A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coast Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867, Weaver John R.

Автор: Tim Weaver
Название: Vanished
ISBN: 0241954401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241954409
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Vanished is the brilliant third instalment in the Top Ten best-selling David Raker series by Tim Weaver. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses.

Автор: Tim Weaver
Название: Fall From Grace
ISBN: 1405913460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405913461
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie leave London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seems perfect. But then their new life is shattered. Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house - and never returns.

Автор: Weaver, Burgess, Childress & Sla
Название: Transforming Institutions
ISBN: 1557537240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781557537249
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them competitive in the 21st-century workplace. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that many global issues will require creative and critical thinking deeply rooted in the technical STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines. However, the existing and ingrained structures of higher education, particularly in the STEM fields, are not set up to provide students with extensive skill development in communication, teamwork, and divergent thinking, which is needed for success in the knowledge economy.In 2011 and again in 2014, an international conference was convened to bring together university leaders, educational policymakers and researchers, and funding agency representatives to discuss the issue of institutional transformation in higher education, particularly in the STEM disciplines. Central to the issue of institutional transformation is the ability to provide new forms of instruction so that students can gain the variety of skills and depth of knowledge they will need. However, radically altering approaches to instruction sets in motion a domino effect that touches on learning space design, instructional technology, faculty training and reward structures, course scheduling, and funding models. In order for one piece to move, there must be coordinated movement in the others, all of which are part of an entrenched and interconnected system.Transforming Institutions brings together chapters from the scholars and leaders who were part of the 2011 and 2014 conferences. It provides an overview of the context and challenges in STEM higher education, contributed chapters describing programs and research in this area, and a reflection and summary of the lessons from the many authors’ viewpoints, leading to suggested next steps in the path toward transformation.

Автор: Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
Название: Birth of a Dream Weaver
ISBN: 1620972409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620972403
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "Birth of a Dream Weaver" charts the very beginnings of a writer s creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist, and novelist, just as Uganda, Kenya, Congo, and other countries were in the final throes of their independence struggles.
James Ngugi, as he was known then, is haunted by the emergency period of the previous decade in Kenya, when his friends and relatives were killed during the Mau Mau Rebellion. He is also haunted by the experience of his childhood in a polygamous family and the brave break his mother made from his father s home. Accompanied by these ghosts, Ngugi begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present.
What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is both the birth of one of the most important living writers lauded for his epic imagination ("Los Angeles Times") and the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history.
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Автор: Tim Weaver
Название: What Remains
ISBN: 1405913487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405913485
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Missing persons investigator David Raker specializes in finding the lost. Whether dead or alive, he brings home the truth to the families left behind. But there`s one person he`s never been able to save. Colm Healy was one of the Met`s best detectives until the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters consumed his career and his family.