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"Mentorship is an essential part of growing as a designer - and, really, as a human being - but it's not a topic that's well covered within design circles. Ram's book breaks this down in a way that is approachable for anyone, whether they're starting out in their career, developing...

This book explores the associations women make between everyday clothing and class status, and considers how women s own fashion practices, perceptions and tastes are informed and influenced by class positions. By exploring the notions of "dressing up" and "looking good," the book emphasizes important differences in women s notions of femininity, their understanding of public space and their buying criteria, and documents the important role mothers play in socializing daughters into classed practices and attitudes towards fashion. In doing so, Appleford restates the importance of class in...

Despite feedback's demonstratively positive effects on student performance, research on the specific components of successful feedback practice is in short supply. In Using Feedback to Improve Learning, Ruiz-Primo and Brookhart highlight real-world examples and provide critical characteristics of feedback strategies to affirm classroom feedback's positive effect on student learning. This how-to guide provides preservice and in-service teachers with empirically-supported techniques for using feedback as a part of formative assessment in the classroom.

How can a potato be a battery?

How quickly will a shark find you?

What food should you take with you when climbing a mountain?

The Really Useful Book of Secondary Science Experiments presents 100 exciting, 'real-world' science experiments that can be confidently carried out by any KS3 science teacher in a secondary school classroom. It offers a mix of classic experiments together with fresh ideas for investigations designed to engage students, help them see the relevance of science in their own lives and develop a passion for carrying out...

How can a potato be a battery?

How quickly will a shark find you?

What food should you take with you when climbing a mountain?

The Really Useful Book of Secondary Science Experiments presents 100 exciting, 'real-world' science experiments that can be confidently carried out by any KS3 science teacher in a secondary school classroom. It offers a mix of classic experiments together with fresh ideas for investigations designed to engage students, help them see the relevance of science in their own lives and develop a passion for carrying out...

Tens of thousands of Western teachers, many of whom would not be considered teachers elsewhere, are employed to teach English in public and private education in China. Little has previously been known, except anecdotally, about their experiences, about the effect they have on education in the context, or on students perceptions of the West that result from this contact. This book is an ethnographic study of Westerners lived experiences teaching English in Shanghai, China. It is based on three years of groundbreaking research into the pre-service training, classroom practices, personal...

ON DUTIES deserves more attention than it gets, and it rewards the attention it receives, because it deals with the question of the well-lived life in a clear, thoughtful, accessible, and compelling manner. Cicero believed On Duties to be his magnum opus, and much of history has agreed with him on this. Of On Duties, the French philosopher Voltaire wrote: "No one will ever write anything more wise, more true, or more useful." And Martin Luther, in his Table Talk says this of Cicero: "Let those who wish to see a true philosophy read Cicero. Cicero was a wise and...

A real treasure of scales & harmony. Full of surprises
A rare book for composers, improvisers & tutors.
232 pages of illustrations.
262 pages of music notation and Guitar TAB.
Simple logics and illustrations.
Never can anyone miss this book of reference.
This book brings out the master Guitar player in you.

Curtis Wilson was a revered tutor and two-time dean at St. John's College in Annapolis for over fifty years. He was also an eminent historian of science, who published many significant studies in the history of astronomy and physics. This collection of his writings and lectures omits his purely scholarly work, focusing instead on spoken or written discourses produced for the St. John's College community.

The volume includes the eight lectures Mr. Wilson delivered as Dean of the College in 1958-1961 and 1973-1976, as well as other lectures, an article on Charles Peirce co-authored...

By reading this book on audio, individuals will learn how to create a truly quality sound within their final audio mix. Individuals will also discover everything required to become an accomplished audio wage earner. It's a practical information book on audio that takes the mystery out of audio recording studios, audio reinforcement, and room acoustics issues.

Explained in detail are also many problems individuals will encounter in practical recording sessions and how to overcome issues.

The purpose of this audio awareness guidebook is to guide individuals to become a...

By reading this book on audio, individuals will learn how to create a truly quality sound within their final audio mix. Individuals will also discover everything required to become an accomplished audio wage earner. It's a practical information book on audio that takes the mystery out of audio recording studios, audio reinforcement, and room acoustics issues.

Explained in detail are also many problems individuals will encounter in practical recording sessions and how to overcome issues.

The purpose of this audio awareness guidebook is to guide individuals to become a...

Implementing a Standards-Based Curriculum in the Early Childhood Classroom demonstrates how pre-service and in-service teachers can develop mathematics, language arts, and integrated curricula suitable for equipping young children with the knowledge, dispositions, and skills needed to operate successfully as 21st century learners. Chapters promote family-school partnerships, and each content area chapter (mathematics, language arts and integrated curriculum) will demonstrate assessment practices proven to be effective for detecting the impact of specific early childhood teaching...