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Designing for Older Adults: Case Studies, Methods, and Tools
Designing for Older Adults: Case Studies, Methods, and Tools There are many products, tools, and technologies available that could provide support for older adults. However, their success requires that they are designed with older adults in mind by being aware of, and adhering to, design principles... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches, Third Edition
This new edition provides easily accessible and usable guidelines for practitioners in the design community for older adults. It includes an updated overview of the demographic characteristics of older adult populations and the scientific knowledge base of the aging process relevant to design. New c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Samuel Johnson
W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as a supreme example of the biographer's art and the first great modern life of Johnson. Bate's work is literary biography at its finest, delving into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output.<P><P> Win... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1977 -
The New Global Rulers
by Walter Mattli • Tim ButheOver the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common rules for global markets, but also by the real... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Manstein’s Campaigns - More Than Tactics
The purpose of this paper is to analyze selected campaigns/operations of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in order to draw lessons from those campaigns as they relate to command, control, communications (C3) and logistics -- subjects of immediate and relevant interest to those who take up the profes... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Stylistic Development of Keats (Routledge Library Editions: Keats)
This study, first published in 1945, gives a precise description of the unfolding of a great poet’s craftsmanship and suggests alignments of the technical progression with the changes of the mind. Metrical analysis is given in order to throw light on Keats’ general stylistic development using the s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1945 -
Children's Play and Its Place in Education: With an Appendix on the Montessori Method (Routledge Library Editions: Education)
Published long before the importance of early childhood education was formally recognised in the educational landscape this book explores the significance of play for young children. The volume includes an appendix on Montessori education.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
“What Sells Me”: Bill Clinton, 1974
You can't be defensive about it. You don't apologize for it."This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Thinfluence: Thin-flu-ence (noun) the powerful and surprising effect friends, family, work, a nd environment have on weight
Tackling a weight problem is often viewed as a personal responsibility that requires making healthier choices. The latest research, however, shows that external factors—from family and friendships to advertising and the workplace environment—make an equal, if not greater, contribution. Just look at ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach
This sourcebook on theoretical orientations and methodological strategies in family studies details the social and personal roots (i.e., sources) from which these orientations and strategies flow. With its sociohistorical approach, this book uniquely emphasizes not only family theories but also rese... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1993 -
Candide or Optimism (First Avenue Classics)
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" <P><P> It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Candide, Or Optimism
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Climate Smart Agricultural Development
by Neil Miller • Richard Bell • Patrick Gicheru • Trent W Bunderson • Zwide D Jere • Josef Kienzle • Erna Kruger • Peter Kuria • Simon Lugandu • Weldone Mutai • Brian G. Sims • Hendrik J. Smith • Christian Thierfelder • Reynolds K. Shula • Johann Strauss • Joseph Mureithi • Mohamed Annabi • Haithem Bahri • Mloza Banda • Gotlieb Basch • Alexandra Bot • Martin Bwalya • Hatem Cheikh M’hamed • Cornelius Chiduza • Cary Clark • Demba Diakhaté • Mazwi Dlamini • Sjoerd Duiker • Alioune Fall • Aymen Frija • Josiah Gitari • Tom Goddard • Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez • Isaac Gura • Enamul Haque • Michel Havard • Zied Idoudi • Mohammad Jahiruddin • Onesmos Kitonyo • Phlorentin Philip Lagwen • Ngari Macharia • Temakholo Mathebula • Sixolise Mcinga • Alfred Micheni • Frank Mmbando • Rachid Moussadek • Pearson Nyari Mnkeni • Rachid Mrabet • Ndabhemeye Mulengera • Walter Mupangwa • R. M. Museka • Munyaradzi Mutenje • Lindah Muzangwa • Remmy Mwakimbwala • Andre A Nel • James Njeru • Rama Ngatoluwa • Phumzile Ngcobo • Isaiah Nyagumbo • Putso Nyathi • Ricardo Ralisch • Leonard Rusinamhodzi • John Sariah • Ibrahima Sarr • Peter Setimela • Richard Shetto • Dimas Soares Júnior • Peter Steward • Gerhardus Trytsman • Jean Twilingiyumukiza • Carl Wahl • Peter Waweru • Nouhoun ZampaligreTillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
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