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A focused approach to raising student achievement This fieldbook shows how to focus on the issues that have most impact upon student achievement. This multidimensional process also will increase the competencies of everyone involved while implementing solutions districtwide. The authors outline...

Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory. Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by...

This book highlights recent findings on and analyses conducted on signals and images in the area of medicine. The experimental investigations involve a variety of signals and images and their methodologies range from very basic to sophisticated methods. The book explains how signal and image processing...

This collection examines the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, at the national level. While over the years women have broken through traditional roles, they are still underrepresented in political leadership....

This book intends to change the perception of modern day telecommunications. Communication systems, usually perceived as “dumb pipes”, carrying information / data from one point to another, are evolved into intelligently communicating smart systems.  The book introduces a new field of cloud communications....

Standard medicinal chemistry courses and texts are organized by classes of drugs with an emphasis on descriptions of their biological and pharmacological effects. This book represents a new approach based on physical organic chemical principles and reaction mechanisms that allow the reader to extrapolate...

A winner of the Texty Award for textbook excellence with its first edition, Fitness for Life: Middle School is even stronger in its second edition. Fitness for Life: Middle School is thoroughly updated to address the new national physical education standards, physical activity guidelines, FITT...

Designed to supplement existing organic textbooks, Hybrid Retrosynthesis presents a relatively simple approach to solving synthesis problems, using a small library of basic reactions along with the computer searching capabilities of Reaxys and SciFinder. This clear, concise guide reviews the essential...

Today, consumers of video games spend over $22.4 billion each year; using more complex and multi-layered strategies, game developers attempt to extend the profitability of their products from a simple one-time sale, to continuous engagement with the consumer. The Evolution and Social Impact of Video...

Join Sahara the mummy as she magically explores the world with the King Tut exhibit and makes friends along the way. Tag along on her adventures to learn about the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, the three pyramids of GizaKhufu, Khafre, and Menkaureand the Sphinx.

Las Vegas is the adult fantasyland where any dream is possible no matter how extraordinary. The local Chamber of Commerce promises that in every advertisement. Start out with the chance encounter of an overheard story about a prostitute too good to be true and you may find yourself catching a limousine...

In what might be called Adventures in Unreality, Still Life stories take place in a world very much like our own, the major difference being that occasionally an inanimate figure might come to life. Some people might say I'm writing in familiar Twilight Zone territory, but that name was already taken,...

Dryad unleashes the monster within her man to save earth. Dryad Beverly Forester has a secret worth protecting—a hidden garden. If anything happens to the garden, earth will lose its bounty and source of power and magic. A formidable, dark elemental beast bent on its destruction is...

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