Send your students on a quest and they'll discover… learning is fun! This unit can be designed for any subject. It is appropriate for individual, partner or small group activities. It is a fun way to practise and review concepts. And it is a great assessment tool. Sample "missions" included in this unit can be used with the following themes: Back-to-School, Autumn, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's, Spring, Easter, Canada, Dinosaurs... and more!
LOS ANGELES. PRAGUE. DUBAI. VANCOUVER. THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL CAST AND CREW TRAVELED THE GLOBE FOR SIX MONTHS OF INTENSIVE SHOOTING TO CREATE THE MOST SPECTACULAR FILM IN THE BLOCKBUSTER FRANCHISE TO DATE. Veteran unit photographer David James was there, documenting every moment of principal production with stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and Paula Patton. An unusually daring team, they braved sandstorms and crashed cars in the streets of Dubai, dove underwater in British Columbia, evaded explosions in an old Czech prison, and scaled the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa. James's Shooting Diary is a remarkable visual record of these exhilarating stunts and exotic locations-the features that make Mission: Impossible one of the most exciting film series in history.
Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and technological forces that are driving universities towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn’t new—in fact, it’s as old as the humanities themselves. Today’s humanities scholars experience and react to basic pressures in ways that are strikingly similar to their nineteenth-century German counterparts. The humanities came into their own as scholars framed their work as a unique resource for resolving crises of meaning and value that threatened other cultural or social goods. The self-understanding of the modern humanities didn’t merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. Through this critical, historical perspective, Permanent Crisis can take scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities beyond the usual scolding, exhorting, and hand-wringing into clearer, more effective thinking about the fate of the humanities. Building on ideas from Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche to Helen Small and Danielle Allen, Reitter and Wellmon dig into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. ,
A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab world None of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies--insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive structures, weak institutional autonomy, and co-optation into the political order. But, it may be that the concentration of these pathologies and their depth is what sets the Arab world apart. Missions Impossible seeks to explain the process of policymaking in higher education in the Arab world, a process that is shaped by the region's politics of autocratic rule. Higher education in the Arab world is directly linked to crises in economic growth, social inequality and, as a result, regime survival. If unsuccessful, higher education could be the catalyst to regime collapse. If successful, it could be the catalyst to sustained growth and innovation--but that, too, could unleash forces that the region's autocrats are unable to control. Leaders are risk-averse and therefore implement policies that tame the universities politically but in the process sap their capabilities for innovation and knowledge creation. The result is sub-optimal and, argues John Waterbury in this thought-provoking study, unsustainable. Skillfully integrating international debates on higher education with rich and empirically informed analysis of the governance and finance of higher education in the Arab world today, Missions Impossible explores and dissects the manifold dilemmas that lie at the heart of educational reform and examines possible paths forward.
He just wants to live through this last assignment. For CIA agent Parker Jenkins, his final mission has taken a dangerous turn. When the agent he was mentoring goes missing, he finds that the trainee has left him a roadmap of clues leading to a plot to attack an economic conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. If that’s not enough, the only person on site to help him is a young and inexperienced FBI Field Agent who looks like she just stepped off the fashion runway in Milan. She just wants to prove herself in a man’s world. Zoe Blake is deep undercover as a personal stylist for a billionaire who has received a death threat. She is forced to return to the world of high-end fashion––the industry her father inhabits and a world she detests––when instead of investigating the criminal rich, she now has to protect them from a deadly plot. Her dreaded mission gets worse when she is assigned to work under the controlling but way-too-sexy Parker Jenkins. Sometimes help—and love—comes from where you least want it. Or expect it… As the terrorist plot begins to unravel, Parker and Zoe have to work together in order to bring an extremist group to justice before it’s too late. Time is ticking down to tragedy, forcing Parker and Zoe to trust each other. Working undercover together allows them to strip away all pretense and get to know the real person, and they realize they misjudged the other. But will they be too late to reveal their true feelings? Undercover Danger is the first book in the brand-new spin-off series of the Mission Impossible Romantic Series by USA Today Bestselling Author Jacki Delecki.
Sten Jenkins was a Marine on a mission. That is until Miss High IQ ruined his plan. Now, instead of going undercover as a “Black Hat,” a criminal hacker, to the biggest hacker convention in Las Vegas, Sten has to babysit Izzy while she tries to draw out those who are selling her IT work on the dark web. But it all sounds a little too convenient to Sten when he realizes Izzy’s boyfriend is a global tech wizard, known to have dealings with North Korea. Elizabeth “Izzy” Benson has the brains to rival some of the best IT minds out there. Unfortunately, her genius is going to get her killed—or worse, tortured. The Artificial Intelligence drone she’s developed is drawing all the wrong kind of interest, and the one man she thought she could trust is the one man selling her out. Now on the run, she’ll have to roll the dice on a stranger—a very angry Marine—who makes it obvious he doesn’t believe her or want her around. Now Sten and Izzy will have to decide who’s playing whom and who’s being played in this high-stakes game of international security roulette. Mission: Impossible to Love is a standalone romance in USA Today bestselling author Jacki Delecki’s heart-racing, pulse-pounding Impossible Mission military romantic suspense series featuring Special Forces operatives and the strong women who love them. Don’t miss a single exhilarating adventure into danger and passion. Mission: Impossible to Resist Mission: Impossible to Surrender Mission: Impossible to Love Mission: Impossible to Forget Mission: Impossible to Wed Mission: Impossible to Protect Each steamy, action-packed standalone romance in the Impossible Mission series delivers a hellaciously stubborn, hot as blazes, alpha male military hero brought to his knees by a fierce, strong, independent woman. Only together can they complete their impossible mission. “Smart and sexy. There's nothing I like more than a strong male lead, unless it's a female lead who's strong in her own way, too!! Lucky for me, I got both my wishes fulfilled in this book.” —Ellie K., Amazon “I can always count on Ms. Delecki to provide me with alpha males and strong females that can stand on their own.” —J.M. Varner, Amazon “I like a female lead that doesn't need help. I also like a strong alpha man that lets his woman be herself and that's what these characters are. Two strong people that become better together. Great chemistry and a great suspense.” —MyOhMy, Amazon
(Easy Piano Songbook). 17 easy arrangements of pop hits with instruction tips for each by popular YouTube instructor Mr. Hoffman. Each song also has a demo track and backing tracks online to help students hear how they should sound and then play along and sound like a pro! Ideal for beginning piano students who want to use their new-found skills to play popular music. Songs include: Can't Stop the Feeling * Fight Song * How Far I'll Go * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Lean on Me * Let It Go * Linus and Lucy * Shake It Off * Star Wars (Main Theme) * We Will Rock You * and more.
This is a work of excavation of the modern history of Turkey, with the Kurdish question at its center, unearthed and exposed in Çandar’s captivating narrative. The founding of a Turkish nation-state in Asia Minor brought with it the denial of the distinct Kurdish identity in its midst, giving birth to an intractable problem that led to intermittent Kurdish revolts and culminated in the enduring insurgency of the PKK. The Kurdish question is perceived as a mortal threat for the survival of Turkey. The author weaves a fascinating account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes. Providing a unique historical record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist—rather than Islamist—nature of the Turkish state rooted in the last decades of the Ottoman period and finally manifested in Erdoğan’s “New Turkey,” Çandar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on the Turkey of today and tomorrow. Turkey’s Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds combines scholarly research with the memoirs of a participant observer, richly revealing the author’s first-hand knowledge of developments acquired over a lifetime devoted to the resolution of perhaps the most complex problem of the Middle East.
Accompanying audio CD features some of Schifrin's compositions: Mission : impossible (from Firebird), Sketches of Miles (from More jazz meets the symphony), Tango del atardecer (from Letters from Argentina), Ins and outs (from Ins and Outs and Lalo live at the Blue Note), Montuno (from Latin jazz suite), Shifting gears (from Bullitt), Kyrie (from Jazz mass), Charlie Parker : the firebird (from Firebird), and Tocata (from Gillespiana).
