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by K.L.S. Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Overview of Industrial Process Automation, Second Edition, introduces the basics of philosophy, technology, terminology, and practices of modern automation systems through the presentation of updated examples, illustrations, case studies, and images.
This updated edition adds new developments...
The TurnAround ToolKit
Managing Rapid, Sustainable School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The TurnAround Toolkit outlines a formative evaluation program for enhancing school and student achievement. Included are pocket summaries for each chapter and an online "toolkit."
Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty
Problems of Epistemic Inference
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This work breaks new ground by carefully distinguishing the concepts of belief, confirmation, and evidence and then integrating them into a better understanding of personal and scientific epistemologies. It outlines a probabilistic framework in which subjective features of personal knowledge and objective...
by Donald S. Kachur, Judith A. Stout, Claudia L. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process. Drawing from their study of 40 schools in the United States and Canada, the authors show how administrators and...
Empathy
From Bench to Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.
There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help...
The Legacy of the Cold War
Perspectives on Security, Cooperation, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to explicate its legacy. But instead of relying on preconceived formulas to project past developments, taking...
The Everychurch Guide to Growth
How Any Plateaued Church Can Grow
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
A growing church is a living church, but much of the attention in church growth today is focused on making big churches bigger. This encouraging new book shows members of small and medium-sized congregations how to revive and expand their ministries as well. Churches of every size tend to plateau...
by Frank L. Pedrotti, Leno M. Pedrotti, Leno S. Pedrotti
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Introduction to Optics is now available in a re-issued edition from Cambridge University Press. Designed to offer a comprehensive and engaging introduction to intermediate and upper level undergraduate physics and engineering students, this text also allows instructors to select specialized content...
Latina Legacies
Identity, Biography, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian...
Predictive Policing
The Role of Crime Forecasting in Law Enforcement Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Predictive policing is the use of analytical techniques to identify targets for police intervention with the goal of preventing crime, solving past crimes, or identifying potential offenders and victims. These tools are not a substitute for integrated approaches to policing, nor are they a crystal ball....
Community Forestry
Local Values, Conflict and Forest Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Providing a critical and incisive examination of community forestry, this is a detailed study of complex issues in local forest governance, community sustainability and grassroots environmentalism. It explores community forestry as an alternative form of local collaborative governance in globally...
by Jerry L. Wallace, Pamela S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Southwestern College is located in Winfield, Kansas, on a prominence that overlooks the Walnut River Valley. Determined to bring education to the plains of Kansas, Methodist leaders founded the college in 1885. These early pioneers and their successors built beyond their dreams, creating a strong, unique,...
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...