Douglas: 4895 books
How to Make Your Point Without PowerPoint
50 Ways to Present Effectively
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The art of presenting needs a serious shake-up. Presenters are constantly on the lookout for fresh ideas to get their message across, but mistakenly believe PowerPoint is the right medium to do so. This often results in uninspiring presentations consisting of countless lackluster slides which their...
How to Reach the Hard to Teach
Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you—the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for...
Healing from Depression
12 Weeks to a Better Mood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In Healing from Depression, Douglas Bloch shares his struggle to stay alive amidst overwhelming despair and out-of-control anxiety attacks, and explains how the power of prayer and other holistic approaches ultimately led to his recovery. As one of the millions of Americans who suffer from depression,...
by Ann Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The perfect companion to the bestselling The Mother of All Pregnancy Books
For the four million American women who give birth every year, staying on topof doctor's visits, ultrasound tests, Lamaze classes, baby supplies, birth announcements, and all the other day-to-day realities of pregnancy can...
by Douglas J. Llewellyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Ignite science learning with differentiated instruction
One type of science instruction does not fit all. Best-selling author Douglas Llewellyn gives teachers standards-based strategies for differentiating science education to more effectively meet the needs of all students. This book takes...
Sunken Plantations
The Santee-Cooper Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
South Carolinians have long desired a route for water navigation from Columbia to Charleston. An early Santee Canal effort ended in failure by 1850, but interest was reignited in the twentieth century. Roosevelt and his New Deal provided the necessary hydroelectric power and a boost to the state s economy...
Twitter Wit
Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The first authorized Twitter book, Twitter Wit is a collection of the most clever one-liners posted on the massively popular social networking and micro-blogging website. Featuring a foreword by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and tweets from celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen...
PCB Currents
How They Flow, How They React
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The Plain-English Guide to Electronics and Current Flow for Every PCB Designer Today, PCB designers must deal with issues such as crosstalk and EMI-–issues that were once associated only with components. This requires electronics knowledge that many PCB designers never gain through formal...
Public Policy & Financial Economics
Essays in Honor of Professor George G Kaufman for His Lifelong Contributions to the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
The central goal of this volume was to assemble outstanding scholars and policymakers in the field of financial markets and institutions and have them articulate significant market developments in their particular areas of expertise during the past few decades.
Not just a celebratory volume,...
by Douglas McKee
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
“Wisdom is the freedom and the ability to make the kinds of choices that move our life forward and benefit the planet.” Wisdom is the antidote for the choices that keep you mired in a world of negative emotions.
If someone could demonstrate you Already have the Ability and you Already actually...
Reforming Democracies
Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Even well-established democracies need reform, and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions—elections, political parties, special interests, legislatures and their relations with chief executives—to do so.
Expanding a traditional vision of the...
The Challenge of Rural Electrification
Strategies for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities...
by Douglas Alger
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Grow a Greener Data Center
A guide to building and operating energy-efficient,
ecologically sensitive IT and Facilities infrastructure
Conventional Data Centers can have a huge impact upon the environment, using massive amounts of energy and water, emitting pollutants,...
by Douglas Jamison, Stephen Waite
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Over the past decade, software companies have increasingly monopolized the flow of venture capital, starving support for scientific research and its transformative discoveries. New medicines, cheaper and faster personal computers, and other life-changing developments all stem from investment in science....