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Teach your children about the animals of the forest with this fun
and educational book. Five animals - a brown bear, wolf, squirrel,
otter and deer - are explored through rhyme, pictures and pull-out
cards to construct into 3D figures. With two spreads dedicated to
each animal, adults will be able to read the short playful rhyme on
each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to
teach them about their habits and environment. The inside of the
dust jacket is printed full colour with a graphical representation
of the animals' environment.
The repair, renovation and replacement of highway infrastructure,
along with the provision of new highways, is a core element of
civil engineering, so this book covers basic theory and practice in
sufficient depth to provide a solid grounding to students of civil
engineering and trainee practitioners. * Moves in a logical
sequence from the planning and economic justification for a
highway, through the geometric design and traffic analysis of
highway links and intersections, to the design and maintenance of
both flexible and rigid pavements * Covers geometric alignment of
highways, junction and pavement design, structural design and
pavement maintenance * Includes detailed discussions of traffic
analysis and the economic appraisal of projects * Makes frequent
reference to the Department of Transport s Design Manual for Roads
and Bridges * Places the provision of roads and motorways in
context by introducing the economic, political, social and
administrative dimensions of the subject
International Models of Changemaker Education: Programs, Methods,
and Design offers educators (pre-service and in-service teachers,
principals, vice principals and school staff, teacher educators,
and educational leaders in K-12 education) around the world, a
practical guide to understanding and implementing the programmatic
structures and institutional cultures that help young people
discover and activate their power as changemakers. The text is
perfect for educators who have the vision of inclusion and
empowerment and are looking for field tested how-to's from the
front lines of school/teacher/student interactions. The book
presents a compelling set of field-tested, experience-based
international educational models that cover the curriculum,
mindset, cultures, and systems that have proven successful in
supporting young people in their growth as catalysts for change.
The models include the meeting of basic needs through innovative
collaboration, addressing changemaking in teacher education,
teacher shortages in high poverty communities, as well as models of
peace education, environmental education, and models focused on
social emotional learning and intelligence.
This self-help guide is intended for scientists and medical
professionals and students who wish to improve their scientific
writing skills. Exercises invite the reader to practice the most
important aspects of scientific writing. Although the book
addresses certain issues more troublesome to scientific
communicators of a non-English language origin, the guide will be
of equal benefit to those whose first language is English. If you
want not only to write but to write well, this book is for you.This
second edition takes into account new developments in the area of
scientific communication. In particular, the importance of
authenticity is addressed, drawing attention to the sensitive issue
of plagiarism in scientific texts.
Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to
entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple
perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of
entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and
throughout the world, the multiple communication theories that bear
on E-E, and a range of research methods for studying the effects of
E-E interventions. The editors include commentary and insights from
prominent E-E theoreticians, practitioners, activists, and
researchers, representing a wide range of nationalities and
theoretical orientations. Examples of effective E-E designs and
applications, as well as an agenda for future E-E initiatives and
campaigns, make this work a useful volume for scholars, educators,
and practitioners in entertainment media studies, behavior change
communications, public health, psychology, social work, and other
arenas concerned with strategies for social change. It will be an
invaluable resource book for members of governmental and non-profit
agencies, public health and development professionals, and social
activists.
International Models of Changemaker Education: Programs, Methods,
and Design offers educators (pre-service and in-service teachers,
principals, vice principals and school staff, teacher educators,
and educational leaders in K-12 education) around the world, a
practical guide to understanding and implementing the programmatic
structures and institutional cultures that help young people
discover and activate their power as changemakers. The text is
perfect for educators who have the vision of inclusion and
empowerment and are looking for field tested how-to's from the
front lines of school/teacher/student interactions. The book
presents a compelling set of field-tested, experience-based
international educational models that cover the curriculum,
mindset, cultures, and systems that have proven successful in
supporting young people in their growth as catalysts for change.
The models include the meeting of basic needs through innovative
collaboration, addressing changemaking in teacher education,
teacher shortages in high poverty communities, as well as models of
peace education, environmental education, and models focused on
social emotional learning and intelligence.
A classic since its first appearance in the 1980s, this
comprehensive reference continues to be the history of the spread
of new ideas, for academics and professionals alike. In an age of
ever-increasing technological innovation, this renowned
volume--which has sold more than 30,000 copies in each edition--is
more important than ever. Diffusion of Innovations lucidly explains
how inventions and new concepts spread via communication channels
over time. As professor Everett Rogers explains, such innovations
are almost always perceived as uncertain or even risky. To overcome
this, most people seek out others like themselves who have already
adopted the new idea. The diffusion process, then, is most often
shaped by a few individuals who spread the world amongst their
circle of acquaintances, a process that typically takes months or
years. But there are exceptions: use of the Internet in the 1990s,
for instance, may have spread more rapidly than any other
innovation in human history--and it continues to influence the very
nature of diffusion by decreasing the significance of physical
distance between people. As thought-provoking as it is instructive,
this fully updated, widely acclaimed work of scholarship is itself
a great idea that continues to spread.
Teach your children about the animals of the savannah with this fun
and educational board book, part of a series that explores the
natural world. Its companion titles, The Jungle Crew and The Polar
Pack, focus on the rainforest and polar regions. The Safari Set
features five animals - a hippo, giraffe, elephant, lion and zebra
- with delightful rhyming text and gorgeous illustrations which
young children will find hugely appealing and adults will love to
share with them. There are two spreads dedicated to each animal as
well as a small introduction and summary page. The book also
features some fun facts about each animal on the inside back cover.
This book shifts the common perception of specialised or 'LSP'
translation as necessarily banal and straightforward towards a more
realistic understanding of it as a complex and multilayered
phenomenon which belies its standard negative binary definition as
'non-literary'.
This book shifts the common perception of specialised or 'LSP'
translation as necessarily banal and straightforward towards a more
realistic understanding of it as a complex and multilayered
phenomenon which belies its standard negative binary definition as
'non-literary'.
Teach your children about our aquatic friends with this fun and
educational book, part of a series that explores the natural world.
The series has three existing titles: The Safari Set, The Polar
Pack and The Jungle Crew, and two new titles exploring birds and
forest animals: The Sky Guys and The Forest Folk. Five sea
creatures - a seal, seahorse, shark, turtle and whale - are
explored through rhyme and pictures. With two spreads dedicated to
each creature, adults will be able to read the short playful rhyme
on each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to
teach them about their habits and environment. The book also
features some fun facts about each animal on the inside back
cover.--Button Books "Button Books"
In most cases of civil engineering development, a range of
alternative schemes meeting project goals are feasible, so some
form of evaluation must be carried out to select the most
appropriate to take forward. Evaluation criteria usually include
the economic, environmental and social contexts of a project as
well as the engineering challenges, so engineers must be familiar
with the processes and tools used.
The second edition of "Engineering Project Appraisal" equips
students with the understanding and analytical tools to carry out
effective appraisals of alternative development schemes, using both
economic and non-economic criteria. The building blocks of economic
appraisal are covered early, leading to techniques such as net
present worth, internal rate of return and annual worth. Cost
Benefit Analysis is dealt with in detail, together with related
methods such as Cost Effectiveness and the Goal Achievement Matrix.
The text also details three multi-criteria models which have proved
useful in the evaluation of proposals in the transportation, solid
waste, energy and water resources fields: the Simple Additive
Weighting (SAW) Model, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
technique and Concordance Analysis. There is a full discussion
dealing with risk and uncertainty in these models.
With many worked examples and case studies, "Engineering Project
Appraisal" is an essential text for both undergraduate and
postgraduate students on professional civil engineering courses,
and it is expected that students on planning and construction
management courses will find it a valuable addition to their
reading.
This volume contains papers presented at the Conference on the
Demographic and Programmatic Consequences of Contraceptive In
novations, which was sponsored by the Committee on Population and
held at the National Academy of Sciences, October 6-7, 1988. The
papers consider how new contraceptive methods currently being
developed and changes in the use of already available
contraceptives could affect contraceptive practice, levels and
patterns of abortion use, and the health of women. In addition,
several of the papers re view the probable consequences of
introducing new technology into family planning programs in
developing countries. The Committee on Population sponsored this
conference in order to stimulate think ing and to provide a forum
for scientists, family planning program managers, and donor agency
personnel to exchange information and ideas about these important
issues. The committee is publishing these papers to expand the
discussion of consequences of contracep tive innovations and to
give scientists, policy makers, and members of the public who could
not attend the conference an opportunity to learn about new
developments in fertility control and their likely consequences for
individuals and the societies in which they live. NEED FOR NEW
METHODS While a strong case can be made that the pill and the
intrauterine device (IUD) have contributed to declines in the level
of unintended pregnancies around the world, it is also clear that
for many couples existing methods present problems.
A cutting-edge review of the biochemical, physiological,
pharmacological, genetic, and molecular interactions involved in
the development and homeostasis of the skeleton. Topics range from
chondrogenesis, chondrocytes, and cartilage to skeletal
dysmorphology, and include the control of skeletal development,
osteoblastic cell differentiation, and bone induction, growth,
remodeling, and mineralization. The authors' understanding of bone
physiology-and how it is modified throughout all the stages of
life-offers novel approaches for improving the endurance of
load-bearing implants, achieving life-long optimal bone strength,
overcoming microgravity situations (space flight), and hastening
the healing of fractures, osteotomies, and antrodeses.
Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in
the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the
1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the
definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality-the
editors and contributors place Mormons in larger American histories
of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional
interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that
the political support of the Latter-day Saints has proven, at
critical junctures, valuable to other political groups. The
willingness of Americans to accept Latter-day Saints as full
participants in the United States political system has ranged over
time and been impelled by political expediency, granting Mormons in
the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing
political needs and perceptions. Contributors: Matthew C. Godfrey,
Church History Library; Amy S. Greenberg, Penn State University; J.
B. Haws, Brigham Young University; Adam Jortner, Auburn University;
Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University; Patrick Q. Mason,
Claremont Graduate University; Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State
University; Thomas Richards, Jr., Springside Chestnut Hill Academy;
Natalie Rose, Michigan State University; Stephen Eliot Smith,
University of Otago; Rachel St. John, University of California
Davis
A cutting-edge review of the biochemical, physiological,
pharmacological, genetic, and molecular interactions involved in
the development and homeostasis of the skeleton. Topics range from
chondrogenesis, chondrocytes, and cartilage to skeletal
dysmorphology, and include the control of skeletal development,
osteoblastic cell differentiation, and bone induction, growth,
remodeling, and mineralization. The authors' understanding of bone
physiology-and how it is modified throughout all the stages of
life-offers novel approaches for improving the endurance of
load-bearing implants, achieving life-long optimal bone strength,
overcoming microgravity situations (space flight), and hastening
the healing of fractures, osteotomies, and antrodeses.
Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to
entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple
perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of
entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and
throughout the world, the multiple communication theories that bear
on E-E, and a range of research methods for studying the effects of
E-E interventions. The editors include commentary and insights from
prominent E-E theoreticians, practitioners, activists, and
researchers, representing a wide range of nationalities and
theoretical orientations. Examples of effective E-E designs and
applications, as well as an agenda for future E-E initiatives and
campaigns, make this work a useful volume for scholars, educators,
and practitioners in entertainment media studies, behavior change
communications, public health, psychology, social work, and other
arenas concerned with strategies for social change. It will be an
invaluable resource book for members of governmental and non-profit
agencies, public health and development professionals, and social
activists.
Teach your children about the animals of the forest with this fun
and educational book, part of a series that explores the natural
world. The series has three existing titles - The Safari Set, The
Polar Pack and The Jungle Crew - and two new titles exploring birds
and sea creatures: The Sky Guys and The Marine Team. Five animals -
a brown bear, wolf, squirrel, otter and deer - are explored through
rhyme and pictures. With two spreads dedicated to each animal,
adults will be able to read the short playful rhyme on each spread
to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them
about their habits and environment. The book also features some fun
facts about each animal on the inside back cover.--Button Books
"Button Books"
Inspire music ministers to confidently and prayerfully lead your
community in song with Living LiturgyTM for Music Ministers.
Dynamic content and an engaging team of contributors offer music
ministers the spiritual preparation they need to be effective
leaders of sung prayer. The Liturgy of the Word, including the
psalm, will come alive in new ways for the entire worshiping
assembly. Living LiturgyTM for Music Ministers begins with the
First Sunday of Advent 2023 and includes: Suggestions for the
psalmist’s spiritual preparation and prayer Readings and
responsorial psalm for every Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday,
Good Friday, Easter Vigil, and holy days of obligation Reflection
on the day’s gospel reading Catechetical connections between the
readings Ministry prayers that correspond with the Extraordinary
Ministers of Holy Communion and Lectors editions of Living Liturgy,
promoting unity among all liturgical ministers
Aquinas on Prophecy: Wisdom and Charism in the Summa Theologiae
argues that a lacuna exists (especially among Anglophone scholars
of Aquinas) that neglects to identify his most famous work as a
prophetic witness to the transformative effect of Christian
theology. Through a detailed examination of Aquinas's treatment of
prophecy in the Summa Theologiae (II-II, QQ.171- 174), Paul Rogers
reveals how prophetic testimony is central to the understanding of
Christian revelation, faith, and theology, since it presents an
initial (and historically-rooted) model for a Christian pedagogy
that attempts to affect intellectual and moral transformation
through communicating knowledge about God. The theologian thus
conceived by Aquinas exercises analogously a prophetic, and hence
social, function among Christian believers that has a special care
for their spiritual and moral guidance. In contrast to readings of
Aquinas that portray him as overly reliant on Aristotelian
gnoseology (e.g., Jenkins 1997), Rogers lays out a reading more in
line with recent 'ressourcement' Thomistic interpreters that
identifies in his account of prophecy a creative adaptation of
Arabic-Aristotelian gnoseology in the service of clarifying
difficulties that had arisen in the thirteenth century surrounding
the reception of a patristic (and predominantly Augustinian)
tradition of prophetic illumination or vision. In the hands of
Aquinas, the traditional Augustinian theory of prophetic
illumination was re-envisioned and reinvigorated, which in turn
allowed him to reassert confidently prophecy's status as certain
knowledge (scientia) that required its own distinct 'light',
comparable to the light of natural reason and the lights of faith
and glory. Highlighting prophecy in Aquinas's thought helps
especially to refocus today's readers on how knowledge of the final
end as revealed was for Aquinas the ultimate moral objective shared
by both the prophet and theologian: a point that is best
appreciated when his account of prophecy is related back to his
understanding of sacred doctrine and faith as a whole—the book's
central task.
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