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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
For years, language teachers have increasingly been using
technologies of all kinds, from computers to smartphones, to help
their students learn. Current trends in TELTL (technology-enhanced
language teaching and learning), such as artificial intelligence,
virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and social
networking, appear to represent major shifts in the digital
language learning landscape. However, various applications of
technology to mediate language learning may be informed by
reflecting not only on the present but perhaps more importantly on
relevant insights from past research and practice. Emerging
Concepts in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning
explores the recent development of the new technologies for
language teaching and learning to gain insights into and synergy of
the theories, pedagogies, technological design, and evaluation of
TELTL environments for comprehending the trends and strategies of
the new digital era as well as investigate the possibility of
future TELTL research direction. The book includes trends shaped by
contemporary issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering topics
such as digital education tools, L2 learnings, and sentiment
analysis, this book serves as an essential resource for
researchers, language teachers, educational software developers,
administrators, IT consultants, technologists, professors,
pre-service teachers, academicians, and students.
'This book makes uncomfortable reading both in its detailed
analysis of terrorism and its causes, and in the critique of state
responses, particularly in modern times. It is unusual to have such
a defence of a 'human rights framework' from a counter-terrorism
practitioner rather than from within the legal fraternity. It is
this that makes the case even more persuasive. All who are involved
in counter-terrorism strategy should consider carefully the
arguments put forward.'Global Policy JournalFor more than 150
years, nationalist, populist, Marxist and religious terrorists have
all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims:
provoke states into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then
take advantage of the divisions in society that result. Yet, state
after state falls into the trap that terrorists have set for them.
Faced with a major terrorist threat, governments seem to reach
instinctively for the most coercive tools at their disposal and, in
doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy response
seems to be driven in equal parts by a lack of understanding in the
true nature of the threat, an exaggerated faith in the use of
force, and a lack of faith that democratic values are sufficiently
flexible to allow for an effective counter-terrorism response.
Drawing on a wealth of data from both historical and contemporary
sources, Avoiding the Terrorist Trap addresses common
misconceptions underpinning flawed counter-terrorist policies,
identifies the core strategies that guide terrorist operations,
consolidates the latest research on the underlying drivers of
terrorist violence, and then demonstrates why a counter-terrorism
strategy grounded in respect for human rights and the rule of law
is the most effective approach to defeating terrorism.
A thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of a text that has
become an international standard for curriculum development in
health professional education. Intended for faculty and other
content experts who have an interest or responsibility as educators
in their discipline, Curriculum Development for Medical Education
has extended its vision to better serve a diverse professional and
international audience. Building on the time-honored, practical,
and user-friendly approach of the six-step model of curriculum
development, this edition is richly detailed, with numerous
examples of innovations that challenge traditional teaching models.
In addition, the fourth edition presents * updates in our
understanding of how humans learn; * a new chapter on curricula
that address community needs and health equity; and * an increased
emphasis throughout on health systems science, population health,
equity, educational technology in health professions education, and
interprofessional education. This new edition remains a
cutting-edge tool and practical guidebook for faculty members and
administrators responsible for the educational experiences of
health professional students, residents, fellows, and
practitioners. It includes chapters on each of the steps of
curriculum development, with updated examples and questions to
guide the application of the timeless principles. Subsequent
chapters cover curriculum maintenance and enhancement,
dissemination, and curriculum development for larger programs.
Appendixes present examples of full curricula designed using the
six-step approach, which is widely recognized as the current
standard for publication and dissemination of new curricula and
provides a basis for meaningful educational interventions,
scholarship, and career advancement for the health professional
educator. The book also provides curricular, faculty development,
and funding resources. Contributors: Chadia N. Abras, Belinda Y.
Chen, Heidi L. Gullett, Mark T. Hughes, David E. Kern, Brenessa M.
Lindeman, Pamela A. Lipsett, Mary L. O'Connor Leppert, Amit K.
Pahwa, Deanna Saylor, Mamta K. Singh, Sean A. Tackett, Patricia A.
Thomas
Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives,
David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new
perspective on British cultural history. Statutory censorship was
first introduced in Britain by Sir Robert Walpole with his
Licensing Act of 1737. Previously theatre censorship was exercised
under the Royal Prerogative. By giving the Lord Chamberlain
statutory powers of theatre censorship, Walpole ensured that
confusion over the relationship between the Royal Prerogative and
statute law would prevent any serious challenge to theatre
censorship in Parliament until the twentieth century.
The authors place theatre censorship legislation and its attempted
reform in their wider political context. Sections outlining the
political history of key periods explain why theatre censorship
legislation was introduced in 1737, why attempts to reform the
legislation failed in 1832, 1909, and 1949, and finally succeeded
in 1968. Opposition from Edward VII helped to prevent the abolition
of theatre censorship in 1909. In 1968, theatre censorship was
abolished despite opposition from Elizabeth II, Lord Cobbold (her
Lord Chamberlain) and Harold Wilson (her Prime Minister). There was
strong support for theatre censorship on the part of commercial
theatre managers who saw censorship as offering protection from
vexatious prosecution. A policy of inertia and deliberate
obfuscation on the part of Home Office officials helped to prevent
the abolition of theatre censorship legislation until 1968. It was
only when playwrights, directors, critics, audiences, and
politicians (notably Roy Jenkins) applied combined pressure that
theatre censorship was finally abolished.
The volumeconcludes by exploring whether new forms of covert
censorship have replaced the statutory theatre censorship abolished
with the 1968 Theatres Act.
TOR, the Target of Rapamycin was discovered a little over ten years ago in a genetic screen in S. cerevisiae in search of mutants resistant to the cytostatic effects of the antimycotic, rapamycin. Recent studies have placed TOR at the interface between nutrient sensing and the regulation of major anbolic and catabolic responses. The editors have gathered the leading figures in the field of TOR and its role in cellular homeostasis and human diseases.
Collection of six feature films from director Christopher Nolan. In
'Memento' (2000) Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is suffering from
acute short-term memory loss and is unable to remember anything for
more than a few minutes at a time. This makes things very difficult
when his one mission in life is to track down his wife's killer who
escaped from the scene of the crime. 'Batman Begins' (2005)
explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's
emergence as a force for good in Gotham. In the wake of his
parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne
(Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight
injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He
returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked
crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high-tech
deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city. In
'The Prestige' (2006) Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred
Borden (Bale) are London-based magicians of the highest order, both
blessed with spectacular powers of deception and both cursed with
unrelenting envy for one another's skills. When Alfred performs an
awe-inspiring trick for which there seems no logical explanation,
the friendly competition shared between the pair turns to deadly
rivalry as the enraged Rupert determines to uncover his rival's
deepest secrets. 'The Dark Knight' (2008), sequel to 'Batman
Begins', sees Gotham's hero squaring-up to a new kid on the block -
psychotic prankster The Joker (Heath Ledger, in the role that won
him a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor). In the space of
a year, Batman, aided by Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and new
District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), has managed to rid
Gotham's streets of the organised crime gangs that once ravaged the
city. Things seem to be looking up, although on the personal front,
Bruce Wayne discovers he has a rival in his affections for main
squeeze Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) in the shape of the new
D.A., who, as a political climber, likes to keep his cards close to
his chest. But just when the authorities think they're finally
making progress in their fight against crime, the appearance on the
streets of a sinister new figure, with a demented grin and a
passion for chaos, causes panic among the good people of Gotham,
and leads to a battle of wits between Batman and The Joker which
threatens to get extremely personal. In 'Inception' (2010) Dom Cobb
(Leonardo DiCaprio) is a professional thief with a difference: the
spoils he goes after are not material objects but the thoughts,
dreams and secrets buried in the minds of other people. This rare
talent has cost him dear, rendering him a solitary fugitive
stripped of everything he ever really cared about. When he is
offered a chance for redemption by reversing the process and
planting an idea rather than stealing it, he and his team of
specialists find themselves pitted against a dangerous enemy that
appears to pre-empt their every move. Finally, 'The Dark Knight
Rises' (2012), the final film in Nolan's Batman trilogy, set eight
years on from the events of 'The Dark Knight', sees Batman
returning to save Gotham City from the evil clutches of brutal
terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy) and his enigmatic sidekick, Selina Kyle
(Anne Hathaway). However, Batman's ability to act as an avenging
angel is curtailed by the fact that he is now on Gotham City Police
Department's Most Wanted list, having assumed responsibility for
the crimes of deceased District Attorney Harvey Dent.
This second edition updates and extends the original foundations of
the loanable funds model. It develops a new monetary model of
inside money, which is created by the commercial (or retail) banks,
drawing on the events of 2007/08 that led to the Great Recession
and fragile economy of today. Coronavirus is likely to cause
another downturn of economic activity, from the perspective of late
2020 as this is written. That will represent a long-period of
subpar, anaemic growth, which has not been satisfactorily explained
by the traditional theory in the form of neo-classical analysis.
The reason may lie with the adoption of a body of theory based
primarily on a barter system of exchange but sometimes with one
commodity used as money to try to explain a dynamic, monetary
economy of today. Money has evolved from a system of barter to
become a medium of exchange based on fiat money and credit currency
underpinned by legal tender, and therefore, a creature of law. If
households and firms lose confidence in the banking system, they
can withdraw their deposits in the form of cash as a medium of
exchange, which must be accepted in exchange for goods and services
as legal tender. This book highlights the importance of how money
is created or destroyed endogenously and derives the loanable
supply of funds in conjunction with the demand within a revised
analysis of monetary theory, with a new emphasis on portfolio
theory. It applies critical thinking and the realization of a more
precise formulation of the loanable funds theory to final year and
postgraduate students in particular, with various features
systematically added such as the catastrophe framework and Minsky's
theory of changing states in an attempt to derive a fully dynamic
model. There is a new framework using aggregate demand and supply
analysis to explain inflation. This will be reinforced at each
stage by the inclusion of revised and updated case studies, graphs
and figures to give an international setting and application
This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese
history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the
future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who
ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in
Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present
the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how
to integrate oral history into research plans and archival
research, conduct interviews, and locate sources in the field.
Chapters by established researchers relate these techniques to
specific types of fieldwork, including religion, the imperial past,
natural environments and agriculture. Combining the past and the
future of the craft, the book provides a rich resource for scholars
coming new to fieldwork in the history of China.
This book combines the reference material of a nephrology textbook
with the everyday relevance of a clinical handbook. This second
edition develops and expands upon the success of the first. All the
content has been updated and entirely new chapters on acid-base
disorders and stone disease have been added. Understanding Kidney
Diseases includes over 60 real-life case studies and is illustrated
with over 200 figures. Readers can test their knowledge with a bank
of multiple-choice questions and put it into practice by answering
questions that patients frequently ask. The book provides all that
students, residents and fellows need in order to approach a patient
with a kidney problem with confidence.
For more than 150 years, nationalist, populist, Marxist and
religious terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and
explicit about their aims: provoke states into over-reacting to the
threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society
that result. Yet, state after state falls into the trap that
terrorists have set for them. Faced with a major terrorist threat,
governments seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools
at their disposal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the
situation. This policy response seems to be driven in equal parts
by a lack of understanding in the true nature of the threat, an
exaggerated faith in the use of force, and a lack of faith that
democratic values are sufficiently flexible to allow for an
effective counter-terrorism response. Drawing on a wealth of data
from both historical and contemporary sources, Avoiding the
Terrorist Trap addresses common misconceptions underpinning flawed
counter-terrorist policies, identifies the core strategies that
guide terrorist operations, consolidates the latest research on the
underlying drivers of terrorist violence, and then demonstrates why
a counter-terrorism strategy grounded in respect for human rights
and the rule of law is the most effective approach to defeating
terrorism.
The control and utilization of urban spaces remains a highly
contested issue. Much of the debate centers on issues of economic
development versus the maintenance and support of already existing
communities. As a number of urban areas are in the throes of
gentrification and economic development projects, there is a dearth
of information on not only the use of private power in this
process, but also the response of the community members. This
anthology responds to a growing concern about urban and community
development, and the role of corporate power. These essays focus on
key themes of land ownership and management, community resistance
against corporate agendas, and public discourse over these issues.
These themes are presented and developed within an
interdisciplinary framework which includes information and
commentary about history, contemporary politics, economic
development, and ideology. Most of the chapters include case
studies that provide concrete examples of contemporary developments
in urban areas, and each chapter includes discussion questions and
a list of key words and terms to help guide the reader.
This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese
history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the
future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who
ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in
Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present
the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how
to integrate oral history into research plans and archival
research, conduct interviews, and locate sources in the field.
Chapters by established researchers relate these techniques to
specific types of fieldwork, including religion, the imperial past,
natural environments and agriculture. Combining the past and the
future of the craft, the book provides a rich resource for scholars
coming new to fieldwork in the history of China.
This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific
conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy
of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic
museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial
exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took
place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth
century, producing new scientific representations of race and
thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy
relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in
the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping
public consciousness and the representation of "otherness" in
modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization
that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity,
multiculturalism and race.
Inclusion means educating students of all abilities in mainstream
schools, it has become an important topic - politicians now stress
their commitments to inclusion as proof of their commitment to
wider social justice. The inclusive mood, which is about including
everyone in society's institutions, has created a growing demand
for schools to find effective ways of including and teaching all
children - even those who at one time would have been sent to
special schools. The book combines a theoretical examination of
inclusion and its rationale with the story of a group of schools in
which teachers, assistants and children have striven to make
inclusion happen. It explores the arguments for inclusive schools;
examines the international evidence about children's well-being and
academic progress in inclusive schools; describes how the pioneers
have developed their practice for inclusion; and presents the
findings of an in-depth 18 month study of a group of schools which
have striven to make inclusion happen.
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