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Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions as Habits of Mind
Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent with the philosophical orientation in the college’s conceptual framework to call forth dispositions, or key habits of mind that are consistent with reflective intelligence.
Understanding Scripture
An Overview of the Bible's Origin, Reliability, and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Originally featured as articles in the ESV Study Bible, these eighteen essays have been repurposed and republished in a convenient format. Covering a diverse range of essential subjects, including how to read the Bible well and why it is reliable, the essays delve into specific topics such as world...
by Roger E. Olson, Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The Handbook of Denominations in the United States has long been the gold standard for reference works about religious bodies in America. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide accurate and objective information about the most significant Christian traditions and denominations in the United States...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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by C.G Clarke, Dr J P Dickenson, J.P Dickenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region and its peoples are attracting increasing concern and interest.
Fully revised and updated this edition includes: * a wealth of photographic...
Responding to Domestic Violence
The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This new edition of the bestselling Responding to Domestic Violence explores the response to domestic violence today, not only by the criminal justice system, but also by public and non-profit social service and health care agencies. After providing a brief theoretical overview of the causes of domestic...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Gender in a Transitional Era
Changes and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender...
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Complete Guide to Carb Counting
How to Take the Mystery Out of Carb Counting and Improve Your Blood Glucose Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
The completely revised Complete Guide to Carb Counting, 3rd edition, by the American Diabetes Association, provides you with the knowledge and the tools to put carbohydrate counting into practice. Rewritten and reorganized to introduce and explain carb counting concepts as you'll need them in your diabetes...
by Anne Daly, M.S., Linda Delahanty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Contains tips on preventing diabetes, weight loss surgery and medications, diabetes complications, eating out, overcoming emotional obstacles to weight loss, exercise, and nutrition.
Omnipresence: The Rise of the Gatekeeper
Book One of The Orbs of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The eternal existence of the Universe rests on three orbs. One was stolen and the other two are in peril. The Orbs of Power were created when the world was young to sustain life. Each contains the forces within the Maker’s innate self: Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipotence. When the Orb of...
by Stacey S Horn, Martin D Ruck, Lynn S Liben
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Equity and Justice in Development Science: Implications for Diverse Young People, Families, and Communities, a two volume set, focuses on the implications of equity and justice (and other relevant concepts) for a myriad of developmental contexts/domains relevant to the lives of young people and families...