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Effective Superintendent-School Board Practices
Strategies for Developing and Maintaining Good Relationships With Your Board
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Superintendents and board members are provided real-life vignettes highlighting challenges and successes, information on building relationships and managing conflict, and reflective practice questions and self-assessment.
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
White-Collar Crime
An Opportunity Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational...
by Homa S. Tavangar, Rebecca L. Morales
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
***Integrate global learning activities in your elementary classrooms today with this easy-to-use guide!
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This smart, all-in-one resource from widely acclaimed authors Homa Tavangar and Becky Morales provides hundreds of easy, stand-alone activities, resources, and projects to help busy educators:
Seamlessly...
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
Reports from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established...
by Guy McBride, Ron Dumont, John O. Willis
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Quickly acquire the practical coverage and guidance you need to understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services...
Expectation, Enterprise and Profit
The Theory of the Firm
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Production is a complex system of interdependent activities, necessary to the system as a whole, which itself depends on the continuance of each individual activity that composes it. In such a system, resources must be committed to specific technological purposes long in advance to the ultimate sale...
Globalization and Agriculture
Redefining Unequal Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...
Smart Choices
A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Where should I live? Is it time to get a new job? Which job candidate should I hire? What business strategy should I pursue?
We spend the majority of our lives making decisions, both big and small. Yet, even though our success is largely determined by the choices that we make, very few of us...
by Bonnie S. Billingsley, Mary T. Brownell, Maya Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
What every special education teacher needs to know to survive and thrive
A Survival Guide for New Special Educators provides relevant, practical information for new special education teachers across a broad range of topic areas. Drawing on the latest research on special educator effectiveness...
Computer Networks
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
This best-selling and classic book teaches you the key principles of computer networks with examples drawn from the real world of network and protocol design. Using the Internet as the primary example, the authors explain various protocols and networking technologies. Their systems-oriented approach...
by Hessam S. Sarjoughian, Raphaël Duboz, Jean-Christophe Soulie
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This guide demonstrates how virtual build and test can be supported by the Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) simulation modeling formalism, and the System Entity Structure (SES) simulation model ontology. The book examines a wide variety of Systems of Systems (SoS) problems, ranging from...
by P. Chartier, G.L. Ferrero, U.M. Henius
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Biomass is set to play an increasing role in the supply of energy, both in the industrialised world and in developing countries, as concern for the state of the global environment grows. The possibility for the acceleration of commercial production has received support from the increasing involvement...
Human Fatigue Risk Management
Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry teaches users everything they need to know to mitigate the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery. As human fatigue has been directly linked to several major disasters, the book explores the API RP 755 guidelines...