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Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A, ) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art and material culture. The book features a range of papers by leading academics, museum lea...

The Structure of Personality identifies the processes that produce personality, and presents strategies to reprogramme it. Coaching the reader in a number of effective and specially adapted NLP techniques, it covers a wide range of tools including The Resolve model and the Personal Strengths model, making it a crucial reference for counsellors, therapists and NLP practitioners.

This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades"--

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Cities around the world have experienced a new theatrical model of protest, with creativity, fun, pleasure, and play as the cornerstones of this approach. This book examines the historical use and development of "play" as well as the recent ways in which it has infused protest and community building.

Unauflöslich und ungeheuerlich erscheint das Dilemma, das dem zweiten Roman von Albert Ostermaier seine aufs äußerste gehende existentielle, moralische und gesellschaftliche Dimension verleiht. Ein junger Mann, aufgewachsen in einem katholischen Internat in Bayern, der sein Leben darauf ausgerichtet hat, Schriftsteller, Dichter zu werden, muß sich entscheiden zwischen sicherem Tod und ungewissen Überleben, für das er sich allerdings zwei völli...

This text should be of interest to those responsible for the management of major change within organizations, and provides the theories and values that should be adhered to in order to achieve that change successfully and effectively.

Discharge of nutrient rich wastewater causes eutrophication of surface water, therefore wastewater treatment before discharge is required. Wastewater stabilization ponds are low cost technology used by developing countries but not effective in nitrogen removal due to low nitrifier biomass in the water column. Introduction of surface area for attachment of nitrifiers has therefore been proposed. This thesis reports the performance of pilot scal...

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Optimization techniques have been widely adopted to implement various data mining algorithms. In addition to well-known Support Vector Machines (SVMs) (which are based on quadratic programming), different versions of Multiple Criteria Programming (MCP) have been extensively used in data separations. Since optimization based data mining methods differ from statistics, decision tree induction, and neural networks, their theoretical inspiration h...

Video segmentation has become one of the core areas in visual signal processing research. The objective of Video Segmentation and Its Applications is to present the latest advances in video segmentation and analysis techniques while covering the theoretical approaches, real applications and methods being developed in the computer vision and video analysis community. The book will also provide researchers and practitioners a comprehensive under...

In two hundred color photographs of architecture, landscapes, wildlife, and artifacts, Gould portrays the rich history still visible in the area, while Brasseaux's engagingly written narrative covers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century story of settlement and development in the region. Brasseaux brings the story up to date, recounting devastating hurricanes and coastal degradation.From living-history attractions such as Vermilionville, the ...

The Populist movement of the late nineteenth century represents one of the largest third-party challenges in American history. Throughout the South widespread drops in crop prices led to agrarian revolt, which contributed to its popularity. Yet, in the largely rural state of Louisiana, despite the political group's focus on empowering distressed farmers, this movement was far less successful. In Donna A. Barnes's "The Louisiana Populist Moveme...

This meticulous and in-depth book chronicles the evolution of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)--one of the most powerful and influential terrorist organizations in modern Middle Eastern politics and world affairs.

This book, a review of the research into the psychotherapeutic value of visionary drugs, includes a guide to the use of psychedelics for spiritual (high dose), therapeutic (moderate dose), and problem-solving (low dose) purposes.

Librarians and teachers will find this guide invaluable for introducing young readers to various typical family situations through contemporary and classic literature.

Provides an engrossing and coherent introduction to what neuroscience can tell us about cognitive development through experience, and its implications for education. Arguing that educational change is underway and that the time is ripe to recognize that "the primary objective of education is to understand human learning” and that "all other objectives depend on achieving this understanding”, James Zull challenges the reader to focus on this pu...

Describes two similar and successful models of youth mentoring used by two acclaimed urban high schools that have consistently achieved exceptional graduation rates. Providing a detailed description of their methods, based on extensive observation, and interviews with teachers, students, administrators, and parents, this is a major contribution to the debate on how to reduce the achievement gap.

A must-read for Gulf Coast scientists, naturalists, and residents . . . From Florida to Mexico and along the shores of Cuba, the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico are vulnerable to sea-level rise because of their fragile and low-lying shorelines and adjacent coastal environments. In addition to wetlands, river deltas, beaches, and barrier islands, millions of people who live and work along the Gulf coast are susceptible to the affects of both inten...