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Author: Edgar W. Schneider
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0521888468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, setting a range of global varieties in their historical and social contexts.
Author: Henry Marshall Leicester
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780486610535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Leicester traces the development of chemistry through the thoughts and ideas of practitioners and theorists, from Aristotle and Plato to Curie and 20th-century nuclear scientists. Throughout, the relationship of chemical advances to a broader world history is recognized and stressed. 15 figures. Name and subject indexes. 1956 edition.
Author: Bruce W. Gore
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781426943591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake in the full history of the Bible with a detailed account that focuses on its major empires, events and personalities. Written by a religious scholar who has taught at high school, college and adult levels, this historical exploration is organized around the major civilizations and epochs of the ancient world, beginning with Sumer and ending with Rome. Author Bruce W. Gore provides a thorough overview of major empires, such as the Assyrians or Babylonians, as well as more modest civilizations, such as the Phoenicians or Hittites. Learn how Cyrus the Persian, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and others changed the course of Christianity. In the course of historical exploration, this account also examines questions that may have puzzled readers of the Bible in the past: * Who was Sennacherib? * To which Assyrian king did Jonah preach, and did this make any difference in history? * What did the eight night visions of Zechariah mean in light of the rule of Darius the Persian? Study the Bible with an eye on its ancient setting and develop an understanding of its key people, places and civilizations with Historical and Chronological Context of the Bible.
Author: Meyer Weinberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1136498354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsian-American Education: Historical Background and Current Realities fills a gap in the study of the social and historical experiences of Asians in U.S. schools. It is the first historical work to provide American readers with information about highly individual ethnic groups rather than viewing distinctly different groups as one vague, global entity such as "Asians." The people who populate each chapter are portrayed as active participants in their history rather than as passive victims of their culture. Each of the twelve country-specific chapters begins with a description of the kind of education received in the home country, including how widely available it was, how equal or unequal the society was, and what were the circumstances under which the emigration of children from the country occurred. The latter part of each of these chapters deals with the education these children have received in the United States. Throughout the book, instead of dwelling on a relatively narrow range of children who perform spectacularly well, the author tries to discover the educational situation typical among average students. The order of chapters is roughly chronological in terms of when the first sizable numbers of immigrants came from a specific country.
Author: A. Al-Sharafi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-01-20
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1403938903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTextual Metonymy employs a theoretical framework combining rhetoric, figurative theory and textlinguistics. In the process, a very full historical account of treatments of metonymy from classical traditions up to the present time is given and critiqued. The author proposes a semiotic approach to the treatment of metonymy, on the basis of which a textual model of metonymy as a process of representation is developed to account for text cohesion and text coherence.
Author: David B. Resnik
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 3319687565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a framework for approaching ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects from the perspective of trust. It explains how trust is important not only between investigators and subjects but also between and among other stakeholders involved in the research enterprise, including research staff, sponsors, institutions, communities, oversight committees, government agencies, and the general public. The book argues that trust should be viewed as a distinct ethical principle for research with human subjects that complements other principles, such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. The book applies the principle of trust to numerous issues, including informed consent, confidentiality, risk minimization, risks and benefits, protection of vulnerable subjects, experimental design, research integrity, and research oversight.This work also includes discussions of the history of research involving human subjects, moral theories and principles, contemporary cases, and proposed regulatory reforms. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students studying ethical policy issues related to research with human subjects, as well as for scientists and scholars who are interested in thinking about this topic from the perspective of trust.
Author: Geoffrey Howson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-09-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521270533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the mid- 1970s the curriculum development boom in mathematics was to end almost as rapidly as it had begun. In this book the authors, who come from countries with differing educational traditions and patterns, consider these developments in their historical, social and educational context. They give not only a descriptive account of developmental work in a variety of countries, its aims and the patterns of management utilised, but also attempt to identify trends and characteristics and thus provide a theoretical base for criticism and analysis. The reader will find numerous case studies, including extracts from such renowned authors as Bruner, Dieudonne and Piaget.
Author: Michael Loewe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-30
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1000508471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1966, Imperial China sets out to explain China’s past histories to non-specialists. Too often the West has misunderstood the East. China is credited with an excessively long cultural history; with a continuous line of dynastic succession; with uniformly practised institutions; or with intellectual stagnation. Michael Loewe sets out here to dispel some of these misconceptions, and to mark the stages in the evolution of China’s political forms, social organizations and economic progress that can be traced from the days of the first empire (from 221 B.C.) until the dynamic changes of the nineteenth century. He believes that a full understanding of modern China depends on a more than perfunctory glance at her past and has tried to provide the general historical context. The author is well aware that, thanks to the research of the last fifty years, it is now possible and indeed requisite to reach a deeper understanding of China's past. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Chinese history, Asian history, history in general.
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the range of child welfare, health, juvenile justice, child development, recreation, and family support services currently provided to children in the United States, this report of the Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy assesses and provides recommendations concerning research on children's services and service provision. The first section of the report provides a historical review of the development of and research on children's services. The second section presents three examples of how enlarging the frame of reference for studying children's services brings into question and shifts the terms of policy debate. Examples discussed are child care, services for youth (adolescent) development, and the costs and benefits of financing children's services. In the committee's view, the dozens of specialized perspectives now employed by researchers and service providers constitute an insufficient basis for the formation of a social policy. It is recommended that research on children's services, as well as the services themselves, adopt a holistic conceptualization of the child and investigate how children actually live and manage their lives. It is further recommended that present research and service provision be continued, but be redesigned, redirected, and reformed to provide greater affordable benefits to children. Innovations in the existing array of children's services are suggested. (Author/RH)
Author: Antonio Concilio
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0080999212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShape Memory Alloy Engineering introduces materials, mechanical, and aerospace engineers to shape memory alloys (SMAs), providing a unique perspective that combines fundamental theory with new approaches to design and modeling of actual SMAs as compact and inexpensive actuators for use in aerospace and other applications. With this book readers will gain an understanding of the intrinsic properties of SMAs and their characteristic state diagrams, allowing them to design innovative compact actuation systems for applications from aerospace and aeronautics to ships, cars, and trucks. The book realistically discusses both the potential of these fascinating materials as well as their limitations in everyday life, and how to overcome some of those limitations in order to achieve proper design of useful SMA mechanisms. Discusses material characterization processes and results for a number of newer SMAs Incorporates numerical (FE) simulation and integration procedures into commercial codes (Msc/Nastran, Abaqus, and others) Provides detailed examples on design procedures and optimization of SMA-based actuation systems for real cases, from specs to verification lab tests on physical demonstrators One of the few SMA books to include design and set-up of demonstrator characterization tests and correlation with numerical models
