Creativity and the Poetic Mind mingles the voices of well-known writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Donald Hall, John Koethe, Marge Piercy, and Robert Pinsky with newer voices, and includes engaging excerpts from interviews with thirty-eight American poets. Within a sustained argument about creative states of mind, this book innovatively presents and explores the technique of «going to the place» as more reliable in writing poetry than waiting for «inspiration». It explains why poets frequently believe that talking about their own poetry may damage their creativity and why, for centuries, inspiration has seemed to come from somewhere beyond the poet. In addition, it discusses the practicality of poets' thinking that «being creative» and «writing poetry» are two separate skills: inspiration is unreliable, but experienced poets create daily.
Purpose. It is what defines everyone in the futuristic city of Distantina, and the fate of its future lies with a lowly young boy named Tobin. He stumbles across a box holding powers beyond his wildest imagination. However, this power has him on the run from assassins, criminals, and even the very powers that rule Distantina, the Grey Ones. Join the epic tale of how the unlikeliest of heroes changed the world forever . . .
Purpose. It is what defines everyone in the futuristic city of Distantina, and the fate of its future lies with a lowly young boy named Tobin. He stumbles across a box holding powers beyond his wildest imagination. However, this power has him on the run from assassins, criminals, and even the very powers that rule Distantina, the Grey Ones. Join the epic tale of how the unlikeliest of heroes changed the world forever . . .
Create a more effective system for evaluating online faculty Evaluating Online Teaching is the first comprehensive book to outline strategies for effectively measuring the quality of online teaching, providing the tools and guidance that faculty members and administrators need. The authors address challenges that colleges and universities face in creating effective online teacher evaluations, including organizational structure, institutional governance, faculty and administrator attitudes, and possible budget constraints. Through the integration of case studies and theory, the text provides practical solutions geared to address challenges and foster effective, efficient evaluations of online teaching. Readers gain access to rubrics, forms, and worksheets that they can customize to fit the needs of their unique institutions. Evaluation methods designed for face-to-face classrooms, from student surveys to administrative observations, are often applied to the online teaching environment, leaving reviewers and instructors with an ill-fitted and incomplete analysis. Evaluating Online Teaching shows how strategies for evaluating online teaching differ from those used in traditional classrooms and vary as a function of the nature, purpose, and focus of the evaluation. This book guides faculty members and administrators in crafting an evaluation process specifically suited to online teaching and learning, for more accurate feedback and better results. Readers will: Learn how to evaluate online teaching performance Examine best practices for student ratings of online teaching Discover methods and tools for gathering informal feedback Understand the online teaching evaluation life cycle The book concludes with an examination of strategies for fostering change across campus, as well as structures for creating a climate of assessment that includes online teaching as a component. Evaluating Online Teaching helps institutions rethink the evaluation process for online teaching, with the end goal of improving teaching and learning, student success, and institutional results.
Katie is a delightful, vivacious young lady ten years old. Her adventuresome spirit is only exceeded by her tendency to stretch the truth a little bit once in a while. Her stories often go into flights of marvelous fantasy that entertain and delight nearly every age, especially those who appreciate a young imagination and the spinning of a good yarn. In the end, there comes a moral, a truth out of the mouth of youth, that few of us could deny. Tall-Tale Katie is an adventure that is sure to grab anybody who has ever told a stretched' tale right where they live. It is sure to put a smile on your face and a chuckle on your lips that will reach all the way to your heart. You may never look at a frog in quite the same way again.
Sudden Death Strategy provides a comprehensive overview of the numerous challenges one encounters with the death of a loved one. The conversational style helps anyone understand the short answers to frequently asked financial, legal, administrative, medical, funeral, and deathly ill questions before, during, and after the passing. The down to earth suggestions can be put to immediate use. The book starts with a Personal Note, Introduction, then to the poem "What is Grieving". It follows up with practical solutions when losing a spouse or close relative. Starting with the first chapter of the medical issues section, it gives insight as to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the dying and caretaker. Following along these lines, determining when hospice is necessary and how it works. Lastly, medication concerns such as: locations of 24/7 pharmacies, controlled substance, or picking up a prescription rounds out the medical section. The next subject of concern is the administrative area. In this section, it starts with pertinent financial questions as to passive and/or active income stream(s), knowing when bills arrive, whether bills are automatically deducted from a bank account, credit or debit card, etc. Adding to this subject, is knowing what the expenses are, how often, and when are they due. Following the same path, checking with a financial planner on how to budget present and future income. Advice from a professional whether the remaining spouse should purchase an insurance policy dependent on their financial situation. During this time, there will be much more paperwork coming in the mail. So, clerical work such as making phone calls, follow up, filing, completing forms, faxing, or writing letters, may be in order. Lastly, physically locating the will and/or trust to determine who is the trustee and who is to receive assets. The Funeral Plans section highlights death notification of the employer, banks, funeral home, religious personnel preceding the event. Expenses for a funeral can include embalming, visitation, casket, cards, guest funeral book, flowers, religious personnel, along with the costs entailed with planning a wake. Part Two highlights the personal side of death and the stressor effects on the spouse's mind and body along with the grieving process. During this time of anguish, relationships change along with heartache. Also, this section highlights where to get advice and the best sources, griever's needs in the first year and the best approach. Lastly, the issue of mourning has ceased and how does it look. This is a must have book for anyone experiencing a family death!
The Update compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to every on involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.
The Yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.
A compilation of the most recent and widespread developments in experimental and clinical research and practice -- all in one comprehensive reference. Around 90 contributions, written by recognized experts in intensive care and emergency medicine, will be of interest to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, as well as intensive care and emergency medicine.
The yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.
Written by four recognized experts with senior experience in research and government, this text is the first comprehensive survival kit for students and practitioners of economic policy. It is set to become an indispensable resource for everyone involved or interested in modern economic policy. Academic scholars willing to engage in policy discussions and students at graduate or advanced undergraduate levels will find it an essential bridge to the policy world. What makes the book unique is that it combines like no other, facts-based analysis, state-of-the art theories and models, and insights from first-hand policy experience at national and international levels. The book has grown out of ten years of experience teaching economic policy at the graduate level. It provides an intellectually coherent framework to understand the potentialities and limits of economic policy. It addresses positive dimensions (how do policies impact on modern economies?), normative dimensions (what should policymakers aim to achieve and against what should their action be judged?) and political-economy constraints (which are the limits and obstacles to public intervention?). It fills an important gap by reconciling in each major policy area stylized facts of recent economic history, key questions faced by contemporary policymakers, and essential lessons from theory which are captured and explained in a clear, concise, and self-contained way. All major areas of domestic and international policymaking are covered: fiscal policy, monetary policy, international finance and exchange-rate policy, tax policy, and long-term growth policies. The book concludes with a special chapter on the lessons of the financial crisis. The authors are intellectually non-partisan and they draw examples from various countries and experiences; from emerging markets to developing economies, shedding light when necessary on local specificities such as European Union rules and instruments. Economic Policy: Theory and Practice is the essential guide to economic policy in the new post-crisis context.
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