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This book provides a comparative look at key issues that characterize and contextualize upper secondary science education in sixteen countries in Oceania, South America, Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East, incluing links with elementary and early science, final assessment, and the secondary/tertiary education interface.

Miguel Fibs! is about a little boy who has a reputation of being very good. Everyone, including his mother, father, and teacher, sees him as a very good little boy. He knows it is expected of him so he wants to be good. However, rather than to erase that image, he tells fibs to cover up that he is not always good. Then, his conscience starts to bother him, and he imagines seeing images in the mirror and becomes afraid. After a long period of w...

Those involved in urban neighborhood and community research with an applied focus will find in this volume a number of useful and practical examples of how to do it...The modesty with which some of the results is presented is refreshing, and the candor with which the authors treat their shortcomings is commendable. Several authors make it quite clear that good research does not necessarily produce the best information for those working to impr...

Argues that obstacles to deepening our understanding of community/crime links arise in part because most scholars have overlooked four fundamental concerns: how conceptual frames depend on the geographic units and/or temporal units used, and how to establish the meaning of theoretically central ecological empirical indicators.

Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”—such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross—are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century. Which physician was the inspiration for the fictional character She...

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Wellfleet, una delle tante località balneari sull'incantevole penisola di Cape Cod nel Massachusetts, è il luogo dove Miss Prudence Whitsby possiede un cottage che usa come residenza estiva e che divide con la nipote Betsey. In una torrida estate, il capanno della casa viene preso in affitto da Dale Sanborn, uno scrittore in cerca di un posticino tranquillo dove concentrarsi sulla stesura del nuovo romanzo, lontano dall'afa della città e dalle...

Now in its second edition, this exceptionally lucid and practical assessment text provides a wealth of powerful concrete examples to help students understand assessment concepts and effectively use assessment to support learning. Rather than treat assessment separately from instruction, this book's unique approach treats assessment as a central factor in the life of a teacher every day, whether it's part of planning instruction, composing smal...

Instantly engaging, constantly suspenseful, ultimately poignant and satisfying. Loved it!"--Diana Gabaldon, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time traveler...

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The authors of this book present current research in the study of superconductivity. Topics discussed in this compilation include the effects of non-magnetic defects in hole doped cuprates, deep cryogenic refrigeration by photons based on the phonon deficit effect in superconductors, superconductivity driven by an anti-polar electric phase in high temperature superconducting materials, superconductive graphite intercalation compounds, a superc...

John Taylor's colorful stories portray life during the early days of the Forest Service, when travel was by horse and rangers carried guns. His day-to-day jobs included fighting fires, rounding up wild horses, disposing of moonshine stills on national forest land near Butte during Prohibition, and hiring down-and-out men for the CCC during the Depression.

This book presents must-know facts generally not covered in “How To” books about medical writing. Every medical writer, whether a beginner or veteran, needs answers to questions many might not even know to ask. How does your personality type influence your writing behavior, and what can you do to make writing easier for you? What should you ask before agreeing to co-author an article for publication or write a book chapter? What are some of th...

Excerpt from The Oakland Stories: KennyKenny had no one to keep him company, and nothing to do. He sat down on the stone steps before the front door, feeling not exactly unhappy, but rather uncomfortable. Presently he heard the sound of a horse's feet and of wheels in the lane.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an import...

Between fiscal years 2002 and 2007, the refuge system experienced funding and staffing level fluctuations, the introduction of several new policy initiatives, and the increased influence of external factors such as extreme weather that threaten wildlife habitat and visitor infrastructure. Although core funding -- measured as obligations for refuge operations, maintenance, and fire management -- increased each year, inflation-adjusted core fund...

Excerpt from Virginia Baptist Ministers, Vol. 2 of 2In the last summer and autumn his friends and physicians thought that traveling might improve his health, but from this he was prevented, it is believed, exclusively by his attachment to his domestic enjoyments. Indeed, he said that when away from his family his mind never felt at rest. Then the idea was cherished, while the blasts of winter would apparently destroy him, that the mildness of ...

Excerpt from Restricted Communion: Or, Baptism an Essential Prerequisite to the Lord's Supper Matt, xxviii: 19-20. "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you." 1 Corinthians xi: 1-2. "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all thi...

Excerpt from Man's Best Friend, the Dog: A Treatise Upon the Dog This little work will not treat of the dog, man's dumb friend, as a sporting or a fighting animal, but will dis cuss it as a companion of the human race and a guar dian and ornament of the home. Those who delight in the pugnacity of certain breeds and the cultivators of freak dogs are not friends of the noble animal and have no place here. The author is mindful of Shakespeare's...