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Philosophy of Education by Nel Noddings is a classic text in the field of the philosophy of education, providing a comprehensive overview of the field in relation to teaching, learning, research, and educational policy.

A comprehensive guide to the key theories in contemporary public administration, from rational choice to postmodern approaches.

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth discussion on the development of herbicide resistance during the past 50 years, emphasizing the biochemical pathways of herbicide resistance in weeds. It discusses the principles of plant genetics, different methods of genetic engineering, makingof transgenic plants, various transgenic crops conferred with herbicide resistance, evolution of weed, problems subsequent to growing of transgenic crops, benefits and risks of growing transgenic crops, and management of transgenic crops. Packed with up-to-date information, the book includes relevant references, data, figures, and illustrations.

Marrying fiction and non-fiction picture books focused on life science, Perfect Pairs helps educators think about and teach life science in a whole new way. Each of the twenty-two lessons in this book is built around a pair of books that introduces a critical life science concept and guides students through an inquiry-based investigative process to explore that idea.

More than a hauntingly beautiful memoir about small dogs in Big Sky country, this book is a wise account of the relationships among dogs, humans, and the land that surrounds them

Ideologues and Presidents argues that ideologues have been gaining influence in the modern presidency

This book addresses the basic and applied principles of food engineering methods used in food processing operations. Presenting cutting-edge information on emerging food engineering processes, this text examines the thermophysical properties and modeling of selected processes such as chilling, freezing, and dehydration; discusses size reduction, mixing, emulsion, and encapsulation; includes case studies of solid¿liquid and supercritical fluid extraction; and explores fermentation, enzymes, fluidized-bed drying, and more. It provides an essential reference on the modeling, quality, safety, and technologies associated with food processing operations today.

Rapid advancement in electron-based computers or probable light-based computers in the future, changes in electronics engineering from vacuum valves to very large scale microchips (VLSC), cement concrete (CC) to polymer reinforced concrete (PRC) in civil engineering, pure metals to duplex stainless steel (DSS) in mechanical engineering, wood to ferroelectrics, and ordinary steel to ferrites in electrical engineering are some illustrations which became possible due to developments in materials science. This book introduces emerging engineering materials with the inclusion of recent topics.

The first part of the book covers the electrolyte solution in its stationary state¿electrostatic, and various ion-dipole, dipole-dipole, and mutual repulsion interactions. The second part covers the electrolyte solution in its nonstationary status¿electrical conductivity, viscosity, and diffusion. This theoretical framework allows for the determination of activity coefficients of concentrated electrolyte solutions, which play a key role in many aspects of electrochemistry and for developing novel advanced processes in inorganic chemical plants.

This book explains how mathematical tools can be used to solve problems in signal processing. Assuming an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level understanding of mathematics, this second edition contains new chapters on convolution and the vector DFT, plane-wave propagation, and the BLUE and Kalman filters. It expands the material on Fourier analysis to three new chapters to provide additional background information, presents real-world examples of applications that demonstrate how mathematics is used in remote sensing, and includes robust appendices and problems for classroom use.

This textbook establishes the art and science of strengthening design of reinforced concrete with FRP beyond the abstract nature of the design guidelines. It addresses material characterization, flexural strengthening of beams and slabs, shear strengthening of beams, and confinement strengthening of columns. It discusses the installation and inspection of FRP as externally bonded or near-surface-mounted composite systems for concrete members. It provides innovative design aids based on ACI 440 code provisions, end-of-chapter questions, references for further study, and a solutions manual with qualifying course adoption.

This book presents the development of agroecology concepts as well as the modern vision on ecology and agricultural systems. It describes how to make the translation of modern agroecology to help our environment. The book examines how available and limited natural resources are and how this environment would allow the population to reach the goal of global sustainable ecological, agricultural, and food production systems. It also considers the principles that regulate the agroecological systems, including crop production, soil management, and environment preservation.

PC fired boilers have highly turbulent flow, complex gas-solid flow, coal combustion, and radiative heat transfer. Over the years, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools have evolved as powerful design and predictive tools for simulating complex equipment. This book describes the methodology needed to formulate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to simulate boilers. It also provides guidelines on implementing it in commercial CFD solvers, like Ansys Fluent, and provides various case studies to understand the effect of operating conditions on boiler performance.

Dietary sugars, fructose in particular, have potential roles in obesity and metabolic diseases. This book is the first comprehensive treatment presenting all aspects of dietary sugars as they relate to health and disease, from historical perspectives to public health policies. Sections focus on the classification and production of sugars, social and economic aspects of sugars, physiology and metabolism of dietary sugars, and sugar and public health. Each chapter features a concise, thorough summary of current knowledge, including an overview of cutting-edge research, controversies, and future perspectives.

Modeling and simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the development of new and existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to manage systems complexity and investigate system behaviors through virtual representation. To date, a handbook that includes established M&S practices is not available in the systems engineering community. This multi-contributed reference book provides the M&S practices for supporting systems engineering in diverse domains. Readers can also identify their systems engineering needs and adapt these practices to suit their specific application domain, thus avoiding redefining practices from scratch.

This book provides a systematic framework for designing distributed controllers for multi-agent systems with general linear agent dynamics, linear agent dynamics with uncertainties, and Lipschitz nonlinear agent dynamics. The proposed consensus region decouples the design of the feedback gain matrices of the cooperative protocols from the communication graph and serves as a measure for the robustness of the protocols to variations of the communication graph. By exploiting the decoupling feature, adaptive cooperative protocols are presented that can be designed and implemented in a fully distributed fashion.

Consolidating work done in a variety of studies in recent decades, this book presents a range of tools that can be used to identify the probable socio-cultural "race" category of unknown human remains. It presents equations and examples useful for assessing ancestry with a combination of seven morphoscopic traits and discusses ancestry estimation from skull, mandible, leg, and dental remains. It examines methods of age progression and facial reconstructions to create two- and three-dimensional facial composites for missing people. The book also explores the use of DNA for identification purposes, including mtDNA used in haplogroup determinations.

CHOICE 2015 Outstanding Academic TitleWhat do women academics classify as challenging, inequitable, or "hostile" work environments and experiences? How do these vary by women's race/ethnicity, rank, sexual orientation, or other social locations?How do academic cultures and organizational structures work independently and in tandem to foster or challenge such work climates?What actions can institutions and individuals-independently and collectively-take toward equity in the academy?Despite tremendous progress toward gender equality and equity in institutions of higher education, deep patterns of discrimination against women in the academy persist. From the "chilly climate" to the "old boys' club," women academics must navigate structures and cultures that continue to marginalize, penalize, and undermine their success.This book is a "tool kit" for advancing greater gender equality and equity in higher education. It presents the latest research on issues of concern to them, and to anyone interested in a more equitable academy. It documents the challenging, sometimes hostile experiences of women academics through feminist analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, including narratives from women of different races and ethnicities across disciplines, ranks, and university types. The contributors' research draws upon the experiences of women academics including those with under-examined identities such as lesbian, feminist, married or unmarried, and contingent faculty. And, it offers new perspectives on persistent issues such as family policies, pay and promotion inequalities, and disproportionate service burdens. The editors provide case studies of women who have encountered antagonistic workplaces, and offer action steps, best practices, and more than 100 online resources for individuals navigating similar situations. Beyond women in academe, this book is for their allies and for administrators interested in changing the climates, cultures, and policies that allow gender inequality to exist on their campuses, and to researchers/scholars investigating these phenomena. It aims to disrupt complacency amongst those who claim that things are "better" or "good enough" and to provide readers with strategies and resources to counter barriers created by culture, climate, or institutional structures.

The Entertainment Industries provides readers with a substantive analysis and detailed overview of the diverse entertainment industries in the U.S.; foreign markets and export issues will also be addressed. It explores managerial, financial, and legal issues and emphasizes the current and changing U.S. and global markets for entertainment goods and services.

This bestselling criminology text offers a concise introduction to the nature and extent of crime, surveying core perspectives on crime causation and their policy implications within a sociological context and providing students with a strong foundation for the study of crime.

7th edition.

Thoroughly updated for the new era of Common Core Standards, this seventh edition of Observational Skills for Effective Teaching is vital in this time of educational change. It offers a detailed, yet easily accessible, handbook for teachers to prepare for and design their first classroom experiences. Updated with the newest research on effective teaching and learning, the book cogently introduces such topics as learning climate, classroom management, and lesson clarity with the newest findings that lead to desirable cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes in learners.

This volume presents three major social types in American society¿heroes, villains, and fools¿as models for American behaviour

Professing Sociology was originally published at a time when sociology commanded widespread interest and public funding

An exploration of globalization and its effect on resistance movements all over the world.

This gripping real-time drama is set against the devastation of the Haiti earthquake. The author, a pioneer of digital humanitarianism, didn¿t stay idle long. Within hours, from his laptop, he¿d assembled a global network of volunteers to collect, analyze, sift through, map, and relay accurate information from survivors on the ground voicing cries of help using social media. Their data-mining accomplishments were record breaking and set new standards for quick action in large-scale disaster relief situations. This book explains the technology behind this new wave of ICT networking and data mining.

For the first time, the collective data on the biological, chemical, and medical actions of DMSO are presented and analyzed from the published scientific literature. This book examines the major clinical uses of DMSO in humans as supported by basic evidence derived from experiments in animals, including its effects in disorders such as osteoarthritis, interstitial cystitis, gastrointestinal inflammatory changes, scleroderma, respiratory distress, myasthenia gravis, cardiac disease, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer¿s disease. The actions of DMSO on pain, cancer, stroke, and spinal cord injury are also discussed.

Pocket Book of Integrals and Mathematical Formulas, 5th Edition covers topics ranging from precalculus to vector analysis and from Fourier series to statistics, presenting numerous worked examples to demonstrate the application of the formulas and methods. This popular pocket book is an essential source for students of calculus and higher mathematics courses. It also provides an easy-to-use, accessible reference for mathematicians, engineers, scientists, and others seeking vital mathematical formulas, concepts, and definitions. Enlarging the type without sacrificing special topics involving financial mathematics and number theory, this 5th Edition: Includes several classic calculus applications that illustrate the power and practical use of calculus Discusses an interesting offshoot of Fermat's last theorem, namely, "near misses" Reformats and revises the table of integrals for improved clarity and accuracy Through careful selection of topics and detail, Pocket Book of Integrals and Mathematical Formulas, 5th Edition remains a portable yet comprehensive resource for students and professionals, containing the most important mathematical formulas for engineering and scientific applications.

This book reviews pollutants generated by agriculturally contaminated soil and plastic waste from a variety of industries. The author details rhizobacteria, describes the latest knowledge regarding the biodegradation of tannery and textile waste, and reviews the role of microbes in plastic degradation bioremediation and recycling of urban waste. The book will certainly help readers who have an interest in the fields of environment, microbiology, industrial engineering, biotechnology, botany, and agricultural sciences.