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The Teacher's Sourcebook for Cooperative Learning
Practical Techniques, Basic Principles, and Frequently Asked Questions
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
A dynamic team of authors demonstrates how any classroom teacher can use cooperative learning techniques for lesson planning, classroom management, and improving students' collaboration skills.
The Royal Armoured Corps in the Cold War 1946 - 1990
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Royal Armoured Corps’ composition may have changed dramatically during the four and a half decades of The Cold War but its role in the nation’s defence has been predominant. This highly informative book focuses on the deployment of the British Army’s armoured regiments from the end of the...
by Don P. Wolf, Martin M. Quigley
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The births of more than 100 apparently normal infants at term following pregnancies initiated by in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer testifies to the successful clinical application of insights obtained from studies in reproductive biology over the last 20 years. In women, these studies have...
by Joop Hermens, Antoon Opperhuizen, Dirk T.H.M. Sijm
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment. Volume 2, Part E of this series is dedicated to ozone photochemistry, nonenzymatic oxydation systems, QSAR in environmental chemistry and biotransformation of chemicals in fish.
by T.M.V. Suryanarayana, P.B. Mistry
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book highlights the estimation of crop yield in Central Gujarat, especially with regard to the development of Multiple Regression Models and Principal Component Regression (PCR) models using climatological parameters as independent variables and crop yield as a dependent variable. It subsequently...
The appearance of social inequalities: Cases of Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies
Published in Origini n. XXXVIII/2015-2. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
By using a new methodological approach, which is based on the reconstruction of social roles of households by comparing architecture and inventories, the origin of social inequality is detected in a Neolithic village. In contrast the identification of manifold social identities in a Chalcolithic mega-site...
On the Take
How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2004
We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of an iceberg...
The Element of Negotiation in the Pacific Settlement of Disputes between States
An Analysis of Provisions Made and/or Applied since 1918 in the Field of the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The system of the pacific settlement of disputes contained in the United Nations Charter - confirmed in 1970 in the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States - is based on agreement between the parties on both the method to be applied...
by Marcia P. Miceli, Janet Pollex Near, Terry M. Dworkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
This is a research-based book on whistle-blowing in organizations. The three noted authors describe studies on this important topic and the implications of the research and theory for organizational behavior, managerial practice, and public policy. In the past few years there have been critical developments, including corporate scandals, which
The Financial Revolution in England
A Study in the Development of Public Credit, 1688-1756
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Peter Dickson's important study of the origins and development of the system of public borrowing which enabled Great Britain to emerge as a world power in the eighteenth century has long been out of print. The present print-on-demand volume reprints the book in the 1993 version published by Gregg...
by M.L. Occelli, P. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Catalyst production for the transformation of crudes into gasoline and other fuel products is a billion dollar/year business and fluid cracking catalysts (FCCs) represent almost half of the refinery catalyst market. During the cracking reactions, the FCC surface is contaminated by metals (Ni, V, Fe,...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
Drug Abuse and Antisocial Behavior
A Biosocial Life Course Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book is rooted in the conviction that human biology plays a critical role in understanding drug abuse and antisocial behavior. In the same breath, however, it fundamentally affirms the importance of the many social and environmental factors that influence our behavior across the life course....
Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe?
New Production Concepts and Spatial Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned...