Michael A: 1281 books
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture
World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with...
by LOUIS A PILATO, Michael J. Michno
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Advanced composite materials or high performance polymer composites are an unusual class of materials that possess a combination of high strength and modulus and are substantially superior to structural metals and alloys on an equal weight basis. The book provides an overview of the key components...
by Sylvia Thiele, Michael Frings, Eduardo Palop
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 29, 2016
El lugar de la gramática en la enseñanza de la lengua ha sido un tema objeto de debate desde tiempos inmemoriales: tanto en lenguas primeras, segundas o extranjeras como en distintas etapas educativas, se han discutido las finalidades de su enseñanza, los contenidos y la metodología. En...
The Project Meeting Facilitator
Facilitation Skills to Make the Most of Project Meetings
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Have you ever been involved in a project that didn’t require a meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren’t well-run—they are viewed, by team members, as unproductive,...
by A. MIchael Shumate
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
In the forest outside Bethlehem, a little pine tree sees the angels announce the birth of the newborn king. He overhears shepherds planning to take a gift to the baby. The pine tree tries to wake up the other trees that have worthy gifts for the king but it's winter and they can't wake up. So he decides to go himself, even though he has no proper gift.
Embodied Difference
Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied...
by Agustín G Crevillén, Javier Hernández-Borges, Luis A Colón
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Presenting the most relevant advances for employing carbon-based nanostructured materials for analytical purposes, this book serves as a reference manual that guides readers through the possibilities and helps when selecting the most appropriate material for targeted analytical applications. It critically...
Reducing Benzodiazepine Consumption
Psychological Contributions to General Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Spurred by reports in 1980 detailing the ineffectiveness of long-term treatment with benzodiazepines, the authors of this volume began a study to investigate the reasons behind the addiction, quickly adopting a psychological approach to treatment. In testing the efficacy of anxiety management techniques...
Praxis der Schlafmedizin
Diagnostik, Differenzialdiagnostik und Therapie bei Erwachsenen und Kindern
Language: German
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Dieses Buch bietet das Praxiswissen für die notwendige differenzierte schlafmedizinische Diagnostik und eine darauf basierende optimale kurz-, mittel- und langfristige Therapie.
Schlafstörungen - eine der häufigsten Erkrankungen
Über eine halbe Million Menschen nehmen in Deutschland regelmäßig...
Parallel Worlds
The Heroes Within
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2019
Heroes and villains are not always on the opposite ends of the spectrum of good and evil. Sometimes, all that separates them is a fine line. The stories within "Parallel Worlds" explore the lives of such heroes and what drives them -- and what keeps them from crossing over to the other side.
This...
How Learning Works
Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Praise for How Learning Works
"How Learning Works is the perfect title for this excellent book. Drawing upon new research in psychology, education, and cognitive science, the authors have demystified a complex topic into clear explanations of seven powerful learning principles. Full of...
by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
"Trust Yourself" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
"Two Solitudes" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and...