As leading authorities on adult education and training, Elwood Holton and Richard Swanson have revised Malcolm Knowles' exemplary work on adult learning. While retaining the best from the past editions, they incorporate the latest developments in adult learning theory and practice into this major revision. This new book is divided into three parts ...
Reading the Material Theatre develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Beginning with semiotic and cultural materialist theory, Knowles quickly moves into detailed politicized analysis of the ways in which specific aspects of theatrical ...
This book should be in the library of every transportation researcher. Ronald Sheck Intermodal and guideway research program director, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of Florida There is no escape from transport. By sea, air, road or rail, we rely on transport to connect individuals, businesses and cities. At a time when ...
This is a biography of John P. Holland, whose technological innovations led to the launching of the first modern submarine in May 1897. The work draws on diaries and papers to trace the inventor's eventful life, including frustration with the US Navy and the eventual loss of his company.
This is a student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies. Features include: emphasizes transport ...
This is the story of Dick Knowle's personal journey in learning how to lead more effectively in this turbulent, unpredictable world. The newly discovered processes and models presented here apply to leadership tasks at all levels in the organisation, and will lead to improvements in effectiveness of as much as 30-40 per cent by enabling you to ...
Richard Beckman argues that readers of "Finnegans Wake" must develop a new method of reading that flows from the text itself. Focusing on the mode of perception in the "Wake" - seeing the world obliquely because that is often the only way to get at the nature of things - Beckman maintains that Joyce's satire depends on looking at the public scene ...
One of Shakespeare's early plays, written in 1598 or 1599, AS YOU LIKE IT is in many ways a typical Elizabethan romantic comedy, but it is also a satire in which Shakespeare ridicules many of the courtly-love conventions that were still current in his day: love as a disease, for example, and the lover as slave to his imperious mistress. In AS YOU ...
The twelve distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume are: Alfred Harbage, G. K. Hunter, Ber-nard Beckerman, G. P. V. Akrigg, Clifford Leech, Joan Webber, Virgil Whitaker, Geoffrey Bullough, Maurice Charney, Robert Ornstein, Jonas Barish, and Eugene M. Waith. The essays, of general interest to readers of the drama, constitute a fit ...
This book brings together essays on the Stratford Festival, on Shakespeare in Quebec, and on Canadian dramatic adaptations of Hamlet and Othello by Ric Knowles, one of Canada's leading drama and theatre scholars. The essays discuss such major figures as Robert Lepage, Ann Marie MacDonald, Djanet Sears, Michael O'Brien, Ken Gass, Robin Phillips, ...
Scandinavia's distinctive combination of entrepreneurial capitalism, a large public welfare sector and policies favouring equality of opportunity, form the background to this book. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have developed very prosperous societies since 1945 by consistently pursuing social democratic consensus policies of a type long out of ...
Published in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature, this A-level text provides material on recent environmental developments in the Amazon rainforest, including the extent of deforestation, the impact of agricultural development and the impact of industrial and agricultural plans.
In seinem Klassiker zum Erwachsenenlernen hat Malcolm S. Knowles international MaAstAbe fA1/4r Erwachsenenbildung und Personalentwicklung gesetzt, die einen Perspektivenwechsel in der traditionellen PAdagogik bedeuten: Vom angeleiteten Lernen zum selbstgesteuerten Lernen, vom unterweisenden Unterricht zur UnterstA1/4tzung beim Lernen, vom ...
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