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A New Teacher's Guide to Best Practices
Yvonne S Gentzler · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 324
Format: Print book
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New teachers begin their careers with great enthusiasm and purpose, but often face many challenges in their first years of teaching. A New Teacher's Guide to Best Practices supports new teachers with guidelines for applying best teaching practices to improve their professional effectiveness.Organized... |
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016
Matthew K Gold · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 632
Format: Print book
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Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its identity, methods,... |
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Tesla Vs Edison: The Life-Long Feud that Electrified the World
Nigel Cawthorne · Chartwell Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Nikola Tesla today is largely unknown and overlooked among the great scientists of the modern era. While Thomas Edison, the most famous inventor in American history, gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb. But it was his one-time assistant and life-long arch nemesis, Tesla, who made... |
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Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Brian McGinty · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.In the early hours of May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge -- the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies
Jared Myracle · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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A parents guide to understanding the Common Core educational standards Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions the Common Core standards have been adopted in states from coast to coast These new common standards are designed... |
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Private Secondary Schools 2016-2017
Peterson'S. · Peterson'S, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Peterson's Private Secondary Schools 2016-17 is a valuable resource to help parents and students evaluate and choose from the overwhelming number of private secondary schools in the United States, Canada, and throughout the world. Featured institutions include independent day schools,... |
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Rachel Botsman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping... |
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Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, 6th Edition
Stan Gibilisco · Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pages: 800
Format: Print book
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Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals and applications -- all without taking a formal course This fully updated guide offers practical, easy-to-follow instruction on electricity and electronics. Written by a pair of experienced instructors, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics,... |
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The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
Simon Schama · Oxford University Press
Pages: 632
Format: Print book
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Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings,... |
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The Eleven Commandments of Good Teaching
Vickie Gill · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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Vickie Gill's time-tested wisdom and practical advice provides the insight teachers need to develop a dynamic, successful classroom. This third edition of her bestseller contains new material that helps teachers work with new technologies, evolving social climates, limited budgets,... |
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