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Sailing Directions for the Coasts, Harbours, and Islands of North America, from Cape Canso to Philadelphia
Author | : John William Norie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Pilot guides |
ISBN | : |
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1306 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2001-07-19 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309132967 |
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Marine Mammals Ashore
Author | : Joseph R. Geraci |
Publisher | : National Aquarium in Baltimore |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Marine mammals |
ISBN | : 0977460908 |
Comprehensive manual for understanding and carrying out marine mammal rescue activities for stranded seals, manatees, dolphins, whales, or sea otters.
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author | : Worrall Reed Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Conservation Biology for All
Author | : Navjot S. Sodhi |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-01-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191574252 |
Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology with the principal aim of disseminating cutting-edge conservation knowledge as widely as possible. Important topics such as balancing conversion and human needs, climate change, conservation planning, designing and analyzing conservation research, ecosystem services, endangered species management, extinctions, fire, habitat loss, and invasive species are covered. Numerous textboxes describing additional relevant material or case studies are also included. The global biodiversity crisis is now unstoppable; what can be saved in the developing world will require an educated constituency in both the developing and developed world. Habitat loss is particularly acute in developing countries, which is of special concern because it tends to be these locations where the greatest species diversity and richest centres of endemism are to be found. Sadly, developing world conservation scientists have found it difficult to access an authoritative textbook, which is particularly ironic since it is these countries where the potential benefits of knowledge application are greatest. There is now an urgent need to educate the next generation of scientists in developing countries, so that they are in a better position to protect their natural resources.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture
Author | : Henry Jenkins |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2009-06-05 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262258293 |
Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these activities, including opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, development of skills useful in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship. Some argue that young people pick up these key skills and competencies on their own by interacting with popular culture; but the problems of unequal access, lack of media transparency, and the breakdown of traditional forms of socialization and professional training suggest a role for policy and pedagogical intervention. This report aims to shift the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions about access to technology to questions about access to opportunities for involvement in participatory culture and how to provide all young people with the chance to develop the cultural competencies and social skills needed. Fostering these skills, the authors argue, requires a systemic approach to media education; schools, afterschool programs, and parents all have distinctive roles to play. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
Learning to Think Spatially
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2005-02-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0309092086 |
Learning to Think Spatially examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be recognized as a fundamental part of Kâ€"12 education and as an integrator and a facilitator for problem solving across the curriculum. With advances in computing technologies and the increasing availability of geospatial data, spatial thinking will play a significant role in the information-based economy of the twenty-first century. Using appropriately designed support systems tailored to the Kâ€"12 context, spatial thinking can be taught formally to all students. A geographic information system (GIS) offers one example of a high-technology support system that can enable students and teachers to practice and apply spatial thinking in many areas of the curriculum.
Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion
Author | : Dan M. Goebel |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2008-12-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0470436263 |
Throughout most of the twentieth century, electric propulsion was considered the technology of the future. Now, the future has arrived. This important new book explains the fundamentals of electric propulsion for spacecraft and describes in detail the physics and characteristics of the two major electric thrusters in use today, ion and Hall thrusters. The authors provide an introduction to plasma physics in order to allow readers to understand the models and derivations used in determining electric thruster performance. They then go on to present detailed explanations of: Thruster principles Ion thruster plasma generators and accelerator grids Hollow cathodes Hall thrusters Ion and Hall thruster plumes Flight ion and Hall thrusters Based largely on research and development performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and complemented with scores of tables, figures, homework problems, and references, Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters is an indispensable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who are preparing to enter the aerospace industry. It also serves as an equally valuable resource for professional engineers already at work in the field.