of communications and
television criticism will find Television Studies valuable reading.
The book begins with a two-chapter debate primarily seeking a
definition of `television studies.' The debate includes a critical
examination of the capitalist institutions that dominate television
as an industry. Further chapters discuss dramatic television
series; an examination of the development of the lengthy serial
text of Dallas, and structural analysis of the pilot episode of
Cheers. The book contains five essays on nonfiction television,
including an insiders view of the production and promotion of local
TV news and an analysis of CBS and ABC's TV news coverage of South
Africa over a two week period in 1987. In a final essay,
conventional wisdom about `the audience' is refuted.
Part of Praeger's Media and Society Series, this volume breaks new
ground in television studies as the first booklength study of an
individual television producer. Robert J. Thompson examines the
work of Stephen J. Cannell, one of television's most prolific and
successful producers. Thompson uses theories of film authorship
revised for application to television texts and provides close
analysis of Cannell's programs, including individual episodes of
The Rockford Files, The A-Team, and The Greatest American Hero.
Moving away from the notion that a television series is the
creation of an individual author, the book begins with a look at
the televisionmaker. Thompson probes the polyauthorial nature of
the medium and introduces a new method of studying television
authorship. The book then turns to Cannell and a study of his
career, focusing on how he developed the formula for his many
highly rated television series. Students and teachers of television
and television criticism will find Adventures on Prime Time a
source of stimulating ideas about the nature of the medium.
This book is the outcome of a decade of research on the neu
roanatomical mechanisms of learning in the young laboratory rat. It
is essentially a discourse on the functional organization of the
brain in relation to problem-solving ability and intelli gence.
During the period between 1980 and 1989, well over 1000 weanling
albino rats were subjected to localized brain damage (or sham
operations in the case of the controls) under deep anesthesia and
aseptic surgical conditions, were allowed tore cover, and
subsequently were tested on a wide variety of prob lems designed to
measure general learning ability. Since vir tually every part of
the brain rostral to the medulla has been explored with lesions, it
has become possible not only to map a number of "putative" brain
systems underlying the acquisition of distinctive problem-solving
tasks, but to isolate several neu roanatomical mechanisms that
appear to be selectively in volved in the acquisition of particular
kinds of goal-directed learned activities. Of particular interest
was the discovery of a "nonspecific mechanism" (previously referred
to in our re search reports as the "general learning system")
inhabiting the interior parts of the brain. One objective of this
volume was to make these maps available in a single source. Another
was to provide a descrip tion of learning syndromes arising from
local lesions to differ ent parts of the brain."
This volume represents both recent research in pedagogical content
knowledge (PCK) in science, technology, engineering and math
(STEM), as well as emerging innovations in how PCK is applied in
practice. The notion of "research to practice" is critical to
validating how effectively PCK works within the clinic and how it
can be used to improve STEM learning. As the need for more
effective educational approaches in STEM grows, the importance of
developing, identifying, and validating effective practices and
practitioner competencies are needed. This book covers a wide range
of topics in PCK in different school levels (middle school, college
teacher training, teacher professional development), and different
environments (museums, rural). The contributors believe that vital
to successful STEM education practice is recognition that STEM
domains require both specialized domain knowledge as well as
specialized pedagogical approaches. The authors of this work were
chosen because of their extensive fieldwork in PCK research and
practice, making this volume valuable to furthering how PCK is used
to enlighten the understanding of learning, as well as providing
practical instruction. This text helps STEM practitioners,
researchers, and decision-makers further their interest in more
effective STEM education practice, and raises new questions about
STEM learning.
Part of Praeger's Media and Society Series, this contributed volume
is the only collection of essays on television authorship. It
includes work of some of the most prominent scholars in television
studies. Rather than assigning one author to individual television
texts, the contributors probe the relationship between the various
authors at work within the institutional, cultural, and economic
settings that characterize the television industry. This book
analyzes and defines the unique methods of television authorship
and suggests numerous candidates for authorial accountability
allowing the medium to enter the realm of contemporary criticism.
The first part of the volume provides a case study in four chapters
on authorship issues surrounding Frank's Place, the short lived but
compelling situation comedy. This is followed by three chapters
focusing on issues of authorship in international television. The
book then probes the studio's role as author, including esays on
Warner Brothers, Desilu, and Screen Gems. Finally the contributors
examine individual TV authors and cover such topics as point of
view in music video, television production as collective action,
and unconventional television.
Volume II of The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts
Containing Consort Music includes manuscripts associated with John
Browne (Clerk of the Parliaments), Philip Falle (prebendary at
Durham), Sir Gabriel Roberts, John St Barbe of Broadlands, the
Withy family of Worcester and Oxford and an anonymous
late-seventeenth century scribe. As well as a detailed inventory of
every manuscript (with anonymous works identified where possible),
the descriptions include information on date, size, binding, paper,
rastra, watermarks, collations, scripts, inscriptions and
provenance, together with bibliographical references. Brief notes
on the owners and copyists are provided. Of particular importance
is the inclusion of facsimiles of all hands.
First handbook on the philosophy of implicit mental states Implicit
cognition is at the heart of many unresolved debates about
learning, prediction, memory, the relation between mind and
language and hot issues in applied areas such as implicit bias Very
strong team of international contributors
American colleges and universities are laboring with sharply
reduced resources and being asked pointed questions about their
efficiency and effectiveness in educating students like never
before. For those administrators, faculty and all readers who want
to understand how colleges can get better at their most important
work, they will find invaluable guidance in Changing the
Conversation about Higher Education. Robert Thompson has brought
together the work of more than twenty professionals across thirteen
universities to present important research on the obscure issues of
vision, structure, and cultural transformation as they pertain to
administrators and faculty. The result is a much-needed discussion
on how to improve faculty and curricular reform for student
success. Changing the Conversation about Higher Education addresses
the contributions and findings from this research and is intended
for academic administrators, faculty, and graduate students who are
dedicated to improving undergraduate teaching and learning. The
research was directed at two core aims of a liberal education:
critical thinking and writing.
This book hopes to change the nature of the conversation about
higher education from critiques to focusing on efforts of
systematic improvement in undergraduate education. Changing the
Conversation about Higher Education establishes a culture of
experimentation and evidence for undergraduate education through
undertaking teaching and learning experiments at 13 universities.
This book discusses the contributions and findings from these
experiments and is intended for academic administrators, faculty,
and graduate students who are interested in improving undergraduate
teaching and learning. The experiments are directed at two core
aims of a liberal education: critical thinking and writing. The
book is structured to address the issues of vision, structure, and
cultural transformation that are of specific interest to academic
administrators and the promising practices and issues of identity
and support that are concerns of faculty and graduate students.
Indigenous peoples and racial minorities have lived and thrived in
Oregon for centuries. Their legacy is interwoven with the state's
history and culture even as they continue to struggle with
prejudice, environmental pressures, shrinking state revenues, the
effects of globalization, and the changing dynamics of the state
economy. Current U.S. immigration policy and the forces of
globalization have played a critical role in creating a dynamic
process named the 'browning of Oregon.' This anthology brings
together a group of noted multidisciplinary scholars, who explore
the rich and varied experiences of Oregon's native communities and
racial minorities. Anchored in a 'power relations' perspective, the
book has been organized around several key historical themes,
including: the foundation of ethnic communities; civil rights;
social justice; ethnicity and labor; and various forms of cultural
traditions. As disparate as they seem in style and topic, this
collection of essays highlight the distinctive experiences of
Oregon's people of color and communicates the broader interlocking
categories of social identity. The book is essential reading for
students, teachers, and the general public interested in
contemporary racial politics.
Focusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up
photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills
necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field.
Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of
subjects from the seashore to your back garden form the core of the
lavishly illustrated book. Biology, life history, subject behaviour
and ethics along with best practice approaches are discussed in
detail and underpinned with photographic tips. The book is divided
into four sections-Digital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft &
Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies, Digital Workflow &
Presentation-covering the full photographic process from capture
through to editing, captioning, development and storage are
discussed. Moving beyond the surface-level approach to macro
instruction, this book provides readers with techniques that work
in the field. Illustrated with over 250 of the author's own
inspiring images, this publication is a must for photographers,
naturalists and anyone interested in improving their macro skills
in the field.
Focusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up
photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills
necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field.
Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of
subjects from the seashore to your back garden form the core of the
lavishly illustrated book. Biology, life history, subject behaviour
and ethics along with best practice approaches are discussed in
detail and underpinned with photographic tips. The book is divided
into four sections-Digital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft &
Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies, Digital Workflow &
Presentation-covering the full photographic process from capture
through to editing, captioning, development and storage are
discussed. Moving beyond the surface-level approach to macro
instruction, this book provides readers with techniques that work
in the field. Illustrated with over 250 of the author's own
inspiring images, this publication is a must for photographers,
naturalists and anyone interested in improving their macro skills
in the field.
A History of Securities Law and the Supreme Court explores how the
Supreme Court has made (and remade) securities law. It covers the
history of the federal securities laws from their inception during
the Great Depression, relying on the justices' conference notes,
internal memoranda, and correspondence to shed light on how they
came to their decisions and drafted their opinions. That history
can be divided into five periods that parallel and illustrate key
trends of the Court's jurisprudence more generally. The first saw
the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt—aided by his
filling eight seats on the Court-triumph in its efforts to enact
the securities laws and establish their constitutional legitimacy.
This brought an end to the Court's long-standing hostility to the
regulation of business. The arrival of Roosevelt's justices, all
committed to social control of finance, ushered in an era of
deference to the SEC's expertise that lasted through the 1940s and
1950s. The 1960s brought an era of judicial activism-and further
expansion—by the Warren Court, with purpose taking precedence
over text in statutory interpretation. The arrival of Lewis F.
Powell, Jr. in 1972 brought a sharp reversal. Powell's leadership
of the Court in securities law produced a counter-revolution in the
field and an end to the SEC's long winning streak at the Court.
Powell's retirement in 1987 marked the beginning of the final
period of this study. In the absence of ideological consensus or
strong leadership, the Court's securities jurisprudence meandered,
taking a random walk between expansive and restrictive decisions.
The Viola da Gamba Society Thematic Index of Music for Viols (ed.
Gordon Dodd), 1980-92 (and continuing), is composer-based. The
present volume initiates a companion project to catalogue
manuscripts containing consort music. The editors are all highly
experienced in the field and have newly examined all sources.
Volume 1 features over 50 MSS whose copyists or owners are known:
Bing, Hutton, Jenkins, Le Strange, Lilly, Merro, North. As well as
a detailed inventory of every book (with anonymous work identified
where possible), the descriptions include information on date,
size, binding, paper, rastra, watermarks, collations, scripts,
inscriptions and provenance, together with bibliographical
references. Brief notes on the owners and copyists are provided. Of
particular importance is the inclusion of facsimiles of all hands.
Also included is a comprehensive study and illustration of
watermarks by Robert Thompson (serving for the whole series). With
some printed catalogues such as the British Library and Christ
Church, Oxford, now nearly 100 years old, this new and
comprehensive study will be an invaluable tool for future research.
This book is the outcome of a decade of research on the neu
roanatomical mechanisms of learning in the young laboratory rat. It
is essentially a discourse on the functional organization of the
brain in relation to problem-solving ability and intelli gence.
During the period between 1980 and 1989, well over 1000 weanling
albino rats were subjected to localized brain damage (or sham
operations in the case of the controls) under deep anesthesia and
aseptic surgical conditions, were allowed tore cover, and
subsequently were tested on a wide variety of prob lems designed to
measure general learning ability. Since vir tually every part of
the brain rostral to the medulla has been explored with lesions, it
has become possible not only to map a number of "putative" brain
systems underlying the acquisition of distinctive problem-solving
tasks, but to isolate several neu roanatomical mechanisms that
appear to be selectively in volved in the acquisition of particular
kinds of goal-directed learned activities. Of particular interest
was the discovery of a "nonspecific mechanism" (previously referred
to in our re search reports as the "general learning system")
inhabiting the interior parts of the brain. One objective of this
volume was to make these maps available in a single source. Another
was to provide a descrip tion of learning syndromes arising from
local lesions to differ ent parts of the brain."
This is the third major publication on Viaia faba reporting
proceedings of seminars organised through the Commission of the
European Communities in the context of the EEC Common Research
Programme on Plant Protein Improvement. The previous two volumes
report proceedings from the seminars in Bari in 1978 (Some current
research on Vida faba in Western Europe) and in Cambridge in 1979
(Vicia faba: Feeding value, processing and viruses) * The theme of
this seminar, held in Wageningen on 24th - 26th June, was selected
to examine various aspects of plant physiology, especially in
relation to their potential contribu tion to plant breeding. Areas
identified for discussion included those to elucidate particular
responses of the plant to the environment and, in the broader
concept, an examination of the combined responses of ideotypes
required to exploit fully the range of environments in which Viaia
faba is grown. Increased pea breeding in Europe in recent years
justified an assessment of the projected progress of the crop for
dry seed production and two papers were invited on this topic.
Participants visited Cebeco at Lelystad where, after hearing of the
involvement in field beans and peas, the advanced selections in
field plots were examined and discussed. On the same day visits
were also made to the SVP experimental farm and to the CABO
experimental farm at de Eest, to discuss the plant
breeding/physiology experiments on field beans and peas. The
seminar was organised by Dr. G. Dantuma and Ir. R.J.
Few details are known about the life of Henry Purcell. This book
provides an in-depth analysis of the most obvious documentary
evidence of Purcell's career - the music manuscripts of his own
hand and those copied by his colleagues. Robert Shay and Robert
Thompson offer a richly illustrated study of Purcell's sources,
examining in detail the physical features of the manuscripts as
well as their musical content. Their survey sheds light on the
chronology of composition and copying of Purcell's works and
reassesses the place of extant autographs in his musical
development. Major sources are fully catalogued, providing
information about the context in which Purcell's music was
collected and performed, and his handwriting is more closely
examined than ever before. The book represents a significant
reference tool for scholars, applying a forensic approach that
greatly enriches our knowledge of the composer and the music of his
time.
For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer
get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to
set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions
for conducting experiments in basic chemistry - not just to make
pretty colors and stinky smells, but to learn how to do real lab
work: purify alcohol by distillation; produce hydrogen and oxygen
gas by electrolysis; smelt metallic copper from copper ore you make
yourself; analyze the makeup of seawater, bone, and other common
substances; synthesize oil of wintergreen from aspirin and rayon
fiber from paper; perform forensics tests for fingerprints, blood,
drugs, and poisons; and much more.From the 1930s through the 1970s,
chemistry sets were among the most popular Christmas gifts, selling
in the millions. But two decades ago, real chemistry sets began to
disappear as manufacturers and retailers became concerned about
liability. "The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments"
steps up to the plate with lessons on how to equip your home
chemistry lab, master laboratory skills, and work safely in your
lab.The bulk of this book consists of 17 hands-on chapters that
include multiple laboratory sessions on the following topics:
Separating Mixtures; Solubility and Solutions; Colligative
Properties of Solutions; Introduction to Chemical Reactions and
Stoichiometry; Reduction-Oxidation (Redox) Reactions; Acid-Base
Chemistry; Chemical Kinetics; Chemical Equilibrium and Le
Chatelier's Principle; Gas Chemistry; Thermochemistry and
Calorimetry; Electrochemistry; Photochemistry; Colloids and
Suspensions; Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Synthesis
of Useful Compounds; and Forensic Chemistry. With plenty of
full-color illustrations and photos, Illustrated Guide to Home
Chemistry Experiments offers introductory level sessions suitable
for a middle school or first-year high school chemistry laboratory
course, and more advanced sessions suitable for students who intend
to take the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry exam. A
student who completes all of the laboratories in this book will
have done the equivalent of two full years of high school chemistry
lab work or a first-year college general chemistry laboratory
course. This hands-on introduction to real chemistry - using real
equipment, real chemicals, and real quantitative experiments - is
ideal for the many thousands of young people and adults who want to
experience the magic of chemistry.
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