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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…
Real-world leadership training for real-world students The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills…
The single most important contribution to our field's knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult education back to the social concerns that were taken for granted when the field was founded. We are ready for this long overdue book. Indeed, we have been yearning for this book. It will tilt our field back towards its moral center. —B. Allan Quigley, …
When the bestselling books Shaping School Culture and The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook were first published, Kent D. Peterson and Terrence E. Deal described the critical elements of school culture—the purposes, traditions, norms, and values that guide and glue the community together. The authors showed how a positive culture makes school reform work and the companion Fieldbook included the too…
Written in easy-to-understand language, this important text provides a systematic and commonsense approach to developing instruments for data collection and analysis. This book can be used by both those who are developing instruments for the first time and those who want to hone their skills, including students, agency personnel, program managers, and researchers. This book provides a thorough pre…
An accessible yet comprehensive guide to understanding and working with Asian American college students–a diverse but often misunderstood population on college campuses. Linking theory and research with practice, this volume covers a range of topics that influence Asian American college student experiences, including: student and identity development, psychological health, religion and spiritualit…
The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook provides a variety of sources of information, inspiration, and suggestions and includes more than forty field-tested exercises. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the features of culture and the symbolic roles of leaders and is followed by a set of examples that clearly illustrate the ideas. The book is filled with activities. Many are specifically design…
"Диалоги Эвгемера" — последнее обобщающее философское сочинение Вольтера, опубликованное в 1777 г. В нем Вольтер трактует главнейшие мировоззренческие проблемы, одновременно полемизируя с представителями идеалистической и материалистической философии. Свою точку зрения Вольтер вложил в уста древнегреческого философа Эвгемера. Вольтер (1694—1778) — великий французский писатель, поэт, драматург, фи…
Вторая часть нашей статьи о Владимире Андреевиче Роменце призвана предоставить Вам возможность ознакомиться с удивительным талантом этого человека: сложное представлять так, как будто оно – простое, причем без малейшего ущерба для смысла представляемого. Обычно за наличием обилия терминологических выспренностей прячется отсутствие собственно мысли. Исключения – отдельные гении, которые пишут и …
Третья, заключительная часть нашей статьи о Владимире Андреевиче Роменце, авторе шеститомной «Истории психологии», которую на одном дыхании читают и изучают профессора и студенты Оксфорда, Кембриджа и Сорбонны, и которую, как правило, не включают в учебные программы в наших, отечественных университетах, посвящена тому, как можно сложнейшую философскую и психологическую проблематику, связанную…
Предлагаемая Вашему вниманию статья состоит из двух частей. Первая часть посвящена исследуемой супругами Тоффлер – Элвином и Хайди, – проблеме революционного богатства: что оно такое, в чем оно состоит, и – существует ли оно вообще – в свете набирающих силу в философских и научных концептах идеи о тотальной вредоносности всех и всяческих революций; революций как таковых. Со своей стороны здесь …
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 …