Product Description: Behind the hype of the "virtual university" lies real change in the way practitioners approach university teaching. This book focuses on the changes to teaching both on and off campus that have either come from, or themselves influenced the development of educational technologies...read more

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: This is a comprehensive collection of essays designed to guide current and prospective doctoral candidates through the amazing journey of doctoral study. "Doctorates Downunder" includes chapters on beginning candidature, selecting a supervisor, countering isolation and engaging support structures, working with industry, ethics, research skills and strategies, personal obstacles to completion, and maintaining an effective study, work and life balance...read more

Product Description: Undertaking a doctorate is a unique experience. It is creative, challenging, emotionally and intellectually demanding, and should be immensely rewarding. With 30 chapters written by experienced academics, recent graduates, and current candidates from across Australia and New Zealand, this second edition of Doctorates Downunder is designed to prepare research candidates for the journey ahead, and guide them throughout their doctoral program...read more

Framed for a murder that he did not commit, Buck Fletcher is given the chance to redeem his reputation by rescuing a senator's disgraced daughter from a war-torn region of Arizona, braving a band of renegade Apaches, the senator's minions, and a determined bounty hunter along the way.

Product Description: If you want to grasp the rich complexity of the past, observes environmental historian Donald Worster, you could do worse than spend time on the prairie. Seen from high above, it is an orderly grid of farmland; closer to ground level, it reveals the industriousness of humanity in the making and remaking of the land...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Photographs show fires and storms on the prairie, as well as grasses, wildflowers, and wildlife

Product Description: The small Kansas town of Matfield Green and the surrounding prairie hills are the focus of the latest extended project from acclaimed photographer and Kansas native Terry Evans (born 1944). A small town in Chase County with a population of just dozens, Matfield Green was once a cattle shipping railhead...read more

This volume contains a collection of critical reflections by teachers and administrators in open and distance education. They highlight educational problems and issues of a more general nature caused by the increased use of distance education within conventional higher education institutions.

A visual tour of Chicago throughout the four seasons of the year features dramatic aerial photography and includes coverage of such areas as the city's lakefront, skyscrapers, residential neighborhoods, and bordering landscapes. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: This comprehensive collection of essays is designed to assist doctoral supervisors through candidate selection to thesis examination post- doctoral life. It includes chapters on supervision-candidature agreements, ways to build effective supervision relationships, helping candidates write and think, and more...read more