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Securing the Schoolyard
Protocols that Promote Safety and Positive Student Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book was written as a resource guide for educational and mental health professionals and policymakers, as well as families and communities seeking to develop programming to reduce school violence and promote safe, engaging, and effective schools. This book explores the growing crisis in school...
Sounding the Alarm in the Schoolhouse
Safety, Security, and Student Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Sounding the Alarm in the Schoolhouse: Safety, Security, and Student Well-Being was written as a resource guide for educational and mental health professionals and policymakers, as well as families and communities seeking to develop programming to reduce school violence and promote safe, engaging,...
by Hans-Peter Berlien, H. Breuer, Gerhard J. Müller
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This handbook is intended for the advanced specialist and for the practitioner interested in the application of lasers in medicine. It provides summaries of all available medical laser systems and their clinical use. The first part introduces basic laser physics, including laser-tissue interactions...
Building Healthy Individuals, Families, and Communities
Creating Lasting Connections
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Youth have nearly always exhibited behaviors that frustrate adults. It can be diffi cult to understand why young people engage in risky or destructive behavior, and it is challenging to develop strategies to encourage more healthy and responsible behavior among our youth. However, it is helpful...
Ecotoxicology and Genotoxicology
Non-traditional Terrestrial Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
The potential impact of anthropogenic pollutants such as agrochemicals on the environment is of global concern. Increasing use of certain compounds can result in contamination of food, water and atmospheric systems and in order to combat this pollution it is important to be able to accurately monitor...
The Last Days
A Guide to Understanding the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Within the last pages of the Bible, lies the story of the revelation of Jesus Christ as told to Apostle John. While unveiling a chain of events foretold to precede and accompany the Messiahs return to Earth, the book of Revelation also addresses the seven churches in Asia Minor that represent intriguing...
by Heidi Wohlrabe M.D., Ileana Riverón
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Despite the fact that we are a diet-crazed society, the obesity epidemic has reached an all time high in 2016. Obviously, our so-called “War on Obesity" isn’t working. Dr. Heidi Wohlrabe and Ileana Riveron blow the whistle on the 60 billion dollar weight loss industry and expose dieting as...
by P A D Gonçalves, N M R Peres
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book is meant as an introduction to graphene plasmonics and aims at the advanced undergraduate and graduate students entering the field of plasmonics in graphene. In it different theoretical methods are introduced, starting with an elementary description of graphene plasmonics and evolving towards...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
Breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at...
Reference for Modern Instrumentation, Techniques, and Technology: Ultrasonic Instruments and Devices I
Ultrasonic Instruments and Devices I
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1998
While research on ultrasonics has been covered in earlier volumes of the Physical Acoustics series, Volumes 23 and 24 demonstrate the successful commercialization of devices and instruments arising from research in this area. These volumes will assist in the process of bringing research output into...
by Peter R. N. Childs, BSc.(Hons), D.Phil
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use and integration of the machine elements that are fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications. This updated edition includes new...
Teaching Thinking
Issues and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Originally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda. This innovative ‘agenda’ called for teaching students in ways that dramatically improved the quality of their thinking....