Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david johnson

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  • SECOND LANGUAGE PROSODY AND COMPUTER MODELING
    OKIM KANG / DAVID O. JOHNSON / ALYSSA KERMAD
    This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of second language prosody and computer modeling. It addresses the importance of prosody’s role in communication, bridging the gap between applied linguistics and computer science. The book illustrates the growing importance of the relationship between automated speech recognition systems and language learning asse...

    $1,099.00

  • THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA
    LOUISE JOHNSON / TANJA LUCKINS / DAVID WALKER
    The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia’s history and geography. An island continent with distinct physical features, Australia is home to the most enduring Indigenous cultures on the planet. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worlds brought great change. Since that time, Australia has been shaped by many ...

    $979.00

  • THE LANGUAGE GAP
    DAVID CASSELS JOHNSON / ERIC J. JOHNSON
    The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about the language development of youth from working and lower socioeconomic classes. Written to offer a balanced look at existing literature, this text analyzes how language gap research is portrayed in the media and how debatable research findings hav...

    $1,039.00

  • XENOPHON’S SOCRATIC WORKS
    DAVID M. JOHNSON
    Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic Recollections), to its original literary context, enabling readers to experience it as ...

    $1,099.00

  • PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS FOR FACTORY AUTOMATION
    DAVID JOHNSON
    This book is intended to address both the quantitative and qualitative issues of programmable controllers for factory automation. It is helpful for both the newcomer to the field and the experienced control engineer requiring a fresh perspective. ...

    $1,499.00

  • HUMAN ECOLOGY AND CLIMATIC CHANGE
    DAVID L. PETERSON / ‎DARRYLL R. JOHNSON
    The Far North, a land of extreme weather and intense beauty, is the only region of North America whose ecosystems have remained reasonably intact. Humans are newcomers there and nature predominates. As is widely known, recent changes in the Earth's atmosphere have the potential to create rapid climatic shifts in our life-time and well into the future. These changes, a product o...

    $599.00

  • THE MEDIEVAL CHINESE OLIOGARCHY
    DAVID C JOHNSON
    Most modern scholars recognize that there were great differences between China's ruling elite in the middle and late traditional period; many have called the period up through the T'ang dynasty "aristocratic," in contrast to the more meritocratic and socially mobile age that followed. But until now there has been no serious effort to discover how the social elite was defined in...

    $1,039.00

  • THE ECOLOGY OF SURVIVAL
    DOUGLAS H JOHNSON / DAVID M ANDERSON
    This book is concerned with evaluating the antiquity of the domestication changes in northern Africa, considering the nature of the environments in which they arose, their social implications and the influence of climatic change on their later progress. ...

    $1,099.00

  • LEADING SCHOOLS TO LEARN, GROW, AND THRIVE
    S. DAVID BRAZER / SCOTT C. BAUER / BOB L. JOHNSON, JR.
    Leading Schools to Learn, Grow, and Thrive provides a unique approach to preparing prospective education leaders by combining theory, research, and practice. Grounded in organizational and leadership theory, this book helps leaders understand their schools and districts from multiple perspectives and develop their own leadership aspirations, approaches, and missions. Well-known...

    $1,139.00

  • APPLIED DISCRETE-CHOICE MODELLING
    DAVID A. HENSHER / LESTER W. JOHNSON
    Originally published in 1981. Discrete-choice modelling is an area of econometrics where significant advances have been made at the research level. This book presents an overview of these advances, explaining the theory underlying the model, and explores its various applications. It shows how operational choice models can be used, and how they are particularly useful for a bett...

    $919.00

  • STRENGTHENING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING
    JOHN MACBEATH / NEIL DEMPSTER / DAVID FROST / GREER JOHNSON / SUE SWAFFIELD
    Examining a decade of research and practice, this book makes the case for a radical reappraisal of leadership, learning, and their interrelationship in educational policy. Discussing whether policy direction is progressively constraining the professionalism and initiative of teachers and school leaders, it challenges conventional understanding and argues the case for thinking d...

    $999.00

  • CONSERVATISM AND IDEOLOGY
    MATTHEW JOHNSON, MARK GARNETT AND DAVID WALKER
    Michael Oakshott described conservatism as a non-ideological preference for the familiar, tried, actual, limited, near, sufficient, convenient and present. Historically, conservatives have been associated with attempts to sustain social harmony between classes and groups within an organic, hierarchical order grounded in collective history and cultural values. Yet, in recent dec...

    $1,279.00

  • THE TVA REGIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
    DAVID A. JOHNSON
    The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. The program focused on development opportunities and problems around the array of TVA dams and their...

    $899.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC LINGUISTICS
    MALCOLM COULTHARD / ALISON JOHNSON / DAVID WRIGHT
    An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence has established itself as the essential textbook written by leading authorities in this expanding field. The second edition of this bestselling textbook begins with a new introduction and continues in two parts. Part One deals with the language of the legal process, and begins with a substantial new chapter exploring...

    $1,239.00

  • TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION® IN CRIMINAL REHABILITATION AND CRIME PREVENTION
    KENNETH G WALTON / DAVID ORME-JOHNSON / RACHEL S GOODMAN
    In contrast to the generally dismal results of various approaches to rehabilitation, these consciousness-based strategies have proven effective in preventing crime and rehabilitating offenders! This book will introduce you to a powerful, unique approach to offender rehabilitation and crime prevention. In contrast to the generally dismal results of most rehabilitation approaches...

    $1,499.00

  • PEACE EDUCATION TIP V44#4
    DAVID JOHNSON
    Economics of the International Financial System offers an illuminating, engaging and lucid account of the working of 21st-century global political economy. From a macroeconomic perspective, it explores how major capitalist economies are closely integrated with each other in that none can remain unaffected by economic events around the globe. The book is one of the first in its ...

    $739.00

  • DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
    DAVID A ETHRIDGE / JERRY A JOHNSON
    This significant volume provides broad coverage of the spectrum of problems confronted by patients with developmental disabilities and the many kinds of occupational therapy services these individuals need. Experts identify exemplary institutional and community service programs for treating patients with autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and mental retardation. A welcome contri...

    $1,379.00

  • TRAUMA-CENTERED GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR WOMEN
    HADAR LUBIN / DAVID READ JOHNSON
    Learn effective PTSD group treatment The awareness of psychological trauma has grown exponentially in the past decade, and clinicians in many areas have increasingly found themselves confronted with the need to provide trauma-related services to clients. Still, there remains a serious lack of manuals that guide clinicians using group therapy to treat posttraumatic stress disord...

    $859.00

  • LAND USE SCENARIOS
    ALAN W. SHEARER / DAVID A. MOUAT / SCOTT D. BASSETT / MICHAEL W. BINFORD / CRAIG W. JOHNSON / JUSTIN A. S
    Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries. Consequently, it is not enough for land managers to consider only how they might maintain the parcels for which they are responsible; they must also anticipate ...

    $1,939.00

  • IMPROVING PRIMARY LITERACY
    ANTHONY FEILER / JANE ANDREWS / PAMELA GREENHOUGH / MARTIN HUGHES / DAVID JOHNSON / MARY SCANLAN / WAN CHI
    Parents can play an immensely important role in supporting their children's literacy learning at home, but how can primary teachers enlist the support of parents in helping children learn literacy? With a focus on improving children's literacy skills, this book provides practical answers to key questions that are directly relevant to all primary teachers and to many parents. It...

    $859.00

  • REDUCING SCHOOL VIOLENCE THROUGH CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    DAVID JOHNSON / ROGER JOHNSON
    In this book, David and Roger Johnson offer an approach that involves interrelated programs for preventing violence and helping students learn to resolve conflicts constructively. The authors discuss how schools can create a cooperative learning environment where students learn how to negotiate and mediate peer conflicts and teachers use academic controversies to enhance learni...

    $319.00

  • THE NEW CIRCLES OF LEARNING
    DAVID W. JOHNSON / ROGER T. JOHNSON / EDYTHE JOHNSON HOLUBEC
    In this concise book, David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Johnson Holubec reinforce the cooperative learning theories found in Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom and expand those theories to include the school and school district. Offering a thorough description of cooperative learning and the research behind it, the authors explain how cooperative learning can be...

    $284.00

  • WAITING AT THE GATE
    SUSAN L SANDEL / DAVID JOHNSON
    Here is the result of over ten years of hands-on clinical experience by two experts wha have worked with the elderly. The authors explore the contributions of the creative arts therapies, specifically movement and drama therapy, to the individual and communal welfare of residents in nursing homes. Waiting at the Gate: Creativity and Hope in the Nursing Home eloquently demonstra...

    $979.00

  • WEST GERMANY (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
    DAVID CHILDS / JEFFREY JOHNSON
    This book, originally published in 1981, provides the student and general reader alike with a fascinating account of the dynamic re-emergence of Germany after the Second World War as one of the world’s leading and most powerful states. The book gives extensive coverage to all aspects of the former West Germany’s political, social and economic arrangements. As well as dealing wi...

    $979.00

  • PLANNING THE GREAT METROPOLIS
    DAVID A. JOHNSON
    As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson’s critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this edition, the questions faced by the regional planners of today are little changed from those their predecessors faced i...

    $1,259.00

  • INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF FISHES
    STIASSNY, MELANIE L.J. / PARENTI, LYNNE R. / JOHNSON, G. DAVID
    Comprising by far the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates, fishes occupy a broad swathe of habitats ranging from the deepest ocean abyss to the highest mountain lakes. Such incredible ecological diversity and the resultant variety in lifestyle, anatomy, physiology and behavior, make unraveling the evolutionary history of fishes a daunting task. The successor of a clas...

    $2,416.00

  • INNOVATIONS AS SYMBOLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    J. DAVID JOHNSON
    Examining the role of symbolic innovations in higher education institutions, this book distinguishes between the real, material changes universities undergo and the ways universities present them and symbolic changes to outside and internal stakeholders. By defining symbolic innovations and their general role in organizations, this book provides a thorough view of innovations i...

    $1,099.00

  • THE PREACHER AS LITURGICAL ARTIST
    TRYGVE DAVID JOHNSON
    Trygve Johnson invites us to consider a new metaphor of identity of The Preacher as Liturgical Artist. This identity draws on a theology of communion and the doctrine of the vicarious humanity of Christ to relocate the preacher's identity in the creative and ongoing ministry of Jesus Christ. Johnson argues the metaphorical association of the preacher and artist understood withi...

    $479.00

  • LA EVALUACION EN EL APRENDIZAJE COLABORATIVO
    JOHNSON, DAVID W. JOHNSON, ROGER T.
    Se presupone que la evaluación individual se corresponde con un aprendizaje individual, pero este es un concepto erróneo. Se ha demostrado claramente que la transferencia del grupo al individuo es mayor que de individuoa individuo. Los ambientes cooperativos en el aula permiten a los alumnos cuidar los unos de los otros y favorecer al mismo tiempo su aprendizaje y el de los dem...
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    $365.00