Casas: 93 books
Improving Access to Further and Higher Education for Young People in Public Care
European Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This book provides a comprehensive account of why this shocking discrepancy exists and outlines ways to address the imbalance.
Drawing extensively on...
by Bartolome De Las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Fugitive Rousseau
Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective...
Advances in Insect Physiology
Physiology of Human and Animal Disease Vectors
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This latest volume in this series contains articles on the physiology of human and animal disease vectors.The papers in this special issue give rise to key themes for the future and make progress towards answering such questions as:
How do insect vectors of disease find their animal hosts?
Once a...
Through the Eyes of a Prodigal
Hope for Parents and Leaders with Wayward Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Have you lost hope that your wayward son or daughter will ever return to Christ? In this powerful book, Through the Eyes of a Prodigal, Pastor Danny challenges you to believe that God is still able to set them free! A former prodigal himself, he knows this personally. As a teenager, Danny turned away...
El autor a escena
Intermedialidad y autoficción
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Este libro parte de la siguiente hipótesis: la autoficción responde a una tendencia general en el arte contemporáneo, pues, asumida la imposibilidad de un referente estable –incluido el propio autor–, los creadores siguen afanándose en plasmar sus identidades, aun fragmentaria y precariamente,...
by Dianne de Las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Children love seeing ordinary objects such as paper and string transformed into extraordinary things. This book provides a collection of fun make-and-take tales that enable educators and librarians to take storytelling to a higher level.
by Dr. Roberto F. Casas, Dr. Paul A. Rodríguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
We have written this book because of our unique and real concern for improving education for children who are at risk of school failure. Whether these students are of different ethnicities or speak different languages, the students are not failures, but have difficulty maneuvering in a system we call...
by Sergio Blanes, Fernando Casas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Discover How Geometric Integrators Preserve the Main Qualitative Properties of Continuous Dynamical Systems
A Concise Introduction to Geometric Numerical Integration presents the main themes, techniques, and applications of geometric integrators for researchers in mathematics, physics, astronomy,...
How to Become a Quilter Fixer
How to Become a Quilter Fixer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Quilter Fixer. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Quilter Fixer
Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance: Fundamentals and Applications
Transcriptional Regulation and Chromatin Remodelling in Plants
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Over the past decades, chromatin remodelling has emerged as an important regulator of gene expression and plant defense. This book provides a detailed understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms involved in plants of agronomic importance. The information presented here is significant because it is...
Spider Physiology and Behaviour
Physiology
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
This latest volume in this series contains articles on Arachnid Physiology and Behaviour. The papers in this special issue give rise to key themes for the future.
Contributions from the leading researchers in entomology
Discusses Arachnid physiology and behavior
Includes in-depth reviews with valuable information for a variety of entomology disciplines
Gotas que agrietan la roca
Crónicas, entrevistas y diálogos sobre territorios y acceso a la justicia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Con un prólogo del nobel de literatura José Saramago, en este libro encontramos una serie de crónicas sobre la historia del Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo. 'Gotas que agrietan la roca' es una invitación a conocer esas "salas de urgencia" de la convulsa historia reciente...
Gana el juego del dinero
Multiplica el resultado de tus ingresos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Dinero y felicidad siempre han estado reñidos, y no son un terreno exclusivo de expertos y gurús
SER FELIZ y VIVIR BIEN está al alcance de cualquier persona. En este libro encontrarás recetas sencillas y trucos útiles que te permitirán acercarte pasito a pasito a tu vida soñada y alcanzar...