Harvey Sacks (July 19, 1935 – November 14, 1975) was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way people use language in everyday life. Despite his early death in a car crash and the fact that he did not publish widely, he founded the discipline of conversation analysis. His work has had significant influence on fields such as linguistics, discourse analysis, and discursive psychology.
A children's story by Africa's best known and most widely read author whose novels, poetry, essays, lectures, etc. are considered representative of contemporary Nigerian life.
The author’s observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. “This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians” (Anthony Burgess). Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's work in 1973. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory.
The Child's Changing Consciouness as the Basis of Pedagogical Practice
These talks were given in 1923-three and a half years after the founding of the first Waldorf school-to an audience of Swiss school teachers, most of whom have little knowledge of anthroposophy. This is the context of these lectures, among Steiner's most accessible on education. A teacher who attended the lectures wrote in the Berne School Paper: Every morning, as we listened anew to Dr. Steiner, we felt we had come closer to him and understood better what he had to say and how he had to say it.
Stanford University - Modern Physics: Quantum Entanglement
Thisis a series of lectures from Stanford University, concentrating onQuantum Entanglements. Lecturer is Professor Leonard Susskind, aprofessor of theoretical Physics at Stanford University, probably bestknown for his confrontation with Stephen Hawking on the nature of blackholes. Here we have a series of 9 lectures, each almost 2 hours long, enjoy
