Michael F : 455 books
Multi-Dimensional Education
A Common Sense Approach to Data-Driven Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
A comprehensive guide to data-driven school improvement
Look beyond student test scores with a practical and multidimensional data gathering approach. The authors detail the steps for identifying, collecting, analyzing, and using data as a basis for making instructional and schoolwide decisions....
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
by Michael Wilder, Sharon Coolidge, Leland Ryken
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Comprehensive in scope, this substantial volume was compiled in honor of Leland Ryken and champions the importance of an approach to faith and learning grounded in the Christian liberal arts.
Gable Heights
The Lunch Time Anthologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Lunch Time Anthologies are full novel anthologies. Gable Heights is book one and a story that jump starts the series with suspense, action and intrigue. Ever doubt that your city has an underground? Maybe you know it is there and you have thoughts of taking it down? Rachel has a plan.
by Grant Walsh-Haines, Marla J. Jarmer, Kevin R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
by Marvin K.L. Ching, Michael C. Haley, Ronald F. Lunsford
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems. In their introductory chapter, the editors of this collection of essays, by linguists on either side...
Louisiana
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.
Since the appearance...
by John Sikes Jr., Benjamin B. Alexander, Michael L. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions...
Understanding DB2
Learning Visually with Examples
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
The Easy, Visual Way to Master IBM® DB2 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®—Fully Updated for Version 9.5 IBM DB2 9 and DB2 9.5 provide breakthrough capabilities for providing Information on Demand, implementing Web services and Service Oriented Architecture, and streamlining information management....
Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone
Grounds for Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee.
Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses just...
by Michael A. Gatzoulis, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, by Drs. Gatzoulis, Webb, and Daubeney, is a practical, one-stop resource designed to help you manage the unique challenges of treating long-term adult survivors of congenital heart disease. Authored by internationally known leaders in the...
by Paul Barash, Bruce F. Cullen, Robert K. Stoelting
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The Handbook of Clinical Anesthesia, Seventh Edition, closely parallels Clinical Anesthesia, Seventh Edition, and presents the essential information found in the larger text in a concise, portable format. Extensive changes made to the parent textbook are reflected in the Handbook; chapters have been...
Understanding Countertransference
From Projective Identification to Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Seeking to mediate between the "classical" view of countertransference as a neurotic impediment to the treatment process and the more recent "totalist" perspective, which assumes that the therapist's emotional response necessarily reveals something about the patient, Tansey and...