This book is a roadmap for attracting, developing, and retaining top talent. With practical strategies and insights from leading experts, this essential guide empowers leaders to build high-performing teams and create a culture where people and performance thrive.
This book examines 21st-century education, focusing on how today’s challenges can become opportunities for renewal. It explores the role of education in modern society, highlights prospects for future schools, and presents practical examples for teachers and educators.
College Coaches and Teaching Civil Society Literacy
A treasure is hidden on college campuses: the expertise coaches acquire in uniting people with different interests. This is vital for General Education, yet coaches are often ineligible to teach. The author charts a path for bringing them “off the bench” and into the classroom.
Teaching Students with Disabilities
Written by leaders in the field, this book presents the most current best practices for teaching students with disabilities. It covers fundamental and innovative pedagogies, making it an excellent resource for special educators, administrators, counselors, and psychologists.
This book surveys the history of the Burroughs Corporation, from its days as an early mainframe vendor to its merger with Univac to form Unisys. Burroughs developed one of the most innovative computer architectures, whose advanced designs survive today as a counterpoint to IBM.
A Civil Society Teaching Primer
For college teachers, this book depicts American civilian life as an experience shaped by the organized movement of water. It provides a plan and teaching resources to help learners make connections between civil society, their sense of place, and essential water services.
This book offers VET teachers a set of practical, tested tools to develop students’ transversal competences. The units cover teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution, providing In-TRAY type activities with downloadable elements for direct use in the classroom.
This toolbox eases the physiology exam-making process. It provides lists of concepts by topic for basic, advanced, or specialized areas. Grab questions “on demand” or create your own. Also includes bibliographies and teaching schedules to help you enjoy the joys of teaching.
This volume brings together 49 chapters related to the field of education. The main topics explored here include teacher-student interactions, pre-service teachers, early childhood education, digital education, and attitudes of students towards the environment, amongst others.
Lessons Learned in Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity
Earth’s biodiversity is threatened, but conservation cannot be defined by political boundaries. These authors—experts from over 50 disciplines—share stories of crossing lines to take action, inspiring future practices for students and professionals alike.
This guide delves into bacterial classification, from basic principles to cutting-edge genomics and AI. With expert contributions, it is an essential resource for students and researchers to unravel the mysteries of bacterial speciation, evolution, diversity, and taxonomy.
Challenge the educational theories you learned in school. In an era demanding radical transformation, leading experts present a bold roadmap for the future of learning and research in Society 5.0.
This book covers the concepts of acids and bases and the effects governing their strength. It discusses reaction mechanisms and presents the structure, geometry, and reactions of key intermediates like carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, and carbenes, supported by examples.
Organ Shortage Today
Society can solve an urgent health crisis: the unjust death of patients waiting for an organ. In this book, leading specialists from 10 countries analyze the medical, ethical, and social problems surrounding organ donation and offer proposals to save lives.
Strategies for Student Success in Higher Education
This book brings together leading-edge research and practical insights on the first-year experience in higher education. Written by experts, it integrates multidisciplinary approaches and case studies for professors and administrators to address the needs of first-year students.
This book presents a rich international perspective on social justice from educators worldwide. It offers practical classroom strategies and theoretical wisdom, uniquely combining local and global insights for teachers, researchers, and those in higher education.
This volume highlights pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It shows the importance of integrating expertise to foster sustainability and concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple challenges that require urgent attention and long-term resolution.
Removable Partial Dentures
Of value to any dental student, dentist, or technologist, from beginner to experienced practitioner. The book offers detail in all clinical phases of RPD diagnosis, fabrication, and delivery, based on documented research and decades of university-level teaching experience.
Pastoral Care in Education
A celebration of 40 years of NAPCE and a forward-thinking volume on today’s key pastoral issues. Bringing together expert contributors, it offers fresh insights and evidence-based strategies for all educators, making the case for the centrality of pastoral care in education.
This book systematizes the knowledge of the solar wind acceleration region—the space weather “kitchen.” Its factual basis combines unique scientific data from the Mars and Venera missions, gathered via challenging observations near the Sun, with original modeling approaches.