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Rescue Squad
Stark disaster to a brave lad in space may--to the mind that loves--be a tragedy pridefully concealed.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Education We Need for a Future We Can′t Predict
Improve Schools and Transform Education In order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Education We Need for a Future We Can′t Predict
Improve Schools and Transform Education In order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia: Dugongs and Manatees
Dugongs and manatees, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals, live in the coastal waters, rivers and lakes of more than 80 subtropical and tropical countries. Symbols of fierce conservation battles, sirenian populations are threatened by multiple global problems. Providing comparative informatio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia
Dugongs and manatees, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals, live in the coastal waters, rivers and lakes of more than 80 subtropical and tropical countries. Symbols of fierce conservation battles, sirenian populations are threatened by multiple global problems. Providing comparative informat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Equity Visits: A New Approach to Supporting Equity-Focused School and District Leadership
Because equity and instruction are inextricably bound Why are equity visits such a critical first step to increasing opportunity and access for our under-served students? Because they take instructional rounds to a new level, providing a powerful lens for investigating the intersections of equity ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Equity Visits: A New Approach to Supporting Equity-Focused School and District Leadership
Because equity and instruction are inextricably bound Why are equity visits such a critical first step to increasing opportunity and access for our under-served students? Because they take instructional rounds to a new level, providing a powerful lens for investigating the intersections of equity ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Toxicology of Marine Mammals
The activities of modern society have unleashed a range of toxic chemicals into the global environment. Many of these toxicants are now being detected in increasing quantities in the tissues of marine mammals, most notably in top predators who acquire relatively large amounts of toxic chemicals by i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Philosophy of Behavioral Biology
This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach, addressing philosophical issu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Molecular and Multimodality Imaging in Cardiovascular Disease
This book provides the most up-to-date coverage of the combined use of imaging modalities in order to acquire important functional and morphological information on cardiovascular disease and enhance disease detection. The recent developments in PET/MRI, cardiac CT, PET/CT and SPECT/CT and their imp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic landscape... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Commercialization of Innovative Technologies
This book helps you find innovative new technology ideas and guides you through the complete lifecycle of product innovation, including screening, funding, development, and commercialization. It gives you an edge by enabling you to start off with a solid foundation and strategy. Commercialization of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases (Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies)
In 2003, just before the start of the US invasion of Iraq, military planners predicted that the mission’s success would depend on using diverse sources for their workforce. While thousands of US troops were needed to secure victory in the field, large numbers of civilian contractors – many from poor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
War Without Fronts: The American Experience In Vietnam
The publication of this long out-of-print book should facilitate the ongoing conversation on how the American war in Vietnam continues to serve as a comparison for more recent U. S. overseas military campaigns. Thomas C. Thayer’s War Without Fronts, first appearing in 1985, offered an analysis o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1898 -
Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past
This book provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP)--a student-centered, active learning pedagogy that provides college students and faculty unique teaching and learning opportunities--as a high impact practice for student learning and engagement. The ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Imitation of Christ
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul II. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas à Kemp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement: An Example of a Summative Evaluation of a Standards-Based Curriculum (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)
Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this book demonstrates the challenges of conducting comparative longitudinal research in the reali... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment
A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government. The book concludes with a discussion of the issues of accountability and policy leadership.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Mark: New Testament (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture #Nt Volume 2)
Christianity Today... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Luke: A Theological Exposition Of Sacred Scripture (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture #3)
lectio continua... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Human Factors Models for Aviation Accident Analysis and Prevention
The investigation and modelling of aviation accident causation is dominated by linear models. Aviation is, however, a complex system and as such suffers from being artificially manipulated into non-complex models and methods. This book addresses this issue by developing a new approach to investigati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
An Introduction to U. S. Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations (5th Edition)
This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Artefact Kinds: Ontology and the Human-Made World (Synthese Library #365)
This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is, artefacts. As the chapters in the b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
GO Corp.
GO faces a crisis in March 1991 when Microsoft announces the introduction of a competing operating system for pen-based computers. GO's managers must work with its venture financers, Kleiner Perkins, to redesign its financing, alliance, and product development strategies.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Labor Relations in a Globalizing World
Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a G... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015