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Marine Oiler: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)

by National Learning Corporation

The Marine Oiler Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: maintenance, repair, operation and terminology of piping systems and engines; types of oils; properties of lubrication; instrumentation and gauges; boilers; and more.

Marine Maintenance Foreman: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)

by National Learning Corporation

The Marine Maintenance Foreman Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam.

Marianthe's Story, Painted Words: Marianthe's Story, Spoken Memories

by Aliki

Two separate stories in one book, the first telling of Mari's starting school in a new land, and the second describing village life in her country before she and her family left in search of a better life.

Maria Montessori: Her Life And Work

by E. M. Standing

Maria Montessori is important background reading for parents considering Montessori education for their children, as well as for those training to become Montessori teachers. The first woman to win a degree as a Doctor of Medicine in Italy in 1896, Maria Montessori's mission to improve children's education began in the slums of Rome in 1907, and continued throughout her lifetime. Her insights into the minds of children led her to develop prepared environments and other tools and devices that have come to characterize Montessori education today. Her influence in other countries has been profound and many of her teaching methods have been adopted by educators generally. Part biography and part exposition of her ideas, this engaging book reveals through her letters and personal diaries Maria Montessori's humility and delight in the success of her educational experiments and is an ideal introduction to the principals and practices of the greatest educational pioneer of the 20th century. The new introduction to Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work by Lee Havis, executive director of the International Montessori Society, discusses the changes that have taken place in Montessori education within recent years.

Maria Montessori: A Biography

by Rita Kramer

The definitive biography of a physician, feminist, social reformer, educator, and one of the most influential, and controversial women of the 20th century. Maria Montessori effected a worldwide revolution in the classroom. She developed a new method of educating the young and inspired a movement that carried it into every corner of the world. This is the story of the woman behind the public figure—her accomplishments, her ideas, and her passions. Montessori broke the mold imposed on women in the nineteenth century and forged a new one, first for herself and eventually for those who came after her. Against formidable odds she became the first woman to graduate from the medical school of the University of Rome and then devoted herself to the condition of children considered uneducable at the time. She developed a teaching method that enabled them to do as well as normal children, a method which then led her to found a new kind of school—the Casa dei Bambini, or House of Children—which gained her worldwide fame and still pervades classrooms wherever young children learn. This biography is not only the story of a groundbreaking feminist but a vital chapter in the history of education.&“Highly recommended for educators, parents, and moderate feminists who seek inspiration from one of the most accomplished women of this or any other age.&”—Publishers Weekly

Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)

by Grazyna Kubica

This biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka (1884–1921) is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka, together with Bronisław Malinowski, studied anthropology in London and later at Oxford, then she headed the Yenisei Expedition to Siberia (1914–15) and was the first female lecturer of anthropology at Oxford. She was an engaged feminist and an expert on political issues in Northern Asia and Eastern Europe. But this remarkable woman&’s career was cut short by suicide. Like many women anthropologists of the time, Czaplicka journeyed through various academic institutions, and her legacy has been dispersed and her field materials lost. Grażyna Kubica covers the major events in Czaplicka&’s life and provides contextual knowledge about the intellectual formation in which Czaplicka grew up, including the Warsaw radical intelligentsia and the contemporary anthropology of which she became a part. Kubica also presents a critical analysis of Czaplicka&’s scientific and literary works, related to the issues of gender, shamanism, and race. Kubica shows how Czaplicka&’s sense of agency and subjectivity enriched and shaped the practice of anthropology and sheds light on how scientific knowledge arises and is produced.

Maria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice

by Kathleen Weiler

“This well-written biography of an intriguing black educator is strong on narrative, recovering Baldwin’s life from obscurity with sound scholarship” (Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, author of Making Black History).In the late nineteenth century, Maria Baldwin established a unique place for herself as a highly respected educator at a largely white New England school. She also used her social standing to advance the African American cause. As an activist, she carried on the radical spirit of the Boston area’s renowned abolitionists. In Maria Baldwin’s Worlds, Kathleen Weiler reveals both Baldwin’s victories and what fellow activist W. E. B. Du Bois called her “quiet courage” in everyday life, in the context of the wider black freedom struggle in New England.African American sociologist Adelaide Cromwell called Baldwin “the lone symbol of Negro progress in education in the greater Boston area” during her lifetime. Baldwin fought alongside more radical activists like William Monroe Trotter for full citizenship for fellow members of the black community. And, in her professional and personal life, she negotiated and challenged dominant white ideas about black womanhood.

Marginality, Migration and Education: Educational Experiences of Migrants’ Children in Zimbabwe

by Winniefridah Matsa

This book provides a missing link between marginality, migration and education in Zimbabwe, focusing on the educational experiences of migrants’ children in an effort to influence government policies concerning migrant parents and their left-behind children. While there is a large body of knowledge on the education of children of immigrants in destination countries, this book aims to fill in the gap by addressing the children who do not migrate with their parents. Through this unique approach, the book examines the education statuses of these left-behind children, offering insights into their educational challenges, rights, and inequities to better inform policy decisions to meet the 2030 education agenda for action established by the United Nations in 2015. The book will of interest and use to governments, NGOs, teachers and local communities in Africa as a resource to better understand the situation of migrants’ left-behind children as a category of vulnerable children in difficult circumstances.

Marginalised Communities in Higher Education: Disadvantage, Mobility and Indigeneity (Research into Higher Education)

by Neil Harrison Graeme Atherton

Drawing on examples from nine countries across five continents, this book offers anyone interested in the future of higher education the opportunity to understand how communities become marginalised and how this impacts on their access to learning and their ability to thrive as students. Focusing on groups that suffer directly through discriminatory practices or indirectly through distinct forms of sociocultural disadvantage, this book brings to light communities about which little has been written and where research efforts are in their relative infancy. Each chapter documents the experiences of a group and provides insights that have a wider reach and gives voice to those that are often unheard. The book concludes with a new conceptualisation of the social forces that lead to marginalisation in higher education. This cutting-edge book is a must read for higher education researchers, policy makers, and students interested in access to education, sociology of education, development studies, and cultural studies.

Marginal Worth: Teaching And The Academic Labor Market

by Lionel S. Lewis

In the American university system for most of this century, the academic reward system has been blamed for both the neglect of teaching and a glut of uninspiring research. The salaries for faculty at institutions that place special emphasis on teaching are lower than those for faculty at institutions where both teaching and research are expected. In Marginal Worth, Lionel S. Lewis examines the contemporary academic labor market to explain why teaching—which is almost universally acknowledged both off and on campus to be at the center of the American educational experience—is not at the center of the academic labor market, and why it is only modestly rewarded. The evidence collected and analyzed by Lewis suggests that this is the case because teaching is not a particularly productive activity, and its quality is hard to measure. Teaching does not generate automatic prestige, most students do not learn a great deal, and in many instances other matters absorb the attention of faculty. Fifteen anonymous academic administrators and faculty members from around the country provided Lewis with the many letters, reports, and other documents he used in his analysis. By examining the material justifying merit salary awards, he reveals how merit is defined in academia. The focus of the letters is on teaching, research, administration, and service; teaching is not always seen as central to the academic role. For several years and from all sides, American institutions of higher learning have been called to account for a variety of failures. Significantly, the one indictment most often heard is that classrooms have been abandoned for laboratories and libraries, where faculty pursue interests to further their careers. Lewis argues that restoring the balance between teaching and research is too simple a solution to the problem. We need to better understand how disciplinary and institutional reward structures affect teaching, how and why faculty allocate their tune, and why teaching appears to be neglected and underappreciated. Lewis applies tenets of the neoclassical labor market model to the academy, and considers what might be done to strike a better balance between expectations and circumstances in the academic marketplace. This candid look into the political economy of higher education will be enlightening reading for all concerned with the future of American higher education: professors, administrators, students, and parents.

Margin and Text: Amplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture

by Betsy West, Kelly Carlson-Reddig and José L.S. Gámez

A broad range of diverse voices in architecture discuss issues of equity, access, and social justice embedded in and related to the built environment.Margin and Text is a collection of essays, interviews, and personal stories, as well as historical and current writings and lectures, contributed by BIPOC and female practitioners and educators in architecture. Each piece offers reflections on architecture’s troubled past, commentary on its fluid present, and visions of possible futures, all set amid today’s context of broad social activism, divisive politics, and the devastating toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.Edited by architecture educators Betsy West, Kelly Carlson-Reddig, and José L.S. Gámez, Margin and Text draws together contributors who are widely diverse in gender, ethnicity, age, religion, culture, point of view, and the nature of their work. Each chapter features an introduction by one of the editors, followed by essays from names in the field that include:Meejin Yoon (Höweler+Yoon) on the multicultural aspirations of architectureChris Cornelius (University of New Mexico) on indigenous place and spaceJack Travis (Jack Travis Architect) on a Black aestheticAneesha Dharwadker (University of Illinois) on America's architectural diaspora Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman (Estudio Teddy Cruz+Fonna Forman) on the Mexico borderAnd more Accessible, compelling, and thought-provoking, these pieces are combined with personal snapshots, individual projects, and an overview of benchmark events such as Whitney M. Young’s historic 1968 keynote address at the AIA National Convention, the Pritzker Prize petition for Denise Scott Brown, the Alcatraz Proclamation of 1969, and the #NotMyAIA response to AIA’s pledge to work with Donald Trump following the 2016 election.Richly illustrated with more than 100 photographs throughout, this timely volume offers unique perspectives on systemic racism in the architecture and design space, making it an invaluable resource for architecture students, academics, and professionals.

Margie Kelly Breaks the Dress Code

by Bridget Farr

A timely and thought-provoking novel about one girl's fight against gender inequality at her middle school and the lessons about her own privilege she learns along the way.Margie Kelly's perfect skirt was dress coded on her very first day of middle school. Upset and embarrassed, Margie spends the whole day wearing oversized gym shorts. So much for starting sixth grade with confidence!But when Margie realizes that the dress code is only applied to the female students and not the boys, Margie gets mad. Really mad.The dress code is keeping girls stuck in detention all day and away from learning. The boys act like they own the school. And the teachers turn a blind eye to the hypocrisies taking place in the halls, classrooms, and clubs. Something has to change! And Margie knows just how to do it. She'll plan a school-wide protest with her best friend, Daniela, and fellow classmates Jamiya and Gloria.But as Margie moves forward with her plans, she comes to realize some hard truths about herself. Will Margie recognize her own privilege and make meaningful change for all students?

Margherita del Wessex: Versione per studenti e docenti (Le leggendarie donne della storia mondiale #10)

by Laurel A. Rockefeller

La storia entusiasmante di Margherita del Wessex, moglie di Malcolm III Canmore, re del regno di Alba, prende vita in questa edizione per studenti e docenti appositamente creata per l’uso in aula e a casa. Le domande si prefiggono lo scopo di favorire la comprensione del testo ed il pensiero logico durante l’apprendimento della storia. In coda al testo vengono fornite appendici relative alla computazione del tempo in epoca medievale ed una dettagliatissima cronologia della storia scozzese che comprende eventi accaduti nell’arco di circa 3000 anni. Questo libro è uno strumento indispensabile nell’ampliamento della conoscenza storica. Adatto ad un pubblico dai 12 anni in poi.

Margarida de Wessex: Edição do estudante-professor (Mulheres Legendárias da História — Livros de Estudo #10)

by Laurel A. Rockefeller

A história inspiradora de Margarida de Wessex, rainha consorte de Malcolm III Canmore de Alba, ganha vida nessa edição especial do estudante-professor —planejada para ser usada em escolas e em casa. Perguntas que induzem a compreensão da leitura, lógica e pensamento crítico se unem ao aprendizado de história para criar uma adição robusta, mas acessível, ou um ponto de referência, para aulas de estudos sociais. Apêndices no fim do livro fornecem informações que são referências-chaves, incluindo uma linha do tempo detalhada cobrindo 3.000 anos de história da Escócia. Unidades de tempo medievais são tanto explicadas nos apêndices quando aplicadas na narrativa. Um material essencial para todos os cursos de estudos sociais. Para idades 12+. 

Margaret McMillan: Portrait of a Pioneer (Routledge Library Editions: Early Years)

by Elizabeth Bradburn

A pioneer of nursery education in inner-city areas, Margaret McMillan changed the course of British educational history. While many are aware of the various social reforms she initiated, few are familiar with the life of the woman herself. Originally published in 1989, working from her own fresh collection of Margaret McMillan’s letters and newspaper articles, Dr Bradburn tells in full the inspiring story of a cultured woman who found a new motivation. Born in America into a middle-class family in 1860, Margaret McMillan spent most of her life in Britain struggling to improve the lot of the poor and needy. Outraged by the living and working conditions of labourers in Victorian England, she turned her moral indignation into effective action by throwing herself into a campaign for a more just and compassionate society. She was a colleague of Keir Hardie, a founder member of the Independent Labour Party, and worked wholeheartedly from the 1890s for the betterment and advancement of the human race. J. B. Priestley, who knew Margaret McMillan when she was a member of the Bradford School Board, later described as ‘one of those terrible nuisances who get things done and do more good than a load of bishops’. In the light of discussions on the urgent need for urban renewal and improvements in nursery education at the time of original publication, a review of the innovative work of Margaret McMillan was timely. This well-documented biography gives fascinating glimpses of a remarkable pilgrimage whose results have not been effaced by time.

Margaret Atwood: the essential guide (Vintage Living Texts #8)

by Margaret Reynolds Jonathan Noakes

In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Margaret Atwood. This guide will deal with her themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Margaret Atwood's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)

by SparkNotes

Margaret Atwood's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Margaret Atwood Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers

Mares i pares influencers: 50 eines per entendre i acompanyar adolescents d'avui

by Eva Bach Montse Jiménez

«Estàs a punt de llegir un llibre que et farà feliç.» Jaume Funes Aquest llibre s'adreça a qualsevol persona que tingui adolescents a prop i que vulgui viure més agradablement aquesta etapa de la vida, tan meravellosa com desconcertant. Mitjançant 50 idees, les autores ens mostren com obrir-nos a noves maneres d'entendre la vida, les relacions, els estudis, l'amor, la sexualitat, l'amistat, la felicitat, les emocions, els valors, les prioritats, el futur i tot un seguit de temes que ens descol·loquen perquè capgiren els nostres plantejaments. Partint de la seva experiència com a mares i educadores, així com de les aportacions de professionals de diversos àmbits, i després d'escoltar a més de 1.500 joves, l'Eva Bach i la Montse Jiménez ens ajuden a actualitzar-nos i ens ofereixen orientació i recursos per arribar als cor dels adolescents i de les adolescents, i convertir-nos així en la seva millor influència.

Mardi Gras in Kodachrome (Images of Modern America)

by Charles Cassady Jr. Mary Lynn Randall Ruth Ketcham

America's greatest party and America's most colorful city, in all their shades, shimmer here in a never-before-published 1950-1960 collection of photographs taken at New Orleans's annual Mardi Gras. Photographer Ruth Ketcham chose the revolutionary Kodachrome slide film to capture Carnival, its walking and parading krewes, bystanders, and masquers. Kodachrome's fade-resistant images preserve a bygone 1950s era, not only of Mardi Gras but also of a bustling French Quarter, alive again with Regal Beer ("Red beans and rice / And Regal on ice"), Dixieland jazz clubs, the burlesque dancers and temptations of Bourbon Street, and the shopper's paradise that was Canal Street.

Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology

by Aaron Toscano

This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values--speed, efficiency, militarization, and progress. Language surrounding the wireless is a form of technical communication, overlooked by today's practitioners. This book establishes a broader definition for technical communication by examining a selection of the discourse surrounding Marconi's wireless. The book's main themes are the following: 1) technical communication is all discourse surrounding technology, 2) the field of technical communication (or technical writing) should incorporate analyses of discourse surrounding technologies into its epistemology, 3) the wireless is a product of the society from which it comes (early twentieth-century Western civilization), and 4) the discourse surrounding the wireless is infused with tropes of progress--speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity.

Marco Frascari's Dream House: A Theory of Imagination

by Federica Goffi Marco Frascari

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead, he teaches how to build one’s own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Frascari's sketchbooks are reproduced faithfully in full colour to provide the reader with a remarkable insight into the design process of this influential mind.

Marcel's Masterpiece: How a Toilet Shaped the History of Art

by Jeff Mack

An engaging, kid-friendly introduction to artist Marcel Duchamp and how he turned a toilet into a famous work of art.This is the story of Marcel Duchamp and how the Dada art movement changed the way people thought about what art could be, and what could be art. From drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa to attaching a bicycle wheel to a stool, Duchamp's work challenged long-held notions of art and how it should be made. People were amused, confused, and sometimes offended, and that was just the way Marcel Duchamp liked it.With Marcel's Masterpiece, Jeff Mack explores Duchamp's most famous provocation, and asks readers to ponder the ideas that help us see the world in new and interesting ways.

Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?

by Laila Storch

Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United States in 1905, by Walter Damrosch, to play with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Although this posed a problem for the national musicians' union, he was ultimately allowed to stay, and the rest, as they say, is history. Eventually moving to Philadelphia, Tabuteau played in the Philadelphia Orchestra and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, ultimately revamping the oboe world with his performance, pedagogical, and reed-making techniques.In 1941, Storch auditioned for Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute, but was rejected because of her gender. After much persistence and several cross-country bus trips, she was eventually accepted and began a life of study with Tabuteau. Blending archival research with personal anecdotes, and including access to rare recordings of Tabuteau and Waldemar Wolsing, Storch tells a remarkable story in an engaging style.

Marathi Yuvakbharati class 12 - Maharashtra Board: मराठी युवकभारती इयत्ता बारावी - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड

by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Pune

मराठी युवकभारती इयत्ता बारावी हे पुस्तक महाराष्ट्र राज्य पाठ्यपुस्तक निर्मिती व अभ्यासक्रम संशोधन मंडळ, पुणे यांनी लेखन केले आहे तसेच श्री. विवेक उत्तम गोसावी यांनी हे पुस्तक मराठी भाषेमध्ये प्रकाशित केले आहे. या पाठ्यपुस्तकात सहा विभाग आहेत. पहिल्या दोन विभागातील गद्य-पद्यपाठांच्या माध्यमातून नामवंत साहित्यिकांच्या साहित्यिक कृतींचा परिचय करून घेता घेता त्या साहित्यांमधील संस्काराने भाषा ही उत्तरोत्तर समृद्ध होत जाईल. हे साहित्य तुमच्या वैचारिक आणि कल्पनाशक्तीच्या विकासासाठी उपयुक्त ठरेल. या साहित्यामधील आशय तुम्हांला आजच्या जीवनातील समस्यांची जाणीव करून देईल तसेच साहित्यिक कृतींमधील सौंदर्याचा आनंद घेत आपले जीवन अनुभवसमृद्ध करण्याचा वस्तुपाठही तुम्हांला मिळेल. चित्रांमुळे पाठ्यपुस्तकाचे स्वरूप अधिक आकर्षक झाले आहे. त्यामुळे आशयाचे आकलन अर्थपूर्ण आणि सुलभ होण्यास मदत होईल.

Marathi Yuvakbharati class 11 - Maharashtra Board: मराठी युवकभारती इयत्ता अकरावी - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड

by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Pune

मराठी युवकभारती इयत्ता अकरावी हे पुस्तक महाराष्ट्र राज्य पाठ्यपुस्तक निर्मिती व अभ्यासक्रम संशोधन मंडळ, पुणे यांनी लेखन केले आहे तसेच श्री. विवेक उत्तम गोसावी यांनी हे पुस्तक मराठी भाषेमध्ये प्रकाशित केले आहे. या पाठ्यपुस्तकात पाच विभाग आहेत. या पाठ्यपुस्तकातून विविध साहित्यप्रकारांची ओळख तर होणार आहेच, शिवाय अनेक जुन्या-नव्या साहित्यिकांची लेखनशैली तुम्हांला अभ्यासता येणार आहे. साहित्यप्रकार म्हणून 'नाटक' या साहित्यप्रकाराचा थोडक्यात परिचय आणि तीन नाट्यउतारे पाठ्यपुस्तकात दिले आहेत. 'दृक्-श्राव्य साहित्यप्रकार' याचा अभ्यास करणार आहात. पुस्तकात व्याकरण घटकांची मांडणी कार्यात्मक पद्धतीने केली आहे. उपयोजित लेखन विभागात अंतर्भूत केलेले घटक हे कालसुसंगत असून, या घटकांच्या अध्ययनातून अनेक व्यावसायिक संधी तुमच्या दृष्टिक्षेपात येऊ शकतील.

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