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Author |
: Arlene Holmes-Henderson |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 106 |
Release |
: 2023-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000844764 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000844765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Expanding Classics by : Arlene Holmes-Henderson
This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It shows that classical subjects have an important role to play within society and can enrich individuals’ lives in many different, and perhaps surprising, ways. Chapters present projects covering literacy and engagement with reading, empowering students to understand and use new types of vocabulary, discovering the personal relevance of ancient history and the resonance of ancient material culture and stories. Contributors demonstrate that classical subjects can be taught cost-effectively and inclusively by non-specialist teachers and in non-traditional settings. In their various ways, they highlight the need to rethink the role of Classics in twenty-first-century classrooms and communities. Recommendations are made for further development, including ways to improve research, policy and practice in the field of Classics education. Expanding Classics presents an important series of case studies on classical learning, of interest to museum educators, teacher trainers, school leaders and curriculum designers, as well as those teaching in primary, secondary and further education settings in the UK and worldwide.
Author |
: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 121 |
Release |
: 1940 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:mm79001316 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Expanding Universe by : Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Author |
: Dorothy B. Hughes |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2012-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590175095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590175093 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Expendable Man by : Dorothy B. Hughes
“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.
Author |
: Isabelle Torrance |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2020-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198864486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198864485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016 by : Isabelle Torrance
This interdisciplinary collection, written by experts in their fields, addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; and the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 1993-09 |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Flying Magazine by :
Author |
: Richard Oram |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2011-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780752470993 |
ISBN-13 |
: 075247099X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kings and Queens of Scotland: Classic Histories Series by : Richard Oram
The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The Kings and Queens of Scotland charts that process, from the earliest Scots and Pictish kings of around ad 400 through to the union of parliaments in 1707, tracing it through the lives of the men and women whose ambitions drove it forward on the often rocky path from its semi-mythical foundations to its integration into the Stewart kingdom of Great Britain. It is a route waymarked with such towering personalities as Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and Mary Queen of Scots, but directed also by a host of less well-known figures such as David I, who extended his kingdom almost to the gates of York, and James IV, builder of the finest navy in northern Europe. Their will and ambition, successes and failures not only shaped modern Scotland, but have left their mark throughout the British Isles and the wider world.
Author |
: Alex Lubotzky |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2010-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783034603324 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3034603320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures by : Alex Lubotzky
In the last ?fteen years two seemingly unrelated problems, one in computer science and the other in measure theory, were solved by amazingly similar techniques from representation theory and from analytic number theory. One problem is the - plicit construction of expanding graphs («expanders»). These are highly connected sparse graphs whose existence can be easily demonstrated but whose explicit c- struction turns out to be a dif?cult task. Since expanders serve as basic building blocks for various distributed networks, an explicit construction is highly des- able. The other problem is one posed by Ruziewicz about seventy years ago and studied by Banach [Ba]. It asks whether the Lebesgue measure is the only ?nitely additive measure of total measure one, de?ned on the Lebesgue subsets of the n-dimensional sphere and invariant under all rotations. The two problems seem, at ?rst glance, totally unrelated. It is therefore so- what surprising that both problems were solved using similar methods: initially, Kazhdan’s property (T) from representation theory of semi-simple Lie groups was applied in both cases to achieve partial results, and later on, both problems were solved using the (proved) Ramanujan conjecture from the theory of automorphic forms. The fact that representation theory and automorphic forms have anything to do with these problems is a surprise and a hint as well that the two questions are strongly related.
Author |
: Emilio Capettini |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2021-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000394436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000394433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Classics and Prison Education in the US by : Emilio Capettini
This volume focuses on teaching Classics in carceral contexts in the US and offers an overview of the range of incarcerated adults, their circumstances, and the ways in which they are approaching and reinterpreting Greek and Roman texts. Classics and Prison Education in the US examines how different incarcerated adults – male, female, or gender non-conforming; young or old; serving long sentences or about to be released – are reading and discussing Classical texts, and what this may entail. Moreover, it provides a sophisticated examination of the best pedagogical practices for teaching in a prison setting and for preparing returning citizens, as well as a considered discussion of the possible dangers of engaging in such teaching – whether because of the potential complicity with the carceral state, or because of the historical position of Classics in elitist education. This edited volume will be a resource for those interested in Classics pedagogy, as well as the role that Classics can play in different areas of society and education, and the impact it can have.
Author |
: Sofia Vaz |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2017-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351277662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351277669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environment: Why Read the Classics by : Sofia Vaz
Environment: Why Read the Classics? presents six important essays by some of the world's leading environmental thinkers on six of the most emblematic books ever written on the environment. The books – Walden; A Sand County Almanac; Small is Beautiful; Silent Spring; The Limits to Growth; and Our Common Future – taken together have been hugely important in the development of global environmental awareness, activism and policy. The essayists – Viriato Soromenho-Marques, J. Baird Callicott, José Lima Santos, Tim O'Riordan, Satish Kumar and Marina Silva – invite readers to reflect on these ground-breaking works and examine their historical importance, as well as what they should mean to us today and what relevance they will have to future generations. More than just books about the environment, these are also philosophical treatises, in that they increase our understanding of the natural world and of ourselves, calling us "to weigh and consider", as Bacon put it. In particular, they make us reflect on the need to constantly redefine the purposes of progress, the economy and society. How we relate to nature is a crucial aspect in the plans we make as a species, and as individuals; and every one of these books inspires a more respectful relationship, both with nature and humanity, and consequently with ourselves. The six essays in this book are the result of a series of conferences organised in Lisbon by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with the support of the American Embassy in Portugal. Its *raison d'être* was to revisit the ideas that have shaped the environmental movement, seeking inspiration to deal with what looks like a very challenging future. The significance of such timeless concepts is now more apparent than ever; and these evergreen books are full of ideas that retain their spark even in our difficult times. This is what makes them classics. Environment: Why Read the Classics? is a provocative book and will be essential reading for all those concerned about the state of the world.
Author |
: Tamar Ross |
Publisher |
: UPNE |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1584653906 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781584653905 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Expanding the Palace of Torah by : Tamar Ross
Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, and Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Writing as an insider (herself an Orthodox Jew), Ross seeks to develop a theological response that fully acknowledges the male bias of Judaism's sanctified texts, yet nevertheless provides a rationale for transforming that bias in today's world without undermining their authority. She proposes an approach to divine revelation -- the theological heart of traditional Judaism -- which she calls "cumulativism." This approach is based on a conflating of strict boundaries between text and its interpretation, or divine intent and the evolution of human understanding. Book jacket.