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To Advance Knowledge The Growth of American Research Universities 1900-1940

To Advance Knowledge The Growth of American Research Universities 1900-1940

American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science. Although they emerged as universities in the late nineteenth century the incorporation of research as a distinct part of their mission largely occurred after 1900. To Advance Knowledge relates how these institutions by 1940 advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science. This study is the first to systematically examine the preconditions for the development of a university research role. These include the formation of academic disciplines-communities that sponsored associations and journals which defined and advanced fields of knowledge. Only a few universities were able to engage in these activities. Indeed universities before World War I struggled to find the means to support their own research through endowments research funds and faculty time. To Advance Knowledge shows how these institutions developed the size and wealth to harbor a learned faculty. The book illustrates how arrangements for research changed markedly in the 1920s when the great foundations established from the Rockefeller and Carnegie fortunes embraced the advancement of knowledge as a goal. Universities emerged in this decade as the best-suited vessels to carry this mission. Foundation resources made possible the development of an American social science. In the natural sciences this patronage allowed the United States to gain parity with Europe on scientific frontiers of which the most important was undoubtedly nuclear physics. The research role of universities cannot be isolated from the institutions themselves. To Advance Knowledge focuses on sixteen universities that were significantly engaged with research during this era. It analyzes all facets of these institutions-collegiate life sources of funding treatment of faculty-since all were relevant to shaping the research role. | To Advance Knowledge The Growth of American Research Universities 1900-1940

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Comedy Cameos and Campaign Communication Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy

Comedy Cameos and Campaign Communication Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy

This book provides a thorough foundation for understanding the shift from political campaigning via legacy news media to campaigning through entertainment media. Public discourse that would once transpire on the newsprint of opinion pages or behind a news anchor’s desk and teleprompter is now happening through talk shows and sitcoms celebrity partnerships and influencer accounts memes and streams video games branded merchandise and social media. Here Turcotte explores how media consumption habits have reshaped contemporary campaign norms and shifted strategies for seeking public office and advancing policy goals. He shows how candidates are incorporating entertainment media in their strategic campaigns moving beyond satirical programs to demonstrate a multi-pronged approach to campaign communication in the entertainment environment. With a compelling introduction to these campaign shifts and an examination of tangible applications this text is suitable for scholars as well as students in both political science and mass communication courses particularly courses in political communication and strategic communication. | Comedy Cameos and Campaign Communication Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy

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Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity

Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity

This volume provides a set of principles and systematic methods for improvement to help district and school leaders achieve the continuous improvement goals embedded in the Professional Standard for Educational Leadership (PSEL) and the National Educational Leadership Program (NELP) standards. Bringing the PSEL Standard 10 to life this book tackles the why how and what of continuous improvement through an equity lens. In the first section Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools provides an overall introduction to and rationale for continuous improvement situating current approaches to continuous improvement situating current approaches to continuous improvement in education within broader historical and sectoral contexts. The second section highlights how the tenets of improvement science – such as making iterative incremental evidence-based advancements; utilizing practical measurements; and acknowledging variability – position school and system leaders to adaptively integrate systematic and evidence-based approaches to change as part of ongoing organizational processes. The book concludes with a section that invites readers to consider leadership approaches that forward improvement work how leaders can build internal capacity to engage in improvement and how policy can support efforts to build and sustain the capacity for continuous improvement. Special features include beginning-of-chapter highlights end-of-chapter connections to standards and action inventories through each chapter. Overall the volume provides a focus on the continuous improvement aspects of the NELP and PSEL standards that serves as a bridge supporting students preparing to become educational leaders in their journey from learning about continuous improvement to learning how to lead continuous equity-oriented improvement work in their own contexts. | Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity

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Transnational Enterprises Their Impact On Third World Societies And Cultures

Transnational Enterprises Their Impact On Third World Societies And Cultures

This book represents the first attempt to conceptualize the social and cultural impact of transnational enterprises on host nations and to provide empirical and analytical material on the subject. Well-known social scientists focus on three critical areas: social inequalities knowledge systems and lifestyles and values. Collectively they advance | Transnational Enterprises Their Impact On Third World Societies And Cultures

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Communication Yearbook 10

Communication Yearbook 10

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems processes and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1987. | Communication Yearbook 10

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Communication Yearbook 8

Communication Yearbook 8

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems processes and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1984. | Communication Yearbook 8

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Communication Yearbook 9

Communication Yearbook 9

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems processes and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1986. | Communication Yearbook 9

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Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level The Potential and Limitations of Planning

Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level The Potential and Limitations of Planning

Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners. However the question of what can planners contribute to the advancement of such notions has not received much attention until now. This volume examines the potential contribution of planning to the advancement of sustainability at sub-national level and the limitations it faces in doing so. Bringing together case studies from the US UK Poland Israel South Africa The Netherlands and Italy it covers a wide range of issues and contexts ranging from the metropolitan to the community level. On the basis of these case studies the book shows that planners do indeed have a variety of options to advance sustainability notions at these levels and appear to be doing so. The book proposes that planners should operate at two levels: firstly to change institutional structures and secondly to advance sustainability notions incrementally in the meantime within the existing institutional constraints. | Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level The Potential and Limitations of Planning

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Socratic Questions New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance

Socratic Questions New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance

This book first published in 1992 introduces some of Socrates’ problems and some of the problems about him. It seeks at the same time to advance new views arguments and information on Socrates’ mission techniques ethics and later reception. From civil disobedience to ethics this collection provides stimulating discussions of Socrates’ life thought and historical significance. | Socratic Questions New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance

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The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise Clio Takes the Stand

The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise Clio Takes the Stand

This book scrutinizes the emergence of historians participating as expert witnesses in historical forensic contribution in some of the most important national and international legal ventures of the last century. It aims to advance the debate from discussions on whether historians should testify or not toward nuanced understanding of the history of the practice and making the best out of its performance in the future. | The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise Clio Takes the Stand

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Responsible Management Education The PRME Global Movement

Responsible Management Education The PRME Global Movement

The ebook is fully Open Access. Written by many of the key influencers at the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) the book focuses on advancing sustainable development into education research and partnerships at higher education institutions and specifically at business schools with the purpose of educating responsible leaders for today and tomorrow. The book serves as a concrete source of inspiration for universities and other stakeholders in higher education on structures processes and content for how to advance responsible management education and sustainable development. It articulates the importance of key themes connected with climate change gender equality anti-corruption business for peace anti-poverty and other topics that are related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book emphasizes the significance of local–global interaction drawing on local action at management schools in combination with global knowledge exchange across the PRME community. In addition the book clearly demonstrates the background key milestones and successful achievements of PRME as a global movement by management schools in collaboration with a broader community of higher education professionals. It exemplifies action in various local geographies in PRME Chapters PRME Working Groups and the PRME Champions work to advance responsible management education. The authors of the book are all globally experienced deans professors educators executives and students with a global outlook who are united to advance responsible management education locally and globally. The book will be invaluable reading for university leaders educators business school deans and students wanting to understand and embed responsible management education approaches across their institutions and curricula. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Responsible Management Education The PRME Global Movement

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Advancing Agroecology in International Law

Advancing Agroecology in International Law

Producing enough food is a basic human priority and a critical challenge in the face of a growing population and the deteriorating ecological health of the planet. Modern agricultural practices promise to maximise the productive efficiency of available land but are one of the main drivers of agro- and biodiversity loss. Agroecology which places ecological sustainability and diversity at the heart of agriculture is one response to these challenges. It presents agriculture not only as the process through which food is produced but as a dynamic socioecological phenomenon that exists through networks comprising natural and human stakeholders at global national and subnational levels. Drawing on a combination of agroecological and legal literature this book explores where there is space in international law to pursue agroecology. Using a range of case studies it demonstrates how concepts mechanisms and regulatory approaches in the law advance and can be reformed to further advance an agroecological legal framework that allows humanity to meet its agricultural needs in a way that protects the natural and cultural diversity that is fundamental to the ecological integrity of the planet. | Advancing Agroecology in International Law

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Genetics Genomics and Breeding of Potato

Genetics Genomics and Breeding of Potato

In this volume world leaders in potato research review historical and contemporary discoveries resulting in a range of advances. Topics include nutritional quality yield disease and insect resistance processing plant growth and development and other aspects. The book also examines research yielding significant molecular resources that facilitate breeding linkage and gene mapping cytology functional and structural genomics proteomics and metabolomics. Future research developments that are likely to significantly advance efforts to understand and improve the potato are also explored. | Genetics Genomics and Breeding of Potato

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The Third Indochina Conflict

The Third Indochina Conflict

The Third Indochina Conflict (1975-) is seen by some as the escalation of a local quarrel between Vietnam and Kampuchea; others attribute it to the attempts of external powers to advance their own interests by encouraging conflict among the various Indochinese states; most agree that it is a logical-but not inevitable-consequence of the First (1946-54) and Second (1959-75) Indochinese conflicts. The contributors to this book analyze the origins and development of the Third Indochinese Conflict and the problems posed by the complex issues involved.

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Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production 1796-1918 Volume II: Humanity

Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production 1796-1918 Volume II: Humanity

This volume foregrounds humanity (in the sense of compassion or sympathy) which often supplied the motivation for medical experiment and scientific innovation. Though the results of experiments could not be known in advance often the stated goal was the reduction of suffering the cure of disease or the easement of life. Increasingly critics accused practitioners of hiding hubris behind their purported humanity and questioned whether an increasingly professional scientific community could retain its grip on the meaning of compassion. | Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production 1796-1918 Volume II: Humanity

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Research & Education in Design: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and E

Research & Education in Design: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and E

Design is about the creation of meaningful connections to solve problems and advance human wellbeing; the discipline has always explored the beneficial links between form and function technology and meaning beauty and utility people and artefacts and problems and solutions among others. This book focuses on the crucial connection between design research and design education. Contemporary society grows increasingly hyper-complex and globally competitive. This state of affairs raises fundamental questions for both Design Education and Design Research: Should research skills be integrated into undergraduate courses? How can we modify design courses without compromising the positive aspects of the educational studio experience? Can the three cycles of higher education in design be combined into a creative and inquisitive educational continuum? To examine the relationship between research and education in Design we must address the topic of knowledge keeping in mind that the development and dissemination of new and useful knowledge is the core purpose of a University. If we agree that design has its own things to know and ways to find out about them then design knowledge resides in people processes products and philosophy. This book explores the intersection of these four areas with the aim of uncovering insights to advance the current state of the design discipline. | Research & Education in Design: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and E

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Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice

Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs. The book situates digital-era problems relative to those of previous sociotechnical milieux and argues that technical advance perennially embeds corrosive effects on social relations and relations of production recognizing variation across contexts and relative to entrenched societal hierarchies of race and other axes of difference and their intersections. Societal tolerance despite abundant evidence for harmful effects of digital technologies requires attention. The book explains blindness to social injustice by technocratic thinking delivered through education as well as truths embraced in the data sciences coupled with governance in universities and the private sector that protect these truths from critique. Institutional inertia suggests benefits of communitarianism which strives for change emanating from civil society. Scaling postcapitalist communitarian values through communitybased peer production presents opportunities. However enduring problems require critical reflection continual revision of strategies and active participation among diverse community citizens. This book is written with critical geographic sensibilities for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences humanities and data sciences. | Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice

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China the UN and Human Rights Implications for World Politics

China the UN and Human Rights Implications for World Politics

Addressing the problem of reconciling China’s voting record in the UN on human rights and repressive policy at home this book argues that domestic factors determine the way the Chinese government acts on wider human rights issues. China has a very active voting record in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on human rights resolutions and is active internationally on such rights something at odds with its increasing repression of human rights at home. Using rational choice’s emphasis on actors acting to advance their preferences the author argues that it is the perceived domestic threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that determines the way the Chinese government acts on the human rights issues explored in this book. The author documents the pattern of this relationship through an in-depth examination of China’s voting in the UNGA on human rights issues and statements made by Chinese delegates in the UN on human rights issues. This book will appeal to students of China human rights international relations and international organizations and for both state and non-state actors seeking to advance policy changes regarding China and human rights. In addition the findings have policy implications for INGOs and states seeking to influence China’s policies. | China the UN and Human Rights Implications for World Politics

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World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on assessment systems and efforts to advance equity in education at a time of growing inequalities. It considers new economic trends and investigates how constraints appear to be influencing assessment and identification practices. The volume is organized around the following main issues: political motives behind the expansion of an assessment industry; the associated expansion of an SEN industry and; growth in consequential accountability systems. It ultimately seeks to provide reframings and reconceptualizations of assessment and identification by offering new insights into economic and cultural trends influencing them. | World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

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Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

This book is an accessible introduction to linguistics specifically tailored for teachers of second language/bilingual education. It guides teachers stepwise through the components of language focusing on the areas of linguistics that are most pertinent for teaching. Throughout the book there are opportunities to analyze linguistic data and discuss language-related issues in various educational and social contexts. Readers will be able to identify patterns in actual language use to inform their teaching and help learners advance to the next level. A highly readable account of how language works this book is an ideal text for teacher education courses. | Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

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