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-Offers techniques and exercises that educators can immediately
deploy in the classroom to teach and explain experiential theatre
making. -Includes case studies by a range of experts from theatre
and related fields. -The first book connecting theory with practice
for experiential theatre.
With nearly 30,000 entries, this is the first Hani-English,
English-Hani dictionary to be published. This dictionary includes a
helpful introduction that provides a basic description of the
culture and language of the Hani people, most of whom live in
Yunnan Province in southwest China. It also includes an extensive
bibliography of English, Chinese, and Hani books and articles on
Hani, as well as twelve appendices.
-Offers techniques and exercises that educators can immediately
deploy in the classroom to teach and explain experiential theatre
making. -Includes case studies by a range of experts from theatre
and related fields. -The first book connecting theory with practice
for experiential theatre.
A Computational Approach to Statistical Learning gives a novel
introduction to predictive modeling by focusing on the algorithmic
and numeric motivations behind popular statistical methods. The
text contains annotated code to over 80 original reference
functions. These functions provide minimal working implementations
of common statistical learning algorithms. Every chapter concludes
with a fully worked out application that illustrates predictive
modeling tasks using a real-world dataset. The text begins with a
detailed analysis of linear models and ordinary least squares.
Subsequent chapters explore extensions such as ridge regression,
generalized linear models, and additive models. The second half
focuses on the use of general-purpose algorithms for convex
optimization and their application to tasks in statistical
learning. Models covered include the elastic net, dense neural
networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and spectral
clustering. A unifying theme throughout the text is the use of
optimization theory in the description of predictive models, with a
particular focus on the singular value decomposition (SVD). Through
this theme, the computational approach motivates and clarifies the
relationships between various predictive models. Taylor Arnold is
an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Richmond.
His work at the intersection of computer vision, natural language
processing, and digital humanities has been supported by multiple
grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His first book,
Humanities Data in R, was published in 2015. Michael Kane is an
assistant professor of biostatistics at Yale University. He is the
recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
DARPA, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His R package
bigmemory won the Chamber's prize for statistical software in 2010.
Bryan Lewis is an applied mathematician and author of many popular
R packages, including irlba, doRedis, and threejs.
A Computational Approach to Statistical Learning gives a novel
introduction to predictive modeling by focusing on the algorithmic
and numeric motivations behind popular statistical methods. The
text contains annotated code to over 80 original reference
functions. These functions provide minimal working implementations
of common statistical learning algorithms. Every chapter concludes
with a fully worked out application that illustrates predictive
modeling tasks using a real-world dataset. The text begins with a
detailed analysis of linear models and ordinary least squares.
Subsequent chapters explore extensions such as ridge regression,
generalized linear models, and additive models. The second half
focuses on the use of general-purpose algorithms for convex
optimization and their application to tasks in statistical
learning. Models covered include the elastic net, dense neural
networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and spectral
clustering. A unifying theme throughout the text is the use of
optimization theory in the description of predictive models, with a
particular focus on the singular value decomposition (SVD). Through
this theme, the computational approach motivates and clarifies the
relationships between various predictive models. Taylor Arnold is
an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Richmond.
His work at the intersection of computer vision, natural language
processing, and digital humanities has been supported by multiple
grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His first book,
Humanities Data in R, was published in 2015. Michael Kane is an
assistant professor of biostatistics at Yale University. He is the
recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
DARPA, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His R package
bigmemory won the Chamber's prize for statistical software in 2010.
Bryan Lewis is an applied mathematician and author of many popular
R packages, including irlba, doRedis, and threejs.
Reviews "A remarkable tripartite collaboration. . . . A new and
highly revealing account of how the Korean War began, based on a
careful comparison of Chinese, Soviet, and even North Korean
sources. The authors' achievement, from a historian's perspective,
is roughly the equivalent of making a first flight around the
hidden side of the moon. . . . An exemplary standard for the 'new'
Cold War history."Atlantic Monthly "A fascinating and exciting
book. Every expert on Soviet and Chinese foreign policy and every
student of international relations and the Cold War will have to
read it. I am awed by the materials that have been put together in
this book; it is international collaboration at its very
best."Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia "This title, the
first using newly available resources from China and Russia,
represents the opening of a new era in the study of Sino-Soviet
relations and their effect on international politics. The
credentials of the authors are the highest." Library Journal "This
magisterial work provides the missing dimension of the Korean war
how policy was made on the communist side. Making use of previously
unavailable Chinese and Soviet sources . . . this is likely to
become the standard work on the subject."--John Merrill, George
Washington University.
This text was developed as a manual for those employed in the
emergency services ESP, those who deal with victims of trauma in
the workplace, work in school systems or acute psychiatric
settings, provide assistance to ESP, or who are employed in other
settings where persons may experience trauma. The book can also be
used by mental health workers as they conduct workshops or provide
debriefings where trauma has occured.Visit www.geraldlewis.com for
more information.
This text was developed as a manual for those employed in the
emergency services ESP, those who deal with victims of trauma in
the workplace, work in school systems or acute psychiatric
settings, provide assistance to ESP, or who are employed in other
settings where persons may experience trauma. The book can also be
used by mental health workers as they conduct workshops or provide
debriefings where trauma has occured.
Visit www.geraldlewis.com for more information.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
With the emergence of a diverse public school student population,
existing literature affirms the existence of a Black teacher
shortage and the low representation of teachers of color in U.S.
public schools. Although there are over 3 million public school
teachers, African American teachers only comprise approximately 8
percent of the public school teaching workforce. In fact, the
education field is dominated by White, middle-class teachers,
particularly, White female teachers. While the retention of all
teachers of color is a pertinent issue, an examination of Black
female teachers who can assist in diversifying the teaching field
is timely and warranted. Despite Black females' historic role in
public education and that teaching is a female-dominated
profession, Black female teachers represent only 7.7 percent of the
American teaching force, while students of color represent almost
49 percent of the total student enrolment. This important, timely,
and provocative book places recruitment and retention of Black
female teachers at the center. The contributions address not only
the recruitment of Black female teachers but also discuss
mechanisms necessary to retain them. Thus, this collection not only
focuses on recruiting and retaining Black female teachers for the
sake of having their representation in schools; rather, authors
consider some of the implicit (and overt) nuances that these
teachers experience in schools across the United States.
We live in a global society, wherein our dependence on our
neighbors is growing more intensely each year. Technology, travel,
and interdependent economic systems require that nations know more
and share more of their natural resources. Among the most precious
of these resources is the intellectual talent that resides in their
countries. This edited volume sheds light on the unique challenges,
trends, and intersecting issues related to identifying intellectual
potential of children of color around the world, providing access
to appropriate curriculum and instructional opportunities,
addressing the professional capacities of teachers working with
these students, and the role of diverse families and communities in
the talent development process in these communities. To achieve the
volume 'EUROs' objectives, the editors bring together expert
scholars from around the world who have a vested interest in gifted
children of color.
Black males face several active and inactive discriminations across
society. In education, they encounter stiffer disciplinary actions
such as out of school suspension and expulsion than their White
peers, are overrepresented in special education programs as well as
over diagnosed; are underrepresented in gifted in talented
programs; advanced placement and honors courses; and have the lower
college graduation rates compared to other racial groups. Although
these issues are barriers to Black male success, we know that for
every challenge, there is a solution to improving academic, career,
and life outcomes for Black males. Black Males in Secondary and
Postsecondary Education contributes to the existing literature on
this population with a focus on teaching, mentoring, advising, and
counseling Black boys and men, from preschool to
graduate/professional school and beyond into their careers. The
chapter authors address the gap on research from a strengths-based
perspective, around implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black
male educational attainment, the increased anti-black racism around
police racial profiling and disciplinary issues in education, and
academic and career outcomes of Black males. More importantly, the
chapter authors provide recommendations for policy, practice and
research.
African American Males in PreK-12 Schools: Informing Research,
Practice, and Policy presents a comprehensive viewpoint on preK-12
schooling for African American males. Including theoretical,
conceptual, and research based chapters, this edited volume offers
readers compelling evidence of the education challenges and
successes for this student population. Each chapter provides a
richer perspective of the experiences of African American males
throughout their elementary and secondary education. Additionally,
each chapter includes strong implications for education research,
practice, and policy, as well as concrete recommendations to
important stakeholders, such as educators, school counselors,
parents, etc. Collectively, the contributors communicate throughout
the edited volume that educational change is needed and that
educational success is attainable for African American males. It is
intended that the edited volume will help inform education
research, practice, and policy as they relate to African American
males. Equally important, it is envisioned that the readers will
develop a greater interest in the education of African American
males.
This is the story of North Carolina parent choice advocates' push
for the creation and expansion of choice policies. The exploration
of the politics, ideology, and interests surrounding parent choice
includes but also stretches beyond the most frequently discussed
choice policies of charter schools, school vouchers, and tuition
tax credits.
To tell the story of the modern school choice movement in America,
Wayne D. Lewis elucidates what can be learned from the campaign by
North Carolina parent choice advocates for the creation and
expansion of school choice policies in the state. The exploration
of the politics, ideology, and interests surrounding parent choice
in this conversation includes but also stretches beyond the
frequently discussed choice policies of charter schools, school
vouchers, and tuition tax credits. In this work, Lewis makes the
argument that parents' push for these policies is closely akin to
parents' rejection of busing and redistricting policies in
Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Raleigh-Durham, their advocacy for the
state-support of home-schooling options across the state, and their
campaign for the expansion of magnet and intradistrict choice
options. Central to parents' advocacy for all of these policies,
argues Lewis, lies a more foundational desire to reconceputalize
public schooling such that parents have much more individual
control over how public funding is used for the education of their
children.
Harold Lewis applied a cross-disciplinary approach in his highly
accessible discussion of fuzzy control concepts. With the aid of
fifty-seven illustrations, he thoroughly presents a unique
mathematical formalism to explain the workings of the fuzzy
inference engine and a novel test plant used in the research.
Additionally, the text posits a new viewpoint on why fuzzy control
is more popular in some countries than in others. A direct and
original view of Japanese thinking on fuzzy control methods, based
on the author's personal knowledge of - and association with -
Japanese fuzzy research, is also included.
The first edition of Practical Sedimentology contained dis
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS cussions of principles and techniques that could be
applied to the analysis of sediments in the field and in
laboratories sup Colleagues at the University of Canterbury and the
Univer plied with inexpensive and commonly available equipment.
sity of New England, Lismore, have helped with practical When
considering a revised edition, we felt that it was inap advice on
their experiences with various methodologies dis propriate to
restrict consideration to the simple and common cussed in this
volume. At the University of Canterbury, we techniques because so
many modern analyses of sediments are particularly grateful to K.
Swanson for advice on prepar use sophisticated and often expensive
equipment to examine ing materials for scanning electron microscopy
and paleonto sediments and sedimentary rocks. A review of the wide
range logical specimens; to G. Coates (working at the university at
of available techniques and equipment was not feasible in the the
time of the first edition of Practical Sedimentology) for same
volume as a review of principles. The original intent to
compilation of, and additions to, the procedures for textural
analysis and some tables and sketches; to Ted Montague for produce
a concise summary of practical sediment studies in an inexpensive
format was maintained, but now in the form the bulk of the chapter
on borehole sedimentology; to Dr. J.
"A pioneering political-scientific history. . . . Lucidly composed,
meticulously documented, and handsomely presented."--The
Annals
"A fascinating and compelling story of the beginnings of the
Chinese nuclear weapon program."--Arms Control Today
There is a great dispar.ity between the ability of the major
industrial nations to produce and distribute chemicals and our
ability to comprehend the nature and potential severity of
unintended consequences for man, his life support systems and the
environment generally. Furthermore, the gap between our ability to
produce and distribute myriad chemicals and our ability to
identify, understand or predict unfavorable environmental impacts
may widen. As environmental scientists we are conscious of the
interrelatedness, not only of environmental systems, but of nations
as well. Materials are continually moved across boundaries by human
as well as natural agencies. The extent, rate and nature of
transfer for most pollutants is largely unknown. We can only guess
which of the numerous chemicals produced are candidates for
concern. More important still is our practical ignorance of the
mechanisms of chronic effects upon natural systems and of the
concentrations, combinations and circumstances that may lead to
irreversibilities or to serious consequences for man. We know very
little also regarding the potential for or the kinds of indirect
effects that might occur. With respect to the environmentltself, we
know little of its assimilative capacity with regard to widely
dispersed pollutants and their transformation products. But what we
do know is disquieting, and a much-improved system for the
evaluation and management of toxic and hazardous chemicals is
needed.
The point of departure for this new edition, as it was for the
first, is the unacceptable reality that, for students of color,
school is often not a place to learn but a place of low
expectations and failure. In urban schools with concentrations of
poverty, often fewer than half the ninth graders leave with a high
school diploma. This second edition has been considerably expanded
with chapters that illuminate the Asian American, Native American,
and Latina/o experience, including that of undocumented students,
in our schools. These chapters offer insights into the concerns and
issues students bring to the classroom. They also convey the
importance for teachers, as they accept difference and develop
cultural sensitivity, to see their students as individuals, and
avoid generalizations. This need to go beneath the surface is
reinforced by a chapter on adopted children, children of mixed
race, and hidden minorities .White and Black teachers, and teachers
of different races and ethnicities, here provide the essential
theoretical background, and share their experiences and the
approaches they have developed, to create the conditions in both
urban and suburban settings that enable minority students to
succeed. This book encourages reflection and self-examination, and
calls for recognizing and reinforcing students ability to achieve.
It also calls for high expectations for both teachers and students.
It demonstrates what it means to recognize often-unconscious
biases, confront institutional racism where it occurs, surmount
stereotyping, adopt culturally relevant teaching, connect with
parents and the community, and integrate diversity in all
activities. This book is replete with examples from practice and
telling insights that will engage teachers in practice or in
service. It should have a place in every classroom in colleges of
education and K-12 schools. Its empowering message applies to every
teacher working in an educational setting that recognizes the
empowerment that comes in celebrating diversity. Each chapter
concludes with a set of questions for personal reflection or group
discussion."
The point of departure for this new edition, as it was for the
first, is the unacceptable reality that, for students of color,
school is often not a place to learn but a place of low
expectations and failure. In urban schools with concentrations of
poverty, often fewer than half the ninth graders leave with a high
school diploma. This second edition has been considerably expanded
with chapters that illuminate the Asian American, Native American,
and Latina/o experience, including that of undocumented students,
in our schools. These chapters offer insights into the concerns and
issues students bring to the classroom. They also convey the
importance for teachers, as they accept difference and develop
cultural sensitivity, to see their students as individuals, and
avoid generalizations. This need to go beneath the surface is
reinforced by a chapter on adopted children, children of mixed
race, and hidden minorities .White and Black teachers, and teachers
of different races and ethnicities, here provide the essential
theoretical background, and share their experiences and the
approaches they have developed, to create the conditions in both
urban and suburban settings that enable minority students to
succeed. This book encourages reflection and self-examination, and
calls for recognizing and reinforcing students ability to achieve.
It also calls for high expectations for both teachers and students.
It demonstrates what it means to recognize often-unconscious
biases, confront institutional racism where it occurs, surmount
stereotyping, adopt culturally relevant teaching, connect with
parents and the community, and integrate diversity in all
activities. This book is replete with examples from practice and
telling insights that will engage teachers in practice or in
service. It should have a place in every classroom in colleges of
education and K-12 schools. Its empowering message applies to every
teacher working in an educational setting that recognizes the
empowerment that comes in celebrating diversity. Each chapter
concludes with a set of questions for personal reflection or group
discussion."
"A pioneering political-scientific history. . . . Lucidly composed,
meticulously documented, and handsomely presented."--The
Annals
"A fascinating and compelling story of the beginnings of the
Chinese nuclear weapon program."--Arms Control Today
Harold Lewis applied a cross-disciplinary approach in his highly
accessible discussion of fuzzy control concepts. With the aid of
fifty-seven illustrations, he thoroughly presents a unique
mathematical formalism to explain the workings of the fuzzy
inference engine and a novel test plant used in the research.
Additionally, the text posits a new viewpoint on why fuzzy control
is more popular in some countries than in others. A direct and
original view of Japanese thinking on fuzzy control methods, based
on the author's personal knowledge of - and association with -
Japanese fuzzy research, is also included.
There is a great dispar.ity between the ability of the major
industrial nations to produce and distribute chemicals and our
ability to comprehend the nature and potential severity of
unintended consequences for man, his life support systems and the
environment generally. Furthermore, the gap between our ability to
produce and distribute myriad chemicals and our ability to
identify, understand or predict unfavorable environmental impacts
may widen. As environmental scientists we are conscious of the
interrelatedness, not only of environmental systems, but of nations
as well. Materials are continually moved across boundaries by human
as well as natural agencies. The extent, rate and nature of
transfer for most pollutants is largely unknown. We can only guess
which of the numerous chemicals produced are candidates for
concern. More important still is our practical ignorance of the
mechanisms of chronic effects upon natural systems and of the
concentrations, combinations and circumstances that may lead to
irreversibilities or to serious consequences for man. We know very
little also regarding the potential for or the kinds of indirect
effects that might occur. With respect to the environmentltself, we
know little of its assimilative capacity with regard to widely
dispersed pollutants and their transformation products. But what we
do know is disquieting, and a much-improved system for the
evaluation and management of toxic and hazardous chemicals is
needed.
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