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Collection of two comedies. In 'No Strings Attached' (2011), when
long-time friends Emma (Natalie Portman) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher)
decide to add a physical dimension to their relationship and move
into 'friends with benefits' territory, they agree to keep things
strictly casual and on a 'no strings' basis. But before long both
of them find things becoming more complicated than planned as those
pesky emotions get in the way. In 'Morning Glory' (2010), a sparky,
ambitious young television producer spies an opportunity to claw
her way up the career ladder when she is offered a job on
'Daybreak', the worst-performing morning chat show in the ratings.
Her decision to hire veteran newscaster Mike Pomeroy (Harrison
Ford) to host the show meets with scepticism from network executive
Jerry (Jeff Goldblum) and co-host Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton), and
with little enthusiasm from Pomeroy himself, who is obliged by his
contract to take this less-than-promising gig. Can Becky overcome
the poor ratings and in-fighting to bring the team together and
transform the show into something to be proud of?
Educational Neuroscience: The Basics is an engaging introduction to
this emerging, interdisciplinary field. It explains how the brain
works and its priorities for learning, and shows how educational
neuroscience, when combined with existing knowledge of human and
social psychology, and with teacher expertise, can improve outcomes
for students. Cathy Rogers and Michael S. C. Thomas reveal how
neuroscientific evidence is forcing us to question our assumptions
about how our brains learn and what this means for education. The
chapters in this vital volume step through the brain's priorities:
processing senses and moving our bodies, emotional processing, and
the difficult job of dealing with other people. It unpacks the
tricky tasks of thinking and learning, considering how memory works
and the many systems involved in learning. It draws this all
together to offer guidance for effective classroom practice,
current and future. Chapter features include key issues for special
educational needs and neurodiversity, case studies of novel
interventions, debunking of common neuromyths, and guidance for
teachers on how to evaluate their own practice. This book is a
compact, lively introductory text for students of psychology,
neuroscience and education and courses where these disciplines
interconnect. It will also be essential reading for educational
professionals, including teachers, heads, educational advisors and
the many industry bodies who govern and train them, as well as
anyone interested in the fascinating story of how we learn.
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Blood Creek (DVD)
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Low-budget vampire horror in which two brothers become caught up in
a gruesome occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich. When
his brother Victor (Dominic Purcell) reappears after two years of
being mysteriously missing, paramedic Evan Marshall (Henry Cavill)
sets out on a revenge mission that uncovers a devilish experiment
set up by evil Nazi historian Richard Wirth (Michael Fassbender)
back in the 1930s.
ELECTRE and Decision Support focuses on the areas of engineering
and infrastructure investment. It begins with some general comments
about the different decision components within the project planning
process - the definition of objectives, the identification of
alternative courses of action, the establishing of criteria, the
evaluation of alternatives and the final recommendation. The
authors highlight the ability of Multicriteria Decision Aid to
reconcile the economic, technical and environmental dimensions of
the projects for its planners. They emphasize the complexity of
this process, illustrating the importance of identifying the
stakeholders within it, as they greatly influence the definition of
the decision criteria. A brief case study illustrates these
different aspects. Following a comparison of Cost Benefit Analysis
and Multicriteria Decision Aid, the introductory chapter sets out
the structure of the book, with four subsequent chapters devoted to
the methodology of ELECTRE and three outlining case studies
involving different versions of ELECTRE. The chapters concentrating
on the ELECTRE methodology first give an overview of the main MCDA
methods before presenting the ELECTRE method in detail. Each
chapter answers the following questions: (1) In what context should
the ELECTRE methods be chosen? (2) Which version of the methods is
most appropriate to apply to a given problem? Another chapter deals
with a critical and delicate problem within MCDA - how to
adequately assess the role played by each criterion in a given
decision problem, and how this translates into an appropriate
weighting for it. Each one covers a different civil engineering
discipline and each uses a different version of ELECTRE. The final
chapter on methodology presents some accessories which, when used
with ELECTRE, can greatly enhance its usefulness in practice. This
book is outstanding in many respects. I am convinced that the
simple, clear and concise style of the authors will make this book
accessible to very many readers. No important aspect of the subject
is neglected, and the concise nature of this book does not hinder
its originality. Last but not least, the manner in which the case
studies are described allows the authors not only to demonstrate
the validity of the approach and procedures presented, but also to
help the reader understand how to apply them in an effective
manner. Taken from the Foreword by Bernard Roy, University
Paris-Dauphine
This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with
accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel enquiry into how judges
might respond to the formidable and planetary scaled challenges of
the Anthropocene. The book’s contributors – from Australia,
Asia, Europe and the United Kingdom – take up a range of issues:
including multispecies justice, the challenges of intergenerational
justice, dimensions of post-colonial justice, the potential
contribution of AI platforms to the judgment process, and the
future of judging and law in and beyond the Anthropocene. The
project takes its inspiration from existing critical judgments
projects. It is, however, thoroughly interdisciplinary. In
anticipating future scenarios, and designing or adapting legal
principles to respond to them, the book’s contributors have been
assisted by climate scientists with expertise in future modelling;
they have benefitted from the experience of fiction writers in
future world building; and they have incorporated elements of the
future worlds depicted in various texts of speculative fiction and
artworks. The judgments are, moreover – and of necessity –
speculative and hypothetical in their subject matter. Thus, taken
together, they constitute a collaborative experiment in creating
the inclusive and radical imaginaries of the future common law. The
Anthropocene Judgments Project will appeal to critical and
sociolegal academics, scholars in the environmental humanities,
environmental lawyers, students and others with interests in the
pressing issues of ecology, multispecies justice, climate change,
the intersection of AI platforms and the law, and the future of law
in the Anthropocene.
Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and
Resistance is an edited volume that explores the critical
intersection of public theology, political theology, and communal
practices of activism and political resistance. This volume
functions as a sister/companion to the text Religion and Science as
Political Theology: Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts and
focuses on public, civic, performative action as a response to
experiences of injustice and diminishments of humanity. There are
periods in a nation's civil history when the tides of social unrest
rise into waves upon waves of public activism and resistance of the
dominant uses of power. In American history, activism and public
action including and extending beyond the Women's Suffrage, the
Million Man March, protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil
Rights Movement, Boston Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, the
Stonewall Rebellion are hallmarks of transitional or liminal
moments in our development as a society. Critical periods marked by
increases in public activism and political resistance are
opportunities for a society to once again decide who we will be as
a people. Will we move towards a more perfect union in which all
persons gain freedom in fulfilling their potential or will we
choose the perceived safety of the status quo and established norms
of power? Whose voices will be heard? Whose will be silenced
through intimidation or harm? Ultimately, these are theological
questions. Like other forms of non-textual research subjects
(movement, dance, performance art), public activism requires a set
of research lenses that are often neglected in theological and
religious studies. Attention to bodies, as a category, performance,
or epistemological vehicle, is sorely lacking so it is no wonder
that attention to the mass of moving bodies in activism is largely
absent. Activism and public political resistance are a hallmark of
our current social webbing and deserve scholarly attention.
Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and
Resistance is an edited volume that explores the critical
intersection of public theology, political theology, and communal
practices of activism and political resistance. This volume
functions as a sister/companion to the text Religion and Science as
Political Theology: Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts and
focuses on public, civic, performative action as a response to
experiences of injustice and diminishments of humanity. There are
periods in a nation's civil history when the tides of social unrest
rise into waves upon waves of public activism and resistance of the
dominant uses of power. In American history, activism and public
action including and extending beyond the Women's Suffrage, the
Million Man March, protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil
Rights Movement, Boston Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, the
Stonewall Rebellion are hallmarks of transitional or liminal
moments in our development as a society. Critical periods marked by
increases in public activism and political resistance are
opportunities for a society to once again decide who we will be as
a people. Will we move towards a more perfect union in which all
persons gain freedom in fulfilling their potential or will we
choose the perceived safety of the status quo and established norms
of power? Whose voices will be heard? Whose will be silenced
through intimidation or harm? Ultimately, these are theological
questions. Like other forms of non-textual research subjects
(movement, dance, performance art), public activism requires a set
of research lenses that are often neglected in theological and
religious studies. Attention to bodies, as a category, performance,
or epistemological vehicle, is sorely lacking so it is no wonder
that attention to the mass of moving bodies in activism is largely
absent. Activism and public political resistance are a hallmark of
our current social webbing and deserve scholarly attention.
Educational Neuroscience: The Basics is an engaging introduction to
this emerging, interdisciplinary field. It explains how the brain
works and its priorities for learning, and shows how educational
neuroscience, when combined with existing knowledge of human and
social psychology, and with teacher expertise, can improve outcomes
for students. Cathy Rogers and Michael S. C. Thomas reveal how
neuroscientific evidence is forcing us to question our assumptions
about how our brains learn and what this means for education. The
chapters in this vital volume step through the brain's priorities:
processing senses and moving our bodies, emotional processing, and
the difficult job of dealing with other people. It unpacks the
tricky tasks of thinking and learning, considering how memory works
and the many systems involved in learning. It draws this all
together to offer guidance for effective classroom practice,
current and future. Chapter features include key issues for special
educational needs and neurodiversity, case studies of novel
interventions, debunking of common neuromyths, and guidance for
teachers on how to evaluate their own practice. This book is a
compact, lively introductory text for students of psychology,
neuroscience and education and courses where these disciplines
interconnect. It will also be essential reading for educational
professionals, including teachers, heads, educational advisors and
the many industry bodies who govern and train them, as well as
anyone interested in the fascinating story of how we learn.
Thinking German Translation is a comprehensive practical course in
translation for advanced undergraduate students of German and
postgraduate students embarking on Master's translation programmes.
Now in its third edition, this course focuses on translation as a
decision-making process, covering all stages of the translation
process from research, to the 'rewriting' of the source text in the
language of translation, to the final revision process. This third
edition brings the course up to date, referencing relevant research
sources in Translation Studies and technological developments as
appropriate, and balancing the coverage of subject matter with
examples and varied exercises in a wide range of genres from both
literary and specialised material. All chapters from the second
edition have been extensively revised and, in many cases,
restructured; new chapters have been added-literary translation;
research and resources-as well as suggestions for further reading.
Offering around 50 practical exercises, the course features
material from a wide range of sources, including: business,
economics and politics advertising, marketing and consumer texts
tourism science and engineering modern literary texts and popular
song the literary canon, including poetry A variety of translation
issues are addressed, among them cultural differences, genre
conventions, the difficult concept of equivalence, as well as some
of the key differences between English and German linguistic and
textual features. Thinking German Translation is essential reading
for all students seriously interested in improving their
translation skills. It is also an excellent foundation for those
considering a career in translation. A Tutor's Handbook offers
comments and notes on the exercises for each chapter, including not
only translations but also a range of other tasks, as well as some
specimen answers. It is available to download from
www.routledge.com/9781138920989.
This special edition contains a foreword by the film's director and
screenwriter, Roger Michell Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley
is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single,
Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will
treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is
shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he
falls in love and marries - and then dies suddenly in suspicious
circumstances. Before long, the new widow - Philip's cousin Rachel
- arrives in England. Despite himself, Philip is drawn to this
beautiful, mysterious woman. But could she have caused Ambrose's
death?
This book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative
Wild Law Judgment Project. In participating in the Wild Law
Judgment Project, which was inspired by various feminist judgment
projects, contributors have creatively reinterpreted judicial
decisions from an Earth-centred point of view by rewriting existing
judgments, or creating fictional judgments, as wild law. Authors
have confronted the specific challenges of aligning existing
Western legal systems with Thomas Berry's philosophy of Earth
jurisprudence through judgment writing and rewriting. This book
thus opens up judicial decision-making and the common law to
critical scrutiny from a wild law or Earth-centred perspective.
Based upon ecocentric rather than human-centred or anthropocentric
principles, Earth jurisprudence poses a unique critical challenge
to the dominant anthropocentric or human-centred focus and
orientation of the common law. The authors interrogate the
anthropocentric and property rights assumptions embedded in
existing common law by placing Earth and the greater community of
life at the centre of their rewritten and hypothetical judgments.
Covering areas as diverse as tort law, intellectual property law,
criminal law, environmental law, administrative law, international
law, native title law and constitutional law, this unique
collection provides a valuable tool for practitioners and students
who are interested in learning more about the emerging ecological
jurisprudence movement. It helps us to see more clearly what a new
system of law might look like: one in which Earth really matters.
This book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative
Wild Law Judgment Project. In participating in the Wild Law
Judgment Project, which was inspired by various feminist judgment
projects, contributors have creatively reinterpreted judicial
decisions from an Earth-centred point of view by rewriting existing
judgments, or creating fictional judgments, as wild law. Authors
have confronted the specific challenges of aligning existing
Western legal systems with Thomas Berry's philosophy of Earth
jurisprudence through judgment writing and rewriting. This book
thus opens up judicial decision-making and the common law to
critical scrutiny from a wild law or Earth-centred perspective.
Based upon ecocentric rather than human-centred or anthropocentric
principles, Earth jurisprudence poses a unique critical challenge
to the dominant anthropocentric or human-centred focus and
orientation of the common law. The authors interrogate the
anthropocentric and property rights assumptions embedded in
existing common law by placing Earth and the greater community of
life at the centre of their rewritten and hypothetical judgments.
Covering areas as diverse as tort law, intellectual property law,
criminal law, environmental law, administrative law, international
law, native title law and constitutional law, this unique
collection provides a valuable tool for practitioners and students
who are interested in learning more about the emerging ecological
jurisprudence movement. It helps us to see more clearly what a new
system of law might look like: one in which Earth really matters.
ELECTRE and Decision Support focuses on the areas of engineering
and infrastructure investment. It begins with some general comments
about the different decision components within the project planning
process - the definition of objectives, the identification of
alternative courses of action, the establishing of criteria, the
evaluation of alternatives and the final recommendation. The
authors highlight the ability of Multicriteria Decision Aid to
reconcile the economic, technical and environmental dimensions of
the projects for its planners. They emphasize the complexity of
this process, illustrating the importance of identifying the
stakeholders within it, as they greatly influence the definition of
the decision criteria. A brief case study illustrates these
different aspects. Following a comparison of Cost Benefit Analysis
and Multicriteria Decision Aid, the introductory chapter sets out
the structure of the book, with four subsequent chapters devoted to
the methodology of ELECTRE and three outlining case studies
involving different versions of ELECTRE. The chapters concentrating
on the ELECTRE methodology first give an overview of the main MCDA
methods before presenting the ELECTRE method in detail. Each
chapter answers the following questions: (1) In what context should
the ELECTRE methods be chosen? (2) Which version of the methods is
most appropriate to apply to a given problem? Another chapter deals
with a critical and delicate problem within MCDA - how to
adequately assess the role played by each criterion in a given
decision problem, and how this translates into an appropriate
weighting for it. Each one covers a different civil engineering
discipline and each uses a different version of ELECTRE. The final
chapter on methodology presents some accessories which, when used
with ELECTRE, can greatly enhance its usefulness in practice. This
book is outstanding in many respects. I am convinced that the
simple, clear and concise style of the authors will make this book
accessible to very many readers. No important aspect of the subject
is neglected, and the concise nature of this book does not hinder
its originality. Last but not least, the manner in which the case
studies are described allows the authors not only to demonstrate
the validity of the approach and procedures presented, but also to
help the reader understand how to apply them in an effective
manner. Taken from the Foreword by Bernard Roy, University
Paris-Dauphine
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Terry Winsor directs this American horror starring Lance Henriksen
and Emma Catherwood. When backpackers Gina (Catherwood), John (Cian
Barry), Stacy (Lisa Livingstone), Geraldine (Jane Perry) and Phil
(Michael Smiley) go hiking in the woods of a remote part of India
with just their guide Brian (Mike Rogers) to show them the way,
their journey is cut short as Geraldine gets bitten by a poisonous
spider. As the group seeks a remedy for their friend from an
American doctor they are told works in a jungle tribe, they are
shocked to find out the true past of Dr. Lecorpus (Henriksen). Will
they go ahead with the treatment to save the weary Geraldine?
Thinking German Translation is a comprehensive practical course in
translation for advanced undergraduate students of German and
postgraduate students embarking on Master's translation programmes.
Now in its third edition, this course focuses on translation as a
decision-making process, covering all stages of the translation
process from research, to the 'rewriting' of the source text in the
language of translation, to the final revision process. This third
edition brings the course up to date, referencing relevant research
sources in Translation Studies and technological developments as
appropriate, and balancing the coverage of subject matter with
examples and varied exercises in a wide range of genres from both
literary and specialised material. All chapters from the second
edition have been extensively revised and, in many cases,
restructured; new chapters have been added-literary translation;
research and resources-as well as suggestions for further reading.
Offering around 50 practical exercises, the course features
material from a wide range of sources, including: business,
economics and politics advertising, marketing and consumer texts
tourism science and engineering modern literary texts and popular
song the literary canon, including poetry A variety of translation
issues are addressed, among them cultural differences, genre
conventions, the difficult concept of equivalence, as well as some
of the key differences between English and German linguistic and
textual features. Thinking German Translation is essential reading
for all students seriously interested in improving their
translation skills. It is also an excellent foundation for those
considering a career in translation. A Tutor's Handbook offers
comments and notes on the exercises for each chapter, including not
only translations but also a range of other tasks, as well as some
specimen answers. It is available to download from
www.routledge.com/9781138920989.
Fast and easy to complete, The Capute Scales requires minimal
equipment and can be administered in just 6 to 20 minutes. Because
the tests measure functioning across two streams of development,
they help clinicians distinguish between global developmental
delays and specific areas of concern. Created for clinical
settings, The Capute Scales is an effective and efficient
assessment tool for general pediatric practice and for specialists
such as developmental pediatricians, speech-language pathologists,
and occupational therapists. This standardized instrument will
assist clinicians in making developmental diagnoses, counseling
families, and guiding them to appropriate intervention services.
The complete system includes - Cognitive Adaptive Test (CAT), 57
items focused on visual-motor functioning - Clinical Linguistic
& Auditory Milestone Scale (CLAMS), 43 items focused on
expressive and receptive language development - Manual with an
explanation of the scales' development, Spanish and Russian score
sheet translations, guidelines on administration and scoring, an
overview of clinical and research use, and information on
standardization of the scales and their use in other languages -
4-page Scoring Sheet - Test Kit, packed in a tote bag, with the
standardized materials required to conduct the assessment Kit
includes - one laminated card - one notepad - two jumbo crayons -
one cloth - one form board - triangle, circle, and square shape for
form board - one Plexiglas pane - one pegboard with six pegs - one
dowel - one cup - one jar - 10 1-inch blocks - one plastic ring -
one bell - tote bag
Bruce Holland Rogers has been writing fiction full-time since 1991.
His works range from literary and experimental to SF, fantasy, and
mystery, and many of the stories in "The Keyhole Opera" began as
subscription stories and went on to be published in magazines and
anthologies.
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