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In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both...

Parallel CFD 2000, the Twelfth in an International series of meetings featuring computational fluid dynamics research on parallel computers, was held May 22-25, 2000 in Trondheim, Norway. Following the trend of the past conferences, areas such as numerical schemes and algorithms, tools and environments,...

This book intends to change the perception of modern day telecommunications. Communication systems, usually perceived as “dumb pipes”, carrying information / data from one point to another, are evolved into intelligently communicating smart systems.  The book introduces a new field of cloud communications....

Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity,...

This book covers the history of lasers with nuclear pumping (Nuclear Pumped Lasers, NPLs). This book showcases the most important results and stages of NPL development in The Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF) as well as other Russian and international laboratories, including laboratories in...

BnF collection ebooks - "Le samedi soir, les hommes de Tavesco se réunissent pour parler, jouer et boire, dans les deux cabarets du village. Ils ne connaissent guère qu'une seule boisson, un vin opaque, au goût fort et au bouquet presque nul, dont tous ceux qui l'ont pratiqué gardent un souvenir...

La scoperta che Evelyn, la giovane e bellissima donna che ha appena sposato, è una vampira, non impedisce a James Bluewinkle, sedotto al punto da adattarsi a una condizione rischiosa e surreale, di offrirle ogni notte un po' del suo sangue. Sempre più indebolito, ma irresistibilmente attratto da...

For the 6th Edition of this highly regarded textbook devoted to lipids, the title has been modified from Lipid Biochemistry to Lipids to acknowledge the coming together of biological and medical sciences, the increasingly blurred boundaries between them and the growing importance of lipids in diverse...

South American ecosystems suffered one of the greatest biogeographical events, after the establishment of the Panamian land bridge, called the “Great American Biotic Interchange” (GABI). This refers to the exchange, in several phases, of land mammals between the Americas; this event started during...

The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale. considers the influence of physical forcing on biological processes in a wide range of...

Extrait : "Dans le pays que nous parcourions, il règne une fécondité merveilleuse. Les hommes y sont rares. Le silence stagne autour de formidables marécages ; la Bête, libre de croître, s'est multipliée sur les terres et dans les eaux ; les oiseaux remplissent jusqu'aux nuages, les rivières bouillonnent d'une population grouillante et profonde."

Extrait : "Le samedi soir, les hommes de Tavesco se réunissent pour parler, jouer et boire, dans les deux cabarets du village. Ils ne connaissent guère qu'une seule boisson, un vin opaque, au goût fort et au bouquet presque nul, dont tous ceux qui l'ont pratiqué gardent un souvenir nostalgique."

Extrait : Daniel Valgraive soupira d’impatience, compta mentalement : « un, deux, trois, quatre…, » pendant que Cheyne disait une anecdote à une douzaine d’auditeurs. Il avait du succès, en verve, la voix nuancée, le geste impressif. Daniel, en chaque mot, en chaque...