Costa: 926 books

The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.  

In that distant age when Nature was still toiling at the foundations of the Eastern Continent, portions of America had become dry land, and mountain-peaks in North Carolina were illuminated by rising and setting suns. It is, therefore, an anachronism to speak of America as the New World, especially...

This book is about power and freedoms in our technological world and has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate that a theoretical exploration of the algorithmic governmentality hypothesis combined with the capability approach is useful for a better understanding of power and freedoms in...

This imaginative study rethinks the nature of theology and its role in universities. The author sketches out a fascinating project using examples from US and UK institutions, whereby theology becomes a transformative force within universities. Imagines what a Christian university, in which all...

Un attentato nel ricco mondo dell’industria vinicola siciliana: Baiamonte, steso sulla sdraio, indaga per noia. Da Ferragosto in giallo, pubblicato nella collana «La memoria» nel 2013, il racconto 'Lupa di mare' in versione ebook.

This volume considers corruption as a multidimensional, complex phenomenon in which various forms of corruption may overlap at any given time. Extending the seemingly paradoxical notion of “legal corruption” to such settings as the USA, Spain, and the Czech Republic, the book seeks to augment...

Over one billion people under the age of eighteen live in territories affected by armed conflict. Despite this, scholars and practitioners often lack a comprehensive knowledge of how children both struggle within and shape conflict zones. Children and Global Conflict provides this understanding with...

Whenever a society stands bold enough to tackle controversial issues and inspire the people collectively to solve problems, it makes a far reaching positive impact on the stability, growth, and development of a nation.

Originating in South America, cassava is now grown in over 100 countries around the world. It is the third most important source of calories in the tropics after rice and maize. Its caloric value, as well as its ability to tolerate dry conditions and poor soils, makes it a key food security crop in...

This brief broadens readers’ understanding of stochastic control by highlighting recent advances in the design of optimal control for Markov jump linear systems (MJLS). It also presents an algorithm that attempts to solve this open stochastic control problem, and provides a real-time application...

RU486 is the drug prescribed for medical abortion. This book deals clearly with the nature and effects of the drug, its risks and the history of its development and use in Europe, the United States and other overseas countries. It recounts the politics and controversy that surrounded its introduction...

Una serie di omicidi, uno dopo l'altro, nei luoghi di Palermo. Li collegano i versi dei Beatles accanto ai cadaveri. E qualcuno si firma come Marc Chapman, l'assassino di John Lennon. È una pista, un'illusione e/o un elusione? E quanto pesa il passato di un'antica amiciza?

Sempre alle prese con lavoretti occasionali, Enzo Baiamonte, l’atipico detective del Libro di legno, è ingaggiato per curare l’impianto elettrico per la festa della Madonna Addolorata del suo quartiere palermitano. Nel contesto rionale la sua mente non riesce a star ferma e, al solito, si fissa...

THE mysteries of the ancients, and the associations in which their doctrines were taught, have hardly been considered in modern times, but with a view to decry and ridicule them. The systems of ancient mythology have been treated as monstrous absurdities, debasing the human reason, conducting to idolatry,...