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.