S Thomas: 567 books
Teaching Again
A Professor's Tale of Returning to a Ninth Grade Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever...
Responsible Research and Innovation Actions in Science Education, Gender and Ethics
Cases and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...
Worship Ways
For the People Within Your Reach
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Accelerating diversity of lifestyles has created a crisis for worship designers. One size does not fit all. No worship service can be “blended” to address the complete needs of a congregation. Moreover, church “shopping” is ending as people are choosing a worship service that directly meets...
by Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Jennie W. Wenger, Jennifer Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This study for the U.S. Marine Corps presents a historical overview of the integration of women into the U.S. military and explores the importance of cohesion and what influences it. The gender integration experiences of foreign militaries, as well as the gender integration efforts of domestic police...
Inquiry
A Districtwide Approach to Staff and Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Connect inquiry to improved teaching and learning across your district!
Now that federal and state initiatives require school districts to provide job-embedded professional development, the next step is making it happen. This book helps districts define, develop, and implement a systematic...
Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul
A Critical Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Challenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers’ observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the effect of excluding children who are poor and of color....
by Sönke Johnsen, Thomas W. Cronin, N. Justin Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Visual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks. Visual Ecology provides the first up-to-date synthesis of the field to appear in more than three decades. Featuring...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 1
Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties
Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storage
Discusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management
Implementing Collaboration Technologies in Industry
Case Examples and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides practitioners with detailed experiences from industry on the implementation and use of collaboration technologies. Despite the increasing range of applications available - such as video and desktop conferencing systems, workflow management systems and on-line meeting schedulers...
by Prof. Peter Von Fragstein und Niemsdorff, Prof. Bernhard Freyer, Dr Paul Mäder
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Reviews key advances and best practice in cultivation techniques across the value chain of organic farming
Discusses ways of monitoring and improving the environmental impact of organic crop production
Particular focus on ways of supporting organic farming in the developing world
Pediatric Anesthesiology Review
Clinical Cases for Self-Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Based on a program of study developed at the Children's Hospital Boston, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Pediatric Anesthesiology Review: Clinical Cases for Self-Assessment provides essential medical information for the subspecialty of pediatric anesthesiology. Illustrating...
by Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Although there have been numerous investigations of biolinguistics within the Minimalist Program over the last ten years, many of which appeal to the importance of Turing's Thesis (that the structural design of systems must obey physical and mathematical laws), these studies have by and large ignored...
Heartbeatclub
17 heiße Rhythmen
Language: German
Release Date: June 12, 2015
"My Heart Goes Boom", sangen French Affair in den Neunzigern im damals modernen Disco-Beat. Ja, das Herz schlägt kräftig, weil gleich der/die Geliebte eintrifft, weil seine/ihre Küsse so süß schmecken, weil er/sie der/die eine/r ist, weil seine/ihre Liebe so groß ist. Das Herz schlägt...
Tales from Family Therapy
Life-Changing Clinical Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
You often see books on theoretical approaches and new interventions in therapy, but you rarely, if ever, find a book where therapists discuss their personal reactions to and views of the therapy they offer. In this amazing volume, Tales from Family Therapy: Life-Changing Clinical Experiences, psychologists,...