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The Winning Trainer

The Winning Trainer

This book has more ideas on how to add involvement in learning than any one trainer could ever use. Your students and workshop participants will increase their understanding and retention when you design training activities using 'The Winning Trainer'. This updated and expanded edition is richer than ever before. It provides: * more than 100 ready-made handouts learning instruments and worksheets... all you do is photocopy * numerous examples model dialogues and sample answers * hundreds of exercises games puzzles role plays icebreakers and other group-in-action techniques * samples of each technique and ways to effectively use them * advice on subjects such as unwilling participants use of the outdoors breaks program endings and storytellingSignificant new additions to the book include materials on the following topics:* new easier to accomplish approaches to evaluation - ROE (Return on Expectations) and Customer Satisfaction as a business indicator* a methodology to secure group feedback at the end of the program concerning the trainer/facilitator's role and participation in the course* an instrument for the early screening of likely obstacles when transferring training* added techniques to ensure that training transfers to the job* a demonstration of how to conduct a quick assessment of needs when under pressure to do so* keys to successful training in other cultures* several new instruments including how to assess one's prowess as a facilitator how to assess trust in a team and how to measure one's CQ (creativity quotient)Two new chapters have been added to treat new material on intelligence and learning principles of adult learning and distance learning. In addition numerous new group-in-action techniques and conceptual materials have been added to the existing chapters.This is the one-stop source book every trainer needs.

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The Practical Library Trainer

The Practical Library Trainer

Develop a library staff training program that really works!To stay on top of the lightning-fast changes in the library field and provide your patrons with the best service possible you need to establish and sustain an effective program for training your staff. The Practical Library Trainer examines the concept of the library as a learning place for patrons and staff offering a comprehensive view of training from an administrator’s perspective. Bruce E. Massis author of The Practical Library Manager (Haworth) addresses the essential issues of how to develop a strong program of continuous instruction including customer service reporting recruitment and retention of staff. The book focuses on the integration of staff training as a blended activity instead of an intervention quelling the notion of training as an “add-on” to existing staff duties. The current information-rich environment provides your patrons with an abundance of resources to choose from for their research needs. But they can’t do it alone-they need direction from a knowledgeable librarian who can recognize the pedigree currency and validity of licensed resources particularly those available through electronic means. The Practical Library Trainer uses the goal of long-range customer service as a starting point emphasizing the return on investment possibilities from blended training methods as a key to meeting your patrons’ high expectations of service. The book also provides examples from outside the library community to demonstrate the importance of training on a non-library setting and looks at future training issues.The Practical Library Trainer examines: types of staff training (formal informal employer-provided qualifying skill improvement) strategies for recruiting and retaining a staff blended learning e-training in-house training how to use professional conferences as continuing education opportunities how to evaluate your training program a sample of an “anywhere anytime” education and training program and much more! The Practical Library Trainer is an important resource for making sure your patrons get the most from your library—and your staff.

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The Changing World of the Trainer

The Changing World of the Trainer

The �Changing World of the Trainer� considers how the human resource development professional should undertake his or her role in today�s organization. It offers a new framework which reflects the business reality of the modern world. This practical work proceeds through a series of tools checklists questionnaires and instruments and presents an extensive series of illustrative case studies drawn from organizations throughout the world.The book argues that the problems that trainers face are fundamentally the same. Their objective is to put a process in place to ensure that employees are able to acquire the knowledge and skill required by the organization. The acquisition of individual and collective knowledge and skills is not the primary purpose of the organization � skills are a means to the end of profitability and service delivery. Hence training is a derived or secondary activity. In the world economy a global model of human resource development is emerging. In one form or another organizations are seeking to develop what are known as high performance working practices. What the customer requires drives business processes: staff must be recruited retained and motivated. Effective learning training and development is now essential.This does not mean the end of the traditional off-the-job training course. There are many occasions and these are illustrated within the book when a training course delivered by a subject-matter expert is an effective way of promoting the organization�s objectives through individual learning. However it is increasingly evident that the range of interventions undertaken by the trainer extends far beyond the design and delivery of the training course. There has been a huge increase in coaching and in ways of promoting group learning. Action learning is undergoing a resurgence. Generally there has been a growth of non-directive forms of intervention; a shift in emphasis fro

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The Woman with the Artistic BrushLife History of Yoruba Batik Nike Olaniyi Davies

The Woman with the Artistic BrushLife History of Yoruba Batik Nike Olaniyi Davies

Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the woman's place in contemporary Yoruba society from the perspective of a woman who lived it this book covers Nike's life from the time of her mother's death when Nike was six to the culmination of her dream in the creation against severe societal odds of a center for arts and culture that has over 120 members. Along the way The Woman with the Artistic Brush details how Nike ran away from home and joined a traveling theater group after her father tried to arrange her marriage subsequently married and joined in the polygynous household of a noted artist from the popular Osogbo school and finally broke clear of that situation after suffering sixteen years of domestic violence. The Woman with the Artistic Brush is another superb contribution to the Foremother Legacies series.

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Psychological Type Religion and Culture

Psychological Type Religion and Culture

Comprising a selection of contemporary state of the art research that focuses on psychological type religion and culture this book can be divided into two particular areas of research. The first section focuses on the religion and psychological type of Church leaders while the second section reports on Church members their religion and their psychological type. The book attests to the importance of Jungian Psychological Type theory in understanding individual differences in religiosity within a variety of samples. Authored by a wide range of international scholars employing a wide range of measures among diverse samples and in a variety of different cultures this research provides an important contribution to current and future research. It facilitates future research work in the area outside of the white Anglo-Saxon Anglophone Christian context on which it has traditionally been focused. This book was originally published as a double special issue of the Mental Health Religion & Culture journal.

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Psychological Type Therapy A Practitioner’s Guide to Strengthening Relationships

Psychological Type Therapy A Practitioner’s Guide to Strengthening Relationships

This book uses psychological type as a model for organizing mental health interventions including assessing how a client’s personality is affected within a specific relationship using the Psychological Type Relationship Inventory and the Psychological Type Relationship Scale. By examining each psychological type characteristic the book demonstrates how to help a client overcome a psychological type challenge by using techniques drawn from cognitive-behavioral humanistic and family therapy approaches. Over 20 techniques are described in explicit how-to format and chapters show the reader how to assess both positive personality characteristics as well as negative or challenging personality characteristics in developing therapy plans. The interdisciplinary nature of the text benefits a wide spectrum of mental health practitioners who are interested in incorporating personality into their case conceptualizations to develop more effective interventions in relationship therapy. | Psychological Type Therapy A Practitioner’s Guide to Strengthening Relationships

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Large Type EditionLarge Type Edition

Large Type EditionLarge Type Edition

Examination of the work of scientific icons-Newton Descartes and others-reveals the metaphors and analogies that directed their research and explain their discoveries. Today scientists tend to balk at the idea of their writing as rhetorical much less metaphorical. How did this schism over metaphor occur in the scientific community? To establish that scientists should use metaphors to explain science to the public and need to be conscious of how metaphor can be useful to their research this book examines the controversy over cloning and the lack of a metaphor to explain it to a public fearful of science's power.The disjunction between metaphor and science is traced to the dispensation of the Solar System Analogy in favor of a mathematical model. Arguing that mathematics is metaphorical the author supports the idea of all language as metaphorical-unlike many rhetoricians and philosophers of science who have proclaimed all language as metaphorical but have allowed a distinction between a metaphorical use of language and a literal use.For technical communication pedagogy the implications of this study suggest foregrounding metaphor in textbooks and in the classroom. Though many technical communication textbooks recommend metaphor as a rhetorical strategy some advise avoiding it and those that recommend it usually do so in a paragraph or two with little direction for students on how to recognize metaphors or to how use them. This book provides the impetus for a change in the pedagogical approach to metaphor as a rhetorical tool with epistemological significance.

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Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education

Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education

Give your students a powerful learning resource—the Internet!The Internet though brimming with potential is still vastly underused as a teaching resource. Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education gives teachers new strategies for the Internet’s use as a dynamic educational resource. Where Type I teaching applications technologically mimic the procedures previously used by teachers Type II teaching applications involve innovative thinking in the use of technology in learning. Using Type II applications with the Internet students are actively empowered to look to its use as an effective partner in their learning process. This book clearly reviews several Type II teaching applications and integrative software for use in all educational levels including Internet videoconferencing instant messages WebQuests and WebCT.Though now readily available even those schools with the capability fail to effectively integrate computer and Internet technology into meaningful classroom activities. Using the Internet as a teaching and learning tool offers a flexibility that can be extremely effective. Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education clearly shows how some creative educators have implemented inventive Type II applications in their teaching plans to give their students a more enriching learning experience.Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education explores: critically evaluating Web site information how perceptions and behaviors change when Internet access becomes universally available Internet2 Videoconferencing integrating online communication into courses utilizing computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools structured online class discussions using Instant Messenger (IM) increasing vocabulary through software and online texts online learning in second-language acquisition (SLA) a project in New Zealand in which teachers and students learn Web design with the help of an external expert WebQuests as a Type II application WebCT as a Type II application achievement testing through the computer the Global Forum on School Leadership (GFSL) as a Type II applicationInternet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education is a valuable idea-generating resource for all academics working in information technology and education and for K-12 teachers and administrators at all levels.

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Modern Chinese Complex Sentences III Adversative Type

Modern Chinese Complex Sentences III Adversative Type

This book is the third volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences with a focus on adversative complex sentences and relevant forms. Complex sentences in modern Chinese are unique in formation and meaning. The author proposes a tripartite classification of Chinese complex sentences according to the semantic relationships between the clauses i. e. coordinate causal and adversative. This volume analyzes representative forms of adversative type including the prototype the clauses linked by connectives referring to otherwise the combinations of clause structures and certain adversative conjunctions or linking adverbs indicating an adversative relationship the adversative factors and relationship in two typical progressive sentences factive sentences and concessive forms. It also discusses the adversative type in the broad sense classifying the different forms and analyzing the semantic meaning pragmatic value and implications for research and language teaching. The book will be a useful reference for scholars and learners in Chinese grammar and language information processing. | Modern Chinese Complex Sentences III Adversative Type

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Psychoanalysis Violence and Rage-Type MurderMurdering Minds

Psychoanalysis Violence and Rage-Type MurderMurdering Minds

What turns an apparently 'normal' individual into a killer?Many people who commit "rage type" murders have no history of violence. Using psychoanalytic theory and a number of case studies this book isolates key psychological factors that appear to help explain why such acts of extreme violence occur.Starting from a psychoanalytic standpoint Psychoanalysis Violence and Rage-Type Murder argues for a pluralistic approach to understanding aggression and claims that the origins of aggression have no single source or cause. Drawing broadly on psychological criminological and psychoanalytic research the author outlines the clinical features of the act and explores the possible role that psychopathology and personality might play in the build up to murder. These observations raise a number of questions about the so-called 'normality' of the individual alongside the capacity to commit murder and how we might understand the stability of such offenders. Psychoanalysis Violence and Rage-Type Murder will be of great interest to psychotherapists forensic psychotherapists psychoanalysts psychologists criminologists and health care workers.

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Unexpected AffinitiesThe History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp

Unexpected AffinitiesThe History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp

While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century its role in the development of architectural projects has not been comprehensively analyzed. This book proposes a reassessment of architectural type throughout history and its impact on the development of architectural theory and practice. Beginning with Laugier's 1753 Essay on Architecture Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in the Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp traces type through nineteenth- and twentiethth-century architectural movements and thoeries culminating in a discussion of the affinities between architectural type and Duchamp's concept of the readymade. Includes over sixty black and white images.

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Modern Chinese Complex Sentences II Coordinate Type

Modern Chinese Complex Sentences II Coordinate Type

This book is the second volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences with a focus on coordinate complex sentences and their relevant forms. Complex sentences in modern Chinese are unique in formation and meaning. The author proposes a tripartite classification of Chinese complex sentences according to the semantic relationships between the clauses that is coordinate causal and adversative. This volume analyzes the coordinated type in the broad sense and the relevant forms including the representative form in which the clauses are juxtaposed with each other paired and single occurrences of the connective yībiān and various forms of successive progressive and alternative complex sentences as well as the compound forms. The book will be a useful reference for scholars and learners interested in Chinese grammar and language information processing. | Modern Chinese Complex Sentences II Coordinate Type

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The Art of Type and Typography Explorations in Use and Practice

The Art of Type and Typography Explorations in Use and Practice

The Art of Type and Typography is an introduction to the art and rules of typography. Incorporating the industry standard—InDesign—for typesetting from the outset this book serves as a guide for beginning students to learn to set type properly through tutorials activities and examples of student work. Encompassing the history of typography from ancient times to widespread modern use The Art of Type and Typography provides context and fosters creativity while developing key concepts including: The history of type; Terminology; Classification; Measurement; Spacing; Alignment; Legibility; Hierarchy; Layout and Grids; Page Elements; InDesign tools and style sheets. Writing clearly and to the point Mary Jo Krysinski brings over 30 years of design experience to this essential guide. With a glossary sample class activities additional online resources and a beautiful clean design this book is the perfect introduction for a beginning typography student and a handy reference for those needing a refresher. | The Art of Type and Typography Explorations in Use and Practice

GBP 44.99
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Classroom Integration of Type II Uses of Technology in Education

Classroom Integration of Type II Uses of Technology in Education

Develop new strategies for using computers in the classroomEducators have talked about using information technology to improve teaching since the beginning of the modern computer movement but true integration remains an elusive goal—for most. Classroom Integration of Type II Uses of Technology in Education finds teachers who have managed to take advantage of the sophistication power and affordability of today’s technology to develop new and better strategies for learning despite the absence of an effective institutional infrastructure. This unique book reviews effective Type II teaching applications and software used at all educational levels including Lego/Logo technologies idea technologies graphics software laptop computers and handheld computers. Information technology in schools has failed to fulfill its considerable potential because without a widespread instructional support system computers are generally poorly used and not integrated meaningfully into classroom activities. But some educators have still been able to implement Type II applications of information technology in their educational settings. Classroom Integration of Type II Uses of Technology in Education looks at their innovative methods of using computers to bring about more effective teaching—and learning.Classroom Integration of Type II Uses of Technology in Education examines: computer activities of grade 1-5 students using Lego/Logo technologies using Kid-Pix graphics software for creative activities the Technology Integration Assessment Instrument (TIAI) gender disparity in computer-oriented problem solving a three-tiered idea-technology classification system pre-service teacher preparation assistive technology definitions legislation and implementation issues lesson plans and document techniques for laptop computers an action/instructional model for using handheld wireless computers in the classroom Classroom Integration of Type II Uses of Technology in Education is an invaluable resource for academics working in information technology and education and for K-12 teachers and administrators at all levels.

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Prevention and Recovery from Eating Disorders in Type 1 DiabetesInjecting Hope

Prevention and Recovery from Eating Disorders in Type 1 DiabetesInjecting Hope

Prevention and Recovery from Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes: Injecting Hope sheds light on an often overlooked and misunderstood issue: the problem of eating disorders in women with type 1 diabetes – referred to by lay people and the media as "diabulimia" and characterized by insulin restriction as a means of calorie purging for weight loss. Drawing on a series of recent interviews and over 16 years of research and clinical experience with this unique phenomenon author Dr. Ann Goebel-Fabbri provides groundbreaking insight into the lives of women who have recovered from eating disorders in type 1 diabetes. She explores the condition's origins its effects on the lives of those affected and possible paths to recovery. Also included are suggestions for prevention and treatment as well as practical and inspirational advice from now-recovered women. Prevention and Recovery from Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes is a valuable guide for patients and loved ones diabetes treatment teams and eating disorder clinicians.

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Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship Movable Type

Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship Movable Type

This book presents the seven entrepreneurial activities (SEA) model of new organizational constitution a prescriptive extension of the four flows model tradition of communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) theory. Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship explains the SEA model in detail illustrating it with autobiographical accounts from Deanna Bisel’s years of experience as an entrepreneur. The volume explores how entrepreneurial efforts to create and maintain organizations involve interrelated activities. In doing so it offers a vision of new organizational creation and maintenance as (a) communicative and material (b) initiated by value propositions (c) difficult to achieve (d) having periods of partiality (e) being the result of constitutive leadership distributed among members and (f) dependent upon constitutive momentum generated in organizational learning. This unique volume will be a key reference for students and scholars of organizational communication management business studies entrepreneurship and communication studies. | Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship Movable Type

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Media Training in Transition CountriesPerspectives of a Media Trainer

Media Training in Transition CountriesPerspectives of a Media Trainer

This book explores the impact of and lessons learned from media development and training programs sponsored by the US government and non-governmental organizations in countries transitioning to democracy. Recognizing the importance of establishing a free press and a free market economy in newly democratic societies this book examines the training of journalists and media managers in selected countries in Eastern Europe Africa Asia the Middle East and South America. Drawing on the author’s and other media trainers’ experiences over a 25-year period this book provides important insights into tailoring training programs to specific regions and countries. Case studies describe training in radio and television management broadcasting and media sustainability and are contextualized against the cultural and historical backgrounds of each region. Media Training in Transition Countries will be of interest to media trainers government and nongovernment agencies and scholars and students of international journalism and development.

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The Revolutionary Ascetic Evolution of a Political Type

The Revolutionary Ascetic Evolution of a Political Type

Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung‘so often been ascetics austere puritans with few emotional ties? What functions political as well as personal do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his followers?Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that beginning in the nineteenth century the needs of modernizing revolutions have produced a distinct new type of political leader the revolutionary ascetic. This individual's denial of personal pleasures and commitments both enables him to perform politically necessary if personally repulsive revolutionary acts and to command the allegiance of his more worldly followers. Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution Mazlish shows in a series of fascinating personality sketches how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was put to the service of a new kind of total modernizing revolution in Russia China and elsewhere. In two remarkably vivid portraits of Lenin and Mao Tse-tung Mazlish shows us precisely how two of the century's best-known revolutionaries consciously and unconsciously used their personal asceticism to induce revolutionary change. | The Revolutionary Ascetic Evolution of a Political Type

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Type II Uses of Technology in EducationProjects Case Studies and Software Applications

Type II Uses of Technology in EducationProjects Case Studies and Software Applications

Spark your students to actually want to learn through the creative application of technology!Type II applications in education make it possible to teach in new and more effective ways. Type II Uses of Technology in Education: Projects Case Studies and Software Applications clearly explains methods and strategies presently used by teachers to offer students a creative learning experience through the application of technology. Each chapter presents individual examples of how teachers have applied technology in schools and classrooms illustrating through case studies projects and software applications how to effectively spark students’ interest and learning. Type II Uses of Technology in Education is the third in a series (Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education and Classroom Integration of Type II Uses of Technology in Education both from Haworth) that provides a clear view of the advantages—and challenges—involved in the use of technology to enhance and actively involve students in the learning process. The applications described and discussed at length here go beyond the mundane educational functions like grading or presenting drill and practice exercises to explore fresh ways of teaching and learning. Students can become involved and actually want to learn all through the use of creative technology application. The book also includes tables and figures to enhance understanding of the material.Type II Uses of Technology in Education discusses: data collection analysis and communication in student research using pocket PCs and laptops the educational effect of using a learning object as a pedagogical model rather than simply being technological in nature examples of integrated Type II activities e-learning courses using interactive video WebCT and on-site discussion groups electronic discussion applications in a laptop university teacher education program challenges facing students using computers to enhance and express the extent of their learning information and communication technology (ICT) integration into schools—using three illustrative case studies forward planning needed to make the difficult change to technological application for learning a case study that used problem-based learning software with at-risk students using technology to reinforce visual learning strategies digital portfolio development as a Type II application interactive computer technology in art instruction on-demand help features for effective interactive learning experience Personal Educational Tools (PETs) Type II Uses of Technology in Education: Projects Case Studies and Software Applications provides numerous illustrations of technology learning in action and is perfect for educators and students in programs dealing with information technology in education and for public school personnel with interests and responsibilities in using information technology in the classroom.

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Architectural Type and Character A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

Architectural Type and Character A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice. Historians provide important material for appreciating buildings and guiding those who produce them. In current histories a building is the product of a time its form follows its function irresistible influences produce it and style preferably novel is its most important attribute. This book argues for an alternative. Through a two-part structure the book first develops the theoretical foundations for this alternative history of architecture. The second part then provides drawings and interpretations of over one hundred sites from different times and places. Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture is an excellent desk reference and studio guide for students and architectures alike to understand analyze and create buildings. | Architectural Type and Character A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

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The Revolutionary AsceticEvolution of a Political Type

The Revolutionary AsceticEvolution of a Political Type

Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times—from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung—so often been ascetics austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions political as well as personal do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his followers?Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that beginning in the nineteenth century the needs of modernizing revolutions have produced a distinct new type of political leader the revolutionary ascetic. This individual's denial of personal pleasures and commitments both enables him to perform politically necessary if personally repulsive revolutionary acts and to command the allegiance of his more worldly followers.Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution Mazlish shows in a series of fascinating personality sketches how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was put to the service of a new kind of "total" modernizing revolution in Russia China and elsewhere. In two remarkably vivid portraits of Lenin and Mao Tse-tung Mazlish shows us precisely how two of the century's best-known revolutionaries consciously and unconsciously used their personal asceticism to induce revolutionary change.

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'A New Type of History'Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past

'A New Type of History'Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past

Linking fiction with history and historical theory 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists – Tolstoy Proust John Cowper Powys Virginia Woolf Wyndham Lewis Penelope Lively and James Hamilton-Paterson – who have criticized scientifically based history and proposed alternative ways of approaching the past: more subjective and personal colourful and imaginative and above all ethically orientated. In this it is argued they have been reverting to an earlier rhetorical model for history which is now being increasingly adopted by practising historians. This ‘new type of history’ may lack the claimed ‘objectivity’ and ‘truth’ of its immediate predecessor but it opens the way for an ethically focused subject that may be used (in Nietzsche’s words) ‘for the purpose of life’.Providing a new take on both novelists and historiography and ranging widely from the nineteenth century to the present day this cross-disciplinary study will be valuable reading for all those interested in the intersection and interplay between fiction and history.

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Category NeutralityA Type-Logical Investigation

Category NeutralityA Type-Logical Investigation

"Feature neutrality"is an issue that has received much attention among linguists. For example consider the sentence "I have never and will never put my name on this document." Here the verb 'put' acts simultaneously as a past participle (as in "have never put") and a base form (as in "will never put") and is therefore said to be neutral between the two forms. Similar examples have been found for many languages. The accepted wisdom is that neutrality is possible only for morphosyntactic features such as verb form gender number declension class-not at the level of gross syntactic category where the semantic differences are more significant. In other words it has been claimed that "category neutrality " where a word or phrase is used simultaneously with more than one syntactic category does not exist. (A famous example is the glaring ungrammaticality of this sentence in which "can" is used simultaneously as a main verb and auxiliary verb: "I can tuna and get a new job.") In this book however Neal Whitman shows that category neutrality does exist in English. This not only challenges the current thinking but also raises foundational questions about the nature of ambiguity.

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Modern Chinese Complex Sentences I Overview and Causal Type

Modern Chinese Complex Sentences I Overview and Causal Type

This book is the first of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences and is focused on the overall characteristics and the casual complex sentences in the language in particular. Complex sentences in modern Chinese are unique in information and meaning. The author proposes a tripartite classification of Chinese complex sentences according to the semantic relationships between the clauses that is coordinated causal and adversative. The first part of this volume defines Chinese complex sentences introduces the properties scope and functions of complex sentence relationship markers and makes detailed comparisons between the tripartite and dichotomous systems for the classification of complex sentences. The second part thoroughly investigates causal complex sentences in their eight typical forms. The book will be a useful reference for scholars and learners interested in Chinese grammar and language information processing. | Modern Chinese Complex Sentences I Overview and Causal Type

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