Karen L : 267 books

Using case studies, the authors evaluate the potential attractiveness of incentive-based policies for the regulation of four specific toxic substances: chlorinated solvents, formaldehyde, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants. Originally published in 1992, the authors provide a compelling demonstration...

Strategies for Developing and Supporting School Leadersassists personnel in school districts to deliver appropriate development and support practices for aspiring and current school leaders. This book explores a variety of research-based and best-practice processes that can be implemented in school...

This second edition is a practical, easy-to-read resource on web-based learning. The book ably and clearly equips readers with strategies for designing effective online courses, creating communities of web-based learners, and implementing and evaluating based on an instructional design framework....

Today’s libraries need to market their resources and services more than ever. Libraries can strengthen their relationships with their users and gain new audiences by creating their own promotional videos. However, creating marketing videos can be intimidating for beginners and challenging for even...

The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture...

This book focuses on gender justice and the health care system. It will be divided into two parts. In Part One, a framework of gender justice will be developed. What is gender justice? What would a gender just public policy look like? What criteria should such policies meet? In Part Two, the framework...

Amanda Ripper escaped a controlling husband who convinced her that she was weak and an invalid. To convince herself that it wasn’t true, she fills her life with friends and hiking and refuses to become involved with anyone again. Then she falls and breaks her leg, reigniting the specter of her old life. Can a handsome man from search and rescue to give Amanda a chance at life again?

Jump into the waves, and enter the world of Faerie! On a rock by the shore sits a mermaid fair Dreaming of her lost lover as she combs her hair Kelpies, and selkies, and the great snakes of the sea All stop and listen as she sings of a love never to be For the sailor she saved...

This book provides teachers and school leaders with practical, effective, and proven assessment strategies that are immediately implementable in classrooms. You’ll learn about 20 high-impact formative assessment strategies, with details on how they can be applied to a variety of content areas and...

Marion Murphy could meet the qualifications to become a police officer, but when the man who will train her also once broke her heart, will Marion have the qualifications to know what she wants?

When her world comes apart, Shandy Phillips must sell her prize dressage horse and lose the life she loves. When a buyer arrives to try her horse it arouses the specter of a teenaged crush and an old animosity towards Kurt Mackenzie, the one man who violated everything Shandy values.

For Oklahoma girl Trisha 'Monty' Montgomery, going to Lake Farm to escape her past and to breed a top jumping horse might be her one chance at a new life. But the shame of poverty and a past with men she isn’t proud of taints her attraction to the taciturn Jack Lake, the mysterious owner of Lake...

Remember the heady days of sexual attraction? The time when just the turn of a wrist, the lift of a chin or a whiff of your partner’s scent turns you on? This five pack of romance takes us back to the doubts and the wondrous days of getting to know a potential lover; will these women walk away or take a chance and fall in love?

In this evocative paranormal romance Ronnie Baxter escaped a violent marriage in Chicago to taking shelter with her daughter on the gorgeous Sunshine Coast of western Canada. She wants nothing more than to settle down close to the ocean and fly under her abusive husband's radar. Seth Cullen,...