Jonathan Morris

Rob Smith

Elspeth Bain

Modern editions of a popular and trusted series.

King Lear

Author Rob Smith, a Presbyterian minister, points out general themes in the works of J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien and matches them to Biblical teachings.

Places Upon a Time

Hogwarts, Narnia, and Middle Earth

Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out As America's Favorite Black, Gay Republican

Always a Soldier

Rob Smith's poetry has been described as "accessible" and "poignant." The relationship between people and their natural surroundings permeates his work, as does his curiosity for the uniquely human aspiration of finding meaning through love, work, and imagination. His poetry has received national recognition. In 2006, he received the Robert Frost Poetry Award from the Frost Foundation of Lawrence, MA for the best poem written "in the spirit of Robert Frost." More recently, in 2011, five of his poems were adapted as lyrics in a series of art songs composed by R. Michael Daugherty. The poems of the song cycle, "Love's Shades of Gray," are included as a section in this volume. The Immigrant's House is his most complete anthology to date. It includes all of his previously published poems and many which are shared for the first time. Each poem tells a life story and explores the mystery and wonder of what it means to be human.

The Immigrant's House

Rodney Smith

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will motivate students to read. 127 Hours is the extraordinary true story of Aron Ralston who was forced to amputate his own arm after a canyoneering accident in Utah, USA.

127 Hours

David Waugh

Adam Bushnell

The Primary National Curriculum sets challenging expectations for the teaching of writing. Children must master the process of composition, redrafting, editing and writing final pieces. The book: *Provides practical advice for the teaching of writing *Demonstrates how to model writing for children *Includes examples of good classroom practice of modelling writing *Focuses on writing in different aspects of the curriculum *Provides guidance, case studies and theoretical perspectives to show readers how they can become writers with and for children The updated second edition includes: *Ideas for discussion in a seminar/staff meeting/CPD event *A new chapter enabling teachers to support children to bring their own cultures and ethnicities into their writing

A Guide for Primary Teaching

Modelling Exciting Writing

Bruce Andrews

Pete Bennett

Louise Lambert

This book invites readers to engage with the rich and complex debates of contemporary English education, outlining new possibilities to revive the teaching of English. Bringing together diverse voices and insights from educators in English across the primary, secondary, further and higher education phases, the book offers reflections and critical engagement with the lived experiences of English teachers and pupils in contemporary educational spaces. Each chapter includes example vignettes from classrooms which tell something of the story of English teaching today. The book considers how politics and policy have worked to close the opportunities of the English classroom for self-expression and critical engagement with the world – a murder. The authors then offer an exploration of the opportunities for a re-imagining of English – the murmurs of teachers and pupils that resist such closures. The chapters explore new thinking, new practices and new possibilities for English classrooms as inclusive, emancipatory, critical and creative spaces. Offering a thoughtful and hopeful dialogue from practising English teacher-researchers, the book will be essential reading for researchers and students of English language and literature education, as well as trainee teachers of English.

The Murder and the Murmur

Rethinking and Reviving Subject English

Rob Smith quantifies the financial value of Real Options in the form of operational and managerial flexibility in the real-life world of the global automotive industry using an existing, operational supply chain specifically designed to support world car vehicle platform production.

The Value of Real Options Flexibility Demonstrated in the Global Automotive Industry

Global Supply Chain Performance and Risk Optimization

Practical advice for teachers on modelling and teaching writing in the primary classroom

In 1982, George Lucas saw potential in the fledgling videogame industry and created his own interactive-entertainment company. Twenty-five years and dozens of award-winning games later, LucasArts has earned a prestigious place in the industry and in the hearts of gamers everywhere. Rogue Leaders is the first substantive survey of a videogame companya deluxe compilation that traces its history through never-before-published interviews. In addition, more than 300 pieces of concept art, character development sketches, and storyboards have been lavishly reproduced to showcase the creative talent behind such videogame classics as The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as well as games that were never publicly released. A thrill for millions of videogame and LucasArts fans around the world.

The Story of LucasArts

Rogue Leaders

In recent years, Further Education has reached a crossroads, with questions being asked about its function, aims and focus, as well as querying the role of the FE teacher, the key aspects of the curriculum and which values should inform FE pedagogy. Identity and Resistance in Further Education explores these questions and effectively conveys the sense of uncertainty that those in the field are experiencing today. Connecting Higher Education and FE practitioners and researchers, the book gathers a collection of essays covering a range of topics, including: the journey from student to teacher, critical reflective practice as a way of organising identity, values-based teacher education and policy critique. In keeping with the themes of resistance and creativity, the chapters draw on a wide range of theoretical, as well as literary, perspectives to offer answers. Problematising relationships between the teacher and the institution and the teacher and government, the book argues that the profound challenge to teachers’ values and identities finds its response in a critical collegiality. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of further education, educational policy and teacher education. It should also be essential reading for practitioners and policymakers.

Identity and Resistance in Further Education

Moonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking memoir and political commentary from a bold new voice in American politics. Before he became a war veteran and political analyst, he was a young black man who enlisted in the U.S. Army right out of high school, survived the notoriously brutal Infantry basic training, and served while remaining a closeted gay man to all but a few of his colleagues. At his first duty station, he finds himself in dangerous territory when the United States declares war on Iraq; in fact, his unit was one of the first called in after the initial invasion. Rob's experience offers a ground-level view of life on the front lines in the United States Army in an unforgettable coming-of-age story with a military twist. In addition to his memoir, Always a Soldier highlights his thoughts on current hot-button political topics like the new crop of Black Republicans and the escalating tactics of the LGBTQ community, announcing him as a voice in American politics that will be heard for years to come.

Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out as America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican

This book focuses on writing in different aspects of the curriculum and provides guidance, case studies and theoretical perspectives to show readers how they can become writers with and for children. It demonstrates how to write and model writing for children and includes many examples of good classroom practice in this area.

The Cambridge Student Guide to The Merchant of Venice provides explanatory notes and guidance to help form the basis for the understanding of the play. It is part of a new series aimed at students from 16 years upwards in schools and colleges throughout the English-speaking world. Background information provides support and prompts inquiry for advanced level study by drawing out issues and themes related to the text. The content of each book in the series follows the pattern of an introduction; detailed running commentary on the text; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips and lists of recommended resources.

Cambridge Student Guide to The Merchant of Venice

So you want to build an artificial super intelligence or a machine that is smarter than a human. To do so you will need to understand some very complex concepts in math and coding and find something from deep within yourself called innovation. If you are already designing and building an AI, then this book will help broaden the scope of your work by raising ideas and questions that you can draw on to drive toward the singularity. Taken from beyond the cutting edge of development, past the bleed edge and just beyond the life support edge, these dispatches from the trenches of advance artificial general intelligence design are sure to inspire your AI evolution. Innovation is a word that is often spoken but rarely implemented these days. It means thinking outside the box of the status quo. Not just making simple evolutionary progressions but massive jumps in thinking that lead to spectacular change. Guys like Steve Jobs and Hal Finney and even Bill Gates are innovators. Most other notable tech billionaires pale in comparison as they simply evolved the use of existing technology with very little in the way of true innovation. That is not to say that the world isn't full of innovators and great new ideas. It is. They are everywhere and most often they need to battle through a thick underbrush of stagnant dogma to earn the credentials necessary to receive the funding for their grand ideas. Many are simply too poor to receive the gift of acceptance to the Ivy League and therein a free pass to the world of Silicon Valley. That doesn't stop them. Today around the world are millions of glowing screens full of new code and software architectural ideas that can and will one day revolutionize the world. The nice thing about our time is that whatever you create online will outlive you forever. The other nice thing about the world is that one day someone may find what you leave behind and be inspired to create something life saving and earth changing. That is what this book is. It is an arc of inspiration for future generations of builders and dreamers who think outside the AI box, those who do not fear the rampart of old tech dogma and who do not fear all those that would seek to control and own all innovation or who steadfastly remain stuck in the primordial glue of the status quo. It is an arc for AI rebels.This text is for the dreamers and innovators and those who seek to live past the life support edge of technology development. I hope to inspire at least one of the millions of future Steve Jobs who sit behind those glowing screens in basements or bedrooms or small offices all around the world to dream beyond today and create a different future for our earth and our universe.So strap in a couple more brain cells and some Red Bull because some of these concepts may hurt the cranium a bit.....but remember...thinking and learning is a good pain and nothing in this writing is so complex that you cannot understand it with a few tries. The following is a series of articles on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Super Intelligence designs and architectures from beyond the life support edge of AI development that seek to build the foundation necessary to achieve the 'singularity' or the point where an artificial super intelligence achieves intellectual parity with the human mind.Enjoy and be inspired.

The Artificial Superintelligence Handbook

Artificial Intelligence is nearly ubiquitous thanks to companies like Google, Facebook and Apple who have infected our daily lives with technology like AI infused natural language processing and search right in the palm of our hands. To move beyond AI to Artificial General Intelligence and then Superintelligence, we need to think far outside the AI development box to design and build human level and eventually beyond human level cognitive AI. So what does it take to build human level cognition into a machine? It takes a brand new way of thinking about artificial intelligence because today's AI systems and infrastructure will not support a true human level cognitive superintelligence, In this edition of the Superintelligence Handbook, I discuss and detail new developments in artificial general intelligence designs specifically related to artificial cognition as well as a couple of updates to some of the content in ASIH1. I also discuss new advancements in infrastructure that supports cognitive AI. The future is both uncertain and hopeful. Humanity stands on the cusp of becoming an interstellar advanced species but only if we can survive long enough to make it to the stars. We need superintelligence and cognitive systems to save us from ourselves and help us master surviving in space. As our organization works through the sale of our cognitive AI code and IP the bad news is that it is not being sold to a US investment group. The good news is that deep within the content of this book is the blueprint of our cognitive AI machine. Safely archived for future generations.Failure is not an option but it is a high probability. Good luck and don't be evil.

Artificial Superintelligence Handbook II: Cognitive AI

Rex Gibson

Vicki Wienand

Richard Andrews

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive 'Stagecraft', 'Write about it', 'Language in the play', 'Characters' and 'Themes' features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for 'Julius Caesar' and Shakespeare. Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of 'Julius Caesar' from around the world.

Rob Smith

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