"Can you think of a nicer way to spend a lovely, long summer than with a best friend at a Lilttle Palace close to the sea? The vacation could be perfect, nearly perfect or a total disaster. For Noor and Claire, Belle and Mrs. Aliov it was---well, you decide..."
This book tells the extraordinary story of how in the mid twentieth century, in a well-developed European country, a mathematically solid system of geometry was altered to such an extent that more than one million students were taught foundationally flawed geometry over more than a quarter of a century. The almost unbelievable situation came about in Ireland in the wake of early postcolonial developments that gave rise to an impressionable and unqualified civil service in a position of power over a nation's educational development. This is a multifaceted tale of a perfect storm within mathematics development in Ireland whose result was so destructive that its ramifications continue to be felt into the twenty-first century, forty years after a report of a Royal Irish Academy commission of professors of mathematics described the matter as a national scandal. Euclid Transmogrified: A National Scandal may be of interest to mathematics teachers, lecturers in mathematics, mathematical historians, lecturers in education, students of mathematical education, administrators of mathematical education, science administrators, science journalists and those educated in mathematics in Ireland, especially those born between 1954 and 2000. https: //sites.google.com/view/euclidtransmogrified1
A comprehensive biographical guide to the scientific achievements, personal lives, and struggles of women scientists from around the globe. International Women in Science: A Bibliographical Dictionary to 1950 presents the enormous contributions of women outside North America in fields ranging from aviation to computer science to zoology. It provides fascinating profiles of nearly 400 women scientists, both renowned figures like Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie and women we should know better, like Rosalind Franklin, who, along with James Watson and Francis Crick, uncovered the structure of DNA. Students and researchers will see how the lives of these remarkable women unfolded, and how they made their place in fields often stubbornly guarded by men, overcoming everything from limited education and professional opportunities, to indifference, ridicule, and cultural prejudice, to outright hostility and discrimination. Included are a number of living scientists, many of whom provide insights into their lives and scientific times. Those contributions, plus additional previously unavailable material, make this a volume of unprecedented scope and richness.
If you want to know the secrets of virtualization and how to implement high availability on your services, this is the book for you. For those of you who are already using Proxmox, this book offers you the chance to build a high availability cluster with a distributed filesystem to further protect your system from failure.
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts. Including postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses by drawing upon fieldwork with organizations and individuals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Nicaragua, and India, Sport, Gender and Development reveals the complexities of development and gender discourses and how they operate on and through researchers, practitioners, and participants' bodies. Delving into a thoughtful engagement with the (dis)connections and comparisons across these diverging contexts, this book offers a critically reflexive account of what is transpiring in the transnational sport, gender and development field, while remaining sensitive to the importance of community context and local iterations. Taking up emerging and contemporary feminist issues in sport related international development, this book advances empirical, conceptual, and theoretical developments in sport, gender and development.
Welcome to the second volume of stories walking you through the historical streets of Bath. For centuries, this world-renowned city has touched people’s hearts and these stories will, too.
Everybody starts writing at some time in his life, career or peregrinations (if he or she is lucky enough to be travelling the world). I am, (both: writing from time to time and travelling the world), but at times what I write does not fit in anything I might have started that would be a book of memoirs (I might be considered to young), or essay (maybe not enough of a writer to do that), and so the things I happen to write in the "spirit of the moment" end up on a peace of paper, a "post-it-note" (you know, the little sticky yellow things) or I just forget about it. This compilation is (supposedly) the gathering of those lost thoughts and a little more. Some are or will be relevant to those who happen to have lived "the moment" with me (hy there, thought you'd never hear about me anymore hey?) some are just good for any time or situation. As usual what you will make out of it is entirely up to you.
