Quick, easy, specific steps that make a difference in teachingand learning Busy school leaders need an easy-to-apply resource to increaseteacher effectiveness quickly and efficiently. This book showsprincipals and staff developers how to improve teaching school-widethrough high-impact inservices lasting only tenminutes--incorporated easily into weekly staff meetings.Written by popular education consultants

Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund, made many original contributions to psychoanalytic theory and child development, and yet much of her work remains relatively unknown. In this book, Rose Edgcumbe seeks to redress the situation. Taking a fresh look at Anna Freud\'s theories and techniques from a clinical and critical viewpoint, and the controversy they caused, she highlights how Anna Freud\'s work is

A complete beginning-level course for written Mandarin Chinese designed to teach you to read and write Mandarin quickly and efficiently! The Basic Mandarin Chinese series offers a complete introductory course superior to any other language product for Chinese. These books teach spoken and written Chinese separately, allowing you to focus on the area most important to you, and to learn the spoken and

A practical guide to office politics, including step-by-step advice on how to navigate difficult situations, work out who is doing what and why, and keep cool under pressure. All workplaces are affected by the intrigues of office politics. Survive Office Politics is full of practical advice on how to cope with difficult situations and people and get on with your job. This book offers practical help

As a junior doctor starting a surgery or urology rotation, you are expected to take charge of referrals from - and give specialist advice to - A&E, GPs and other specialties. Often you will have had very limited surgical experience and only an off-site registrar for support. This pocket-sized book provides a quick, reliable reference guide for the initial management of the common surgical referrals,

Escrita por primera vez hace 20 aos por una de las autoridades ms reconocidas en medicina preventiva, el Dr. David Katz, Nutricin mdica es el libro que todo mdico y profesional de la salud de cualquier nivel necesita para ofrecer a sus pacientes un asesoramiento nutricional eficaz. Tambin ofrece la opcin, al estudiante de medicina, al especialista en formacin y al mdico internista, de conocer a fondo

From European favourites such as Mastichato Chios, which saved 2,000 Greeks from a bloody massacre at the hands of vengeful Turks, to legendary drinks such as Amarula, invented by African elephants; from classic cocktail ingredients like Midori, the bright green Japanese melon drink launched at the wrap party for Saturday Night Fever at Studio 54, to student stalwart Jagermeister, dreamt up by a confidant

A Tour of Data Science: Learn R and Python in Parallel covers the fundamentals of data science, including programming, statistics, optimization, and machine learning in a single short book. It does not cover everything, but rather, teaches the key concepts and topics in Data Science. It also covers two of the most popular programming languages used in Data Science, R and Python, in one source.Key features:

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of \"Villette\", achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward

The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the latest climate research The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval

This book offers a state-of-the-art, evidence-based reference to all aspects of veterinary cytology. Truly multidisciplinary in its approach, chapters are written by experts in fields ranging from clinical pathology to internal medicine, surgery, ophthalmology, and dermatology, drawing the various specialties together to create a comprehensive picture of cytology\'s role in diagnosis and treatment

Build your child\'s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Mary Anning was one of the greatest fossil hunters in history. Find out how Mary\'s life changed when she found an enormous fossil on her local beach, and how her discoveries transformed the way we think about life on

Did you know there\'s a single spot on your brain that recognizes numbers? Or that the first computer bugs were actual insects and that most of the internet is under water? This fascinating book is filled with 100 fascinating facts, bright, infographic illustrations, a glossary and index and links to specially selected websites to find out

The brand new DRAKE SISTERS book from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Christine

In this best-selling, heartwarming tale, a lonely older man takes home a pet-shop kitten that no one else wants. It doesn\'t take long for the pair to warm up to each other, and soon, they\'re inseparable. Told through the eyes of both the man and his cat, this sweet and hilarious story is a balm for the soul! The fur flies when Mr. Kanda\'s surly son, Hoshinari, turns up, only to add to the ever-growing

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Steve Craig is in one hell of a mess. Being accused of murder is bad enough, but the local police are convinced he s killed his own father. Alfred Hitchcock couldn t have conceived a more diabolical plot for Cary Grant . . . and now, for Steve Craig, the plot is about to get down and dirty. Steve s safe from the cops as long as he stays aboard his Navy ship but the word safe isn

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its forest cover to agriculture and urbanization, and has the highest rates of deforestation and logging in the tropics. Habitat loss, coupled with hunting and the relentless trade in wildlife products, threatens all its large

Surveys reveal that most corporations devote considerable resources to risk management. However, while the multiple benefits of enterprise risk management (ERM) are evident, many executives remain unsure how to approach it. Written by two experts on the topic, Empowered Enterprise Risk Management offers organisations a set of tools for implementing the proven holistic risk management practices that

One of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement, was mile Zola (1840-1902). He was the most important example of the literary genre of naturalism, and an integral part of developing theatrical naturalism. \"The Kill\" is the second book in Zola\'s \"Les Rougon-Macquart\", a twenty-volume series about a fictional

Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. As they absorbed the brutal new realities of German occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the