Upa imprint: 654 books
by Chinyere Ogbonna
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This book traces the political and financial...
smarTEST Prep
Guide to LSAT Logic Games
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
smarTEST Prep: Guide to LSAT Logic Games presents a standardized and methodical approach to conquering the Logic Games section of the LSAT. This book helps readers to understand the fundamentals of logic games and how to properly diagram their solutions. Featuring innovative strategies to increase...
The Liberal Arts Tradition
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the...
by Irina Zakirova
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
There is no universally accepted definition of moral damages, but the concept is usually understood in the context of torts that cause psychological harm to a person or a person’s rights that are difficult to quantify. Heaven’s Chancellery describes the difficulties of obtaining legal compensation...
Hmayeak Shems
A Poet of Pure Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Hmayeak Shems: A Poet of Pure Spirit presents the life and writings of Armenian poet Hmayeak Shems (1896-1952). The Armenian Genocide of 1915 devastated Shems, who lost his family and home. For eight years he wandered in exile, his voice extinguished by anguish. Yet from debilitating isolation, Shems...
The Higher Education Scene in America
Some Observations
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Based on the authors’ experiences in academe over seventy-five years, The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations discusses a number of issues that confront America’s higher education scene today. Those issue embrace such problems as: (1) the missions(s) of our colleges and universities...
Play and Performance
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from...
American Paradise
Hidden Ironies, Contradictions, Illusions, and Delusions, Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Absurdities in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The way we live, work, and die-alone and with other Americans-have so many hidden layers that we might as well say that there are two Americas: one we think we know and the other virtually unknown to us. Such a thought is compelling enough to motivate a sociologist to start writing down what he thinks...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students is an effective tool for educators and a textbook for professors of higher education. The concepts discussed in the book provide a body of knowledge that will enable leaders to understand the critical issues surrounding inner city school students...
Passing the State Science Proficiency Tests
Essential Content for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Passing the State Science Proficiency Tests presents essential content for elementary and middle school teachers who want to improve their science content background, enhance their classroom instruction, or pass the state science proficiency tests. This book addresses different aspects of the physical,...
Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions as Habits of Mind
Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent with the philosophical orientation in the college’s conceptual framework to call forth dispositions, or key habits of mind that are consistent with reflective intelligence.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who “drag down” their grade average on the state report card. This book describes the current state of the...
HÀNH TRANG NGÔN NG?: LANGUAGE LUGGAGE FOR VIETNAM
A First-Year Language Course
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This first-year Vietnamese language textbook introduces college students to all aspects of the Vietnamese language and culture in twelve comprehensive chapters. Each chapter begins with a list of active vocabulary used for the selected topic, followed by dialogue and grammar utilized in everyday situations...
Fighting for Africa
The Pan-African Contributions of Ambassador Dudley J. Thompson and Bill Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from colonialism and racism. Ambassador Dudley Thompson, though born in the West Indies, became a British barrister. Thompson lived in Africa, where he provided essential...