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The classic nursery story celebrates 100 years since its first
publication! He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because
the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real
shabbiness doesn't matter. In the nursery, only the toys that are
old and wise truly understand what it means to be Real. The
Velveteen Rabbit, a newcomer to the nursery, asks one of the most
knowledgeable toys, the Skin Horse, what being Real means. And so
begins the Velveteen Rabbit’s journey towards becoming real –
through the love of a child … Margery Williams’ timeless
picture book classic has been read and cherished by many
generations of children and their parents and is now available in
this beautiful hardback edition. Brought to life by gorgeous and
much-loved classic illustrations by William Nicholson, with a new
foiled cover design, this is a wonderful keepsake gift to treasure
and share.
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The Velveteen Rabbit (Hardcover)
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The classic nursery story celebrates 100 years since its first
publication! He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because
the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real
shabbiness doesn't matter. In the nursery, only the toys that are
old and wise truly understand what it means to be Real. The
Velveteen Rabbit, a newcomer to the nursery, asks one of the most
knowledgeable toys, the Skin Horse, what being Real means. And so
begins the Velveteen Rabbit’s journey towards becoming real –
through the love of a child … Margery Williams’ timeless
picture book is brought to life by gorgeous classic illustrations
by William Nicholson.
Design and implement successful Web-based courses This wide-ranging
book discusses both the micro and macro aspects of using the
Internet to enhance your travel and tourism curriculum. The
Internet and Travel and Tourism Education offers useful insights
for both novices and experienced users. With these suggestions, you
can use online resources to contribute to your class objectives.
The innovative teaching strategies presented in The Internet and
Travel and Tourism Education will not soon become outdated. Instead
of being based on fast-changing technical details, such as specific
programs, the ideas are rooted in the way information is presented
and absorbed. By tapping the power of the Internet, you can find
more effective ways to teach the skills and facts your students
need. The Internet and Travel and Tourism Education provides
helpful advice and information on essential aspects of this
powerful tool, including: Web-based instruction
students'perceptions of Internet courses using the Web to expand
content areas an Internet-based master's degree program
administrative issues managing multimedia projects The Internet and
Travel and Tourism Education will help you offer the best possible
education for your students and stay up-to-date in an increasingly
competitive world.
The first transnational study of the memory of the Kindertransport
and the first to explore how it is represented in museums,
memorials, and commemorations. The Kindertransport, the rescue of
ca. 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi sphere of control and
influence before the Second World War, has often been framed as a
"British story." This book recognizes that even though most of the
"Kinder" were initially brought to the UK and many stayed, it was
more than that. It therefore compares British memory of the
Kindertransport to that of other host nations (the US, Canada,
Australia, and New Zealand). It is the first book to ask how the
Kindertransport is remembered both in the countries of origin,
particularly Germany, and in the host nations, as well as the first
to analyze how it is represented in museums, memorials, and
commemorations. Seeing memory of the Kindertransport in the host
nations and in Germany as significantly different, the study argues
that the different national memory discourses around the Nazi
persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the
Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses
- especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks
remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book
also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory
trends that link the host nations with each other and with the
countries from which the children originated.
Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.
Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys--and people--become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with the original story and illustrations as they first appeared in 1922, will work its magic for all who read it.
Metro Music explores the musical history of Dallas, Fort Worth, and
the surrounding area from the nineteenth century to the 1960s and
the continuing echoes of that transformative decade. With nearly
five hundred images, many previously unpublished, the book moves
through genres and eras that include old-time fiddlers and string
bands, singing cowboys, the blues, western swing, gospel,
country-western, jazz, ragtime, big bands, Tejano and Tex-Mex,
rhythm and blues, rockabilly, and rock 'n' roll. The authors visit
such legendary venues as Crystal Springs Dance Pavilion and the
Longhorn Ballroom, Panther Hall and the Bluebird, and step into
historic recording studios where Robert Johnson waxed 'Hellhound on
My Trail,' Willie created Red Headed Stranger, and the Legendary
Stardust Cowboy birthed the demented masterpiece 'Paralyzed.' 'We
deeply appreciate this musical heritage,' the authors declare, 'but
we didn't realize just how amazing it is!'
Counterinsurgency has existed as the state's implicit strategy for
a generation, and increasingly this strategy is becoming explicit.
In this chilling collection of sociological and political essays,
15 writers examine the application of domestic counterinsurgency
tactics within the United States and seek to equip the left with a
more nuanced understanding of state repression - and how to fight
back.
This book describes methods for designing and analyzing experiments
that are conducted using a computer code, a computer experiment,
and, when possible, a physical experiment. Computer experiments
continue to increase in popularity as surrogates for and adjuncts
to physical experiments. Since the publication of the first
edition, there have been many methodological advances and software
developments to implement these new methodologies. The computer
experiments literature has emphasized the construction of
algorithms for various data analysis tasks (design construction,
prediction, sensitivity analysis, calibration among others), and
the development of web-based repositories of designs for immediate
application. While it is written at a level that is accessible to
readers with Masters-level training in Statistics, the book is
written in sufficient detail to be useful for practitioners and
researchers. New to this revised and expanded edition: * An
expanded presentation of basic material on computer experiments and
Gaussian processes with additional simulations and examples * A new
comparison of plug-in prediction methodologies for real-valued
simulator output * An enlarged discussion of space-filling designs
including Latin Hypercube designs (LHDs), near-orthogonal designs,
and nonrectangular regions * A chapter length description of
process-based designs for optimization, to improve good overall
fit, quantile estimation, and Pareto optimization * A new chapter
describing graphical and numerical sensitivity analysis tools *
Substantial new material on calibration-based prediction and
inference for calibration parameters * Lists of software that can
be used to fit models discussed in the book to aid practitioners
When Springer-Verlag undertook publication of this volume, two
opportunities arose. The first was to bring together the
significant findings ofthe interacting parts of a large field
experiment on a whole ecosystem. Scientific specialists and the
public are rightly concerned with large-scale impacts of human
activity on landscapes and with the challenge of predicting subtle,
long-range repercussions of air pollution. A fundamental issue is
whether ecological systems like grasslands, which have evolved for
several million years under stressful conditions such as variable
climate and overgrazing, are more robust than other systems in
tolerating new atmospheric impacts of pollution and toxicity. At
what level, and when, will an extra geochemical input, like sulfur
(Chapter 4), an essential nutrient for proteins and life processes,
become an overload on these systems? Some grasses and grassland
ecosystems seem fairly adaptable to burdens in addition to those of
weather change and tissue removal. How can experts learn to project
the future of the heartland of America and other grasslands of the
world on the basis of only a few years of observation and control?
The second opportunity addresses a broader aspect of the project
that is of interest to many readers who are not concerned with
details of physiology or food chains, or the overall productivity
and variations of a single plant-animal-soil community.
This book describes methods for designing and analyzing
experiments conducted using computer code in lieu of a physical
experiment. It discusses how to select the values of the factors at
which to run the code (the design of the computer experiment). It
also provides techniques for analyzing the resulting data so as to
achieve these research goals.
Essays by leading international researchers on the psychology of social judgments discuss the role of evolutionary, neuropsychological and developmental influences on social judgments, in addition to the role of high-level reasoning processes. The delicate interplay between conscious, rational and unconscious automatic mechanisms is emphasized in determining judgmental outcomes. The implications of recent advances in understanding everyday social judgments in people's personal and working lives are stressed.
"What is REAL?" a shy stuffed animal asks an older and wiser
plaything. Generations of children have found the answer to that
vital question in "The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real,
"the timeless story of a toy's transformation through the power of
love. This gift edition of Margery Williams's beloved classic
features enchanting color illustrations by William Nicholson from
the original 1922 publication.
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The Doctor Stories (Paperback)
William Carlos Williams; Afterword by William Eric Williams; Introduction by Atul Gawande
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The Doctor Stories collects thirteen of Williams's stories (direct
accounts of his experiences as a doctor), six related poems, and a
chapter from his autobiography that connects the world of medicine
and writing, as well as a new preface by Atul Gawande, an
introduction by Robert Coles (who put the book together), and a
final note by Williams's son (also a doctor), about his famous
father. The writings are remarkably direct and freshly true. As
Atul Gawande notes, "Reading these tales,you find yourself in a
conversation with Williams about who people really are-who you
really are. Williams recognized that, caring for the people of his
city, he had a front-row seat to the human condition. His writing
makes us see it and hear it and grapple with it in all its
complexities. That is his lasting gift."
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The Velveteen Rabbit (Hardcover)
Margery Williams; Illustrated by William S Nicholson
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Originally published in 1922, The Velveteen Rabbit has delighted
young readers for nearly a century. The story follows a young boy
who's given a stuffed rabbit as a Christmas gift. After the rabbit
befriends other nursery toys, he comes to the realization that he
wants to become a real rabbit. Eventually, the boy becomes ill and
is relocated; his room is then disinfected and all the boy's toys
are thrown out, including the velveteen rabbit. The rabbit sheds a
real tear causing a fairy to appear and turn him into a real
rabbit. In 2007, the book was named one of "Teachers' Top 100 Books
for Children" by the National Education Association. This elegant,
affordable edition includes beautiful, full-color illustrations
throughout the book from the original illustrator, William
Nicholson. Each image accompanies the text to enhance young
readers' experience and immerse them in this captivating story.
Reprinted hundreds of times since its initial publication, The
Velveteen Rabbit is a timeless children's classic lets young
readers experience the true magic of friendship, love, and being
honest with oneself.
Sci-fi master Theodore Sturgeon wrote stories with power and
freshness, and in telling them created a broader understanding of
humanity a legacy for readers and writers to mine for generations.
Along with the title story, the collection includes stories written
between 1953 and 1955, Sturgeons greatest period, with such
favorites as Bulkhead, The Golden Helix, and To Here and the Easel.
The objective of this book, which was originally published in 2003,
is to provide an informative, scholarly yet readable overview of
advances on judgmental research, and to offer a closer integration
between implicit, subconscious, and explicit conscious judgmental
mechanisms. The chapters draw on key research on social cognition,
evolutionary psychology, neuropsychology, and personality dynamics
to achieve this objective. The contributions offer important
insights into the way everyday judgmental processes operate and are
organized into three sections, dealing with fundamental influences
on judgmental processes, the role of cognitive and intra-psychic
mechanisms in social judgments and the role of social and
interpersonal variables in judgments. The book is written in a
readable yet scholarly style, and researchers, practitioners, and
students both at the undergraduate and at the graduate level should
find it an engaging overview of the field.
A comparison of major shifts in volume of freight traffic in the
Soviet Union and in the United States. Originally published in
1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Bernard Williams es una de las principales figuras de la ilosofia
actual. Su Descartes es el mejor estudio de conjunto publicado en
las ultimas decadas sobre el pensamiento cartesiano, alternando en
su exposicion la perspectiva historica con la reconstruccion
racional y critica desde el punto de vista de la filosofio
contemporanea. Todos los aspectos de la vida y de la obra de
Descarles, desde el cogito, el dualismo del alma y el cuerpo o la
prueba ontologica de la existencia de Dios a la matematizacion de
la ciencia o el puesto de la mente en el cosmos, estan
esplendidamente tratados.
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