David Alan: 169 books
Delivering a Course
Practical Strategies for Teachers, Lecturers and Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This guide focuses on the problems associated with presenting material to learners. Designed to help teachers make the right decision about the presentation of course materials, it includes strategies for both groups and individuals, and advice on introducing change and coping with the unexpected.
by Ian Forsyth, Alan Jolliffe, David Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
This practical guide explains how to prepare materials that can be utilised either by the teacher or by others without further guidance. Based on theoretical foundations, the systematic approach in this text should help both new and established teachers.
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
by Colin R. Anderson, Mary A. Beckie, Eva A. Bogdan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Few things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to...
by Pat Adams, American Association of Museums, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a one-stop source for future and current centers, and anyone interested in the important roles these institutions play in their...
Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
Blood on the Tracks
A History of Railway Crime in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
With their enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, Britain's railways, this book perfectly brings together the authors' interests in social history and the history of crime, both subjects on which they have a number of published titles to their credit, ensuring that the reader will find this title an enthralling read.
by Ahmed Khalifa, Michael DiBaggio, Jack McDonald Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
From the streets of Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring, to rebellions on distant planets, and from a daring rescue on a seastead-studded ocean to the gallows and grimy streets of 17th century London, here are ten short stories of liberty and revolution.
Imagine...a world where independent...
Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue
After the Flood, before the Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church...
Imagining Legality
Where Law Meets Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
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Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of...
Reasons for Faith (Foreword by Lee Strobel): Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Many Christians want to witness for their faith, but they are afraid they will not be able to answer questions that others may ask of them. First Peter 3:15 reminds believers to always be prepared to "make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you." Norman Geisler and...
Artificial Intelligence
Foundations of Computational Agents
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of artificial intelligence as a serious science and engineering discipline. This textbook, aimed at junior to senior undergraduate students and first-year graduate students, presents artificial intelligence (AI) using a coherent framework to study the design...
by Erik Dahlman, Claude Oestges, Alan C. Bovik
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
A one-stop Desk Reference, for R&D engineers involved in communications engineering; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. Material covers a wide scope of topics...