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Music Science Philosophy Models in the Universe of Thought

Music Science Philosophy Models in the Universe of Thought

This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example science can find models from the technology and semantic field of music music can find its models from the technology and semantic field of science and each domain may be guided by a philosophical or metaphysical principle - thus the title of the book. But the book itself is structured as a mirror image of its title. Chapters 1-6 provide instances of the role of music in such domains as epistemology and logic as well as in the early modern sciences of developmental biology continuum mechanics anatomy and physiological psychology whereas Chapters 7-10 provide instances of what some other domains of knowledge have given back to the philosophy and theory of music. | Music Science Philosophy Models in the Universe of Thought

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Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments What (if Anything) Should We Infer from the Fine-Tuning of Our Universe for Life?

Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments What (if Anything) Should We Infer from the Fine-Tuning of Our Universe for Life?

If the physical constants initial conditions or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different then the evolution of life would have been impossible. This observation has led many philosophers and scientists to ask the natural next question: why is our universe so fine-tuned for life? The debates around this question are wide-ranging multi-disciplinary complicated technical and (at times) heated. This study is a comprehensive investigation of these debates and the many metaphysical and epistemological questions raised by cosmological fine-tuning. Waller’s study reaches two significant and controversial conclusions. First he concludes that the criticisms directed at the multiverse hypothesis by theists and at the theistic hypothesis by naturalists are largely unsuccessful. Neither of these options can plausibly be excluded. Choosing between them seems to turn on primitive (and so hard to justify) metaphysical intuitions. Second in order to break the philosophical deadlock Waller moves the debate from the level of universes to the level of possible worlds. Arguing that possible worlds are also fine-tuned in an important and interesting sense Waller concludes that the only plausible explanation for the fine-tuning of the actual world is to posit the existence of some kind of God-like-thing. | Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments What (if Anything) Should We Infer from the Fine-Tuning of Our Universe for Life?

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The Lion and the Unicorn What England Has Meant to Scotland

The Lion and the Unicorn What England Has Meant to Scotland

Originally published in 1935 and authored by a supporter of Scottish Nationalism this book ascribes many of Scotland’s misfortunes in history to the sectarian wars and those of Edward I as well as the havoc wrought by the Industrial Revolution and the decay of Scotland’s successive cultures. Reduced to political impotence by the early 20th Century and severed from that contact with Europe which fostered its early culture the author feels its national life dwindled. Many of the themes surrounding Scottish identity and independence are once again part of today’s political debate. | The Lion and the Unicorn What England Has Meant to Scotland

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Social Media and Education Now the Dust Has Settled

Social Media and Education Now the Dust Has Settled

Social media are now established as an important aspect of contemporary education. We live in times where social media applications such as Facebook Twitter Tumblr and Snapchat are mainstream educational tools; where most new educational technologies claim to have a ‘social’ element; and it increasingly makes no sense to distinguish between learning ‘online’ and ‘offline’. It studies users' experiences and views of social media; addresses questions of equality and diversity concerning who is doing what with social media; examines how the use of social media applications sits alongside pre-existing cultures and structures of schooling; and brings to light the unintended and unexpected results of social media in education. Altogether this collection of writing provides a nuanced and interesting discussion of the realities of social media use across different aspects of education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Learning Media and Technology. | Social Media and Education Now the Dust Has Settled

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The Risk Mitigation Handbook Practical steps for reducing your business risks

The Risk Mitigation Handbook Practical steps for reducing your business risks

Disruption over-regulation and cyber threats are typical of the major risks that management has to cope with. But until now there hasn’t been a formula to contain them. In The Risk Mitigation Handbook Kit Sadgrove provides practical and actionable steps you can take to minimise the threats to your business. With over 160 checklists and a wealth of revealing case studies this is the first book to recommend detailed action plans. After reviewing each risk the author provides a list of measurable tactics necessary to neutralise the threat. The book lists a comprehensive range of risks that organisations face today with a special emphasis on business strategy security and people management. Sadgrove also takes a sharp look at how to reduce the risk of operational failure supply chain weakness and regulatory compliance. Unlike previous books on enterprise risk The Risk Mitigation Handbook sets out detailed solutions rather than generic risk management theories. The book has been carefully edited to provide fast information for the busy senior manager. Stripped back to the bare essentials The Risk Mitigation Handbook gives the reader bullet points and strategies that give you the information you need to mitigate hundreds of risks. | The Risk Mitigation Handbook Practical steps for reducing your business risks

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Self-Face Recognition and the Brain How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology Psychiatry and Evolution

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology Psychiatry and Evolution

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain explores a fundamental cornerstone of human consciousness; how recognizing ourselves leads to a better understanding of the brain and higher-order thinking. Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary range of researchers each chapter provides a unique insight into one aspect of self-face recognition. The book begins by introducing readers to the concept of self-face recognition covering issues like the mirror-test and whether animals can recognize themselves before addressing the role of neural correlates and attempts at localizing consciousness. It then discusses various disorders and the impact they can have on self-face recognition before considering how neuroscience can heighten our understanding of the field. It will be an essential read for all researchers of self-face recognition from psychology philosophy and neuroscience backgrounds. | Self-Face Recognition and the Brain How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology Psychiatry and Evolution

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The Resilient Mental Health Practice Nourishing Your Business Your Clients and Yourself

The Resilient Mental Health Practice Nourishing Your Business Your Clients and Yourself

The Resilient Mental Health Practice: Nourishing Your Business Your Clients and Yourself is a fundamental resource for mental health professionals designed to serve as a comprehensive yet parsimonious handbook to inspire and inform novice developing and experienced mental health professionals. Replete with case studies The Resilient Mental Health Practice gives readers a big-picture view of private practice including detailed explorations of various topics related to therapist self-care and preventing burnout. Chapters provide a range of ways in which clinicians can build a resilient and sustainable practice while also taking care of their clients and themselves. | The Resilient Mental Health Practice Nourishing Your Business Your Clients and Yourself

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The Political Right and Equality Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity

The Political Right and Equality Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity

McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen. Providing a comprehensive critical genealogy of the intellectual political right McManus traces its core to a nostalgia for the hierarchical cosmos of antiquarian and scholastic thinking. The yearning for a shared vision of the universe where each part of reality has its place maps onto the conservative admiration for orderly political and social stratification. It stamps even the more moderate forms of liberal conservatism which emerged in the aftermath of the revolutionary 18th century as the political right struggled to accept and later master first the politics of liberal capitalism and later universal suffrage. In its most radical forms this nostalgia for an orderly and hierarchical existence can harden into a resentment at the perceived shallowness of liberal modernity. McManus argues for those who support the project of modernity to commit themselves to better understanding the depth of the political right’s critiques many of which expose uncomfortable but solvable problems with the quest for equality and freedom. A critical guide to the history of conservative and reactionary thought for students and scholars of political science and political history. While there are a lot of competing explanations for the contemporary rise of right-wing forces Matt McManus’ new book suggests that it is hostility to equality that actually unites the right. Zeroing in on key intellectuals and writers McManus in a sharply written text offers a compelling explanation for the disproportionate intensity of right-wing grievance politics. | The Political Right and Equality Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity

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The Freelance Educator Practical Advice for Starting your Educational Consulting Business

The Freelance Educator Practical Advice for Starting your Educational Consulting Business

The Freelance Educator is the definitive resource for K-12 teachers who are ready to utilize their skills outside of the classroom and embark on a fast-paced highly rewarding entrepreneurial journey. Author Tinashe Blanchet who has launched and managed two educational businesses provides all the details you need to get started as an independent educational consultant. She uses a blend of her own experience thorough research and interviews with over 40 freelance educators to provide you with step-by-step advice. Topics covered include making the transition finding your vision establishing a legitimate business branding and marketing communicating with clients making and managing your money and growing your business. Each chapter is filled with interactive features to help you pause reflect and apply what you are learning. With the helpful suggestions in this book you’ll be able to launch your new career helping schools improve student outcomes traveling around the world meeting new people and learning all along the way! | The Freelance Educator Practical Advice for Starting your Educational Consulting Business

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The Perception of Time Your Questions Answered

The Perception of Time Your Questions Answered

Using a concise question and answer format The Perception of Time: Your Questions Answered examines basic temporal processes and the ways in which our perception of time can be altered. Divided into three parts the book provides a contemporary overview of the study of the temporal mind. It begins by introducing the fundamental processes of time perception; how it can be measured how it can be hindered and to what extent it can be enhanced. It proceeds to explain how cognitive and psychological disorders such as schizophrenia ADHD and anxiety can be linked to temporal dysfunction and answers common questions that face us all: why does time seem to go faster as we age? How do our emotions affect our perception of time? How does our relationship with time differ from others? Providing comprehensive answers to the most pertinent questions of time perception this book is an ideal companion for advanced students and researchers interested in the psychology of time. | The Perception of Time Your Questions Answered

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Motivation The Ultimate Guide to Leading Your Team

Motivation The Ultimate Guide to Leading Your Team

Motivation is regarded as a cornerstone of performance in the workplace both personally and for organisations. If you are a leader manager or HR professional this book will show you how to tap into what motivates every individual so that you can enable them to use their talents and fulfil their potential. You will also learn more about your own motivation and how this impacts your leadership style. Written by bestselling author and leadership coach Catherine Stothart this book captures the essence of motivation in an insightful and practical way. You will learn specific tools and techniques for four key management capabilities – how to engage develop delegate to and connect with your teams. You will also find out how to sustain your own motivation and be resilient through setbacks. Using activities case studies models tools tips and templates for practical action this book is ideal for those who want to know how to motivate their teams improve their well-being and feel motivated themselves. It is also invaluable to HR managers executive and life coaches and learning and development professionals. | Motivation The Ultimate Guide to Leading Your Team

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The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

It’s time for the educational slugfest to stop. ‘Traditional’ and ‘progressive’ education are both caricatures and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for a new model of education – one that is genuinely empowering for all young people – is serious and necessary. Some good progress has already been made but teachers and school leaders are being held back by specious beliefs false oppositions and the limited thinking of orthodoxy. Drawing on recent experience in England North America and Australasia but applicable round the world The Future of Teaching clears away this logjam of bad science and slack thinking and frees up the stream of much-needed innovation. This timely book aims to banish arguments based on false claims about the brain and poor understanding of cognitive science reclaim the nuanced middle ground of teaching that develops both rigorous knowledge and ‘character’ and lay the foundations for a 21st-century education worthy of the name. | The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

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Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

The intent of this book - the author's goal for you — is to understand the baseless underpinnings of almost all our fears. You read that correctly - almost all our fears - and therefore to discard them. The author has expertly coached leaders and managers in the discovery of examination of elimination of and sustained freedom from fears. We all know people who are charming and articulate but flounder on a stage addressing colleagues; musicians who master intricate scores but can’t play the basics when asked to solo; athletes who choke; business people who are strong until it comes time to ask for the business; people who consistently feel like imposters. We are far better at dealing with external tangible fears than our own imagined ones. We purchase insurance watch the safety demonstrations know how to use the Heimlich Maneuver. But those are responses to rare and often never-occurring emergencies. Our mythical and monstrous fears are daily dark clouds masking our talents no less than depression or guilt. It’s time to realize there is no monster under the bed never has been and never will be without having to check nightly and without needing a weapon on the night table. Picture yourself freed of restraints that you could never properly articulate and were loath to discuss but which you carried on your shoulders constantly a dead weight nonetheless. Essentially this book is for entrepreneurs business owners and those who seek a better position for themselves and their talents but who procrastinate delay and hang back. It’s about isolating and overcoming the internal fears that we generate every day like a geyser triggered by time events or shifts in the environment. We are our own worst enemies and we ignore the practical remedies to escape fear because we use our energies instead on blaming everyone else. | Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

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Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera Getting the Most from Your MILC

Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera Getting the Most from Your MILC

Mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras are changing the way images are captured being far more in line with modern photography trends and sensibilities. With Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera: Getting the Most from Your MILC you’ll learn why this is happening and how to get the most from your mirrorless camera. This guide covers everything you need to know about the difference between a mirrorless camera and a DSLR apps lenses video recording and picture profiling features. You’ll learn how to use your mirrorless interchangeable lens camera for different genres of photography including landscape travel low light street photography portraiture and more. Written by expert and skilled instructor Steve Anchell this book includes 198 inspirational and instructional images with 154 in full-color with insights and photographs from 9 professional photographers. It’s the perfect guide for established photographers not yet aware of the wealth of benefits mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras offer and for beginning photographers just starting their career. | Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera Getting the Most from Your MILC

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Stadium Status Taking Your Business to the Big Time

Stadium Status Taking Your Business to the Big Time

Business as usual is ancient history. Large corporations small businesses entrepreneurs and even CEOs and politicians must make the move from simply selling a product or service to delivering a mind-blowing customer experience. They have to learn to play at the level athletes and entertainers call stadium status. Stadium status is that elusive place every coach athlete entertainer and performer strives to reach. It’s moving from being an opening act to the headliner from performing on a small stage to the greatest stage in the largest venue possible: a sold out stadium. Everything starts from humble beginnings; talent and work ethic might get you in the game but stadium status takes strategy – and that starts with a vision. John Brubaker shares his personal experiences as a successful radio personality coach and executive consultant and reveals the strategies employed by country musicians teams and brands to build their fan base and separate themselves from the competition. He explains exactly how readers can implement these same tactics to achieve better results in their own endeavors. Stadium Status’ real-world examples demonstrate that gaining a fresh perspective and applying ideas from outside your industry are what will truly elevate your performance. | Stadium Status Taking Your Business to the Big Time

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Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier bringing ‘the people’ back into the discussion of state politics presenting alternative views of political and social relations in the Nordic countries before industrialisation. The early modern period was a time that witnessed initiatives from people from many groups formally excluded from political influence operating outside the structures of central government and this book returns to the subject of contentious politics and state building from below. | Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

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The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

This book is for graduate students-and others-who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to:• increase their motivation focus and persistence to move a project to completion• overcome procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies• reduce (or write in spite of) their anxiety and fear of writing• manage their time work energy (and advisor) for greater productivityThe process or craft of sustained writing is not a matter that’s taught to undergraduate or graduate students as part of their studies leaving most at sea about how to start a practice that is central to a career in academe and vital in many other professional occupations. This book grew out of conversations Jan Allen has held with her graduate students for over 30 years and reflects the fruit of the writing workshops and boot camps she has conducted at three universities her own and numerous colleagues’ experiences with writing and advising as well as the feedback she receives from her popular Productive Writer listserv. While Jan Allen recognizes that writing is not an innate talent for most of us she demonstrates that it is a process based on skills which we can identify learn practice and refine. She focuses both on the process and habits of writing as well as on helping you uncover what kind of writer are you and reflect on your challenges and successes. With a light touch and an engaging sense of humor she proposes strategies to overcome procrastination and distractions and build a writing practice to enable you to become a more productive and prolific writer. Jan Allen proposes that you read one of her succinct chapters – each devoted to a specific strategy or writing challenge – each day or once a week. When you find one that increases your concentration motivation or endurance make it a habit. Try it for two weeks charting the resulting increased productivity. It will become part of your repertoire of writing and productivity tools to which you can progressively add. | The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

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Write to TV Out of Your Head and onto the Screen

Write to TV Out of Your Head and onto the Screen

In Write to TV (third edition) industry veteran Martie Cook offers practical advice on writing innovative television scripts that will allow you to finally get that big idea out of your head and onto the screen. With this book you’ll learn to craft smart original stories and scripts for a variety of television formats and genres including comedy drama pilots web series and subscription video on demand. This new edition has been updated with expanded coverage on writing for global audiences content creation for streaming services such as Netflix Amazon and Hulu as well as writing the web series podcasts and utilizing free platforms such as YouTube. It also features new chapters on writing for niche markets; breaking into the writers’ room; creating binge-worthy series and how to accompany pilot scripts with a series pitch document. Plus expanded information on creating complex and compelling characters including writing anti-heroes and strong female protagonists and much much more. Including information directly from studio and network executives agents and managers on what they’re looking for in new writers and how to avoid common pitfalls advice from successful creators and showrunners on creating original content that sells and tips from new writers on how to get into a writers room and stay there. This book contains information from more than 20 new interviews access to sample outlines script pages checklists and countless other invaluable resources and is the ideal book for anyone who wants to break into the TV writing industry. | Write to TV Out of Your Head and onto the Screen

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Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

First Published in 1959 Hinduism written specifically for the modern readers describes and interprets one of the world’s chief religions. For thousands of years Indian sages have speculated on man creation and the universe. One result has been an astonishing amount of myth and ritual of art asceticism and philosophy. Swami Nikhilananda provides a brief account of Hinduism in both its theoretical and its practical aspects. It is written mainly from the point of view of non-dualism which the author argues is the highest achievement of India’s mystical insights and philosophical speculation and her real contribution to world culture. The volume deals with themes like Hindu Ethics; Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana- Yoga; Raja-Yoga; and Tantra. This complete survey of Hindu beliefs and customs is indispensable for scholars and researchers of Hinduism religion Indian philosophy Indian culture and heritage. | Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

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Mastering the Pitch How to Effectively Pitch Your Ideas to Hollywood

Mastering the Pitch How to Effectively Pitch Your Ideas to Hollywood

Told from the perspective of a Hollywood executive with nearly 20 years’ experience professionally pitching and distributing film/TV projects Mastering the Pitch reveals all the nuanced details of the pitching process. Readers will gain valuable insights into how the Hollywood system operates improve their professional pitching skills and gain a competitive edge in getting their ideas from concept to greenlight. This book covers: how projects are packaged and developed before a pitch how a pitch presentation happens in a real-world setting the core concepts required to pitch each genre type how professional companies actually acquire a pitched project the legal workflows and financial details required to put a deal together examples of pitch documents presentation materials and how these elements should be designed how to build your personal brand so that you’re seen by Hollywood decision makers as someone capable of delivering great projects; and how you should speak to professionals about the business viability of your projects Mastering the Pitch is a valuable crossover text designed to help both students and veteran film/TV producers alike hone their pitching and presentation skills. | Mastering the Pitch How to Effectively Pitch Your Ideas to Hollywood

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Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One is a how to book with practical steps to achieve a professional performance on camera. The book focuses on four distinct areas: how to prepare the character how to execute the technical responsibilities that will assist the editor in creating the on-camera performance in post-production tips from industry professionals and how to create effective self-tape auditions. Part One: The Character’s World is packed with tools to analyze the script and fully prepare the character before arriving on set. Part Two: The Actor’s World focuses on developing technical acting skills for the camera that assist the pre- and post-production teams to create a dynamic on-screen performance. In Part Three: The Professional World industry professionals provide tips from inside the film/TV audition room and how to navigate a career in the acting business. The final section Part Four: Self-Tape Like a Pro outlines how to build a self-tape studio in the privacy of your own home and submit high-quality self-tape auditions that will help you stand out from the competition. Written for students enrolled in Acting for the Camera courses Acting for the Camera: Back to One explores techniques that can be practiced and mastered by actors of all levels from the moment they audition for the part through to when they hear that director call cut!

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Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences

Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences

A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which as it were determine the future before it happens. This fantastic conception commands the assent not just of positivistically-minded naturalists but of all the great anti-naturalists who champion a very different view of human action as a domain of freedom ‘that somehow cheats science’. The most fundamental move in Roy Bhaskar’s system of philosophy the germ of everything that followed was to reconceptualise the natural world in transcendental realist terms ‘turning Kant around using his own method’. On this account the universe is characterized by deep structures mechanisms and fields that generate the flux of phenomena and is in open creative and emergent process. This completely recasts the terms of the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism by remedying its false grounds and shows how philosophy can be liberated from its anthropocentric/anthropomorphic prison and rendered consistent with the best insights of modern natural science. There is necessity in nature quite independent of humans but in an open world causation is multiple and conjunctural the actual course of the unfolding of being is highly contingent and the bases of human freedom can be understood scientifically. Written as a DPhil thesis when Bhaskar was in his mid-twenties Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences brilliantly launches this reconceptualisation and explores its implications for social science in the course of carrying through the metatheoretical destruction of empiricism. It will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the development of Bhaskar’s thought in transcendental realism and in the critique of empiricism more generally of the philosophical discourse of Western modernity.

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The School Board Member's Guidebook Becoming a Difference Maker for Your District

The School Board Member's Guidebook Becoming a Difference Maker for Your District

Every student deserves a high-impact well-qualified and governance-driven school board. In this helpful book best-selling authors Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker show you as a school board member how to make smart worthwhile decisions that will lead to positive change in your district. The School Board Member’s Guidebook addresses the challenges of making realistic choices that will truly benefit the school and have a lasting impact. Topics include: How to work and communicate effectively with the superintendent during the year; How to find common ground with colleagues; How to represent the interests and needs of the community at large; How to keep your constituencies focused and informed through strategic planning and structured committee participation; How to host constructive and cordial school board meetings; How to capitalize on individual talents and strengths; And more! Each chapter offers strategies tips and sample scenarios. With these resources and the practical advice throughout the book you’ll be able to make a lasting difference in the lives of every student in your district. You’ll be a Difference Maker. | The School Board Member's Guidebook Becoming a Difference Maker for Your District

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