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Lev Vygotsky (Classic Edition)
Revolutionary Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
When Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist published, it was unique in several ways. It presented Vygotsky as a Marxist methodologist, both locating him in his historical period and delineating how his life and writings have been a catalyst for a contemporary revolutionary, practical-critical, psychology....
by Ernest Newman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
A supreme master of German song, Hugo Wolf wrote 260 melodies and a pair of operas. This volume recounts the tragic story of the erratic genius's life and surveys some of his works, including 60 pages on Wolf's songs and 35 pages on his operas. "Very interesting and very stimulating." — The New York Times.
by Marc Newman
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2001
The villages of Walden and Maybrook are located within the town of Montgomery, halfway between New York City and Albany. During part of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Walden was considered the Knife Capital of the United States; three companies specialized in producing pocketknives, penknives,...
by Keith Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's...
Green Urbanism in Asia
The Emerging Green Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in...
Local Sports Hero:
The Untold Story of the University of Kansas Sports and Wesley B. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
This book is an easy read (I deliberately chose a largefont). Wesley Walker graduated high school right on the cusp of integration. Wilt Chamberlain was being aggressively recruited by the legendary Phog Allen that year. Walker, despite being a highly talented player, never played high school basketball....
Intergenerational Relationships
Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!
Intergenerational Relationships: Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures focuses on how family and community relationships are affected by pressing social problems. Respected international authorities...
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
by Daniel L. Stein, Charles M. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Spin glasses are disordered magnetic systems that have led to the development of mathematical tools with an array of real-world applications, from airline scheduling to neural networks. Spin Glasses and Complexity offers the most concise, engaging, and accessible introduction to the subject, fully...
A Primer on Complex Systems
With Applications to Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas. In this sense, it is a...
by Dmitry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Real estate market growth in Canada experienced unprecedented growth in the last five years, driving housing prices to an unaffordable level for an average household and giving an impression of a housing bubble, similar to the one seen in the United States in 2007. Yet a large number of Canadian families...
by Robert Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Andrew and Sara can never escape a mystery—not even in New York City
Verna Tillet’s new play is taking the American stage by storm, and that means young investigators Andrew Tillet and Sara Wiggins have traded London carriage rides for the rattling excitement of New York City’s elevated...
Higher Education Administration
50 Case-Based Vignettes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Rodney Hopson, George Mason University For most of US history, most of America's Latino population has lived in nine states-California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,...
Communication of Politics
Cross-Cultural Theory Building in the Practice of Public Relations and Political Marketing: 8th Inte
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Learn how political marketing and public relations affect the electoral process!
Communication of Politics: Cross-Cultural Theory Building in the Practice of Public Relations and Political Marketing examines how communication and marketing experts influence politics. The book reviews the state...