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The Pathways series assists students in achieving the National
Certificate (Vocational) qualification. Pathways not only equips
students with the required knowledge, understanding and practical
skills, but also empowers them to apply this learning with
confidence in the classroom and ultimately in the workplace. Each
Pathways Student Book is clearly structured and easy to use. Each
topic covers every Subject Outcome, Learning Outcome and Assessment
Standard. Accessible, easy-to-understand language makes learning
easy. Concepts are clearly defined. A glossary at the beginning of
each topic clearly explains important words and terminology.
Informative artwork supports the text. This Student Book is
accompanied by a Lecturer’s Guide.
Central to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal
Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger
generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific
Northwest. Drawn from a time before the coming of human beings when
animals were like people, the stories present characters and motifs
that paint a bigger picture of the world as Yakama ancestors knew
it. The original edition of Anakú Iwachá featured stories that
Yakama Tribal Elders recorded in several dialects of the
IchishkĂin language that were collected and translated into
English by renowned linguist and scholar Virginia Beavert. This new
edition adds a preface from the Yakama Nation and essays on the
history of the project and on IchishkĂin-language education. It
includes four additional legends in IchishkĂin and English,
annotations, an updated glossary, and more artwork by Tribal
artists, helping readers, teachers, and students engage with the
legends as teaching and learning tools and as a precious gift to
current and future Yakama generations.
This book is the story of Russian aviation and Soviet Russia's
progress in preparing its strength as an air power. It discusses
the Russia-Germany connect post 1919, how Russians gained expertise
from German know-how, and post World War II progress from Stalin to
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
First isolated as a chemical compound by a Russian chemist in 1866,
dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) proved to be a near-perfect solvent for
decades before its remarkable biological and medical activities
were discovered. DMSO is one of the most prodigious agents ever to
come out of the world of drug development. Its wide range of
biological actions involving plants, animals, and humans has led to
the publication of tens of thousands of articles in the scientific
literature. Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
examines the major clinical uses of DMSO in humans as supported by
basic evidence derived from experiments in animals, including its
effects in disorders such as osteoarthritis, interstitial cystitis,
gastrointestinal inflammatory changes, scleroderma, respiratory
distress, myasthenia gravis, cardiac disease, traumatic brain
injury, and Alzheimer's disease. The effects of DMSO on pain,
cancer, stroke, and spinal cord injury are also discussed. The book
explores how its chemical structure is able to react and deactivate
toxic molecules generated by DNA damage, free radical formation,
inflammation, oxidation, and infection. For the first time, the
collective data on the biological, chemical, and medical actions of
DMSO are presented and analyzed from the published scientific
literature. Clearly written, the book incorporates
easy-to-understand scientific descriptions that appeal both to
health care professionals and the millions of people worldwide who
have used DMSO for an assortment of ailments as a prescriptive or
off-label medication.
Military affairs have been affected by major changes in recent
years. The bipolar world of two superpowers has gone. The Cold War
and the global military confrontation that accompanied it have
ended. A new military and political order has emerged in the world,
but the world has not become more stable; indeed, wars and armed
conflict have become much more common. Forecasting the contours of
future armed conflict is no easy task at such times, but this is
the primary objective of If War Comes Tomorrow? Focusing on the
impact of new technologies, General Gareev considers whether war is
still a continuation of politics by other means' or whether the
political, ideological, and technical transformation have broken
that connection. He explores the linkage between threats to Russian
national interests and war as an instrument of policy in great
detail and concludes that there is very little prospect either of
nuclear war or widespread conventional war. However, he does see
local armed conflicts and local wars increasing, with greater
emphasis on subversion. He argues that coming decades will see a
shift towards a reliance upon indirect means to accomplish limited
political ends, and analyses both information warfare and the
revolution in military affairs from this perspective.
Strategic Transformation of Higher Education examines the broken
revenue-driven business model characteristic of higher education in
an environment that demands greater access, more affordable
tuition, accountable leaders, and faculty who deliver a
consistently high quality of relevant education. The authors
demonstrate that enduring business models must support
institutional academic missions and that they are integral to
systemic and strategic transformation by diagnosing the case for
change and offering a practitioners' guide for reform. This book
surveys deficient government education policies, practices and
funding formulas of select countries and offers remedies. It
identifies impediments to change, along with ways to develop and
deliver evidence-based solutions to improve institutional
effectiveness and operating efficiencies, and it cites exemplars of
change in these areas. Special attention is given to leadership
attributes requisite of driving institutional redesign and to a
paradigm shift that calls for transition from knowledge creation to
plan implementation. Strategic Transformation of Higher Education
emphasizes a collective need for reflection, a will to consistently
question prevailing assumptions, and the courage to afford
practical application to innovation.
Strategic Transformation of Higher Education examines the broken
revenue-driven business model characteristic of higher education in
an environment that demands greater access, more affordable
tuition, accountable leaders, and faculty who deliver a
consistently high quality of relevant education. The authors
demonstrate that enduring business models must support
institutional academic missions and that they are integral to
systemic and strategic transformation by diagnosing the case for
change and offering a practitioners' guide for reform. This book
surveys deficient government education policies, practices and
funding formulas of select countries and offers remedies. It
identifies impediments to change, along with ways to develop and
deliver evidence-based solutions to improve institutional
effectiveness and operating efficiencies, and it cites exemplars of
change in these areas. Special attention is given to leadership
attributes requisite of driving institutional redesign and to a
paradigm shift that calls for transition from knowledge creation to
plan implementation. Strategic Transformation of Higher Education
emphasizes a collective need for reflection, a will to consistently
question prevailing assumptions, and the courage to afford
practical application to innovation.
First isolated as a chemical compound by a Russian chemist in 1866,
dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) proved to be a near-perfect solvent for
decades before its remarkable biological and medical activities
were discovered. DMSO is one of the most prodigious agents ever to
come out of the world of drug development. Its wide range of
biological actions involving plants, animals, and humans has led to
the publication of tens of thousands of articles in the scientific
literature. Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
examines the major clinical uses of DMSO in humans as supported by
basic evidence derived from experiments in animals, including its
effects in disorders such as osteoarthritis, interstitial cystitis,
gastrointestinal inflammatory changes, scleroderma, respiratory
distress, myasthenia gravis, cardiac disease, traumatic brain
injury, and Alzheimer's disease. The effects of DMSO on pain,
cancer, stroke, and spinal cord injury are also discussed. The book
explores how its chemical structure is able to react and deactivate
toxic molecules generated by DNA damage, free radical formation,
inflammation, oxidation, and infection. For the first time, the
collective data on the biological, chemical, and medical actions of
DMSO are presented and analyzed from the published scientific
literature. Clearly written, the book incorporates
easy-to-understand scientific descriptions that appeal both to
health care professionals and the millions of people worldwide who
have used DMSO for an assortment of ailments as a prescriptive or
off-label medication.
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Central to the development of the American legal system, writes
Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of
slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and
property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.
Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the
intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the
earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the
Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil
War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on
comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence,
and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment,
and constitutional law. What emerges from this multi-faceted
portrait is a complex legal system designed to ensure the property
rights of slave-holders and to institutionalize racism. The
ultimate result was to strengthen the institution of slavery in the
midst of a growing trend toward democracy in the
mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic community.
This book is the story of Russian aviation and Soviet Russia's
progress in preparing its strength as an air power. It discusses
the Russia-Germany connect post 1919, how Russians gained expertise
from German know-how, and post World War II progress from Stalin to
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of
historians of religion who are concerned with situating the
contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of
the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors
relates to the work of leading historian of religion Charles H.
Long, who has identified religious meanings in the contacts and
exchanges of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Together with
Long, these scholars explore religious practices in a variety of
globalized contexts; chapters consider such varied subjects as the
rituals of African immigrant communities in the United States, the
making of Mohawk sweet grass and black ash baskets, the religious
experience of prisoners in the Nazi holding camp of Westerbork, and
the regional repercussions of contemporary multi-national business.
By locating religion in the conflicted and cooperative
relationships of the colonial and postcolonial periods, Religion
and Global Culture calls on scholars of religion to reconfigure
their interpretive stances from the perspective of the material
structures of the modern, globalized world.
This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas
of debate in China's education system. Marketization, quality
assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed,
as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors,
the impact of globalization, and the influence of education on
China's economic growth. The book, which comprises contributions
from many leading authorities, will be of great interest both to
comparative education specialists, and also to all those interested
in China's rise and development.
Military affairs have been affected by major changes in recent
years. The bipolar world of two superpowers has gone. The Cold War
and the global military confrontation that accompanied it have
ended. A new military and political order has emerged in the world,
but the world has not become more stable; indeed, wars and armed
conflict have become much more common. Forecasting the contours of
future armed conflict is no easy task at such times, but this is
the primary objective of If War Comes Tomorrow? Focusing on the
impact of new technologies, General Gareev considers whether war is
still a continuation of politics by other means' or whether the
political, ideological, and technical transformation have broken
that connection. He explores the linkage between threats to Russian
national interests and war as an instrument of policy in great
detail and concludes that there is very little prospect either of
nuclear war or widespread conventional war. However, he does see
local armed conflicts and local wars increasing, with greater
emphasis on subversion. He argues that coming decades will see a
shift towards a reliance upon indirect means to accomplish limited
political ends, and analyses both information warfare and the
revolution in military affairs from this perspective.
V K Triandafillov was an outstanding young commander who shaped the
military theory and doctrine of the Red Army as it came to grips
with the problem of future war. A conscript soldier who rose
through the ranks to become an officer in the Tsarist Army, he saw
combat in both the First World War and the Russian Civil War. A
student of some of the finest military specialists teaching the
first generation of young Red commanders, he sought to link theory
and practice by using past experience to comprehend future combat.
This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas
of debate in China's education system. Marketization, quality
assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed,
as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors,
the impact of globalization, and the influence of education on
China's economic growth. The book, which comprises contributions
from many leading authorities, will be of great interest both to
comparative education specialists, and also to all those interested
in China's rise and development.
Centred on the lives of the employees at a Manhattan advertising
firm, the television series Mad Men touches on the advertising
world's unique interests in consumerist culture, materialistic
desire, and the role of deception in Western capitalism. While this
essay collection has a decidedly socio-historical focus, the
authors use this as the starting point for philosophical,
religious, and theological reflection, showing how Mad Men reveals
deep truths concerning the social trends of the 1960s and deserves
a significant amount of scholarly consideration. Going beyond mere
reflection, the authors make deeper inquiries into what these
trends say about American cultural habits, the business world
within Western capitalism, and the rapid social changes that
occurred during this period. From the staid and conventional early
seasons to the war, assassinations, riots, and counterculture of
later seasons, The Universe is Indifferent shows how social change
underpins the interpersonal dramas of the characters in Mad Men.
Incwadzi lesezingeni lelisetulu lefaka wonkhe umtsetfo lokufuneka
ulandzelwe kuSitatimende Yavelonkhe YeKharikhulamu nekuHlola.;
Incwadzi lesezingeni lelisetulu lenetitfombe nemsebenti
ekutfutfukisa umphumela nekukhutsa tabafundzi.; Incwadzi
lesezingeni lelisetulu lenemsebenti losekela, usite bothishela
ekongeni sikhatsi nekwenta umsebenti wabo ubelula ekufundziseni.;
Incwadzi lesezingeni lelisetulu leyenta luhlolo lube yimphumelelo!
To Stir a Restless Heart tells for the first time the story of how
Thomas Aquinas conversed with his contemporaries about the dynamics
of human nature's longing for God, and documents how he
deliberately utilized Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin sources to
develop a version of Aristotelian natural desire that was uniquely
Augustinian: natural desire seeks the complete fulfillment of human
nature "insofar as is possible," and so comes to rest in the
highest end that God offers to it. Depending on whether God offers
the free gift of grace to humanity, one and the same natural desire
can come to rest in knowing God through creatures or seeing God
directly.Tracing the reception of Aquinas in the centuries that
follow, Jacob Wood argues that Aquinas's student from among the
Augustinian Hermits, Giles of Rome, consciously transformed
Aquinas's understanding of human nature. By insisting that every
nature has a positive aptitude for one, specific end, Giles tied
our natural desire positively and directly to the vision of God,
setting up a 700-year challenge among the Augustinian Hermits to
explain the integrity of a nature with a supernatural end, as well
as the gratuity of the grace which perfects it. Showing how de
Lubac's early discovery of that tradition served as a principal
source for his "natural desire for a supernatural end," To Stir a
Restless Heart argues that many recent criticisms of de Lubac's
theological anthropology find ready answers among the Augustinian
Hermits, but that a renewed understanding of Aquinas's
Augustinianism offers a more complete way forward: it preserves
Aristotle's commitment to the integrity of human nature, de Lubac's
commitment to the transcendence of human perfection, and
Augustine's insistence on the priority and gratuity of divine grace
in the work of redemption.
This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various
university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the
world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly,
although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important,
chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well
as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the
United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various
university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the
world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly,
although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important,
chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well
as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the
United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and
national case studies that includes empirical research based on a
series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date
scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount
importance with indigenous education—language, culture, and
identity. It also offers a strategic comparative and international
education policy statement on recent shifts in indigenous
education, and new approaches to explore, develop, and improve
comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing
authors examine several social justice issues related to indigenous
education. In addition to case perspectives from 12 countries and
global regions, the volume includes five conceptual chapters on
topics that influence indigenous education, including policy
debates, the media, the united nations, formal and informal
education systems, and higher education.
This volume comprises the written contributions of participants in
a symposium held in Dallas, Texas, June 3-5, 1980, entitled
"HAMSTER IMMUNE RESPONSIVENESS AND EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF
INFECTIOUS AND ONCO LOGIC DISEASES." This meeting followed its
predecessor, "Hamster Immune Responses: Experimental Models Linking
Immunogenetics, Oncogene sis and Viral Immunity" by three years.
This more recent meeting was more pointed in its focus and the
contributions appeared to be more tightly associated. These
meetings are part of an extend d effort by experimentalists using
the Syrian hamster as an animal model system to bring together
workers in potentially related areas for the exchange of ideas and
information. The success of the symposia derives partly from the
scientific excellence of the contributing scientists, and partly
from the financial support of the National Institutes of Health
through the Fogarty International Center. The administration of the
University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, under
President Charles C. Sprague, also donated time, facilities, and
financial sup port. Preparation of the manuscripts in this volume,
as camera-ready copy for the publisher, was the diligent and
dedicated effort of Ms. Sara Howard. Copy editing was expertly
performed by Ms. Sandra Schulte and proof-reading was the
responsibility of Dr. Patricia Fultz and Ms. Alix Gerboth. However,
final responsibility for any errors and omis sions in the published
volume is taken by the five local editors: J. Wayne Streilein David
A. Hart Joan Stein-Streilein William R. Duncan R. E."
This volume is the 3rd in a series of comprehensive publications
devoted to the molecular spectra and environmentally important
properties of polycyclic aromatic compounds which constitute one of
the most interesting classes of environmental carcinogens. Since
the first identification of dibenz(a,h)anthracene and later
benzo(a)pyrene as chemical carcinogens in the 1930's, the number of
publications devoted to this ubiquitously occurring group of
compounds has increased constantly. Therefore, this reference
source for the spectral, physicochemical and en vironmentaJ
properties of polycyclic aromatic compounds should be a welcome
addition to the previous volumes for scientists engaged in the
investigation, characterisation and control of this hazardous class
of pollutants. As was the case with the preceding volume, this
publication is the fruit of a close collaboration within the
General Directorate for SCience, Research and Development of the
Commission of the European Communities between the Environment
Institute of the Joint Research Centre Ispra, the Community Bureau
of Reference and expert laboratories in the member states. F. Geiss
Director of the Environment Institute JRC Ispra 1. Introduction
Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAC) are an important class of
carcinogenic environmental pollutants, which occur in air, water,
soils, sediments, in food and in the work area. Because many
hundreds of closely related isomers are being formed and released
in the environment from combustion processes of fossil fuels and
other organic materials, their environmental and health con trol
presents a difficult task.
Co-utilization or blending of residuals offers a unique opportunity
to develop products with particular characteristics that are able
to target specific customer needs. The very notion of deliberately
blending by-products suggests that the recycling and beneficial
reuse industries are taking a quantitative step forward towards
developing products rather than simply reusing residuals. At the
same time that this step provides unique opportunities, it also
presents unique challenges. The science associated with the
beneficial use of one product may not apply when that product is
mixed with another residual. Blending of materials may alter the
chemistry of the components of the mixture. This may offer
additional benefits, as in the case of disease suppression in
composts, or present unexpected problems, as the use of
lime-stabilized biosolids has done in Maryland. This book consists
of the proceedings of the Beltsville Symposium. The organizers of
the Symposium attempted to structure a meeting that would outline
both the potential benefits of co-utilization as well as concerns.
The editors have divided the proceedings into sections that
describe the practical basis for co-utilization of residuals as
well as the potential benefits. Specific considerations are
described. Finally, case studies include descriptions of successful
operations and data that detail results of research involving
co-utilization materials. Blending of materials for specific
objectives needs to be the focus of any successful co-utilization
effort. The scientific implications of the mix need to be
determined before a product can be used properly.
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