CLEP Social Sciences and History

CLEP Social Sciences and History
Author: Scott Dittloff
Publisher: Research & Education Assoc.
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2009-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0738606936

"The best test preparation for the CLEP college-level examination program"--Cover.

The London Eye Mystery

The London Eye Mystery
Author: Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2008-02-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375849351

Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.

Human Sigma

Human Sigma
Author: Jim Asplund
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-10-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1595620451

Six Sigma changed the face of manufacturing quality. Now, HumanSigma is poised to do the same for sales and service organizations. Human Sigma offers an innovative, research-based approach to one of the toughest challenges businesses face today: how to effectively manage the employee-customer encounter to drive business success. Based on research spanning 10 million employees and 10 million customers around the world, the Human Sigma approach combines a proven method for assessing the health of the employee-customer encounter with a disciplined process for improving it. Human Sigma is based on five rules to bring excellence to how employees engage and interact with customers: RULE #1: E Pluribus Unum. Employee and customer experiences must be managed together — not as separate entities. RULE #2: Feelings Are Facts. Emotions drive and shape the employee-customer encounter. RULE #3: Think Globally, Measure and Act Locally. The employee-customer encounter must be measured and managed at the local level. RULE #4: There Is One Number You Need to Know. Employee and customer engagement interact to drive enhanced financial performance. And this interaction can be quantified and summarized with a single performance metric. RULE #5: If You Pray for Potatoes, You Better Grab a Hoe. Good intentions alone do not constitute a plan of action. Sustainable improvement in the employee-customer encounter requires disciplined local action coupled with a companywide commitment to changing how employees are recruited, positioned in roles, rewarded and recognized, and importantly, how they are managed. Essential reading for global business leaders, Human Sigma shows how sales and service companies can flourish in the new global economy. It reveals a profoundly different method for managing human systems for growth. Blending strategic analysis with hands-on, practical steps and advice, Human Sigma will change how you view your work, your employees and your customers forever.

An Anthropology of Learning

An Anthropology of Learning
Author: Cathrine Hasse
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401796068

This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding of culture as emerging in a process of learning open up for new understandings, which is useful for researchers, practitioners and students interested in dynamic studies of culture and cultural studies of organisations. The new approach goes beyond culture as a static, essentialist entity and open for our possibility to learn in organisations across national cultures, across ethnicity and across the apparently insurmountable local educational differences which makes it difficult for people to communicate working together in an increasingly globalized world. The empirical examples are mainly drawn from organisations of education and science which are melting-pots of cultural encounters.

Marionettes, Inc

Marionettes, Inc
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In five stories (one of them original to this collection, plus a rare, previously unpublished screen treatment) Bradbury explores the concept of Robotics and examines its impact on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people.

Love Poems

Love Poems
Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2008-01-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811221482

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

Criminally Queer

Criminally Queer
Author: Jens Rydström
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book provides a coherent history of criminal law and homosexuality in Scandinavia from 1842 to 1999, a period during which same-sex love was outlawed or subject to severe legal restrictions in the Scandinavian penal codes. This was the case in most countries in Northern Europe, but the book argues that the development in Scandinavia was different, partly determined by the structure of the welfare state. Five experienced scholars of the history of homosexuality describe how same-sex desire has been regulated in their respective countries during the past 160 years. With backgrounds in history, sociology, and gender studies, the contributors represent an interdisciplinary approach. Their contributions present for the first time a comprehensive history of homosexuality in Scandinavia. Among other things, it includes the most extensive study yet written in any language about Iceland's gay and lesbian history. Also for the first time, the book discusses in detail same-sex sexuality between women. Female homosexuality was outlawed in Eastern Scandinavia, but not in the Western parts of this region. It also analyzes the modern tendency to include lesbian women in the criminal aspect of the medicalization of homosexuality and the growing influence of medical discourse on the law. Jens Rydstrm is lecturer in history, particularly gender history, at Stockholm University (Sweden) and the author of Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 18801950. He is currently working on the history of laws on registered partnership in the Nordic countries. Kati Mustola is a research fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Helsinki (Finland). She is currently involved in research on the situation of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in the workplace. She also specializes in Finnish lesbian and gay history. She has edited several books in lesbian and gay studies and for many years was responsible for the teaching of lesbian studies at the Christina Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Helsinki.

Opte Study Guide Pk-8

Opte Study Guide Pk-8
Author: Opte Exam Prep Team
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-08-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781635300215

OPTE Study Guide PK-8: Test Prep and Practice Test Questions for the Oklahoma Professional Teaching Examination 075 will provide you with a detailed overview of the OPTE PK-8 Exam, so you know exactly what to expect on test day. We'll take you through all the concepts covered on the test and give you the opportunity to test your knowledge with practice questions. Even if it's been a while since you last took a major test, don't worry; we'll make sure you're more than ready! Cirrus Test Prep's OPTE Study Guide PK-8: Test Prep and Practice Test Questions for the Oklahoma Professional Teaching Examination 075 includes: A comprehensive REVIEW of: Students as Learners Student Development and the Learning Process Students as Diverse Learners Student Motivation and Learning Environment Terms The Instructional Process Planning Instruction Instructional Strategies Questioning Techniques Communication Techniques Terms Assessment Assessment and Evaluation Strategies National, State, and District Standardized Assessments Terms Professional Development, Leadership, and Community Professional Development Practices and Resources Implications of Research, Views, Ideas, and Debates Reflective Practices The Teacher's Role in the Community The Teacher as Collaborator Implications of Legislation and Court Decisions Terms ...as well as TWO FULL OPTE Study Guide PK-8: Test Prep and Practice Test Questions for the Oklahoma Professional Teaching Examination 075 practice tests. About Cirrus Test Prep Developed by experienced current and former educators, Cirrus Test Prep's study materials help future educators gain the skills and knowledge needed to successfully pass their state-level teacher certification exams and enter the classroom. Each Cirrus Test Prep study guide includes: a detailed summary of the test's format, content, and scoring; an overview of the content knowledge required to pass the exam; worked-through sample questions with answers and explanations; full-length practice tests including answer explanations; and unique test-taking strategies with highlighted key concepts. Cirrus Test Prep's study materials ensure that new educators feel prepared on test day and beyond.

Contextualizing Openness

Contextualizing Openness
Author: Leslie Chan
Publisher: Perspectives on Open Access
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780776626666

A fascinating look at Open Science and the democratization of knowledge in international development and social transformation.