L Tom: 81 books
by Tamara L. Falicov, Ben Goldsmith, Janice Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites...
Working in the Wings
New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre,...
Safety, Liberty, and Islamist Terrorism
American and European Approaches to Domestic Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, produced a revolution in domestic security in the United States. The Bush administration responded quickly by aggressively enforcing existing laws, sponsoring new legislation, overhauling domestic intelligence, and employing the president's executive power...
Airport Systems, Second Edition
Planning, Design and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
THE MOST PRACTICAL, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE PLANNING, DESIGN, AND MANAGEMENT OF AIRPORTS--UPDATED BY LEADING PROFESSIONALS
"With the accelerated rate of change occurring throughout the aviation industry, this edition is a timely and very effective resource for ensuring both airport professionals...
Solar Cells
Materials, Manufacture and Operation
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Enormous leaps forward in the efficiency and the economy of solar cells are being made at a furious pace. New materials and manufacturing processes have opened up new realms of possibility for the application of solar cells. Crystalline silicon cells are increasingly making way for thin film cells,...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
New Technologies and Human Rights
Challenges to Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Whilst advances in biotechnology and information technology have undoubtedly resulted in better quality of life for mankind, they can also bring about global problems. The legal response to the challenges caused by the rapid progress of technological change has been slow and the question of how international...
by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, José Pardo-Tomás
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own...
Pointing at the Moon
Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This volume collects essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies. Many have distinguished scholarly records in Western philosophy, with expertise in analytic philosophy and logic, as well as deep interest in Buddhist philosophy. Others have...
by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from...
by Stephen Balogh, Laura A. Bozzi, Robin Broad
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.
Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but...
What Does Life Do?
Understanding Life as a Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
What is the nature of life? How did life on Earth begin? How is life connected to the Earth and the Universe? How have humans altered the course of life?
In this book, Kennedy changes our vies of life by asking a simple question, "what does it do?" With this one question, Kennedy...
by Tom L. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The ocean passage in 1822 of the ship Camillus was a challenge for the fifty-one passengers in steerage. Among the passengers was the Scott Sawyer family, which included his pregnant wife, Catherine, and their three young children. As they neared the wharf in New York, they welcomed their fourth child,...
Grading for Impact
Raising Student Achievement Through a Target-Based Assessment and Learning System
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Aim for a target-based grading system and create stronger learning opportunities!
As grading, assessment, and reporting continue to be a relevant topic of discussion, this book creates a functional plan to move standards-based grading practices forward in schools. Teachers and teacher leaders...