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Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom, Grades 7-12
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom, Grades 7-12

This practical guide to study skills instruction offers 29 complete lesson plans that can help you teach your students how to learn and improve their academic performance. Lessons cover the key strategies of note taking, summarizing, using research tools (including the Internet), and test taking. They incorporate full participation by students and continuous checking for understanding by the teacher which help students also improve their listening skills.

Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent environmental issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of the global environmental governance puzzle. The book is comprised of 101 entries, each defining a central concept in global environmental governance, presenting its historical evolution, introducing related debates and including key bibliographical references and further reading. The entries combine analytical rigour with empirical description. The book: offers cutting edge analysis of the state of global environmental governance, raises an up-to-date debate on global governance for sustainable de...

The Plant Lover's Guide to Ferns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

The Plant Lover's Guide to Ferns

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-08
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  • Publisher: Timber Press

Ferns are easy to grow and readily available in big box stores, garden centers, and mail-order nurseries, making them a popular ornamental among new and advanced gardeners. Perfect for containers, borders, layered gardens, foliage accents, and shady areas, ferns come in a range of colors and varieties. The Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns, by fern enthusiasts Richie Steffen and Sue Olsen, is packed with information on these reliable plants. The book includes profiles for 134 plants, with information on growth and propagation, advice on using ferns in garden design, and lists of where to buy the plants and where to view them in public gardens.

The Moral Economy of Welfare States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

The Moral Economy of Welfare States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas of social justice people adhere to. Analysing both the institution of welfare and the public attitudes towards such schemes, the book demonstrates that people are neither selfish nor altruistic; rather they tend to reason reciprocally.

The Complete Book of Ferns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

The Complete Book of Ferns

The Complete Book of Ferns is filled with botanical information, indoor and outdoor growing and care information, details on propagation, display ideas, and even craft projects. This gorgeous book is authored by Mobee Weinstein, the Foreman of Gardeners at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx and a veteran guest on the Martha Stewart Living TV show and other media outlets. Houseplants in general are in ascendance, but no category is hotter than ferns. From the otherworldly Staghorns—mounted like antler trophies in homes throughout the world—to the classic Boston Ferns and newer varieties like Crispy Wave, ferns are definitely back in fashion. And to no one’s surprise. After all, ...

Fern Grower's Manual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

Fern Grower's Manual

Guided by two experts, you can have the most useful and comprehensive advice on ferns for any region, with details on cultivation, identification, and landscaping.

The Essential Child
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Essential Child

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This text synthesizes 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, examining children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. It shows that children do not come into the world as passive recipients of data.

Global Change and the Earth System
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Global Change and the Earth System

Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of humankind; as well as exploring future paths towards Earth-system science in support of global sustainability. The results presented here are based on 10 years of research on global change by many of the world's most eminent scholars. This valuable volume achieves a new level of integration and interdisciplinarity in treating global change.

Quaternary of the Levant
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 789

Quaternary of the Levant

Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.