From Cells to Organs:: A Histology Textbook and Atlas

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Histology is the study of the microscopic structure of cells, tissues, and organs. It has often been taught as a matter of memorization. Dr. Van Lommel's approach is based on the understanding that the microscopic structure of the body has a logic, and the text and accompanying images are organized to proceed according to a rigorous logic, expanding from the anatomy and morphology to discuss the functions of the various kinds of cells, tissues, and organs. The material is thus more interesting and, as an extension of that, easier to remember.
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From Cells to Organs: : A Histology Textbook and Atlas

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From Cells to Organs: : A Histology Textbook and Atlas
Alfons T.L. Van Lommel
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUAK9E

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You CAN Teach Online! is a web-enhanced text provides easy-to-follow examples of pedagogical techniques, and tools that will be useful for faculty interested in developing online courses in the traditional and online classrooms. Throughout the text, numerous technical drawings, charts, graphs, and photographs are displayed to illustrate the very latest in educational technology. With this information, readers will learn to have the confidence to translate their traditional classroom materials to an online environment.

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Not Enough Hands On!.......2003-06-11

This book was more touchy-feely to me than practical. I have taught extensively in the past, and do not need a book that gives me fundamental pedagogical skills -- I already possess them.

I was looking for a book that would assist me in converting a course from face-to-face to online. This book has an extensive section on the technologies required to teach online, which will be helpful to those who have never used computer before; to me, it was a waste of space.

There is no discussion of merits of different instructional design methodologies, and not a lot of concrete examples of how to teach online. This is a very light book, and I wouldn't use it anywhere except possibly to familiarize upper management with the logistics of online teaching.

For those teachers/professors/instructors/educators who are going to be on the front lines of online education, you can give this book a pass.

Talks about Teaching First!.......2001-06-18

Finally, a book about online teaching that actually talks about TEACHING! It sets the context in education pedagogy and then gives the practical suggestions. Now teachers will have something to work from, other than just the mechanics of the technology. This will launch them on a successful TEACHING experience and better student retention.

A web site comes with the book, but not all the references in the book are on the web site and some of the links on the site are broken.

Still for those of you thinking of teaching online, the book is written in a language that you can understand - one of teaching and learning.

Practical Information, Helpful tips and tricks.......2001-04-10

Finally a practical, useful book covering both the background materials and basic information needed to select a delivery system, develop a course, and conduct a class at a college level. Moore, Winograd and Lange combine to present materials that are not biased toward one publisher or delivery system. They share details on many of the major players in the field, and permit the reader to apply the the lessons learned to developing their own course to be delivered via F2F or distance education.

Emphasis is given to helping the faculty member personalize the online learning experience for the student. Various teaching styles are discussed and hints for applying web enhanced experiences are given.

Appropriate attention is given to the task of translating content of the course to an online mode. Hints and tips are included for creating syllabus, assingments, discussion questions and other tools that will increase interactivity. Once the course is "designed", they step the reader through many of the details and mechancis of actually converting the materials to online format.

Time is taken to help the reader realize that once the course is created, the real work is ready to begin. Implementation includes conducting the class utilizing the designed materials and making any modfications and/or changes that are necessary as the semester progresses. Tips include maintaining a schedule throughout the week, and providing rich, rapid feeback to the students. Evaluation techniques are discussed with the idea of being able to improve the course materials, format and schedule in the future.

This book provides a number of checklists and tables that will be valuable tools for the reader. The companion website is a valuable list of resources and hyperlinks that provide hours and hours of fun.

E-Learning as Next Killer Application.......2001-04-10

"You CAN Teach Online!" provides easy-to-follow examples of pedagogical techniques, and tools that will be useful for faculty interested in developing online courses in the traditional and online classrooms. Throughout the text, numerous technical drawings, charts, graphs, and photographs are displayed to illustrate the very latest in educational technology.

Just as every writer needs an editor, a field expert needs structure for building a good educational course.

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Most biological science departments run general skills courses for their first years, which include some combination of a range of topics from lab skills, writing and presentation to basic maths, statistics and IT. The IT section of these courses tend to include some internet coverage but the trend towards learning how to find, access, manage and correctly cite online resources is rapidly becoming a required necessity for every student throughout their undergraduate career.

At present, there are no internet guides that specifically target this audience, despite the increasing importance placed on the use of online resources and the difficulties students encounter trying to make effective use of the information that is available. There are a lot of resources on the internet and students, especially first years, can feel swamped. As well as needing a guide, students need support to help them identify good, reliable information on the net. They also need guidance in administering the organisation of their searches and the materials that they discover on the internet. This simple guide will help bioscience students to access the information they need on the internet, and to make the most efficient and effective use of their time online.

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The internet is becoming increasingly important as a reference tool, with many students using it as their first choice of resource material. However, as the scope of the internet grows, so does the need for a concise, accessible guide to help students access, manage and cirrectly cite online resource material. Biosciences on the Internet: A Student's Guide is aimed specifically at students in the biological sciences, providing them with practical information and support to help identify good, reliable information, and guidance in administering the organisation of their searches. This simple guide will help bioscience students to access the information they need on the internet and help to make the most efficient and effective use of their time online. Starting with an overview of the origins and history of the internet, subsequent chapters look at accessing relevant websites, how to record and organise material, how to recognise copyright and pagiarism issues and how to evaluate and navigate round websites. Information is also given on how to construct personal websites. This book will be invaluable to all undergraduate students within the biological sciences who are looking for a practical guide to using the internet in support of their course assignments. Biosciences on the Internet: A Student's Guide: is a friendly, comprehensive guide providing bioscience undergraduates with practical advice on sourcing, retrieving and utilising information on the internet includes numerous images and illustration to help students grasp key concepts and navigate successfully through the text offers a supplementary website, including relevant links.

Concepts of Genetics : Science on the Internet: A Student's Guide 1999

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Concepts of Genetics : Science on the Internet: A Student's Guide 1999
William S. Klug , and Michael R. Cummings
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Every Student's Guide To Life On The Net

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Every Student's Guide To Life On The Net
Keiko Pitter , John Callahan , Robert Minato , Sara Amato , and Greg Pitter
Manufacturer: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0072929774

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Pitter introduces the student of any discipline to: launching web browsers, using e-mail, doing research online, joining discussion groups, and how to create a web page.

Life on Earth : Life on the Internet Biology: A Student's Guide

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Life on Earth : Life on the Internet Biology: A Student's Guide
Teresa Audesirk
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Concepts of Genetics : Biology on the Internet: A Student's Guide 1997-1998

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Concepts of Genetics : Biology on the Internet: A Student's Guide 1997-1998
William S. Klug
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Concepts of Genetics, Biology of the Internet: A Student's Guide 1997-1998

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Concepts of Genetics, Biology of the Internet: A Student's Guide 1997-1998
William S. Klug
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Information Technology: The Breaking Wave : Every Student's Guide to Life on the Net

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Takes the mystery out of IT
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Information Technology: The Breaking Wave : Every Student's Guide to Life on the Net
Dennis P. Curtin , Kim Foley , Kunal Sen , and Cathleen Morin
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0076014886

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Information Technology: The Breaking Wave is intended for the Introductory Computing course at community colleges, four year colleges, universities, and proprietary institutions. The market for shorter concepts books, like Curtin, is growing as faculty struggle to spend more time on applications without increased contact hours.

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soloarma.......2003-03-13

I wontyou to sent me a books about information technology.
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Takes the mystery out of IT.......1999-12-07

If you're looking for one easy-to-read book with lots of illustrations that will de-mystsefy the world of Information Technology - this is it! I needed to know the jargon, basic principles and key issues for my job, and this book covers the gamut without getting too complicated for us non-geeks. You'll still have questions, but they'll be much more intelligent after reading this book. It's designed with students in mind, but since I am fairly new at this subject, that's a good thing since it reviews what's important.

Best I've Ever Seen.......1998-06-04

This is the best overall book on computers and technology that I've ever seen. It covers the basics simply and with great down-to-earth examples. The CD that accompanies the text includes the textual information, but also animations to explain difficult concepts. Even though it has questions and answers at the end of each chapter like a classroom text book, anyone using a computer should buy this one!

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The petroleum geologist and engineer must have a working knowledge of petrophysics in order to find oil reservoirs, devise the best plan for getting it out of the ground, then start drilling. This book offers the engineer and geologist a manual to accomplish these goals, providing much-needed calculations and formulas on fluid flow, rock properties, and many other topics that are encountered every day. New updated material covers topics that have emerged in the petrochemical industry since 1997.

* Contains information and calculations that the engineer or geologist must use in daily activities to find oil and devise a plan to get it out of the ground
* Filled with problems and solutions, perfect for use in undergraduate, graduate, or professional courses
* Covers real-life problems and cases for the practicing engineer

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Arguably the best book of short stories published in 2001, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, expertly translated by Peter Constantine, should affirm Babel's place among the top Russian short story writers. Like Chekhov, Isaac Babel primarily wrote odd, tightly wrung little stories in which he displays a variety of convincing styles and tones, with each piece having an immediacy and weight that exceeds its brevity.

Babel's writing life lasted approximately 20 years. (He was executed by Stalin after a few military subjects unflatteringly portrayed in his "Red Cavalry" stories gained positions of influence.) His most notable stories depict the Russian civil war and Jewish soldiers, his childhood, and Jewish thugs in his native Odessa. Often journalistic in style, his stories provided gripping war accounts to Russians eager for news from the front, as in this passage from "The Church in Novograd":

We drank rum, waiting for the military commissar, but he still hadn't come back from the headquarters. Romuald had collapsed in a corner and fallen asleep. He slept and quivered, while beyond the window an alley seeped into the garden beneath the black passion of the sky. Thirsting roses swayed in the darkness. Green lightning bolts blazed over the cupolas. A naked corpse lay on the embankment. And the rays of the moon streamed through the dead legs that are pointing upward. So this is Poland...

This collection is a delight for its organization: the stories are grouped by periods, feature introductions, and include helpful maps. The preface and afterward by his daughter and editor, Nathalie Babel, are insightful. Also included are two plays, several screenplays, a chronology, and an introduction by Cynthia Ozick. The Complete Works of Isaac Babel should be a welcome addition to readers of literature everywhere. --Michael Ferch

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"A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times

Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection…gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic, James Woods wrote that this groundbreaking volume "represents a triumph of translating, editing, and publishing. Beautiful to hold, scholarly and also popularly accessible, it is an enactment of love." Considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Babel has left his mark on a generation of readers and writers. This book will stand as Babel's final, most enduring legacy. Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award; A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times and Library Journal Best Book, a Washington Post Book World Rave, a Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year.

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eh.......2006-10-18

I just don't know, man . . . a solid writer (mostly), an enthusiastic writer (always), somewhat ahead of his time (in places), but I would stop WAY short of the commentators' seeming consensus that Babel stands alongside the matchless Franz Kafka. Notably, when reading many of Babel's "Benya Krik" anecdotes--which I deign not so grandiosely to classify as "stories"--I often found myself asking, "Huh? Where did that come from?" or, "But wasn't he just talking about Joe a minute ago?" or, "Who spoke that last sentence?" And a fellow who scored 12H+ on the standardized N.Y. state reading test at age seven has difficulty placing the blame in his own lectorial debilities: I also note that I can blaze through Kafka like it's a "Peanuts" cartoon.

Essential.......2005-12-12

Babel's output was relatively small. His reputation rests on his short stories, particularly the stories about his hometown of Odessa and the remarkable Red Cavalry sequence describing the Soviet invasion of Poland. This work is, nonetheless, a high point of 20th century literature. Babel was a great writer, putting more into short stories than many talented writers can put into whole novels. His descriptions of life under the Czar, seen particularly through the prism of Jewish gangsters in Odessa, are remarkably gripping accounts of a repressive society. The Red Cavalry sequence, a tour de force of vivid narration and psychological insight gets right to the heart of the brutality that characterized much of the 20th century.

A master storyteller.......2005-11-11

Babel is one of the great storytellers. The man who according to his description as recorded by Lionel Trilling had ' spectacles on his nose and autumn in his heart' was a pale Yeshiva- boy type thrust into the world of Cossack violence. He recorded that violence and the horror of it with chilling accuracy in his 'Red Cavalry' stories. More ebullient are the stories of the Odessa Jewish underworld and its Robin- Hood Benya Krik. Babel was a writer of the mot juste who grew up on Flaubert and Maupassant. He wrote and rewrote his stories, thirty or forty times. "No steel pierces the heart more poignantly than a period in the right place'.
The most memorable of his stories for me is one of his childhood 'For my Dovecoat' about the experiencing of a pogrom, the murder of a grandfather.
Babel has been celebrated by many of the most distinguished modern writers and critics. Deservedly so.
He is a true master.

Masterful.......2005-06-21

Babel is a masterful teller of short stories. His stories, most of which do not exceed a few pages, speak volumes about the extraordinary times in which he lived. For me, the most interesting aspect of Babel's writing is his ability to convey how the onset of Soviet power changed everything--and yet changed nothing (ie, the cossacks of the Red Army seeking to spread world communist revolution in Poland, and simultaneously reprising past cossack wars and pogroms in the region). Babel lived in a fascinating, uncertain time, and his vivid diaries describe the Red Army's exhilaration as they sweep westward into Poland--seemingly as the vanguard of a world revolution--and their confusion and dejection as the Polish pans push them back.

This book was too intense and too homogeneous for me to read all at once: many of Babel's stories feature the same themes (chiefly Jewish life and red cavalry) and after a few hundred pages a definite sense of deja vu sets in as Babel reworks various characters, scenes, etc. Nonetheless, a fantastic book to read in smaller chunks.

ONE OF VERY FEW.......2002-08-31

There were only a few Soviet writers who tried to tell the story exactly how it happened and Isaac Babel was on of these very few bright and brave men. His work deserves to be known, remembered, and the highest points.

Isaac Babel's genre of silence. (Books). (book review): An article from: New Criterion

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Isaac Babel's genre of silence. (Books). (book review): An article from: New Criterion
Gary Saul Morson
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2716 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Isaac Babel's genre of silence. (Books). (book review)
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Date: January 1, 2002
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