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This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in global issues through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The Taking Sides readers feature annotated listings of selected World Wide Web sites. Taking Sides is supported by our student website, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/).
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Read it only if you must.......2007-06-22
I had to read this for a class and just looking at the cover makes me ill. The topics are timely but the material is outdated.
Taking Sides.......2006-03-01
This book is full of great views pertaining to both sides of global issues. By having both opinions and views and facts used in this book you can make your own choices on what you belive to be fact and what our future holds concering overpopulation, global warming, and shortages of food. It is making my global class easier to follow and helps me define my opinions before discussion in class.
Thank you for your quick (sooner than expected) delivery. It was in time for class.
DW
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Global Human Rights
Linda Butenhoff
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This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversial issues in human rights around the world. The paired pro and con readings, represent a variety of viewpoints from politicians, statesmen, scholars, activists, political scientists, and other experts in the field. By requiring students to analyze opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgments, Taking Sides actively develops discipline-specific critical thinking skills. For additional support for this title, visit our student website: www.dushkin.com/online
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Coaching for Meaning: The Culture and Practice of Coaching and Team Building
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This book's focus is on the concept of the leader as a bearer of meaning and purpose within the organization, and the significance of this for coaching and team-building. The author presents tools for the development of managers as coaches and models for how to achieve this. For a manager, coaching is a practice and a philosophy. This is a seminal work on coaching and team building in relation to the culture of the company, the board and the individual, written by a leading practitioner.
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Lattice Boltzmann models have a remarkable ability to simulate single- and multi-phase fluids and transport processes within them. A rich variety of behaviors, including higher Reynolds numbers flows, phase separation, evaporation, condensation, cavitation, buoyancy, and interactions with surfaces can readily be simulated. This book provides a basic introduction that emphasizes intuition and simplistic conceptualization of processes. It avoids the more difficult mathematics that underlies LB models. The model is viewed from a particle perspective where collisions, streaming, and particle-particle/particle-surface interactions constitute the entire conceptual framework. Beginners and those with more interest in model application than detailed mathematical foundations will find this a powerful "quick start" guide. Example simulations, exercises, and computer codes are included. Working code is provided on the Internet.
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Introduction to Soil Physics
Daniel Hillel
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This book is a unified, condensed, and simplified version of the recently issued twin volumes,
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An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds
Calvin W. Rose
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This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the sustainable, productive use of land resources vital in maintaining healthy rivers and good groundwater qualities. Calvin Rose develops a quantitative approach to studying these growing environmental concerns and makes the textbook suitable for introductory university courses, as well as a useful primer for research and management staff in environmental organizations. Each chapter ends with a set of student exercises for which solutions are available from solutions@cambridge.org.
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Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics
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An abridged, student-oriented edition of Hillel's earlier published Environmental Soil Physics, this is a more succinct elucidation of the physical principles and processes governing the behavior of soil and the vital role it plays in both natural and managed ecosystems. The textbook is self-contained and self-explanatory, with numerous illustrations and sample problems. Based on sound fundamental theory, the textbook leads to a practical consideration of soil as a living system in nature and illustrates the influences of human activity upon soil structure and function. Students, as well as other readers, will better understand the importance of soils and the pivotal possition they occupy with respect to careful and knowledgeable conservation.
* Written in an engaging and clear style, posing and resolving issues relevant to the terrestrial environment.
* Explores the gamut of the interactions among the phases in the soil and the dynamic interconnection of the soil with the subterranean and atmospheric domains.
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* Includes numerous illustrative exercises, which are explicitly solved.
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Introduction to Soil Physics
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This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in agricultural and environmental sciences describes soil physical properties in relation to plant growth and environmental quality. It explores global issues related to sustainable management of soil physical properties in regards to food security and environmental quality. Organized into three sections, part one discusses soil physical properties in relation to plant growth and environmental quality. It presents the description, dynamics, and measurement of key edaphological properties. The part two covers principles of management of soil physical properties including tillage methods, irrigation, and drainage. The book concludes by addressing two important environmental issues: water quality and the greenhouse effect.
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This collection of fifty-one fascinating and engaging activities opens up the gateway to outer space for stargazers young and old.
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Discovering Astronomy Activities Manual
Shawl
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Discovering Astronomy/Teachers Manual and Activity Book
Madalin E. Jackson
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Discovering Astronomy/With Activities Manual
R. Robert Robbins
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Not worth the money.......1999-12-15
The book was poorly writen, often repeating the same idea multiple times within a paragraph, making the material harder to understand due to sentice structure and unrelated tangents. While this book is required for some classes, if you can get by without it, do so. Perhaps they will write a better one soon.
new edition coming.......1999-03-26
A new edition will appear in summer 1999. The book has a new publisher, Kendall/Hunt.
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