Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david george

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  • PENSIONS
    BERNARD BENJAMIN / STEVEN HABERMAN / GEORGE HELOWICZ / GERALDINE KAYE / DAVID WILKIE
    Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience as actuaries, this work, originally published in 1987, provides a thorough examination of the problems which had arisen, and those that seemed likely to arise, with regard to both public and private pension funds at the time. It ranges in scope from the realities of individual plans and schemes devised by employers and employees to t...

    $840.00

  • ADJACENT LEARNING
    DAVID HAYDEN / STEVE GEORGE
    Use insights from outside the business to rethink workplace learning in order to drive individual and team performance. Workplaces are not the only setting where employees learn. They are learning constantly in all areas of their lives. The problem is that learning and development (L&D) practitioners don't know how to apply the experiences from outside the traditional business ...

    $929.00

  • SOCIAL AND DIALOGIC THINKING AND LEARNING IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
    KAREN A. ERICKSON / CHARNA D’ARDENNE / NITASHA M. CLARK / DAVID A. KOPPENHAVER / GEORGE W. NOBLIT
    Drawing on a three-year post-critical ethnography, this volume counters deficit-based notions of disability to present a new social and dialogic theory of thinking and learning for students with significant support needs. Dismantling ideas around ableism/disableism, Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning offers a uniquely theoretical and conceptual contribution to special ed...

    $1,160.00

  • PRIMARY ENGLISH: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
    JANE MEDWELL / DAVID WRAY / GEORGE MOORE / VIVIENNE GRIFFITHS
    All the subject knowledge you need to teach primary English. If you are training to be a primary school teacher, you need to understand what you need to know about primary English before you can teach it. Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. To help you master this, this comprehensive text includes subject k...

    $501.40

  • TEACHING LITERATURE USING DIALOGIC LITERARY ARGUMENTATION
    MATT SEYMOUR / THERESA THANOS / GEORGE E. NEWELL / DAVID BLOOME
    Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inquiry-based approach to engage students in communicating and exploring ideas about literature. As a process of discovery, Dialogic Literary Argumentation facilitates conversation—"arguing-to-learn"—as a method to support students’ div...

    $1,160.00

  • DIALOGIC LITERARY ARGUMENTATION IN HIGH SCHOOL LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOMS
    DAVID BLOOME / GEORGE NEWELL / ALAN R HIRVELA / TZU-JUNG LIN
    Written by leaders in the field of literacy and language arts Education, this volume defines Dialogic Literary Argumentation, outlines its key principles, and provides in-depth analysis of classroom social practices and teacher-student interactions to illustrate the possibilities of a social perspective for a new vision of teaching, reading and understanding literature. Dialogi...

    $1,160.00

  • SDI AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
    ROBERT W. TUCKER / GEORGE LISKA / ROBERT E. OSGOOD / DAVID P CALLEO
    Showing how the development of space technology could affect the present system of deterrence, the authors consider the consequences for U.S. foreign policy, alliance relations, and strategic stability. In the first essay, Dr. Tucker argues that a greater commitment to defensive systems would not substantially affect deterrence or extended deterren ...

    $1,200.00

  • PROGRESS IN PREVENTING AIDS?
    DAVID ROSS BUCHANAN / GEORGE PETER CERNADA
    Originally published in the "International Quarterly of Community Health Education", this work presents twenty-one chapters about the state of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in a global context. ...

    $3,200.00

  • POISONS
    DAVID J. GEORGE
    A unique book on recognition and investigation of criminal poisoning for investigators of all backgrounds and stages of their careers. Poisons: An Introduction for Forensic Investigators is a concise yet comprehensive overview of toxicants and unanticipated circumstances in which poisoning occurs. This book expands awareness of poisoning possibilities, heightens recognition of ...

    $1,760.00

  • COMMUNITY LIFE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL
    GEORGE W. FAIRWEATHER / DAVID H. SANDERS / DAVID L. CRESSLER / HUGO MAYNARD
    "Community Life for the Mentally Ill" presents a social innovative experiment aimed at providing new and more participating social positions in American society for mental patients. It presents the events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area...

    $1,460.00

  • HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH
    GEORGE F. TOMOSSY / DAVID N. WEISSTUB
    This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of research involving human participants are being called into question as never before. Human Experimentation and Research explores the philosophical foundations of research ethics, ongoing regulatory dilemmas, and future chall...

    $1,540.00

  • LITERATURE AND THE SCOTTISH REFORMATION
    DAVID GEORGE MULLAN
    Throughout the twentieth century Scottish literary studies was dominated by a critical consensus that critiqued contemporary anti-Catholic by advancing a re-reading of the Reformation. This consensus understood that Scotland's rich medieval culture had been replaced with an anti-aesthetic tyranny of life and letters. As a result, Scottish literature has consistently been defin...

    $1,240.00

  • NARRATIVES OF THE RELIGIOUS SELF IN EARLY-MODERN SCOTLAND
    DAVID GEORGE MULLAN
    Drawing on a rich, yet untapped, source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives. Over 80 such personal documents, including diaries and autobiographies, manuscript and published, clerical and lay, feminine and masculine, are examined and placed both within the context of seven...

    $1,160.00

  • TEACHING AND LEARNING ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOMS
    GEORGE NEWELL / DAVID BLOOME / ALAN HIRVELA
    Focused on the teaching and learning argumentative writing in grades 9-12, this important contribution to literacy education research and classroom practice offers a new perspective, a set of principled practices, and case studies of excellent teaching. The case studies illustrate teaching and learning argumentative writing as the construction of knowledge and new understanding...

    $1,420.00

  • GIFTED EDUCATION
    DAVID GEORGE
    This second edition provides busy teachers, other educational professsionals and parents with user-friendly text and worksheets to enable them to identify and provide provision for The author takes a multi-dimensional view of ability and believes in educating the whole child, with a curriculum of opportunity that provides high-level learning experiences. The book has been updat...

    $1,060.00

  • LEWIN'S CELLS
    GEORGE PLOPPER / DAVID SHARP / ERIC SIKORSKI
    The ideal text for students in advanced cell biology courses, Lewin’s CELLS, Third Edition continues to offer a comprehensive, rigorous overview of the structure, organization, growth, regulation, movements, and interactions of cells, with an emphasis on eukaryotic cells. The text provides students with a solid grounding in the concepts and mechanisms underlying cell structure ...

    $1,352.76

  • CREATING CHANGE IN MENTAL HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS
    GEORGE W. FAIRWEATHER / DAVID H. SANDERS / LOUIS G. TORNATZKY
    Creating Change in Mental Health Organizations discusses the findings of the experiment designed to identify the parameters of social change in mental health organizations. The title details the results from a variety of perspectives, such as experimental and hospital employees. The text first covers the need for social change in treating mental illness, and then proceeds to t...

    $970.00

  • SPATIAL SIMULATION
    DAVID O'SULLIVAN / GEORGE L. W. PERRY
    A ground-up approach to explaining dynamic spatial modelling for an interdisciplinary audience. Across broad areas of the environmental and social sciences, simulation models are  an important way to study systems inaccessible to scientific experimental and observational methods, and also an essential complement to those more conventional approaches.  The contemporary research ...

    $1,783.00

  • THE CHALLENGE OF THE ABLE CHILD
    DAVID GEORGE
    First Published in 1997. Many able children are underachieving in schools because teacher and parents are failing to identify and therefore adequately provide for their special needs. This second, updated edition of Challenge of the Able Child will assist teachers in becoming more patient and observant in the classroom so that they can accurately define their objectives in pro...

    $740.00

  • EARLY ENGLISH INTERCOURSE WITH BURMA, 1587-1743 AND THE TRAGEDY OF NEGRAIS
    DAVID GEORGE / EDWARD HALL
    First Published in 1968. This second edition includes the 'Tragedy of Negrais' as a new appendix. Originally published in 1928 for the University of Rangoon and the sequel three years later- 'Tragedy of Negrais' as a journal for the Burma Research Society.  During the Japanese occupation of Burma from 1942 to 1945 unsold copies were lost or destroyed. This volume is a reprint o...

    $1,340.00

  • THE RHETORIC OF THE RIGHT
    DAVID GEORGE
    This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times, starting in 1900. It is not always obvious how the changes identified necessarily ...

    $1,460.00

  • MAKING TRANSNATIONALS ACCOUNTABLE
    DAVID BAILEY / GEORGE HARTE / ROGER SUGDEN
    With transnationals now of immense significance to many economies and thus seeming to have immense leverage over host governments, this book looks at what can be done to influence the behaviour of these corporations. With a case study of Glaxo. ...

    $2,060.00

  • FLASH AND CRASH DAYS
    DAVID GEORGE
    Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period deals with the theater produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially postmodernist directors, women playwrights, and theater companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 60s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in...

    $1,120.00

  • CHEMISTRY OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS
    OLAH, GEORGE A. / SQUIRE, DAVID R.
    The study of energetic materials is emerging from one primarily directed toward practical interests to an advanced area of fundamental research, where state-of-the-art methods and theory are used side by side with modern synthetic methods.This timely book integrates the recent experimental, synthetic, and theoretical research of energetic materials. Editors George Olah and Davi...

    $928.00

  • ANNUAL REPORTS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
    ROBERTSON, DAVID / PLATTNER, JACOB J. / HAGMANN, WILLIAM K. / WONG, WINNIE W. / TRAINOR, GEORGE L. / BRIS
    "This is one of tje very few annual publications which justify the title of an absolute must for the pharmacologist, chemist, or physician who is interested in the chemistry of drug development."--Enzymologia ...

    $2,225.00

  • THE CHANGING ALPINE TREELINE: THE EXAMPLE OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MT, USA
    BUTLER, DAVID R. / MALANSON, GEORGE P. / WALSH, STEPHEN J. / FAGRE, DANIEL B.
    The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. Alpine tundra is an island biome and its ecotone with forest is subject to change, and like oceanic islands, alpine tundra is subject to invasion – or the upward advance of treeline. The inva...

    $2,607.00

  • UNTANGLING THE MIND
    DAVID THEODORE GEORGE / LISA BERGER
    Free yourself from emotional turmoileven when that turmoil is caused by others! We have a much greater understanding of human behavior now than we did just a few decades ago. Yet even with this greater understanding of the human mind, why we do what we do can sometimes seem like a mystery. People are often left with unsettling questions about their own (or others') behavior. We...

    $251.00

  • CODE TO JOY
    GEORGE PRATT / PETER LAMBROU / JOHN DAVID MANN
    " Code to Joy offers a simple, powerful, and brilliant method for experiencing authentic happiness from the inside out . . . the basis of outer success." —Marci Shimoff, New York Times-bestselling author of Happy for No Reason We are meant to be happy. Instinctively, we all know this, somewhere deep inside. We all know what it's like to feel a burst of delight. Every one of us ...

    $251.00

  • LAS CANCIONES DE LOS ARBOLES
    DAVID GEORGE HASKELL
    En su libro anterior, David Haskell narraba lo que vio, oyó y sintió tras pasarse un año entero sentándose cada día en la misma piedra del mismo bosque. inesperadamente ese libro le hizo ganar fama mundial y los premios más prestigiosos.En este segundo libro, Haskell sigue mirando y escuchando, pero recorre el mundo para relatar las historias de una docena de árboles muy distin...
    Agotado

    $575.00

  • REBUILDING THE ROYAL NAVY
    DAVID K. BROWN / GEORGE MOORE
    “A superb collection of contemporary photos . . . offers a fascinating insight into how the post-war fleet developed and adapted to its changing role.”—Ships Monthly   This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the author’s masterly account of development of Roy...

    $229.00


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