Easy Spanish Stories For Beginners: 5 Spanish Short Stories For Beginners (With Audio) (Learn Spanish With Stories) (Spanish Edition) by Storyling (584 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Have you been searching for an effective Spanish language-learning method that can provide you better results than previous strategies? Are the traditional methods of learning Spanish just not cutting it, and you feel that you need more efficient alternatives that you can use on the go? If you feel like answering "Yes" to any of the previous questions, then you will be amazed to know more about this book that we've created for you - based on a highly-recommended language-learning method! It has finally arrived. Through Reading ...

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Test by Test (17 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

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The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare by Andy Green (Palgrave Macmillan) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides through an up-to-date analysis of the changing opportunities for young people in Britain across different life domains. A central question addressed is whether current changes are best understood as growing inequalities within and across age groups, ...

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The Cure For HIV and Aids by Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark (New Century Press) (55 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

In Six Weeks You Are: HIV NEGATIVE What really causes HIV/AIDS, even in Africa, is astonishing, but your body's recovery will convince you. There is no conflict with any clinical treatment. Even near terminal victims can recover. Read How Others Recovered including some with clinical verification. You have no time to lose and everything to gain-start today! A 2-Week Program gives step-by-step instructions on how to clear your body of the five immunity-destroying toxins that cause AIDS. There are only five. The ability to kill HIV ...

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Afirmar os Direitos Culturais: Comentário à Declaração de Friburgo (Coleção Os Livros do Observatório) (Portuguese Edition) by Patrice Meyer-Bisch (Itaú Cultural) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A publicação organizada por Patrice Meyer-Bisch e Mylène Bidault aborda a Declaração de Friburgo, que reúne e explicita os direitos culturais reconhecidos de maneira dispersa em muitos instrumentos. Levando o subtítulo "Comentário à Declaração de Friburgo", o livro analisa detalhadamente e comenta os considerandos e artigos da Declaração, tendo como objetivo contribuir para a discussão e desenvolvimento do tema. Percebendo que a universalidade e a indivisibilidade dos direitos humanos padecem sempre com a ...

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Power to Teach: Learning Through Practice (Woburn Education Series) by Wendy Robinson (Routledge) (52 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book illustrates hitherto unexamined connections between the present state of teacher education in the UK and past models of practice. It locates contemporary debates within ongoing historical tensions over what constitutes a sound and proper start to a career in teaching. Questions as to the constituents of a professional training, the essential skills, knowledge and attitudes desired of an effective teacher, the most suitable locus of expertise, the relative roles of participants, and the balance of theory and practice lie at ...

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Deeper Learning, Dialogic Learning, and Critical Thinking: Research-based Strategies for the Classroom by Emmanuel Manalo (Routledge) (69 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Deeper learning, dialogic learning, and critical thinking are essential capabilities in the 21st-century environments we now operate. Apart from being important in themselves, they are also crucial in enabling the acquisition of many other 21st-century skills/capabilities such as problem solving, collaborative learning, innovation, information and media literacy, and so on. However, the majority of teachers in schools and instructors in higher education are inadequately prepared for the task of promoting deeper learning, dialogic ...

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Advancing Human Assessment: The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS (Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment) by Randy E. Bennett (Springer) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.?? This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world's leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book's four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, ...

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GMAT Foundations of Verbal: Practice Problems in Book and Online (Manhattan Prep GMAT Strategy Guides) by Manhattan Prep (435 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Developed for test-takers who need a refresher, Manhattan Prep's GMAT Foundations of Verbal provides a user-friendly review of basic verbal concepts crucial for GMAT success. Written by active instructors with 99th-percentile scores, GMAT Foundations of Verbal is designed to help students, particularly ESL students, who struggle with the basics of the verbal section of the GMAT. The book comes with robust online resources, including a practice test, a question bank and interactive lessons. Designed to be user-friendly for all ...

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GMAT Foundations of Math: 900+ Practice Problems in Book and Online (Manhattan Prep GMAT Strategy Guides) by Manhattan Prep (962 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Developed for test-takers who need a refresher, Manhattan Prep's GMAT Foundations of Math provides a user-friendly review of basic math concepts crucial for GMAT success. GMAT Foundations of Math comes with robust online resources, including a practice test, question banks, and interactive video lessons. Written by active instructors with 99th-percentile scores, this guide is designed with the student in mind. Designed to be user-friendly for all students, GMAT Foundations of Math provides: • 700+ practice problems for realistic ...

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Teaching History in the Digital Age (Digital Humanities) by T. Mills Kelly (University of Michigan Press) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on campuses, the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content, and a generation of students that has never known a world without easy Internet access. Teaching History in the Digital Age serves as a guide for practitioners on how to fruitfully ...

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What is negative thinking: You Can Master Your Negative Thoughts: Get Rid of All the Negative Thoughts that Hold You Back, and Learn to Control them ... by Jennifer N. Smith (61 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Remember that little voice at the back of your head that whispers "No!" and "You can't do it!" whenever you want to try something new? Remember how your brain says "Don't!" but your heart says "Do!" every time you want to follow your dreams? Remember how your mind always reminds you of what you can't do and where you've failed in life in the past, instead of encouraging you in the path you have chosen for yourself? Who is that? Those voices, those feelings and those emotions - they are a part of you. To be more precise, they are ...

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Kids On Earth A Children’s Documentary Series Exploring Global Cultures & The Natural World: COSTA RICA (KIDS ON EARTH SERIES) by Sensei Paul David (Sensei Publishing) (129 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Share Your FREE KoE eBook at kidsonearth.world Wouldn't you like to take a family vacation to a place you've never been, right now? You and your entire family are invited to come and experience, learn, feel, and imagine what life in other countries all over the world is like from other kids! Visit fascinating countries around the world without ever having to leave your home with a kid's documentary series that teaches an appreciation for both culture & biodiversity by country worldwide. In this one-of-a-kind kids' documentary ...

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Teaching Under Pressure: Looking At Primary Teachers' Stress by Anne Cockburn (Routledge) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This text is based on the author's research into primary school teacher's stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book is a practical text designed to address the reader in such a way that they can readily identify with what is being discussed. Futhermore, readers are encouraged to explore ways in which they can begin to tackle their own problems.

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A New Approach to Research Ethics: Using Guided Dialogue to Strengthen Research Communities by Henriikka Mustajoki (Routledge) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

A New Approach to Research Ethics is a clear, practical and useful guide to the ethical issues faced by researchers today. Examining the theories of ethical decision-making and applying these theories to a range of situations within a research career and process, this text offers a broader perspective on how ethics can be a positive force in strengthening the research community. Drawing upon a strong selection of challenging case studies, this text offers a new approach to engage with ethical issues and provides the reader ...

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Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education (International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development Book 26) by Niklas Pramling (20 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children's learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive didaktik. It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phylogenetic and ontogenetic development, as well as the 'what' of learning and didaktik. Next, it explores the actions, objects and meaning of play ...

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Moral Principles in Education by John Dewey (28 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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A primeira aula: trânsitos da literatura brasileira no estrangeiro (Portuguese Edition) by Pedro Meira Monteiro (Itaú Cultural) (49 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

O que um professor - brasileiro ou não - pensa e faz quando se vê pela primeira vez à frente de um grupo de estudantes "estrangeiros" para falar de literatura brasileira? Aparentemente simples, a pergunta que serve como ponto de partida para os ensaios reunidos neste livro abre caminho para uma série de outros questionamentos: Quem é esse professor? Como ele planejou sua primeira aula? Quais são os desafios de abordar a produção literária de um país que não é o daqueles estudantes - e em uma língua que, na maioria das ...

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Las emociones en los procesos pedagógicos y artísticos (Colección Emociones e interdisciplina) (Spanish Edition) by María Esther Castillo García (ITESO / UNAM) (66 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

El objetivo central del libro es comprender las formas en que, a través del análisis de las emociones y desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria con énfasis en la dimensión sociocultural, es posible acercarse a la comprensión de problemas sociales. Está conformado por nueve ensayos en que se analiza la relación entre pedagogía, arte y emociones, en diferentes ámbitos y desde distintos ejes, como lo son: la percepción del clima emocional y sus diferencias significativas en grupos poblacionales definidos; la concepción ...

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Advancing Environmental Education Practice (Cornell Series in Environmental Education) by Marianne E. Krasny (Comstock Publishing Associates) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

In this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environmental education practice; i.e., the assumption that environmental knowledge and attitudes lead to environmental behaviors. Krasny shows that certain types of knowledge are more likely than others to influence behaviors, and that generally it is more effective to work with existing attitudes than to try to change them. The chapters expand the purview of potential outcomes of environmental ...

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History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Achievements, Problems, Prospects (ICME-13 Topical Surveys) by Alexander Karp (Springer) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This work examines the main directions of research conducted on the history of mathematics education. It devotes substantial attention to research methodologies and the connections between this field and other scholarly fields. The results of a survey about academic literature on this subject are accompanied by a discussion of what has yet to be done and problems that remain unsolved. The main topics you will find in "ICME-13 Topical Survey" include: ? Discussions of methodological issues in the history of mathematics education ...

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Change In Classroom Practice by Steve Farrow (Routledge) (20 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Over the last ten years deliberate and determined efforts have been made to improve schooling. This book charts recent and current developments in the practical business of changing classroom practice to make schools more effective. It is devoted to detecting the effects on classroom practice of the efforts made to improve schools and classrooms, and to understanding how classroom practice changes. Contributors include advisory teachers, Higher Education HE tutors and researchers, and work described ranges from early years' ...

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Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World: How Six Nations Support Teachers for 21st Century Education (SpringerBriefs in Education) by Fernando M. Reimers (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise needed to teach these skills is a crucial aspect of effective implementation of curricula which include those goals. This study examines how ...

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Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research by Chuanfu Chen (Springer) (94 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book explores the development, trends and research of library and information sciences (LIS) in the digital age. Inside, readers will find research and case studies written by LIS experts, educators and theorists, most of whom have visited China, delivered presentations there and drafted their articles based on feedback they received. As a result, readers will discover the LIS issues and concerns that China and the international community have in common. The book first introduces the opportunities and challenges faced by the ...

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Computational Thinking Education by Siu-Cheung Kong (Springer) (27 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book offers a comprehensive guide, covering every important aspect of computational thinking education. It provides an in-depth discussion of computational thinking, including the notion of perceiving computational thinking practices as ways of mapping models from the abstraction of data and process structures to natural phenomena. Further, it explores how computational thinking education is implemented in different regions, and how computational thinking is being ...

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Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space: Best Practices for Educators in Multi-User Virtual Environments by ESTELLE E CODIER (31 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first "how-to" manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments that can be inhabited simultaneously by many participants; commonly called "multi-user virtual learning environments" or MUVE. Based on her experience supervising more than 400 learning activities in Second Life® -- as of 2014, the largest public (free) MUVE -- Dr. Estelle Codier has written a step-by-step handbook for novice and experienced MUVE teachers ...

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Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives and Application by Olaf Zawacki-Richter (Springer VS) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

In this open access edited volume, international researchers of the field describe and discuss the systematic review method in its application to research in education. Alongside fundamental methodical considerations, reflections and practice examples are included and provide an introduction and overview on systematic reviews in education research.

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Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators (Cornell Series in Environmental Education) by Anne K. Armstrong (Comstock Publishing Associates) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate change awareness and growing levels of concern have not translated into meaningful action. Communicating Climate Change provides environmental educators with an understanding of how their audiences ...

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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (Islamic Humanities Book 1) by Shenila Khoja-Moolji (University of California Press) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the 'educated girl' to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women's and girls' education and argues that such advocacy is not simply ...

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Dancing for Your Life: The True Story of Maria de la Torre and Her Secret Life in a Hong Kong Go-Go Bar by Brandon Royal (63 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Dancing for Your Life is the true story of a beautiful, young Filipina who, in order to help her family financially, leaves her home in the quiet Philippine countryside to work as a dancer in Hong Kong's red-light district of Wan Chai. This book will hold special appeal for readers interested in gaining a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of an Asian go-go bar and will serve as a companion guide for individuals interested in cultural studies, gender studies, or spirituality. It presents a rare first-person account that is ...

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Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori (194 Reviews)    Price verified 15 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Teaching A Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia: A Guide for Parents and Teachers Who Want to Start Learning About Dyslexia (DOG ON ... by Pamela Brookes (232 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

There are a lot of children (and adults) who struggle with reading. Some are helped by their schools, some are not. In this short booklet, Pamela Brookes shares some of the basic information she wishes she'd had when she was first trying to figure out how to help her child learn to read. Teaching A Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia is filled with links to informational and product resources for parents or teachers. It is geared to people who want to educate themselves in the methods that are effective in ...

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Vlad the Impaler: A Life From Beginning to End (Medieval History) by Hourly History (1,708 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Vlad the Impaler The character Count Dracula is well-known throughout the world. He is a dark, seductive, pale man wearing a cape. His gaze is quite literally captivating, and he has the strength of ten men. The story, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has been retold hundreds of times, but is there a historical figure upon whom the character is based? Is there really a Dracula? Many scholars argue that Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is the real Dracula. He was known in western Europe for his cruelty, most especially ...

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