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Reinventing Crediting for Competency-Based Education: The Mastery Transcript Consortium Model and Beyond
Many argue that the conventional high school transcript has become irrelevant to today’s best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. With more and more school leaders turning to alternate, competency-based approaches for learning, crediting and transcripts can follow suit by drawing on bad... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Dynamics
This exciting text provides a mathematically rigorous yet accessible textbook that is primarily aimed at atmospheric science majors. Its accessibility is due to the texts emphasis on conceptual understanding.The first five chapters constitute a companion text to introductory courses covering the dyn... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1988 -
Music in the Post-9/11 World
Music in the Post-9/11 World addresses the varied and complex roles music has played in the wake of September 11, 2001. Interdisciplinary in approach, international in scope, and critical in orientation, the twelve essays in this groundbreaking volume examine a diverse array of musical responses to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Atmospheric Rivers
This book is the standard reference based on roughly 20 years of research on atmospheric rivers, emphasizing progress made on key research and applications questions and remaining knowledge gaps. The book presents the history of atmospheric-rivers research, the current state of scientific knowledge,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Jews and the Ends of Theory
by Shai Ginsburg • Martin Land • Jonathan Boyarin • Svetlana Boym • Sergey Dolgopolski • Jay Geller • Sarah Hammerschlag • Martin Jay • Elliot R. Wolfson • Andrew Bush • Hannan Hever • James I. Porter • Yehouda ShenhavTheory has often been coded as “Jewish”—not merely because Jewish intellectuals have been central participants, but also, this book argues, because certain problematics of modern Jewishness enrich theoretical questions across the humanities. In the range of violence and agency that can attend the ap... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Democracy In Developing Countries: Latin America
This text reflects improvements in democratic trends and the erosion of democratic advances in different countries. It regards political actors and institutions, and is concerned about the impact on democratic consolidation of economic constraints, weak states, judicial inefficacy and inequality.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
About Time: Speed, Society, People and the Environment
by Martin Rees • Will Hutton • Mary Warnock • Geoff Mulgan • Jay Griffiths • Jonathon Porritt • David Boyle • Alexandra Jones • Ghillean Prance • Tim AldrichWhere does all the time go? Despite the burgeoning army of machines designed to save us time – from cars and aeroplanes to dishwashers and microwaves – we don't seem to have any more of it on our hands. We simply fill the space we clear with more things to do – consuming more, spending more – and th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
The Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children: Evidence-Informed Approaches to Working with Traumatized Children and Adolescents in Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Care
by Bruce D. Perry • Daniel Hughes • Allan N. Schore • Jonathan Baylin • Elaine Farmer • Kim Golding • Cathy A Malchiodi • Noel Macnamara • Meredith Kiraly • Kathomi Gatwiri • Martin H. Teicher • Orgilmaa Munkbaatar • Glenda Kickett • Shaun ChandranThis innovative book brings together a wide range of therapeutic approaches, techniques and models to outline recent developments in the practice of supporting children in out-of-home care. It sheds light on the significance of schools, sports and peer relationships in the lives of traumatized child... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Peter Hofmann • Richard Litz • Jonathan Crane • André Ernst • Carlos Balerdi • Alejandro Barrientos Priego • Mary Arpaia • Ben Faber • Rodrigo López-Gómez • Uri Lavi • Elizabeth Dann • Andre Chanderbali • Pilar Gil • Lindy Coates • Mark Hoddle • Edward Evans • Derek Donkin • Carol Lovatt • Greg Douhan • Emanuel Lahav • Victor Albert • John Bower • Jay Bost • Martín Aluja • Lauren Garner • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Gary BenderAlthough the avocado has been cultivated and consumed for more than 9000 years in its native Latin America, world production and trade have only developed over the past few decades, and now exceed 3.5 million tonnes. The avocado is now widely traded between warmer and colder countries as a result o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Chaplaincy in Hospice and Palliative Care
by Ruth White • Jonathan Pye • Abbas Khalifa • Andy Edmeads • Bob Whorton • Caroline Mcafee • David Buck • Dawn Allan • Ewan Kelly • Gary Windon • Helen Newman • Jacki Thomas • Jessica Rose • Jill Brown • Jonathan Wittenberg • Judy Davies • Julian Abel • Karen Murphy • Kathryn Morrison • Liza Waller • Louise Adey Huish • Margery Collin • Martin Hill • Matthew Hagan • Nell Mellerick • Professor the Baroness Finlay Llandaff • Revd Dr Margaret Whipp • Sally Bedborough • Simon O'Donoghue • Stig Graham • The Most Revd Dr Richard ClarkeHospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secul... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Avocado
by Anthony W Whiley • Jonathan Crane • André Ernst • Carlos Balerdi • Alejandro Barrientos Priego • Mary Arpaia • Ben Faber • Rodrigo López-Gómez • Uri Lavi • Elizabeth Dann • Andre Chanderbali • Pilar Gil • Lindy Coates • Bruce Schaffer • Mark Hoddle • Edward Evans • Derek Donkin • Carol Lovatt • Greg Douhan • Peter Hofmann • Emanuel Lahav • Victor Albert • John Bower • Jay Bost • Richard Litz • Martín Aluja • Lauren Garner • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Gary Bender • B Nigel WolstenholmeAlthough avocado has been cultivated and consumed for more than 9000 years near its centre of origin in Latin America, world production and trade has increased dramatically over the past few decades. The avocado is now a widely traded fruit between warmer and colder countries as a result of the glob... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Health Humanities Reader
by Mark Vonnegut • Audrey Shafer • Martha Stoddard Holmes • Howard Brody • Jeff Nisker • Bradley Lewis • Rosemarie Tong • Ian Williams • Sander L. Gilman • Rafael Campo • Daniel Goldberg • Michael Rowe • Thomas R. Cole • Alice Dreger • Joseph N. Straus • Jonathan M. Metzl • Arthur W. Frank • E. Ann Kaplan • Rebecca Hester • John Lantos • Shelley Wall • Alan Bleakley • Marjorie Levine-Clark • Michael Sappol • Mark Clark • Professor Therese Jones • Professor Delese Wear • Professor Lester D. Friedman • David H. Flood • Rhonda L. Soricelli • Lisa Keränen • Martin F. Norden • Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni • Felicia Cohn • Martha Montello • Amy Haddad • Rebecca Garden • Jack Coulehan • Professor Bernice Hausman • Gretchen A. Case • Allen Peterkin • Susan M. Squier • Sayantani DasGupta • Maren Grainger-Monsen • Benjamin Saxton • Jerald Winakur • Anne Hudson Jones • Tod Chambers • Raymond C. Barfield • Lucy Selman • Jeffrey P. Bishop • Catherine Belling • Paul Root Wolpe • Professor Allison B. Kavey • Julie M. Aultman • Michael Blackie • Erin Gentry Lamb • Jay BaruchOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Barbara Jones • Paul Coleman • Anna Dean • David Waltner-Toews • Michael Clarke • Iain J. Gordon • Rea Tschopp • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Karin Hediger • Mahamat Bechir • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Martin Bunch • Maxine Whittaker • Dennis C Turner • Abigail Woods • Michael Bresalier • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky • Wiku Adisasmito • Cécile Aenishaenslin • Seid Mohamed Ali • Ian Allen • Silvia Alonso • Vilda Amir • Maurizio Aragrande • Sara Babo Martins • Zolzaya Baljinnyam • William Bazeyo • Andrea Beetz • Jeffrey Bender • Mónica Berger-González • Benjamin Blair • Barry Blakley • Massimo Canali • Nakul Chitnis • Guéladio Cissé • Kathryn C. Conlon • Lisa Crump • Soledad Cuevas • Paula Dominguez-Salas • Colleen Duncan • Kaylee Errecaborde • Patricia Farnese • Thomas Fries • Samuel Fuhrimann • Christa A. Gallagher • Ratna B. Gurung • Felix Hafner • Barbara Häsler • Jan Hattendorf • Joldoshbek Kasymbekov • Julia S. Lankton • Huong Le Thi • Henrik Lerner • Michael Mahero • Stephanie Mauti • Céline Mbilo • Hélène Meier • Mary Elizabeth Miranda • Vi Nguyen-Viet • Brigit Obrist • Peter Odermatt • Anna Okello • Christopher A.L. Oura • Katharine Pelican • Kristina Pelikan • Phuc Pham-Duc • Sue Pollock • Sangay Rinchen • Karma Rinzin • Felix Roth • Johanne Saint-Charles • Alexandra Shaw • Jonathan M. Sleeman • Woutrina Smith • Keira Spinner • Katharina D. Stärk • Arlette C. Szelecsenyi • Tenzin Tenzin • Jimmy Tickel • Karin Tschanz-Cooke • Hoang Van Minh • Alain Vandermissen • Tu Vu-Van • Daniel P. Walsh • Sylvia Wanzala • Lenke Wettlaufer • C. LeAnn White • Andreas F. Widmer • Hind Yahyaoui • Christian ZurbrüggOne Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021