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Higher education is undergoing profound change at an unprecedented
pace in today's academic marketplace. This accelerating and
precipitating change has motivated these distinguished authors -
passionate observers of academe - to read well-chosen publications
about meeting demands and responding to needs among our nation's
historically Black universities and colleges (HBCUs). We have
captured the essence of expediting the critical analysis to
confront the challenges of academic administration, finance,
student life, technology, and other areas in the academic
enterprise. Today's administrators and academicians must be able to
make balanced decisions based on a methodology that is compendious,
intelligible, unambiguous, clear, and credible. The authors have
provided this methodology based on their collective experiences in
perhaps the toughest sector of the marketplace - the HBCU sector.
The timing of this savvy book could not be better. Given recent
media coverage of controversial and debatable decision-making at
institutions of higher learning, this book can serve as a resource
for meeting institutional challenges, approaching them with
sequential structure, involving stakeholders in analytics
(patterns) & informatics (processes) and formulating
recommendations for future arbitration. The active research process
for making these tough decisions provides a collaborative
convergence to advance the process from a collegial examination of
facts and issues. This process supports widespread advocacy in
higher education for fostering organizational learning, leveraging
human capital, institutionalizing human empowerment, and growing
learning communities of practice for success.
Malcolm X remarked that "education is the passport of the future."
This book, developed for aspiring and forward-thinking college
students, identifies future careers and future skill sets for the
global marketplace and workspaces on the horizon. These future
careers include occupations in artificial intelligence, information
technology, wearables, virtual reality, genomics, cryptocurrencies,
connected homes and others. The skill sets presented include
complex problem solving, critical thinking, emotional intelligence,
cognitive flexibility, detail orientation, creativity, and others
anticipating future competencies. The concepts of factual
knowledge, conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and
meta-cognitive knowledge are also discussed to foster the
undergraduate learning experience in American higher education.
Handbook of Biofuels Production: Processes and Technologies, Third
Edition provides a comprehensive and systematic reference on a
range of biomass conversion processes and technologies. In response
to the global increase in the use of biofuels as substitute
transportation fuels, advanced chemical, biochemical and
thermochemical biofuels production routes are quickly being
developed. Substantial additions for this new edition include
increased coverage of emerging feedstocks, including microalgae,
more emphasis on by-product valorization for biofuels' production,
additional chapters on emerging biofuel production methods, and
co-production of biofuels and bioproducts. The book's editorial
team is strengthened by the addition of an extra member, and a
number of new contributors have been invited to work with authors
from the first and second edition to revise existing chapters, with
each offering fresh perspectives. This book is an essential
reference for professional engineers in the biofuel industry as
well as researchers in academia, from post-graduate level and up.
This collaborative book by five distinguished scholars in
overlapping fields suggests that fruitful living is extremely hard
work and that social harmony requires the unlocking and the
emancipation of the human brain - the core cerebral source for
advancing human coherence, connectivity, cohesion and civility. The
stakes are simply too high for stakeholders across our country not
to respond to the ongoing and escalating crisis of human division
and the desperate need for engagement, enlightenment, and
acceptance of human diversity. The authors strongly encourage
academic and practitioner psychologists, as well as other students
and social scientists, to join a timely framed narrative for
greater progress in diversity. Neurodiversity aims to encourage
dialogue, discourse, and discovery about what may be obvious to
many but avoided by most - because its forces us to look inward
instead of outward. We can make such inward observations, through
the lenses of psychology, cognition, mindfulness, and
underleveraged brain capacity amid modern cultural neuroscience.
This is critically important - particularly in a time marked by the
widespread amplification of ambiguity, angst, ambivalence, and
anger. This book focuses on "crucial thinking" versus "critical
thinking." The authors pose fundamental questions -- about what we
are calling a form of cognitive "levitation" and taxonomical
"climbing" (CBDT) -- to think about purposes of intellectual
discourse, not necessarily to seek empirical evidence. A special
feature of this book is the inclusion of sample student learning
outcomes as "provisos" throughout the narrative. We have attempted
to integrate the student learning outcomes in the text's narrative
and connect them to the sections where they are inserted for the
reader. The book's embedded taxonomies can also facilitate the
instruction, composition, and conceptualization of targeted student
learning outcomes.
Handbook of Biofuels Production, Second Edition, discusses advanced
chemical, biochemical, and thermochemical biofuels production
routes that are fast being developed to address the global increase
in energy usage. Research and development in this field is aimed at
improving the quality and environmental impact of biofuels
production, as well as the overall efficiency and output of
biofuels production plants. The book provides a comprehensive and
systematic reference on the range of biomass conversion processes
and technology. Key changes for this second edition include
increased coverage of emerging feedstocks, including microalgae,
more emphasis on by-product valorization for biofuels' production,
additional chapters on emerging biofuel production methods, and
discussion of the emissions associated with biofuel use in engines.
The editorial team is strengthened by the addition of two extra
members, and a number of new contributors have been invited to work
with authors from the first edition to revise existing chapters,
thus offering fresh perspectives.
This is a book you will come back to again and again for simple
guidance. In its easy-to-read, easy-to-understand language, it
guides all believers but especially, the new believer and those in
their infancy stages on their journey through kingdom living and
eventually to a personal relationship with God. Understanding that
we go through our own journey to help others with theirs, the
author has passed on gems of wisdom from her own life to the
reader. As a result, the believer avoids wasted time searching in
the dark for answers. Karen Wilson Vatel is an author, a mentor and
an inventor. After leaving the corporate cultures of Wall Street
and Washington DC where she had been employed for almost 20 years
as an executive assistant and office manager she wrote her first
book. After years of mentoring others on developing a personal
relationship with God, she recognized there is a general need for
simple guidance on achieving this goal. As a result, this book was
birth out of her desire to mentor those in their infancy stages of
growing in relationship with God. Born in Trinidad and raised in
New York, she enjoys theatre and the arts, loves animals and
ladybugs and currently resides in Laurel, Maryland with her cat Mr.
Jazz.
Karen Wilson watched as a little tyke came running from the group
of golden retriever puppies as fast as his little legs would carry
him. Wearing a red ribbon, he was the most adorable bundle of
golden softness she had ever seen. As soon as he reached her and
she picked him up, he settled in her arms and immediately captured
her heart. There was no question that she was his mama and he was
her baby dolly. In a poignant retelling of the unconditional love
between a dog and his owner, Wilson details how Rusty, at five
weeks old, warmed her heart and eased doubts and pain as he quickly
acclimated to his new life in her home. He turned out to be a
gentle-natured puppy known to elevate the spirits of all who met
him. Wilson recalls Rusty's comical adventures as he grew by leaps
and bounds; made friends with her collie, Chester; had fun with a
rope swing, a bucket, and leaf piles; caught snowballs in his
mouth; and discovered that a cow can be a guardian angel. Dakota
Gold shares the true story of a tail-wagging, mischievous dog as he
is adopted by his new family, embraces the fun in life, and learns
from his best friend that love is the key to happiness.
Are you trapped in a job that doesn't suit or fit you? Do you wish
you could move on but don't know where to start? Trapped By Your
Salary will take you from Trapped By Your Salary to the Job Of Your
Dreams in just 12 steps. This workbook is for anyone who is ready
to move from where they are now to where they want to be. Combining
techniques from Business and Personal Coaching, Neuro Linguistic
Programming and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Trapped By Your
Salary is filled with insights and exercises to allow you to take
control. Over 12 steps you will take a good look at yourself from
your skills and abilities to how you dress, sound and present
yourself. This is the journey of a lifetime.
Determine to find out if her grandmother's stories are true, a
young girl ignores her mother's concerns and sets out to find her
father and bring him home. In the process, she learns who she is,
and the choices she made affected not only her but the world around
her.
Electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes), also known as vape devices or
by trade names such as JUUL, are handheld devices that aerosolize
liquid commonly containing nicotine, humectants and flavorings.
Used by 1 in 5 high school students in 2020, they are the most
common tobacco product used by youth. E-cigarette use has been
associated with a variety of health issues such as nicotine
addiction, e-cigarette or vaping associated lung illness (EVALI),
seizures, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. This
first-of-its-kind book begins with an introduction and background
on the historical context of tobacco products. The next chapters
provide an overview of the e-cigarette landscape and reviews the
e-cigarette devices and solutions and the evolution of these
products. This is followed by reviews of the health effects of
e-cigarettes on users and non-users and includes recommendations
for prevention and treatment of youth e-cigarette use. The last few
chapters address the public health impact of e-cigarettes with a
review of the evidence of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation. The
book closes with policy and advocacy approaches and a resource
page. E-cigarette and vape device use pose a public health crisis.
This book contains succinct practical information and is a key
reference for pediatricians as well as clinicians of all
specialities. It also serves as a resource for health
professionals, including tobacco dependence treatment providers and
public health experts.
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