This book moves beyond the rhetoric surrounding the basic skills debate by providing a thorough yet critical examination of urban education, urban school reform, and teachers¿ work culture.
First published in 1985, this book explores the `lived culture¿ of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States.
The purpose of this book is to provide an accessible introduction to geosciences for a wide range of students and lay persons. This is a practical book for those who want to understand the earth, without the need to become scientific experts.
The book takes an integrative approach to the subject of electromagnetics by supplementing quintessential "old school" information and methods with instruction in the use of new commercial software such as MATLAB.
This book describes methods and software implementations for the analysis of interval-censored data. The authors present the theoretical background for all methods and apply the methods to real data sets. They also provide the R, SAS, and WinBUGS code for all the examples, enabling readers to modify the code and use the methods to solve their own practical problems. In addition, most of the data sets used in the text are available online.
Discover everything you need to know about "Coco", the new "Disney Pixar" movie being made by the team behind "Toy Story 3" and set for release in December.
Teaching English by the Book explores how can we help every child become a confident and creative user of English through building an English curriculum that is meaningful, exciting and challenging. This accessible and inspiring text shows how putting books at the heart of English teaching can transform children¿s attitudes to reading and writing and have a positive impact on their learning.
Ancient Philosophy provides a broad introduction to ancient philosophy, including influences from the Ancient Near East, up to Late Antiquity. A collection of chapters from leading scholars explore the developments of key thinkers and schools of ancient thought. The book provides contextualising introductions to the major periods allowing the seating of thought within its wider environment as well as using primary source material to help illum...
Jumpstart! Religious Education presents a collection of simple to use games and activities that will jumpstart students' understanding of religions. This indispensable and practical guide provides activities to explore belief systems including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Humanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism and Far East traditions.
Was wird geschehen, wenn jetzt nichts passiert? Stefan Frey denkt diese Frage bis zum bitteren Ende durch und legt ein Szenario vor, das uns in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft erwartet. Das scheinbar Unmögliche wird wahrscheinlich, wenn uns Ablenkung, Ignoranz und Opportunismus in einem Atem raubenden, aber scheinbar unmerklichen Ablauf unwiderruflich an das Unerträgliche heranführen. "Wenn sich wirtschaftliche Monopole auf die Seite der politische...
This modern textbook guides the reader through the theory and practice of the motion and attitude control of space vehicles. It first presents the fundamental principles of spaceflight mechanics and then addresses more complex concepts and applications of perturbation theory, orbit determination and refinement, space propulsion, orbital maneuvers, interplanetary trajectories, gyroscope dynamics, attitude control, and rocket performance. Many a...
Marine invertebrate larvae are an integral part of pelagic diversity and have stimulated the curiosity of researchers for centuries. This book integrates the latest research in order to provide a modern synthesis of this interdisciplinary field.