Search Results - "The Critic"

The race for what's left : the global scramble for the world's last resources /

Table of Contents: “…Driven by depletion -- Deep-offshore oil and gas -- Invading the Arctic -- Tar sands, shale gas, and other unconventional hydrocarbons -- Mining's new frontiers -- Rare earths and other critical minerals -- Global "land grabs" and the struggle for food -- Shaping the course of history.…”
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Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / by Fisher, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Text complexity is the new black: -- Text complexity defined -- Revisiting how we match readers and texts -- Text complexity and the common core state standards -- The case for struggle -- Conclusion -- Quantitative measures of text complexity: -- Word-level analysis -- Sentence-level analysis --Conventional readability formulas -- Readability formulas that also measure readers -- Measuring coreference and cohesion -- Cautions and criticism of readability formulas -- Readability for early readers -- Conclusion -- Qualitative measures of text complexity: -- Considerate texts -- But not all texts are considerate -- Levels of meaning and purpose -- Structure -- Language conventionality and clarity -- Knowledge demands -- Returning to the hunger games, qualitatively -- Cautions and criticisms of qualitative analysis of text complexity -- Conclusion -- Matching readers to texts and tasks: -- Exploring the reader -- Exploring the task -- Exploring the question -- Shifting expectations -- Cautions and criticisms of matching readers with texts and tasks -- Conclusion -- A close reading of complex texts: Close reading -- Close reading up close in fourth grade : "post-it-notes" -- Close reading up close in ninth grade : "The road not taken" -- Conclusion.…”

Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / by Fisher, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Text complexity is the new black: -- Text complexity defined -- Revisiting how we match readers and texts -- Text complexity and the common core state standards -- The case for struggle -- Conclusion -- Quantitative measures of text complexity: -- Word-level analysis -- Sentence-level analysis --Conventional readability formulas -- Readability formulas that also measure readers -- Measuring coreference and cohesion -- Cautions and criticism of readability formulas -- Readability for early readers -- Conclusion -- Qualitative measures of text complexity: -- Considerate texts -- But not all texts are considerate -- Levels of meaning and purpose -- Structure -- Language conventionality and clarity -- Knowledge demands -- Returning to the hunger games, qualitatively -- Cautions and criticisms of qualitative analysis of text complexity -- Conclusion -- Matching readers to texts and tasks: -- Exploring the reader -- Exploring the task -- Exploring the question -- Shifting expectations -- Cautions and criticisms of matching readers with texts and tasks -- Conclusion -- A close reading of complex texts: Close reading -- Close reading up close in fourth grade : "post-it-notes" -- Close reading up close in ninth grade : "The road not taken" -- Conclusion.…”

Liver let die / by Lipperman, Liz

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Healing grief, finding peace : 101 ways to cope with the death of your loved one / by LaGrand, Louis E.

Table of Contents: “…How you can ease the hurt and heartache -- What you need to know about grief and healing -- Gifts that will get you through any loss -- The critical overlooked factor : resilience -- Inner-strength healing strategies -- Powerful long-term healing strategies -- Little-used but highly effective healing strategies.…”

Opening the door of your heart and other Buddhist tales of happiness by Brahmawanso himi, Ajahn

Table of Contents: “…Creating happiness. 06. Critical problems and their compassionate solutions. 07. …”

History and human values : a Chinese perspective for world science and technology / by Needham, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Psychology and scientific thought in East and West : a critical evaluation of Martin Wickramasinghe's The Buddhist Jataka stories and the Russian novel 3. …”

Aspects of Sinhalese Culture / by Wickramasinghe, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Primitive elements in our folk culture A lost phase of Buddhist art The development of the Buddha statue in Ceylon A masterpiece in Sculpture Indian Sculpture and Victorian prejudices Isurumuniya lovers ; A poem in the language of gesture The human grimace in Polonnaruva Sculpture Sinhalese masks Some critical terms in Sanskrit poetics Cultural conflict in Ceylon....…”

Education in colonial Ceylon : being a research study on the history of education in Ceylon for the period 1796 to 1834 / by Ruberu, T. Ranjit

Table of Contents: “…1. A critical examination of education in Pre-British Ceylon. 2. …”

Investigating the Dhamma : a collection of papers by Bodhi, Bhikkhu

Table of Contents: “…Anatta as strategy and ontology 4. A critical examination of Nanavira Thera's"A note on paticcasamuppada" 5. …”

Networks without a cause : a critique of social media / by Lovink, Geert

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: capturing Web 2.0 before its disappearance -- Psychopathology of information overload -- Facebook, anonymity, and the crisis of the multiple self -- Treatise on comment culture -- Disquisition on Internet criticism -- Media studies: diagnostics of a failed merger -- Blogging after the hype: Germany, France, Iraq -- Radio after radio: from pirate to Internet experiments -- Online video aesthetics or the art of watching databases -- Society of the query: the Googlization of our lives -- Organizing networks in culture and politics -- Techno-politics at WikiLeaks.…”

Sahityaya : literary volume - 2023/

Table of Contents: “…Martin Wickramasinghe the Critic: Multiculturalist or Sinhala Buddhist Nationalist? …”

The value of dissent 5

Table of Contents: “…Jailed for the truth - Vaclav Havel 7. The importance of criticism and discussion - Wei Jingsheng 8. When laws become immoral - Bram Fischer (1908 - 1975) 9. …”

Sinhala language and culture by Wickramasinghe, Martin, 1890-1976

Table of Contents: “…Modern India and the Buddhist Critical Tradition. 7. Culture and Language. 8. Political and Cultural Independence. 9. …”

Coomaraswamy : his life and work Vol 3 / by Lipsey, Roger

Table of Contents: “…The Writings of 1932-1947 : A Critical Survey 14. 1932-1947 : The World of a Scholar 15. …”

Vigilante / by Cannell, Stephen J.

Beef stolen-off / by Lipperman, Liz

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Corporate dreams big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / by Hoopes, James

Table of Contents: “…-- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at general motors -- Critics of managerial character -- JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- The corporation in the wilderness again -- McNamara and the staffers -- The false confidence of the anti-corporatists -- Corporate America loses world supremacy -- Laying the groundwork for the corporation's cultural comeback -- Leadership -- Managing by values -- Creating the concept of corporate culture -- Inventing the leadership development industry -- Reagan aids corporations by bashing government -- Entrepreneurship -- Supply siders versus the big corporation -- Reengineering the corporation -- George W. …”

Echo : a collection of selected articles on western classical culture by Jayasekera, Kamani

Table of Contents: “…A comparatives study between women depicted as victims of by the Greek and Roman epic poets 2. A Critical Examination of Plato's ideas on imitation and inspiration in literature 3. …”

විද්‍යාර්ථි : මංගල කලාපය

Vidyarathi : mangala kalapaya

Table of Contents: “…පෞරුෂ සංකල්පය පිළිබඳ බෞද්ධ විග්‍රහය 9. A critical analysis of Anatapindika Sutta and its utility for the relief of physical pain 10. …”