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Essays on Pedagogy

By: Robin J. Alexander

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Essays on Pedagogy

By: Robin J. Alexander

In Essays on Pedagogy, Robin Alexander brings together some of his most powerful writing, drawing on his research in Britain and other countries over the past two decades.

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Routledge

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0415454824

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9780415454827

Arms and the University

Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students

By: Donald Alexander Downs,Ilia Murtazashvili

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Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students

By: Donald Alexander Downs,Ilia Murtazashvili

The gap between the U.S. military and society has widened in recent years, posing problems for the constitutional order. The gap is especially acute in major universities. Arms and the University probes various dimensions of the tense relationship between the military and the university. Developing and applying a theory of civic and liberal education, this book shows how some military presence on campus can contribute to the diversity of ideas and the education of all students.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521192323

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9780521192323

Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

By: Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova

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Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

By: Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova

Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated conservative consensus while films manifested symptoms of ideological and social crises. The book examines the genres of state-sponsored epic films, police procedural, comedy and melodrama, and outlines how television gradually emerged as the major form of Russo-Soviet popular culture. Through close analysis of well-known film classics of the period as well as less familiar films and television series, this groundbreaking work helps to deconstruct the myth of this era as a time of cultural and economic stagnation and also helps us to understand the persistence of this myth in the collective memory of Putin-era Russia. This monograph is the first book-length English-language study of film and television genres of the late Soviet era.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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150132408X

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9781501324086

Battles And Victories Of Allen Allensworth, A.M., Ph.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army [Illustrated Edition]

By: Charles Alexander

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Battles And Victories Of Allen Allensworth, A.M., Ph.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army [Illustrated Edition]

By: Charles Alexander

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. The story of Allen Allensworth is one of true strength and courage in adversity to become the first African-American to attain the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the U.S. Army; this was not his only singular distinction by any means. Born into slavery, he escaped by joining the 44th Illinois Volunteers and later served two years in the Navy. Having studied theology, he was ordained as a minister, and in 1886 he gained an appointment as a military chaplain to a unit of Buffalo Soldiers and served in the US Army for the next 20 years. He was also notable for founding the township of Allensworth, California in 1908; it was intended as an all-black community to be free of the racial discrimination faced by so many at the turn of the 20th century. Although the town failed due to the environmental conditions that surrounded its founding, the remains are preserved as the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. A fascinating biography of an influential and pioneering African-American.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782891226

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9781782891222

A Cavalry Officer In The Corunna Campaign 1808-1809:

The Journal Of Captain Gordon Of The 15th Hussars

By: Captain Alexander Gordon

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A Cavalry Officer In The Corunna Campaign 1808-1809:

The Journal Of Captain Gordon Of The 15th Hussars

By: Captain Alexander Gordon

Captain Gordon led a troop of the 15th Hussars during the first of the British army’s campaigns into Spain, commanded by Sir John Moore. Unearthed and published many years after it was written by the esteemed Regimental historian Colonel Wylly, his diary bears testimony to the events of the retreat to Corunna. Gordon writes of his adventures with verve, wit and in some places a little venom when talking of his erstwhile commander Moore; he is fulsome in his description of the Portuguese and Spanish people to whom the British had come to aid. For example when relating the qualities of a local wine he could “only compare the taste of it to a mixture of vinegar and ink” On military matters he is no great respecter of rank, and distributes blame and praise where he believes they should be rightly apportioned. He gives a great first-hand account of the famed skirmish of Sahagun, to which he believes started a moral ascendancy of the British cavalry over their French counterparts. Despite some defective equipment and, as Gordon attributes it, dilatory conduct by the commander, he reaches Corunna unlike a number of his comrades and fellow country-men. A fine read, which despite its format as a journal retains some pace, it gives a great view of the retreat from an expert military eye. Author – Captain Alexander Gordon (1781-1872) Editor – Colonel Harold Carmichael Wylly (1858-1932)

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210

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1908902000

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9781908902009

McCrae's Battalion

The Story of the 16th Royal Scots

By: Jack Alexander

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McCrae's Battalion

The Story of the 16th Royal Scots

By: Jack Alexander

McCrae's Own was the 'Heart of Midlothian Battalion' mentioned all too briefly in Martin Middlebrook's classic book The First Day on the Somme. Raised in Edinburgh shortly after the start of the Great War, it was perhaps the finest unit in Lord Kitchener's volunteer army - a brotherhood of sportsmen, bound together by their extraordinary colonel and their loyalty to a quaintly named Association Football club, the famous Gorgie 'Hearts'. McCrae's were blooded in the Battle of the Somme, losing three-quarters of their strength on the first day alone. The Colonel himself was invalided home. In time the battalion recovered. It came of age at Arras, endured the muddy horror of Passchendaele, and held the line unbroken in the face of furious German attacks on the Lys in 1918. For almost a century their story remained untold. It was all but lost forever. Now, after 12 years of exacting historical detective work, Jack Alexander has reclaimed the 16th Royal Scots for posterity. In this stirring book he draws upon interviews with veterans and a unique archive of letters, diaries and photographs, assembled from the families of more than 1,000 of Sir George McCrae's men.

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Random House

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1845968212

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9781845968212

New Era in the Education of Blind Children, or, Teaching the Blind in Ordinary Schools. An Abstract of which was Read at the Late Meeting fo the Social Science Congress Held at Glasgow

By: Alexander Barnhill

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New Era in the Education of Blind Children, or, Teaching the Blind in Ordinary Schools. An Abstract of which was Read at the Late Meeting fo the Social Science Congress Held at Glasgow

By: Alexander Barnhill

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385370833

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9783385370838

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Essays on Pedagogy

Essays on Pedagogy

Arms and the University

Arms and the University

Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

Battles And Victories Of Allen Allensworth, A.M., Ph.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army [Illustrated Edition]

Battles And Victories Of Allen Allensworth, A.M., Ph.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army [Illustrated Edition]

A Cavalry Officer In The Corunna Campaign 1808-1809:

A Cavalry Officer In The Corunna Campaign 1808-1809:

McCrae's Battalion

McCrae's Battalion

New Era in the Education of Blind Children, or, Teaching the Blind in Ordinary Schools. An Abstract of which was Read at the Late Meeting fo the Social Science Congress Held at Glasgow

New Era in the Education of Blind Children, or, Teaching the Blind in Ordinary Schools. An Abstract of which was Read at the Late Meeting fo the Social Science Congress Held at Glasgow

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