Thad: 54 books
Leading Schools of Excellence and Equity
Closing Achievement Gaps Via Academic Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The purpose of this empirical inquiry of staterecognized “Honor Schools of Excellence” was to explore how these schools of distinction are (or are not) promoting and supporting both academic excellence and systemic equity for all students. In Phase One, quantitative data were collected through...
by Samuel H. Kernell, Thad Kousser, Lynn Vavreck
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Why does the American political system work the way it does?
Find the answers in The Logic of American Politics. This best-selling text arms you with a toolkit of institutional design concepts—command, veto, agenda control, voting rules, and delegation—that help you recognize how the American...
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
The Puzzle of Distributive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish benefits...
El manual de los metadatos
Guía para la creación y distribución de metadatos de libros impresos y digitales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 23, 2015
El manual de los metadatos está dirigido a aquellos editores y autores autoeditados que quieran optimizar la distribución de información completa, ajustada y atractiva sobre sus libros a través de la cadena de suministro del libro. Este Manual describe los metadatos que deberían acompañar a...
Sick Buildings
Definition, Diagnosis and Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book is a comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of poor indoor air quality (IAQ) characterized as sick or problem buildings. Significant emphasis is given to defining the nature of the problem, the various potential causal and risk factors, problem building diagnostic protocols and contaminant...
by Thad Ziolkowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Lewis Chopik has just graduated from Columbia University. Having been dumped by his girlfriend and in flight from the pressures exerted by his ambitious professor father, Lewis returns to Wichita in search of respite at the home of his New-Ager mother, Abby. But when Abby picks Lewis up from the airport,...
by Thad Krasnesky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From carefully aimed pouts and shifting blame to the threat of an all-out tantrum, this laugh-out-loud story for kids and adults focuses on the clever antics, advantage-taking, limit-testing, and childhood shenanigans of three-year-old Emmy. When Emmy spills juice and her dad’s pants get orange-hosed,”...
by Thad Krasnesky
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Narrated by a cat-loving little girl, this story is a hysterical romp through a family's pet adoption dilemma. Poor Dad does not like cats, and he voices his opposition to the steady stream of stray cats that always seem to wind up on his doorstep-thanks to a cat-loving Mom who wants to save every...
The Whale Done School
Transforming a School’S Culture by Catching Students Doing Things Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
THE WHALE DONE SCHOOL is the third in the Whale Done! series, focusing the proven power of positive attention on the process of educating children. Based on an actual school-turnaround story, the fable demonstrates how students' behavior and academic performance improves dramatically when teachers...
A Beginners Guide to Articulate! (Volume 1)
A Beginners Guide to Articulate! (Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of Articulate!. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only learn a great deal about Articulate!but, but be able to engage with others.
The Gibbons of Khao Yai
Seasonal Variation in Behavior and Ecology, CourseSmart eTextbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Primatologists have long viewed small fruiting trees, like figs, as the reason for gibbons’ territorial and monogamous behavior. However, at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand where gibbons are prevalent, figs are one of the largest trees in the forest. In this long-term field study, Bartlett...
by Thad Krasnesky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
When a boy brings his pterodactyl to school for show-and-tell, hilarious havoc ensues. The dinosaur's delightfully demented antics, the kids' expressions as they try to avoid the hungry pterodactyl, and the out-of-control imagination of the boy yield a wild and wacky romp.
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