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This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate
regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single
volume. After providing a representative sampling of competing
philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of disability as
such, the volume goes on to address such themes as the complex
interplay between disability and quality of life, questions of
social justice as it relates to disability, and the personal
dimensions of the disability experience.
By explicitly locating the discussion of various applied ethical
questions within the broader theoretical context of how disability
is best conceptualized, the volume seeks to bridge the gap between
abstract philosophical musings about the nature of disease, illness
and disability found in much of the philosophy of medicine
literature, on the one hand, and the comparatively concrete but
less philosophical discourse frequently encountered in much of the
disability studies literature. It also critically examines various
claims advanced by disability advocates, as well as those of their
critics.
In bringing together leading scholars in the fields of moral
theory, bioethics, and disability studies, this volume makes a
unique contribution to the scholarly literature, while also
offering a valuable resource to instructors and students interested
in a text that critically examines and assesses various approaches
to some of the most vexing problems in contemporary social and
political philosophy.
"Highlighting the best in management learning theory and practices,
the authors provide a comprehensive approach to leadership from a
learning perspective. This exciting new book, from award-winning
authorities on learning, describes how leaders gain the advantage
when they cultivate learning in themselves and others"--
Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and
Conservation focuses on minor crustacean groups and regionally
endemic groups, all from freshwaters. Chapters in this book cover
crustaceans such as Maxillopods, Mysids, Cumaceans, Isopods,
Amphipods, Branchiopods, Copepods, and Decapods. Each looks at
global or regional fauna and discusses conservation issues for that
group. The majority of the chapters are based on papers presented
at symposia organized by the editors at two international
scientific meetings held in Barcelona and Washington DC. The
contributors are world-renowned experts on their groups, as well as
on freshwater crustacean conservation and biodiversity at global
levels. It has previously been difficult for conservation managers,
NGOs, and university professors and students who may not have
access to comprehensive journal subscriptions to find relevant
information on diversity and conservation of freshwater
crustaceans. This book meets that need, addressing crustacean
groups not previously treated and providing additional information
beyond any presented in existing books. As the editors write in
their introduction: we cannot conserve and we cannot protect what
we do not know exists. This is a reliable, cutting-edge reference
for anybody involved in crustacean research: students, researchers,
agencies, and NGOs, as well as science educators, conservationists,
and government conservation policymakers. The book will also be
useful for those working in aquaculture and fisheries, given that
many of the taxa discussed are economically important.
This book will, first, move the reader through philosophy's major
conceptions as ideas that initiate and sustain educational and
learning processes. The book will then provide an historical
account of the key periods, development, and contributions of the
liberal arts enterprise mainly within Western civilization, but
increasingly so for and from Eastern civilization. Important
ancient and contemporary figures including Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Hypatia, Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, Francisco
Suarez, Immanuel Kant, John Rorty, Martha Nussbaum, and other women
and men are explored for their contributions to the initiation and
sustaining of philosophy, liberal learning models, and the
humanities. The book also includes three chapters on the
application dimensions of the liberal arts model of higher
learning, mainly its development of critical, creative, and ethical
thinking competencies for effective citizenship and problem solving
in the world.
Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and
Conservation focuses on minor crustacean groups and regionally
endemic groups, all from freshwaters. Chapters in this book cover
crustaceans such as Maxillopods, Mysids, Cumaceans, Isopods,
Amphipods, Branchiopods, Copepods, and Decapods. Each looks at
global or regional fauna and discusses conservation issues for that
group. The majority of the chapters are based on papers presented
at symposia organized by the editors at two international
scientific meetings held in Barcelona and Washington DC. The
contributors are world-renowned experts on their groups, as well as
on freshwater crustacean conservation and biodiversity at global
levels. It has previously been difficult for conservation managers,
NGOs, and university professors and students who may not have
access to comprehensive journal subscriptions to find relevant
information on diversity and conservation of freshwater
crustaceans. This book meets that need, addressing crustacean
groups not previously treated and providing additional information
beyond any presented in existing books. As the editors write in
their introduction: we cannot conserve and we cannot protect what
we do not know exists. This is a reliable, cutting-edge reference
for anybody involved in crustacean research: students, researchers,
agencies, and NGOs, as well as science educators, conservationists,
and government conservation policymakers. The book will also be
useful for those working in aquaculture and fisheries, given that
many of the taxa discussed are economically important.
While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new
environments for learning, they present many new challenges to
faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room’s
central focal point and disrupt its conventional seating plan to
which faculty and students have become accustomed. The importance
of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on
their special features is paramount. The potential they represent
can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning
outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner
different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls. This book
provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history
and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide
faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use
these unfamiliar spaces effectively. Among the questions this book
addresses are: How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a
central focal point in the space? What types of learning activities
work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the
room? How can teachers address familiar classroom-management
challenges in these unfamiliar spaces? If assessment and rapid
feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a
room filled with circular tables and no central focus point? How do
instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger
class? How can students be held accountable when many will
necessarily have their backs facing the instructor? How can
instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these
spaces? This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or
already working in this new classroom environment; for
administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with
provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping
teachers transition to using these new spaces.
Highlighting the best in management learning theory and practices,
the authors provide a comprehensive approach to leadership from a
learning perspective. This exciting new book, from award-winning
authorities on learning, describes how leaders gain the advantage
when they cultivate learning in themselves and others.
This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate
regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single
volume. After providing a representative sampling of competing
philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of disability as
such, the volume goes on to address such themes as the complex
interplay between disability and quality of life, questions of
social justice as it relates to disability, and the personal
dimensions of the disability experience.
By explicitly locating the discussion of various applied ethical
questions within the broader theoretical context of how disability
is best conceptualized, the volume seeks to bridge the gap between
abstract philosophical musings about the nature of disease, illness
and disability found in much of the philosophy of medicine
literature, on the one hand, and the comparatively concrete but
less philosophical discourse frequently encountered in much of the
disability studies literature. It also critically examines various
claims advanced by disability advocates, as well as those of their
critics.
In bringing together leading scholars in the fields of moral
theory, bioethics, and disability studies, this volume makes a
unique contribution to the scholarly literature, while also
offering a valuable resource to instructors and students interested
in a text that critically examines and assesses various approaches
to some of the most vexing problems in contemporary social and
political philosophy.
While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new
environments for learning, they present many new challenges to
faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room's
central focal point and disrupt its conventional seating plan to
which faculty and students have become accustomed. The importance
of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on
their special features is paramount. The potential they represent
can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning
outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner
different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls. This book
provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history
and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide
faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use
these unfamiliar spaces effectively. Among the questions this book
addresses are: How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a
central focal point in the space? What types of learning activities
work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the
room? How can teachers address familiar classroom-management
challenges in these unfamiliar spaces? If assessment and rapid
feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a
room filled with circular tables and no central focus point? How do
instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger
class? How can students be held accountable when many will
necessarily have their backs facing the instructor? How can
instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these
spaces? This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or
already working in this new classroom environment; for
administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with
provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping
teachers transition to using these new spaces.
The Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America
focuses on freshwater invertebrates that can be identified using at
most an inexpensive magnifying glass. This Guide will be useful for
experienced nature enthusiasts, students doing aquatic field
projects, and anglers looking for the best fish bait, lure, or
fly.Color photographs and art, as well as the broad geographic
coverage, set this guide apart.
362 color photographs and detailed descriptions aid in the
identification of species
Introductory chapters instruct the reader on how to use the
book, different inland water habitats and basic ecological
relationships of freshwater invertebrates
Broad taxonomic coverage is more comprehensive than any guide
currently available"
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Nearctic
Fauna, Fourth Edition presents a comprehensive revision and
expansion of this trusted professional reference manual and
educational textbook-from a single North American tome into a
developing multivolume series covering inland water invertebrates
of the world. Readers familiar with the first three editions will
welcome this new volume. The series, now entitled Thorp and
Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, (edited by J.H. Thorp), began
with Volume I: Ecology and General Biology, (edited by J.H. Thorp
and D.C. Rogers). It now continues in Volume II with taxonomic
coverage of inland water invertebrates of the Nearctic
zoogeographic region. As in previous editions, all volumes of the
fourth edition are designed for multiple uses and levels of
expertise by professionals in universities, government agencies,
and private companies, as well as by undergraduate and graduate
students.
Readers familiar with the first three editions of Ecology and
Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (edited
by J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich) will welcome the comprehensive
revision and expansion of that trusted professional reference
manual and educational textbook from a single North American tome
into a developing multi-volume series covering inland water
invertebrates of the world. The series entitled Thorp and Covich's
Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.H. Thorp) begins with the
current Volume I: Ecology and General Biology (edited by J.H. Thorp
and D.C. Rogers), which is designed as a companion volume for the
remaining books in the series. Those following volumes provide
taxonomic coverage for specific zoogeographic regions of the world,
starting with Keys to Nearctic Fauna (Vol. II) and Keys to
Palaearctic Fauna (Vol. III). Volume I maintains the ecological and
general biological focus of the previous editions but now expands
coverage globally in all chapters, includes more taxonomic groups
(e.g., chapters on individual insect orders), and covers additional
functional topics such as invasive species, economic impacts, and
functional ecology. As in previous editions, the 4th edition of
Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater
Invertebrates is designed for use by professionals in universities,
government agencies, and private companies as well as by
undergraduate and graduate students.
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, Fourth Edition: Keys
to Neotropical Hexapoda, Volume Three, provides a guide for
identifying and evaluating a key subphylum, hexapoda, for Central
America, South America and the Antarctic. This book is essential
for anyone working in water quality management, conservation,
ecology or related fields in this region, and is developed to be
the most modern and consistent set of taxonomic keys available. It
is part of a series that is designed to provide a highly
comprehensive, current set of keys for a given bioregion, with all
keys written in a consistent style. This series can be used for a
full spectrum of interested readers, from students, to university
professors and government agencies.
This book will be useful for students on a wide range of courses
and it assumes no knowledge of programming and cover everything
needed to write a large program. Part One goes through all the main
programming concepts carefully. Part Two covers a variety of topics
which students may find useful in their project work. Part Three
goes through the design and coding of a sample project. Visual
Basic .NET has introduced many changes to the language, and is now
infused with the OOP (object-oriented programming) approach.
Although it is possible to use the book without using the OOP
approach covered in Chapters 17 and 18, many students will welcome
the straightforward explanation of OOP concepts, the sample
programs and the practice exercises. The concepts covered include:
Data encapsulation Inheritance Polymorphism.
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Astrum Divinus
John D Christopher
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Discovery Miles 3 700
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Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Palaearctic
Fauna, Fourth Edition, is part of a multivolume series covering
inland water invertebrates of the world that began with Vol. I:
Ecology and General Biology (2015), then Vol. II (2016) Keys to
Nearctic Fauna, and finally in Vol. III (2018) Keys to Neotropical
Hexapoda (insects and springtails). It now continues with
identification keys for Palearctic invertebrates in Vol. IV. Two
other volumes currently in development focus on general
invertebrates of the Neotropical/Antarctic, and Australasian
Bioregions. Other volumes in the early planning stages include
Afrotropical and Oriental/Oceanic Bioregions. All volumes are
designed for multiple uses and levels of expertise by professionals
in universities, government agencies and private companies, as well
as by graduate and undergraduate students.
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, Volume 5: Keys to
Neotropical and Antarctic Fauna, Fourth Edition, covers inland
water invertebrates of the world. It began with Ecology and General
Biology, Volume One (Thorp and Rogers, editors, 2015) and was
followed by three volumes emphasizing taxonomic keys to general
invertebrates of the Nearctic (2016), neotropical hexapods (2018),
and general invertebrates of the Palearctic (2019). All volumes are
designed for multiple uses and levels of expertise by professionals
in universities, government agencies, private companies, and
graduate and undergraduate students.
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