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  • TOWARDS A VERY BRITISH VERSION OF THE “CULTURE WARS”
    ALMA-PIERRE BONNET
    This book examines the emergence and the political use of what has come to be known as “culture wars” in the United Kingdom. Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives, it investigates the ways in which cultural identities are used for political ends. The book bridges the conceptual and theoretical gap in fully understanding the so-called culture wars in a British context; as such...

    $1,060.00

  • IMAGE PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING, VOLUME 2
    ERIK CUEVAS / ALMA NAYELI RODRÍGUEZ
    Image processing and machine learning are used in conjunction to analyze and understand images. Where image processing is used to pre-process images using techniques such as filtering, segmentation, and feature extraction, machine learning algorithms are used to interpret the processed data through classification, clustering, and object detection. This book serves as a textbook...

    $1,240.00

  • IMAGE PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING, VOLUME 1
    ERIK CUEVAS / ALMA NAYELI RODRÍGUEZ
    Image processing and machine learning are used in conjunction to analyze and understand images. Where image processing is used to pre-process images using techniques such as filtering, segmentation, and feature extraction, machine learning algorithms are used to interpret the processed data through classification, clustering, and object detection. This book serves as a textbook...

    $1,240.00

  • ADVANCES IN PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
    ALMA ANGÉLICA DEL VILLAR-MARTÍNEZ, JUAN ARTURO RAGAZZO-SÁNCHEZ, PABLO EMILIO VANEGAS-ESPINOZA, AND O
    The goal of Advances in Plant Biotechnology is to integrate the most recent knowledge on tissue culture, secondary metabolites production under controlled conditions, scaling up to produce them at bioreactor level, and their industrial applications. The biosynthetic pathways and the factors that affect them and the accumulation of metabolites, including metabolomics in medicina...

    $1,840.00

  • IMPROVING SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
    ALMA HARRIS
    School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement. This book draws together the most effective school improvement projects from aro...

    $1,340.00

  • MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY PRACTICES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS
    HERMAN KOREN / ALMA MARY ANDERSON
    Based on the lifelong experiences of two authors as supervisors and teachers, the Fourth Edition of this bestseller provides up-to-date information for newly promoted or management-aspiring professionals and engineers in the fields of environmental health, occupational health and safety, water and wastewater treatment, public health, and many others. The first volume explains, ...

    $5,000.00

  • MAXWELL'S UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD
    DEBORAH ALMA FALTA
    Offering a unique approach to presenting environmental health, Maxwell's Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World is structured around the choices we make as individuals that result in environmental hazards. By detailing the hazards of energy production, industry, food production, and our modern lifestyle in the context of our place within the local and glob...

    $433.58

  • MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY PRACTICES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS
    HERMAN KOREN / ALMA MARY ANDERSON
    Based on the lifelong experiences of two authors as supervisors and teachers, the Fourth Edition of this bestseller provides up-to-date information for newly promoted or management-aspiring professionals and engineers in the fields of environmental health, occupational health and safety, water and wastewater treatment, public health, and many others. This first volume explains,...

    $1,140.00

  • MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY PRACTICES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS
    HERMAN KOREN / ALMA MARY ANDERSON
    Based on the lifelong experiences of two authors as supervisors and teachers, the Fourth Edition of this bestseller provides up-to-date information for newly promoted or management-aspiring professionals and engineers in the fields of environmental health, occupational health and safety, water and wastewater treatment, public health, and many others. This second volume explains...

    $3,600.00

  • METAHEURISTIC COMPUTATION WITH MATLAB®
    ERIK CUEVAS / ALMA RODRIGUEZ
    Metaheuristic algorithms are considered as generic optimization tools that can solve very complex problems characterized by having very large search spaces. Metaheuristic methods reduce the effective size of the search space through the use of effective search strategies. Book Features: Provides a unified view of the most popular metaheuristic methods currently in use Includes ...

    $1,340.00

  • SKETCHING AS DESIGN THINKING
    ALMA R. HOFFMANN
    This book argues for the importance of sketching as a mode of thinking, and the relevance of sketching in the design process, design education, and design practice. Through a wide range of analysis and discussion, the book looks at the history of sketching as a resource throughout the design process and asks questions such as: where does sketching come from? When did sketching ...

    $1,120.00

  • TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE EFFECTIVE SCHOOL
    ALMA HARRIS
    First published in 1999, this volume attempts to draw the literature on school effectiveness and teacher effectiveness together in one volume. Its central tenet is that classroom effectiveness is central to school effectiveness and that there is much to be gained from integrating the literature on effective schooling and effective teaching. Issues discussed include departments,...

    $1,060.00

  • SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MEMORY
    ALMA JEFTIC
    Social Aspects of Memory presents a compelling study of how ordinary people remember war. Whilst the book focuses on the cities of Sarajevo and East Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jeftic also presents narratives from other war-torn cities and countries around the world. This book adopts a unique approach, by looking at how perpetrators and victims (as ...

    $640.00

  • MEDICALLY SPEAKING
    C.C. GAITHER / ALMA E CAVAZOS-GAITHER
    Medically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing contains over 1,500 quotes pertinent and especially illuminating to these disciplines. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. Some are profound, some are witty, some are wise but none are frivolous. The extensive author and subject indexes ...

    $2,420.00

  • INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ASSURING QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    ALMA CRAFT
    Originally published in 1994, International Developments in Assuring Quality in Higher Education describes a range of national and international developments which evaluate the quality of education provided by public and private tertiary institutions. The book is based on papers from a conference organized by the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Edu...

    $960.00

  • NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ROBOTICS
    NANCY ARANA-DANIEL / ALMA Y. ALANIS / CARLOS LOPEZ-FRANCO
    The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, f...

    $1,800.00

  • BIO-INSPIRED ALGORITHMS FOR ENGINEERING
    NANCY ARANA-DANIEL / CARLOS LOPEZ-FRANCO / ALMA Y ALANIS
    Bio-inspired Algorithms for Engineering builds a bridge between the proposed bio-inspired algorithms developed in the past few decades and their applications in real-life problems, not only in an academic context, but also in the real world. The book proposes novel algorithms to solve real-life, complex problems, combining well-known bio-inspired algorithms with new concepts, i...

    $1,728.00

  • TEACHERS LEADING EDUCATIONAL REFORM
    ALMA HARRIS
    Teachers Leading Educational Reform explores the ways in which teachers across the world are currently working together in professional learning communities (PLCs) to generate meaningful change and innovation in order to transform pedagogy and practice. By discussing how teachers can work collectively and collaboratively on the issues of learning and teaching that matter to the...

    $1,420.00

  • MUSIC IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
    ALMA SANTOSUOSSO
    This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Wide too is the range of the subject matter: included are essays on ecclesiastical chant, early and late (and on the earliest and latest of its s...

    $1,600.00

  • DISCRETE-TIME NEURAL OBSERVERS
    ALMA Y ALANIS / EDGAR N. SANCHEZ
    Discrete-Time Neural Observers: Analysis and Applications presents recent advances in the theory of neural state estimation for discrete-time unknown nonlinear systems with multiple inputs and outputs. The book includes rigorous mathematical analyses, based on the Lyapunov approach, that guarantee their properties. In addition, for each chapter, simulation results are included ...

    $2,127.00

  • ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND TOXIC LEADERSHIP
    ALMA ORTEGA
    Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership examines a phenomenon that has yet to be seriously explored. While other so-called feminized professions, such as nursing, have been studied for their tendency to create toxic leadership environments, thus far academic librarianship has not. This book focuses on how to identify a toxic leader in an academic library setting, how to addres...

    $1,050.00

  • LEADING THE IMPROVING DEPARTMENT
    ALMA HARRIS / ANNE ALLSOP / NICK SPARKS
    Departmental improvement is the key to whole school improvement. This book complements existing programs of professional development and training on both national and local levels. Heads of department and subject leaders in secondary schools will find this professional handbook essential for planning in-service training, improving the effectiveness of the department, and develo...

    $640.00

  • CHICANA FEMINIST THOUGHT
    ALMA M. GARCIA
    Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists. ...

    $1,760.00

  • CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
    DAVID HOPKINS / ALMA HARRIS
    First Published in 2001. This handbook, arising out of IQEA project (Improving the Quality of Education for All), focuses on a basic repertoire of teaching and learning strategies and a series of activities designed to help teachers extend and deepen their range of teaching skills. The authors set out for CPD tutors ways of bringing research evidence and critical self-reflecti...

    $1,420.00

  • CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
    MEL AINSCOW / JOHN BERESFORD / ALMA HARRIS / DAVID HOPKINS / GEOFF SOUTHWORTH / MEL WEST
    First Published in 2001. This is the second edition of this school’s improvement handbook of staff development activities by the IQEA (Improving Education for All) project. This book is not about what changes should be introduced into a school but rather about creating the conditions for supporting those changes which schools or individuals believe should be introduced. To be e...

    $1,420.00

  • EFFECTIVE SUBJECT LEADERSHIP IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
    ALMA HARRIS
    First Published in 1999. Expectations placed on middle management have risen sharply in the last few years and their increased importance in the role of managing and developing others have been reflected in the new Teacher Training Authority (TTA) Subject Leader Standards. Consequently, the role of subject leader is one which necessitates careful preparation and development. W...

    $1,420.00

  • EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
    ALMA HARRIS / CHRISTOPHER DAY / DAVID HOPKINS / MARK HADFIELD / ANDY HARGREAVES / CHRISTOPHER CHAPMAN
    In a complex and multi-layered world, the conventional idea of great leadership being the result of the efforts of a single individual is rapidly becoming redundant. This book takes up the challenge of finding an alternative method of leadership in educational contexts, and looks at how this can help achieve sustained improvement in schools.The authors acknowledge that there ar...

    $1,540.00

  • GREEN MARKETING IN A UNIFIED EUROPE
    ALMA T MINTU-WIMSATT / HECTOR R LOZADA
    The physical environment--its preservation, protection, and conservation--has become an urgent agenda for international marketers. Many marketing professionals have acknowledged that, in order to succeed, it is crucial that they integrate environmental considerations into their marketing strategies. Green Marketing in a Unified Europe gives marketing professionals insight into ...

    $1,420.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETING
    WILLIAM WINSTON / ALMA T MINTU-WIMSATT
    Environmental Marketing: Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research is a timely resource for the 1990s. It examines a broad range of issues that affect environmental behavior while providing materials and guidance to marketing decisionmakers. It will guide your organization toward a decidedly “green” marketing movement, toward marketing concepts and tools that not only serve yo...

    $2,060.00

  • SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
    ALMA HARRIS
    This book aims to demystify the principles and practice of school improvement by demonstrating how successful classroom and school improvement occurs. It outlines the conditions, strategies and approaches that promote sustainable improvement and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives in this area. This accessible text will be useful for practitioners working ...

    $960.00


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