The Last Supper has been thrilling audiences with its original theatrical approach of combining actors with a contemporary choir. It is the story of Leonardo da Vinci's struggle to complete his famous mural. Actors portray Leonardo, Jesus, the twelve Apostles, an Angel and two women, while singers express the meaning and emotion of the action through song. The climax of the piece is a stunning moment where the mural is re-created on the stage."--Publisher
Taking My Turn is the award-winning, critically acclaimed musical by the same team that collaborated on the hit show The Me Nobody Knows. Taking My Turn was one of the first musicals to deal with aging. The spoken words were collected from interviews with people "in their prime," which became the basis for the non-linear book"--Publisher.
Taking My Turn is the award-winning, critically acclaimed musical by the same team that collaborated on the hit show The Me Nobody Knows. Taking My Turn was one of the first musicals to deal with aging. The spoken words were collected from interviews with people "in their prime," which became the basis for the non-linear book"--Publisher.
Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each profession is examined in a compelling essay that is specifically written to inform readers about career choices in different times and cultures, and is accompanied by a bibliography of additional sources of information, sidebars that relate historical issues to present-day concerns, as well as related historical documents. Readers of this work will learn what each profession entailed or entails on a daily basis, how one gained entry to the vocation, training methods, and typical compensation levels for the job. The book provides sufficient specific detail to convey a comprehensive understanding of the experiences, benefits, and downsides of a given profession. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering honest testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
The Sony Alpha 6500 camera builds upon the company's best-selling Alpha 6000, and adds a significant amount of new features. Professional photographer Gary Friedman explains the myriad of features in an approachable and easy-to-understand way, explaining not only the ""what"" but also the ""why"" and in what situations you'd want to use which feature. In this 657-page book you will learn: * What every mode, button and function does - in plain, easy-to-understand language. * Gary's personal camera configuration * Unique features of the A6500, including why you'll never know just how distorted your kit lens is.: -) * Shooting in 4K and how to choose the best mode for YOU. * NFC, Wi-Fi, and step-by-step instructions on using them. * Which of the new downloadable ""apps"" are actually useful. * A tutorial to get the benefits of shooting RAW, and a condensed guide to the basics. * A set of ""Cliffs Notes"" cards Instantly-downlodable .pdf file also available from the author's website.
Gary's Ebooks on the Sony cameras are renown for being the most thorough, detailed, and enjoyable to read. This latest edition goes into even more detail of the features everyone wants to know about. In this 619-page (!) full-color book you'll learn: * The new exposure modes * The Hybrid AF system and what it means to you * All the different focusing modes explained in an intuitive way * 4K shooting and choosing a bit rate for video * S-Log2 in a way that a non-videographer can understand * My personal camera configuration * How to know which video mode is right for you * NFC, Wi-Fi, and step-by-step instructions on using them * A set of ""Cliffs Notes"" cards you can print showing the recipes for common shooting situations, and Gary's Personal Camera Settings Get the most out of your investment, cut through the clutter and optimize your camera to match the way YOU work best!
Gary Friedman has earned a reputation for clear explanations and a ridiculous attention to detail. And now he applies these talents to the amazing Sony RX-10 IV camera in this 677 page book. You are purchasing the black-and-white printed edition. Other options are available on the author's website.
The Sony A9 needs no introduction... but if you're an owner of this incredible camera, you probably could use a friendly hand explaining the myriad of options and settings. In this book which is aimed at the professional shooter, every function in Mr. Friedman's famous approachable, easy-to-understand yet technically thorough style. All focusing, exposure, and video modes are clearly explained, and many suggestions for combinations of settings that lend themselves to certain shooting situations are explained.
This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. "Science, Religion, and Society" covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others. The first section, General Overviews, contains essays that provide a road map for exploring the major challenges and questions in science and religion. Following this, the Historical Perspectives section grounds these major questions in the past, and demonstrates how they have developed into the six broad areas of contemporary research and discussion that follow. These sections - Creation, the Cosmos, and Origins of the Universe; Ecology, Evolution, and the Natural World; Consciousness, Mind, and the Brain; Healers and Healing; Dying and Death; and Genetics and Religion - organize the questions and research that are the foundation of the enormous interest, and controversy, in science and religion today.
The Last Supper has been thrilling audiences with its original theatrical approach of combining actors with a contemporary choir. It is the story of Leonardo da Vinci's struggle to complete his famous mural. Actors portray Leonardo, Jesus, the twelve Apostles, an Angel and two women, while singers express the meaning and emotion of the action through song. The climax of the piece is a stunning moment where the mural is re-created on the stage."--Publisher
Is a widening “skills gap” in science and math education threatening America’s future? That is the seminal question addressed in The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, a comprehensive 104-year review of math and science education in America. Some claim this “skills gap” is “equivalent to a permanent national recession” while others cite how the gap threatens America’s future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America’s math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in the United States and The U.S Technology Skills Gap is the how-to-get involved guidebook for those executives laying out in a compelling chronologic format: The history of the science and math skills gap in America Explanation of why decades of astute warnings were ignored Inspiring examples of private company efforts to supplement public education A pragmatic 10-step action plan designed to solve the problem And a tantalizing theory of an obscure Japanese physicist that suggests America’s days as the global scientific leader are numbered Engaging and indispensable, The U.S. Technology Skills Gap is essential reading for those eager to see America remain a relevant global power in innovation and invention in the years ahead.
The Sony RX-100 V is the world's best point-and-shoot camera, and Gary Friedman's book provides the most detail and insights. In this 561-page, full-color e-book you will learn: * What every mode, button and function does - in plain, easy-to-understand language. * Gary's personal camera configuration * Unique features of the camera, including the ability to shoot the equivalent of 5.5K video for short bursts. * How to decypher the alphabet soup that are the video standards; what each variable means and how to choose the best mode for YOU. * NFC, Wi-Fi, and step-by-step instructions on using them. * Which of the new downloadable ""apps"" are actually useful. * The most common digital jargon and what it all means to you. * A tutorial to get the benefits of shooting RAW, and a condensed guide to the basics. * A set of ""Cliffs Notes"" cards you can print showing the recipes for common shooting situations, and Gary's Personal Camera Settings.
This invaluable text addresses the social organizational approach to education in present day academic health centers. The many changes in the provision of health services that are a result of the reallocation of government resources are discussed. Recommendations for health care policy, practice, and the education of health care professionals and consumers are presented. Students in health care professions will benefit from this extensive evaluation of the changing health care environment and its implications for both providers and consumers. Professors and educators will find this insightful volume helpful in assisting students in health care services to assess the present relationship between administrators and patients and the changes that must be instigated in order to offer affordable, quality delivery of health services. This significant volume provides guidance for such vital problems as determining which social-health issues are most critical today, what changes result from government policies on consumers and providers, and what our social-health policies, services, research, and educational directions should be for the future. Students in the health care professions at the college level, doctors, health care administrators and educators, social workers, nurses, medical sociologists, and economists will value The Changing Context of Social Health Care as a key to understanding how the relationship between health care providers and consumers must be carefully developed to provide quality health care for future generations.
The Sony Alpha 6300 camera builds upon the company's best-selling Alpha 6000, and adds a significant amount of new features. Stock photographer Gary Friedman explains the myriad of features in an approachable and easy-to-understand way, explaining not only the ""what"" but also the ""why"" and in what situations you'd want to use which feature. In this 625-page, full-color e-book you will learn: * What every mode, button and function does - in plain, easy-to-understand language. * My personal camera configuration * Unique features of the A6300, including why you'll never know just how distorted your kit lens is.: -) * Shooting in 4K and how to choose the best mode for YOU. * NFC, Wi-Fi, and step-by-step instructions on using them. * Which of the new downloadable ""apps"" are actually useful. * A tutorial to get the benefits of shooting RAW, and a condensed guide to the basics. * A set of ""Cliffs Notes"" cards Instantly-downlodable .pdf file also available from the author's website.
New! Updated to cover new features in Firmware v2! Gary Friedman's ebooks for Sony cameras are known for their thoroughness and their readability, helping you cut through the complexities of your new digital camera and help you focus (pun intended) on how to get shots that make people say, ""Wow!"" This latest book on Sony A6400 covers every function and every detail, and explains practical uses for every setting. Get the most out of your camera!
The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Re-evaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of 'legislative cartel'. These cartels seize the power, theoretically resident in the House, to make rules governing the structure and process of legislation. Most of the cartel's efforts are focused on securing control of the legislative agenda for its members. The first edition of this book had significant influence on the study of American politics and is essential reading for students of Congress, the presidency, and the political party system.
A Brookings Institution Press, Progressive Policy Institute, and Twentieth Century Fund publication For much of the post-World War II period, the increasing globalization of the U.S. economy was welcomed by policymakers and by the American people. We gained the benefits of cheaper and, in some cases, better foreign-made products, while U.S. firms gained wider access to foreign markets. The increasing economic interlinkages with the rest of the world helped promote capitalism and democracy around the globe. Indeed, we helped "win" the Cold War by trading and investing with the rest of the world, in the process demonstrating to all concerned the virtues of trade and markets. In recent years, however, a growing chorus of complaints has been lodged against globalization--which is blamed for costing American workers their jobs and lowering their wages. The authors of this book speak directly and simply to these concerns, demonstrating with easy prose and illustrations why the "globaphobes" are wrong. Globalization has not cost the United States jobs. Nor has it played any more than a small part in the disappointing trends in wages of many American workers. The challenge for all Americans is to embrace globalization and all of the benefits it brings, while adopting targeted policies to ease the very real pain of those few Americans whom globalization may harm. Globaphobia outlines a novel, yet sensible program for advancing this objective. Copublished with the Twentieth Century Fund and the Progressive Policy Institute
A brilliant demonstration of what philosophy can do and how it is essential to human integrity and identity." —Simon Critchley, coeditor of The Stone Reader In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting takes a philosopher’s scalpel to modern life’s biggest questions and the most powerful forces in our society—politics, science, religion, education, and capitalism. Along the way, he introduces readers to powerful philosophical tools, from inductive and deductive logic to the Principle of Charity, which they can use to make better sense of current debates. Interweaving his discussion of contemporary issues with philosophical concepts from Aristotle to Michel Foucault and John Rawls, Gutting shows how philosophy can enrich public discussions about our most urgent issues.
Love your new 20 megapixel wonder, but having a hard time understanding all of its functions? Then this book is for you. Written for the advanced user (with tutorials and easy explanations in case you're not so advanced), this easy-to-understand yet thorough guide provides a complete instruction manual which explains each feature in plain English and provides hundreds of visual examples as well. There is no better way to learn about and get the most out of your camera. More info at http: //friedmanarchives.com/alpha5
As Gary Lawson shows, legal claims are inherently objects of proof, and whether or not the law acknowledges the point openly, proof of legal claims is just a special case of the more general norms governing proof of any claim. As a result, similar principles of evidentiary admissibility, standards of proof, and burdens of proof operate, and must operate, in the background of claims about the law. This book brings these evidentiary principles for proving law out of the shadows so that they can be analyzed, clarified, and discussed."--Amazon website.
This is the most thorough and comprehensive book on the Sony Alpha 7 and Alpha 7r available. At over 600 pages, professional photographer Gary L. Friedman has explained every function and nuance of every feature, plus gives solid recommendations on customizing your camera and explains unobvious combinations of obscure features can help you work quite quickly in the field! Yes, it's a little more expensive (downloadable versions are available for much less on the author's website) but since you already own one of the best cameras out there, why hold back on the key to unlocking its features? * My personal camera settings (with explanations) * A complete guide to the most popular Legacy Glass Adapters and how to configure your camera to use them * A clear explanation of the alphabet soup that are video formats * Guide to using NFC & Wi-Fi * A set of "Cliffs Notes" cards
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 most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces--that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word "neoliberal" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs in developing nations around the world. To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades. As he shows, the neoliberal order that emerged in America in the 1970s fused ideas of deregulation with personal freedoms, open borders with cosmopolitanism, and globalization with the promise of increased prosperity for all. Along with tracing how this worldview emerged in America and grew to dominate the world, Gerstle explores the previously unrecognized extent to which its triumph was facilitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies. He is also the first to chart the story of the neoliberal order's fall, originating in the failed reconstruction of Iraq and Great Recession of the Bush years and culminating in the rise of Trump and a reinvigorated Bernie Sanders-led American left in the 2010s. An indispensable and sweeping re-interpretation of the last fifty years, this book illuminates how the ideology of neoliberalism became so infused in the daily life of an era, while probing what remains of that ideology and its political programs as America enters an uncertain future.
Does China represent a non-capitalist alternative to neoliberal development models? Commentators on the left have offered sharply divergent assessments over the last two decades. A few still cling the old dream of market socialism, twinning efficiency with social justice. For most, however, China is proof that market reforms invariably yield dispossession, inequality, and capitalist restoration. Is the East Still Red? argues that both interpretations are wrong and exhibit a common failure to distinguish between market mechanisms and capitalist imperatives. Gary Blank situates the Chinese experience within broader Marxist debates on socio-historical transitions and primitive accumulation, highlighting the need to conceptualize capitalism as a unique system in which producers and appropriators depend on the market for their reproduction. Despite years of marketization, the mandarins in Beijing have not yet imposed full market dependence in industry and agriculture. He shows how the resistance of workers and peasants, the imperatives of party-state legitimacy, and the reproductive strategies of individual Communist officials and managers all act to perpetuate central aspects of a bureaucratic-collectivist system, in which direct producers and bureaucrats are effectively merged with the means of production. The People’s Republic may be a non-capitalist market alternative, albeit one that is hardly edifying for socialists.
America is becoming a "ruiNation." The reason, well-known psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback, tells us is the corpocracy, the "Devil's Marriage" between powerful corporations and patronizing politicians. He proposes "Democracy Power," a revolutionary but civil, peaceful force to break up the corpocracy.--publisher description.
Global engineering offers the seductive image of engineers figuring out how to optimize work through collaboration and mobility. Its biggest challenge to engineers, however, is more fundamental and difficult: to better understand what they know and value qua engineers and why. This volume reports an experimental effort to help sixteen engineering educators produce ""personal geographies"" describing what led them to make risky career commitments to international and global engineering education. The contents of their diverse trajectories stand out in extending far beyond the narrower image of producing globally-competent engineers. Their personal geographies repeatedly highlight experiences of incongruence beyond home countries that provoked them to see themselves and understand their knowledge differently. The experiences were sufficiently profound to motivate them to design educational experiences that could challenge engineering students in similar ways. For nine engineers, gaining new international knowledge challenged assumptions that engineering work and life are limited to purely technical practices, compelling explicit attention to broader value commitments. For five non-engineers and two hybrids, gaining new international knowledge fueled ambitions to help engineering students better recognize and critically examine the broader value commitments in their work. A background chapter examines the historical emergence of international engineering education in the United States, and an epilogue explores what it might take to integrate practices of critical self-analysis more systematically in the education and training of engineers. Two appendices and two online supplements describe the unique research process that generated these personal geographies, especially the workshop at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in which authors were prohibited from participating in discussions of their manuscripts. Table of Contents: The Border Crossers: Personal Geographies of International and Global Engineering Educators (Gary Lee Downey) / From Diplomacy and Development to Competitiveness and Globalization: Historical Perspectives on the Internationalization of Engineering Education (Brent Jesiek and Kacey Beddoes) / Crossing Borders: My Journey at WPI (Rick Vaz) / Education of Global Engineers and Global Citizens (E. Dan Hirleman) / In Search of Something More: My Path Towards International Service-Learning in Engineering Education (Margaret F. Pinnell) / International Engineering Education: The Transition from Engineering Faculty Member to True Believer (D. Joseph Mook) / Finding and Educating Self and Others Across Multiple Domains: Crossing Cultures, Disciplines, Research Modalities, and Scales (Anu Ramaswami) / If You Don't Go, You Don't Know (Linda D. Phillips) / A Lifetime of Touches of an Elusive ""Virtual Elephant"": Global Engineering Education (Lester A. Gerhardt) / Developing Global Awareness in a College of Engineering (Alan Parkinson) / The Right Thing to Do: Graduate Education and Research in a Global and Human Context (James R. Mihelcic) / Author Biographies
As an economist and a public intellectual, Gary Becker was a giant. He won a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in human capital, the John Bates Clark Medal as the best American economist under 40, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his contributions to public life and welfare. He is regarded by many as the greatest microeconomist in the field's history. After a 44-year career at the University of Chicago, Becker left a slew of manuscripts, projects, and speeches that were half-formed or never published. These papers offer glimpses both of his famed process and of the personality-direct, critical, curious-that make him a beloved figure in economics and far beyond. An Economic Approach collects and annotates these extant unpublished works as a capstone to the Becker oeuvre-not because the works are perfect, but because they offer an illuminating and deeply instructive glimpse into the mind and process of an economist who was always on. Longtime collaborator Richard Posner once described Becker a marathon runner of economic thought-forever chasing a big finish line, never stopping at artificial milestones along the way. An Economic Approach carries the flame of a great mind that was never motivated by publications, but whose spirit of inquiry will be forever relevant"--
Carnap, Quine, and Putnam held that in our pursuit of truth we can do no better than to start in the middle, relying on already-established beliefs and inferences and applying our best methods for re-evaluating particular beliefs and inferences and arriving at new ones. In this collection of essays, Gary Ebbs interprets these thinkers' methodological views in the light of their own philosophical commitments, and in the process refutes some widespread misunderstandings of their views, reveals the real strengths of their arguments, and exposes a number of problems that they face. To solve these problems, in many of the essays Ebbs also develops new philosophical approaches, including new theories of logical truth, language use, reference and truth, truth by convention, realism, trans-theoretical terms, agreement and disagreement, radical belief revision, and contextually a priori statements. His essays will be valuable for a wide range of readers in analytic philosophy.
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