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Defying the Odds
The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Now updated to include the 2018 midterms and previewing the coming 2020 election cycle, Defying the Odds provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. With its keen insights...
by William Zumeta, David W. Breneman, Patrick M. Callan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education.
The authors identify and address basic issues and trends that...
Strategic Transformation of Higher Education
Challenges and Solutions in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Strategic Transformation of Higher Education examines the broken revenue-driven business model characteristic of higher education in an environment that demands greater access, more affordable tuition, accountable leaders, and faculty who deliver a consistently high quality of relevant education....
The Mindful and Effective Employee
An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training Manual for Improving Well-Being and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The importance of improving and maintaining employees’ psychological health is now widely recognized by occupational health researchers and practitioners, business leaders, human resource professionals, and policy makers alike. Indeed, a growing body of research has established that psychological...
Writing and Developing Your College Textbook
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**Writing and crafting a textbook and attending to authoring tasks is a time-consuming, complex—some would say monumental—project, even harrowing at times. **This updated and expanded third edition will empower you to undertake textbook development by guiding you through the nuts and bolts of...
With Us Always
A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts...
The American West at Risk
Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense,...
Beyond Residency
The New Physician’s Guide to the Practice of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Beyond Residency offers practical, no-nonsense advice about the business and economics of being a medical doctor. Used as a textbook in the Business of Medicine Course at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, this edition is designed to work more broadly for other institutions teaching...
Music in Our Lives
Rethinking Musical Ability, Development and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Why do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock? These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly...
by James E. Gern, MD, William W. Busse
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Now in its sixth edition, this incisive handbook provides clear explanations of the hypersensitivity mechanisms involved in allergic diseases and asthma. Based on the extensive clinical expertise of two acknowledged leaders in the allergy and asthma field, this handbook explains the guidelines for...
Achieving Strategic Excellence
An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
This is the Center for Effective Organizations’s (CEO) fourth national study of the human resources (HR) function in large corporations. It is the only long-term national study of this important function. Like the previous studies, it focuses on measuring whether the HR function is changing and...
Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction
An Anthology for Researchers, Policy Makers, and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally. This book is the final and major project of the Association of Teacher Educators' (ATE) Commission on Teacher Induction...
by Ronald W. Rebore, Angela L. E. Walmsley
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Engage a new generation of teachers to create effective learning communities!
Administrators will find a research-based framework for hiring and retaining Generation Y educators, whose exposure to technology and diversity makes their perspectives dramatically different from previous...
Crime Classification Manual
A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Praise for Crime Classification Manual
"The very first book by and for criminal justice professionals in the major case fields. . . . The skills, techniques, and proactive approaches offered are creatively concrete and worthy of replication across the country. . . . Heartily recommended for...