Learning from Wolves

The Teach for America program recruits high-performing recent college graduates as new teachers to “turn around” low-income, largely minority inner-city schools. It has been idolized and criticized. T

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.

“I wouldn’t trade my life for anyone else’s. If I could choose not to have cancer, and continue my life as it was, I wouldn’t do it.” – Matt Gauger.You’re twenty-two, in love, and just starting a care

The fields of tort and crime have much in common in practice, particularly in how they both try to respond to wrongs and regulate future behaviour. Despite this commonality in fact, fascinating difficulties have hitherto not been resolved about how legal systems co-ordinate (or leave wild) the border between tort and crime. What is the purpose of tort law and criminal law, and how do you tell the difference between them? Do criminal lawyers and civil lawyers reason and argue in the same way? Are the rules on capacity, consent, fault, causation, secondary liability or defences the same in tort as in crime? How do the rules of procedure operate for each area? Are there points of overlap? When, how and why do tort and crime interact? This volume systematically answers these and other questions for eight legal systems: England, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, the Netherlands and Australia.

Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. W

A new renaissance of the twenty-first century is emerging in architecture. After living with air conditioning and oversized mechanical systems in buildings characterized by high energy demand, low qua

A new renaissance of the twenty-first century is emerging in architecture. After living with air conditioning and oversized mechanical systems in buildings characterized by high energy demand, low qua

This book posits the idea that networked learning is the one new paradigm in learning theory that has resulted from the introduction of digital and networked technologies. It sets out, in a single vol

How many more lies can there be? Prepare to be intrigued—and maybe a little outraged. In this captivating follow-up to Lies About Learning (2006), workplace learning veteran Larry Israelite sets out

This book presents a pioneering longitudinal study on English language instruction at the elementary school (ELES) level in the Japanese public school system. It attempts to identify those domains mos

Learning from awardwinning practice. Assessment is an area of intense growing interest in higher education and as a result of its centrality to student learning has become a central part of the curric

Learning from awardwinning practice. Assessment is an area of intense growing interest in higher education and as a result of its centrality to student learning has become a central part of the curric

An intimate, surprising look at man’s best friend and what theleading philosophies of dog training teach us about ourselves.

History teaches us that the exploitation of natural resources and the transformation of the environment are necessary steps towards achieving long-term improvements in living conditions in all societi

"When we value kids' writing enough to use it to teach other kids, all kids grow into stronger writers. Thanks, Lisa, for writing this important book. I needed it, teachers need it, and the f

What does online community look like in the age of social networking? How do participatory culture platforms reflect both their designers’ intentions and the desires of their users? In this incisive a

While the phrase “learning communities” has various definitions, at the heart of all programs is the goal of enhancing the student learning experience in the community of others.This volume provides v

Drawing lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has fail

Drawing lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has fail

This study investigates the participatory culture on the link/news-sharing platform reddit, the politics of participatory culture platforms, and the tensions and contradictions in the community. It co

After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury, New Zealand on September 4, 2010, the news media were quick to report, with understandable relief, that no lives had been lost. In fact, this

Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children’s literature. Being highly complex aesthetic products, t

A chronologically organized child development text that provides unique and engaging Active Learning opportunities for students.

This book provides a comprehensive description of activity learning with techniques, details on existing algorithms, and case studies of technique applications to sensor datasets. Each chapter is cons

This book has been written for the purpose of preparing children for a lifetime of learning. Durham does this with the five essential skills: Logic, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Investigating,

This book has been written for the purpose of preparing children for a lifetime of learning. Durham does this with the five essential skills: Logic, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Investigating,

From the Foreword by Brian Croft: Kyle McClellan has gone into a church "with guns blazing" and he was quickly fired. He has experienced the disappointment of unmet expectations and left because of t

This book comprises a set of articles that specify the methodology of text mining, describe the creation of lexical resources in the framework of text mining and use text mining for various tasks in n

This book presents the theory of integrating implification and it provides a profound evidence based study of Buurtzorg Nederland. The case itself, forming the building block of the theory, has receiv

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carl

If you could spend a few minutes with the giants of faith in the Old Testament in person, what lessons would they share with you? In LEARNING FROM THE GIANTS John C. Maxwell draws on fifty years of st

It's the height of summer, 1999, when a local newspaper receives numerous tipoffs from anonymous callers warning of violence, weapons stockpiling and rampant child abuse at the nearby homeschool, and

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.

Almost every day, one of Amy Julia’s children says something or asks something that prompts her to think more carefully: “What ‘lasting’ mean?” William wonders when he hears a song about God being an

The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educa