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Sensation, the Intuitive System, and Designed Experience

The Missing Links to Learning for Human Flourishing

By: Qing Archer Zhang,James Paul Gee

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Sensation, the Intuitive System, and Designed Experience

The Missing Links to Learning for Human Flourishing

By: Qing Archer Zhang,James Paul Gee

This groundbreaking book redefines human learning by placing sensation and experience at its core. The book delves into the essence of what it means to be human and how humans best learn and flourish. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, learning science, and the arts, the authors weave together a rich tapestry of ideas that challenge traditional approaches to education. The authors argue that school and educational research often ignore fundamental aspects of human learning, such as empathy, intuition, and balance. By examining what “experience” really means when we say “humans learn from experience,” the authors propose a more holistic approach to education—much of which goes on outside school—that goes beyond talk, texts, and analytical reasoning. With examples from various media, particularly the wildly popular Japanese anime series Attack on Titan, the authors treat good teaching as experience design and show how experience can be a powerful force for learning and human flourishing. As our world faces unprecedented challenges and crises, this timely book serves as a clarion call for a transformative approach to teaching and learning that respects the nature of humans as distinctive sorts of creatures, urging us to create environments that nurture the full spectrum of human capacities.

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Common Ground Research Networks

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1957792701

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Robert Lepage / Ex Machina

Revolutions in Theatrical Space

By: James Reynolds

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Robert Lepage / Ex Machina

Revolutions in Theatrical Space

By: James Reynolds

Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space provides an ideal introduction to one of our most innovative companies – and a much-needed and timely reappraisal of Lepage's oeuvre. International, interdisciplinary and intercultural to the core, Ex Machina have negotiated some of the most complex creative and cultural challenges of our time. This book maps the story of that journey by analysing the full spectrum of their richly varied work. Through a comprehensive historiography of productions since 1994, Robert Lepage/Ex Machina offers a detailed picture of the relationship between director and company, while connecting Ex Machina to culturally specific features of Québec, and its theatre. This book reveals for the first time how overlooked aspects of creativity and culture shaped the company's early work, while installing a dynamic interplay between director and company that would spark a unique and ongoing evolution of praxis. Central to this re-evaluation of practice is the book's identification of an architectural aesthetic at the heart of Ex Machina's work, an aesthetic which provides its artistic and political centres of gravity. Moreover, this architectural aesthetic powers the emergence of concrete narrative as a new and distinctive mode of theatrical storytelling – uniting story and space, body and technology, content and form – and demanding that we discover the politics of these performances in the energetic gestures of theatre design, and space itself. Drawing on extensive interviews with Lepage, Ex Machina personnel and collaborative partners, Robert Lepage/Ex Machina calls upon us to revise both our creative and critical perceptions of this vital and distinctive practice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474276598

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Britain's Army in India

From its Origins to the Conquest of Bengal

By: James P. Lawford

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Britain's Army in India

From its Origins to the Conquest of Bengal

By: James P. Lawford

Britain’s Army in India (1978) tells how a joint stock company, the Honourable East India Company, came to organise a private army and lay the foundations for the establishment of the British Empire in India. From its origins as warehouse guards, through its struggles against the Dutch and the Portuguese, and its rivalry with the French, the decay of the Moghul Empire, this book examines the Company and its army up to the battle of Buxar in 1764, which established the force as the leading military power in India.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000855295

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I Will Hold

The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, from Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War

By: James Carl Nelson

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I Will Hold

The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, from Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War

By: James Carl Nelson

Clifton B. Cates's fame came from his consistent and courageous demeanour throughout the war. In the bloody second half of 1918 with the 6th Marine Regiment, he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart, the Silver Star, was recognized by the French government with the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre, and earned the nickname 'Lucky'. I Will Hold is the inspiring, brutal, and incredible true life story of a Marine Corps legend whose grit and unstoppable spirit on the battlefield matched his personal drive and sage wisdom off of it.

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Penguin

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0425281485

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9780425281482

The Play's the Thing

Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016)

By: James Magruder,Marguerite Elliott

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The Play's the Thing

Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016)

By: James Magruder,Marguerite Elliott

An insider's spirited history of Yale Repertory Theatre In this serious and entertaining chronicle of the first fifty years of Yale Repertory Theatre, award-winning dramaturg James Magruder shows how dozens of theater artists have played their parts in the evolution of a sterling American institution. Each of its four chapters is dedicated to one of the Yale Rep's artistic directors to date: Robert Brustein, Lloyd Richards, Stan Wojewodski Jr., and James Bundy. Numerous sidebars--dedicated to the spaces used by the theater, the playwrights produced most often, casting, the prop shop, the costume shop, artist housing, and other topics--enliven the lavishly illustrated four-color text. This fascinating insider account, full of indelible descriptions of crucial moments in the Rep's history, is based in part on interviews with some of America's most respected actors about their experiences at the Rep, including Paul Giamatti, James Earl Jones, Frances McDormand, Meryl Streep, Courtney B. Vance, Dianne Wiest, and Henry Winkler--among many others. More than just a valentine to an important American theater, The Play's the Thing is a story about institution-building and the force of personality; about the tug-of-war between vision and realpolitik; and about the continuous negotiation between educational needs and artistic demands.

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Yale University Press

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0300215002

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9780300215007

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

By: James A. Jobling

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Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

By: James A. Jobling

A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408133261

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Webster

By: John J. Mrazik,Carla Manzi,James J. Manzi

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Webster

By: John J. Mrazik,Carla Manzi,James J. Manzi

Webster, located in south central Massachusetts, is home to the glacially created Webster Lake. The lake, famously known as Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, was responsible for sustaining a significant Native American population. Its waterpower potential attracted Samuel Slater, "the father of American manufacturers," to locate his textile mills here, and in 1832, at Slater's behest, the towns of Oxford and Dudley reluctantly granted the land for Webster's formation. Many immigrants were attracted to the town because of mill employment and the pleasant living conditions near the lake. Through vintage photographs, Webster highlights this town's mill life and the lake's impact on its development.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738538078

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9780738538075

Beautiful War

Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig

By: James Douglas Davis

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Beautiful War

Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig

By: James Douglas Davis

Beautiful War explores the interdependent political, linguistic, and erotic registers of lesbian feminism in Monique Wittig's novels, querying in particular how they function collectively to destabilize male hegemony and heterosexism. Beginning with the assertion that Wittig expressly dismantles the Classical veneration of la belle femme in order to create an agent more capable of social change (la femme belliqueuse), the author traces the permutations of violence through her four novels, L'Opoponax, Les Guérillères, Le Corps Lesbien, and Virgile, Non and examines the relevance of brutality to Wittig's feminist agenda. Drawing on literary criticism, intellectual and political history, queer theory, and feminist theory in his readings of the primary texts, the author argues that Wittig's oeuvre constitutes a progressive textual actualization of paradigm shifts toward gender parity and a permanent banishment of the primacy of male and heterosexist political and sexual discourse.

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Peter Lang

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1433109670

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9781433109676

Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

By: Tony James

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Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

By: Tony James

This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. The relationship between the dream-state and madness is a key theme of nineteenth-century European, and specifically French, thought. The meaning of dreams and associated phenomena such as somnambulism, ecstasy, and hallucinations (including those induced by hashish) preoccupied writers, philosophers, and psychiatrists. In this path-breaking cross-disciplinary study, Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lélut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (for example, Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sleep'. Were historical figures such as Socrates or Pascal in fact mad? Might dream be a source of creativity, rather than a merely subsidiary, 'automatic' function? What of lucid dreaming? By exploring these questions, Dreams, Madness, and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century France makes good a considerable gap in the history of pre-Freudian psychology and sheds new and fascinating light on the central French writers of the period.

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Clarendon Press

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0191583871

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9780191583872

The Books of the Vaudois

By: James Henthorn Todd

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The Books of the Vaudois

By: James Henthorn Todd

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. The Waldensian Manuscripts preserved in the Library of Trinity college, Dublin. With an appendix, containing a correspondence, reprinted from the British Magazine, on the poems of the poor of Lyons, the antiquity and genuineness of the waldensian literature, and the supposed loss of the Morland Mss. at Cambridge, with Mr. Bradshaw's paper on his recent discovery of them.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752589817

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9783752589818

French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau

By: James R. Anthony

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French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau

By: James R. Anthony

First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1,300 works.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1574670212

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9781574670219

Théophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists

Art Journalism in the Second Republic

By: James Kearns

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Théophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists

Art Journalism in the Second Republic

By: James Kearns

Théophile Gautier a envoyé avec un feuilleton plus de trois mille personnes dans latelier de M. Ingres, wrote Champfleury in 1848. For artists, critics and readers alike, Gautier was the essential figure in French art journalism in the mid-nineteenth century. During the short-lived but pivotal period of the Second Republic, when the new administration was committed to reforming all the institutions of the fine arts, Gautier deployed the full resources of his brilliant, flexible and authoritative writing to support and direct these developments in ways compatible with his commitment to an idealist aesthetic, itself under growing pressure from alternative trends in an increasingly competitive art market. This first study of all Gautiers art journalism written during the Second Republic provides a long overdue reassessment of Gautiers importance in French nineteenth-century visual culture.

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MHRA

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1904350887

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Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education

Vygotskian Praxis and the Research/Practice Divide

By: James P. Lantolf,Matthew E. Poehner

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Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education

Vygotskian Praxis and the Research/Practice Divide

By: James P. Lantolf,Matthew E. Poehner

Explicating clearly and concisely the full implication of a praxis-oriented language pedagogy, this book argues for an approach to language teaching grounded in a significant scientific theory of human learning—a stance that rejects the consumer approach to theory and the dichotomy between theory and practice that dominates SLA and language teaching. This approach is based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, according to which the two activities are inherently connected so that each is necessarily rooted in the other; practice is the research laboratory where the theory is tested. From the perspective of language education, this is what is meant by the ‘pedagogical imperative.’ Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education• Elaborates a new approach to dealing with the relationship between theory and practice—an approach grounded in praxis—the dialectical unity of theory and practice • Presents an analysis of empirical research illustrating praxis-based principles in real language classrooms • Brings together cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theory ─ the former provides the theoretical knowledge of language required of praxis and the latter furnishes the theoretical principles of learning and development also called for in a praxis approach • Offers recommendations for redesigning teacher education programs Its timely focus on the theory-practice gap in language education and its original approach to bridging it put this book at the cutting edge of thinking about Vygotskian sociocultural theory in applied linguistics and SLA.

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Routledge

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1136703020

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9781136703027

The French Cookery School

By: Caroline James

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The French Cookery School

By: Caroline James

The recipe for a perfect summer... Step 1: Mix together a group of mature students Step 2: Add in a handsome host Step 3: Season with a celebrity chef Step 4: Bring to the boil at a luxurious cookery school in France!

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HarperCollins UK

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0008669783

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Sensation, the Intuitive System, and Designed Experience

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Britain's Army in India

Britain's Army in India

I Will Hold

I Will Hold

The Play's the Thing

The Play's the Thing

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

Webster

Webster

Beautiful War

Beautiful War

Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

The Books of the Vaudois

The Books of the Vaudois

French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau

French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau

Théophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists

Théophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists

Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education

Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education

The French Cookery School

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