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Green Design: From Theory to Practice
Green Design: From Theory to Practice

Arthur Spector · Actar, 2013.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

"The awareness of the environmental and ecological impact of architectural practice has never been as significant as it is today; with issues surrounding sustainability, environmental responsibility and the use of natural resources becoming unavoidable. Green Design: From Theory to Practice...
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Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College
Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College

Janet Marthers · Wheatmark
Pages: 421
Format: Print book

Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College is a different sort of college guide -- one that helps students and their families better understand the vast amount of options available for college based on a student's interests. Topics in this comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide include,...
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Praxis II Health Education
Praxis II Health Education

Mometrix Media Preparation Team. · Mometrix Media
Pages: 174
Format: Book

***Includes Practice Test Questions*** Get the test prep help you need to be successful on the Praxis II Health Education test. The Praxis II Health Education (5551) Exam is extremely challenging and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Praxis II Health Education (5551)...
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Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy
Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy

P. David Pearson · Teachers College Press
Format: Print book

This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to every teacher educator, every curriculum director, and every literacy coach, whether or not they must meet Common Core Standards. Bringing together perspectives from literacy luminaries, each addressing their specialty, this book offers...
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Privacy in the New Media Age
Privacy in the New Media Age

Jon L. Mills · University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover

"An essential book for anyone concerned with the increasingly ubiquitous clashes between a technologically borderless world, free press, safety and personal privacy." - Charlotte Laws, board member, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative "Elucidates a path that both enhances dignity...
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Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write
Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write

Patricia Marr Cunningham · Pearson
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Practical help for providing balanced, comprehensive literacy instruction for all students, particularly those from culturally diverse backgrounds and those who are struggling with reading and writing. This popular resource provides comprehensive, balanced, practical literacy instruction...
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Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: Your Complete Guide to Living beyond the Grid with Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living
Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: Your Complete Guide to Living beyond the Grid with Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living

John Schaeffer · New Society
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

What book would you want if you were stranded on a desert island? Widely regarded as the "bible" of off-grid living, Real Goods Solar Living Source Book might be your best choice. With over six hundred thousand copies in print worldwide, it is the most comprehensive resource available...
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling

Peter Laufer · Lyons Pr
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that...
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Idea to Invention: What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
Idea to Invention: What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration

Patricia Nolan-Brown · AMACOM
Pages: 254
Format: Print book

You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling ...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes ...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions...
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Egirls, Ecitizens
Egirls, Ecitizens

Valerie M Steeves · University of Ottawa Press
Pages: 506
Format: Print book

eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls' and young women's experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international...
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Davenport's Pennsylvania Wills And Estate Planning Legal Forms: Second Edition
Davenport's Pennsylvania Wills And Estate Planning Legal Forms: Second Edition

Alexander W Russell · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Second edition
Format: Print book

This new Second Edition of this book is written by attorneys and published by Davenport Press. This book focuses on Pennsylvania Wills and Estate Planning legal documents which deal with how a person can control on absence, illness, or death their health care, end of life issues, all property,...
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The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market
The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market

Gianaclis Caldwell · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable...
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