David A : 1722 books
by David A. Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Brain research has provided a tremendous opportunity to develop instructional techniques that facilitate the brain's innate learning capacity. As educators, we can take this knowledge and apply it to the strategies we use in our classrooms.
This essential resource, based on David A. Sousa's best-seller...
by David A. Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Brain research has provided a tremendous opportunity to develop instructional techniques that facilitate the brain's innate learning capacity. As educators, we can take this knowledge and apply it to the strategies we use in our classrooms.
This essential resource, based on David A. Sousa's best-seller...
by Professor Duane M. Rumbaugh, David A. Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behavioral scientists have realized that animals can be rational, can think in abstract symbols, can understand and react to human speech, and can learn through observation as well as conditioning many of the more complicated...
by David A. White
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions. In this book David White interprets the dialogue in ways which account for this problematic structure, and which also connect the primary themes...
Whose Mission, Whose Orders?
British Civil-Military Command and Control in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict in Northern Ireland left intriguing questions unanswered: who made the crucial decisions about the use of the British Army during the Troubles - the politicians or the generals? And how did these decisions shape the army’s operations on the...
Straight Choices
The Psychology of Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Should I have this medical treatment or that one?
Is this computer a better buy than that one?
Should I invest in shares or keep my money under the bed?
We all face a perplexing array of decisions every day. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the new edition of Straight...
Experiential Learning
Experience as the Source of Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and up-to-date statement of the theory of experiential learning...
FAME: Tim McGraw
McIntee, David A.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
One of the most prolific, biggest-selling country-western stars of all time, Tim McGraw has won a legion of fans across the world. He has sold over 40 million records, had 21 consecutive albums hit number one on the Billboard Charts, and even ventured into acting—starring alongside well-known actors...
3-d Negotiation
Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
When discussing being stuck in a "win-win vs. win-lose" debate, most negotiation books focus on face-to-face tactics. Yet, table tactics are only the "first dimension" of David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius' pathbreaking 3-D Negotiation (TM) approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and...
Grit, Noise, and Revolution
The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
". . . a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene."
---Marshall Crenshaw
From the early days of John Lee Hooker to the heyday of Motown and beyond, Detroit has enjoyed a long reputation as one of the crucibles of American pop music. In Grit, Noise, and Revolution,...
Capture
Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range...
Angelfish
Understanding and Keeping Angelfish
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
David A Lass’s introduction to angelfish fulfills its subtitle, Understanding and Keeping Angelfish,” and more. This colorful guide in the Fish Keeping Made Easy series discusses angelfish in their natural Amazon rain forest habitat in South America and the needs of this beautiful and recognizable...
Alley-Oop to Aliyah
African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Every season, dozens of African American basketball players pack up their sneakers to play and live in Israel. They eat Israeli food, navigate Israeli hustle and bustle, experience cultural and religious customs in the world’s only Jewish country, and voluntarily expose themselves to the omnipresent...
Kith, Kin, and Neighbors
Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly...