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Gritty action thriller starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as a reporter
trying to stop a serial killer. After discovering the dismembered
body of his girlfriend, crime journalist Lewis Hicks (Gooding)
finds a diary, seemingly left by the murderer, detailing a list of
his next victims and the gruesome methods he will use to kill them.
Realising his own name is on the list, Hicks must use all of his
experience to track down the serial killer in a desperate race
against time before the madman strikes again.
Excellence in the Stacks details the philosophies, practices and
innovations of award-winning libraries over the last ten years. It
will inform the profession and highlight the themes and strategies
these liberal-arts colleges share, and where they differ. Using the
Association of Research and College Libraries Excellence in
Academic Libraries Award standards as guidelines for exploring
librarianship, this book gathers the perspectives of all types of
librarians at all levels of employment. By highlighting winners
holistic approaches it helps define and focus the energies of
college libraries in their pursuit of outstanding service and
increased valuation by their parent institution.
Content drawn from submissions from ten years of ACRL award-winning
librariesAuthors from varied roles (library directors to interning
students) give readers a comprehensive snapshot, encompassing good
practices from multiple levels of the professionOverlying theme of
institutional excellence applicable to all aspects of international
librarianship, and is also relevant to other academic organizations
which serve student populations"
Whether it is through our parents, our education, our bosses, our
colleagues, or the media we consume, we are constantly told that
being humble is essential to our professional success. It's often
seen as distasteful or arrogant to shout about our achievements.
But in a modern workplace, where the conventional, steady, linear
career path is becoming rarer and rarer, this advice seems
ever-more obsolete. In the age of flexible working and portfolio
careers, it's time to f*ck being humble. With simple exercises,
steps and real-life examples, this is a resource for your bedside
table that you can come back to again and again, at any point in
your career. Learn how to: Know what you stand for Stop hiding
(even when you don't realise you are) Fully realise the power of
networking Know your self-worth Play the money game and win Manage
your emotions at work Take action and establish the right time to
make the leap Keep the momentum you've generated going and maintain
that elusive work-life balance Get ready to start taking charge of
your own success.
An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and
personal writing Writing should be a pleasurable challenge, not a
painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic,
professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative
emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By learning
how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find yourself
bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write. Acclaimed
international writing expert Helen Sword invites you to step into
your "WriteSPACE"-a space of pleasurable writing that is socially
balanced, physically engaged, aesthetically nourishing, creatively
challenging, and emotionally uplifting. Sword weaves together
cutting-edge findings in the sciences and social sciences with
compelling narratives gathered from nearly six hundred faculty
members and graduate students from across the disciplines and
around the world. She provides research-based principles, hands-on
strategies, and creative "pleasure prompts" designed to help you
ramp up your productivity and enhance the personal rewards of your
writing practice. Whether you're writing a scholarly article, an
administrative email, or a love letter, this book will inspire you
to find delight in even the most mundane writing tasks and a
richer, deeper pleasure in those you already enjoy. Exuberantly
illustrated by prizewinning graphic memoirist Selina Tusitala
Marsh, Writing with Pleasure is an indispensable resource for
academics, students, professionals, and anyone for whom writing has
come to feel like a burden rather than a joy.
Mathematics holds an essential, ubiquitous presence in the
education sector, as do ongoing explorations of its effective
teaching and learning. Written by leading experts on mathematics
and mathematics education, this book situates issues of student
thinking and learning about mathematics within the broader context
of educational psychology research and theory and brings them to a
wider audience. With chapters on knowing and understanding
mathematics, mathematical habits, early mathematical thinking, and
learning mathematics, this concise volume is designed for any
educational psychology, mathematics education, or general education
course that includes student learning in the curriculum. It will be
indispensable for student researchers and both pre- and in-service
teachers alike.
'An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum . . .
with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic
truths' BECK Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across
musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line
from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating
archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass,
avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism.
From Neolithic beginnings to bawdy medieval troubadours, Sufi
mystics to Indian raga masters, cone shattering dubwise bass,
Hawkwind's Ladbroke Grove to the outer reaches of Faust and Ash Ra
Temple; the hash-fueled fug of The Theatre of Eternal Music to the
cough syrup reverse hardcore of Melvins, seedy VHS hinterland of
Electric Wizard, ritual amp worship of Earth and Sunn O))) and the
many touch points in between, Monolithic Undertow explores the
power of the drone - an audio carrier vessel capable of evoking
womb like warmth or cavernous dread alike. In 1977 Sniffin' Glue
verbalised the musical zeitgeist with their infamous 'this is a
chord; this is another; now form a band' illustration. The drone
requires neither chord nor band, representing - via its infinite
pliability and accessibility - the ultimate folk music: a potent
audio tool of personal liberation. Immersion in hypnotic and
repetitive sounds allows us to step outside of ourselves, be it
chant, a 120dB beasting from Sunn O))), standing front of the
system as Jah Shaka drops a fresh dub or going full headphone
immersion with Hawkwind. These experiences are akin to an audio
portal - a sound Tardis to silence the hum and fizz of the
unceasing inner voice. The drone exists outside of us, but also -
paradoxically - within us all; an aural expression of a universal
hum we can only hope to fleetingly channel...
Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen
Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars
frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who
want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin,
here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to
make articles and books a pleasure to read-and to write. Dispelling
the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy,
impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers
welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's
analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a
wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how
academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they
regularly produce. Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of
scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who
write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up
specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter
openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable
techniques that any writer can master.
Based on a 12-year long project, this book demonstrates the
contested character of the communicative construction of Europe. It
does so by combining an investigation of journalistic practices
with content analysis of print media, an examination of citizens'
online interactions and audience studies with European citizens.
About 40 percent of the books academic libraries purchase in
traditional ways never circulate and another 40 percent circulate
fewer than three times. By contrast, patron-driven acquisition
allows a library to borrow or buy books only when a patron needs
them. In a typical workflow, the library imports bibliographic
records into its catalogue at no cost. When a patron finds a
patron-driven record in the course of research, a short-term loan
can allow him to borrow the book, and the transaction charge to the
library will be a small percentage of the list price. Typically, a
library will automatically buy a book on a third or fourth use. The
contributions in this volume, written by experts, describe the
genesis and brief history of patron-driven acquisitions, its
current status, and its promise.
When Volume 1 (Toxicolpgy) in this series of Standard Operating
Procedures was pub lished in early 1979, the FDA's Good Laboratory
Practice Regulations did not have the force of United States Law,
but nevertheless had a substantial impact on the conduct of
toxicology in laboratories throughout the world. These Regulations
are now in force, and Volume 2 (Pathology) was published later the
same year. Our critics have implied that we have attempted to
reduce toxicology to the level of the cookery book, or
alternatively that we seek to impose our standards on others, In
some sinister way ensuring that the IRI code will become the
international norm. We dismiss these criticisms as arrant nonsense.
The many thousands of volumes already sold worldwide can provide at
best a framework for adaptation to suit local laboratory condi
tions, and thus speed to GLP compliance those organisations which
might otherwise have remained foundering at the starting post. If
Volumes 1 and 2 of this series have con tributed anything to the
conduct of toxicology it must surely be in those non-English
speaking nations which, because of the international nature of
pharmaceutical and chemical trading, are required by commercial
pressures to be in compliance with a foreign law formulated in
unfamiliar terminology and introduced for reasons that are not
immediately obvious. Much has happened in the short period of time
since Volumes 1 and 2 were published."
This is the fourth volume of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
compiled from documents prepared in these laboratories in part
fulfilment of the requirements of various Good Laboratory Practice
(GLP) regulations and guidelines. SOPs have now become an everyday
feature of work in most industrial and contract toxicology
laboratories. They provide a written definition of the mechanics of
unit operations which together comprise the framework for
experiments in safety evaluation. Metabolic studies and analytical
chemistry are closely linked to toxicology since they embody
essential aspects of the overall assessment of product safety. Some
authorities consider certain parts of these subjects to be outwith
the scope of the GLP requirements but for the reasons stated this
is contrary to our own view. We have tried where possible to define
in SOP format for use in our own laboratories the unit operations
involved in these disciplines and they form the basis of this
volume. Some relevant material from previous volumes has been
brought together in updated form and is also presented here for
completeness. Dr I P Sword Managing Director Inveresk Research
International Musselburgh EH21 7UB Scotland ix Introduction GENERAL
1. The Food and Drug Administration of the US Government published
its Good Laboratory Practice Regulations for Non-Clinical
Laboratory Studies in the Federal Register (22 December 1978). The
Regulations are the culmin ation of a number of years of
investigation into the standards to which safety evaluation studies
were performed in laboratories in the USA."
Deportation and Exile describes the fate of hundreds of thousands
of Poles - men, women and children - deported to Soviet territory
by Stalin's security agencies between 1939 and 1948. Amnestied in
1941, recruited to Polish units formed on Soviet soil, tens of
thousands made their exit into Persia in 1942. The rest either made
their way back to Poland as combat troops, having been recruited to
a second, communist-led army in 1943-44, or else awaited formal
repatriation agreements concluded towards the end of the war.
Deportation and Exile describes the fate of hundreds of thousands
of Poles - men, women and children - deported to Soviet territory
by Stalin's security agencies between 1939 and 1948. Amnestied in
1941, recruited to Polish units formed on Soviet soil, tens of
thousands made their exit into Persia in 1942. The rest either made
their way back to Poland as combat troops, having been recruited to
a second, communist-led army in 1943-44, or else awaited formal
repatriation agreements concluded towards the end of the war.
Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If
so, The Writer's Diet is for you! It's a short, sharp introduction
to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost
your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with excessive
explanations and overwrought analysis. Instead, she offers an
easy-to-follow set of writing principles: use active verbs whenever
possible; favor concrete language over vague abstractions; avoid
long strings of prepositional phrases; employ adjectives and
adverbs only when they contribute something new to the meaning of a
sentence; and reduce your dependence on four pernicious "waste
words" it, this, that, and there. Sword then shows the rules in
action through examples from William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson,
Martin Luther King Jr., John McPhee, A. S. Byatt, Richard Dawkins,
Alison Gopnik, and many more. A writing fitness test encourages you
to assess your own writing and get immediate advice on addressing
problem areas. While The Writer's Diet is as sleek and concise as
the writing ideals contained within, this slim volume packs a
powerful punch. With Sword's coaching writers of all levels can
strengthen and tone their sentences with the stroke of a pen or the
click of a mouse. As with any fitness routine, adhering to the
rules requires energy and vigilance. The results, however, will
speak for themselves.
Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a
colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital
difficulties in the New Hampshire Gazette-a more common practice
for the time and place than contemporary readers might think. John
Davis began the exchange after Eunice left him, with a notice
resembling the ads about runaway slaves and servants that were a
common feature of eighteenth-century newspapers. John warned
neighbors against "entertaining her or harbouring her. . . or
giving her credit." Eunice defiantly replied, "If I am your wife, I
am not your slave." With this pointed but problematic analogy,
Eunice connected her individual challenge to her husband's
authority with the broader critiques of patriarchal power found in
the politics, religion, and literature of the British Atlantic
world. Kirsten Sword's richly researched history reconstructs the
stories of wives who fled their husbands between the
mid-seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, comparing their
plight with that of other runaway dependents. Wives not Slaves
explores the links between local justice, the emerging press, and
transatlantic political debates about marriage, slavery and
imperial power. Sword traces the relationship between the distress
of ordinary households, domestic unrest, and political unrest,
shedding new light on the social changes imagined by
eighteenth-century revolutionaries, and on the politics that
determined which patriarchal forms and customs the new American
nation would-and would not-abolish.
Mathematics holds an essential, ubiquitous presence in the
education sector, as do ongoing explorations of its effective
teaching and learning. Written by leading experts on mathematics
and mathematics education, this book situates issues of student
thinking and learning about mathematics within the broader context
of educational psychology research and theory and brings them to a
wider audience. With chapters on knowing and understanding
mathematics, mathematical habits, early mathematical thinking, and
learning mathematics, this concise volume is designed for any
educational psychology, mathematics education, or general education
course that includes student learning in the curriculum. It will be
indispensable for student researchers and both pre- and in-service
teachers alike.
In his landmark book, "The Time Paradox," internationally known
psychologist Philip Zimbardo showed that we can transform the way
we think about our past, present, and future to attain greater
success in work and in life. Now, in "The Time Cure," Zimbardo has
teamed with clinicians Richard and Rosemary Sword to reveal a
groundbreaking approach that helps those living with post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) to shift their time perspectives and move
beyond the traumatic past toward a more positive future.
Time Perspective Therapy switches the focus from past to
present, from negative to positive, clearing the pathway for the
best yet to come: the future. It helps PTSD sufferers pull their
feet out of the quicksand of past traumas and step firmly on the
solid ground of the present, allowing them to take a step forward
into a brighter future. Rather than viewing PTSD as a mental
illness the authors see it as a mental "injury"--a normal reaction
to traumatic events--and offer those suffering from PTSD the
healing balm of hope.
"The Time Cure" lays out the step-by-step process of Time
Perspective Therapy, which has proven effective for a wide range of
individuals, from veterans to survivors of abuse, accidents,
assault, and neglect. Rooted in psychological research, the book
also includes a wealth of vivid and inspiring stories from
real-life PTSD sufferers--effective for individuals seeking
self-help, their loved ones, therapists and counselors, or anyone
who wants to move forward to a brighter future.
From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new
guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take
greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one
hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and
practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and
yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their
publish-or-perish environment. So how do these successful academics
write, and where do they find the "air and light and time and
space," in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing
done? What are their formative experiences, their daily routines,
their habits of mind? How do they summon up the courage to take
intellectual risks and the resilience to deal with rejection? Sword
identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing
practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence;
Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of
collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity
and pleasure. Building on this "BASE," she illuminates the
emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of
writing support typically available to early-career academics. She
also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe,
conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful
writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions
indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking
rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable
change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a
customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating
a collegial environment where all writers can flourish.
One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states
of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether
voluntary or coerced. The decline of communism in both East and
Central Europe, as well as the fall of the Soviet empire has
created new population and ethnic problems. The recent exodus has
proved to be the largest migration wave reported in Europe in over
40 years. The problem of foreigners in Poland is a subject scarcely
studied and insufficiently described. This volume has been compiled
on the basis of papers prepared for a Social Sciences Seminar
series at the School of Slavonic Studies, London, which was devoted
to migratory movements in Poland since 1989. This volume thus
contains the latest data and results of research (quantitative as
well as qualitative) on the movement of foreigners into Poland. It
is a groundbreaking work.
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