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Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?: A Policy Context
Par Nick Bailey, Duncan Maclennan, Ludi Simpson, David Manley. 2014
This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that…
living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. Over the last few decades, Western governments have persistently pursued area based policies to fight such effects, despite a lack of evidence that they exist, or that these policies make a difference. The first part of this book presents case studies of perceived neighbourhood based problems in the domains of crime; health; educational outcomes; and employment. The second part of the book presents an international overview of the policies that different governments have implemented in response to these neighbourhood based problems, and discusses the theoretical and conceptual processes behind place based policy making. Case studies are drawn from a diverse range of countries including the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, Canada, and the USA.Defining Twilight: Vocabulary Workbook for Unlocking the *SAT, ACT®, GED®, and SSAT®
Par Brian Leaf. 2009
Can you resist the allure of Edward's myriad charms--his ocher eyes and tousled hair, the cadence of his speech, his…
chiseled alabaster skin, and his gratuitous charm? Will you hunt surreptitiously and tolerate the ceaseless deluge in Forks to evade the sun and uphold the facade? Join Edward and Bella as you learn more than 600 vocabulary words to improve your score on the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT exams! Use this workbook side-by-side with your own copy of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight! * Each chapter of the workbook gives you eight words taken from Twilight, with page references for you to read the words in the context of your favorite novel * Define the words on your own before turning back to the workbook for their actual definitions * At the end of each section you'll take SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT drills and quizzes to review and integrate what you've learned * Plus, you'll learn synonyms, Latin word parts, and memorization tools throughout the workbook.Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap
Par Max Cresswell. 2016
Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books…
address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities.Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America
Par Jack R. Gannon. 2012
Now, Jack R. Gannon's original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In Deaf Heritage: A…
Narrative History of Deaf America, Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America from a Deaf perspective. Recognizing the need to document the multifaceted history of this unique minority with its distinctive visual culture, he painstakingly gathered as much material as he could on Deaf American life. The result is a 17-chapter montage of artifacts and information that forms an utterly fascinating record from the early nineteenth century to the time of its original publication in 1981. Deaf Heritage tracks the development of the Deaf community both chronologically and by significant subjects. The initial chapter treats the critical topics of early attempts at deaf education, the impact of Deaf and Black deaf teachers, the establishment of schools for the deaf, and the founding of Gallaudet College. Individual chapters cover the 1880s through the 1970s, mixing milestones such as the birth of the National Association of the Deaf and the work of important figures, Deaf and hearing, with anecdotes about day-to-day deaf life. Other chapters single out important facets of Deaf culture: American Sign Language, Deaf Sports, Deaf artists, Deaf humor, and Deaf publications. The overall effect of this remarkable record, replete with archival photographs, tables, and lists of Deaf people's accomplishments, reveals the growth of a vibrant legacy singular in American history. Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. To explore further access options with us, please contact us through the Book Quality link on the right sidebar. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.Uchalya (The Branded)
Par Laxman Gaikwad, P. A. Kolharkar. 1998
Leernetwerken
Par Jan Van Bruggen, Wim Didderen, Francis Brouns, Peter Sloep, Marcel Van Klink. 2010
Regular staff reviews will help an organisation to be effective and efficient (and hence more profitable), and will help the…
individual employee gain more job satisfaction. A satisfied employee is going to work better; a more profitable company means a happier boss. It's that simple. This book is a thorough, comprehensive guide for anyone involved in staff reviews. It covers: *Conducting appraisals in an open organisation with a narrative focus *Appraisal skills - interview techniques and listening and counselling skills *Eight rules for successful negotiation *The role of job analysis, job description and person specification *Different types of appraisal *Preparing for the appraisal * Conducting the interview and evaluating the appraisal *What can go wrong and what to watch out for *Resolving conflict. Thoroughly revised and updated edition.Feminism and Pop Culture: Seal Studies (Seal Studies)
Par Andi Zeisler. 2008
Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape…
the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism and Pop Culture, author and cofounder of Bitch magazine Andi Zeisler traces the impact of feminism on pop culture (and vice versa) from the 1940s to the present and beyond. With a comprehensive overview of the intertwining relationship between women and pop culture, this book is an ideal introduction to discussing feminism and daily life.Passion, Death, and Spirituality
Par David Sherman, Kathleen Higgins. 2011
Robert C. Solomon, who died in 2007, was Professor of Philosophy and Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business at the…
University of Texas, USA. As the first book comprehensively to examine the breadth of Solomon's contribution to philosophy, this volume ranks as a vital addition to the literature. It includes a newly published transcript of Solomon's last talk, which responded to Arindam Chakrabarti on the concept of revenge, as well as the considered views of prominent figures in the numerous subfields in which Solomon worked. The content analyses his perspectives on the philosophy of emotion, virtue, business ethics, and religion, in addition to philosophical history, existentialism, and the many other topics that held this prolific thinker's attention. Solomon memorably defined philosophy itself as 'the thoughtful love of life', and despite the diversity of his output, he was most drawn by central questions about the meaning of life, the essential role that emotions play in finding that meaning, and the human imperative to seek 'emotional integrity', in which one's thoughts, emotions, and actions all contribute to a coherent narrative. The essays included here draw attention to the interconnections between the issues Solomon addressed, and evince the manner in which he embodied that integrity, living a life at one with his philosophy. They emphasize the central themes of passion, ethics, and spirituality, which threaded through his work, and the way these ideas informed his views on how we should approach grief and death. The multiplicity of topics alone make this keystone work an enlightening read for a full spectrum of students of philosophy, providing much to ponder and recounting a subtle and shining example of the emotional integrity Solomon worked so hard to define.Innovationen verbreiten, optimieren und evaluieren
Par Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Stefan Bösner. 2012
Das Buch richtet sich an Wissenschaftler, die sich mit dem noch relativ jungen medizinischen Feld der Versorgungsforschung beschäftigen. Der Leser…
findet eine gut verständliche und nachvollziehbare Anleitung, um erste eigene Schritte zu gehen. Und der geübte Versorgungsforscher kann das fundierte und durch die reichhaltige Projektarbeit der Autoren reflektierte Wissen nutzen, um neue Ideen zu entwickeln. Methodische Überlegungen zu qualitativen und quantitativen Verfahren werden von zahlreichen Beispielen unterlegt, die es dem Leser erlauben, ein eigenes Vorsorgungsforschungsprojekt zu konzipieren und durchzuführen. Hierbei sprechen die Autoren mögliche Fallstricke auf dem Weg an und ermutigen den Leser, sich auch noch auf der Zielgeraden eine gesunde Portion Selbstkritik zu bewahren. Gute Versorgungsforschung ist wegen der komplexen Materie eben kein leichtes, aber ein durchaus lohnendes Unterfangen.Educational Research: The Importance and Effects of Institutional Spaces
Par Marc Depaepe, Paul Smeyers, Edwin Keiner. 2012
This collection of fresh analyses aims to map the links between educational theory and research, and the geographical and physical…
spaces in which teaching is practiced and discussed. The authors combine historical and philosophical perspectives in examining the differing institutional loci of education research, and also assess the potential and the limitations of each. The contributors trace the effects of 'space' on educational practice in the classroom, in the broader institutions, and in the academic discipline of education--doing so for a range of international contexts. The chapters address various topics relating to the physical and geographical environment. How, for example, does geographical space shape researchers' mental frameworks? How did the learning environments in which young children are taught today evolve? To what extent did parochialism shape America's higher education system? How can our understanding of classroom practice be enhanced by concepts of space? The book acknowledges that texts themselves, as well as the research 'arena', are 'spaces' too, and notes the fascinating debate on the concept of space in the field of mathematics education. Indeed, as more and more students move online, the book analyses the rising importance of virtual spaces such as Web 2.0, which have major educational implications for researchers and students joining the innovative 'virtual' universities of the future. This publication, as well as the ones that are mentioned in the preliminary pages of this work, were realized by the Research Community (FWO Vlaanderen / Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium) Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education: Faces and Spaces of Educational Research.Education and the Kyoto School of Philosophy
Par Naoko Saito, Paul Standish. 2011
The work of the Kyoto School represents one of the few streams of philosophy that originate in Japan. Following the…
cultural renaissance of the Meiji Restoration after Japan's period of closure to the outside world (1600-1868), this distinctly Japanese thought found expression especially in the work of Kitaro Nishida, Keiji Nishitani and Hajime Tanabe. Above all this is a philosophy of experience, of human becoming, and of transformation. In pursuit of these themes it brings an inheritance of Western philosophy that encompasses William James, Hume, Kant and Husserl, as well as the psychology of Wilhelm Wundt, into conjunction with Eastern thought and practice. Yet the legacy and continuing reception of the Kyoto School have not been easy, in part because of the coincidence of its prominence with the rise of Japanese fascism. In light of this, then, the School's ongoing relationship to the thought of Heidegger has an added salience. And yet this remains a rich philosophical line of thought with remarkable salience for educational practice. The present collection focuses on the Kyoto School in three unique ways. First, it concentrates on the School's distinctive account of human becoming. Second, it examines the way that, in the work of its principal exponents, diverse traditions of thought in philosophy and education are encountered and fused. Third, and with a broader canvas, it considers why the rich implications of the Kyoto School for for philosophy and education have not been more widely appreciated, and it seeks to remedy this. The first part of the book introduces the historical and philosophical background of the Kyoto School, illustrating its importance especially for aesthetic education, while the second part looks beyond this to explore the convergence of relevant streams of philosophy, East and West, ranging from the Noh play and Buddhist practices to American transcendentalism and post-structuralism.Literacy and Language in East Asia: Shifting Meanings, Values and Approaches
Par Peter Kell, Marilyn Kell. 2014
This book critically explores why some Asian nations are on top of the world in students' achievement tests in reading…
and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education. Why are governments anxious about the capabilities and skills of school and university graduates in a global economy when there is a Asian economic boom? The authors explore questions about how the Asian countries value test-based examination curriculum and its influence on the practices of teaching learning and the lives of young people in Asia. The authors describe the challenge of change for East Asian nations to develop more relevant approaches to literacy and language and more inclusive societies focussed on the needs of young people and not exam results.Threshold: Emergency Responders On The U.S. - Mexico Border
Par Ieva Jusionyte. 2018
Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country…
lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants who jump over the wall, and put out fires that know no national boundaries. Paramedics and firefighters on both sides of the border are tasked with saving lives and preventing disasters in the harsh terrain at the center of divisive national debates. Ieva Jusionyte’s firsthand experience as an emergency responder provides the background for her gripping examination of the politics of injury and rescue in the militarized region surrounding the US-Mexico border. Operating in this area, firefighters and paramedics are torn between their mandate as frontline state actors and their responsibility as professional rescuers, between the limits of law and pull of ethics. From this vantage they witness what unfolds when territorial sovereignty, tactical infrastructure, and the natural environment collide. Jusionyte reveals the binational brotherhood that forms in this crucible to stand in the way of catastrophe. Through beautiful ethnography and a uniquely personal perspective, Threshold provides a new way to understand politicized issues ranging from border security and undocumented migration to public access to healthcare today.Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
Par Stefania Centrone. 2009
Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl's work, from…
the publication of his Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) to that of his Logical Investigations (1900/01), and aims to precisely locate his early work in the fields of logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics. Unlike most phenomenologists, the author refrains from reading Husserl's early work as a more or less immature sketch of claims consolidated only in his later phenomenology, and unlike the majority of historians of logic she emphasizes the systematic strength and the originality of Husserl's logico-mathematical work. The book attempts to reconstruct the discussion between Husserl and those philosophers and mathematicians who contributed to new developments in logic, such as Leibniz, Bolzano, the logical algebraists (especially Boole and Schröder), Frege, and Hilbert and his school. It presents both a comprehensive critical examination of some of the major works produced by Husserl and his antagonists in the last decade of the 19th century and a formal reconstruction of many texts from Husserl's Nachlaß that have not yet been the object of systematical scrutiny. This volume will be of particular interest to researchers working in the history, and in the philosophy, of logic and mathematics, and more generally, to analytical philosophers and phenomenologists with a background in standard logic.Fossils: The Key to the Past
Par Richard A. Fortey. 1982
A guide for amateur fossil collectors and general readers to how fossils came about, how to find and identify them,…
and their economic and practical importance. Emphasizes fossils easy to find. Includes a short glossary without pronunciation.Gulaami: Indentured Labour - Fiji
Par Kamlesh Sharma. 2016
Gulaami documents the experiences of a Girmitiya (Indentured Labourer) in Fiji who is originally from the village of Devadeha in…
the district of Basti in Uttar Pradesh. The reinvented slave trade of the mid 1850s by the British resulted in the removal of hundreds of thousands of Indians from their motherland, India and transplanted against their wishes in the British colonies (including Fiji) across the globe. In the South Pacific setting, slavery in Fiji is a story of the forgotten stolen generation right in the backyard of countries such as Australia and New Zealand. The story of Gulaami is about the ancestors of the Fijiindians who sacrificed so much for the betterment of Fiji and the emergence of the Fijiindian society, who are still struggling for equality and justice in the only country that they have known since their birth, Fiji.Eastern North Carolina Farming
Par Frank Stephenson, Barbara Nichols Mulder. 2014
Settled as a maritime and agricultural colony, North Carolina's history has always been intertwined with agriculture and farming. After the…
Civil War, North Carolina became the nation's top grower of tobacco, and one of the country's largest tobacco companies--the American Tobacco Company--flourished from the huge quantities of Eastern North Carolina-grown tobacco that was purchased. With the growing success of cotton farming and other crops and livestock--including corn, peanuts, and hogs--the region was particularly rich in subsistence farming. Over the course of the 20th century, farming and agriculture went through tremendous change. The familiar landscape of cotton and tobacco began to shift and include more varied crops, such as soybeans and sweet potatoes. At the same time, hand tools were exchanged for tractors and combines. Eastern North Carolina Farming showcases the rich history of this agriculturally dynamic region while telling the individual stories of farmers who grew for families, markets, and distribution.The Voice of the Poor: Essays in Economic and Political Persuasion
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1983
What is surprising about these essays is not the insight and grace with which they are written- we have come…
to expect that- but the fact that nobody has expressed matters in quite this way before. John Kenneth Galbraith writes about what advice the poor nations (as, avoiding euphemism, he calls them) ought to offer to the more fortunate countries... In this little book there are essential lessons to ponder--for the governments of the rich countries, for those of the poor lands, and for the concerned citizens of both.Please note: The content in the new Manhattan Prep GRE Verbal Strategies is an updated version of the verbal content…
in the Manhattan Prep GRE Set of 8 Strategy Guides.Written and recently updated by our 99th percentile GRE instructors, Manhattan Prep's GRE Verbal Strategies features in-depth lessons covering strategies for every question type on the Verbal section of the GRE. Included in this comprehensive guide are memorable and practical techniques for efficiently tackling Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence problems. In the Reading Comprehensions chapters, you will learn strategies for grasping difficult, unfamiliar content and a process for answering general questions, specific questions, and logic-based questions. Throughout the guide you will find tips for avoiding common traps, along with plenty of opportunity for practice via problem sets followed by detailed answer explanations written by GRE top-scorers. The guide also includes easy-to-understand, user-friendly strategies for writing the AWA (Analytical Writing Assessment) portion of the test, also known as “the essays.”