Author: Marilee Sprenger File Type: pdf Offers simple strategies to help students improve their memory and make their learning permanent. Brain research is much in the news, but what is its relevance in the classroom? Are there ways to take what brain researchers are discovering about learning and memory and apply it to the situations that educators face every day? Practicing teacher and author Marilee Sprenger tells how to do just that in this book. Sprenger has spent years studying neurological research and training other educators in brain-compatible teaching methods. This background, combined with her long career as a classroom teacher, has given her priceless knowledge of what works in a multitude of classroom situations. Current brain research is as amazing as it can be confusing. This book discusses in plain terms the structure, function, and development of the human brain. The author describes the five memory lanes--Semantic, episodic, procedural, automatic, and emotional--and tells how they function in learning and memory. She offers dozens of practical suggestions for teaching and assessing in brain-compatible ways. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the book offers valid, usable, What you can do on Monday ideas to incorporate into the classroom. This is an approach to brain research that educators at all levels can apply in their daily work.

Author: John B. Alexander File Type: epub Foreword by Jacques F. ValleeIntroduction by Burt RutanCommentary by Tom ClancyA never-before-heard firsthand account of a government insiders experience on the cutting edge of UFO exploration ** ** While still on active duty in the U.S. Army during the 1980s, Colonel John B. Alexander, Ph.D., created an interagency group to explore the controversial topic of UFOs. Participants came from the Army, Navy, Air Force, CIA, NSA, DIA, and the aerospace industry. All members held Top Secret clearance. What they discovered was not at all what was expected. UFOs covers the numerous cases they saw, and answers questions like What was really in Hanger 18? Did a UFO land at Holloman Air Force Base? What happened at Roswell? What is Majestic 12? What is the Aviary? What does the government know about UFOs? What has happened with disclosure in other countries? Has the U.S. reverse engineered a UFO? Why dont presidents get access to UFO info? UFOs is at once a complete account of Alexanders findings, and a call to action. There are no conspiracy theories hereonly hard factsbut they are merely the beginning. Serious research is needed in order to understand and anticipate the workings of UFOs, and John Alexander is leading the charge.**From Publishers WeeklyA former Green Beret commander and developer of weapons at Los Alamos, N.Mex., Alexander reviews major events in UFO history, finding both facts and flaws The gulf between the publics opinion of UFOs and what most scientists believe regarding them is cavernous. During the 1980s, Alexander organized an interagency group to explore the evidence, with participants from the military, CIA, and aerospace industry examining classic cases, including Roswell the Gulf Breeze, Fla., photos and unexplained incidents occurring within the U.S. strategic defense systems (such as sightings by NORAD installations), plus claims of reverse engineering on captured crafts the Phoenix Lights, which Arizonas governor at the time admitted witnessing and the documented radiation poisoning suffered by Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum after their reported 1980 encounter near Houston. Alexander succeeds in separating solid facts and credible witnesses from the myths and conspiracy theorists. Determining that UFOs, while real, are beyond current comprehension, he sees the extraterrestrial hypothesis as too narrow. UFOs remain an enigma, he concludes, since every time we think we have an answer, new observations make the problem more complex. 8 pages of b&w photos. (Feb.) (c) PWxyz, LLC. ReviewPraise for UFOsAlexander succeeds in separating solid facts and credible witnesses from the myths and conspiracy theorists. --Publishers WeeklyJohn Alexander is the real deal. He doesnt just talk the talk - hes walked the walk. Heres a man with a top secret security clearance who researched the UFO phenomenon and discussed it at the highest levels, in the shadowy world of military and intelligence which hes inhabited for decades. Forget everything you think you know about UFOs - this insiders account exposes the reality. And its a reality that will come as a big surprise. Packed with top grade information, insightful analysis and fascinating anecdotes, Alexanders interesting and controversial book sets the gold standard for titles on this subject. Nick Pope, author of Open Skies, Closed MindsUFOs Myths, Conspiracies and Realities changes the playing field for both true believers and skeptics alike. Alexander notes disclosure has already happened, and what is really wanted is conformation. He strongly warns, be careful what you wish for when asking for presidential intervention. Success could set the field of ufology back decades. --George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM In these pages, Dr. Alexander describes the ultimate exploration of the governments UFO secrets that of an insider with the clearances and credentials to discover the truth. And the truth that he has discovered is deeply shocking somebody--or something--is certainly here, but we have no ongoing response to this mysterious presence at all. Irrefutable cases confirm a UFO reality, but, at best, official response has been sketchy and no effort has been made at all to determine whether or not this reality represents a threat to the people of earth. For anybody interested in the UFO mystery, or concerned about the human futur...

Author: Leigh Claire La Berge File Type: pdf As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalization, neoliberalism, and financialization, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands upon literature, art, and mass media to develop strategies of representation that can account for capitalisms power. Reading Capitalist Realism presents some of the latest and most sophisticated approaches to the question of the relation between capitalism and narrative form, partly by questioning how the realism of austerity, privatization, and wealth protection relate to the realism of narrative and cultural production. Even as critics have sought to locate a new aesthetic mode that might consider and move beyond theorizations of the postmodern, this volume contends that narrative realism demands renewed scrutiny for its ability to represent capitalisms latest scenes of enclosure and indebtedness. Ranging across fiction, nonfiction, television, and film, the essays collected here explore to what extent realism is equipped to comprehend and historicize our contemporary economic moment and what might be the influence or complicity of the literary in shaping the global politics of lowered expectations. Including essays on writers such as Mohsin Hamid, Lorrie Moore, Jess Walter, J. M. Coetzee, James Kelman, Ali Smith, Russell Banks, William Vollmann, and William Gibson, as well as examinations of Hollywood film productions and The Wire television series, Reading Capitalist Realism calls attention to a resurgence of realisms across narrative genres and questions realisms ability to interrogate the crisis-driven logic of political and economic common sense.**

Author: Alan Ryan File Type: epub A lucid introduction to the philosophical complexities and the practical limits of the political thought of Karl Marx.When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was above all a revolutionary. For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not enough the point of politics and philosophy was not to diagnose human society but to change it. According to Marx, history was defined by class conflict, with the state heretofore existing as a medium through which the ruling classes can exploit the labor of the productive classes. Only through revolution could true self-government be achieved with the ultimate goal of achieving a stateless, self-administering society free of coercive law, police, and military forces. Marx spent most of his adult life dedicated to uniting the radical working-class movements of Europe around this central idea. In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marxs political and economic philosophy within the Victorian context of Marxs own life and times as well as glancing forward to the uses and abuses of his ideas by his many successors. Tracing Marxs influences from Hegel to Feuerbach, from French socialism to British political economy, and documenting his ideological battles with his contemporaries, Ryan provides a sterling explication and critique of Marxs theories of alienation, surplus value, class struggle, and revolution. Situating Marx into the framework of everyday politics is never easy, but this one volume provides the clearest, most accessible introduction to Marxs theories in recent years.On Marx Revolutionary and Utopian features a chronology of Karl Marxs life an introduction and text by Alan Ryan that provides crucial context and cogent analysis key excerpts from Notes on James Mill, The German Ideology, Theses on Feuerbach, The Communist Manifesto, Capital, The Civil War in France, and Critique of the Gotha Program**