CliffsTestPrep ASVAB

CliffsTestPrep ASVAB
Author: Fred N. Grayson
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2004-03-15
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0764519077

The CliffsTestPrep series offers full-length practice exams that simulate the real tests; proven test-taking strategies to increase your chances at doing well; and thorough review exercises to help fill in any knowledge gaps. See PDF example CliffsTestPrep ASVAB can help you qualify for the military. The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery is an exam that presents a series of individual tests to measure various academic and vocational skills. Use this study guide to help you get started in the military career of your choice. Inside, you'll find Three full-length practice tests A diagnostic test to assess your strengths and weaknesses Practice questions, answers, and explanations in each chapter An action plan for effective preparation Subject area reviews covering all areas of the exam With practical tips on how to boost your scores on all nine sections of the ASVAB, this comprehensive guide will help you score your highest. In addition, you'll hone your knowledge of subjects such as General science, including life sciences, chemistry, physics, and earth science Basic math skills, including fractions, decimals, percents, and arithmetic operations Vocabulary, including a review of prefixes, roots, and suffixes Reading comprehension, including identification of main ideas, sequence of events, and conclusions Auto and shop information, including the basics on engines, transmissions, measuring tools, and design Advanced mathematics, including number theory, algebra, and geometry Mechanical comprehension, including fluid dynamics and mechanical motion Electronics, including electric power generation, Ohm's Law, and semiconductors Assembling objects, including puzzles and connections With guidance from the CliffsTestPrep series, you'll feel at home in any standardized-test environment!

Communicating Protected Areas

Communicating Protected Areas
Author: Denise HamĂș
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2004
Genre: Communication in conservation of natural resources
ISBN: 2831708222

Protected areas operate within complex ecological and social systems, presenting challenges that cannot be resolved by technical solution alone. Achieving the management objectives of protected areas requires a social approach in which strategic communication is a key instrument. This publication explores the often underestimated potential of communication, sharing valuable experiences from protected areas across the world, drawing on papers presented at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress, 2003 and others.

The Colors of Clay

The Colors of Clay
Author: Beth Cohen
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2006
Genre: Pottery
ISBN: 0892369426

"The catalogue ... is truly excellent and makes an important contribution to the study of Greek Art." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "An overwhelming volume. The subject matter ... is described in great detail in nine chapters. Essential." --Choice This catalogue documents a major exhibition at the Getty Villa that was the first ever to focus on ancient Athenian terracotta vases made by techniques other than the well-known black- and red-figure styles. The exhibition comprised vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and Six's technique, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and plastic vases and additions. The Colors of Clay opens with an introductory essay that integrates the diverse themes of the exhibition and sets them within the context of vase making in general; a second essay discusses conservation issues related to several of the techniques. A detailed discussion of the techniques featured in the exhibition precedes each section of the catalogue. More than a hundred vases from museums in the United States and Europe are described in depth.

The Psychological Science of Money

The Psychological Science of Money
Author: Erik Bijleveld
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1493909592

Money. The root of all evil? Arguably. Essential to our lives? Certainly. A main driver of human thought, emotion, and action? Absolutely--and psychology and its related fields are getting closer to understanding its complex role in human behavior and in society. The Psychological Science of Money brings together classic and current findings on the myriad ways money affects brain, mind, and behavior to satisfy not only our needs for material gain, but also for autonomy and self-worth. Leading experts trace the links between early concepts of value and modern symbolic meanings of wealth, in addition to identifying the areas of the human brain that together act as its financial center. This cross-disciplinary analysis helps clarify the neuroscience behind pathological gambling, the critical role of time in financial decisions, and the impact of money on diverse personal activities and interpersonal relationships. Included in the coverage: Materiality, symbol, and complexity in the anthropology of money. The (relative and absolute) subjective value of money. Conscious and unconscious influences of money: two sides of the same coin? A life-course approach to dealing with monetary gains and losses Motivation and cognitive control: beyond monetary incentives. An integrative perspective on the science of getting paid. The psychological science of spending. The unique role of money in society makes The Psychological Science of Money a singularly fascinating resource with a wide audience among social psychologists, industrial and organizational psychologists, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and public policymakers.

Writing in a Bilingual Program

Writing in a Bilingual Program
Author: Carole Edelsky
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1986
Genre: Education
ISBN:

A year-long study of the writing development of 27 first through third graders in an English/Spanish bilingual program was conducted during the 1980-81 school year. Samples of the children's writing were collected at four intervals, coded for computer tallying, and analyzed in terms of code-switching, spelling, punctuation and segmentation, structural features, stylistic devices, and content. Additionally, the context in which the writing developed was evaluated by classroom observations, teacher interviews, review of familial backgrounds, and a survey of the community language situation. Myths about bilingual language proficiency, biliteracy, bilingual education, teaching writing, and learning to write are all countered by evidence presented in this study. In a discussion of implications, the concept of a whole language approach to writing instruction is supported, in which authentic and functional texts are offered to and produced by children. Examples of the children's writing with appropriate translations are given along with various tables. Informal follow-up information is presented in three epilogues dealing with changes in the researcher's commitment to the study's original writing theories, the writing of some students a year after the study; and a chronological outline of the demise of the bilingual program used in the study. Appendices list interview questions used for teachers and aides and categories for coding the writing data. This book contains 134 references. (ALL)

Placing the Academy

Placing the Academy
Author: Jennifer Sinor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2007-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Twenty-one writers answer the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are--where, for each of them, being in some way part of academia. In personal essays, they imaginatively delineate and engage the diverse, occasionally unexpected play of place in shaping them, writers and teachers in varied environments, with unique experiences and distinctive world views, and reconfiguring for them conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between. Contents I Introduction Writing Place, Jennifer Sinor II Here Six Kinds of Rain: Searching for a Place in the Academy, Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore The Work the Landscape Calls Us To, Michael Sowder Valley Language, Diana Garcia What I Learned from the Campus Plumber, Charles Bergman M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter, Katherine Fischer On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College, Sean W. Henne III There Levittown Breeds Anarchists Film at 11:00, Kathryn T. Flannery Living in a Transformed Desert, Mitsuye Yamada A More Fortunate Destiny, Jayne Brim Box Imagined Vietnams, Charles Waugh IV Everywhere Teaching on Stolen Ground, Deborah A. Miranda The Blind Teaching the Blind: The Academic as Naturalist, or Not, Robert Michael Pyle Where Are You From? Lee Torda V In Between Going Away to Think, Scott Slovic Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life, Norma Elia Cantu Bones of Summer, Mary Clearman Blew Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World, Janice M. Gould Making Places Work: Felt Sense, Identity, and Teaching, Jeffrey M. Buchanan VI Coda Running in Place: The Personal at Work, in Motion, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood, Rona Kaufman

The Bat and the Crocodile

The Bat and the Crocodile
Author: Pamela Lofts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN: 9781865046273

This story comes from the Aboriginal people at Warmun (Turkey Creek) in Western Australia. It was told in the Kija language by Jacko Dolumyu and then in English by Hector Jandany. The illustrations are adapted from paintings of the story done by the children living at Warmun. Eileen Bray, of the Kija Language Group at Warmun, said, "When we talk about the Dreamtime, we think about the beginning. It was that sacred time when the land, water, trees, animals, sacred sites and people came to be. Our ancestors have passed on the Dreamtime to us through our culture - law, language, song and dance. The Dreamtime is that special thing in the hearts of all Aboriginal people."

New Palauan-English Dictionary

New Palauan-English Dictionary
Author: Lewis S. Josephs
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1990-10-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780824813451

Based on the Palauan-English dictionary by Fr. Edwin G. McManus, S.J. (UH Press, 1977), this revision is designed to be an easily accessible reference for identifying vocabulary items of Palauan, which are often culture bound, semantically rich, and structurally quite complex. Thousands of Palauan entries are new or greatly expanded. Users will benefit from a much wider range of vocabulary, especially in the areas of flora and fauna, Palauan legend, and borrowed words from both English and Japanese. The expanded English-Palauan finder list allows for quick reference to the Palauan equivalents of many English words.