Brian M: 285 books
New Assessments, Better Instruction?
Designing Assessment Systems to Promote Instructional Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact that assessment may have on practice.
Reclaiming the Body (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life)
Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
We live in an age of incredible medical technology, and with it, a great emphasis on health and well-being. We fully entrust the care of our bodies to the medical profession, often taking its solutions and judgments as gospel. But what role, if any, should our Christian faith play in all this?
In...
Presidential Power: Documents Decoded
Documents Decoded
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This volume uses essential and illuminating primary documents as a portal for understanding the evolution and present parameters of presidential power, the relationship between America's three branches of government, and why wartime often leads presidents to claim expansive powers and authority.
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Deterring Cyber Warfare
Bolstering Strategic Stability in Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
While the deterrence of cyber attacks is one of the most important issues facing the United States and other nations, the application of deterrence theory to the cyber realm is problematic. This study introduces cyber warfare and reviews the challenges associated with deterring cyber attacks, offering key recommendations to aid the deterrence of major cyber attacks.
Close the Achievement Gap
Simple Strategies That Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read...
World Prehistory
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This popular introductory textbook provides an overview of more than 3 million years of human prehistory. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this engaging volume tells the story of humanity from our beginnings in tropical Africa up to the advent of the world’s first urban civilizations....
Ancient Lives
An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Focusing on sites of key significance and the world’s first civilizations, Ancient Lives is an accessible and engaging textbook which introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory. Drawing on their impressive combined experience of the field and the classroom,...
by Brian M. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Tinnitus symptoms can range from annoying to stressful to downright disabling. If you have tinnitus, it is usually something you are desperate to get rid of.
Tinnitus, quite frankly hasn’t taken up a lot of room when it comes to research on the various treatments medicine has to offer those...
Working with Real People
The Challenging and the Inspirational
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
This is a true account of adventure in commonplace urban situations. Tales not generally within the common experience, that are enlightening, instructive, humorous and extremely poignant; and which in practice could be all of these things simultaneously.
by Bahman Guyuron, MD, Brian M. Kinney
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Video Atlas - edited by Dr. Bahman Guyuron et al. - brings you the detailed visual guidance and unmatched expertise you need to master the most popular cosmetic surgery procedures and achieve breathtaking results. Full-color photographs and narrated procedural videos lead...
Introducing Cultural Anthropology
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
What is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition of a successful textbook covers standard cultural...
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at achieving performance goals. This study examines nine PBASs that are...
Finding the Left Arm of God
Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
This is the story of the L.A. Dodgers' volatile fortunes during Sandy Koufax's transformation from a wild left-hander with a losing record on the verge of quitting the game, to an artist with exquisite control of the baseball--a veritable Mozart on the mound. From the Dodgers' sudden plunge into the...
Right to Be Literate, The
6 Essential Literacy Skills
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Literacy skills are of paramount importance to students in the digital age. In this book, teachers and administrators will explore the six comprehensive skill areas essential to 21st century literacy—reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing. Learn practical strategies for...