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The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the
first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors
really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how
to succeed at each of the five "grade-bearing" moments of the
semester: (1) The Start (2) The Class (3) The Exam (4) The Paper
and (5) The Last Month of the Semester. Fast-paced, entertaining,
and easy-to-follow, the Professors' Guide will help you get truly
excellent grades in college.
Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and
seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in
Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early
sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early 'early modern'
period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds and
Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) addresses
this issue through a focus on key case studies (Sluter's portal of
the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg
Brothers' Tres Riches Heures), and on important formats
(altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn F. Jacobs examines
how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish
paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites
where artists could address relations between life and death,
aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God-and where
artists could exploit the "betwixt and between" nature of the
threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and
divisions between these different states and different worlds.
Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of
liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of
boundaries in Netherlandish art infused the works with greater
meaning. The book's probing of the -- often ignored --meanings of
the threshold motif casts new light on key works of Netherlandish
art.
Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and
seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in
Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early
sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early 'early modern'
period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds and
Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) addresses
this issue through a focus on key case studies (Sluter's portal of
the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg
Brothers' Tres Riches Heures), and on important formats
(altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn F. Jacobs examines
how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish
paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites
where artists could address relations between life and death,
aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God-and where
artists could exploit the "betwixt and between" nature of the
threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and
divisions between these different states and different worlds.
Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of
liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of
boundaries in Netherlandish art infused the works with greater
meaning. The book's probing of the -- often ignored --meanings of
the threshold motif casts new light on key works of Netherlandish
art.
Two award-winning professors, a former admissions officer at a
major university (now a counselor at a prestigious high school),
and a gifted high school senior (now in the throes of the college
admissions process himself) team up to offer you over 600 tips,
techniques, and strategies to help you get in to the college of
your choice. Comprehensive, yet easy-to-read, this book will teach
you: * How to size up the colleges you're considering and come up
with a coherent list. * What are college nights, college fairs, and
college rep visits and how you can use each to your advantage. *
What are "holistic", "contextualized", and "legacy" admissions and
how each can work for you. * How some schools count "demonstrated
interest" and how you can take advantage of this little-known fact.
* What are Early Decision, Early Action, and Single-Choice Early
Action and whether any is right for you. * How to figure out the
true costs of college, and what is the difference between "need-"
and "merit-based" aid. * What it means when colleges say they meet
"100% of demonstrated financial aid" and what "loan-free" means. *
When and how to make campus visits and what to do on each. * How to
prepare for each section of the ACT or SAT and how to increase your
scores. * What admissions officers are looking for in your
application and how to give it to them. * How to write the
all-important Common App essay and present your extra-curricular
activities. * How to prepare for an alumni interview and present
yourself in the best light. * Whom to ask for
letters-of-recommendation and how to help them write the best
possible letter. * How to compare your final offers and, in some
cases, substantially improve them. * When it's good to wait out the
"wait list" and when not. *-and much, much more. When you
understand the college admissions process, you can maximize your
chance of success. Why not put yourself ahead of the pack?
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the
most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up
and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and
the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance.
After Donald Trump’s surprising victories throughout rural
America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers,
popping into roadside diners and opining from afar. Rural Americans
are supposedly bigots, culturally backward, lazy, scared of the
future, and radical. But is it that simple? Is the country
splintering between two very different Americas—one rural, one
urban? This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of
the “rural voter”—a new political identity that combines a
deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of
concerns. Combining a historical perspective with the largest-ever
national survey of rural voters, Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M.
Shea uncover how this overwhelmingly crucial voting bloc emerged
and how it has roiled American politics. They show how perceptions
of economic and social change, racial anxieties, and a traditional
way of life under assault have converged into a belief in rural
uniqueness and separateness. Rural America believes it rises and
falls together, and that the Democratic Party stands in the way. An
unparalleled exploration of rural partisanship, this book offers a
timely warning that the chasm separating urban and rural Americans
cannot be papered over with policies or rhetoric. Instead, The
Rural Voter demonstrates, this division strikes at the heart of
enduring conflicts over American identity.
Eine traditionelle Kernaufgabe von Marketing-Entscheider betrifft
die Planung und Gestaltung solcher Massnahmen, die der Bearbeitung
umfassender Markte oder von Marktsegmenten dienen. Ihren konkreten
betrieblichen Niederschlag findet diese Aufgabe sehr oft im
Produktmanagement. Diesem Aufgabenfeld, wie es sich speziell fur
Business-to-Business-Markte darstellt, ist der vorliegende Band des
mehrbandigen Grundwerks "Technischer Vertrieb" gewidmet. Behandelt
werden Methoden und Ansatze zum Management des Leistungsprogramms,
der Distribution, der Kommunikation, des Leistungsentgelts und der
Vertragsgestaltung. Die Perspektive ist dabei branchenubergreifend
und umfasst die gesamte Breite des Business-to-Business-Bereichs,
also klassische Industriebranchen genauso wie den industriellen
Dienstleistungssektor.
Eine traditionelle Kernaufgabe von Marketing-Entscheider betrifft
die Planung und Gestaltung solcher MaAnahmen, die der Bearbeitung
umfassender MArkte oder von Marktsegmenten dienen. Ihren konkreten
betrieblichen Niederschlag findet diese Aufgabe sehr oft im
Produktmanagement. Diesem Aufgabenfeld, wie es sich speziell fA1/4r
Business-to-Business-MArkte darstellt, ist der vorliegende Band des
mehrbAndigen Grundwerks "Technischer Vertrieb" gewidmet. Behandelt
werden Methoden und AnsAtze zum Management des Leistungsprogramms,
der Distribution, der Kommunikation, des Leistungsentgelts und der
Vertragsgestaltung. Die Perspektive ist dabei
branchenA1/4bergreifend und umfaAt die gesamte Breite des
Business-to-Business-Bereichs, also klassische Industriebranchen
genauso wie den industriellen Dienstleistungssektor.
Master the art of providing effective IT services to your customers
by leveraging Zendesk About This Book * Deep dive into the
functionalities of Zendesk and improve your organization's customer
services * Learn how to expand the capabilities of Zendesk by
integrating and extending it with third-party tools * A master
level guide that manages tickets, channels, and workflows along
with advanced security features Who This Book Is For This book is
for proficient Zendesk administrators who want to unlock the full
potential of their Zendesk environment by gaining a deeper
understanding of Zendesk's advanced customization options. What You
Will Learn * Customize ticket channels such as Email, Twitter,
Facebook, and Web-Widget * Add business rules to create a more
effective and automated Zendesk environment * Use Zendesk apps to
add more functionality to the Zendesk setup * Extend Zendesk with
JIRA and Salesforce * Create custom metrics within GoodData in
order to set up customized and automated reports * Learn how to
secure and troubleshoot Zendesk In Detail Zendesk is a cloud-based
customer service solution that is widely used because it is easy,
efficienct, flexible, and low cost. It is highly scalable and is
great for organizations of all sizes. If you're a Zendesk
administrator and are looking to explore advanced-level concepts,
then this book is for you. It covers the core functionalities such
as managing users, groups, and the organization, and creating and
adding custom fields. You will learn how to add customized ticket
channels to your account. Then, you will focus on customizing
business rules and extending Zendesk with JIRA and Salesforce.
Towards the end, the book emphasizes security and troubleshooting
aspects as well as providing tips and tricks to create a more
efficient support environment. By the end of this book, you will be
able to turn a basic Zendesk setup into a highly customized working
environment. Style and approach This advanced guide provides easy
to understand examples to ensure you gain expertise with Zendesk.
As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the
United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of
the people, politics, and cultures of the region. In Imagining the
Middle East, Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans' ideas and
perspectives about the region have shaped, justified, and sustained
U.S. cultural, economic, military, and political involvement there.
Jacobs examines the ways in which an informal network of academic,
business, government, and media specialists interpreted and shared
their perceptions of the Middle East from the end of World War I
through the late 1960s. During that period, Jacobs argues, members
of this network imagined the Middle East as a region defined by
certain common characteristics - religion, mass politics,
underdevelopment, and an escalating Arab-Israeli-Palestinian
conflict - and as a place that might be transformed through U.S.
involvement. Thus, the ways in which specialists and policymakers
imagined the Middle East of the past or present came to justify
policies designed to create an imagined Middle East of the future.
Jacobs demonstrates that an analysis of the intellectual roots of
current politics and foreign policy is critical to comprehending
the styles of U.S. engagement with the Middle East in a post-9/11
world.
Academic writing is difficult, and Final Draft gives students all
the tools they need. Writing skills and in-depth analysis of models
set the stage for development. Corpus-based vocabulary,
collocations, and phrases, as well as detailed information on the
grammar of writing, prepare your learners for college writing
courses. Students learn to avoid plagiarism in every chapter of
every level. This dedicated, long-term focus on plagiarism
avoidance helps ensure that these students are able to use sources
and highlight their own thoughts.
For those who find themselves in the unenviable position of being
pink-slipped, there is valuable help in the form of a unique guide
that is not only funny but filled with life-saving and money-saving
tips. After being let go twice in her working life,
writer/photographer/fundraiser and now professional organizer
Leslie Jacobs learned how to not only survive but give birth to a
new, successful life-in effect to make lemonade out of those
proverbial lemons. Out of the wisdom gained, she created Survival
in the Unemployment Line, which provides the answer to "What do I
do now?" The book shows how to go about finding that next great
job, how to market yourself, how to manage those pesky monthly
bills, how to barter for the things you need, and what you can do
in the meantime to make money. There are a plethora of tips on how
to organize your life and stay on track, how to have cost-free fun,
and what to do to keep yourself from "going bonkers."
The southeastern United States is home to the richest, most diverse
freshwater mussel faunas on the planet, and Mississippi is no
exception in this regard. Until fairly recent times, however, only
qualitative lists of taxa were available and/or sampling was
unsystematic and spotty. More recent work has taken place in
waterways that have been significantly impacted by erosion, other
forms of water pollution, and impoundment in modern times. Thus,
even the best modern studies could benefit from a better knowledge
of ranges and community characteristics as they existed
prehistorically, when human impact, though present, an to this end
this work presents a robust synthesis of pre-industrial mussel
distributions and relative abundances in the state.
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