Daniel Johnson: 52 books
Irreconcilable Differences?
Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2000
This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different...
X-Ray Free Electron Lasers
Applications in Materials, Chemistry and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
The ultra-bright femtosecond X-ray pulses provided by X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) open up opportunities to study the structure and dynamics of a wide variety of systems beyond what is possible with synchrotron sources. This book introduces the principles and properties of currently operating...
by Daniel E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Targeting Cell Survival Pathways to Enhance Response to Chemotherapy encompasses recently developed molecular targeting agents and approaches that suppress cell survival signaling. Cell survival signaling attenuates the effectiveness of conventional chemotherapy and numerous mechanisms have been described,...
by Michele L. Aldrich, Daniel D. Arden, Martha Coleman Bray
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South offers nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States. Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between...
Thinking Beyond the Test
Strategies for Re-Introducing Higher-Level Thinking Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...
Thinking Ahead
Engaging All Teachers in Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book addresses a very important aspect of teacher training, as well as the training of educational administrators, school counselors and other educational allied professionals, an aspect that is too often overlooked. That aspect is role modeling a deliberative mind. A deliberative mind is one...
Focus on Thinking
Engaging Educators in Higher-Order Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...
Education as Freedom
African American Educational Thought and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role...
by A. Aduma, Arbour Ames, Nick Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Edited by Anne Regan
Diversity is our strength, and now more than ever, the voices of young LGBTQIA authors need to be heard. Harmony Ink is proud to showcase the next generation of talented writers in our fifth annual Harmonious Hearts anthology. These authors, all between the ages of fourteen...
The Uncertain Future of American Public Higher Education
Student-Centered Strategies for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book addresses the costly non-sustainable policies, programs, practices, and priorities currently driving the tuition crisis in American public higher education. In this era of growing competition among public colleges and universities for more students and higher rankings, their leaders and...