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Dark Divide (A Desert Dark Novel #2)
by Sonja StoneHogwarts meets The Bourne Identity at Desert Mountain Academy, the covert CIA training school where Nadia Riley's harrowing adventures continue.With the trials of first semester behind her, sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley returns to Desert Mountain Academy to quietly complete her junior year. Of course, at a Black Ops training facility for the CIA, nothing ever stays quiet for long. Sure enough, Nadia's very first survival course takes a terrifying turn when she realizes she is being tracked--and her pursuer is none other than ex-recruit and traitor Damon Moore. Damon needs Nadia's help to protect someone he loves from a rogue group called the Nighthawks, and Nadia is shocked to find that she's inclined to help him. But how much can she really trust a guy who was once tasked to kill her?
Das CORE-Prinzip: Du wirst, was Du denkst!
by Thomas HerbstConnect, Orientate, Reflect und Energize - dieses Buch bietet Ihnen ein universelles Konzept f#65533;r Zufriedenheit, Gl#65533;ck, Gesundheit und pers#65533;nlichen Reichtum. Im Fokus stehen Ihre Gedanken und Empfindungen: diese strahlen von innen nach au#65533;en, bestimmen Ihre pers#65533;nliche Stimmungslage und Ihr reales Handeln, f#65533;rben ab auf Ihre Umgebung und beeinflussen sogar Ihr physisches Erscheinungsbild. Eine gute Steuerung Ihres eigenen Denkens resultiert in einer authentischen und kraftvollen Verbindung zu Ihren Mitmenschen und f#65533;hrt Sie privat und beruflich in alle Richtungen und auf alle Lebenswege, die in Ihrem tiefsten Innern bereits angelegt sind. Thomas Herbst vermittelt #65533;berzeugend, wie Sie Ihre Empfindungswelt bewusst und selbstverantwortlich auf gute Weise lenken lernen: Ver#65533;ndern Sie Ihre Denkmuster, gewinnen Sie Ihre Lebensenergie zur#65533;ck und richten Sie diese konsequent auf Ihr Lebensgl#65533;ck. Sie werden Ihre Umgebung im besten Sinne damit anstecken.
DAT Prep Plus 2019-2020: 2 Practice Tests + Proven Strategies + Online (Kaplan Test Prep)
by Kaplan Test PrepKaplan's DAT Prep Plus 2019-2020 provides the test-taking strategies, realistic practice, and expert guidance you need to score higher on the Dental Admissions Test. Our comprehensive updated subject review reflects recent changes to the blueprint of the exam, question types, and test interface. You'll get two full-length practice DATs and expert tips to help you face Test Day with confidence.The Best ReviewTwo updated full-length, online practice exams for test-like practiceStudy planning guidanceMore than 600 practice questions for every subject, with detailed answers and explanationsFull-color study sheets for high-yield reviewA guide to the current DAT Blueprint so you know exactly what to expect on Test DayComprehensive review of all of the content covered on the DATExpert GuidanceOur books and practice questions are written by veteran teachers who know students—every explanation is written to help you learnKaplan's experts ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the testWe invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years, and our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreamsThe previous edition of this book was titled DAT 2017-2018 Strategies, Practice & Review.
Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach To Regression, ANOVA, and Beyond, Third Edition
by Charles M. Judd Gary H. McClelland Carey S. RyanData Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach to Regression, ANOVA, and Beyond is an integrated treatment of data analysis for the social and behavioral sciences. It covers all of the statistical models normally used in such analyses, such as multiple regression and analysis of variance, but it does so in an integrated manner that relies on the comparison of models of data estimated under the rubric of the general linear model. Data Analysis also describes how the model comparison approach and uniform framework can be applied to models that include product predictors (i.e., interactions and nonlinear effects) and to observations that are nonindependent. Indeed, the analysis of nonindependent observations is treated in some detail, including models of nonindependent data with continuously varying predictors as well as standard repeated measures analysis of variance. This approach also provides an integrated introduction to multilevel or hierarchical linear models and logistic regression. Finally, Data Analysis provides guidance for the treatment of outliers and other problematic aspects of data analysis. It is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in data analysis and offers an integrated approach that is very accessible and easy to teach. Highlights of the third edition include: a new chapter on logistic regression; expanded treatment of mixed models for data with multiple random factors; updated examples; an enhanced website with PowerPoint presentations and other tools that demonstrate the concepts in the book; exercises for each chapter that highlight research findings from the literature; data sets, R code, and SAS output for all analyses; additional examples and problem sets; and test questions.
Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education: 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2017, Tallinn, Estonia, September 12–15, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10474)
by Katrien Verbert Hendrik Drachsler Élise Lavoué Mar Pérez-Sanagustín Julien BroisinThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2017, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2017. The 24 full papers, 23 short papers, 6 demo papers, and 22 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The theme for the 12th EC-TEL conference on Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education' aims to explore the multidisciplinary approaches that eectively illustrate how data-driven education combined with digital education systems can look like and what are the empirical evidences for the use of datadriven tools in educational practices.
Database Systems for Advanced Applications: DASFAA 2017 International Workshops: BDMS, BDQM, SeCoP, and DMMOOC, Suzhou, China, March 27-30, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10179)
by Wen Hua Lijun Chang Zhifeng Bao Goce TrajcevskiThis two volume set LNCS 10177 and 10178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2017, held in Suzhou, China, in March 2017. The 73 full papers, 9 industry papers, 4 demo papers and 3 tutorials were carefully selected from a total of 300 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: semantic web and knowledge management; indexing and distributed systems; network embedding; trajectory and time series data processing; data mining; query processing and optimization; text mining; recommendation; security, privacy, senor and cloud; social network analytics; map matching and spatial keywords; query processing and optimization; search and information retrieval; string and sequence processing; stream date processing; graph and network data processing; spatial databases; real time data processing; big data; social networks and graphs.
David Copperfield
by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is often considered as his veiled autobiography. The story follows the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, England, six months after the death of his father. David spends his early years in relative happiness with his loving, childish mother and their kindly housekeeper, Peggotty. When he is seven years old his mother marries Edward Murdstone. During the marriage, partly to get him out of the way and partly because he strongly objects to the whole proceeding, David is sent to lodge with Peggotty's family in Yarmouth. Her brother, fisherman Mr Peggotty, lives in a house built in an upturned boat on the beach, with his adopted relatives Emily and Ham, and an elderly widow, Mrs Gummidge. "Little Em'ly" is somewhat spoilt by her fond foster father, and David is in love with her. On his return, David is given good reason to dislike his stepfather and has similar feelings for Murdstone's sister Jane, who moves into the house soon afterwards. Between them they tyrannise his poor mother, making her and David's lives miserable, and when, in consequence, David falls behind in his studies, Murdstone attempts to thrash him – partly to further pain his mother. Read the book further to discover the story.
Day Dreams and Movie Screens (Faithgirlz / Lena in the Spotlight)
by Alena Pitts Wynter PittsEleven-year-old Lena Daniels’ summer of Hollywood starlets and movie filming alongside her favorite singer, Mallory Winston, is over. School will be back in full swing, and it seems as though life might just pick up where it left off—with volleyball games, homework, and her best friends. But just as she begins to wonder if her summer was all just a dream, her world is turned upside down . . . again! The movie [movie title to be added] premiers, the previews seem to be splattered on every television and radio channel, and everyone knows her name. Her classmates, strangers, and even her friends are starting to treat her differently, and everywhere she turns she’s being asked for an autograph, a picture, or a hug.Lena is just figuring out how to manage her new fame at home when she finds out she's hitting the road on a two-week bus tour to further promote the film. Traveling across the country with the cast—with the surprise addition of her whole family joining them—Lena experiences adventures and challenges she never expected, while learning to step outside of her comfort zone and follow the path God has for her life. She learns that saying yes to God may not always be easy, but will take her further than she ever imagined!This Faithgirlz series entitled Lena in the Spotlight, written by Alena Pitts, star of The War Room and tween blogger of For Girls Like You, and co-written with her mother, editor and author, Wynter Pitts, is a reflection of Alena’s own life experiences as she reaches for the stars and keeps her faith in balance.
De Auden a Yeats: Análise Crítica de 30 Poemas Selecionados
by Geetanjali Mukherjee Allan Felipe Rocha PenoniEste livro é uma referência pronta para alunos de Literatura Inglesa que querem ajuda para navegar pela poesia de alguns dos maiores poetas do final do século XIX e do século XX. O livro contém análises críticas profundas de 30 poemas selecionados das obras de W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, John Keats, Philip Larkin e W.B. Yeats. Uma coletânia de 30 ensaios, o livro objetiva ajudar que alunos de literatura tenham uma visão geral da vida e do trabalho de casa poeta representado, assim como entender os poemas discutidos com suficiente profundidade. CARACTERÍSTICAS DO LIVRO * Uma seção sobre a vida e o histórico de cada poeta, para melhor entender as influências em sua poesia, e ter uma visão do contexto dos poemas selecionados * Uma explanação simples de cada poema * Explanações dos temas, motivos e símbolos usados nos poemas * Um ensaio dedicado para cada poema selecionado, analisando-os para o benefício do estudante de literatura * Perguntas curtas para que os alunos pensem sobre os temas mais profundos dos poemas Este é um guia inestimável para de literatura inglesa na escola ou universidade, ou para qualquer um que deseje obter uma compreensão mais apurada de alguns dos poemas mais reconhecidos do último século. Este livro funciona melhor como um guia de estudos, e não deve substituir a leitura de fato dos poemas (POEMAS NÃO INCLUSOS). Alguns poemas discutidos: * W.H. Auden - Refugee Blues * Ted Hughes - Crow Tyrannosaurus * Philip Larkin - The Whitsun Weddings * John Keats - To Autumn * W.B. Yeats - The Second Coming
Deadliest!: 20 Dangerous Animals (Extreme Animals)
by Steve JenkinsWhat do a cape buffalo, a king cobra, and a puffer fish have in common? They're all deadly! Deadliest! showcases some of the planet’s most threatening creatures. Steve Jenkins's Extreme Animals reader series explores nature's truly superlative animals with the help of illustrations, infographics, facts, and figures while detailing the astounding abilities of critters as small as a frog or as big as a whale. Each installment focuses on truly amazing and unusual animals, making these nonfiction readers accessible, informative, and fascinating.
Deaf People and Society: Psychological, Sociological and Educational Perspectives
by Irene W. Leigh Jean F. AndrewsDeaf People and Society incorporates multiple perspectives related to the topics of psychology, education, and sociology, including the viewpoints of deaf adults themselves. In doing so, it considers the implications of what it means to be deaf or hard of hearing and how deaf adults’ lives are impacted by decisions that professionals make, whether in the clinic, the school, or when working with family. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and offers current perspectives on the following topics:<P><P> * Etiologies of deafness and the identification process<P> * The role of auditory access<P> * Cognition, language, communication, and literacy<P> * Bilingual, bilingual/bimodal, and monolingual approaches to language learning<P> * Educational, legal, and placement aspects<P> * Childhood psychological issues<P> * Psychological and sociological viewpoints of deaf adults<P> * The criminal justice system and deaf people<P> * Psychodynamics of interaction between deaf and hearing people<P> Each chapter begins with a set of objectives and concludes with suggested readings for further research. This edition contains 10 new and original case studies, including ones on hearing children of deaf adults, sudden hearing loss, a young deaf adult with mental illness, and more. Written by a seasoned deaf/hearing bilingual team, this unique text continues to be the go-to resource for students and future professionals interested in working with deaf and hard-of-hearing persons.
Dean's List: Ten Strategies for College Success (Second Edition)
by John B. BaderAll of your hard work in high school has paid off: you have a solid GPA, numerous extracurricular achievements to your name, and an acceptance letter from an excellent college. Now what? What can you expect from the college experience, and how can you get the most out of it? This book will answer your questions and help you find real and lasting success in college. A complete reworking, this second edition includes information on managing workloads and faculty relationships, as well as new material focused on first-generation challenges and international students. Dean’s List offers a thoughtful, commonsense approach to higher education that allows students to make the most of their four years on campus―and beyond.
Dean's List: Ten Strategies for College Success
by John BaderYou’ve gotten into college. This is the book you need to succeed.All of your hard work in high school has paid off: you have a solid GPA, numerous extracurricular achievements to your name, and an acceptance letter from an excellent college. Now what? What can you expect from the college experience, and how can you get the most out of it? This book will answer your questions and help you find real and lasting success in college. Deans at America's top institutions—including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and Columbia—join John Bader to tell you what you need to know to have a rich and rewarding college experience. With wisdom, reassurance, and an insider's perspective, this lively and timely guide will help you develop strategies such as:• Focus on learning, not on grades• Build a new relationship with your parents• Explore your academic choices• Learn from diversity at home and abroad• Cope with failure• Plan boldly for life after collegeA complete reworking, this second edition includes information on managing workloads and faculty relationships, as well as new material focused on first-generation challenges and international students. Dean's List offers a thoughtful, commonsense approach to higher education that allows students to make the most of their four years on campus—and beyond.
Dear Reader: A Novel
by Mary O'Connell“Dear Reader is imaginative and exhilarating and genre-bending and one of the best YA novels of the year.” —BookRiotGilmore Girls meets Wuthering Heights in Mary O'Connell's Dear Reader, a whip-smart, poignant, modern-day take on Emily Brontë’s classic novel.For seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney’s AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn't show up to teach Flannery's favorite book, Wuthering Heights, leaving behind her purse, Flannery knows something is wrong. The police are called, and Flannery gives them everything—except Miss Sweeney's copy of Wuthering Heights. This she holds onto. And good thing she does, because when she opens it, it has somehow transformed into Miss Sweeney's real-time diary. It seems Miss Sweeney is in New York City—and she's in trouble. So Flannery does something very unFlannery-like: she skips school and sets out for Manhattan, with the book as her guide. But as soon as she arrives, she meets a boy named Heath. Heath is British, on a gap year, incredibly smart—yet he's never heard of Albert Einstein or Anne Frank. In fact, Flannery can't help thinking that he seems to have stepped from the pages of Brontë's novel. Could it be that Flannery is spending this topsy-turvy day with her ultimate fictional romantic hero, Heathcliff, reborn in the twenty-first century?
The Death Of Expertise
by Tom Nichols9780394577456Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before.9780394577456 These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues.9780394577456 Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats.9780394577456 All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.9780394577456 Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. 9780394577456Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. 9780394577456When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both.9780394577456 An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election.9780394577456 Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.
Debates in History Teaching (Debates in Subject Teaching)
by Ian DaviesNow in its second edition, Debates in History Teaching remains at the cutting edge of history education. It has been fully updated to take into account the latest developments in policy, research and professional practice. With further exploration into the major issues that history teachers encounter in their daily professional lives, it provides fresh guidance for thinking and practice for teachers within the UK and beyond. Written by a range of experts in history education, chapters cover all the key issues needed for clear thinking and excellent professional action. This book will enable you to reach informed judgements and argue your point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding. Debates include: What is happening today in history education? What is the purpose of history teaching? What do history teachers need to know? What are the key trends and issues in international contexts? What is the role of evidence in history teaching and learning? How should you make use of ICT in your lessons? Should moral learning be an aim of history education? How should history learning be assessed? Debates in History Teaching remains essential reading for any student or practising teacher engaged in initial training, continuing professional development or Master's-level study.
The Decalogue: Living as the People of God
by David L. BakerEvangelical Christian Publishers Association
Deciphering Chinese School Leadership: Conceptualisation, Context and Complexities (Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia)
by Allan Walker Haiyan QianWith existing educational leadership models and theories being predominantly western influenced, this book aims to provide more insight into school leadership in China. It pioneers building research- and practice-informed knowledge and unravels the complexities that characterize the scholarship, context and practices of school leadership. School leadership in China is presented through four sub-purposes: investigating how Chinese school leadership is conceptualized in the international and Chinese literature; exploring the shifting context within which Chinese school leaders enact their leadership, and examining key policies that have shaped the practice of leader development; extending the understandings about the complexities of work lives of Chinese school leaders; and further locating indigenous understandings of Chinese school leadership in the political and socio-cultural context of contemporary China, and the theoretical and conceptual context of international school leadership. This text will be particularly useful to international education researchers with focus on educational leadership, comparative education, education policy and education in China.
Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century
by Korinna SchönhärlThis book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions concerning bankers#65533; decision making, their confidence in partners and customers, and their risk management practices from Early Modernity to the 20th century. It explores various mechanisms of banks' decision taking, how they were established and how they changed over time. Specific chapters also analyze the types of risk management techniques used and the extent of their success; factors that contributed to the constitution of confidence and factors that damaged it; and methods that banking historians can use to analyze and describe bankers#65533; risk management and decision making. The volume features varied methodological approaches for historical research (from system theory to behavioural finance, from new institutional economics to praxeology, from convention theory to network analysis). The different methodological approaches are put to the test in case studies based on archive material from five hundred years of banking (from Early Modern European banking networks to international computerization) in order to connect banking history more closely to political and cultural history.
The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm: Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning
by David PaceTeaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond to the challenges of college and provides a framework for understanding why students find academic life so arduous. Teachers can help their pupils overcome obstacles by identifying bottlenecks to learning and systematically exploring the steps needed to overcome these obstacles. Often, experts find it difficult to define the mental operations necessary to master their discipline because they have become so automatic that they are invisible. However, once these mental operations have been made explicit, the teacher can model them for students, create opportunities for practice and feedback, manage additional emotional obstacles, assess results, and share what has been learned with others.
Defiant Joy Bible Study Guide: What Happens When You’re Full of It
by Candace PayneJoy is closer than you think because God is better than you may believe!We live in a culture that either tries to connect feelings of joy to empty and broken pleasures, or else it makes us feel guilty for feeling joyful at all. But both extremes are corruptions of the call to gladness that God gave us.With infectious humor, delight, and unfaltering wisdom, Candace Payne (aka "Chewbacca Mom") reveals biblical insights that lead to unshakable joy and freedom in every circumstance. Dispel the myths that joy is frivolous, laughter immature, and happiness unbiblical or undeserved; and open your heart to receive the freedom and joy that God created you to live in.John 15:11 says, "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete."In this six-session video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), learn what it is to live a life expressed by the joy of knowing how much you are loved by God!The Defiant Joy Bible study challenges groups to get honest and real in their discussion time and to explore the truth in what Scripture says about happiness. It also includes a personal "Joy Lab" that makes homework a new daily practice in the art of encountering the abundance God intends for each of us when we know joy.Sessions include:Laugh It Up, Live It OutKnow Hope, Know JoyJoy Is a FighterJoy Is Not Arrogant, But She Is ConfidentJoy Embraces SorrowYou&’re Full of ItDesigned for use with the Defiant Joy Video Study (9780310090557) sold separately.
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
by Dick GregoryWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the Civil Rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War; sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights; fought apartheid in South Africa; and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter. In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter movement. A captivating journey through time, Defining Moments in Black History explores historical movements such as The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as cultural touchstones such as Sidney Poitier winning the Best Actor Oscar for Lilies in the Field and Billie Holiday releasing Strange Fruit. An engaging look at black life that offers insightful commentary on the intricate history of the African American people, Defining Moments in Black History is an essential, no-holds-bar history lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain.
Degrees of Difference: Women, Men, and the Value of Higher Education
by Nancy S. NiemiThis volume investigates the dissonance between the supposed advantage held by educated women and their continued lack of economic and political power. Niemi explains the developments of the so-called "female advantage" and "boy crisis" in American higher education, setting them alongside socioeconomic and racial developments in women’s and men’s lives throughout the last 40 years. Exploring the relationship between higher education credentials and their utility in creating political, economic, and social success, Degrees of Difference identifies ways in which gender and academic achievement contribute to women’s and men’s power to shape their lives. This important book brings new light to the issues of power, gender identities, and the role of American higher education in creating gender equity.
Degrees of Failure: University Education in Decline
by Randle W. NelsenIn Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced in our universities. Paying special attention to the role played by professors in solidifying status quo arrangements, Nelsen makes the strange familiar for those outside the university bureaucracy and the familiar strange for those whose participation in university settings is a routine part of everyday life.
Degrees That Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm
by Natasha A. Jankowski David W. MarshallSponsored by Concerned by ongoing debates about higher education that talk past one another, the authors of this book show how to move beyond these and other obstacles to improve the student learning experience and further successful college outcomes. Offering an alternative to the culture of compliance in assessment and accreditation, they propose a different approach which they call the Learning System Paradigm. Building on the shift in focus from teaching to learning, the new paradigm encourages faculty and staff to systematically seek out information on how well students are learning and how well various areas of the institution are supporting the student experience and to use that information to create more coherent and explicit learning experiences for students.The authors begin by surveying the crowded terrain of reform in higher education and proceed from there to explore the emergence of this alternative paradigm that brings all these efforts together in a coherent way. The Learning System Paradigm presented in chapter two includes four key elements—consensus, alignment, student-centeredness, and communication. Chapter three focuses upon developing an encompassing notion of alignment that enables faculty, staff, and administrators to reshape institutional practice in ways that promote synergistic, integrative learning. Chapters four and five turn to practice, exploring the application of the paradigm to the work of curriculum mapping and assignment design. Chapter six focuses upon barriers to the work and presents ways to start and options for moving around barriers, and the final chapter explores ongoing implications of the new paradigm, offering strategies for communicating the impact of alignment on student learning.The book draws upon two recent initiatives in the United States: the Tuning process, adapted from a European approach to breaking down siloes in the European Union educational space; and the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP), a document that identifies and describes core areas of learning that are common to institutions in the US. Many of the examples are drawn from site visit reports, self-reported activities, workshops, and project experience collected by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) between 2010 and 2016. In that six-year window, NILOA witnessed the use of Tuning and/or the DQP in hundreds of institutions across the nation.