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"G" Is for Growing
This collection of research essays focuses on children and "Sesame Street". It covers a variety of issues and topics including: creation and evolution of the "Sesame Street" curriculum; "Sesame Street" viewers as adolescents; and the role of "Sesame Street"-based materials in child care settings.
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(Con)Fusing Signs And Postmodern Positions
Neustadt uses the term political confusion in a number of ways, most broadly to describe the generalized disorientation associated with Latin America in an age of postmodernity characterized by the coexistence of indigenous, mestizo, and European cultures, juxtaposed with the uneven effects of mass media and high technology
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(First Person)2
n (First Person)2, Day and Eodice offer one of the few book-length studies of co-authoring in academic fields since Lunsford and Ede published theirs over a decade ago. The central research here involves in-depth interviews with ten successful academic collaborators from a range of disciplines and settings.
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.NET Framework Solutions
If you've begun programming using Microsoft's .NET Framework, you've discovered a lot of new and improved functionality. But, more than likely, you've also discovered a lot of missing functionality. Indeed, a third of the functions supported by the old Win32 API are not yet supported by .
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10 Good Questions About Life and Death
What matters? Does life have meaning? Is life sacred? Is it bad to die? And can God and religion help? 10 Good Questions about Life and Death makes us think again about some of the most important issues we ever have to face. Drawing on examples from literature and film, as well as fictitious case studies, the author pulls these questions apart, considers how famous philosophers have approached them, and then offers solutions for further consideration. He avoids technicalities and jargon, ensuring that the book is accessible to readers with no prior knowledge of philosophy.
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100 Divine Healing Facts
Many believe that God sometimes heals the sick, but they have no personal knowledge of Jesus as the indwelling, ever-present healer. They know nothing about the many facts which prove that physical health is part of everyone's salvation. Presented in this book are 100 Healing Facts.
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100 Fastest Growing Careers, 9th Edition
This time-saving volume provides information about pay, outlook, education, and skills needed to obtain some of the most promising careers. Readers explore 100 in-demand jobs, including those with the most growth and the most openings. It provides—in alphabetical order—thorough, current, and interesting descriptions of jobs with great opportunity through 2014.
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100 Years Of Gravity And Accelerated Frames
This collection of papers presents ideas and problems arising over the past 100 years regarding classical and quantum gravity, gauge theories of gravity, and spacetime transformations of accelerated frames. Both Einstein's theory of gravity and the Yang–Mills theory are gauge invariant. The invariance principles in physics have transcended both kinetic and dynamic properties and are at the very heart of our understanding of the physical world. In this spirit, this book attempts to survey the development of various formulations for gravitational and Yang–Mills fields and spacetime transformations of accelerated frames, and to reveal their associated problems and limitations. The aim is to present some of the leading ideas and problems discussed by physicists and mathematicians. We highlight three aspects: formulations of gravity as a Yang–Mills field, first discussed by Utiyama; problems of gravitational theory, discussed by Feynman, Dyson and others; spacetime properties and the physics of fields and particles in accelerated frames of reference. These unfulfilled aspects of Einstein and Yang–Mills' profound thoughts present a great challenge to physicists and mathematicians in the 21st century.
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100 Years of Permanent Revolution
Leading Marxist thinkers re-evaluate Trotsky's key theories -- an ideal introduction for students.
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100 Years Of Relativity
Thanks to Einstein's relativity theories, our notions of space and time underwent profound revisions about a 100 years ago. The resulting interplay between geometry and physics has dominated all of fundamental physics since then. This volume contains contributions from leading researchers, worldwide, who have thought deeply about the nature and consequences of this interplay. The articles take a long-range view of the subject and distill the most important advances in broad terms, making them easily accessible to non-specialists. The first part is devoted to a summary of how relativity theories were born (J Stachel). The second part discusses the most dramatic ramifications of general relativity, such as black holes (P Chrusciel and R Price), space-time singularities (H Nicolai and A Rendall), gravitational waves (P Laguna and P Saulson), the large scale structure of the cosmos (T Padmanabhan); experimental status of this theory (C Will) as well as its practical application to the GPS system (N Ashby). The last part looks beyond Einstein and provides glimpses into what is in store for us in the 21st century. Contributions here include summaries of radical changes in the notions of space and time that are emerging from quantum field theory in curved space-times (Ford), string theory (T Banks), loop quantum gravity (A Ashtekar), quantum cosmology (M Bojowald), discrete approaches (Dowker, Gambini and Pullin) and twistor theory (R Penrose).
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100%: The Story of a Patriot
"100%: The Story of a Patriot" by Upton Sinclair is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all. Download "100%: The Story of a Patriot" and enjoy another quality Digireads.com publication.
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1001 Facts About Dinosaurs
Absolutely bursting with thousands of fascinating facts, Backpack Books are small enough to carry with ease, but big enough to provide all the answers. Researched and written by experts, topics are covered in encyclopedic and easy-to-understand detail. Hundreds of colorful illustrations and photographs bring knowledge to life, and are arranged clearly and logically to make finding out quick and easy for readers of all ages.
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101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving
Employees who possess problem-solving skills are highly valued in todays competitive business environment. The question is how can employees learn to deal in innovative ways with new data, methods, people, and technologies?In this groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundya pioneer in the field of idea generation and problem solvinghas compiled 101 group activities that combine to make a unique resource for trainers, facilitators, and human resource professionals.
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101 Cost Effective Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home
Every year, millions of Americans spend varying degrees of time and money on home improvements. Which improvements are likely to add the greatest value on resale? What kinds of small, inexpensive projects can really make a difference? How do homeowners get started on the project of their dreams? Real estate expert Steve Berges draws on his more than 25 years of experience to provide homeowners with the advice and guidance they crave, as they mull over their home improvement options and prepare to venture out into the world of building inspectors, subcontractors, deed restrictions, and other thorny issues.
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101 Defenses
Defenses are mental operations that restore or maintain psychic equilibrium when people feel that they cannot manage emotions that stem from conflict; they remove components of unpleasant emotions from conscious awareness.
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101 Internet Businesses You Can Start From Home
This book puts prospective Internet entrepreneurs on the road to success by offering an analysis of Internet mechanics and commerce and providing profiles of successful Internet businesses.
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101 Investment Tools for Buying Low & Selling High
From Tool #1: the AMEX Major Market Index through bullishness indicators to Tool #101: yield on an investment, Shim (finance and accounting, California State U., Long Beach) and business writer Lanser survey 101 indicators for gleaning what used to be inside information on investing. Each 1-4 page
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101 Law Forms for Personal Use
Whether you're selling a car, remodeling a kitchen or hiring child care, you need to look out for your time and interests -- not to mention your money. "Putting it in writing" helps you protect your rights and avoid misunderstandings, headaches and potential lawsuits. 101 Law Forms for Personal Use gives you plain-English, step-by-step instructions and all the forms you'll need to cover the legal issues you're most likely to face every day.
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