Richard Davis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Office of Civic Engagement at Brigham Young University. He is the author of several books on the Internet and American politics includingNew Media and American Politics (1998), with Diana Owen; The Web of Politics (1999);Campaigning Online (2003), with Bruce Bimber; Making a Difference: A Comparative View of the Role ofthe Internet in Election Politics (2008), with Diana Owen, Stephen Ward, and David Taras; andTyping Politics (2009).

Christina Holtz-Bacha is Professor of Communications at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Past Chair of the International Communication's Associations (ICA) Political Communication Division, Professor Holtz-Bacha has held positions at the University of Mainz, University of Munich, the University of Bochum, the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis, and was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center/John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1999. Her research and instruction focus on political communication and strategic communication as well as German and European media policy.

Marion Just is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a research associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a consultant to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a member of the advisory board of the Reform Institute, and the editorial board of the Harvard International Journal of Press Politics. Professor Just is a past president of the Northeastern Political Science Association and the New England Political Science Association and former Chair of the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2002, she received an 'Excellence in Mentoring Award' from the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association. In 2003, her co-authored book, Crosstalk was named the Outstanding Book in Political Communication. In 2007, she received the APSA's Murray Edelman Award for a Distinguished Career in Political Communication. Professor Just's current research projects concern political campaigns, psychological aspects of voting, patterns of news, politics on the internet, and media coverage of women leaders.

Insegnare agli adulti, si sa, è molto diverso da insegnare ai bambini. Le motivazioni, le aspettative, le esperienze e le strategie dell'adulto che impara non sono infatti quelle del bambino. Eppure, un attento esame delle teorie dell'apprendimento e l'analisi dei metodi di insegnamento generalmente adottati ci fa convenire, con Malcolm Knowles, che spesso si insegna agli adulti come se fossero bambini e senza tenere conto delle loro caratteristiche. Per migliorare il processo di apprendimento dell'adulto e renderlo più significativo ed efficace sono quindi necessari nuovi metodi di insegnamento, nuovi programmi, "nuovi" insegnanti e formatori che sappiano individuare e valutare le capacità e gli obiettivi dei discenti, sintonizzando su di essi il processo di insegnamento. Quando l'adulto impara offre gli strumenti teorici e operativi necessari. L'opera classica di Malcolm Knowles è stata infatti aggiornata da Elwood Holton e Richard Swanson - due autorità nel settore della formazione e dello sviluppo delle risorse umane - e si struttura ora in tre parti: la prima presenta le radici e i principi dell'andragogia; la seconda approfondisce le dinamiche dell'apprendimento in età adulta alla luce delle ricerche più recenti; la terza offre ai professionisti della formazione strumenti operativi quali il Questionario sull'orientamento personale verso l'apprendimento degli adulti e la Guida alla diagnosi e alla pianificazione delle competenze fondamentali.

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes?

These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve.

The 8^th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised and updated. Holton and Swanson have enlivened the latest edition in terms of content and style. The new supporting website and added chapter level reflection questions make this latest edition more accessible than ever.

This new edition includes:

• Updates to the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field.

• Addition of two new chapters: on related cutting edge realms, Neuroscience & Learning and Information Technology & Learning.

• Creation of a supporting website: This website for The Adult Learner 8^th Editionwill provide basic instructor aids. For each chapter there will be a PowerPoint presentation, learning exercises, and added study questions.

• Revisions throughout to make it more readable and relevant to your practices.

If you are a researcher, practitioner or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

This unique book traces the intertwined trajectories of five sets of names Taiwan has used to designate China since the Chinese Nationalist Party came to Taiwan in 1949. These have evolved from the derogatory “communist bandits” (gongfe, ??); to the ideologically focused “Chinese Communists” (zhonggong, ??); to the seemingly neutral geographical designators “the Mainland” (dalu, ??) and "the opposite shore/both shores" (duian, ??/liangan, ??1); to the ethnic and national label “China” (zhongguo,
??); and to the official designation, "People's Republic of China" (zhonghuarenmingongheguo,???????). As political metaphors grounded in unique historical circumstances, each name drives and is sustained by narratives that register undercurrents of power and ideological struggle.

Through textual analyses of historical archives and other mediated texts and artifacts, the book unfolds Taiwan’s identity negotiation during the past half century and critically evaluates the interconnection between language and politics.

As the United States continues its slow climb out of the Great Recession, it is important to focus on new directions to improve the standard of living in America. This book explores what is behind a faltering standard of living in the United States since the early 1980s and what can be done to restore it.

A former Navy SEAL and best-selling author of American Sniper offers first-person accounts of top-secret missions, countless dangers and deadly terrorists including a kidnapping in Central America and capturing an al-Qaeda leader in Thailand.

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A photographic portrait of New York City includes some 175 full-color photographs, including twelve single and double gatefolds, that capture images of the city, its skylines, architectural monuments, landmarks, and other evocative images. 30,000 first printing.

Beautifully presented, and now in full colour, the sixth edition of Essential Endocrinology and Diabetes is fully up-to-date with the latest knowledge and concepts on the workings of the endocrine system. It explains the key principles of endocrine physiology in an easy reading style popular with students, clinicians and scientists. The invaluable background on basic science and investigation, including new molecular techniques, provides the foundation for detailed discussion of the diagnosis and management of clinical endocrine disorders and diabetes.

The teaching style and presentation has been strengthened throughout, and includes learning objectives and “recap” links at the beginning of each chapter that remind the reader of key findings and principles, while cross-referencing makes it easy to locate related information quickly and efficiently. There are also more case studies, with detailed answers applying theory to practice.

Essential Endocrinology and Diabetes is the perfect resource for a course on endocrinology and diabetes, as part of USMLE teaching, and an on-going companion during postgraduate clinical and scientific study. It is accompanied by a FREE enhanced Wiley Desktop Edition - the interactive, digital version of the book - featuring downloadable text and images, highlighting and note taking facilities, book-marking, cross-referencing, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms.

Project teams can improve results by recognizing that the future is inevitably uncertain and that by creating flexible designs they can adapt to eventualities. This approach enables them to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid harmful losses. Designers of complex, long-lasting projects--such as communication networks, power plants, or hospitals--must learn to abandon fixed specifications and narrow forecasts. They need to avoid the "flaw of averages," the conceptual pitfall that traps so many designs in underperformance. Failure to allow for changing circumstances risks leaving significant value untapped. This book is a guide for creating and implementing value-enhancing flexibility in design. It will be an essential resource for all participants in the development and operation of technological systems: designers, managers, financial analysts, investors, regulators, and academics. The book provides a high-level overview of why flexibility in design is needed to deliver significantly increased value. It describes in detail methods to identify, select, and implement useful flexibility. The book is unique in that it explicitly recognizes that future outcomes are uncertain. It thus presents forecasting, analysis, and evaluation tools especially suited to this reality. Appendixes provide expanded explanations of concepts and analytic tools.

A comprehensive treatment of quality of life, sustainability, and local economic development, this book links existing academic knowledge to real world problems of policy making. It emphasizes the need for a better understanding of how economic theories and empirical economic research can contribute to the public policy debates in state and local government. These include the sources of economic growth and development; the relationship of both to quality of life and sustainability; the importance of local as well as global action to environmental sustainability; the roles of income inequality, poverty, and economic opportunity in economic development; the importance of land-use planning to quality of life and sustainability, the relationship between economic development and state and local tax and regulatory policies; and the use of strategies that incorporate quality of life and sustainable development into economic development.

"Thoughtful new insights about what is needed to reshape economic development for 21st century priorities and challenges."---Richard Lamm, Professor, University of Denver and former governor of Colorado

"A very readable book for non-economists it makes a compelling case for the natural compatibility of quality of life factors and sustainable economic development. It illustrates not only why traditional business incentives are not cost-effective but also suggests what to do in place of them. In particular, the authors call for entrepreneur-ship and education while emphasizing the tight interconnections among economy, environment, and society. In Littleton, Colorado, we have practiced these same principles for over two decades with our Economic Gardening Program and have had considerable success at economic development without significant population growth. This is the future of economic development."---Chris Gibbons, Director of Business/Industry Affairs, Littleton, Colorado

"This new book raises important issues on the relationship between traditional economic growth on the one hand and the quality of life and sustainable development on the other hand. Though the policy implications are about the best ways of "acting locally," the book has important implications for policy makers and public officials on the national level as well."---Edward Wolff, Professor of Economics, New York University

New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and early 1930s. New York City landmarks were born in this age - the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Waldorf-Astoria - as well as dozens of lesser-known office buildings and apartment houses. Together, they make the skyline of New York what it is today.

Richard Berenholtz's stunning photographs of the finest examples of New York City's art deco architecture are accompanied by text from writers, artists, and personalities of the era, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ogden Nash, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.

For students, researchers, and practitioners, Swanson (human resource development, U. of Texas at Tyler) and Holton (human resource and leadership development, Louisiana State U.) provide a textbook on human resource development (HRD) that focuses on the fundamentals and foundations of practice that does not focus on best practices. Instead, it addresses models, processes, history, theoretical and philosophical foundations, learning and performance paradigms and models, the role of HRD in high-level organizational and systems-level issues, and training and development and organization development. This edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to include new chapters on component HRD theories, policy and planning, technology, and globalization. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)