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How can online instructors and course designers' instruction harness the popular Web 2.0 tool, the wiki, for successful collaboration and learning outcomes? This book focuses on using wikis in the active learning processes that are the hallmark of collaborative learning and constructivism. It provides both the pedagogical background and practical guidelines, tools, and processes for accomplishing …
A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical world Includes voices from such diverse fields as art history, classical studies, and archaeology and offers a diversity of views to the topic Features an innovative group of chapters dealing …
European Climate Vulnerabilities and Adaptation: A Spatial Planning Perspective analyses the impacts climate change might have on regions and their local economies. Regions clearly differ in view of the complex patterns of climate change impact, but also regarding the given vulnerability and coping capacity. Impacts of climate change can have a marked effect on the functioning of regions and secto…
В настоящей книге речь идет о международном политическом кризисе 1983 года, когда мир в очередной раз оказался на грани ядерной войны. Опираясь на документы американских архивов, Тейлор Даунинг проводит кропотливый анализ драматических событий. В центре внимания – сложности и хитросплетения американо-советских отношений, а также политические приоритеты Рейгана и Андропова – лидеров мировой политик…
Предназначение человека в современном мире. В чем смысл бытия? В работе «Человек для себя» Эрих Фромм рассматривает предназначение человека в современном мире, освободившем его от тяжелого физического труда. Развивая материальную культуру, человечество получило власть над природой, однако при всех своих знаниях о материи человек остался невежественен в самых важных, основополагающих вопросах челов…
This timely volume examines links between the emerging neurobiological research on adult learning and the adult educators' practice. Now that it is possible to trace the pathways of the brain involved in various learning tasks, we can also explore which learning environments are likely to be most effective. Topics explored in The Neuroscience of Adult Learning include: basic brain architecture and…
Какую форму может принять радикальная политика в то время, когда заброшены революционные проекты прошлого? В свете недавних восстаний против неолиберального капиталистического строя, Сол Ньюман утверждает, сейчас наш современный политический горизонт формирует пост анархизм. В этой книге Ньюман развивает оригинальную политическую теорию антиавторитарной политики, которая начинается, а не заканчива…
Адам Смит (1723–1790) – шотландский философ-этик, один из основоположников политической экономии. В XVIII в. Смит создал стройное и убедительное учение о развитии механизма человеческого благосостояния и его природе. В своем фундаментальном труде «Исследование о природе и причинах богатства народа» этот выдающийся ученый сформулировал условия неминуемого успеха экономического развития, которое еще…
*НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЭЙДЕЛЬМАН ТАМАРОЙ НАТАНОВНОЙ, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЭЙДЕЛЬМАН ТАМАРОЙ НАТАНОВНОЙ. «Это было давным-давно» – так начинаются все лучшие истории в мире, в том числе и «Маленькая всемирная история», написанная великим историком и искусствоведом Эрнстом Гомбрихом в 1936 году, когда …
With its comprehensive coverage, this reference introduces readers to the wide topic of resistance switching, providing the knowledge, tools, and methods needed to understand, characterize and apply resistive switching memories. Starting with those materials that display resistive switching behavior, the book explains the basics of resistive switching as well as switching mechanisms and models. An…
Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as electrical and thermal insulators, wear-resistant bearings, surface coatings, lightweight armour, or aerospace materia…
Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also requires that society learns to live with floods and that stakeholders living in …
The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the field Includes contributions from western and eastern Europe, North and Centr…
The aim of this book is to deal with biometrics in terms of signal and image processing methods and algorithms. This will help engineers and students working in digital signal and image processing deal with the implementation of such specific algorithms. It discusses numerous signal and image processing techniques that are very often used in biometric applications. In particular, algorithms relate…
This book is a unique and definitive guide to the skills necessary for on-camera journalism and offers an invaluable behind-the-scenes look at the profession. Tailors the traditional skills of writing, reporting, and producing to the needs of journalists working in front of the camera Includes chapters devoted to the role of the storyteller, reporting the story across multiple platforms, and prese…