Brian J : 404 books
by Peter J. Klein, Brian R. Iammartino
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
An updated look at security analysis and how to use it during tough financial times
Due to the current economic climate, individual investors are starting to take much more time and effort to really understand their investments. They've been investing on their own in record numbers, but many...
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services -- Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBASs' effectiveness at achieving their performance goals. This document explores the design...
Supporting Differentiated Instruction
A Professional Learning Communities Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Examine how PLCs provide the decision-making platform for the rigorous work of differentiated classroom instruction. A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs. Takeaway objectives at...
Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens
Counterstories and Counterspaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal...
Flourishing Within Limits to Growth
Following nature's way
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model.
The book...
Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling
Installation and Decommissioning
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Offshore wind energy is one of the most promising and fastest growing alternative energy sources in the world. Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling provides a methodological framework to assess installation and decommissioning costs, and using examples from the European experience, provides a broad...
Unlocking Student Talent
The New Science of Developing Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do we truly help students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples,...
by Brian Berenbach, Juergen Kazmeier, Arnold Rudorfer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Proven Software & Systems Requirements Engineering Techniques
"Requirements engineering is a discipline used primarily for large and complex applications. It is more formal than normal methods of gathering requirements, and this formality is needed for many large applications. The...
Software Sourcing in the Age of Open
Leveraging the Unknown Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This SpringerBrief discusses multiple forms of open-source-inspired outsourcing: opensourcing, innersourcing and crowdsourcing. It uses a framework-based comparison to explain the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. By pointing out characteristics along with benefits and pitfalls of each approach,...
Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty
Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher...
by David J. Bell, Brian D Loader, Nicholas Pleace
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The only A-Z guide available on this subject, this book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing and increasingly important world of cyberculture. Its clear and accessible entries cover aspects ranging from the technical to the theoretical, and from movies to the everyday,...
by Mark J Kaiser, Brian F Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Jackups, semisubmersibles and drillships are the marine vessels used to drill offshore wells and are referred to collectively as mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs). MODUs are supplied through newbuild construction and operate throughout the world in highly competitive regional markets. The Offshore...
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...
by Adrean Messmer, Sean M. Thompson, Julie K. Godard
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
Now you're playing with…
TERROR
Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die...