Filter by
Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators
Museums are institutions of both education and learning in service of society, that is, they are sites where educational experiences are designed and facilitated, and also places where visitors learn in broad and diverse ways. As such, the role of public education in museums today is highly important, if not at the centre of museum activity. As museums contemplate the growing significance of th…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-238-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Research On and Activities For Mathematically Gifted Students
This open access Topical Survey offers a brief overview of the current state of research on and activities for mathematically gifted students around the world. This is of interest to a broad readership, including educational researchers, research mathematicians, mathematics teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, doctoral students, and other stakeholders. It first discusses research …
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-39450-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A Grammar of the Mahratta Language To Which Are Added Dialogues on Familiar …
Marathi, an official language of Maharashtra and Goa, is among the twenty most widely spoken languages in the world. The southernmost Indo-Aryan language, it is also spoken in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Daman and Diu, and is believed to be over 1,300 years old, with its origins in Sanskrit. First published in 1805, this grammar of Marathi (then known as Mahratta) was compiled by th…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781139519847
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities
Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view. The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research i…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-358-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Reservoir Model Design
This book gives practical advice and ready to use tips on the design and construction of subsurface reservoir models. The design elements cover rock architecture, petrophysical property modelling, multi-scale data integration, upscaling and uncertainty analysis. Philip Ringrose and Mark Bentley share their experience, gained from over a hundred reservoir modelling studies in 25 countries coveri…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-007-5497-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Growing Brands Through Sponsorship An Empirical Investigation of Brand Image…
Philip Gross addresses a new opportunity for growing brands that may reside within a sponsorship alliance. Typically, brands vie for image transfer from an event or other property when entering a sponsorship engagement. Yet this practice leaves a valuable part of a sponsorship alliance unexploited. Specifically, the author infers from theories of social and cognitive psychology to propose and t…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-07249-0
- Collation
- XXVIII, 349
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Report on the Development of Household Finance in Rural China (2014)
The book reports on the development of household finances in rural China. It is based on the results of an on-site survey conducted door to door by a research team from the Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance, the largest survey center in China – and perhaps the world – that specializes in Chinese household finances. Directed by financial experts that enjoy the highest ho…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-0409-4
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Contemporary Confucianism in thought and action
This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections - addressing the "theory" and "practice" of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other - to provide readers a more meaningful understanding of contemporary Confucianism and Chin…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783662477502
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 181.112
Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers
This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on 90 interviews conducted with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the book demons…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy
This book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from production-based to consumption-based approaches in international climate policy. With the help of an analytical model, the author investigates the effects of different policy variants on environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, carbon leakage, competitiveness and the global distribution of income. The economic, legal, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319159911
- Collation
- xvi, 249 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography