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W.E. Fairbairn

W.E. Fairbairn

Steven Brown

Lulu.com
2025
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In April of 1942, W.E. Fairbairn joined the Office of Strategic Services instructing in close combat until the wars end in 1945. This 500 page book chronicles Fairbairn's service with the OSS using the compilation of actual OSS documents and photographs from the National Archives in Washington DC, many of these being seen for the first time since WWII.
Task-Based Listening

Task-Based Listening

Steven Brown

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2023
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Are you looking for activities to use in your listening classes beyond asking students to answer comprehension questions? In Task-Based Listening, author Steven Brown defines task-based listening (TBL) and describes how to build a task-based listening program, how to create a task-based listening lesson, ways to activate vocabulary acquisition and improve grammatical knowledge, and the links between listening and pronunciation. In addition, he covers the ways that metacognitive strategies can assist students when listening, the advantages of extensive listening, and the benefits of interactive listening. Readers will find specific tips and suggestions for using these concepts in the classroom.
Forskningsstilarter

Forskningsstilarter

Antje Gimmler; Casper Bruun Jensen; Anders Blok; Sune Qvotrup Jensen; Mari Holen; Morten Frederiksen; Peter Wad; Andreas Birkbak; Anders Kristian Munk; Martin Severin Frandsen; Martin Christensen; Jonas Toubøl; Nikolaj Nottelmann; Barbara Fersch; martin lindhardt; Steven Brown; Anette Lykke Hindhede; Anders Buch

Gyldendal
2025
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Forskningsstilarter - i sociologi og andre socialvidenskaber introducerer seks betydningsfulde forskningsstilarter, som forskere og studerende i sociologi og andre socialvidenskaber løbende støder på. Bogen egner sig til at forbinde abstrakt videnskabsteori med mere praktisk metodelæring på en række social- og kulturvidenskabelige uddannelser. Desuden benyttes forskningsstilarter som greb til at forstå nyere videnskabsteoretiske og metodologiske udviklinger. Hermed giver bogen et samlet og pluralistisk overblik over det socialvidenskabelige felt, hvor tilgangen i de enkelte stilarter uddybes og eksemplificeres. Bogen er redigeret af Anders Blok, professor i sociologi, og Antje Gimmler, professor i anvendt filosofi.
The Unification of the Arts

The Unification of the Arts

Steven Brown

Oxford University Press
2021
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What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? There has been a surge of cognitive, biological, and evolutionary interest in the arts in recent years, most of it oriented towards individual artforms. However, there has been virtually no bridging work to integrate the arts under a single theoretical perspective. This book presents the first integrated cognitive account of the arts that unites visual art, theatre, literature, dance, and music into a single framework, with supporting discussions about creativity and aesthetics. Its comparative approach identifies both what is unique to each artform and what they share, shedding light on how the arts can combine with one another to form syntheses, such as choreographing dance movements to music, or setting lyrics to music to create a song. While studies in the psychology of the arts tend to focus on perceptual processes and aesthetic responses alone, this book offers a holistic sensorimotor account that examines the full gamut of processes from creation to perception. This allows for a broad discussion of the evolution of the arts, including the origins of rhythm, the co-evolution of music and language, the evolution of drawing, and cultural evolution of the arts. Finally, the book unifies a number of topics that have not previously been fully related to one another, including theatre and literature, music and language, creativity and aesthetics, dancing and acting, and visual art and music. A unique volume providing a bold new approach to the integration of the arts, for academics or general readers of the arts, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology, and evolutionary studies.
Successful Cybersecurity Professionals

Successful Cybersecurity Professionals

Steven Brown

Business Expert Press
2020
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This book provides a unique perspective into the mindset of psychology and cybersecurity. It presents a view of incorporating the latest research in cybersecurity and behavior. The newest cybersecurity challenge is not just understanding cybercriminals’ behavior, but our behavior as well, and to realize that some of behaviors could lead us in making bad cybersecurity decisions. By using models and literature rooted in psychology and comparing those to cybersecurity attacks, this book will help those who make crucial cybersecurity decisions to protect their organization, even better decisions. Dr. Brown also presents even a possible theory of cybersecurity. Key areas include: behaviorism; learning models; cybersecurity vulnerabilities; stereotypes; cybersecurity traits; conditioned response; social engineering; deep fakes
Vital Memory and Affect

Vital Memory and Affect

Steven Brown; Paula Reavey

Routledge
2015
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Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of ‘vulnerable’ groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings. In particular the focus is on a particular class of memory within this group: recollected episodes that are difficult and painful, sometimes contested, but always with enormous significance for a current and past sense of self. These ‘vital memories’, integral and irreversible, can come to appear as a defining feature of a person’s life.In Vital Memory and Affect, authors Steve Brown and Paula Reavey explore the highly productive way in which individuals make sense of a difficult past, situated as they are within a highly specific cultural and social landscape. Via an exploration of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual conditions of all acts of remembering.This path-breaking study brings together a unique set of empirical material and maps out an agenda for research into memory and affect that will be important reading for students and scholars of social psychology, memory studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and other related fields.
Vital Memory and Affect

Vital Memory and Affect

Steven Brown; Paula Reavey

Routledge
2015
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Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of ‘vulnerable’ groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings. In particular the focus is on a particular class of memory within this group: recollected episodes that are difficult and painful, sometimes contested, but always with enormous significance for a current and past sense of self. These ‘vital memories’, integral and irreversible, can come to appear as a defining feature of a person’s life.In Vital Memory and Affect, authors Steve Brown and Paula Reavey explore the highly productive way in which individuals make sense of a difficult past, situated as they are within a highly specific cultural and social landscape. Via an exploration of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual conditions of all acts of remembering.This path-breaking study brings together a unique set of empirical material and maps out an agenda for research into memory and affect that will be important reading for students and scholars of social psychology, memory studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and other related fields.
Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Third Ed.

Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Third Ed.

Steven Brown; Salvatore Attardo; Cynthia Vigliotti

The University of Michigan Press
2014
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Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation is an introduction to the study of language and applied linguistics for students who have had a minimum of exposure to the discipline of linguistics. Using clear, easy-to-understand explanations and examples, this text avoids the in-depth theoretical coverage found in texts written for those who specialize in linguistics or SLA. As a result, this book is perfect for students whose chosen fields require them to be acquainted with the ways language works--such as future teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists--but who do not intend to become linguists. The text is also suitable for English or ESL/EFL teachers who need a reference volume about various aspects of language, particularly as it applies to teaching. Each chapter includes research projects and further readings. The third edition of Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation features a new design and reorganization. All content has been significantly revised and updated. Each chapter also debunks a common language myth and now incorporates exercises that, for prior editions, appeared in a supplementary workbook. Extra practice for students is available online, as is additional materials for teachers. (There is no workbook for the third edition.)
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court

Steven Brown

The University of Alabama Press
2012
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John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculator and lawyer, McKinley was elected to the state legislature three times and became first a representative and then a senator in the US Congress before being elevated to the Supreme Court in 1837. He spent his first five years on the court presiding over the newly created Ninth Circuit, which covered Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. His was not only the newest circuit, encompassing a region that, because of its recent settlement, included a huge number of legal claims related to property, but it was also the largest, the furthest from Washington, DC, and by far the most difficult to traverse. While this is a thorough biography of McKinley's life, it also details early Alabama state politics and provides one of the most exhaustive accounts available of the internal workings of the antebellum Supreme Court and the very real challenges that accompanied the now-abandoned practice of circuit riding. In providing the first indepth assessment of the life and Supreme Court career of Justice John McKinley, Brown has given us a compelling portrait of a man active in the leading financial, legal, and political circles of his day.
Second Language Acquisition Myths

Second Language Acquisition Myths

Steven Brown; Jenifer Larson-Hall

The University of Michigan Press
2012
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This volume was conceived as a first book in SLA for advanced undergraduate or introductory master’s courses that include education majors, foreign language education majors, and English majors. It’s also an excellent resource for practicing teachers. Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in the field of second language acquisition. It is not the goal of this book to address every SLA theory or teach research methodology. It does however address the myths and questions that non-specialist teacher candidates have about language learning. Steven Brown is the co-author of the introductory applied linguistics textbook Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation textbook (and workbook).The myths challenged in this book are: § Children learn languages quickly and easily while adults are ineffective in comparison.§ A true bilingual is someone who speaks two languages perfectly.§ You can acquire a language simply through listening or reading.§ Practice makes perfect.§ Language students learn (and retain) what they are taught.§ Language learners always benefit from correction.§ Individual differences are a major, perhaps the major, factor in SLA.§ Language acquisition is the individual acquisition of grammar.
Listening Myths

Listening Myths

Steven Brown

The University of Michigan Press
2011
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This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for teachers of ESL listening courses in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse (and Writing Myths by Joy Reid) is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. It was written to help ensure that teachers of listening are not perpetuating the myths of teaching listening.Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in the field of second language acquisition. Steven Brown is the author of the Active Listening textbook series and is a teacher trainer.The myths debunked in this book are:§ Listening is the same as reading.§ Listening is passive.§ Listening equals comprehension.§ Because L1 language ability is effortlessly acquired, L2 listening ability is too.§ Listening means listening to conversations.§ Listening is an individual, inside-the-head process.§ Students should only listen to authentic materials.§ Listening can’t be taught.
Active Listening 2 Student's Book with Self-study Audio CD

Active Listening 2 Student's Book with Self-study Audio CD

Steven Brown; Dorolyn Smith

Cambridge University Press
2006
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Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic. Student's Book 2 is intended for low-intermediate to intermediate students. The Student's Book offers 16 task-based units, each built around an engaging topic. Through a careful balance of activities, students learn to listen for main ideas, to listen for details, and to listen and make inferences. Prelistening schema-building activities help students build vocabulary, and listen-again activities provide additional skills practice. A full page of optional speaking activities with pronunciation practice is provided in each unit. Expansion units, with authentic student interviews, offer rich cultural material and provide review. A free Self-Study Audio CD is also included in every Student's Book.