New Releases by Alan Robinson

This book examines the methods, materials, outcomes, and technologies of past literacy practice, with special focus on the teaching of reading comprehension. The book presents a study of published texts on reading comprehension instruction in America in the "preresearch" period (1783-1910), as well as published research reports from 1910 through 1987. The book argues that many of the trends in comprehension instruction can be traced to developments in American psychology and looks at future directions for both the practitioner and the researcher. A review of all the studies focused on reading comprehension instruction discussed in the book and an alphabetical listing by author of each study are included in the appendixes. (KEH)

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

Classroom tested with both normal and disabled learners, this structured system was written to help even the most difficult-to-teach students in all grades. Provides sample lessons and worksheets that demonstrate how to tap the inner resources of every student. Helps students categorize information, compare and contrast objects, explain cause-and-effect relationships, describe time-related events, and more. Students learn how to think, read, and write in paragraph units. Over 100 ready-to-use activities.

Conference report on employment policies in developing countries, illustrated by a case study of the constraints on employment creation in India - examines underemployment of rural workers, capital worker ratios, inflation, balance of payments as obstacles to the expansion of employment opportunity; discusses the impact of capital intensive industrialization and agricultural development on poverty, economic planning objectives, etc. References and statistical tables. Conference held in Puna 1983?

The second edition of "Race and Ethnicity: The United States and the World" continues its legacy as an introductory survey text covering the basic concepts and research of theoretical issues and empirical studies of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and throughout the world. Through state of the art chapters, Dr. Scupin introduces the concepts of race, the fallacies of scientific racism, and theoretical perspectives on ethnicity -- followed by fourteen chapters that detail the empirical findings of anthropologists on race and ethnicity in the U.S. and the world. Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text +MySearchLab (at no additional cost).

Uses context clues to unlock word meanings and build students'' content-area vocabulary.

Logic: form and content; Formulas: syntax and intuitive semantics; Boolean analysis of sentences; Infinitive finitary trees and boolean compactness; Semantic analysis of sentences and terms; Logical consequence: sequents and proofs; Logical equivalence: substitutivity and variants; Normal forms of sentences and sequents; Herbrand models and maps; Quad notation for clausal sequents; Unification; Resolution; Resolution on the computer; Historical notes; Appedix; Index.

"This book is concerned primarily with placing before the New Zealand public the results of a survey of the political orientations of New Zealanders conducted immediately after the 1975 general election ..." -- Preface (page 1).