Daniel A : 502 books
Thinking Beyond the Test
Strategies for Re-Introducing Higher-Level Thinking Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...
Thinking Ahead
Engaging All Teachers in Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book addresses a very important aspect of teacher training, as well as the training of educational administrators, school counselors and other educational allied professionals, an aspect that is too often overlooked. That aspect is role modeling a deliberative mind. A deliberative mind is one...
by Rubén Sánchez Medero, Rubén Sánchez Medero, Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2016
La obra aborda el análisis de la comunicación política desde una perspectiva novedosa al combinar una aproximación académica y profesional. Ello permite realizar un adecuado tratamiento de algunos de sus principales conceptos, como los efectos de la comunicación en el comportamiento de los ciudadanos,...
Focus on Thinking
Engaging Educators in Higher-Order Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...
Atlas of Postsurgical Neuroradiology
Imaging of the Brain, Spine, Head, and Neck
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
As a result of the increasing number of surgical procedures on the brain, head, neck, and spine, postoperative changes are being encountered more frequently on neuroradiological examinations. However, these findings are often unfamiliar to neuroradiologists and neurosurgeons and can be difficult to...
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump
Images from Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
*Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:*Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place”...
by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...
by William J. Locke, A. & V. Gignoux (traducteurs), Jean-Daniel Brèque (traducteur)
Language: French
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 3, 2015
L’esprit vif, un cœur d’artichaut, une générosité à toute épreuve et un sens inné de la débrouillardise, voici Aristide Pujol, soldat de fortune, mais "le seul qui soit honorable sur tout le continent d’Europe".
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Child Abuse
Today's Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The purpose of this book is to attempt to explore child abuse from a contemporary perspective in terms of its multiple elements, victims, and criminal justice responses. This text will: (1) begin to address the needs of those studying child abuse from a cultural perspective; (2) provide a general...
by Daniel G. Strawn, Hinrich L. Bohn, George A. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Soil is key to sustaining life—affecting air and water quality, the growth of plants and crops, and the health of the entire planet. Soil Chemistry 4e provides comprehensive coverage of the chemical interactions among organic and inorganic solids, air, water, microorganisms, and the plant roots...
by Aylin Tekes-Brady, MD, Daniel P Seeburg
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Pediatric Imaging: Case Review is a quick review of common or rare but classic pediatric cases that tests your knowledge of pediatric imaging. Featuring updated pediatric body and pediatric neuro-imaging cases from fetus to young adolescents, this case review book includes over 300 images and 600...
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
Key States, High Stakes
Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...