Developments in Higher Education (Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World)
This important book presents the latest research from around the globe on the developments in higher education in areas such as interteaching, the socio-economic demand for higher education, improving visual teaching materials, online learning, anthropology of education, etc. The phenomenal expansion of higher education systems in the second half of the twentieth century has resulted in an interest in the factors influencing the decision of young people to pursue tertiary education.
Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400
This introduction to classical rhetoric as it was practised in the Hellenistic period (330 BC - AD 400) describes and analyzes the standard categories of thought, terminology, and the theoretical and historical developments of classical rhetoric.
Knocking on Heavens Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
From one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, a rousing defense of the role of science in our lives The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven’s Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.
A Portrait of the Visual Arts - Meeting the Challenges of a New Era
The third in a series that examines the state of the arts in America, this analysis shows, in addition to lines around the block for special exhibits, well-paid superstar artists, flourishing university visual arts programs, and a global expansion of collectors, developments in the visual arts also tell a story of rapid, even seismic change, systemic imbalances, and dislocation.
This book surveys the profound and far-reaching ramifications that have arisen from the very significant advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of familial breast and ovarian cancer. Written by international experts from Europe and North America, it provides the busy clinician with a contemporary and wide-ranging guide to the latest developments in the diagnosis, genetics, screening, prevention and management of familial breast and ovarian cancer.
