Conservation techniques

Overview: This book fosters the recognition of options for making progress toward increased environmental conservation through an understanding of the underlying science and practice of a variety of conservation techniques. Today, there are expected benefits from integrated science and practice, and many people are promoting this as the way forward to improve our environment. Over time, trends …

Designing Critical and Creative Learning with Indigenous Youth : a Personal J…

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ISBN/ISSN

9789463003070

Collation

229 pages

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Call Number

370

Designing Inclusive Pathways with Young Adults Learning and Development for a…

This book is the second in a series entitled 'Learning and development for a better world' and it explores the potential for self-directed lifelong action learning (LAL) by focusing on the design of development pathways with and for young adults. The book considers the reasons why LAL pathways are needed and draws on innovative approaches used by the Global University for Lifelong Learning (inc…

Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action : An Interdisciplinary Perspective

This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity mark…

Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition

The Author's intention, after over 60 years of study and field work, was to publish his final thoughts on the subject, and make them readily available for all scholars to use, free of cost, wherever they may live. Knowing that his time was limited, and that he would be unable to respond to reviewers' comments, he chose, of necessity, not to submit his manuscript for peer review. It was his wish…

Myths of the Greek and Roman Gods

In book 8 of the Odyssey, Odysseus is a guest of the Phaeacians, a mythical people renowned for their knowledge of ships and the sea. In the extract below, a festival that involves athletic games, dancing, and song, the poet Demodocus (“the minstrel” of the opening line) entertains the assembled guests by reciting the myth of how Hephaestus caught his wife Aphrodite in their marriage bed…

Advanced Community College ESL Composition : An Integrated Skills Approach

This book has been created to provide a framework for building your skills in writing and critical thinking. It provides access to published samples from professional authors along with essay drafts from ESL students who have polished their skills in their respective writing courses. The themes in the readings will give you a variety of topics to discuss with your classmates, which may inspi…

Developing community schools, community learning centers, extended-service sc…

This book focuses on special organizational configurations for schools in diverse parts of the world. Some of these new organizational and institutional designs are called multi-service schools, others are called extended service schools and still others are called community learning centers. While these schools have different names and notable different characteristics, they belong in the same…

Developing country perspectives on public service delivery

The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy, and public administration. The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like South Africa, Philippines, India and Malaysia. At the forefront of this movement has been the publ…

Developing Self-regulation of Learning and Teaching Skills Among Teacher Cand…

This book reports an in-depth case study and the student teaching experience of four preservice teachers during practical and clinical experiences in classroom in an urban community in New York. It examines the associations between preservice teachers' self-regulatory skills and motivational beliefs and their clinical experience both in the college training classroom and in the school settings.…