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Creating a Collaborative Culture in Community Colleges
Faculty Development: Creating a Collaborative Culture in Community Colleges addresses how faculty developers work with changes and challenges in teaching within the community college context. Using a multi-case study design based on semi-structured interviews, document analysis, focus groups and surveys, …
View book details for Socratic Methods in the Classroom
Encouraging Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Through Dialogue (Grades 8-12)
Since the Renaissance, the Socratic Method has been adapted to teach diverse subjects, including medicine, law, and mathematics. Each discipline selects elements and emphases from the Socratic Method that are appropriate for teaching individuals or groups how to reason judiciously …
Elnora Comstock is a poor girl, living with her widowed mother on the edge of the Limberlost swamp. She begins high school despite lack of money and her painfully unfashionable dress. She faces cold neglect from her mother, a woman …
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A Timepathway Book
When a teenage priestess, living 5,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt, connects with Rhory, an English schoolboy visiting the British Museum, she puts herself and him in grave danger. The link they forge through the pathways of time is noticed. …
View book details for Job Interview Tips for Overcoming Red Flags
Winning Strategies, Examples, and Short Stories for People With Not-So-Hot Backgrounds
Most people have one or two red flags in their background some minor and embarrassing, others major job killers. Given todays high-tech world, with its rapid communication and instant background checks, your red flags may follow you wherever you go. …
View book details for Radical Brewing
Recipes, Tales and World-Altering Meditations in a Glass
Radical Brewing takes a hip and creative look at beer brewing, presented with a graphically appealing two-color layout.
View book details for A Path of Joy
Popping into Freedom
The search for spiritual enlightenment becomes difficult when seriousness replaces simple commitment. You close the door on the joy of being by taking yourself seriously. When you discover a path of joy, however, freedom is no longer a difficult task …
View book details for Let's Create Writers
Writing Lessons for Grades Seven and Eight
In this book, Dr. Timothy Horan presents an original and highly effective writing program whose major goal is to transform middle school students into competent and confident writers. This writing program is innovative, rigorous, and engaging, and was designed with …
Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on …
View book details for Mechanical Reliability Improvement
Probability and Statistics for Experimental Testing
Providing probability and statistical concepts developed using pseudorandom numbers, this book covers enumeration-, simulation-, and randomization-based statistical analyses for comparison of the test performance of alternative designs, as well as simulation- and randomization-based tests for examination of the credibility of …
Striking a balance between the use of computer-aided engineering practices and classical life testing, this reference expounds on current theory and methods for designing reliability tests and analyzing resultant data through various examples using Microsoft Excel, MINITAB, WinSMITH, and ReliaSoft …
View book details for Aeolian Geomorphology
Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 17
This book, first published in 1986, stems from the 1986 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium. The topic was chosen because of the advances in the study of aeolian processes and landforms, particularly in the area of desertification, and the papers collected here …
Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical languageand apparent inconsistencies in the textin the light of philosophy and scientific reason. Composed as a letter to a student, …
First published in 1997. Adrian Walsh develops an original account of social justice using neo-Aristotelian value theory. At the heart of the book is an account of the human good in which human interests are divided into three main categories: …
Published in 1999. These essays are not deconstructive in the postmodern sense. of the authors have that depth of scepticism about knowledge claims, but they are all concerned that the terms of reference of Cold War enquiry have been …
View book details for Europe and Finland
Defining the Political Identity of Finland in Western Europe
First published in 1998, this volume asked the question, what is Europe?. What is Finlands position in Europe?. The author tries to give an answer to these questions by defining first Europe in terms of its key political traditions and …
View book details for Food Production in Urban Areas
A Study of Urban Agriculture in Accra, Ghana
Published in 1999, this book explores the emergence of contemporary urban agriculture as well as official attitudes toward this practice. Using three theoretical models, the author tells us who is more likely to be involved in urban agriculture. In line …
First published in 1999 , this book provides an analysis of the role of constitutional governance from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The range of disciplines represented in the collection of papers aims to open new perspectives on topics that …
First published in 1999, this volume contributed to the debate on the European Union in furthering the study of environmental policy and, expressly, by introducing promising young scholars to the debate. The volume is based on a series of seminars …
First published in 1997, this volume approaches the controversial issue of Medicare and its future. First passed in 1965 to aid payments for elderly and disabled medical care, the costs had ballooned in the 1990s, asking questions about how to …
View book details for Into the Margins
Migration and Exclusion in Southern Europe
First published in 1999, this insightful volume thoroughly explores the issue of migration and social exclusion in Southern Europe. It has a number of distinct approaches, including balancing academic research by including the South, reflecting on migration-related policies and a …
First published in 1999 , the book is based on papers given at the final workshop of a research project into the evolution of environmental regulation in Poland undertaken as part of the UKs ERSC Global Environmental Change Programme. Other …
View book details for Managing Quality
Strategic Issues in Health Care Management
First published in 1999, this eclectic collection of papers examines quality management in health care from a variety of standpoints. Managers, health care professionals and patients all have valid but often differing perspectives on the nature of quality, its creation …
View book details for Politicians in the Pulpit
Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism
First published in 1999, the world of Christian radicalism in the first half of the nineteenth century is reconstructed here with thorough research by Eileen Groth Lyon. Christian radicals, during this period, sought to incite political action through the use …
This book helps apply managerial accounting techniques to problems in areas including that of cost estimation, cost control, product pricing, and business segment discontinuation. It is a valuable resource for short-term courses and seminars conducted to train professionals and practitioners …
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