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Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022
Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction
Award 2022 SF has long been understood as a literature of radical
potential, capable of imagining entirely new worlds and ways of
being. Yet SF has been slow to embrace posthumanist ideas about the
human subject. The human of the SF tradition is instead a liminal
being, caught somewhere between the transcendent 'Man' of classical
humanism and the subversive 'cyborg' of posthumanist thought. This
study offers a critical history of the 'human' in SF. By examining
a range of SF works from 1818 to the 1970s, it seeks to answer some
key questions: What role does technology play in defining what it
means to be-or not to be-human? How do these writers understand the
relationship between humanity and the rest of nature? And how can
we use SF to re-examine our ethical position towards the non-human
world and move to more egalitarian understandings of the human
subject?
This book is ideal for a one- or two-term course in database
management or database design in an undergraduate or graduate level
course. With its comprehensive coverage, this book can also be used
as a reference for IT professionals. This best-selling text
introduces the theory behind databases in a concise yet
comprehensive manner, providing database design methodology that
can be used by both technical and non-technical readers. The
methodology for relational Database Management Systems is presented
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realistic worked example using three explicit phases-conceptual,
logical, and physical database design. Teaching and Learning
Experience This program presents a better teaching and learning
experience-for you and your students. It provides: *Database Design
Methodology that can be Used by Both Technical and Non-technical
Readers *A Comprehensive Introduction to the Theory behind
Databases *A Clear Presentation that Supports Learning
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed
worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the
imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this
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edition identification: ++++ A Brief Account Of The Reasons Which
Have Induced ... T.C. Cowan ... To Secede From The Established
Church, Addressed To Those Who Composed His Congregation ... In The
Parish Church Of St. Thomas, Bristol Thomas Connolly Cowan
The Internet has had a monumental impact upon higher education with
the development of e-learning and virtual campus initiatives. This
has provided significant opportunities in terms of enhanced access
to courses, knowledge, learning experiences, and information for a
wide range of different learners from across the world.
Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual
Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies provides cost
effective and sustainable learning procedures vital to ensuring
long term success for both teacher and student. This book provides
the latest research and findings in relation to best practice
examples and case studies across the globe.
Games-based learning focuses on the exploration of high-quality
computer games and associated software tools for education and
training. Games-Based Learning Advancements for Multi-Sensory Human
Computer Interfaces: Techniques and Effective Practices
disseminates knowledge on the theory and practice of games-based
learning, promoting the development and adoption of best practices.
Through a combination of theoretical chapters as well as practical
case studies, readers will benefit from expert knowledge and learn
from the experiences of both researchers and practitioners from
across the globe.
George Jean Nathan created modern American drama criticism, and his
half-century as a drama critic sums up the most significant era of
the American theater. His determination to blend into Manhattan's
cosmopolitan backdrop is indicative of the struggle to define what
precisely an American identity is. That a cultural commentator of
Nathan's status had such difficulty with his own identity remains
as troubling as it is instructive.
Since COVID-19, global higher education sector has changed
dramatically in the past few months and universities are, arguably,
facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the coronavirus
pandemic. Many are struggling to navigate this crisis while
maintaining high-quality course delivery, ensuring strong student
recruitment numbers and providing clear communication to staff and
students. Issues have emerged at an exponential rate and challenges
such as the contradictions of globalization, power, environmental
crisis, crisis of democracies and welfare systems, technological
development, poverty and rampant inequality, crisis of
international institutions, crisis of values, each day a new fear
emerges as a new reality dawns. Coping with the pandemic has been
particularly difficult for universities because they serve a number
of different, albeit overlapping, functions. In the first instance,
they are educational institutions, where students learn and where
staff teach, conduct research and carry out commercial activities.
They are also major employers and important drivers of local and
regional economies. Finally, some service hospitals, placing them
at the forefront of the local healthcare system. The aim of this
book is to critically reflect on the challenges that higher
education and the higher education sector has faced during the
pandemic, and the associated projected socio-economic impact yet to
be felt, how different universities have addressed the challenges
and learn from what has worked and not worked and speculate what
future implications exist for the vision of a new higher education
sector in a changing world. A second aim of the book is to look
forward and examine how the higher education sector might transform
itself to ensure it is more capable of dealing with similar
challenges in the future. With challenges there are generally new
opportunities, and the book also aims to explore these
opportunities and how they might be realised. Leadership is a key
theme running through the book examining how university leaders,
and policy makers, have dealt with the pandemic and associated
socio-economic impact, how robust has been crisis management
planning, what has been learned, what competencies, management
tools, strategic skills are required for future university leaders
and what needs to change in universities to be more agile in the
future. The target audience for this edited book is broad, ranging
from policymakers, leaders, governors and senior decision makers in
higher education to, more generally, researchers and scholars, as
well as policy makers, in higher education to learn from the
different approaches taken by university leaders, including
influencers and visionaries in Higher Education, to cope with the
coronavirus pandemic and the opportunities that have arisen to
transform and reshape different aspects of higher education through
this perfect storm of unprecedented change. Through a combination
of experiential and theoretical pieces, the novice reader will
benefit from expert knowledge and learn from the experiences of
both higher education leaders, researchers and practitioners.
Experts will stand to gain from reading the book to stay abreast
with the latest developments and trends, and to obtain exposure to
diverse perspectives and approaches to handling the coronavirus
across a range of local, regional, national, and international
settings.
Although Saint Cecilia is venerated throughout the Western world as
the patron saint of music and Raphael's famous painting The Ecstasy
of Saint Cecilia is filled with musical iconography, the ancient
origins of Cecilia's association with music have long been shrouded
in mystery. This book, a masterful investigation of the Cecilian
cult from its beginnings in Christian antiquity down to the
Renaissance, explains how Cecilia came to be linked with music and
offers a new interpretation of Raphael's painting. Thomas Connolly
finds the key to the mystery in a theme he identifies as
"mourning-into-joy." This theme, rooted in the Bible and in
Aristotle's doctrine of the passions of the soul, became prominent
in the visual and literary arts as well as in theology and
spirituality and expressed the soul's passages between vice and
virtue as a conversion of sadness into joy. According to Connolly,
this idea strongly influenced the legend and worship of Saint
Cecilia, a model for all who sought spiritual transformation.
Connolly argues that the medieval mystical mind saw music as an
intimate expression of the experiences of conversion and spiritual
growth and that the conjunction of spirit and music became
crystallized in the figure of the saint. His explanation not only
provides a better understanding of Raphael's work and other
Renaissance and Baroque art but also clarifies puzzling literary
questions concerning Saint Cecilia, such as Chaucer's treatment of
her in "The Second Nun's Tale."
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