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Bright, Talented, & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners
Joy Lawson Davis · Great Potential Press
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
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Bright, Talented and Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners provides essential information about the parenting and education of Black gifted children. Based on her personal experience as a parent, as well as a gifted education professional. Dr Davis offers many... |
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Administrative Assistant: The Training Course
Amy S. Morgan MSC · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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The new administrative assistant is a team member Gone are the days of performing only the basic duties of typing and filing; now the assistant is a vital part of the every day business process. If you want to learn how to be exceptional and be a central part of a boss's work processes,... |
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Applied Minds: How Engineers Think
Guru Madhavan · W W Norton
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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"Engineers are titans of real-world problem-solving. . . . In this riveting study of how they think, [Guru Madhavan] puts behind-the-scenes geniuses . . . center stage." -- NatureDubai's Burj Khalifa -- the world's tallest building -- looks nothing like Microsoft's... |
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The Traveler's Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists
Neil F. Comins · Columbia University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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If you have ever wondered about space travel, now you have the opportunity to understand it more fully than ever before. Traveling into space and even emigrating to nearby worlds may soon become part of the human experience. Scientists, engineers, and investors are working hard to make... |
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The ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Lists
Jacqueline E Kress
Format: Print book
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Everything educators need to know to enhance learning for ESL students This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional materials and lessons. The mater |
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Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
Richard Martin · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
Greg Toppo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small... |
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Modern Urban Landscapes
Martin Coyle · Images
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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SMART Landscape is a significant contribution to the conversation on sustainable landscape design, providing energy efficient models and water saving landscape ideas. There are many factors that would help realize energy efficient landscapes, including (but not limited to) the use of energy... |
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Each Day: A Veteran Educator's Guide to Raising Children
Z Vance Wilson · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 172
Format: Print book
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In vibrant prose, Z. Vance Wilson offers insight to anyone, whether parent or teacher, responsible for guiding children on the joyous, difficult, and ever-unpredictable path to becoming their best selves intellectually, socially, morally, and spiritually. With judiciousness, good will,... |
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already... |
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