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The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning
This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning: Understanding Effective Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts
Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practices in continuing education. It highligh... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Social Capital, Lifelong Learning and the Management of Place: An International Perspective
With contributions from around the world, this book brings together inter-related research from three fields: social capital, place management and lifelong learning regions. Providing valuable insight into the management of place and the development of learning at a regional level, the book presents... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning: Issues and Approaches in International Research
This authoritative volume is a truly international contribution to the worldwide debate on how best to widen access to lifelong learning.The first section of the book comprises research studies from around the world, reflecting the diversity of contexts in which widening access is researched and con... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Public Speaking (8th edition)
Centered around three core objectives helping readers develop vital communication skills, encouraging speaker adaptability to diverse audiences, and sensitizing speakers to the ethical impact of their words Public Speaking offers both practical advice and an understanding of why such advice works.Th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Public Speaking
Public Speaking: Finding Your Voice helps students develop into effective speakers while emphasizing the ethical significance of public speaking and its importance in our increasingly diverse society. The text guides students to become better, more thoughtful consumers as well as producers of messag... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education (Improving Learning #Vol. 10)
by John Brennan • Robert Edmunds • Muir Houston • David Jary • Yann Lebeau • Michael Osborne • John T.E. RichardsonReceived the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010. What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according to what, w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France" examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusive... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Multiple Interest Rate Analysis: Th Eory And Applications
This book is an analysis of all possible interest rates. Dual expressions are used to solve long-standing puzzles, eliminate anomalies and draw conclusions about best practice and sound policy advice in areas of economics and finance. Topics include retail and corporate finance, capital budgeting ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
American Tall Tales
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of these collection of tales. There are among nine "tall" heroes featured in this exuberant collection of traditional American folk tales, including Paul Bunyan, Johnny Apple seed, John Henry, and other American folk heroes.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
Cambridge Classical Studies: M. I. Finley
M. I. Finley (1912-86) was the most famous ancient historian of his generation. He was admired by his peers, and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. His unmistakable voice was familiar to tens of thousands of radio listeners, his pol... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Matthew Commentary Collection: An All-In-One Commentary Collection for Studying the Book of Matthew
This all-in-one commentary bundle on the book of Matthew features volumes from the NIV Application Commentary Series, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary Series, and Story of God Bible Commentary Series. Each volume provides new and unique insights from leading biblical scholars Michael Wilkins, Grant O... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library: Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
by Michael Posluns • Morten Asfeldt • Bob Henderson • Bruce W. Hodgins • S. L. Osborne • Kerry Karram • Ken S. Coates • P. Whitney Lackenbauer • William R. Morrion • Greg Poelzer • Anthony Dalton • Alexis S. Troubetzkoy • John David Hamilton • Claudia Coutu Radmore • Pete SeegerThis special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this land, an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture: An integrated systems research approach (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)
by Michael Phillips • Richard Thomas • Bernard Vanlauwe • Ingrid Oborn • Willemien Brooijmans • Kwesi Atta-KrahSustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and equity are crucial components. This book describes... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
by Juan Felipe Herrera • Minal Hajratwala • Inés Hernández-Avila • Barbara Jane Reyes • David Bowles • Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Abigail Carl-Klassen • Adela Najarro • Allen Baros • Barbara Brinson Curiel • Carmen Calatayud • Cecca Austin Ochoa • Cordelia Barrera • César L. De León • D. M. Chávez • Dan Vera • Daniel E. Solís y Martínez • David Hatfield Sparks • Elsie Rivas Gómez • Emmy Pérez • Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez • Ire'Ne Lara Silva • Ire’ne Lara Silva • Jennine Doc Wright • Jo Reyes-Boitel • Joe Jiménez • John Fry • José Antonio Rodríguez • Juan Morales • Karla Cordero • Kim Shuck • Lupe Mendez • Marie Varghese • Melanie Márquez Adams • Michael Wasson • Miguel M. Morales • Monica Palacios • Nadine Saliba • Nia Witherspoon • Nidia Melissa Bautista • Olga García Echeverría • Oswaldo Vargas • Pablo Miguel Martínez • Rachel Mckibbens • Rodney Gomez • Roy G. Guzmán • Sarah A. Chavez • Shauna Osborn • Suzy de Jesus Huerta • T. Sarmina • Tara Betts • Tomas Moniz • Veronica Sandoval • Victor Payan • Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo • Ysabel Y. GonzálezIn homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized, expl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023