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An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History

An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon. That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generations of Americans understood the manner in which their country was shaped and their own character moulded by the frontier experience. It is largely thanks to Turner's influence that the idea of America as the home of a sturdily independent people – one prepared ultimately to obtain justice for themselves if they could not find it elsewhere – was born. The impact of these ideas can still be felt today: in many Americans' suspicion of big government in their attachment to guns – even in Star Trek's vision of space as the final frontier. Turner's thesis may now be criticised as limited (in its exclusion of women) and over-stated (in its focus on the western frontier). That it redefined an issue in a highly impactful way – and that it did so exceptionally eloquently – cannot be doubted. | An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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Australian Overseas Aid

Australian Overseas Aid

Originally published in 1986 this book evaluated the review of the Australian Overseas Aid Program (the 1984 Jackson Report) and discusses the significance of Australia’s contribution to overseas aid for the future. The book focusses on the overall context of the Jackson report; discusses the geographical distribution of aid proposed by the report and examines aid administration in its more specific bureaucratic context and with broader questions of community participation in developmental processes.

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Black Men in Law School Unmatched or Mismatched

Black Men in Law School Unmatched or Mismatched

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) Black Men in Law School refutes the claim that when African American law students are mismatched with more selective law schools the result is lower levels of achievement and success. Presenting personal narratives and counter-stories Jackson demonstrates the inadequacy of the mismatch theory and deconstructs the ways race is constructed within American public law schools. Calling for a replacement to mismatch theory Jackson offers an alternative theory that considers marginalized student perspectives and crystallizes the nuances and impact that historically exclusionary institutions and systems have on African American law school students. To further the debate on affirmative action this book shows that experiences and voices of African American law school students are a crucial ingredient in the debate on race and how it functions in law schools. | Black Men in Law School Unmatched or Mismatched

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Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

This selection of articles published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at G¶ttingen opens with studies on his teacher Percy Ernst Schramm and his contribution to the study of the medieval state and continues with examples of state symbology from Central Europe. Questions of legitimization and representation of kings and queens through texts and Herrschaftszeichen as well as the development of 'coronation studies' are addressed in a comparative framework. The second part contains articles on social and political history mainly of the kingdom of Hungary in the fifteenth century also attempting to place the issues into a wider context. Finally two pieces present and discuss the 'use' or 'abuse' of the Middle Ages in the political discourse and display of our times. | Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

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Discipline by Mary Brunton

Discipline by Mary Brunton

Discipline the second novel by the Scottish writer Mary Brunton (1778-1818) was published in 1814. While less well known than its predecessor Self-Control (1811) it is nonetheless equally deserving of a central place in the canon of Romantic-era fiction. A wide-ranging novel it shares many themes with contemporary fiction such as women’s difficulties in earning money and the horror of being falsely imprisoned in an insane asylum. However it is Discipline’s innovative attempt at psychological realism that sets it apart from its contemporaries. Through the moral growth of its heroine Ellen Percy Discipline insists on women’s self-determination and their ability to become rational agents in a world that treats them as objects merely of desire or contempt. This edition is edited by Olivia Murphy who has added careful editorial notes and an insightful new introduction to the text. | Discipline by Mary Brunton

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Shelley: Selected Poems

Shelley: Selected Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English Language. In this volume the editors have selected the most popular significant and frequently taught poems from the six-volume Longman Annotated edition of Shelley’s poems. Each poem is fully annotated explained and contextualised along with a comprehensive list of abbreviations an inclusive bibliography of material relating to the text and interpretation of Shelley’s poetry plus an extensive chronology of Shelley’s life and works. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal literary historical and scientific information necessary for an informed reading of Shelley’s richly varied and densely allusive verse making this an ideal anthology for students classroom use and anyone approaching Shelley’s poetry for the first time; however the level and extent of commentary and annotation will also be of great value for researchers and critics. | Shelley: Selected Poems

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The Music Producer’s Survival Guide Chaos Creativity and Career in Independent and Electronic Music

The Music Producer’s Survival Guide Chaos Creativity and Career in Independent and Electronic Music

A music-career book like no other The Music Producer’s Survival Guide offers a wide-ranging exploratory yet refreshing down-to-earth take on living the life of the independent electronic music producer. If you are an intellectually curious musician/producer eager to make your mark in today’s technologically advanced music business you’re in for a treat. This new edition includes industry and technological updates additional interviews and tips about personal finances income and budgets. In this friendly philosophical take on the art and science of music production veteran producer engineer and teacher Brian Jackson shares clear practical advice about shaping your own career in today’s computer-centric home-studio music world. You’ll cover music technology philosophy of music production career planning networking craft and creativity the DIY ethos lifestyle considerations and much more. Brian’s thoughtful approach will teach you to integrate your creative passion your lifestyle and your technical know-how. The Music Producer’s Survival Guide is the first music-production book to consider the influence of complexity studies and chaos theory on music-making and career development. It focuses on practicality while traversing a wide spectrum of topics including essential creative process techniques the TR-808 the proliferation of presets the butterfly effect granular synthesis harmonic ratios altered states fractal patterns the dynamics of genre evolution and much more. Carving out your niche in music today is an invigorating challenge that will test all your skills and capacities. Learn to survive—and thrive—as a creative-technical professional in today’s music business with the help of Brian Jackson and The Music Producer’s Survival Guide! | The Music Producer’s Survival Guide Chaos Creativity and Career in Independent and Electronic Music

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The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

Dividing the nation and causing massive political change the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth century Stone explores theories of revolution and traces the social and economic change that led to this period of instability. The picture that emerges is one where historical interpretation is enriched but not determined by grand theories in the social sciences and as Stone elegantly argues one where the upheavals of the seventeenth century are central to the very story of modernity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Clare Jackson Trinity Hall Cambridge. | The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

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Biocentrism and Modernism

Biocentrism and Modernism

Examining the complex intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to the development of Modernism. While many historians have framed this movement as being mechanistic and against nature the essays in this collection illuminate the role that nature-centric ideologies played in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Modernism. The essays in Biocentrism and Modernism contend that it is no accident that Modernism arose at the same time as the field of modern biology. From nineteenth-century discoveries to the emergence of the current environmentalist movement during the 1960s artists architects and urban planners have responded to currents in the scientific world. Sections of the volume treat both philosophic worldviews and their applications in theory historiography and urban design. This collection also features specific case studies of individual artists including Raymond Duchamp-Villon Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock.

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Practical Cloud Security A Cross-Industry View

Practical Cloud Security A Cross-Industry View

Melvin Greer and Kevin Jackson have assembled a comprehensive guide to industry-specific cybersecurity threats and provide a detailed risk management framework required to mitigate business risk associated with the adoption of cloud computing. This book can serve multiple purposes not the least of which is documenting the breadth and severity of the challenges that today’s enterprises face and the breadth of programmatic elements required to address these challenges. This has become a boardroom issue: Executives must not only exploit the potential of information technologies but manage their potential risks. Key Features• Provides a cross-industry view of contemporary cloud computing security challenges solutions and lessons learned• Offers clear guidance for the development and execution of industry-specific cloud computing business and cybersecurity strategies• Provides insight into the interaction and cross-dependencies between industry business models and industry-specific cloud computing security requirements | Practical Cloud Security A Cross-Industry View

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Grainger the Modernist

Grainger the Modernist

Unaccountably Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation re-visioned the modern orchestra experimented with ’ego-less’ composition and designed electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was far from being a self-sufficient maverick working in isolation. Through contact with innovators such as Ferrucio Busoni Léon Theremin and Henry Cowell; promotion of the music of modern French and Spanish schools; appreciation of vernacular jazz and folk musics; as well as with the study and transcription of non-Western music; he contested received ideas and proposed many radical new approaches. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities in the British American and Australian contexts the authors create a profile of a composer propagandist and visionary whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day and in some cases anticipated their practical experiments. | Grainger the Modernist

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After Effects for Designers Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

After Effects for Designers Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

After Effects for Designers teaches design students artists and web graphic and interactive designers how to design develop and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic storytelling; 3D modelling; compositing and more. Each chapter contains unique step-by-step project exercises that offer timesaving practical tips and hands-on design techniques teaching readers how to effectively use the tools at their disposal in order to conceptualize and visualize creative solutions to their own motion design work. Readers will build professional-world examples in every chapter and as a result learn how to both design effectively using After Effects and practically apply these skills in client-based work. An accompanying companion website includes complete project files for the book's chapter exercises and additional video tutorials. | After Effects for Designers Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

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Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

This volume sheds new light on one of the most remarkable polymaths of the English Renaissance. It offers original perspectives not only on Harriot’s personal achievements in mathematics and natural philosophy but also on the wider realms of exploration colonial ambition and philosophical debate in which he earned the attention and respect of contemporaries in and far beyond the socially elevated circles of his two great patrons first Walter Ralegh and then Henry Percy the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Harriot’s sixteenth-century world was one of unprecedented expansion in both scientific understanding and the discovery of new lands and peoples. The essays gathered here bring out forcefully the effect of this expanding vision encapsulated in Harriot’s Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1588) the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language. In addition to an essay by a recent biographer of Harriot the volume contains reworked versions of seven Thomas Harriot Lectures an annual lecture series inaugurated in 1990 in Oriel College Oxford. It follows two earlier volumes of Harriot Lectures also edited by Robert Fox that appeared in 2000 and 2012. | Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

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Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

For Decadent authors Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism perversion transition and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature Decadent Romanticism reassesses the diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914 while also remaining alert to the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own distorted darker perverted other self. Creative pairings include William Blake and his Decadent critics the recurring figure of the sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers and Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not surprisingly John Keats’s works are a particular focus in essays that explore Keats’s literary and visual legacies and his resonance for writers who considered him an icon of art for art’s sake. Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity isolation addiction fragmentation representation romance and voyeurism as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism. | Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

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Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

The Romantic age though often associated with free erotic expression was ambivalent about what if anything sex had to do with the public sphere. Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British texts often repressed the very sexual energies they claimed to be bringing into the open. The delineation of what could and could not be said and done in the name of physical pleasure was of a piece with the capitalist consecration of the social trust to the individual profit-motive. Both these practices moreover presupposed a determinate self with sovereignty over its own interests. Writings from and about some nominally public institutions were thus characterized by privatism—a sexual economic and ontological withdrawal from otherness. Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One explores how this threefold ideology was both propagated and resisted wittingly and unwittingly successfully and unsuccessfully in such Romantic publics as rape-law sodomy-law adultery-law high-profile scandals the population debates and club-culture. It includes readings of imaginative literature by William Beckford William Blake Erasmus Darwin Mary Hays Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft; works of political economy by Jeremy Bentham William Cobbett William Godwin William Hazlitt and Thomas Robert Malthus; as well as contemporary legal treatises popular journalism and satirical pamphlets. | Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

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British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art the imagination and the period’s political social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry plays novels travel writing exhibition catalogues early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors including Felicia Hemans William Buchanan Henry Sass Pierce Egan William Hazlitt Percy Shelley Lord Byron Anna Jameson Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism. | British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

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The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The world keeps turning to apocalypticism. Time is imagined as proceeding ineluctably to a catastrophic perhaps revelatory conclusion. Even when evacuated of distinctly religious content a broadly ecclesial structure persists in conceptions of our precarious life and our collective journey to an inevitable fate—the extinction of the human species. It is commonly believed that we are propelled along this course by human turpitude myopia hubris or ignorance and by the irreparable damage we have wrought to the world we inhabit. Yet this apprehension is insidious. Such teleological convictions and crises-laden narratives lead us to undervalue contingent hesitant and provisional forms of experience and knowledge. The essays comprising this volume concern a range of writers’ engagements with apocalyptic reasoning. Extending from a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Triumph of Life’ to critiques of contemporary American novels they examine the ways in which ‘end times’ reasoning can inhibit imaginative reflection blunt political advocacy or – more positively – provide a repertoire for the critique of complacency. By gathering essays concerning a wide range of periods and literary dispositions this volume makes an important contribution to thinking about apocalypticism in literature but also as a social and political discourse. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studia Neophilologica. | The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

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China’s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective From Harmonious Neighbors to Strategic Partners

China’s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective From Harmonious Neighbors to Strategic Partners

China’s relations with its neighbors have evolved since 1949 and in the 21st century many scholars argue that China’s rising power has led it to be increasingly domineering over those smaller countries in Northeast Southeast Central and South Asia. The evolution of China’s regional relations needs to be examined comprehensively since China counts twenty-seven countries as its neighbors large and small. While China’s official policy toward all of these countries is to treat them as good neighbors and partners some of these relationships have been spectacularly deteriorating while others have been quietly improving over the last two decades. Jackson takes a comparative foreign policy approach and compares China’s status as a regional hegemon with the United States Russia India Brazil South Africa and Nigeria. The result is a broader theory as to why regional powers are sometimes intimidating and at other times accommodating. An important contribution to studies on China this book will prove useful to scholars and students in Chinese and Asian foreign policy comparative foreign policy and international relations. | China’s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective From Harmonious Neighbors to Strategic Partners

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The Difficult Triangle Mexico Central America And The United States

The Difficult Triangle Mexico Central America And The United States

Although relations with Central America dominated U. S. foreign policy with its southern neighbors during the 1980s relations with Mexico will likely shape U. S. foreign policy in the next decade. This book examines the troubled nature of the triangular link between Mexico Central America and the United States in order to understand the implications of U. S. policy for peace and development in the Western Hemisphere. The book begins with an analysis of Mexico's foreign policy and its historical role in seeking diplomatic solutions to volatile situations in Central America. The authors then assess the probable impact on the region of increased economic integration particularly the U. S. Mexico free trade agreement especially important in light of Mexico's enormous debt and immigration issues. Special attention is also given to diplomatic aspects of the relationship with a focus on the process of negotiations to resolve conflicts in Central America. A lengthy epilogue offers critical commentary on key issues discussed in the text by such prominent figures as Jesse Jackson Carlos Vilas David Ibarra and Guadalupe Gonzales. | The Difficult Triangle Mexico Central America And The United States

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Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s to today's huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture. Chapters including ‘Iconic Moments’ and ‘Main Movers’ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers choreographers and creatives - including JaQuel Knight (Beyonce’s choreographer) Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators) Rebbi Rosie (Rihanna’s dancer) Dean Lee (Janet Jackson’s choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINK’s choreographer) - this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history copyright law inclusivity and dance class culture as well as additional contributions from dance scholars enable this book to give credence to Commercial Dance as a legitimate academic area of study. This is a complete and comprehensive textbook for all dance students at any level of study on college university or conservatory courses. | Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

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Concert Design The Road The Craft The Industry

Concert Design The Road The Craft The Industry

Concert Design: The Road The Craft The Industry offers an exceptional journey though the world of concert design exploring not only its unique design attributes but also the industry that has grown around it and how to make a career of ‘the road’. Concert designer Seth Jackson analyzes how the industry has changed over the last three decades – from its early days of ‘no rules’ and ‘cowboys’ to a thriving and growing industry with countless career opportunities. Drawing on 25 years of experience and clients ranging from Carrie Underwood to Don Henley he explores design techniques working with Artists and directors the rigors of concert touring and navigating a career path through a challenging industry. The book also includes stories from numerous industry luminaries such as Steve Cohen Jeff Ravitz Eric Loader Howard Ungerleider and Jim Lenahan along with Jackson’s own experiences. Written for aspiring concert lighting designers and students of Concert Lighting and Theatre Lighting courses Concert Design is an excellent resource for anyone who has ever wondered what backstage life is really all about. | Concert Design The Road The Craft The Industry

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Motivating Ministers to Morality

Motivating Ministers to Morality

This book discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional victims - of the ethics debate: government ministers. Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science philosophy applied ethics and public policy and it has become a major topic in current affairs’ reporting of politics. It is the first major work to discuss institutional reforms around the world that target ministerial morality and asks: how are these reforms influencing the motivation and conduct of the most powerful of our politicians? The book provides unique insights into ministerial behaviour and the changing role of institutions in influencing the ethics of the executive with analyses from around the world. Contributors to the volume include international high-profile players in political ethics. They include Lord Nolan the first Chairman of Britain's Joint Parliamentary Committee on Standards in Public Life; Professor Robert J. Jackson a leading Canadian political scientist instrumental in establishing the Canadian Office of the Ethics Counsellor; and Associate Professor Noel Preston the leading commentator on ethics in Australian politics who has been involved in developing a number of its ethical regimes. | Motivating Ministers to Morality

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A Short History of British Psychology 1840-1940

A Short History of British Psychology 1840-1940

Originally published in 1964 the story of the development of psychology in Great Britain had never been told. In the 1840s when John Stuart Mill wrote about ‘Psychology’ in his treatise on Logic the word was hardly known to the British public. Today the subject is taught in nearly every university and psychologists are professionally employed by many public bodies. The British contribution to the dramatic rise of psychology was an exceptionally important one and had been shamefully neglected not only by the public but by British psychologists themselves. The tendency at the time to regard the subject through American spectacles distorted the role of British pioneers. Significant British contributions had been almost completely forgotten – those of Carpenter Lewes Spalding and Lubbock for example – and the work of men such as Hughlings Jackson and Romanes had been greatly undervalued. Not the least important feature of the book is its reassessment of the work of many individuals. In relating the rise of psychology and its application to concomitant developments in medicine physiology biology sociology anthropology and statistics and to changes in the prevailing philosophic climate the author shows psychology to be an integral part of the scientific intellectual and social history of the past century. | A Short History of British Psychology 1840-1940

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Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists ... In Their Own Words

Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists ... In Their Own Words

This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris’s classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue Sharan Merriam Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson. This book brings together world-renowned experts who each present their understanding of what learning is and how human learning takes place addressing the social psychological and emotional contexts of learning. In this clear and coherent overview Professor Knud Illeris has collated chapters that explain both the complex frameworks in which learning takes place and the specific facets of learning. Each international expert provides either a seminal text or an entirely new précis of the conceptual framework they have developed over a lifetime of study such as adult learning theory learning strategies and the cultural and social nature of learning processes. Elucidating the key concepts of learning Contemporary Theories of Learning provides both the perfect desk reference and an ideal introduction for students; it is an invaluable resource for all researchers and academics involved in the study of learning and provides a detailed synthesis of current learning theories… all in the words of the theorists themselves. | Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists … In Their Own Words

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