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The Torch or the Firehose : A Guide to Section Teaching
The Torch or The Firehose: A Guide to Section Teaching, by M.I.T. Mathematics Professor Arthur Mattuck, is a guide to recitation teaching at M.I.T. During a typical recitation section, a teaching assistant (T.A.) meets with a small group of students to review the most recent lecture, expand on the concepts, work through practice problems and conduct a discussion with the students. With good hum…
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Transforming Institutions : Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
"Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them competitive in the 21st-century workplace. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that many global issues will require creative and critical thinking deeply rooted in the technical STEM (science, tec…
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Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing : Threshold Concepts to Guide the Litera…
The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of aesthetic orientations and the cultural histories to which they belong. Given the shifting demogr…
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- 9781350023864
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A Task for Sisyphus : Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail
Despite the increasing number of policy measures and initiatives targeting the Roma in Europe, their position has continued to worsen, which requires answers from policymakers, activists and academics. The author sums up why Roma policies fail on European and national levels as follows: failure to define the target group; to provide good information and data; to establish a mechanism for effect…
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Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction
Which is the identity of a traveler who is constantly on the move between cultures and languages? What happens with stories when they are transmitted from one place to another, when they are retold, remade, translated and re-translated? What happens with the scholars themselves, when they try to grapple with the kaleidoscopic diversity of human expression in a constantly changing world? These a…
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- 9789176351406, 9789176351413
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- Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics, 8
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- 370 NAR n
True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale
This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving …
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- 9781000389968, 9780367506858
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- 288
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- Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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- 338.1 TRU t
Images of Canadianness: Images of Canadianness
Author D'Haenens, Leen Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting pattern…
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- 9780776616124
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- 255
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- International Canadian Studies Series
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Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950
"Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich’s widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlich’s personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Lodz during t…
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- 9781618116888;9781618119285
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- Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History,
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Economics of Institutions and Law
This book provides a set of lectures for an intermediate course in Public economics devoted to four topics, in many elements related each other. The first one is the Economics of institutions and political economy, as a general framework to analyze the public intervention in modern economies. The second one is the Economics of Law, which is at the basis of the working of the exchange economy. T…
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- 9788864535807, 9788864535791
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- Manuali – Scienze Sociali, 7
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- 320 PET e
Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages
This volume is the first in a new series entitled Reading Medieval Sources, examining different genres of sources in the Middle Ages, and this book focuses on ways of studying medieval money, and the most direct manifestation of money: coinage. It is intended to introduce readers to a range of approaches to a subject that has, traditionally, been seen as somewhat specialised domain of highly te…
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