Exploration beyond the Earth has tended to overshadow the less spectacular but no less far-reaching and significant efforts to understand our home planet—efforts that have in recent years produced massive quantities of new data and, beyond that, a radically new way of looking at the Earth: a new worldview, a Whole Earth approach, a global concept. As a result, it no longer suffices to update older texts with a scattering of new facts or to write new ones based on older models.  This genuinely new text, prepared by the chairman of the geophysics course team at England's Open University, bases itself firmly (but undogmatically) on these new discoveries, in particular on "knowledge of the large-scale features of the Earth's surface and interior in both their static and dynamic contexts. This is the global picture of the Earth as perceived by today's Earth scientist, although it carries with it no implication that will necessarily stand for all time without change, or even without radical change." The book opens with a general chapter summarizing this global picture, which is followed by three topics—chapters carefully designed to present three different aspects of geophysics and three different approaches to the science. Among them, they explore the Earth's crust, mantle, and core, but Smith has chosen to examine a few aspects in some detail rather than treat many in passing. This, in a sense, is a case-study text: it is meant for undergraduates, and only simple mathematics is called upon.  The first topic is "The Earth's Crust and Uppermost Mantle." This typifies the observational branch of geophysics and draws its conclusions from experimental evidence supported by a broad data base.  The second treats "The Earth's Heat and Thermal Properties," a subject that Smith calls "the most important of all branches of geophysics." Nevertheless, the material presented here is not well covered in most texts, at least in part because it represents a speculative approach to geophysics, in the sense that processes that occur deep within the Earth must be inferred from very few clear data, and they may be interpreted in quite different ways.  The last topic is "Earthquakes: Characteristics, Prediction, and Modification." This is a subject of everyday interest and, in some parts of the world, of day-by-day interest—here, the frames of reference of "human time" and "geological time" coincide. Because of its social ramifications, this topical subject might be called an example of applied geophysics.

Topics in Geophysics

Business & Money

Smith, Peter J.

Finance

Mit Pr

The new casebook, which is suitable for either a one or two-semester course, strives to make Constitutional Law easily teachable. The authors have selected the cases very carefully, and edited the opinions so that they are short enough to read, but not just summaries. Text boxes call the students' attention to important aspects of each opinion, and the book is filled with introductions, points for discussions, and executive summaries. The authors present a diversity of views on every subject, including originalist and non-originalist perspectives. Reflecting some of their own differences, the authors have written point-counterpoint discussions of many disputed questions.

Constitutional Law: A Contemporary Approach (Interactive Casebook)

Maggs, Gregory E.

Constitutional Law

West Academic

'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.' - Terence Hawkes, Cahiers Elisabethains Shakespeare studies have become increasingly politicised and clashes of opinion amongst scholars are not uncommon. Social Shakespeare, in its enthusiasm for the plays themselves, attempts to bridge the gap between rival approaches, aiming as a distinct refocusing of political criticism upon the Shakespearean text as realised in performance. Modern Shakespeare productions have the potential to make far more political impact than academic studies and yet, until now, critics have been reluctant to recognise this potential. With reference to particular productions, backed up by illustrations, Peter J. Smith integrates critical understanding of the plays with evidence of their political impact on stage.

Social Shakespeare: Aspects of Renaissance Dramaturgy and Contemporary Society

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Learning in Organizations

Taking a fresh and innovative approach to the complexities and challenges inherent in organizational learning diversity, the authors show that there are no generic solutions. They argue there is no 'best way' of planning, organizing and implementing learning in relation to the workplace and instead provide context-specific solutions to the dilemmas and issues that diversities present. With an international approach, grounded in theory and incorporating strong practical examples, this book is essential reading for all those studying, teaching or practising human resource development, human resource management or professional education. 

Learning in Organizations: Complexities and Diversities

Sadler-Smith, Eugene

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Taking a fresh and innovative approach to the complexities and challenges inherent in organizational learning diversity, the authors show that there are no generic solutions. They argue there is no 'best way' of planning, organizing and implementing learning in relation to the workplace and instead provide context-specific solutions to the dilemmas and issues that diversities present. With an international approach, grounded in theory and incorporating strong practical examples, this book is essential reading for all those studying, teaching or practising human resource development, human resource management or professional education.

In this coming-of-age story, Sam Grace, on vacation from prep school, is held hostage by the manager of a supermarket, nearly killed by a young couple he has befriended, and rejected by a beautiful former classmate

Highlights of the Off-Season

United States

Simon&Schuster

Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology – humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise – in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. Smith contends that the ‘two stools’ stand for two broadly distinctive attitudes towards scatology. The first is a carnivalesque, merry, even hearty disposition, typified by the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The second is self-disgust, an attitude characterised by withering misanthropy and hypochondria. Smith demonstrates how the combination of high and low cultures manifests the capacity to run canonical and carnivalesque together so that sanctioned and civilised artefacts and scatological humour frequently co-exist in the works under discussion, evidence of an earlier culture’s aptitude (now lost) to occupy a position between two stools. Of interest to cultural and literary historians, this ground-breaking study testifies to the arrival of scatology as an academic subject, at the same time recognising that it remains if not outside, then at least at the margins of conventional scholarship.

Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Manchester University Press

Now available in paperback, Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology – humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise – in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. Smith contends that the ‘two stools’ stand for two broadly distinctive attitudes towards scatology. The first is a carnivalesque, merry, even hearty disposition, typified by the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The second is self-disgust, an attitude characterised by withering misanthropy and hypochondria. Smith demonstrates how the combination of high and low cultures manifests the capacity to run canonical and carnivalesque together so that sanctioned and civilised artefacts and scatological humour frequently co-exist in the works under discussion, evidence of an earlier culture’s aptitude (now lost) to occupy a position between two stools. Of interest to cultural and literary historians, this ground-breaking study testifies to the arrival of scatology as an academic subject, at the same time recognising that it remains if not outside, then at least at the margins of conventional scholarship.

Dark days for Hal Andrews, New York artist and scion of an eccentric New England family. His cat has just died in a plunge from his apartment window. His brother Beck, manic-depressive and hopelessly nostalgic, is about to marry Lisa Lyman, heiress to the Family Wipes fortune and certifiably the world’s most abominable girl. Their sister Fishie, an Olympic swimming champion who uses her television appearances to berate Hal, has recently shaved her head bald. And their father is withholding Hal’s inheritance until he becomes more responsible, or at least until he’s sixty-five. Hal’s artwork clutters the floors of his girlfriend’s apartment and does about as much for his putative gallery. Hoping for a genius grant and settling for a decrepit dog and a derisive girlfriend, Hal’s optimism begins to wane as he descends into a moody twilit world of obscure urban horror.” Therefore, when a wrong number from out of town walks into his life, the situation is grim. Mary-Ann Beavers and her hostile brother arrive in New York via Greyhound, in search of celebrities and success, both rare commodities back home in Patent, Texas. She snaps her chewing gum and writes wretched poetry; her brother has bad teeth and a temper to match. While Mary-Ann stalks Liza Minnelli in the supermarket and treasures the autograph of Dustin Hoffman’s agent’s sister, a darkness that lasts for days falls over Hal’s new but awful apartment. There is light, however, at the end of the tunnel, and Hal, in spite of himself, will bask in it. Make-Believe Ballrooms captures the true contemporary dilemma in this tale of Hal’s decline and rehabilitation in much-too-postmodern New York.

Make-Believe Ballrooms (Current Communications in Molecular)

Atlantic Monthly Press

Make-Believe Ballrooms

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Topics in Geophysics

Constitutional Law: A Contemporary Approach (Interactive Casebook)

Social Shakespeare: Aspects of Renaissance Dramaturgy and Contemporary Society

Learning in Organizations: Complexities and Diversities

Learning in Organizations

Highlights of the Off-Season

Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift

Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift

Make-Believe Ballrooms (Current Communications in Molecular)

Make-Believe Ballrooms