Author: Spike Milligan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0670920789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life, Milligan wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts. From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.
Open Heart University
Author:
Publisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A collection of poems, some perceptive, compassionate, outraged, angry, kind, bitter, wounded and tender as well as comical and zany_
Publisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A collection of poems, some perceptive, compassionate, outraged, angry, kind, bitter, wounded and tender as well as comical and zany_
Open Knowledge Institutions
Author: Lucy Montgomery
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262365162
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto. In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with principles of openness at their center and working across boundaries and with broad communities to generate shared knowledge resources for the benefit of humanity. Calling on universities to adopt transparent protocols for the creation, use, and governance of these resources, the authors draw on cutting-edge theoretical work, offer real-world case studies, and outline ways to assess universities’ attempts to achieve openness. Digital technologies have already brought about dramatic changes in knowledge format and accessibility. The book describes further shifts that open knowledge institutions must make as they move away from closed processes for verifying expert knowledge and toward careful, mediated approaches to sharing it with wider publics. It examines these changes in terms of diversity, coordination, and communication; discusses policy principles that lay out paths for universities to become fully fledged open knowledge institutions; and suggests ways that openness can be introduced into existing rankings and metrics. Case studies—including Wikipedia, the Library Publishing Coalition, Creative Commons, and Open and Library Access—illustrate key processes.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262365162
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto. In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with principles of openness at their center and working across boundaries and with broad communities to generate shared knowledge resources for the benefit of humanity. Calling on universities to adopt transparent protocols for the creation, use, and governance of these resources, the authors draw on cutting-edge theoretical work, offer real-world case studies, and outline ways to assess universities’ attempts to achieve openness. Digital technologies have already brought about dramatic changes in knowledge format and accessibility. The book describes further shifts that open knowledge institutions must make as they move away from closed processes for verifying expert knowledge and toward careful, mediated approaches to sharing it with wider publics. It examines these changes in terms of diversity, coordination, and communication; discusses policy principles that lay out paths for universities to become fully fledged open knowledge institutions; and suggests ways that openness can be introduced into existing rankings and metrics. Case studies—including Wikipedia, the Library Publishing Coalition, Creative Commons, and Open and Library Access—illustrate key processes.
Open Access
Author: Peter Suber
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262517639
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262517639
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.
The Best 387 Colleges, 2022
Author: The Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
ISBN: 0525570829
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Make sure you’re preparing with the most up-to-date materials! Look for The Princeton Review’s newest edition of this book, The Best 388 Colleges, 2023 Edition (ISBN: 9780593450963, on-sale August 2022). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
Publisher: Princeton Review
ISBN: 0525570829
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Make sure you’re preparing with the most up-to-date materials! Look for The Princeton Review’s newest edition of this book, The Best 388 Colleges, 2023 Edition (ISBN: 9780593450963, on-sale August 2022). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
Building the Intentional University
Author: Stephen M. Kosslyn
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536196
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536196
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.
The Historic Heart of Oxford University
Author: Geoffrey Tyack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851245284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Oxford's university buildings are world-famous. Over eight centuries, starting in the twelfth century, the University - the third oldest in Europe - gradually occupied a substantial portion of the city, creating in the process a unique townscape containing the Bodleian Library, the Sheldonian Theatre and the Radcliffe Camera. This book tells the story of the growth of the forum universitatis - as the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor called it - and relates it to the broader history of the University and the city. Based on up-to-date scholarship, and drawing upon the author's own research into Oxford's architectural history and the work of Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, James Gibbs and Giles Gilbert Scott, each of the eight chapters focuses on the gestation, creation and subsequent history of a single building, or pair of buildings, relating them to developments in the University's intellectual and institutional life, and to broader themes in architectural and urban history. Accessible and well-illustrated with plans, archival prints and specially commissioned photography, this book will appeal to anyone who wishes to understand and enjoy Oxford's matchless architectural heritage.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851245284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Oxford's university buildings are world-famous. Over eight centuries, starting in the twelfth century, the University - the third oldest in Europe - gradually occupied a substantial portion of the city, creating in the process a unique townscape containing the Bodleian Library, the Sheldonian Theatre and the Radcliffe Camera. This book tells the story of the growth of the forum universitatis - as the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor called it - and relates it to the broader history of the University and the city. Based on up-to-date scholarship, and drawing upon the author's own research into Oxford's architectural history and the work of Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, James Gibbs and Giles Gilbert Scott, each of the eight chapters focuses on the gestation, creation and subsequent history of a single building, or pair of buildings, relating them to developments in the University's intellectual and institutional life, and to broader themes in architectural and urban history. Accessible and well-illustrated with plans, archival prints and specially commissioned photography, this book will appeal to anyone who wishes to understand and enjoy Oxford's matchless architectural heritage.
Milligan's Meaning of Life
Author: Spike Milligan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0670920789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life, Milligan wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts. From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0670920789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life, Milligan wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts. From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.
Shades Of Green
Author: Anne Harvey
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448120063
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A wide-ranging collection of nature poems for children, chosen by Anne Harvey. This is the perfect collection for introducing children to the magic of poetry. Includes poems from Thomas Hardy, Spike Milligan, Laurie Lee, Ian Serraillier, John Betjemen, William Blake, Geoffery Chaucer, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, Helen Dunmore, and many more.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448120063
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A wide-ranging collection of nature poems for children, chosen by Anne Harvey. This is the perfect collection for introducing children to the magic of poetry. Includes poems from Thomas Hardy, Spike Milligan, Laurie Lee, Ian Serraillier, John Betjemen, William Blake, Geoffery Chaucer, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, Helen Dunmore, and many more.
Rowing News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Athletic $Cholarship Eligibility Coach
Author: Marlynn R. Jones Esquire
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469787563
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
IMPLEMENTING THE ELIGIBILITY COACH'S GAME PLAN MAY SAVE YOU THOUSANDS! Knowing one simple mistake can turn a scholarship celebration into a frantic search for $15,000-$60,000 to finance the first year of college, Marlynn Jones serves as a personal coach through the maze of legislation involved in acquiring a college athletic scholarship. Eligibility Coach addresses the Top 21 Common Mistakes made during the Certification Process, and answers these important questions: - What is Amateurism Certification? - What core courses are required for Certification? - How does the sliding scale work? - How to transfer between schools and be eligible to compete? - Are there additional requirements for International Students? "Eligibility Coach provides a much needed resource for athletic directors, coaches and counselors to use for student-athletes in preparing them for NCAA and NAIA eligibility certification. This coaching guide needs to be implemented sooner rather than later." Dr. Jason Pappas, Assistant Director of Athletics for Student-Athlete Services, Florida State University "The Eligibility Coach helped us understand NCAA regulations and timelines as well as prepared us for both official and home visits. We knew what to expect throughout the process, and what questions to ask. After considering offers in gymnastics from several Division I universities, our daughter accepted a full athletic scholarship and is a Dean's List student competing for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was recently admitted to medical school and received a 2012 Post-Graduate Scholarship Award from the Atlantic Coast Conference [ACC]." Darrell and Tedra Brown, Gymnastics Parents in North Carolina If you are looking for a blueprint on how to transition from high school to college athletics, search no further. Eligibility Coach is an easy-to-read how-to guide regarding athletic scholarships that every high school coach, athletic director, and parent must have." Kenny Williamson, Assistant General Manager, Memphis Grizzlies
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469787563
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
IMPLEMENTING THE ELIGIBILITY COACH'S GAME PLAN MAY SAVE YOU THOUSANDS! Knowing one simple mistake can turn a scholarship celebration into a frantic search for $15,000-$60,000 to finance the first year of college, Marlynn Jones serves as a personal coach through the maze of legislation involved in acquiring a college athletic scholarship. Eligibility Coach addresses the Top 21 Common Mistakes made during the Certification Process, and answers these important questions: - What is Amateurism Certification? - What core courses are required for Certification? - How does the sliding scale work? - How to transfer between schools and be eligible to compete? - Are there additional requirements for International Students? "Eligibility Coach provides a much needed resource for athletic directors, coaches and counselors to use for student-athletes in preparing them for NCAA and NAIA eligibility certification. This coaching guide needs to be implemented sooner rather than later." Dr. Jason Pappas, Assistant Director of Athletics for Student-Athlete Services, Florida State University "The Eligibility Coach helped us understand NCAA regulations and timelines as well as prepared us for both official and home visits. We knew what to expect throughout the process, and what questions to ask. After considering offers in gymnastics from several Division I universities, our daughter accepted a full athletic scholarship and is a Dean's List student competing for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was recently admitted to medical school and received a 2012 Post-Graduate Scholarship Award from the Atlantic Coast Conference [ACC]." Darrell and Tedra Brown, Gymnastics Parents in North Carolina If you are looking for a blueprint on how to transition from high school to college athletics, search no further. Eligibility Coach is an easy-to-read how-to guide regarding athletic scholarships that every high school coach, athletic director, and parent must have." Kenny Williamson, Assistant General Manager, Memphis Grizzlies