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Powerful Task Design: Rigorous and Engaging Tasks to Level Up Instruction (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
by John V. Antonetti Terri Ann SticeHow can educators use technology to increase students’ engagement in activities essential to rigorous learning? What are the most effective tools for analyzing, designing, and refining those tasks of learning? And finally, how can we increase the cognitive rigor and thoughtful integration of technology into learning tasks, in order to better prepare students for college and beyond? In Powerful Task Design, these questions and more will be answered, as you get to know the Powerful Task Rubric for Designing Student Work. Applicable for educators across all disciplines and grade levels, you’ll use the tool to analyze, design, and refine cognitively engaging tasks of learning. This guide will help you Explore and use the Powerful Task Rubric piece-by-piece in an easily digestible format to help you delve into the tool’s design components. Use technology to complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical design component in student task design that brings about more profound and relevant learning. Identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition. Supplement your task design arsenal with tools like the Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning (DIAL). This must-have resource brings together the research and strategies educators need to design engaging, powerful learning tasks. Student performance has a direct correlation to the power of the learning task - this book will help you positively impact both.
Powerful Task Design: Rigorous and Engaging Tasks to Level Up Instruction (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
by John V. Antonetti Terri Ann SticeHow can educators use technology to increase students’ engagement in activities essential to rigorous learning? What are the most effective tools for analyzing, designing, and refining those tasks of learning? And finally, how can we increase the cognitive rigor and thoughtful integration of technology into learning tasks, in order to better prepare students for college and beyond? In Powerful Task Design, these questions and more will be answered, as you get to know the Powerful Task Rubric for Designing Student Work. Applicable for educators across all disciplines and grade levels, you’ll use the tool to analyze, design, and refine cognitively engaging tasks of learning. This guide will help you Explore and use the Powerful Task Rubric piece-by-piece in an easily digestible format to help you delve into the tool’s design components. Use technology to complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical design component in student task design that brings about more profound and relevant learning. Identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition. Supplement your task design arsenal with tools like the Diagnostic Instrument to Analyze Learning (DIAL). This must-have resource brings together the research and strategies educators need to design engaging, powerful learning tasks. Student performance has a direct correlation to the power of the learning task - this book will help you positively impact both.
Tourism and ICTs: Proceedings of the TURITEC 2023 Conference, October 19–20, 2023, Málaga, Spain (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Antonio J. Guevara Plaza Alfonso Cerezo Medina Enrique Navarro JuradoThis open-access book presents the best research papers from the XIV International Congress on Tourism and Information and Communications Technologies (TURITEC2023), held in Málaga, Spain from 19 to 20 October 2023. The book explores the profound impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry and the increasing importance of digitalization and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as key drivers for the industry's recovery, alongside sustainability. This curated collection of research papers offers conceptualizations, methodologies, analyses, and empirical case studies that illuminate the path to a resilient and sustainable future for tourism.
Game Theory in Communication Networks: Cooperative Resolution of Interactive Networking Scenarios
by Josephina Antoniou Andreas PitsillidesFocusing on heterogeneous networks, this book addresses important resource management and security issues found in networks and uses theoretical tools to model them. Although it explores network design and management from the perspective of game theory and graph theory, the text also provides practical solutions for each mechanism that needs improvement with a step-by-step approach. It also includes simulation code, so readers can use some or all of the proposed models for better network planning.
The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories
by Donald AntrimNothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do—bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo—they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream. They look for communion in a city, both beautiful and menacing, which can promise so much and yield so little. But they are hungry for life. They want to love and be loved. These stories, all published in The New Yorker over the last fifteen years, make it clear that Antrim is one of America's most important writers. His work has been praised by his significant contemporaries, including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and George Saunders, who described The Verificationist as "one of the most pleasure-giving, funny, perverse, complicated, addictive novels of the last twenty years." And here is Antrim's best book yet: the story collection that reveals him as a master of the form.
Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2: Ebook Edition
by Kofi AntwiIn this follow-up volume in the Black Fire—This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of Black literature. This "continuum" of writing, as coined by Volume 1 editor Kim McMillon, brings together legends of the Black Arts era with contemporary writers in the tradition. This edition includes a hallmark work from the Black Arts era, We Own the Night by playwright and one of the last living legends Jimmy Garrett. Volume 2 of Black Fire—This Time will educate and inspire the next generation.
Delighting in God's Law: Old Testament Commands and Why They Matter Today - A 6-Week Bible Study
by Kristie AnyabwileUnderstanding and delighting in God&’s law? Sign me up!Have you ever skipped over or given up on books of the Bible like Numbers or Leviticus? These laws, rules, and rituals can feel daunting and confusing. What was the purpose of God&’s laws for the people of Israel, and what can Christians learn from them today?Teacher and lover of God&’s Word, Kristie Anyabwile invites you to join her in this six-week study of understanding the often-overlooked Old Testament books of the law.In Delighting in God's Law, participants discover the context and purpose of God&’s commands, uncover clues that help us see the intent of the law, and explore ways to appropriately apply God&’s Word to our lives.The law was not just for those people back then. It is for believers today. Kristie removes the dread and disillusionment often associated with studying God&’s law. You don&’t have to be daunted by His law. You can be delighted by it!
Blue: The Color of Noise
by Steve AokiThe music. The mix. His life."[A] passionate, introspective memoir." —Publishers Weekly"Sometimes I think my whole life can be seen through shades of blue..." —Steve AokiBlue is the remarkable story—in pictures and words—of Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ/producer who started his career as a vegan straightedge hardcore music kid hellbent on defying his millionaire father, whose unquenchable thirst to entertain—inherited from his dad, Rocky Aoki, founder of Benihana—led him to global success and two Grammy nominations. Ranked among the top ten DJs in the world today, Grammy-nominated artist, producer, label head, fashion designer, philanthropist and entrepreneur Steve Aoki is an authentic global trendsetter and tastemaker who has been instrumental in defining contemporary youth culture. Known for his outrageous stage antics (cake throwing, champagne spraying, and the ‘Aoki Jump’) and his endearing personality, Steve is also the brains behind indie record label Dim Mak, which broke acts such as The Kills, Bloc Party, and The Gossip. Dim Mak also put out the first releases by breakout EDM stars The Chainsmokers and The Bloody Beetroots, as well as the early releases for Grammy-nominated artist Iggy Azalea, in addition to EDM star Zedd and electro duo MSTRKFT. In Blue, Aoki recounts the epic highs of music festivals, clubs and pool parties around the world, as well as the lows of friendships lost to drugs and alcohol, and his relationship with his flamboyant father. Illustrated with candid photos gathered throughout his life, the book reveals how Aoki became a force of nature as an early social media adopter, helping to turn dance music into the phenomenon it is today. All this, while remaining true to his DIY punk rock principles, which value spontaneity, fun and friendship above all else—demonstrable by the countless cakes he has flung across cities worldwide.
The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
by Stephen ApkonAn urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate nowWe live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last five hundred years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with visual storytelling's grammar, the coded messages of its style, and the practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. But this is not a gloomy diagnosis of the collapse of civilization; rather, it is a celebration of the progress we've made and an exhortation and a plan to seize the potential we're poised to enjoy. The rules that define effective visual storytelling—much like the rules that define written language—do in fact exist, and Stephen Apkon has long experience in deploying them, teaching them, and witnessing their power in the classroom and beyond. In The Age of the Image, drawing on the history of literacy—from scroll to codex, scribes to printing presses, SMS to social media—on the science of how various forms of storytelling work on the human brain, and on the practical value of literacy in real-world situations, Apkon convincingly argues that now is the time to transform the way we teach, create, and communicate so that we can all step forward together into a rich and stimulating future.
Area-Based Management of Shipping: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
by Claudio Aporta Aldo Chircop Floris Goerlandt Ronald PelotThis open access book fills a gap in the literature on shipping in a number of cross-cutting fields (including marine transportation law and policy, law of the sea, Indigenous rights, marine environmental management, and risk and safety studies). Moreover, the book includes a focus on the consideration of Indigenous rights in shipping, a topic of emerging importance. There are, to our knowledge, no directly competing titles with the same interdisciplinary approach to conceptualize, understand, and describe best practices for area-based management approaches. There are, however, related titles which cover some aspects of area-based management, usually from narrow disciplinary perspectives. Area-based management in the governance of shipping has become a useful and effective approach to promote maritime safety, maritime security, and pollution prevention and to mitigate the adverse impacts of shipping on the marine environment and coastal communities. Based on the results of a research project and a major workshop convened at Dalhousie University in Canada, this book consists of multidisciplinary studies and analyses of major issues pertaining to area-based management in shipping from a comparative perspective, but with the principal focus on Canada. The book contains both theoretical and empirical contributions.
Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings
by Scott Appelrouth Laura D. EdlesThe authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Now available for the first time in print and e-book formats Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings offers students with the best of both worlds—carefully-edited excerpts from the original works of sociology′s key thinkers accompanied by an analytical framework that discusses the lives, ideas, and historical circumstances of each theorist. This unique format enables students to examine, compare, and contrast each theorist’s major themes and concepts. In the Fourth Edition of this bestseller, examples from contemporary life and a rich variety of updated pedagogical tools (tables, figures, discussion questions, and photographs) come together to illuminate complex ideas for today’s readers. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings
by Scott Appelrouth Laura D. EdlesThe authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Now available for the first time in print and e-book formats Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings offers students with the best of both worlds—carefully-edited excerpts from the original works of sociology′s key thinkers accompanied by an analytical framework that discusses the lives, ideas, and historical circumstances of each theorist. This unique format enables students to examine, compare, and contrast each theorist’s major themes and concepts. In the Fourth Edition of this bestseller, examples from contemporary life and a rich variety of updated pedagogical tools (tables, figures, discussion questions, and photographs) come together to illuminate complex ideas for today’s readers. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States, Modern Times
by Joyce Appleby Alan Brinkley Albert S. BroussardNIMAC-sourced textbook
Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well
by Ashton ApplewhiteFor women contemplating divorce or for those who have already divorced, Ashton Applewhite’s insightful book sheds light on what to consider before making the decision to end your marriage, how to protect yourself—both financially and emotionally—and how much your life will change.One out of every two modern marriages ends in divorce, and 75 percent of those divorces are initiated by wives. Author Ashton Applewhite is one of these women, having sued for divorce after enduring an unfulfilling ten-year marriage. Cutting Loose is an essential resource for women who want to leave their marriage but fear the consequences.Shattering the media-generated image of the lonely, deprived and financially strapped divorcee, Applewhite provides a much needed reality check. Cutting Loose introduces 50 women, varying in age, race, class and predicament, who have thrived after initiating their own divorces. Their fears of financial, emotional and romantic ruin were never realized; on the contrary, their lives improved immeasurably, and their self-esteem soared.Cutting Loose also answers the crucial questions: How do you finally decide to make the big break? What is getting divorced really like? What are the shortcomings of the legal process? What about custody and child support? Financial and emotional survival? And how does a woman's self-image change during and after divorce? "Ending any kind of oppression takes belief in self. Cutting Loose offers moving evidence of how such belief works, whether in a relationship or walking the road alone. Perceptive, realistic, and wise, the book is of enormous practical value to both women and men who aspire to more equal and fulfilling relationships."—Laura Day, author of Practical Intuition
Grumbletroll . . . Isn't Grumbling Today! (The Grumbletroll by aprilkind)
by aprilkind Barbara Van Speulhof Stephan PrickenThe Grumbletroll . . . Isn't Grumbling Today!, the second book in The Grumbletroll series by aprilkind, finds Grumbletroll looking for ways to control his anger to win a bet with his friendsHelps children ages three and up learn coping methods for their own anger and understand how to deal with the tantrums of othersA playful way of dealing with emotions that offers a lot of space for conversation, role playing, and the reader's own thoughts
The Operation Reinhard Death Camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka
by Yitzhak AradUnder the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were largely forgotten after they were dismantled in 1943. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps bears eloquent witness to this horrific tragedy.This newly revised and expanded edition includes new material on the history of the Jews under German occupation in Poland; the execution and timing of Operation Reinhard; information about the ghettos in Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Galicia; and updated numbers of the victims who were murdered during deportations. In addition to documenting the horror of the camps, Yitzhak Arad recounts the stories of those courageous enough to struggle against the Nazis and their "final solution." Arad's work retrieves the experiences of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and exposes a terrible chapter in humanity's history.
Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube
by Kerry AradhyaThis first picture book biography of Rubik&’s Cube creator Erno Rubik reveals the obsession, imagination, and engineering process behind creating an iconic puzzle.Celebrating 50 years of the most popular puzzle in history!In the hills of Budapest, near the banks of the Danube River, lived a quiet boy named Ernő Rubik. He loved books, art, nature, and—most of all—puzzles. And he grew up to create the most popular puzzle in history. This picture book biography explores the experience and interests that inspired the inventor of the Rubik&’s Cube.From the time he was a child, Ernő was curious about the objects around him. What did they look like on the inside? What about geometric shapes? How many ways could he fit them together? Could he combine them so they somehow became something that was greater than its components?Ernő grew up and became a professor of architecture and design. Still fascinated with how shapes worked together, he fashioned an object, a cube made up of smaller cubes that twisted and turned without breaking. This object eventually became known as the most popular puzzle in history, the Rubik&’s Cube.Kerry Aradhya&’s accessible text takes us behind the scenes of the creative process and into the mind and imagination of a remarkable inventor. Kara Kramer&’s cheerful, multi-media illustrations encourage readers to think about inspiration, reflection, and the joy of puzzles—and solutions.
Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of the 2024 Computing Conference, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1017)
by Kohei AraiExplore the forefront of computing with the proceedings of the Computing Conference 2024. Featuring 165 carefully selected papers from a pool of 457 submissions, this collection encapsulates the cutting-edge research and innovation presented during the conference. Delve into a diverse range of topics, insights, and methodologies that shape the future of computing. Whether you're an academic, researcher, or enthusiast, this concise volume offers a snapshot of the dynamic and collaborative spirit defining the Computing Conference 2024.
Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #815)
by Kohei AraiThis book is a collection of thoroughly well-researched studies presented at the Eighth Future Technologies Conference. This annual conference aims to seek submissions from the wide arena of studies like Computing, Communication, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence, Security, and e-Learning. With an impressive 490 paper submissions, FTC emerged as a hybrid event of unparalleled success, where visionary minds explored groundbreaking solutions to the most pressing challenges across diverse fields. These groundbreaking findings open a window for vital conversation on information technologies in our community especially to foster future collaboration with one another. We hope that the readers find this book interesting and inspiring and render their enthusiastic support toward it.
Amor dos en uno
by Lu AranhaMorgana ama a dos. Mientras uno es el Dios ébano del sexo, el otro es el poeta con el abrazo perfecto. Pero cuando ambos la escuchan y se convierten en los hombres de sus sueños, Morgana solo encuentra un camino: el poliamor. La pregunta es: ¿lo aceptarán Cris y Nando? Una novela sobre los caminos de la no monogamia, con un giro sexy y toda la veracidad que los practicantes encuentran al formar sus familias.
Deseo de Sangre (Salvajes de la Mafia #2)
by Lu AranhaTodo en mi vida estaba planeado. Excepto la guerra a la que nos enfrentamos. Pasé años soñando con mi marido, nuestra familia y la vida perfecta como esposa del Don, sin imaginar cuánta gente perdería por el camino. Desde los más leales hasta nuestros enemigos, todos están cayendo. Pero, como he dicho, todo en mi vida ha sido planeado, y haré lo que sea necesario para conseguir lo que quiero. Guerra o no, mi marido será Don. La Familia Rossi está perdiendo su fuerza, pero yo soy Mia Wilder y no renunciaré a mis objetivos.
Mi Ruina (Salvajes de la Mafia #1)
by Lu AranhaNada en mi vida es sencillo. Nunca lo ha sido. Solo que ahora el destino parece jugarme una mala pasada. Pasé años aislado, sin saber quién era, para ver cómo asesinaban a mi madre en la puerta de mi casa y descubrir de la forma más inesperadamente posible que mi padre es un mafioso italiano. No solo eso: quiere que mis dos hermanos y yo nos unamos a la "familia". Pero, como ya he dicho, nada en mi vida es sencillo, y una de sus exigencias es que me case con una mujer que más bien parece una monja. La familia Rossi está llena de secretos y tradiciones, pero yo soy Sage Wilder y nunca he sabido seguir las reglas...
Hands-On MySQL Administration
by Arunjith Aravindan Jeyaram AyyalusamyGeared to intermediate- to advanced-level DBAs and IT professionals looking to enhance their MySQL skills, this guide provides a comprehensive overview on how to manage and optimize MySQL databases. You'll learn how to create databases and implement backup and recovery, security configurations, high availability, scaling techniques, and performance tuning. Using practical techniques, tips, and real-world examples, authors Arunjith Aravindan and Jeyaram Ayyalusamy show you how to deploy and manage MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Azure MySQL. By the end of the book, you'll have the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, manage, and optimize MySQL databases effectively. Design and implement a scalable and reliable database infrastructure using MySQL 8 on premises and cloudInstall and configure software, manage user accounts, and optimize database performanceUse backup and recovery strategies, security measures, and high availability solutionsApply best practices for database schema design, indexing strategies, and replication techniquesImplement advanced database features and techniques such as replication, clustering, load balancing, and high availabilityTroubleshoot common issues and errors, using diagnostic tools and techniques to identify and resolve problems quickly and efficientlyFacilitate major MySQL upgrades including MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8
Lord of the Empty Isles: One curse. Two sworn enemies. Thousands of lives in the balance.
by Jules ArbeauxOne curse. Two sworn enemies. Thousands of lives in the balance.Ash, dried flowers, and a drop of blood: Remy has all he needs to avenge his brother's death. Five years ago, interstellar pirate Idrian Delaciel ordered a withering - a death curse - cast on Remy's brother, costing him his life. Now, Remy is ready to return the favour. Only when he casts the withering, it also rebounds onto him. The implications are unthinkable - that Remy is fatebound to his brother's killer. The only way to slow the curse is to close the distance between them, so Remy infiltrates Idrian's criminal crew, hiding his identity as the witherer. But Remy quickly learns that Idrian is the sole provider of life-saving supplies to thousands of innocents. And if he dies, they will perish with him. With more at stake now than just revenge, Remy must find a way to break the curse. Too bad for him - the only way to stop a withering is to kill the witherer.
Lord of the Empty Isles: One curse. Two sworn enemies. Thousands of lives in the balance.
by Jules ArbeauxWinter's Orbit meets The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet in this stunning emotional yet action-packed adult science-fiction novel, perfect for fans of found family and queer-platonic relationships.One curse. Two sworn enemies. Thousands of lives in the balance. Five years ago, interstellar pirate Idrian Delaciel ordered a withering - a death curse - cast on Remy's brother, costing him his life. Now, Remy is ready to return the favour. Only when he casts the withering, it also rebounds onto him. The implications are unthinkable - that Remy is fatebound to his brother's killer. The only way to slow the curse is to close the distance between them, so Remy infiltrates Idrian's criminal crew, hiding his identity as the witherer. But Remy quickly learns that Idrian is the sole provider of life-saving supplies to thousands of innocents. And if he dies, they will perish with him. With more at stake now than just revenge, Remy must find a way to break the curse. Too bad for him - the only way to stop a withering is to kill the witherer. READERS LOVE LORD OF THE EMPTY ISLES 'Oh gods did I love it . . . a heartwarming, eye tearing story of a found family' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Wow! Jules Arbeaux has crafted a masterpiece with this book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A beautiful story . . . Probably my favourite book of the year so far!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A magnificent debut, characterized by a heartwarming story, incredible characters, and a spectacular found family!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This was one of those books that was addicting . . . It was fast-paced and tense and I was hooked almost immediately. It was incredibly emotional and I was on tenterhooks throughout' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐