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Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities

Crowds, Communities and Co-production

by Stuart Dunn, Mark Hedges ...

Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries. Crowdsourcing projects in the humanities have, for the most part, focused on the generation or ... Read more

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Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries. Crowdsourcing projects in the humanities have, for the most part, focused on the generation or
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Oxford Bookworms Library Level 4: The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Patrick Nobes, Jennifer Bassett, Tricia Hedge ...

Series Book 4 - Oxford Bookworms Library
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog – a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person – the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock ... Read more

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Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog – a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person – the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock
... Read more
Friendly Fascism

The New Face of Power in America

by Bertram Gross ...

Series Book 18 - Forbidden Bookshelf
A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called "the best thing I've ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically."In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent ... Read more

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A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called "the best thing I've ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically."In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent
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Fun and Games with the Totterings

by Annie Tempest ...

Annie Tempest has been called a national treasure for her much-lauded and internationally loved cartoon strip about a fictitious English village with the eccentric Lord and Lady Tottering and their family who reside at Tottering Hall. During the thirty years that 'Tottering-by-Gently' has appeared weekly in Country Life magazine, the Tottering family – all three generations of them – have been ... Read more

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Annie Tempest has been called a national treasure for her much-lauded and internationally loved cartoon strip about a fictitious English village with the eccentric Lord and Lady Tottering and their family who reside at Tottering Hall. During the thirty years that 'Tottering-by-Gently' has appeared weekly in Country Life magazine, the Tottering family – all three generations of them – have been
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Oxford Bookworms Library Level 3: The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope, Diane Mowat, Jennifer Bassett, Tricia Hedge ...

Series Book 3 - Oxford Bookworms Library
‘We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!’ cried Sapt. ‘If we’re caught, we’ll all be killed!’ So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia? ... Read more

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‘We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!’ cried Sapt. ‘If we’re caught, we’ll all be killed!’ So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia?
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Dominoes Level 2: Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Patrick Nobes, Jennifer Bassett, Tricia Hedge ...

Series Book 2 - Dominoes
Two visitors come to Sherlock Holmes’s London home in Baker Street to ask for the detective’s help. Holmes is interested in the story, but he sends his friend, Dr Watson, to Dartmoor to begin the investigation. Dartmoor is the dark and lonely place where Sir Charles Baskerville died – or was it murder? The clues are worrying, too. An enormous wild dog killed Sir Charles’s ancestor there a hundred ... Read more

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Two visitors come to Sherlock Holmes’s London home in Baker Street to ask for the detective’s help. Holmes is interested in the story, but he sends his friend, Dr Watson, to Dartmoor to begin the investigation. Dartmoor is the dark and lonely place where Sir Charles Baskerville died – or was it murder? The clues are worrying, too. An enormous wild dog killed Sir Charles’s ancestor there a hundred
... Read more
Oxford Bookworms Library Level 3: The Kiss: Love Stories from North America

by Jennifer Bassett, Jennifer Bassett, Tricia Hedge ...

Series Book 3 - Oxford Bookworms Library
Love stories with a difference . . . There’s a kiss by a fireside that was a mistake, there’s a man-hating aunt by the seaside, and a gunman in Texas wanting a fight. There’s a white heron flying over a forest, and a messenger running between two benches in a park. And of course, there’s a girl who meets a boy . . . These love stories are by US writers Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett ... Read more

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Love stories with a difference . . . There’s a kiss by a fireside that was a mistake, there’s a man-hating aunt by the seaside, and a gunman in Texas wanting a fight. There’s a white heron flying over a forest, and a messenger running between two benches in a park. And of course, there’s a girl who meets a boy . . . These love stories are by US writers Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett
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Doctors at War

Life and Death in a Field Hospital

by Mark de Rond ...

Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting ... Read more

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Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting
... Read more
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The Classic Collection of E.T.A. Hoffmann

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, The Golden Pot

by E.T.A. Hoffmann, E.T.A. Hoffmann ...

Narrated by Mark Bowen ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

"The Classic Collection of E.T.A. Hoffmann: presents two of the most enchanting and imaginative works by the renowned German author E.T.A. Hoffmann: "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and "The Golden Pot."In "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," readers are transported to a world of fantasy and wonder as they follow the adventures of Clara and her beloved Nutcracker. Hoffmann's captivating ... Read more

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"The Classic Collection of E.T.A. Hoffmann: presents two of the most enchanting and imaginative works by the renowned German author E.T.A. Hoffmann: "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and "The Golden Pot."In "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," readers are transported to a world of fantasy and wonder as they follow the adventures of Clara and her beloved Nutcracker. Hoffmann's captivating
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Oxford Bookworms Library Level 5: Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens, Clare West, Jennifer Bassett, Tricia Hedge ...

Series Book 5 - Oxford Bookworms Library
In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares ... Read more

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In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares
... Read more
Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens ...

Series series Oxford Bookworms Library
Retold for Learners of English by Richard RogersLondon in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not ... Read more

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Retold for Learners of English by Richard RogersLondon in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not
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A Measure of Intelligence

One Mother's Reckoning with the IQ Test

by Pepper Stetler ...

In a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ test, leading her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence.When Pepper Stetler learned that her daughter, Louisa, who has Down Syndrome, would be required to take periodic IQ tests to secure support in school, she asked a simple question: Why? The hunt for an answer set Stetler ... Read more

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In a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ test, leading her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence.When Pepper Stetler learned that her daughter, Louisa, who has Down Syndrome, would be required to take periodic IQ tests to secure support in school, she asked a simple question: Why? The hunt for an answer set Stetler
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