This book is geared towards the academic as well as the trade audience. There are very few books for college teachers that encourage them with specific ways to become better teachers. As such, this book is very unusual in its information and purpose, making it a very valuable tool for anyone who wants to teach. This book stands well on its own but would also make a great supplement for any college text book. For a trade audience this book has applications to high school and elementary school teachers who can easily make the leap between teaching college and their current level students. It will also be of interest to parents as they evaluate the quality of those who teach their children. Written in the style of Irvin. D. Yalom and his book The Gift of Therapy, this work is based on general research themes and experience rather than specific studies. It is written in a direct and personal style to the reader with many examples from the twenty-one years of teaching experience by the author.
A trade unionist conceives a grand poem which will encompass his whole life since World War II. Soon he finds he must include his grandfather in 1915, his mother in Hobart in 1935, his father in Egypt with the air force, George Orwell in Spain, a German pilgrim, some French resisters shot in 1944, Soviet sailors drowned in a sub, Cole Porter, Venice, Bob Dylan, Hans Holbein, Anne of Cleves, Trotsky and Tsar Nicholas II. His daughters will be in there, and his wives, and his work. There will be politics, dreams, elections, paintings, mountains, funerals, vineyards, folk music. He cannot evade his implication in dispossession and oppression. These poems try to make some sense of our disquieting times - without certainty, without buttressing from religion or ideology. There's nothing else like this.
This project is drawn from the obsolete card catalogs of the Mütter Museum Philadelphia, and the discarded main card catalog of the Los Angeles Central Library. ...The poems ... are composed of the title lines of sequences of cards taken in order, using all cards beginning with a given word, series of words, title groups, author groups or subject groups, and are printed as plates following the poems."--Colophon [v. 2].
This project is drawn from the obsolete card catalogs of the Mütter Museum Philadelphia, and the discarded main card catalog of the Los Angeles Central Library. ... The poems ... are composed of the title lines of sequences of cards taken in order, using all cards beginning with a given word, series of words, title groups, author groups or subject groups, and are printed as plates following the poems."--Colophon [v. 2].
This project is drawn from the obsolete card catalogs of the Mütter Museum Philadelphia, and the discarded main card catalog of the Los Angeles Central Library. ... The poems ... are composed of the title lines of sequences of cards taken in order, using all cards beginning with a given word, series of words, title groups, author groups or subject groups, and are printed as plates following the poems."--Colophon [v. 2].
In this anthology relationships, the future, the past and décor are all permanently tainted by the action or inaction of the main players; their own histories are laid out for all to see. Choose a player, pick a story, and indulge in their nightmare. Silicon Rules OK: It's 2020 and man's reign over the Earth comes to an end as he's forced to become subservient to machines. How will the humanity react? Will the machines make a better job of ruling the Earth? Nightmare Revisited: Tony returns to the city of his childhood, Hiroshima. He tries to trace family and friends who stayed and experienced the bomb. The experience brings heartache as he relives the terrible events of that fateful day in 1945. After his visit he becomes a changed man. Revenge in the Sun: Pam and Steve invite a business colleague, Lester and his girlfriend, Robin, to holiday in their house in France once too often. Lester reads a small article in The Times that will change all of their lives, permanently. With Best Endeavour: Ted Johnson and his wife have been living a life, Ted's life, socialising and enjoying themselves, regardless of others. He has no long term plans after the next pint. But he is about to receive a rude awakening. Forward to the Past: It's the 25th Century and Government have taken the term 'Nanny State' to an entirely different level; a world where families are non-existent, children grow up in state-run nurseries without a parents' love. Can Nina and Mark escape the trap and move forward to the past to give their unborn child a chance at life? Invisible Friend: Gavin had lived a singleton's existence until death. Then he meets Ali who explains he has to make an important decision. A man and daughter in the “living” world are in danger. Will Gavin help and in doing so learn something along the way? On the Road to Hell: With Stuart's latest prize tucked up in the boot of his car all he has to do is dispose of the evidence, and he knows just the place. However, this time he arrives things are different; the lake's polluted and something nasty is waiting for him. The OxyGene Hypothesis: There's a few weeks left before the ground breaking “Project OxyGene” is to launch. But Tom Edison, a research scientist, discovers a life threatening defect. Not knowing what is at stake for his employer he notifies the bosses with devastating consequences. The Suburban Weekend That Wasn't: All Dan Rogers wants from his weekend is a break from the stress of his job. But after his 83 year old neighbour is arrested, and he discovers a rotting hand buried in her garden, what was to be a relaxing break from work becomes a complete nightmare.
This project is drawn from the obsolete card catalogs of the Mütter Museum Philadelphia, and the discarded main card catalog of the Los Angeles Central Library. ... The poems ... are composed of the title lines of sequences of cards taken in order, using all cards beginning with a given word, series of words, title groups, author groups or subject groups, and are printed as plates following the poems."--Colophon [v. 2].
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