J Kim: 102 books
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
Pharmacogenomics of Human Drug Transporters
Clinical Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Sets the foundation for safer, more effective drug therapies
With this book as their guide, readers will discover how to apply our current understanding of the pharmacogenomics of drug transporters to advance their own drug discovery and development efforts. In particular, the book explains...
Left Behind
Urban High Schools and the Failure of Market Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In Left Behind, a team of education scholars led by Edward P. St. John argues that American cities have been engaged for the past three decades in a radical—but failing—effort to transform general and vocational high schools into college preparatory institutions. By examining the educational reforms...
The Clarity Series: Creating Passionate Learners
Engaging Today's Students for Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
**Increase student engagement and decrease dropouts. **
Student engagement is a defining factor for student success. However, a lack of consensus on the definition of “engagement” makes this difficult.
But it can be made easier with a common engagement literacy – a simple understanding...
by Bo T. Christensen, Linden J. Ball, Kim Halskov
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The scientific analysis of design thinking continues to burgeon and is of considerable interest to academic scholars and design practitioners across many disciplines. This research tradition has generated a growing corpus of studies concerning how designers think during the creation of innovative...
Improving Access to HIV Care
Lessons from Five U.S. Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The availability of combination antiretroviral therapy has changed the lives of millions of people living with HIV (PLWH), for whom a once fatal infection can now be a manageable chronic disease. Yet only 30 percent of PLWH in the United States are virally suppressed, and significant gaps in access...
Vibrant Learning
An Integrative Approach to Teaching Content Area Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Grounded in research, Vibrant Learning, focuses on language-rich, literacy-based, collaborative classrooms as the foundation for transforming content area learning. The authors emphasize three areas: (1) strategies to support student understanding of concepts, (2) ideas to encourage student engagement,...
Microhydrodynamics
Principles and Selected Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This text focuses on determining the motion of particles through a viscous fluid in bounded and unbounded flow. Its central theme is the mobility relation between particle motion and forces, and it functions as a manual that explains methods for solving particulate flows. 99 figures. 47 tables. 1991 edition.
Trusting Teachers with School Success
What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what...
by Young Je Yoo, Yan Feng, Yong-Hwan Kim
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of enzyme engineering, from fundamental principles through to the state-of-the-art in research and industrial applications.
It begins with a brief history, describing the milestones of advancement in enzyme science and technology,...
The Rabbit Hole
Weird Stories, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs...
Nichts als Lügen!
Kurzgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Wissenschaftliche Studien belegen: Wir lügen jeden Tag, bewusst oder unbewusst, in Gedanken oder laut. Wir verschonen die Lieben mit der Wahrheit und lügen stattdessen, damit es erträglicher bleibt. Oder wir lügen, weil wir ein schlechtes Gewissen haben und eine Ausrede brauchen. Es gibt viele...
by Kim J.L. Nevelsteen
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book scrutinizes pervasive games from a technological perspective, focusing on the sub-domain of games that satisfy the criteria that they make use of virtual game elements. In the computer game industry, the use of a game engine to build games is common, but current game engines do not support...
Starting Strong
Surviving and Thriving as a New Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The new teacher's handbook for understanding the roles, responsibilities, and relationships of teaching!
Teaching is one of the most exciting careers you can choose. It’s also one of the most challenging, especially when you are first stepping into your new classroom. Presenting time-tested...