The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT121934Bookseller's name from the colophon.London: printed for the author sold by T. Boreman; and at the pamphlet-shops, in London and Westminster], 1737. 48p., plate; 12
Create stunning digital media quickly and affordably.Shaky camerawork and scratchy audio just won’t cut it with your learners. But can your time- and budget-constrained training department produce the polished media they expect? Absolutely.In Rapid Media Development for Trainers, veteran trainer and author Jonathan Halls uses his experience running the BBC’s prestigious production training department to help even the smallest learning team dazzle. Whether you need to build a training program, blend your offerings, or flip your classroom, this book will help you make learning dynamic with rapid media techniques.Free of overly technical jargon, Rapid Media Development for Trainers is for novice and expert learning professionals alike. It explains essential learning and media concepts and adapts standard production practices to your work schedule. You won’t need to max out your budget on expensive equipment, or stress over camera models and editing software. Use simple tools—some that you already have—to create video, audio, and online content while avoiding common missteps.Turn once uninspiring training programs into riveting learning experiences that incorporate compelling video, crisp podcasts, and eye-catching presentations.Discover:why planning media production always beats out winging itwhich cost-effective tools can deliver high-quality digital mediawhat visual, auditory, and graphical concepts are indispensable during creationhow you can pull all your media together and edit it for a complete learning experience.Boost your production and content quality with this ultimate guide to fast and affordable media development.
LIKE FILM SCHOOL FOR TRAINERS! Film and edit effective training videos—using your smartphone.Whether you’re a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don’t need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful training videos. All you really need is a learning strategy, a good production plan, and a smartphone camera. Informed by his 30-year career in training and media, including his time as learning executive with the BBC, author Jonathan Halls is committed to best practices in video production that will actually help your learners to learn, and without a giant strain on your resources.With straightforward and accessible language, in Creating Training Videos you’ll get:The intersection of media and learning research: Uncover how your videos can effectively provoke learning.Best practices for instructional video: Create a smart outline for your instructional video, creatively use repetition, highlight schemas that are familiar to your audience, and more. Visual grammar: Learn rules of film that you can put into effect immediately, like framing your shots and selecting the best shot sizes to more powerfully support learning.Planning your pictures: Gain a practical framework for mapping out the elements of your video using storyboards, shot formulas, and narrative templates designed to meet various training needs. Understand how picture, graphics, spoken word, and more come together to tell your story.Your videographer’s toolkit: An honest discussion of essential gear, helpful gear, and the serious tools you might consider for your toolkit.Filming with your smartphone: Learn how to best light, stabilize, and frame your shots using the tool you already have in your pocket.Editing and workflow: Stitch shots together for a powerful final product that supports learning, no matter what software you decide to use (yes, even an app on your phone!), and workflow considerations that satisfy all of your stakeholders.With 96 percent of organizations using video as a key modality for workplace learning and 62 percent of organizations posting video (for L&D and other purposes) to YouTube, the ability to produce video is a sought-after skill in the L&D world. Creating Training Videos teaches you step-by-step how to plan, film, and edit smart instructional content—using only a smartphone and without compromising quality and success.
Mention grade inflation and most educationalists will immediately think of student examination results. However, grade inflation can exist wherever graded systems are used, resulting in an unduly optimistic view of performance.In this book, the authors examine grade inflation in those educational performance management and quality assurance systems that use grading systems. In particular, they look at grade inflation through the lens of graded lesson observations.The book defines grade inflation and examines how it arises. In addition, it identifies what enables grade inflation to grow undetected and the consequences, together with practical steps institutions can adopt to minimize its impact.
Peer observations between teachers, where they watch their colleagues at work, can provide them with invaluable insights into the effectiveness of their practice, while simultaneously offering an effective way to help them to secure improvement. There is, therefore, a key role for peer observations in raising standards in educational institutions. However, all too often, even where the use of peer observations is attempted, because of poor understanding about their use, much of their potential value is lost. As a consequence, peer observations can often be restricted to a minor role in the professional development of teachers. Given the potential benefits that they can offer, this is unfortunate. Therefore, this book takes the reader through the entire process of peer observations, from their initial planning, through to the post-observation meeting. Based on extensive experience, it aims to provide both teachers and managers with a brief practical guide to undertaking peer observations and extracting the maximum benefit from them.
The electric new Clay Edison thriller from the New York Times bestselling, acclaimed father-son duo who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner's office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. He's perfectly happy working low-stakes embezzlement cases--that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a mystery only he can solve. The son of a wealthy couple has washed up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay with drugs in his system and a head injury. The police are calling it an accident. But the parents are adamant something's not right--and as Clay digs deeper, he uncovers a horrifying tangle of betrayal and lies.
The electric new Clay Edison thriller from the New York Times bestselling, acclaimed father-son duo who write 'brilliant, page-turning fiction' (Stephen King).Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator.He’s perfectly happy investigating calm, low-stakes embezzlement cases - that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a case only he can solve.Adam Valois, the missing son of a wealthy Los Gatos couple, was found floating dead in the Bay with a head injury and drugs in his system. The police have lost interest, ruling it a likely overdose.But as Clay digs deeper into Adam’s mysterious death, he begins to suspect darker forces are at play . . . ______________Praise for Jonathan Kellerman's New York Times No. 1 bestselling thrillers:'Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying' Sunday Telegraph'High-octane entertainment' The Times'Exceptionally exciting' New York Times'Jonathan Kellerman has delivered the goods again, adding another instalment to a series that shows no sign of running out of steam' Shots Magazine
'Exceptionally exciting' New York Times _________________________ Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. He’s perfectly happy investigating calm, low-stakes embezzlement cases – that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a case only he can solve. Adam Valois, the missing son of a wealthy Los Gatos couple, was found floating dead in the Bay with a head injury and drugs in his system. The police have lost interest, ruling it an overdose. But as Clay digs deeper into Adam’s mysterious death, he begins to suspect darker forces are at play… ______________ PRAISE FOR JONATHAN KELLERMAN 'Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying' Sunday Telegraph 'High-octane entertainment' The Times 'Jonathan Kellerman has delivered the goods again, adding another instalment to a series that shows no sign of running out of steam' Shots Magazine
The story of the recovery of mountain lions in the Black Hills of South Dakota.Mountain lions, sometimes called pumas or cougars, were once spread throughout the United States, occupying all 48 of the contiguous states. By the 1960s, though, they were almost extinct in central and eastern North America. In Mountain Lions of the Black Hills, Dr. Jonathan A. Jenks, who, along with his team of graduate students, has tracked over 200 of these fascinating predators, tells the complex story of the big cats’ lives in the northern Great Plains.Jenks reports on mountain lion population dynamics, diet, nutrition, diseases, behavior, and genetics. He explores the impact of a changing prey base on population growth and decline, movements within and away from the region, and hunting on the species; discusses interactions between the cats and livestock; and examines local people’s evolving perceptions of mountain lions. Throughout, Jenks explores how we can balance conservation techniques with the needs of humans.Providing a unique look into how a large, secretive predator recolonized an isolated region of North America, Mountain Lions of the Black Hills is required reading for wildlife professionals. A captivating text for anyone struck by the wild majesty of these big cats, this book provides invaluable data upon which to make sound management decisions in the Great Plains and beyond.
In the heart of a modern state, a Marxist movement takes root. What unfolds when such a movement ascends to power, and what insights can today’s political activists glean from this experience? Revolutionaries in the Halls of Power by Jonathan Rosenblum offers a gripping narrative of Seattle’s transformative journey from 2014 to 2024. For 10 years, the US city of Seattle served as a laboratory for this unusual political experiment, with the election of Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative, to Seattle City Council. Despite being vastly outnumbered on the council, Sawant and her organization took on the political establishment and corporate titans like Amazon and Starbucks. They secured historic victories for working people: implementing a $15 minimum wage, imposing a tax on Amazon to fund social housing, and enacting groundbreaking renters' rights legislation. Sawant’s movement improbably steered the city’s political discourse for a decade through three intense reelection campaigns. Sawant’s strategy diverged from that of modern-day reform socialists by leaning into the revolutionary lessons and experiences of Marxist theorists and practitioners over the past 175 years. Her approach was grounded in three pillars: a class struggle mindset to navigate an unfriendly political system, bold demands that link core material needs of the working class to the broader quest for socialist change, and a commitment to grassroots democracy to propel legislation forward. These pillars, while not new to socialist thinking, marked a fresh application in the U.S. political context. This book sheds light on how Marxist theory fueled this decade-long movement. With an insider’s view from working within Sawant’s Council office and alongside core activists, Rosenblum provides a deeply informed perspective. For political activists searching desperately to make sense of the world, the Seattle experience provides a roadmap, a way to fight back, a ray of hope in the despairing miasma of 21st Century capitalism.
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What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict - even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete breakdown of state and society. And all has been compounded by natural disasters - drought, famine and the scourge of AIDS. But there is another, less reported, story of Africa: throwing off the colonial past, embracing modernity, learning fast, gaining in pride and self-confidence and embracing the crucial management function; all this in the context of fruitful collaboration with Europe and American business and,increasingly, with the rising Asian economic superpowers. Jonathan Lawley's Beyond the Malachite Hills paints a vivid and convincing picture of solid political, social and economic progress. Beyond the Malachite Hills is a remarkable testament to his long-lasting and profound involvement with this often misunderstood continent.
Landslides are caused by a failure of the mechanical balance within hillslopes. This balance is governed by two coupled physical processes: hydrological or subsurface flow and stress. The stabilizing strength of hillslope materials depends on effective stress, which is diminished by rainfall. This book presents a cutting-edge quantitative approach to understanding hydro-mechanical processes across variably saturated hillslope environments and to the study and prediction of rainfall-induced landslides. Topics covered include historic synthesis of hillslope geomorphology and hydrology, total and effective stress distributions, critical reviews of shear strength of hillslope materials and different bases for stability analysis. Exercises and homework problems are provided for students to engage with the theory in practice. This is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in hydrology, geomorphology, engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and geomechanics and for professionals in the fields of civil and environmental engineering and natural hazard analysis.
The newest research on a major Anglo-Saxon site paints a vivid picture of the beginnings of England. [Edited by Martin Carver] For decades scholars have puzzled over the true story of settlement in Britain between the fifth and eight centuries. Did the Romans leave? Did the Anglo-Saxons invade? What happened to the British? Newlight on these questions comes unexpectedly from Wasperton, a small village on the Warwickshire Avon, where archaeologists had the good fortune to excavate a complete cemetery and its prehistoric setting. The community reused an old Romano-British agricultural enclosure, and built burial mounds beside it. There was a score of cremations in Anglo-Saxon pots; but there were also unfurnished graves lined with stones and planks in the manner of western Britain. In a pioneering analysis, including radiocarbon and stable isotopes, the authors of this book have put this variety of burial practice into a credible sequence, and built up a picture of life at the time. Here there were people who were culturally Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon, pagan and Christian in continuous use of the same graveyard and drawing on a common inheritance. Here we can see the beginnings of England and the people who made it happen- not the kings, warriors and preachers, but the ordinary folk obliged to make their own choices: choices about what nation to build and which religion to follow. MARTIN CARVER is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of York; Dr CATHERINE HILLS is Senior Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at the University of Cambridge; Dr JONATHAN SCHESCHKEWITZ is Officer with the Ancient Monuments authority of Stuttgart.
Learning Sciences is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary field that investigates how people learn and applies these insights to improve educational practices. This essential textbook introduces the field with a focus on classroom teaching, making complex theories accessible and relevant to educators at all levels. By blending principled understanding with room for teachers’ creativity and cultural adaptation, the book empowers educators to design learning experiences that engage and inspire students. The book explores core aspects of learning - cognitive, constructive, socio-cultural, emotional and motivational, and representational - through a unique metaphor: teaching as architecture. Like architects, educators must balance evidence-based principles with their professional vision and adapt to diverse contexts and needs. Each chapter delves into foundational theories and evidence, drawing evidence from multiple methods and practices, before illustrating practical applications through metaphors and stories. It provides practical insights grounded in research, helping readers understand why their teaching works and offering a framework to refine their practice. The final chapter examines emerging trends, including critical perspectives and the impact of AI on education, offering a forward-looking view of the field. This book is an invaluable resource for educators, teacher trainers, and students of education or Learning Sciences. Whether you are new to teaching or a seasoned professional, it will inspire you to design learning experiences that educate, captivate, and empower your students to reach their full potential.
Learning Sciences is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary field that investigates how people learn and applies these insights to improve educational practices. This essential textbook introduces the field with a focus on classroom teaching, making complex theories accessible and relevant to educators at all levels. By blending principled understanding with room for teachers’ creativity and cultural adaptation, the book empowers educators to design learning experiences that engage and inspire students. The book explores core aspects of learning - cognitive, constructive, socio-cultural, emotional and motivational, and representational - through a unique metaphor: teaching as architecture. Like architects, educators must balance evidence-based principles with their professional vision and adapt to diverse contexts and needs. Each chapter delves into foundational theories and evidence, drawing evidence from multiple methods and practices, before illustrating practical applications through metaphors and stories. It provides practical insights grounded in research, helping readers understand why their teaching works and offering a framework to refine their practice. The final chapter examines emerging trends, including critical perspectives and the impact of AI on education, offering a forward-looking view of the field. This book is an invaluable resource for educators, teacher trainers, and students of education or Learning Sciences. Whether you are new to teaching or a seasoned professional, it will inspire you to design learning experiences that educate, captivate, and empower your students to reach their full potential.
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