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Taking Teaching Seriously
How Liberal Arts Colleges Prepare Teachers to Meet Today's Educational Challenges in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"This highly readable book contains important lessons for us all." -Katherine Schultz, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Taking Teaching Seriously expands and enriches discussions about teacher preparation in the United States. Its authors describe the unique contexts for teacher...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Pig meat is the most widely-consumed meat in the world. Previous growth in production has relied, in part, on more intensive systems. In meeting rising demand, these systems face challenges such as the ongoing threat of zoonotic diseases, the need to improve feed efficiency in the face of rising costs,...
by A. Bhalla, D. Luo
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror. In this global context, this book explores whether economics is more important than the suppression of rights in explaining social unrest.
by Dmitry A. Novikov, Andrey D. Rogatkin, Vladimir V. Breer
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book presents mathematical models of mob control with threshold (conformity) collective decision-making of the agents. Based on the results of analysis of the interconnection between the micro- and macromodels of active network structures, it considers the static (deterministic, stochastic and...
Succeeding at Teaching Secondary Mathematics
Your First Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
This practical resource helps beginning secondary mathematics teachers design a curriculum that is meaningful, differentiate instruction, engage students, meet standards, assess student understanding, and more.
Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys
The Tailored Design Method
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The classic survey design reference, updated for the digital age
For over two decades, Dillman's classic text on survey design has aided both students and professionals in effectively planning and conducting mail, telephone, and, more recently, Internet surveys. The new edition is thoroughly...
Mission and Money
Understanding the University
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Mission and Money goes beyond the common focus on elite universities and examines the entire higher education industry, including the rapidly growing for-profit schools. The sector includes research universities, four-year colleges, two-year schools, and non-degree-granting career academies. Many...
by D.A. Cairns
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
The story of an illegal immigrant who arrives in Australia by boat and goes on to become the Prime Minister. The story of a woman at the end of hope who is rescued from a smuggler's boat only to become enslaved. The story of a man who has lost his way, and needs a cause for which to fight, and a reason...
Patterns of Life History
The Ecology of Human Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This work summarizes an ongoing longitudinal study concerned with the nature of human differences as manifest in peoples' life histories. The traditional models for the description of human differences are reviewed, then contrasted with the presentation of alternative models. This volume is also one...
Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities
The Ocean Disposal Option
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Protection of coastal waters from direct pollution by coastal cities is a vital task in preserving marine ecosystems and promoting human health. This book, edited by two leading experts on wastewater management for coastal cities, delves deeply into the ecological and oceanographic fundamentals that...
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
Explaining the Government Formation Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...
Electrical Diseases of the Heart
Volume 2: Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Electrical Disease of the Heart, 2nd Edition, volume 2, covers the diagnostic and treatment options available in the management of electrical diseases and with its companion volume provides the latest developments in the field of experimental and clinical cardiac electrophysiology, genetics, pharmacology...
by Jacqueline Parker Scott, Ed.D, M.B.A.
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Sensitive * Understanding * Positive * Effective * Responsible SUPER Parenting, isn’t perfect parenting, there’s no such thing. Instead, it’s a parenting philosophy that will assist parents in being super for their children. Super Parenting is being sensitive, understanding and positive while...