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The Devil and the Red Ribbon

By: Theo Rion

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London, 1898 John Fenririr can get anything, and anyone, he wants and he knows it. He’s rich and handsome, and loves to play with people, their minds and lives. But what if an intelligent man crosses John’s path? What if this man doesn’t mind playing as well? What if he’s willing to play on the edge of sanity, and life? Kurt Rhein is a psychologist captured by curiosity about John’s magnetism and charisma. He’s sure he can easily rip away the veil of mystery, but finds himself captivated by passion. Refusing to admit that he fell for John, like everyone else, Kurt starts his own game to defeat John. But he can’t begin to imagine how far the game will go, what dark and deep secrets it will reveal. What will they choose in the end—love, or victory?

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Simon and Schuster

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1682992217

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Ornamental Aesthetics

The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman

By: Theo Davis

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Ornamental Aesthetics

The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman

By: Theo Davis

Theo Davis argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman's writing, exploring the stakes of such an ornamental aesthetics through a parallel investigation of the ornamental aspects of Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190467517

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Linking Practice and Theory

The Pedagogy of Realistic Teacher Education

By: Fred A.J. Korthagen,Jos Kessels,Bob Koster,Bram Lagerwerf,Theo Wubbels

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Linking Practice and Theory

The Pedagogy of Realistic Teacher Education

By: Fred A.J. Korthagen,Jos Kessels,Bob Koster,Bram Lagerwerf,Theo Wubbels

Brings together in one volume Korthagen's research on integrating theory & practice in teacher education. Focuses on the concept of "realistic teacher education" -- how teachers can use reflection to link theory & practice.

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Routledge

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113565249X

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Germania Semitica

By: Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld

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Germania Semitica

By: Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld

Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusions from the linguistic evidence alone, relying on language typology and areal probability. The data for reconstruction comes from Germanic syntax, phonology, etymology, religious loan names, and the writing system, more precisely from word order, syntactic constructions, word formation, irregularities in phonological form, lexical peculiarities, and the structure and rules of the Germanic runic alphabet. It is demonstrated that common descent is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for reconstruction. Instead, lexical and structural parallels between Germanic and Semitic languages are explored and interpreted in the framework of modern language contact theory.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110301091

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Digital Towns

Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies

By: Theo Lynn,Pierangelo Rosati,Edel Conway,Declan Curran,Grace Fox,Colm O'Gorman

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Digital Towns

Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies

By: Theo Lynn,Pierangelo Rosati,Edel Conway,Declan Curran,Grace Fox,Colm O'Gorman

This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources, competition from urban and global markets, and population trends, rural communities present lesser access and use of digital technologies and have lower digital competencies and skills than their urban counterparts. Consequently, they experience less beneficial outcomes from increased digitalisation than urban areas. This book defines what a digital town is and explores digitalisation from the perspective of the four basic economic sectors in towns - individuals and households, businesses, the public sector, and civil society - and three types of enabling infrastructure - digital connectivity, education, and governance. Particular attention is paid to how digitalisation efforts are measured by intergovernmental and international organisations for each sector and enabling infrastructure. The book concludes with a Digital Town Readiness Framework that offers local communities, policymakers, and scholars an initial set of indicators upon which to develop digital town initiatives, and measure progress. For those ready to embrace the opportunity, this book is a pathfinder on the road to a more equitable and impactful digital society and digital economy. Theo Lynn is Full Professor of Digital Business at DCU Business School, Ireland. Pierangelo Rosati is Assistant Professor in Business Analytics at DCU Business School, Ireland. Edel Conway is Full Professor in HRM and Organisational Psychology and Director of Doctoral Studies at DCU Business School, Ireland. Declan Curran is Associate Professor of Economics at DCU Business School, Ireland. Grace Fox is a post-doctoral researcher attached to the Irish Institute of Digital Business. Colm OGorman is Interim Dean and Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at DCU Business School, Ireland.

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Springer Nature

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3030912477

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The Threat of Race

Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism

By: David Theo Goldberg

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The Threat of Race

Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism

By: David Theo Goldberg

Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, TheThreat of Race explores how the concept of race has beenhistorically produced and how it continues to be articulated, ifoften denied, in today’s world. A major new study of race and racism by a renowned scholar ofcritical race theory Explores how the concept of race has been historically producedand how it continues to be articulated - if often denied - intoday’s world Argues that it is the neoliberal society that fuels new formsof racism Surveys race dynamics throughout various regions of the world -from Western and Northern Europe, South Africa and Latin America,and from Israel and Palestine to the United States

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444305875

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In Quest of the Universe

By: Karl F. Kuhn,Theo Koupelis

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In Quest of the Universe

By: Karl F. Kuhn,Theo Koupelis

Understanding Life, Third Editionis intended for non-major biology students.--General Biology (non-majors)-Principles of Biology

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763708100

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The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic

A linguistic and cultural study

By: Robert Mailhammer,Theo Vennemann

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The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic

A linguistic and cultural study

By: Robert Mailhammer,Theo Vennemann

This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of the Germanic strong verbs, the development of the Germanic word order, and etymologies for key elements of the Germanic lexicon. The book proposes that all four problems can be solved if it is hypothesized that over 2,000 years ago the ancestor of all Germanic languages, Proto-Germanic, was in intensive contact with Punic, a Semitic language from the Mediterranean. This scenario is explored by focusing on linguistic data, supported by an interdisciplinary mosaic of evidence. This book is of interest to anyone working on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic languages.

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9027262144

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Are We Not New Wave?

Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

By: Theo Cateforis

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Are We Not New Wave?

Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

By: Theo Cateforis

In Are We Not New Wave? Theo Cateforis provides the first musical and cultural history of the new wave movement, charting its rise out of mid-1970s punk to its ubiquitous early 1980s MTV presence and downfall in the mid-1980s. The book also explores the meanings behind the music's distinctive traits-its characteristic whiteness and nervousness; its playful irony, electronic melodies, and crossover experimentations. Cateforis traces new wave's modern sensibilities back to the space-age consumer culture of the late 1950s/early 1960s. Theo Cateforis is Assistant Professor of Music History and Culture in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472034707

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Racial Subjects

Writing on Race in America

By: David Theo Goldberg

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Racial Subjects

Writing on Race in America

By: David Theo Goldberg

Racial Subjects heralds the next wave of writing about race and moves discussions about race forward as few other books recently have. Arguing that racism is best understood as exclusionary relations of power rather than simply as hateful expressions, David Theo Goldberg analyzes contemporary expressions of race and racism. He engages political economy, culture, and everyday material life against a background analysis of profound demographic shifts and changing class formation and relations. Issues covered in Racial Subjects include the history of changing racial categories over the last two hundred years of U.S. census taking, multiculturalism, the experience of being racially mixed, the rise of new black public intellectuals, race and the law in the wake of the O. J. Simpson verdict, relations between blacks and Jews, and affirmative action.

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Routledge

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1317958659

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IT Architecture Ð Essential Practice for IT Business Solutions

By: Peter Beijer,Theo de Klerk

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IT Architecture Ð Essential Practice for IT Business Solutions

By: Peter Beijer,Theo de Klerk

This book is about IT architecture set against the background of the practical insights gained at HP (Hewlett-Packard) since 1986 and formalized in the HP methodology for IT Strategy and Architecture (ITSA). The important message is that architecture is used to solve problems or exploit opportunities and is not used for the sake of architecture. Core to this is the concept of a seamless chain of justification that unites stakeholders in defining, reinforcing, and supporting the single best fitting IT business solution. This book teaches the IT architecture practitioner how to align the different views and interests of these stakeholders into coherent IT architecture artifacts by permeating the business, functional, technical, and implementation perspectives.

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Lulu.com

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1445706032

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Fighters and Quitters

Great Political Resignations

By: Theo Barclay

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Fighters and Quitters

Great Political Resignations

By: Theo Barclay

They say the first rule of politics is never to resign. It seems, however, that Britain's leaders have all too often failed – or refused – to heed this sage advice. Fighters and Quitters charts the scandals, controversies and cock-ups that have obliterated dreams of high office, from the ex-minister who faked his death in the 1970s, to Geoffrey Howe's plot to topple Margaret Thatcher, to the many casualties of the Brexit saga. Then there are the sex and spy scandals that heralded doom and, of course, the infamous Profumo Affair. Who jumped and who was pushed? Who battled to keep their job and who collapsed at the first hint of pressure? Who returned, Lazarus-like, for a second act? From humiliating surrenders to principled departures, Fighters and Quitters lifts the lid on the lives of the politicians who fell on their own swords.

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1785904906

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Linking Aquatic Exposure and Effects

Risk Assessment of Pesticides

By: Theo C. Brock

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Linking Aquatic Exposure and Effects

Risk Assessment of Pesticides

By: Theo C. Brock

Time-variable exposure profiles of pesticides are more often the rule than exception in the surface waters of agricultural landscapes. There is, therefore, a need to adequately address the uncertainties arising from time-variable exposure profiles in the aquatic risk assessment procedure for pesticides. Linking Aquatic Exposure and Effects: Risk As

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CRC Press

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1439858926

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The Law of Nations in Early American Foreign Policy

Theory and Practice from the Revolution to the Monroe Doctrine

By: Willem Theo Oosterveld

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The Law of Nations in Early American Foreign Policy

Theory and Practice from the Revolution to the Monroe Doctrine

By: Willem Theo Oosterveld

In The Law of Nations in Early American Foreign Policy, Willem Theo Oosterveld provides the first general study of international law as interpreted and applied by the generation of the Founding Fathers. A mostly neglected aspect in the historiography of the early republic, this study argues that international law was in fact an integral part of the Revolutionary creed. Taking the reader from colonial debates about the law of nations to the discussions about slavery in the early 19th century, this study shows the zest of the Founders to conduct foreign policy on the basis of treatises such as Vattel’s The Law of Nations. But it also highlights the deep ambiguities and sometimes personal struggles that arose when applying international law.

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BRILL

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9004305688

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9789004305687

Introducing Social Semiotics

By: Theo Van Leeuwen

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Introducing Social Semiotics

By: Theo Van Leeuwen

Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex semiotic interactions. Practical exercises and examples as wide ranging as furniture arrangements in public places, advertising jingles, photojournalism and the rhythm of a rapper's speech provide readers with the knowledge and skills they need to be able to analyse and also produce successful multimodal texts and designs. The book traces the development of semiotic resources through particular channels such as the history of the Press and advertising; and explores how and why these resources change over time, for reasons such as advancing technology. Featuring a full glossary of terms, exercises, discussion points and suggestions for further reading, Introducing Social Semiotics makes concrete the complexities of meaning making and is essential reading for anyone interested in how communication works.

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Psychology Press

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0415249430

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Translation and History

A Textbook

By: Theo Hermans

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Translation and History

A Textbook

By: Theo Hermans

This concise and accessible textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key historical aspects of translation. Six chapters cover essential concepts in researching and writing the history of translation and translation as history. Theo Hermans presents and explains fundamental issues and questions in a clear and lively style. He includes numerous examples and case studies and offers suggestions for further reading. Four of the six chapters take their cue from ideas about historiography that are alive among professional historians. They pay attention to the role of narrative, to the emergence of transnational, transcultural, global and entangled history, and to particular fields such as the history of concepts and memory studies. Other topics include microhistory, actor–network theory and book history. With an emphasis on methodology, how to do research in translation history and how to write it up, this is an essential text for all courses on translation history and will be of interest to anyone working in translation theory and methodology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351712489

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9781351712484

The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

By: Theo D'haen

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The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

By: Theo D'haen

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D’haen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature non-canonical and less-known literatures from around the globe the possibility and implications of a definition of world literature. This book is the ideal guide to an increasingly popular and important term in literary studies. It is accessible and engaging and will be invaluable to students of world literature, comparative literature, translation and postcolonial studies and anyone with an interest in these or related topics.

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113663570X

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The Philadelphia Art Alliance

Fifty Years, 1915-1965

By: Theo B. White

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The Philadelphia Art Alliance

Fifty Years, 1915-1965

By: Theo B. White

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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1512819336

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A History of World Literature

By: Theo D'haen

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A History of World Literature

By: Theo D'haen

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to “world literature.” Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism, decoloniality, ecocriticism, and book circulation, Theo D’haen in ten tightly-argued but richly-detailed chapters examines: the return of the term “world literature” and its changing meaning; Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates; theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature; and how world literature is taught around the world. By examining how world literature is studied around the globe, this book is the ideal guide to an increasingly popular and important term in literary studies. It is accessible and engaging and will be invaluable to students of world literature, comparative literature, translation, postcolonial and decoloniality studies, and materialist approaches, and to anyone with an interest in these or related topics.

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1040021700

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Sites of Race

By: David Theo Goldberg

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Sites of Race

By: David Theo Goldberg

Critical social theorist and philosopher David Theo Goldberg is one of the defining figures in critical race theory. His work, unsurpassed in its analytical rigor and political urgency, has helped transform the way we think about race and racism across the humanities and social sciences, in critical, social and political theory and across geopolitical regions. In this timely collection of incisive and lively conversations with Susan Searls Giroux, Goldberg reflects upon his studies of race and racism, exploring the key elements in his thought and their contribution to current debates. Sites of Race is a comprehensive overview of Goldberg’s central ideas and concepts, including the idea of the Racial State, his emphasis on militarism as a culture, and his treatment of the "theology of race". Elegantly navigating between the theoretical and the concrete, he brings fresh insight to bear on significant recent events such as the War on Terror, Katrina, the killing of Trayvon Martin and Arizona's controversial immigration laws, in the process enriching and elaborating upon his vast body of work to date. Sites of Race offers fresh avenues into Goldberg's work for those already familiar with it, and provides an ideal entry point for students new to the field of critical race theory.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745681212

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Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea

The Southern Gulf Islands

By: Theo Dombrowski

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Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea

The Southern Gulf Islands

By: Theo Dombrowski

The fourth volume in the Secret Beaches series, one of two on the Salish Sea, covers 93 beaches in the southern Gulf Islands, including Salt Spring, Galiano, Saturna, Mayne, Thetis and Pender. At some locations, the selling point is a view of sandstone eroded into astounding curves and honeycombed lattices. At others, it's the chance of seeing the resident orcas of J1, K1 and L1 pods, whose summer home is the Gulf Islands. Theo's hand-drawn maps are indispensable, as each island marks its public beach access points differently, if they mark them at all. His detailed entries give comprehensive descriptions and an illustrative photo or painting for each beach. As usual, the charming paintings and photos are done by Theo himself. Whether seconds from the ferry or farther along a twisting, unsigned back road, the beach best suited to your adventure waits to be found in Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1927051304

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9781927051306

The Impact of the National Curriculum on the Teaching of Five-Year-Olds

By: Theo Cox,Susan Sanders

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The Impact of the National Curriculum on the Teaching of Five-Year-Olds

By: Theo Cox,Susan Sanders

Originally published in 1994. One of the most neglected areas of research and thus writing is the world of the infant school child. Those who know it best are teachers who tend not to write. Those who write most are academics and even they venture rarely into this area. This book is based on research funded by the University of Wales. A number of teachers in a Welsh LEA were interviewed over time as the National Curriculum was being introduced up to Key Stage 1. The structured interviews covered a wide range of topics related to the anticipated and actual efforts of the National Curriculum at this key stage including curriculum planning, assessment, teaching methods, and organization. Teachers' attitudes to the curriculum were explored through a short attitude test. The resulting data provides in depth the first such examination and is a resource not only in itself but for all those researchers on change agents and restructuring.

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0429846509

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The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

By: Roger Ariew,Dennis Des Chene,Douglas M. Jesseph,Tad M. Schmaltz,Theo Verbeek

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The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

By: Roger Ariew,Dennis Des Chene,Douglas M. Jesseph,Tad M. Schmaltz,Theo Verbeek

The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy includes many entries on Descartes's writings, concepts, and findings. Since it is historical, there are other entries on those who supported him, those who criticized him, those who corrected him, and those who together formed one of the major movements in philosophy, Cartesianism. To better understand the period, the authors drew up a brief chronology, and to see how Descartes and Cartesianism fit into the general picture, they have written an introduction and a biography. Since everything cannot be summed up in one volume, a bibliography directs readers to numerous other sources on issues of particular interest.

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Scarecrow Press

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146167185X

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If It Swings, It's Music

The Autobiography of Hawai‘i's Gabe Baltazar Jr.

By: Gabe Baltazar,Theo Garneau

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If It Swings, It's Music

The Autobiography of Hawai‘i's Gabe Baltazar Jr.

By: Gabe Baltazar,Theo Garneau

Hawai‘i’s legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In this, the first book on his life and career, Gabe takes readers through the highs, lows, and in-betweens on the long road to becoming one of the very few Asian Americans who has achieved worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist. At a young age Gabe was encouraged by his father, an accomplished musician, to take up the clarinet and saxophone. As a teenager during World War II, Gabe performed with the Royal Hawaiian Band but spent his weekends playing in swing bands. After establishing himself in the West Coast jazz scene, in 1960 he rose to prominence as lead alto saxophonist of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Following a four-year stint with Kenton, Gabe worked as a valued studio musician, recording with Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson, and James Moody, among others. In 1969 he returned to Honolulu and went on to become Hawai‘i’s premier jazz artist, a role he admirably fulfilled for over forty years. Even into his eighties, Gabe remained active in jazz education and performed regularly. Gabe’s memorable encounters with some of the greatest names in jazz and popular entertainment will delight music fans, while readers of Hawai‘i and Asian-American life-writing will find in this work a fond record of days past told with humor and heart.

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0824865707

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Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting

The Feiticeiro/a as Character

By: LJ Theo

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Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting

The Feiticeiro/a as Character

By: LJ Theo

This book approaches the construction of complex and transgressive ‘pervert’ characters in mainstream (not ‘art’), adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an episteme on which to base the construction of characters in screenplays, in a way that acknowledges how semiotic elements of characterisation intersect. In addition, it provides an extended re-phrasing of the notion of ‘the pervert’ as Feiticiero/a: a newly-coined construct that might serve as an underpinning for complex, sexual filmic characters that are both entertaining and challenging to audiences. This re-phrasing speaks to both an existential/phenomenological conception of personhood and to the scholarly tradition of the ‘linguistic turn’ of continental philosophers such as Foucault and Lacan, who represent language not primarily as describing the world but as constructing it. The result is an original and interdisciplinary volume that is brought to coherence through a queer, post-humanist lens.

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3319650432

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The British Worker Question

A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing

By: Theo Nichols

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The British Worker Question

A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing

By: Theo Nichols

The British Worker Question (1986) examines the productivity of British workers, drawing upon a wide range of management, trade union and other sources, and spanning the traditional preserves of several other areas and disciplines – economic history, industrial administration, industrial relations and Marxism. It criticises much earlier research for its lack of a grounded sociological analysis of both workers and managements and for its lack of detailed attention to how goods and services are actually produced. The book accords a central place in its analysis of workers and productivity to the role of social organisation and management, matters which both the orthodox and Marxist traditions neglect.

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1040121500

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Unwinnable

Britain’s War in Afghanistan

By: Theo Farrell

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Unwinnable

Britain’s War in Afghanistan

By: Theo Farrell

Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. Instead, in the years that followed, Britain paid a devastating price for their presence in Helmand province. So why did Britain enter, and remain, in an ill-fated war? Why did it fail so dramatically, and was this expedition doomed from the beginning? Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports, government documents and senior individuals, Professor Theo Farrell provides an extraordinary work of scholarship. He explains the origins of the war, details the campaigns over the subsequent years, and examines the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict and learn the lessons of history that ultimately led to devastating costs and repercussions still relevant today. 'The best book so far on Britain's...war in Afghanistan' International Affairs 'Masterful, irrefutable... Farrell records all these military encounters with the irresistible pace of a novelist' Sunday Times

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1473522404

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Good to the Last Out

The Encyclopedia of the Last out of the World Series

By: Theo Tate

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Good to the Last Out

The Encyclopedia of the Last out of the World Series

By: Theo Tate

On October 13, 1903, Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Dinneen recorded the first final out of the World Series by striking out Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates in game eight of the first World Series in front of over 7,400 people at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston. By getting the final out, Dinneen helped the Red Sox capture the first of their eight World Series championships. Since then, the last out of the World Series has been a major symbol in American sports. This book chronicles the 96 players who made the last out of the World Series from Joe Tinker to Joe Rudi. It also chronicles the hitters who made the last out of the Fall Classic from Willie McCovey to Willie McGee. If you love baseball and if you love the World Series, this is the book for you. It shows baseball is good to the last out.

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