David Watson

Contends that genuine engagement, with the community and with civil society, can be uncertain and risky, but that it plays an essential role in managing higher education institutions. This book provides key reading for people interested in equity and diversity in higher education, including those studying aspects of higher education management.

Examines how universities and colleges should go about satisfying legitimate external and internal requirements for their corporate plans. This book demonstrates how the academy has to adapt to meet the needs of its changing host society as well as of a diverse and plural internal community, whilst maintaining a range of historical commitments.

Bereits im Vorwort zu Band XVII l dieses Handbuches wurde darauf hingewiesen, wie sehr die Moglichkeit der Strahlentherapie durch die EinfUhrung der in Beschleunigern erzeugten ultraharten Strahlungen und die Anwendung der von kunstlichen Radio­ nukliden ausgehenden Strahlungen erweitert worden sind. Der vorerwahnte Band beschrankte sich auf die...

The 2001 International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2001, www.iccbr.org/iccbr01), the fourth in the biennial ICCBR series (1995 in Sesimbra, Portugal; 1997 in Providence, Rhode Island (USA); 1999 in Seeon, Germany), was held during 30 July – 2 August 2001 in Vancouver, Canada. ICCBR is the premier international forum for researchers...

Twenty-nine experts from a wide variety of fields and institutions have come together to offer a renewed vision for the value of a distinctly Christian approach to higher education.

Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America  is a vibrant and eclectic collection of essays written during the most racially turbulent period of the modern era – the end of the Obama Administration and the start of the Trump Administration – that examine emerging racial tensions, current movements and controversies, black icons and...

The whole country must be full of ghosts, the whole world. And we live in constant fear of them. All of us. I'm haunted by ghosts, you see. And I think I'll never be free of them. Helen Alving spent years creating the illusion of a happy marriage to a successful, charming man. Long after his death, she is still trapped by the emotional...

A hopeful young man, a teacher in love, a pregnant woman. A fearful policeman, a boy on a mission, a pianist in the rain. A wounded man, a grandmother. . . and Vincent. Nine lives fractured by the events of one tragic day. 'David Watson is a remarkable writer - he writes with searing accuracy and without any shrill moralising.' Sunday Times ...

Jonathan's eighteen. Bright boy. Great future. People expect things... Especially now that his dad's walked out, his mum's got her career and Danny needs looking after. Danny - his brother with Down's syndrome and a love of creative swearing. But Jonathan's best friend needs him too. It's hard work burgling houses all on your own... A lot can...

This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference/guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for both beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners. The text illustrates the breadth of the modeling and analysis capabilities that are supported...