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Nine American academics, educational consultants, and bilingual/bicultural program development specialists contribute 12 chapters in a research- and theory-based text about learning and teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. The second edition features updated research on mult

Presents an unparalleled international coverage, addressing all forms of family violence in Australia and at least two countries from every other continent.

This study assembles and presents the cross-disciplinary research being conducted on access to new technology. It departs from popular understandings by recognizing the distinction between having access to the Internet as a technology and being able to access the content that resides on it.

This volume offers international perspectives on sociocultural research in mathematics education. The essays are divided into sections covering: Psychological, Sociological and Political Perspectives; Global, Regional and Local Contexts; and Teachers, Students and Classrooms.

This volume asserts that an understanding of the origins and course of psychopathology is fundamental to the quest for the good society, and that in developing this understanding, concepts and methods from disciplines including history, geography, sociology, economics and psychology are used.

Presents an introduction to high-field electrodynamics, from its fundamentals to some of its important modern applications. This discusses some of the ramifications of electrodynamics in areas ranging from quantum optics and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox to rotating black holes, and the Bohm-Aharanov effect.

Because of their natural occurrence in food and because they inhibit the growth of most microorganisms, organic acids are increasingly used in food preservation. This title offers accessible operating procedures, new directives, and possible alternative methods or solutions to problems. Each chapter addresses an important aspect of organic acids.

Provides various computational resources needed by industrial engineers. This book focuses on particular specialization areas of industrial engineering, such as basic and engineering math, production engineering, engineering economics, ergonomics, systems and data engineering, project engineering, and simulation and statistical calculations.

Offers information helpful to develop a successful micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) design. This work explains the design process by illustrating the range of issues involved, how they are interrelated, and how they can be quickly and accurately addressed.

This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought experiment. Though primarily written for a philosophical audience, this volume is also likely to interest psychologists and science historians.

This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the Commission on Research in Black Education and offers new directions for research and practice. It demonstrates a transformative role for research and a positive role for culture in learning, in the academy, and in community and cross national contexts.

This volume includes discussions dealing with the evolution and the role of ethics from the standpoint of communication scholars employing a process orientation, and the resulting conclusions concerning the significant roles of ethics in dialogic, mutually enhancing, constructive interactions.

This text focuses on political strategies, pedagogical models and community programmes that enable adult ESL learners to become vital members of North American society. It provides an understanding of how educators are creating strategies for maintaining language programmes and services.

Offering a comprehensive overview of postharvest technologies, this book examines the physical, chemical, and nutritional changes that occur during the ripening process. It focuses on how to maintain both sensorial and nutritional fruit quality parameters as well as how to extend shelf life.

Examines a plethora of issues and provides answers to such questions as: What organism should be added to the childhood vaccine, especially for boys? What bacteria in its pleomorphic state is found in direct smears of synovial fluid of rheumatoid arthritis cases? And which common pathogen's L Form can permanently damage myocardium mammaliam?

Aiming to bridge the gap in understanding between professional electrochemists and hard-core semiconductor physicists and material scientists, this book examines the science and technology of semiconductor electrode-positioning. It reviews fundamental electrodeposition concepts and terminology.

These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society.

This revised research methods textbook introduces social science methods as applied broadly to the study of issues that arise as part of organizational life. These include issues involving organizational participants such as managers, teachers, customers, patients and clients, and transactions within and between organizations.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Brings together researchers from disciplines such as biomechanics, anthropometry, and cognitive science with practitioners in industry. This book discusses tools of the trade, upper extremity analysis, interventions, management issues, design for ergonomics, principles of product design, band-aid approaches, processing, and distribution centers.

Offers a treatment of applied surface thermodynamics in relation to contact angles and surface tensions. This title includes chapters that present the advanced drop-shape methods developed for surface tension and contact angle measurement. It covers the generalized theory of capillarity and thermodynamics of axisymmetric capillary systems.

Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.

Explores the theoretical and practical details of applying control and automation to distribution substations and feeders. This work covers communication and protocols. It develops the concept of generic networks and standard building blocks as a way of implementing cost effective automation and control.

Multidisciplinary focus Surveying many disciplines, this anthology brings together an outstanding selection of scholarly articles that examine the profound impact of law on the lives of women in the United States. The themes addressed include the historical, political, and social contexts of legal issues that have affected women's struggles to obtain equal treatment under the law. The articles are drawn from journals in law, political science, history, women's studies, philosophy, and education and represent some of the most interesting writing on the subject. The law in theory and practice Many of the articles bring race, social, and economic factors into their analyses, observing, for example, that black women, poor women, and single mothers are treated by the wielders of the power of the law differently than middle class white women. Other topics covered include the evolution of women's legal status, reproduction rights, sexuality and family issues, equal employment and educational opportunities, domestic violence, pornography and sexual exploitation, hate speech, and feminist legal thought. A valuable research and classroom aid, this series provides in-depth coverage of specific legal issues and takes into account the major legal changes and policies that have had an impact on the lives of American women.

Examines how oral and written language function in school learning, and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts that are used on a daily basis in schools. This title provides historical background for the study of talk and text.

Argues that culture is perhaps the most important thing to know about people if one wants to make predictions about their behavior. The goal of this volume is to present a theoretically exhaustive integration of multidisciplinary approaches

This revised edition still focuses on teaching literature, writing and language - the basics of the profession. However, the anthology of articles covering key topics has been updated and a writing assignment has been provided at the end of each chapter.

In banking regulation, tools are needed to quantify risk and calculate the amount of capital reserve required to mitigate such risk. This book offers a complete model for the quantification of so-called operational risks.

This book describes specific technical problems associated with digital relays and suggests ways to solve them. It also covers the construction of functional assemblies of real relays existing in the market, drawbacks and problems of digital relays, and the danger of deliberate electromagnetic effect onto digital relays.

Presents an examination of the principles and practice of modern day composting. This book covers compost science, engineering design, operation, principles, and practice, stressing a fundamental approach to analysis throughout. It also discusses the elements of successful odor management at composting facilities.