J Reid: 58 books
Dilemmas in Educational Leadership
The Facilitator's Book of Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, educational consultant and group coach Donna Reid argues that popular vehicles for improving school cultures and student achievement, such as professional learning communities and critical friends groups, too often fail because the participants are unaware or unwilling to make the required...
Mathematics of Autonomy
Mathematical Methods for Cyber-Physical-Cognitive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Mathematics of Autonomy provides solid mathematical foundations for building useful Autonomous Systems. It clarifies what makes a system autonomous rather than simply automated, and reveals the inherent limitations of systems currently incorrectly labeled as autonomous in reference to the specific...
by F J Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Mid-winter. Britain is under thick snow. On his thirteenth birthday Alex finds that his godfather, Uncle Max, a mysterious archaeologist, has sent him a sword and a cryptic note. His parents vanish and a mysterious Watcher is out to get the sword. With his best friend, Callie, he flees to London to...
Andrew Melville (1545-1622)
Writings, Reception, and Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution...
by Anne Fortune, Robert Miller , Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better represent the context and complexity of social work practice. Chapters address different approaches to qualitative inquiry, applications to essential areas...
by Ed Teja, J. Reid Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
All she needs is an author!
Stephanie Masters has exactly what she needs to make her mark in publishing as an editor. She has found a writer who has written a great book and is writing more. But he is a recluse and there is no way he can promote his book--she needs an author, a charismatic...
The Task Planner
An Intervention Resource for Human Service Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2000
A comprehensive, A-to-Z set of task planners for more than one hundred psychosocial problems from alcoholism and anxiety to domestic violence and sexual abuse. Each entry includes a menu of actions the client can undertake to affect resolution, a guide to the practitioner's role in facilitating these...
A History of Modern Africa
1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries.
Adopts a long-term approach to current issues,...
by J. Reid Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
When Amanda Murphy accepted the command of a new spaceship that would test Earth’s revolutionary new propulsion system, she didn’t bother to ask why she was selected over the dozens of veterans with more rank and seniority. Until, that is, she learned that her new command would be totally under...
by J. Reid Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Proton, protector of the innocent and oppressed, roams the world of Chem fighting evil and injustice. But if she can't escape the ambush she has wandered into, all life on Chem will be in peril.
An adult story for those who appreciate chemistry and dedicated to adult chemists everywhere who have a sense of humor about their profession.
by Stuart J. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This edition features
• illustration
• a linked Table of Contents and Index
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS, EDUCATION, AND TRAVEL 1792-1813
Rise of the Russells under the Tudors — Childhood and early surroundings of Lord John — Schooldays at Westminster — First journey abroad with...
Humanism and Calvinism
Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560–1625
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched virtually every aspect of civic life; and nowhere was this more apparent than in the universities, the seedbed of political and ecclesiastical society. Focussing on events in Scotland, this book reveals how established...
Educational Supervision in Social Work
A Task-Centered Model for Field Instruction and Staff Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
This book provides a comprehensive examination of instructional supervision and introduces the Task-Centered Model for Educational Supervision (TCS). It begins by reviewing the history of educational supervision in social work and principles of effective teaching practices in the field. While theories...
Complexity and Control
Towards a Rigorous Behavioral Theory of Complex Dynamical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The book Complexity and Control: Towards a Rigorous Behavioral Theory of Complex Dynamical Systems is a graduate-level monographic textbook, intended to be a novel and rigorous contribution to modern Complexity Theory.
This book contains 11 chapters and is designed as a one-semester course...