Key Features of Modern History

Key Features of Modern History
Author: Bruce Dennett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: History, Modern
ISBN: 9780195565683

Key Features of Modern History Fourth Edition has been completely revised and updated and offers comprehensive coverage of the Preliminary and HSC content for Modern History students in full colour. The stimulating and accessible narrative, incorporating the latest historiography and scholarship, includes a wide range of new written and visual sources, and student tasks and activities.

Key Features of Modern History 2

Key Features of Modern History 2
Author: Bernie Howitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2018
Genre: Higher School Certificate Examination (N.S.W.)
ISBN: 9780190311896

New South Wales most trusted Modern History series has been updated for the 2018 Modern History Stage 6 syllabus. Key Features of Modern History 2 5E Year 12 offers complete support for teachers and their students in 2018 and beyond, providing unparalleled depth and coverage in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-master format. Key features include: *Explicit alignment to the Modern History Stage 6 syllabus *In-depth and appropriately levelled content developed by trusted expert teachers *Simplified chapter structure with content organised into manageable double-page topics *Clear, unambiguous language supported by plenty of visuals *obook assess provides comprehensive student and teacher digital support, including answers to every question in the book, videos, teacher notes, exam preparation support and more *Innovative and intuitive chapter features such as Focus questions, Key concepts and skills, Learning goals and Understanding and using the sourcesCheck your learning questions for each topic allow students to review and expand on what they have learned *A Profile feature included for each chapter allows for more in-depth learning about a historically significant person, event or phenomenon.

A History of Modern Computing, second edition

A History of Modern Computing, second edition
Author: Paul E. Ceruzzi
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2003-04-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780262532037

From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations. This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial product; the emergence of small systems in the late 1960s; the beginning of personal computing in the 1970s; the spread of networking after 1985; and, in a chapter written for this edition, the period 1995-2001. The new material focuses on the Microsoft antitrust suit, the rise and fall of the dot-coms, and the advent of open source software, particularly Linux. Within the chronological narrative, the book traces several overlapping threads: the evolution of the computer's internal design; the effect of economic trends and the Cold War; the long-term role of IBM as a player and as a target for upstart entrepreneurs; the growth of software from a hidden element to a major character in the story of computing; and the recurring issue of the place of information and computing in a democratic society. The focus is on the United States (though Europe and Japan enter the story at crucial points), on computing per se rather than on applications such as artificial intelligence, and on systems that were sold commercially and installed in quantities.

Multimodal Semiotics

Multimodal Semiotics
Author: Len Unsworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2008-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441103759

This volume presents an overview of new developments and applications of social semiotic theory. Pioneered by M.A.K. Halliday, social semiotic theory sees meaning as created through the interaction of texts (including writing, images, sound and space) within a given context. Divided into five sections, the contributors use social semiotic theory to analyse a range of contexts, including the classroom, the museum and cinema. The case studies show the range and scope of this method of analysis, and include: the school curriculum; literacy; print media; online resources; film; and advertising. Multimodal Semiotics will be of interest to academics researching social semiotic theory, systemic functional linguistics and applied linguistics.

GSSCORE Concept Mapping Workbook History Vol-2 Modern History

GSSCORE Concept Mapping Workbook History Vol-2 Modern History
Author: Manoj K. Jha
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2023-05-11
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9355216467

—Public Service Examinations across the Board in India offers immense opportunity for young talent to secure not only employment at prestigious positions but also gives them the chance to serve the nation in various capacities. —These examinations are of a highly diverse nature as they test the candidates on diverse subjects, further spanning multiple dimensions largely the subjects related to Polity, Economy, History, Geography, Science and Technology, environmental sciences and miscellaneous topics like sports, awards and other events of national and international importance. —All of this demand not only to study of these varied subjects but also practice in tackling the questions which are asked in the examination. Highlights of the Book Approach towards the subject —The book introduces you to the subject and the way in which this subject should be approached in order to score maximum. Micro Detailing of the Syllabus—The entire UPSC CSE syllabus has been clubbed into broad themes and each theme will be covered with the help of MCQs. Chronological Arrangement of Theme Based Questions—The various identified themes are arranged chronologically so that the entire Syllabus of a subject is roped in a logical line. Last Minute Concept Revision—The end of the book contains the summary of important concepts related to the subject which can be used as your effective revision notes. About GS SCORE—GS SCORE has been home to numerous toppers of UPSC's prestigious Civil Services Examination. Learning at GS SCORE is driven by two predominant objectives i.e. excellence and empowerment.

A History of Modern Political Thought

A History of Modern Political Thought
Author: Gary Browning
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019150484X

How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.