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Leading the Evolution
How to Make Personalized Competency-Based Education a Reality (An Educational Leadership Guide to Competency-Based Education for Student Engagement)
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Now is the time to evolve from the existing model of schooling into one that is more innovative, relevant, effective, and successful. Leading the Evolution introduces a three-pronged approach to driving substantive change (called the evolutionary triad) that connects transformative educational leadership,...
by M. Tonolini, L. Solbiati, A. Martegani
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last few years, the development of sonographic contrast agents - or "microbubbles" - has stimulated increasingly intensive studies on the rela tionships between ultrasound and contrast media. As a result, "contrast -spe cific" hardware and software systems have been...
by R'D O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman OLeary passionately imparted to his students his love of writing and English literature at the University of Kansas. When he died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects were passed to several relatives until Dennis OLeary, and his...
by Fr. H. Hoever S.O.Cist., Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Help your child connect with the mystery of the Mass and feel like an “official” Mass-goer with this smart-looking, insightful missal. With its sharp black cover, gilt lettering, and white satin bookmark, this Children’s Missal looks great in any young Catholic’s hands, and its sturdy hardcover...
Paranormal America (second edition)
Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psychics
Given the popularity of television shows such as Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, and American Horror Story, there seems to be...
by Jinaki Muslimah Abdullah, Charles E. Allen Jr., Toya Conston
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore...
by Jeanne Doyle M.D. M.O.M.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Raising children with the hope that they become saints in God’s kingdom can be a daunting task, filled with laughter, tears, joy, and frustration. This is a task that we must embrace for our families, our society, and future generations. The way you educate and treat your children will affect not...
by D. O. W. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Merriam Press World War 2 History Series. Second eBook Edition 2016. Details Allied escape attempts from German, Italian and Japanese prison camps. Particular emphasis on New Zealanders. Contents: Foreword. (1) To Escape. (2) Escape Organization. (3) Escape Equipment. (4) Outside Help. (5) Types of...
by Stephen J.D. O'Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness. Divided into three major sections, the volume instructs the reader on how and when to use nutritional support, and includes a summary of the published outcome studies...
CMOS Cantilever Sensor Systems
Atomic Force Microscopy and Gas Sensing Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book is intended for scientists and engineers in the field of micro- and nano electro-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and introduces the development of cantilever-based sensor systems using CMOS-compatible micromachining from the design concepts and simulations to the prototype. It is also...
by David J O'Brien, Valeri V Patsiorkovski, Larry D Dershem
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2000: Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Pig meat is the most widely-consumed meat in the world. Previous growth in production has relied, in part, on more intensive systems. In meeting rising demand, these systems face challenges such as the ongoing threat of zoonotic diseases, the need to improve feed efficiency in the face of rising costs,...
by David D. O'Regan
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Density functional theory (DFT) has become the standard workhorse for quantum mechanical simulations as it offers a good compromise between accuracy and computational cost.
However, there are many important systems for which DFT performs very poorly, most notably strongly-correlated materials, resulting...
Life Unscripted
Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Learn to collaborate with others, think on your feet, and celebrate mistakes using the skills of improv theater
So many of us go through life following scripts we didn’t write for ourselves—scripts designed by our family, shaped by our friends, and influenced by the expectations of the...