Michael A: 1281 books
Numerical and Statistical Methods for Bioengineering
Applications in MATLAB
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
The first MATLAB-based numerical methods textbook for bioengineers that uniquely integrates modelling concepts with statistical analysis, while maintaining a focus on enabling the user to report the error or uncertainty in their result. Between traditional numerical method topics of linear modelling...
by Thomas A. Durkin, Gregory Elliehausen, Michael E. Staten
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Consumer Credit and the American Economy examines the economics, behavioral science, sociology, history, institutions, law, and regulation of consumer credit in the United States. After discussing the origins and various kinds of consumer credit available in today's marketplace, this book reviews...
Upgrade Your Curriculum
Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Amid a confluence of messages regarding accountability, the Common Core State Standards, teacher effectiveness, and student performance, educators everywhere are looking for ways to revitalize their curriculum design and instructional practice. Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform...
by H. E. Marshall, A.c.michael
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Four years have come and gone since first you asked me to write a Story of the United States "lest you should grow up knowing nothing of your own country." I think, however, that you are not yet very grown up, not yet too "proud and great" to read my book. But I hope that you know...
Bitterness
Perception, Chemistry and Food Processing
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The increasing demand for healthy foods has resulted in the food industry developing functional foods with health-promoting and/or disease preventing properties. However, many of these products bring new challenges. While drugs are taken for their efficacy, functional foods need to have tastes that...
by Lauren Coffey, Josh Compton, Donna M. Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The millennial generation is unique in various ways, particularly with regard to their career aspirations and expectations. Due to their reputation as “job hoppers,” recruiting millennials is not enough. Retention of a millennial workforce is imperative for organizational success and longevity....
30 Big-Idea Lessons for Small Groups
The Teaching Framework for ANY Text and EVERY Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups provides an amazing framework, with a bank of engagement tools, that gets students interacting with texts. Follow this unique 4-part process to develop students’ literal, inferential, evaluative, and analytical skills:
Engage: Before Reading Students use...
Fishes of the Rainbow
Henry Compton's Art of the Reefs
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
In warm, shallow waters around the world, coral reefs teem with tens of thousands of marine species. Reefs rival rain forests in biodiversity, and about a third of the world’s marine fish species live part of their lives on coral reefs.
In the 1960s, marine biologist Henry “Hank” Compton...
Selling Energy
Inspiring Ideas That Get More Projects Approved!
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
--#8 on The Wall Street Journal Best-Seller list for business hardback -- Given the abundance of commercially available energy-saving technologies, talented technologists to apply them, and even generous rebates to help finance them, why in the world aren't more efficiency projects approved? Based...
by Howard Good, Berrin A. Beasley, Sandra L. Borden
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions—and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and...
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
Legacies in American Expressive Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get...
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
Living with Bipolar Disorder:A Guide for Individuals and FamiliesUpdated Edition
A Guide for Individuals and FamiliesUpdated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Living with Bipolar Disorder is designed to help patients and their families develop the skills they need to be good consumers of treatment and to become expert partners in the management of this challenging disorder. Drawing on research documenting the strength of combining drug treatments with behavioral...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...