Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rivera

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  • EXPERIENCIAS ADVERSAS DE LA SEGURIDAD DEL PACIENTE. PERSPECTIVA BIOÉTICA
    ROSA ORTIZ RIVERA
    En esta obra se narran hechos de una vida profesional que trascienden hacia las vidas de otras personas cuando acuden a los centros de salud, clínicas u hospitales y son atendidas por personal de enfermería o de especialidades médicas, o por quienes proporcionan atención directa a pacientes y personas usuarias de los servicios de salud. El libro se inicia cuando la autora cursa...

    $176.42

  • IDENTITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN SPANISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
    ALEXIS A. VOLLMER RIVERA
    Identity and Communicative Competence in Spanish for Specific Purposes analyzes the experiences of three Spanish for specific purposes (SSP) students, offering insight into the intersectionality of society, politics, identity, and linguistics in community-based settings. Analyses provide empirical evidence to a growing body of work about how experiential language learning (EX-L...

    $1,240.00

  • A DEPTH PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE PEACE SYMBOL
    MICHELLE RIVERA-CLONCH
    This engaging new book uncovers the cultural context behind the peace symbol’s emergence, its growing significance in the 1960s, and its ongoing presence in today’s worldwide grassroots and nonviolent social action protests. Since its debut in 1958, the peace symbol has become a ubiquitous presence in broadcasted images of protest and resistance, yet most citizens are unaware o...

    $580.00

  • BUILDING SOLUTIONS WITH THE MICROSOFT POWER PLATFORM
    JASON RIVERA
    With the accelerating speed of business and the increasing dependence on technology, companies today are significantly changing the way they build in-house business solutions. Many now use low-code and no code technologies to help them deal with specific issues, but that's just the beginning. With this practical guide, power users and developers will discover ways to resolve ev...

    $801.00

  • LEADING SCHOOL CULTURE THROUGH TEACHER VOICE AND AGENCY
    SALLY J. ZEPEDA / PHILIP D. LANOUE / GRANT M. RIVERA / DAVID R. SHAFER
    Leading School Culture through Teacher Voice and Agency helps school leaders uncover, understand, and build the skill set to engage teachers in the work of school culture as they navigate the changes needed to improve the achievement for all students. This book presents a Framework for School Culture that explores how school culture, when acted upon through teacher voice and ag...

    $860.00

  • AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORLDWIDE
    WILLIAM M. RIVERA / SUSAN G. SCHRAM
    First published in 1987, Agricultural Extension Worldwide presents an international perspective on agricultural extension and highlights extension as an integral function of agricultural development. Agricultural extension is one of the largest nonformal problem-solving educational systems in the world. It is generally concerned with transferring knowledge and research to farme...

    $960.00

  • IDENTITY AFFIRMING CLASSROOMS
    ERICA BUCHANAN-RIVERA
    Learn how to create identity affirming classroom environments that honor the humanity of students. Although schools have potential to be spaces of inquiry and joy, they can also be the source of trauma and pain when educational equity is not a foundational element. With a race-conscious lens, Dr. Erica Buchanan-Rivera explains how to actively listen to the voices of students an...

    $860.00

  • PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE HORIZON OF EXPERIENCE
    JOSEPH RIVERA
    This book explores the threshold between phenomenology and lived religion in dialogue with three French luminaries: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Yves Lacoste. Through close reading and critical analysis, each chapter touches on how a liturgical and ritual setting or a spiritual vision of the body can shape and ultimately structure the experience of an individual’s su...

    $1,160.00

  • IDENTIFYING AND SERVING CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE GIFTED STUDENTS
    LESLEY COLLIER LEWIS / ANNIE RIVERA / DEBBIE ROBY
    Identifying and Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students revolutionizes the identification and education of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) gifted and talented students. Written with the educator, administrator, and program developer in mind, this book will positively transform the educational system for working with CLD student populations. Cor...

    $640.00

  • COULD YOU LIVE UNDERWATER?
    MEGAN BARNHARD / JADE RIVERA
    In this engaging design thinking adventure, students utilize STEM skills and creative thinking to research, design, and build prototypes of the underwater house of the future! After researching the effects of climate change on people throughout the world, learners narrow their focus to tackle an aspect of designing underwater that grabs their imaginations. They utilize design t...

    $680.00

  • DISASTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT METHODS
    JASON D. RIVERA
    Find the answers to disaster and emergency management research questions with Disaster and Emergency Management Methods. Written to engage students and to provide a flexible foundation for instructors and practitioners, this interdisciplinary textbook provides a holistic understanding of disaster and emergency management research methods used in the field. The disaster and emer...

    $1,340.00

  • BOLIVIA AT THE CROSSROADS
    SOLEDAD VALDIVIA RIVERA
    As Bolivia reels from the collapse of the government in November 2019, a wave of social protests, and now the impact of Covid-19, this book asks: where next for Bolivia? After almost 14 years in power, the government of Bolivia’s first indigenous president collapsed in 2019 amidst widescale protest and allegations of electoral fraud. The contested transitional government that e...

    $640.00

  • BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS OF APOCAROTENOIDS
    SIVA RAMAMOORTHY / RENATA RIVERA MADRID / C GEORGE PRIYA DOSS
    Carotenoids are a large class of isoprenoid pigments produced by plants and certain microbes. More than 700 naturally occurring carotenoids have been identified. Apocarotenoids are tailored from carotenoids by oxidative enzymes. Apocarotenoids act as visual or volatile signals to attract pollinating and seed dispersal agents. They are also the key players in allelopathic intera...

    $4,900.00

  • CHILD GUIDANCE CENTRES IN JAPAN
    MICHAEL RIVERA KING
    In contemporary Japan, 85% of children in alternative care remain housed in large welfare institutions, as opposed to family-based foster care. This publication examines how Japan has been isolated from global discourse on alternative care, urging a shift in social work and alternative care policies. As the first ethnographic account from inside child guidance centres, it makes...

    $1,200.00

  • HYDRODYNAMICS, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND LIGHT EXTINCTION OFF CAPE BOLINAO, PHILIPPINES
    PAUL CADELINA RIVERA
    Observational and numerical modelling studies of the hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and light extinction were undertaken in the marine environment around Cape Bolinao in the Lingayen Gulf (NW Philippines). This text reports on the results of these studies, and offers conclusions. ...

    $2,220.00

  • (IN)DIGESTION IN LITERATURE AND FILM
    SERENA J. RIVERA / ‎NIKI KIVIAT
    (In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered eating practices represented in literary and filmic works. The collection ultima...

    $1,120.00

  • THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE
    PASTORA CAFFERTY / CARMEN RIVERA-MARTINEZ
    Demographers predict that by the end of the century Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and Rivera-Martínez analyze bilingual education policies and programs, pa...

    $1,160.00

  • PLANNING ADULT LEARNING
    WILLIAM M. RIVERA
    Originally published in 1987, this book challenged readers to consider the political issues, agency practices, and social directions of planning adult learning programs and services at the time. It confronts the subject of planning from the perspective of federally constituted countries where policies of decentralization generally prevail. It proposes that the concept of adult ...

    $920.00

  • TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER VIA UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS
    MARIA ISABEL RIVERA VARGAS
    This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics corporations play in the process. Riveria Vargas delineates that technology transfer is occurring, describes it nature, the channels of transfer, and its level by focusing on the informal mechanisms of technology transfer. ...

    $1,240.00

  • ANDEAN HYDROLOGY
    DIEGO A. RIVERA
    This book describes the ecosystem of the Andean watersheds, covering the Californian valley, tropical Andes, and southern Andes. Case studies of the new methods and techniques used for hydrological research in the Andes are provided, and sustainability issues pertaining to Andean water resources are discussed in the context of climate change, social and economic issues, and pub...

    $1,360.00

  • ADULT BILITERACY
    KLAUDIA M. RIVERA
    Offering an in-depth view of adult literacy/biliteracy by merging two fields—adult literacy and English as a Second Language—this volume brings to the forefront linguistic, demographic, sociocultural, workforce, familial, academic, and other issues surrounding the development of bilingualism and biliteracy by adults in the U.S. As such, it helps to fill a gap in the research li...

    $1,340.00

  • FORECASTING FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
    GLORIA GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA
    For junior/senior undergraduates in a variety of fields such as economics, business administration, applied mathematics and statistics, and for graduate students in quantitative masters programs such as MBA and MA/MS in economics. A student-friendly approach to understanding forecasting. Knowledge of forecasting methods is among the most demanded qualifications for professional...

    $5,100.00

  • POVERTY ALLEVIATION THROUGH TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
    ROBERTICO CROES / MANUEL RIVERA
    The book offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to the topic of tourism development and its contribution to the fight against poverty. Tourism development is credited to be a powerful source of regional development and improvement in developing countries, and the focus of the book is on the world's poorest areas and how tourism connects to ...

    $3,100.00

  • COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF HUMAN SYSTEMS
    CHRIS FORSYTHE / HUAFEI LIAO / MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER STEFAN TRUMBO / ROGELIO E. CARDONA-RIVERA
    While there have been tremendous advances in our scientific understanding of the brain, this work has been largely academic, and often oriented toward clinical publication. Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems: Work and Everyday Life addresses the relationship between neurophysiological processes and the performance and experience of humans in e ...

    $1,800.00

  • STATE ASSESSMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
    RIVERA, CHARLENE / COLLUM, ERIC
    State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners presents three significant studies, each examining a different aspect of states' strategies for including English language learners in state assessments. *an Analysis of State Assessment Policies Regarding Accommodations for English Language Learners; *a Survey and Description of Test Translation Practices; and ...

    $1,900.00

  • LATINO/HISPANIC LIAISONS AND VISIONS FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
    FELIX G RIVERA
    Add to your knowledge of Latino/Hispanic diversity, attitudes, behaviors, and experiences to provide more effective services!Latino-Hispanic Liaisons and Visions for Human Behavior in the Social Environment dispels pervasive historical and contemporary misconceptions and inaccuracies and highlights the diversity of Latino/Hispanic experiences to help you provide more effective ...

    $1,320.00

  • CILIA, CILIATED EPITHELIUM, AND CILIARY ACTIVITY
    JOSÉ A. RIVERA
    Cilia, Ciliated Epithelium, and Ciliary Activity reviews the state of knowledge of the activity of cilia and of the role these structures play in maintaining the normal physiology of the body, especially in the respiratory and genital systems. It relates the diversity of manifestations shown by cilia and ciliated epithelium in health and disease, and the effect of the physicoch...

    $425.00

  • DISASTER RESILIENCY
    NAIM KAPUCU, CHRISTOPHER V. HAWKINS, FERNANDO I. RIVERA
    Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue to occur, but by understanding the concept of resiliency as well as the fact...

    $1,360.00

  • BEING AGAINST THE WORLD
    OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA
    How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them. ...

    $1,600.00

  • DELIMITATIONS OF LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
    OMAR RIVERA
    "[An] original view of José Carlos Mariátegui's role in Latin American philosophy and his relation to identity, liberation, and aesthetics (Elizabeth Millán Brusslan, editor of After the Avant-Gardes). In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Latin American philosophy focused on the convergence of identity formation and political liberation in ethnically and racially diverse ...

    $229.00


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