Peter Roberts

Often regarded as one of life’s few certainties, death is both instantly familiar to us and deeply mysterious. Death is everywhere, yet few of us take the time to consider its significance in shaping human lives. This book addresses the difficult, complex, sensitive subject of death from a unique point of view. Drawing on insights from philosophers across the ages, the authors argue that death is a matter of profound educational importance. Paying particular attention to thinkers in the existentialist tradition, Philosophy, Death and Education shows that our understanding of death can play a key role in determining what, how and why we teach and learn. Death exerts an influence, often unnoticed, on our commitments and priorities, our ideals and relationships. A thoughtful examination of death, the authors suggest, can help us to see ourselves in a new light, and in so doing, allow us to better appreciate what others have to offer.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the work of the influential educationist, Paulo Freire. The author emphasizes both the coherence and the dynamism in Freire’s thought, with some consistent core concepts, but also a strong commitment to ongoing reflection and development. The book includes a detailed overview of Freire’s biography, major publications, and key ideas, but also adds a distinctive voice to existing conversations in the new comparisons it makes with other writers and thinkers, its Freirean analysis of policy developments and pedagogical relationships at the tertiary level, and its consideration of ethical and educational questions in the light of lessons from literature. The Freirean virtues of openness, humility, tolerance, trust, and rigor are found to be highly relevant to today’s world. The hope is that this book will provide a number of avenues for further inquiry in the future, while also addressing educational questions and themes of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners in the present.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the work of the influential educationist, Paulo Freire. The author emphasizes both the coherence and the dynamism in Freire’s thought, with some consistent core concepts, but also a strong commitment to ongoing reflection and development. The book includes a detailed overview of Freire’s biography, major publications, and key ideas, but also adds a distinctive voice to existing conversations in the new comparisons it makes with other writers and thinkers, its Freirean analysis of policy developments and pedagogical relationships at the tertiary level, and its consideration of ethical and educational questions in the light of lessons from literature. The Freirean virtues of openness, humility, tolerance, trust, and rigor are found to be highly relevant to today’s world. The hope is that this book will provide a number of avenues for further inquiry in the future, while also addressing educational questions and themes of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners in the present.

This book provides a distinctive perspective on some of the ways in which performativity, as an expression of neoliberal and managerialist thinking, ‘works’ in specific policy contexts. It pays particular attention to higher education and considers how the logic of performativity reconfigures our sense of what it means to engage in worthwhile research, what it means to be ‘well’, and, ultimately, what it means to be human. Philosophy of education, conceived not just as a domain of scholarly activity but as a way of life, rubs against the grain of performativity. In a performance-driven world, efficiency, measurability and predictability are all important. A philosophical life in education is often unpredictable, uncertain and ‘inefficient’; it creates a kind of intellectual restlessness that can never be fully satisfied. Performativity, Politics and Education: From Policy to Philosophy suggests that the current obsession with productivity, performance and prosperity is misguided. It argues that policies and practices underpinned by the principle of performativity are dehumanising and offers an alternative approach: an orientation to education grounded in a philosophy of hope and underpinned by a commitment to collegiality, constructive critique and ongoing dialogue.

This book provides a distinctive perspective on some of the ways in which performativity, as an expression of neoliberal and managerialist thinking, 'works' in specific policy contexts. It pays particular attention to higher education and considers how the logic of performativity reconfigures our sense of what it means to engage in worthwhile research, what it means to be 'well', and, ultimately, what it means to be human. Philosophy of education, conceived not just as a domain of scholarly activity but as a way of life, rubs against the grain of performativity. In a performance-driven world, efficiency, measurability and predictability are all important. A philosophical life in education is often unpredictable, uncertain and 'inefficient'; it creates a kind of intellectual restlessness that can never be fully satisfied. Performativity, Politics and Education: From Policy to Philosophy suggests that the current obsession with productivity, performance and prosperity is misguided. It argues that policies and practices underpinned by the principle of performativity are dehumanising and offers an alternative approach: an orientation to education grounded in a philosophy of hope and underpinned by a commitment to collegiality, constructive critique and ongoing dialogue.

Petroleum royalty agreements are well understood and widely used in several jurisdictions worldwide, and are increasingly being used in many new jurisdictions as a tool for petroleum project development, financing and divestment. However, they are not always drafted with the necessary rigour, and deficiencies are commonplace. This Special Report provides an overview of the key issues relating to petroleum royalty agreements (with drafting examples), including: •key forms of royalty agreement (including gross overriding royalties, net profit interests, cash and in-kind royalties); •an explanation of the economic underpinning of royalty agreements; •the content and effect of key royalty agreement provisions; and •additional provisions which can be found in royalty agreements. It will be an invaluable guide to legal, commercial and financial professionals engaged in petroleum project financing, development and divestment.

This book follows on from "ITALIAN Learn 35 WORDS to speak Italian. But it can be used as an independent book if you are already familiar with a limited vocabulary of nouns. This book requires only 5% of the effort usually expended in learning grammar and provides you with the facility to use the essential 35 VERBS to allow you to communicate your requirements in fluent holiday language with perfectly understandable pronunciation. By identifying what you really need to know for your holidays in any Italian-speaking holiday destination, we turn a two year study into a two-week study, with better results You will be able to speak what you learn and communicate immediately to Italian nationals, increasing your holiday fun and enjoyment immensely.

This book follows on from "PORTUGUESE Learn 35 WORDS to speak Portuguese". But it can be used as an independent book if you are already familiar with a limited vocabulary of nouns. This book requires only 5% of the effort usually expended in learning grammar and provides you with the facility to use the essential 35 VERBS to allow you to communicate your requirements in fluent holiday language with perfectly understandable pronunciation. By identifying what you really need to know for your holidays in any Portuguese-speaking holiday destination, we turn a two-year study into a two-week study, with better results You will be able to speak what you learn and communicate immediately to Portuguese nationals, increasing your holiday fun and enjoyment immensely.

This book follows on from "SPANISH Learn 35 WORDS to speak Spanish". But it can be used as an independent book if you are already familiar with a limited vocabulary of nouns. This book requires only 5% of the effort usually expended in learning grammar and provides you with the facility to use the essential 35 VERBS to allow you to communicate your requirements in fluent holiday language with perfectly understandable pronunciation. By identifying what you really need to know for your holidays in any Spanish-speaking holiday destination, we turn a two-year study into a two-week study, with better results You will be able to speak what you learn and communicate immediately to Spanish nationals, increasing your holiday fun and enjoyment immensely.

This book follows on from "FRENCH - Learn 35 WORDS to speak French". But it can be used as an independent book if you are already familiar with a limited vocabulary of French nouns. This book requires only 5% of the effort usually expended in learning French grammar and provides you with the facility to use the essential 35 VERBS to allow you to communicate your requirements in fluent holiday French with perfectly understandable pronunciation. By identifying what you really need to know for your holidays in France or in any other French-speaking holiday destination, we turn a two-year study into a two-week study, with better results You will be able to speak what you learn and communicate with French nationals, increasing your holiday fun and enjoyment immensely.

This fourth edition of the leading work on joint operating agreements (JOAs) provides a practical examination of the provisions of a typical JOA, with a particular focus on the critical issues of scope, the operator’s role, joint and exclusive operations, default, transfers and decommissioning. There is also practical analysis of the key issues which apply to the operation of any JOA and the positions which are taken in the leading industry model form contracts. The perspectives of the operator and non-operator are addressed, along with consideration of the domestic and international standards applicable to petroleum projects. New features include: •a major reorganisation of chapters and appendices to present a clearer thematic approach; •greater analysis of the key differences between JOAs operating under licence regimes and concession agreements; •new chapters on information, intellectual property and technology licensing and sharing, and relevant antitrust rules; •consideration of recent model form JOA developments; and •analysis of the application of key recent case law on liquidated damages, default clauses and operator authority. Anyone engaged in the development of worldwide exploration and production projects will find Joint Operating Agreements: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition an essential addition to their professional library.

First published in 1996, this volume asked the question: who – and what – was Christopher Marlowe? Dramatist, poet, atheist and possible spy, he was a man in contrast with his time. The authors here gather to explore Marlowe on the four hundredth anniversary of his death. They include significant interdisciplinary elements and focus on dramaturgy, textual criticism and biography. It is hoped that the diversity of approaches can further debates on both Marlowe and Renaissance culture.

The Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) model form joint operating agreement (JOA) was first issued in 1990 and has undergone a number of subsequent revisions. It is the most widely-used (although not always the most liked) joint operating agreement in international conventional oil and gas projects today. This book offers a pragmatic, detailed clause-by-clause review of the most recent (2012) version of the conventional petroleum AIPN JOA. Each clause is analysed in depth by reference to: (1) a statement of what the clause says; (2) a summary of the intended meaning of the clause; and (3) observations on how the clause tends to be modified in practice and might be improved. The book also analyses the major appendices of the AIPN JOA, including the accounting procedure and the lifting procedures. This book is written by experienced practitioners who together have many years of knowledge and understanding in redrafting, negotiating and applying the AIPN JOA. It will be invaluable to legal representatives, financiers, commercial managers, operational personnel and government parties who are dealing with the AIPN JOA, whether for the first time or from a position of relative familiarity.

This dictionary is a guide to the various legal, regulatory, technical, commercial and financial acronyms, terms and phrases used in today's international oil and gas industry. Written by a leading expert in the field, this portable, concise and comprehensive dictionary is invaluable to a reader navigating the industry for the first time or requiring a greater insight. The Energy Institute has provided invaluable assistance in compiling the dictionary with a review of the technical sections. The dictionary is divided into three sections: commonly-used acronyms, an A to Z definition of terms and phrases and a series of technical appendices which summarise certain essential aspects of the industry.

In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can be helpful.Drawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, the authors demonstrate that literature can allow us to see how reason is understood and expressed, contested and compromised – by distinctive individuals, under particular circumstances, in complex and varied relations with others. Novels, plays and short stories can take us into the workings of a rational or irrational mind and show how the inner world of cognitive activity is shaped by external events. Perhaps most importantly, literature can prompt us to ask searching questions of ourselves; it can unsettle and disturb, and in so doing can make an important contribution to our educational formation.An original and thought provoking work, Education and the Limits of Reason offers a fresh perspective on classic texts by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, and encourages readers to reconsider conventional views of teaching and learning. This book will appeal to a wide range of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, literature and philosophy.

This is the first reasoned, and supported theory ever published explaining how gravity is created. Neither Newton nor Einstein could do this. Relativity is a theory that explains how matter responds to gravity; this book describes the mechanisms by which gravity exerts its influence on matter from atoms to planets, stars, and galaxies. It also provides, again, for the first time, a mechanism for inertia and momentum and discusses an improved version of Newton's equation. All in simple language that anyone can understand. Written without mathematics for everyone from students to professional astronomers, this book has received many unsolicited five-star rating testimonials, from youngsters to PhD scientists, many of which are reproduced on its second and third pages, including: ""Newton was reported to have stated that his work was relevant only because he could stand on the shoulders of past giants. Your work is, of course, a step beyond. H.G.K.]""

My Soul Lives OnBe not sad I did not dieMy soul now dwells in the spiritual skyAs I left my body my soul took flightAs angels guided me to the realms of light With the eye of the soul I can clearly seeI am filled with loveI am freePerfect peace abides in my soulI commune with our SourceI am whole The bonds of love that we have shared cannot be brokenThey will always be thereSadness will pass like clouds in the skyBut love is eternal and does not die Open your heart and set the love within freeIn the spirit of love remember meThe body that was mine will dissolve and be goneBut be happy for me my soul lives on