Authors:David Kember, Rosa Ma, Carmel McNaught,
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Keywords: teaching, university, excellent
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 9629962675
ISBN-13: 9789629962678

The book is based on interviews with eighteen teachers of The Chinese University of Hong Kong who have been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award of the University. They shared their valuable experiences on all aspects of teaching from planning, teaching methods, to course material preparation, and how to motivate students. These experiences are indeed the elucidation of the principles of excellent teaching. Theories on excellent teaching and implications of the principles are also dealt with here.

Author: Sarah Kember
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: life, artificial, cyberfeminism
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-12-30
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415240271
ISBN-13: 9780415240277

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information, tracing this through the new biology and the changing discipline of artificial life and its manifestation in art, language, literature, commerce and entertainment. From cloning to computer games, and incorporating an analysis of hardware, software and ’wetware’, Sarah Kember demonstrates how this relatively marginal field connects with, and connects up global networks of

Authors:Simon Popple, Joe Kember,
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Keywords: factory, cuts, short, gate, cinema, dream
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-02
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1903364582
ISBN-13: 9781903364581

Ths book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject. It explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established itself as the leading form of visual culture among rapidly expanding global media, emerging from a rich tradition of scientific, economic, entertainment and educational practices and quickly developing as a worldwide institution.

Authors:David Jessop, David Jones, Peter Baily, David Farmer,
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Keywords: management, principles, purchasing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-01-13
List price: $89.50
ISBN-10: 0273646893
ISBN-13: 9780273646891

Providing a proactive managerial view of the purchasing function, this text meets the needs of the modern manager as a practical guide and satisfies the requirements of students of purchasing management, whether functional, specialist or general. Suitable for undergraduate Business or Engineering students taking a module in Purchasing and Supplies Management, MBA and CIPS students.

Authors:Joyce E. Penner, David Lister, David J. Griggs, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: report, special, atmosphere, global, aviation
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521664047
ISBN-13: 9780521664042

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report is the most comprehensive assessment available on the effects of aviation on the global atmosphere. The report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft that modify the chemical properties of the atmosphere, leading to changes in radiative properties and climate change, and modification of the ozone layer, leading to changes in ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth. This volume provides accurate, unbiased, policy-relevant information and is designed to serve the aviation industry and the expert and policymaking

Authors:David Wray, David Lee, Andrew Clark, David Stenhouse,
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: surgery, oral, general, textbook
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-08-28
List price: $92.95
ISBN-10: 0443070830
ISBN-13: 9780443070839

This practical resource helps readers arrive at an integrated understanding of both general and oral surgery — in one convenient text. A companion to Wray: Textbook of General and Oral Medicine, it provides the basic principles of general surgery and general medicine and a more detailed knowledge of certain areas of these specialties which are related to dentistry or have an influence on the practice of dentistry.

Authors:David Broughton, David Denver, David Farrell, Colin R
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: yearbook, parties, elections, british
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0714642436
ISBN-13: 9780714642437

This volume looks at the political events and discusses the major issues of 1994, most notably the European parliament elections.