Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.
The ADDIE process is past its prime. It was developed long before Agile and other iterative processes that have introduced greater efficiencies in design and development, fostered more creativity, and addressed effective stakeholder involvement. This introduces two new concepts - SAM, the Successive Approximation Model, and the Savvy Start. Together, they incorporate contemporary design and development processes that simplify instructional des...
Das einstige Physik-Genie Boris Yellnikoff ist mit seinem Leben auf ganzer Linie gescheitert. Bis ihm eines Tages die Ausreißerin Melody in die Arme fällt und dann auch gleich bei ihm einzieht. Das funktioniert alles für eine Weile auch ganz gut, bis plötzlich Melodys Mutter Marietta unangemeldet vor der Tür steht. Wenig begeistert von ihrem neuen "Schwiegersohn" sucht sie nach einer geeigneten Alternative für ihre Tochter und entdeckt ganz ne...
Including annotated excerpts from Karl Barth's "Church Dogmatics" and additional essays on Barth's life and work and his place in modern theology, this book offers an introduction to the whole work, key readings in reasonable portions with introductions and provides helpful hints at secondary material.
Here, Michael Allen, focuses on the personal and social issues that students bring to school each day, which impacts his/her education. This book teaches educators how to identify and protect themselves against the common pitfalls found in diverse schools where underlying philosophical and social differences can unknowingly bring tensions that can be transmitted from one student, to many. Based on real-life stories, this book takes a hard and ...
Here, Michael Allen, focuses on the personal and social issues that students bring to school each day, which impacts his/her education. This book teaches educators how to identify and protect themselves against the common pitfalls found in diverse schools where underlying philosophical and social differences can unknowingly bring tensions that can be transmitted from one student, to many. Based on real-life stories, this book takes a hard and ...
This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power.
For centuries, southern peanut farmer Jedediah Shine has protected secret preserves of Wild Fey from humanity. He's shielded modern humanity from bloodthirsty Fey. Unknown factions from both are dropping fresh corpses on his lawn, leaving Jedediah holding the body bags.
A vengeful mercenary company resurrect an ancient blood feud. Forewarned against direct action, the Namhaid orchestrate a subtle plot pitting the wizard against law enforce...
Many sophisticated investors will tell you it is neither necessary nor possible to time the market. In Why Most Investors Fail and Why You Don't Have To, author Michael Jon Allen shows you why they are wrong and then outlines an investment strategy that works. Allen, who bridges the gap between fundamental and quantitative analysis and demonstrates his unique multidisciplined style of investment, shows you how to invest in a system that • cons...
Many sophisticated investors will tell you it is neither necessary nor possible to time the market. In Why Most Investors Fail and Why You Don't Have To, author Michael Jon Allen shows you why they are wrong and then outlines an investment strategy that works. Allen, who bridges the gap between fundamental and quantitative analysis and demonstrates his unique multidisciplined style of investment, shows you how to invest in a system that • cons...
Excavations along the new road line have revealed nearly 6000 years of human activity, from a massive marker post erected by early Neolithic farmers at the head of a dry valley to a bizarre burial of several different animals dating to the sixteenth century AD. Prehistoric discoveries include two enclosures of the middle Bronze Age, both associated with some of the earliest cobbled roads in Kent, a collection of Iron Age storage pits rich in d...
Alle drei Teile der beliebten Star Wars-Version von Robot Chicken, in der Szenen der verschiedenen Episoden der weltbekannten Saga in gewohnter Stop-Motion-Animation parodiert werden.
Die Macher blieben ihrem Konzept treu und präsentieren mit Episode I und Episode II eine Vielzahl an Sketchen, die der Star Wars-Saga entlehnt sind und satirisch neuinterpretiert werden. Wie immer liegt der Fokus dabei auf der Frage nach dem Banalen innerhalb de...
Nature Tales is a charming collection of encounters with the natural world. Including beautifully drawn illustrations and a foreword from Sir David Attenborough, Nature Tales is a charming celebration of Britain's wildlife and countryside.
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included ...
Western Rivermen, the first documented sociocultural history of its subject, is a fascinating book. Michael Allen explores the rigorous lives of professional boatmen who plied non-steam vessels--flatboats, keelboats, and rafts--on the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers from 1763-1861. Allen first considers the mythical "half horse, half alligator" boatmen who were an integral part of the folklore of the time. Americans of the Jacksonian and pre...