Student Centered Leadership

This book offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their school and ultimately improve their student's performance. This book also is based not on fad or fashion but on the…

E-book The Cultural Set-up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the United States…

How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock…

E-book The Last Man Who Knew Everything

No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the ey…

E-book At Home in Renaissance Bruges : Connecting Objects, People and Domesti…

Early fifteenth-century travellers such as Spanish writer Pero Tafur praised the city of Bruges because of its liveliness and economic activity: ‘Bruges was a large and wealthy city, and one of the greatest markets of the world [...] anyone who has mon-ey, and wished to spend it, will find in this town alone everything which the world produces’.1 Bruges had played an important…

E-book The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World

Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature of Muslim culture. As well as taking on the issues uppermost in everyone's minds, such as the role of religious and political fundamentalism, th…

E-book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and Jame…

E-book Agricultural Robotics: Part of the New Deal?

The farming and agricultural robotics industries are inextricably linked. This connection is reinforced every year at the FIRA International Forum of Agricultural Robots, where, inevitably, there are new players and new problems, bigger goals and better solutions.As the circumstances change, the innovators, disruptors, regulators and users change, too. This growth depends on everyone’s abilit…

E-book Genius: A Very Short Introduction

Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or more. Most of us would probably answer: all ten possessed something we call genius, which in each instance permanently changed the way that hum…

E-book Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century Case Studies

This book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first century has seen a new fascination with the age-old phenomena of literary multilingualism a…

E-book Not Written in Stone: Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Ca…

Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time immemorial, have written down their values and ideologies, this study effectively demonstrates how these writings record the principles and values that motivated a community.

E-book Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed

Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed, with full text in both English and Arabic, tells the story of the long and difficult search to discover the identity of the first people to inhabit the sovereign State of Qatar, which is situated on a peninsula, that extends into the Arabian Gulf. The book synthesises the results of extensive fieldwork by the PADMAC Unit with the man…

E-Book Encyclopedia of Human Body Systems

This encyclopedia provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to each of the systems of the human body, exploring all 11 organ systems of the human body: the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, integumentary, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, and urinary systems. Each chapter includes detailed descriptions of important physiological processes, cell and tiss…

E-book Airport Governance Toolkit

Variations in national and airport-specific governance arrangements can be justified due to differing local circumstances. However, in many cases the governance applied is simply the result of an airport’s history. As a consequence, it is often unclear to decision-makers whether and when specific governance arrangements should or should not be applied. The lack of properly designed governance…

E-book Butterflies : Taking Science to the Backyard

Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, and Nymphalidae. Close to 750 species inhabit the United States and Canada, most notably the Monarch and Regal Fritillary can be found in Nebraska. Approximately 3% of butterfly species are threatened with extinction. This decline in butterfly populations is attributed primarily to habitat loss due to urbanization and agriculture. As populations continue to d…

E-book Handbook Cognition and Emotion

The present volume does not generally focus on the question of whether thoughts (cognition) or feelings (emotion) are more functional. Rather, this introductory material is sufficient to make the case that, typically, thoughts and feelings are seen to be distinct entities with distinct effects (e.g., Epstein, 1994). Yet, it has become increasingly apparent that cognition and emotion often inter…

E-book Health for Wealth : Building a Healthier Northern Powerhouse for UK Pr…

There is a well-known productivity gap between the Northern Powerhouse and the rest of England of £4 perperson-per-hour. There is also a substantial health gap between the Northern Powerhouse and the rest of England, with average life expectancy 2 years lower in the North. Given that both health and productivity are lower in the Northern Powerhouse, the NHSA commissioned this report from six …

Para Pembentuk Peradaban Islam : Seribu Tahun Pertama

Selama seribu tahun pertama, para pemikir agama, pemimpi politik, ahli hukum, penulis, saintis, dan filsuf telah membentuk peradaban islam. Siapa sajakah mereka? Seperti apa kehidupan mereka? Dan bagaimana cara mereka mempengaruhi dunia?

E-book Coffee wilt Disease

During the 20th century, a devastating disease called Coffee Wilt Disease (CWD) spread across Africa, reducing yields, destroying millions of coffee trees and costing millions of USD in lost earnings for producers (Flood, 2009). The disease has also contributed to a decline in the revenues of several African nations. CWD reached epidemic proportions twi…

E-book Panduan Gelombang Panas Kota Untuk Red Cross Red Cressent Branches

Gelombang panas amat mematikan yang semakin sering terjadi dan dapat berdampak serius bagi kesehatan dan kesejahteraan manusia. Saat gelombang panas melanda, yang paling rentan adalah yang paling terdampak. Dalam dekade terakhir, gelombang panas yang parah telah menyebabkan banyak kematian, termasuk lebih dari 400 kematian di Belanda pada tahun 2019, lebih dari 1.500 kematian di India pada tahu…

E-book International Space Station Benefits for Humanity

Welcome as we share the successes of the International Space Station (ISS) in this third edition of the International Space Station Benefits for Humanity. The ISS is a unique scientific platform that has enabled more than 3,600 researchers in 106 countries and areas to conduct more than 2,500 experiments in microgravity through February 2018—and the research continues. Since November 2, 2000,…

E-book Discovery Learning About Cocoa : An Inspirational Guide for Training F…

In the 17th century, markets in Europe were rapidly expanding and cocoa spread to most islands in the Caribbean and subsequently to mainland Venezuela and Colombia. In the same century, the Spanish succeeded in transferring a few live plants to Manila in the Philippines. Cocoa cultivation gradually spread southward through the East Indies, and ultimately also to Sri Lanka in the 19th century. A…

E-book Human Rights : A Basic Handbook for UN Staff

One of the principal purposes of the United Nations, as set out in the United Nations Charter, is to promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. There has been a marked shift in recent years in the United Nations approach to human rights. The 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action called upo…

Sickened : Kisah nyata tentang seorang anak yang sengaja dibuat sakit

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Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Tsunami

Mitigasi bencana tsunami : Tsunami yang merupakan salah satu bencana alam yang sering memakan banyak korban. Tentunya bangsa Indonesia masih ingat peristiwa tsunami Aceh. Bencana alam yang menelan korban lebih dari 230.000 jiwa, ribuan rumah dan bangunan rusak serta sampai sekarang masih menyisakan trauma untuk korban-korban yang masih hidup terutama untuk anak-anak. Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Benc…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Kebakaran

Mitigasi bencana kebakaran. Bencana kebakaran seringkali melanda wilayah-wilayah di negara Indonesia. Rata-rata kebaakaran terjadi dikarenakan kesalahan manusia itu sendiri, namun tak jarang pula terjadi karena adanya korsleting listrik. Kebakaran sering melanda fasilitas umum seperti pasar, pom bensin, ruko atau toko menimbulkan kerugian material yang tidak sedikit jumlahnya. Rumah pribadi, ka…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Banjir

Mitigasi bencana banjir, banjir adalah bencana alam yang sangat dekat dengan kehidupan masyaakat di Indonesia. Terutama saat musim hujan tiba, banyak sekali wilayah di Indonesia yang dilanda banjir. Kerugian harta bahkan jiwa menjadi dampak negatif yang tak dapat terelakan. Oleh karena itu, mitigasi bencana banjir sangat penting untuk dipahami oleh masssssyarakat, terutama mereka yang tinggal d…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Gempa bumi

Mitigasi bencana gempa bumi : Gempa bumi adalah goncangan yang terjadi di permukaan bumi akibat adanya gelombang sistemik. Gempa bumi menjadi salah satu bencana alam yang sampai saat ini tidak bisa dikendalikan dan dicegah. Akibatnya, bencana gempa sering menjadi penyebab kerusakan dan runtuhnya bangunan, sampai dengan korban jiwa manusia. Ketidakmampuan mencegah gempa bumi menyebabkan upaya ya…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Angin topan

Mitigasi bencana angin topan. Angin merupakan fenomena alam yang amat dekat dengan manusia. Namun, angin juga memberikan dampak yang buruk bagi kehidupan manusia jika terjadi dalam tingkatan tertentu. Kecepatan gerk angin yang begitu tinggi disertai dengan arah gerakan tertentu dapat mengakibatkan kerusakan yangluar biasa. Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana Angin Topan memberikan gambaran, bagaiman…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Transportasi

Mitigasi bencana transportasi. Transportasi adalah kebutuhan masyarakat modern yang timbul akibat adanya aktivitas sosial dan ekonomi dalam kehidupan. Sarana transportasi baik di darat, laut, maupun udara diperlukan untuk melakukan distribusi barang maupun perpidahan manusia dari satu daerah ke daerah yang lain. Kecelakaan transportasi dapat disebabkan antara lain karena unsafe condition maupun…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Tanah longsor

Tanah longsor terjadi akibat pergerakan tanah karena jatuhnya bebatuan atau gumpalan besar tanah dalam berbagai tipe dan jenis ini, memberikan dampak kerugian baik material maupun psikis. Minimnya pengetahuan masyarakat akan penanganan prabencana, saat bencana, bahkan pascabencana menjadikan usaha antisipasi belum dilakukan secara maksimal. Mitigasi bencana menjadi usaha untuk mengurangi risiko…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Gunung Berapi

Mitigasi bencana gunung berapi, Indonesia memiliki banyak bunung berapi baik yang masih aktif maupun tidak. Selain memberikan lahan yang subur, gunung berapi juga memberikan kerugian material terutama saat meletus. Buku ini yang dimulai dari definisi, penyebarannya di mua bumi, jenis-jenisnya mekanisme letusan, proses terjadi, dan perkembangan kegiatannya. Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana Gunung …

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Endemi Penyakit

Mitigasi Bencana Endemi Penyakit : Endemi penyakit menjadi salah satu pehatian lain dari mitigasi bncana. Endemi yang bisa diartikan sebagai penyakit yang menjangkiti suatu daerah atau bahkan suatu golongan masyarakat, akan memberikan dampak negatif atau kerugian bagi semua pihak bagi baik masyarakat atau pun pemerintah. Berbagai faktor mampu menyebabkan endemi penyakit ini akhirnya mewabah dan…

Anjing iblis dari Baskerville

Karena ulah keji salah satau leluhur di masa lampau, seluruh keturunan Baskerville dihantui oleh kutukan maut anjing iblis. Sir Charles Baskerville ditemukan telah tewas di dekat gerbang menuju padang. Tidak ditemukan tanda-tanda telah terjadinya tindah pembunuhan selain sebuah tapak kaki anjing pemburu berukuran raksasa. Sekali lagi, Sherlock Holmes ditantang untuk memecahkan misteri pembunuh…

KREASI KARTU INDAH & MEMIKAT: Lebih dari 80 kreasi kartu untuk segala kesempatan

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979-781-559-5

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