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The Curious World of Gecko ‘Da Echo: Oh, the Stories We Spin!
by Lowry ChristyHow do geckos and humans meet? What brings them together? What adventures find them? In Oh, the Stories We Spin!, author Christy Lowry takes her readers along as she introduces a semi-tame gecko and a gecko-loving family to each other in Hawaii's Golden Isle. Together gecko and humans go through the ritual of meeting before their barely tame gecko, now sporting a name, polishes off his munch-a-lunch. His munch-a-bunch, is what, pray tell? Just what does he eat?! Not before the reader partly finds out, something spooks him. His sudden and speedy departure through the jungle cuts short their quest. One question still hangs on the hot humid air: Will he, on his own, come home?
The Curious Writer (3rd edition)
by Bruce P. BallengerThe Curious Writer is an assignment-oriented rhetoric-reader that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing. Offering a unique, entertaining, and personal author voice, The Curious Writer is sure to grab the reader's interest and motivates writing. Also distinctive is The Curious Writer's emphasis on inquiry as both a driving force behind the writing process and a method of discovery and learning.
The Curious Writer (Fourth Edition)
by Bruce BallengerThe Curious Writer, an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook, stresses the connections between personal and academic writing. The Curious Writer emphasizes inquiry as both a method of discovery and learning and a driving force behind the writing process. The book operates on the principle that writers who begin with questions, rather than answers, achieve better results in their work. It treats research, revision, and critical reading skills (of both texts and visuals) as organic components of every writing process. Each of the eight writing assignment chapters offers integrated coverage of these three key activities and also provides special attention digital tools for invention and research. Offering a unique, entertaining, and personal author voice, The Curious Writer is sure to grab students' interest and motivate them to write.
Current Controversies and Issues in Personality (Third Edition)
by Lawrence A. PervinIn this engaging book, Lawrence A. Pervin explores both the classic and more recent issues that define the field of personality psychology. Striking a careful balance between evolutionary and cultural perspectives, Pervin critically examines the issues that are the basis of much of the theory and research present in the field today and which are likely to be the basis for advances in the future. He presents an evenhanded coverage of current approaches to personality, and pays particular attention to the public policy implications of different theoretical views. Some of the fascinating controversies and debates you'll find in this book include: * Is Personality Stable Over the Life course? * The Nature of Human Nature: Culture and the Search for Universals * Mind, Brain, and Behavior: Psychology, Biology, and the Question of Reductionism * Is the Concept of the Self Useful and Necessary? * The Enterprise of Personality Research: How should it be Conducted?
Current Debates In American Government
by James Morone Ryan EmenakerIdeal for introductory courses, Current Debates in American Government presents over 50 lively readings drawn from major news sources including: The Economist, The Washington Post, NPR News, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. The authors selected these readings to introduce students to key debates in American politics and to help them better understand how these issues and debates affect their own lives. <p><p>Current Debates in American Government, Second Edition, is a perfect companion to Morone/Kersh's textbook, By the People: Debating American Government, Third Edition, (OUP, 2016), as its selections are organized thematically into sections that correspond to the chapters in that text.
Current Debates in American Politics
by John T. RourkeUpdated annually, this best-selling, debate-style reader examines the most timely, important, and provocative issues in American politics.
Current Debates In International Relations
by Eric B. Shiraev Vladislav M. ZubokIdeal for introductory courses, Current Debates in International Relations presents forty-nine readings drawn from major scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Relations, and The Wall Street Journal. It provides a broad selection of articles--both classical/theoretical and practical/applied--and steers students through major international issues, offering contending yet complementary approaches. <p><p> Section introductions offer previews of the topics and readings along with questions for class discussion or individual assignments. An open-access Companion Website provides additional resources for students and instructors, including practice questions and exercises. <p> An excellent stand-alone text, Current Debates in International Relations is also a perfect companion to the editors' textbook, International Relations, Second Edition (OUP, 2015).
Current Directions in Health Psychology
by Edith Chen Gregory MillerThese timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective--from a reliable source--about today's most current and pressing issues in health psychology.
Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide To Critical Thinking And Argument, With Readings
by Barnet Badau O’HaraCurrent Issues and Enduring Questions is a text and reader that serves as an extensive resource for teaching argument, persuasive writing, critical thinking, and research. It includes readings on topics that matter to students, such as being seen as “the other” and student loan forgiveness, issues that students will want to engage with and debate. Comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument includes Aristotelian, Toulmin, Rogerian, and a range of alternative views, such as analyzing and writing about visual arguments. <p><p> This new edition does more than ever to make argument concepts clear, and to give students strategies for crafting effective arguments. For today’s ever-increasingly visual learners who are challenged to separate what’s real from what’s not, new activities and visual flowcharts support information literacy. Newly annotated readings highlight important rhetorical moves. And new readings explore controversial issues such as mass incarceration, cultural appropriation, and the way computer algorithms make biased decisions.
Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine 5/E (Lange Medical Books)
by Joseph LaDou Robert HarrisonA thorough, concise, up-to-date guide to the diagnosis and treatment of common occupational and environmental injuries and diseases <P><P>A Doody's Core Title for 2017! <P><P>Coverage includes: <ul> <li>Chapters on how to conduct an occupational and environmental medical history, examine the patient, evaluate exposures, and prevent further injury and illness</li> <li>New methods of disability management and the important role that physicians can play in preventing disability</li> <li>Practical information on the toxic properties and clinical manifestation of common industrial materials</li> <li>Techniques to prevent acute and cumulative workplace-related injuries</li> <li>Detailed discussion of international occupational and environmental health, and issues of worker migration</li> <li>An appendix that concisely introduces the important topics of biostatistics and epidemiology</li> </ul> <P><P>LANGE The definitive overview of common occupational and environmental illnesses <P><P>NEW CHAPTERS on electronic health records, the management of chronic pain, violence in the workplace, terrorism preparedness, disease surveillance, and chemical policy <P><P>Valuable to practicing physicians as well as students and residents
Current Psychotherapies
by Danny Wedding Raymond J. CorsiniNow in its eleventh edition and used in top Counseling, Psychology and Social Work programs, CURRENT PSYCHOTHERAPIES helps you learn, compare and apply the major systems of psychotherapy in a way that will be meaningful in your future practice. Every chapter is written by either an originator or a leading proponent of a system. Each of these distinguished figures describes the basic principles of the system and highlights how it differs from other systems. A case example in every theory chapter guides you through the problem, evaluation, treatment and follow-up process.
Current Psychotherapies (7th edition)
by Raymond J. Corsini Danny WeddingThe 14 chapters in this counseling textbook describe the most important systems in the current practice of psychotherapy, summarizing each's history, theories of personality, treatment methods, and application to different disorders. The eighth edition adds chapters on integrative and contemplative psychotherapies and removes the chapters on experiential psychotherapy and psychodrama.
Curriculum For Learners
by P.N. Lakshmi Shanmugam M. ManivannanThis Self Instructional Material “Curriculum for Learners” attempts to give balanced attention to all important areas of curriculum such as traditional concept of curriculum, new concept of curriculum, types of curriculum, anatomy of curriculum and curriculum design. It helps the teachers to seek more explicit formulations of the teaching-learning process and to guide classroom practice. It provides context influences to the teachers to frame the curriculum in increasing diversity and complexity of the society.
Curriculum in Context: Designing Curriculum and Instruction for Teaching and Learning in Context
by Leigh ChiarelottEasily design appropriate curricula with CURRICULUM IN CONTEXT! This guidebook for teachers and curricula designers focuses on designing curriculum and instruction in the context of contextual teaching and learning, a system that enables students to find meaning by connecting the content of the lesson with the context of their lives. With a practical focus and numerous examples of designs created by actual teachers, this education text provides you with the concepts and skills you need to make appropriate curricular and instructional decisions for your own school and classroom.
The Curse of Einstein's Pencil
by Deborah ZemkeBea’s artistic gifts lead to a special new friendship in book two of this funny illustrated chapter book series for fans of Amelia’s Notebook and Judy Moody Bea Garcia is looking for a new best friend, and she almost has one—the smartest girl in school, Judith Einstein. So when Einstein asks Bea to be her partner in the upcoming school geography contest, Bea is thrilled...at first. Schoolwork comes so easily to Einstein that Bea thinks the secret might be Einstein's special pencil. But when Bea takes Einstein's pencil home, it's not quite what she expected.
The Curse of Snake Island #1
by Brian JamesThe pirate ship's first mate, Rotten Tooth, sees Pete and his friends more as an annoyance than pirates in training. As the ship heads toward Snake Island, Pete has an idea to earn some respect-if the kids can find the hidden treasure before the grown-ups, then they'll have to be taken seriously! Only one problem: The treasure is guarded by a giant snake that curses anyone who looks in its eyes. Can the pirate kids find the treasure, earn the pirates' respect, and escape certain death? .
Curse of the Crummy Mummy! (Junior Monster Scouts #6)
by Joe McGeeThe Junior Monster Scouts face off against a tricky sphinx in the hilarious sixth chapter book of the Junior Monster Scouts series!The Junior Monster Scouts are going to host an exchange scout, a mummy staying at Castle Dracula for the summer. But when their guest&’s pet sphinx gets loose, it starts causing trouble by turning people who can&’t answer its riddles to stone! Can the scouts and the mummy capture the sphinx, answer its riddles, and convince it to turn everyone back to normal?
The Curse of the Pharaoh #1
by Stefano Turconi Sir Steve StevensonAgatha: Girl of Mystery is a fanciful and fabulous new mystery series about a headstrong girl detective who jets off on exotic and international adventures with the help of her hulking bodyguard and loyal cat named, aptly, Watson. The first mystery in this series sees young detective Agatha Mistery traveling to Egypt. Rumors of a mysterious tablet unearthed in the Valley of the Kings may be just the clue that Agatha needs to unlock the secret curse of an ancient Pharaoh.
Cursed Crusaders (Ponyville Mysteries #5)
by Penumbra QuillJoin the Cutie Mark Crusaders--Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo--as they read mysteries, legends, ghost stories, and every other kind of tale that makes a mane stand on end. From Ponyville School classmates to Rainbow Dash to the Princess of the Night herself, you never know who else...or what else...awaits as they set out to solve seeming supernatural mysteries around Ponyville.Ideal for younger and more reluctant readers, this new original series complements our existing chapter book program with numbered titles, shorter page counts, and a perennial popular genre. These mysterious and sweetly spooky stories are sure to appeal to all My Little Pony fans--both girl and boy.©2018 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.
Customer Service Skills for Success
by Robert W. LucasNot the Same Old Customer Service Textbook Customer Service: Skills for Success uses a variety of activities and example to gain and hold readers' interest while providing additional insights into the concepts and skills related to customer service. The text begins with a macro view of what customer service involves today and provides projections for the future then focuses on specific skills and related topics. The fifth edition of Customer Service: Skills for Success contains 10 chapters divided into three parts, plus the Appendix, Glossary, and Bibliography. These parts focus on different aspects of customer service: (1) The Profession, (2) Skills for Success, and (3) Building and Maintaining Relationships. Along with valuable ideas, guidance, and perspectives, readers will also encounter interviews of real-world service providers and case study scenarios and activities to help you apply concepts learned to real-world situations in order to challenge your thinking on the issues presented. For users of previous editions, you will note a streamlined approach where we have combined material from several previous chapters.
Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology in the Slave Narratives
by Dwight N. Hopkins George C. L. CummingsDrawing on slave narratives found in forty-one volumes of interviews and one hundred autobiographies by former slaves, these contributors explore how enslaved African Americans received the often oppressive faith of their masters but transformed it into a gospel of liberation. This classic work demonstrates how an authentic black theology of liberation today must listen to the divine spirit that once fed and continues to feed the black religious experience. This second edition includes three additional provocative essays.
The Cutie Mark Chronicles Volume 1: My Little Pony (Ponyville Mysteries)
by Penumbra QuillJoin the Cutie Mark Crusaders as they solve mysteries around Ponyville!Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle love that they've been able to help so many ponies with their cutie marks, but they can't help feeling like the Cutie Mark Crusaders should be doing something...more adventurous. When a mysterious new Unicorn named Lilymoon moves to town, it seems like the Cutie Mark Crusaders start having nothing but adventures! New friends, scary creatures, and spooky houses-what mysteries won't the gang face?Ideal for younger and more reluctant readers, this new original series complements our existing chapter book program with numbered titles, shorter page counts, and a perennial popular genre. These mysterious and sweetly spooky stories are sure to appeal to all My Little Pony fans--both girl and boy.This bindup includes books 1 through 3 in the My Little Pony: Ponyville Mysteries series: Schoolhouse of Secrets, Tail of the Timberwolf, and Riddle of the Rusty Horseshoe.©2018 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.
Cutnell & Johnson Physics, AP Edition: Student Edition Grades 9-12 2018 (Cutnell, Physics, Eleventh Edition, Ap Edition Ser.)
by David Young Shane StadlerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism
by Robert Taylor Eric Fritsch John Liederbach Michael Saylor William TafoyaThis book is a comprehensive introduction to the acts and theories of cyber crime, cyber terrorism, and information warfare. Assuming no prior knowledge of technology, the authors cover the types of crimes and terrorist acts committed using computer technology, theories addressing hackers and other digital criminals, and investigative, research, and legal strategies targeting these acts. Like no other on the market, the text bridges the gap between criminal justice knowledge and the technical issues that arise during investigations of cyber crime. The 4th edition adds material on new technologies and trends, plus updated review questions and activities.
Cyberlaw: The Law of the Internet and Information Technology
by Brian CraigFeaturing the most current exploration of cyberlaw, this book helps students understand the legal and policy issues associated with the Internet. Tackling a full range of legal topics, it includes discussion of jurisdiction, intellectual property, contracts, taxation, torts, computer crimes, online speech, defamation and privacy. <p><p>Chapters include recent, relevant cases, discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter. Using a consistent voice and clear explanations, the author covers the latest developments in cyberlaw-from cases to legislation to regulations.