Through future based scenarios, this text presents strategies to encourage creativity, improve communication and writing skills, and improve problem solving techniques.
For fans of one of the biggest sensations in popular music today--this is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Barenaked Ladies, the Canadian quintet who managed to build a top-of-the-charts career in music with catchy songs, sold-out live performances, and genuine affection for their legions of fans.
The first in the readers' series called "Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy", "Knowledge Management and Organizational Design" is a unique compilation of articles and book excerpts that describe how the management of an organization shapes the levels of knowledge transfer, innovation and learning. The collection draws on fifty years of ...
This is an illustrated biography of the American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Despite international fame and success, he was a man constantly struggling with inner conflicts. The best loved and most successful conductor of his generation, also a virtuoso pianist, he was adored by an international public, but suffered years of hostile ...
Long John Baldry is considered the father of the '60s British blues movement. Drawing on intimate anecdotes from Baldry's legendary friends, lovers, and peers, author Paul Myers uncovers the man behind the mythic persona. An entire generation of British rock legends flourished under Baldry's tutelage, and "It Ain't Easy" features exclusive ...
Get your students thinking with maths. Are you looking for a sure-fire way of stimulating students to learn? Then look to Cognitive Connections for maths activities to emphasise your students' experiences and talents. Use effective strategies for teaching thinking skills by engaging your students in activities that focus on maths concepts. ...
A collection of letters and drawings sent by children to the people of Oklahoma City offering support and comfort after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
This work discusses innovative ways in which public mental health systems and academic training programmes can collaborate to improve clinical training for those who work with the neglected populations of seriously mentally ill adults, emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, and others.
The study of the geographical distribution of organisms is truly multi-disciplinary. Unfortunately, however, this has often led to a fragmentation of the subject rather than unity. This book provides a balanced overview of this important area of study, written by a team of distinguished experts from such disciplines as botany, ecology, genetics, ...
Describing colorful people, bold journeys, and a mystery, this story of the Spanish voyages of discovery to California is both educational and entertaining.
From landing in Havana, hoofing it all the way down to Trinidad and back in a rented Mexican built Nissan (with special insurance on the tyres in case they get stolen by raft builders), the author vividly describes his hellish time in the Caribbean's biggest island nation during Fidel Castro's 'Special Period'. Compared to Bill Bryson, this is a ...
As creative writing programs, beginning in the '70s, multiplied, poetry criticism became increasingly chummy, little more than a promotional sideshow. Still, some poets (and the best critics of poetry have always been poets) have always written, against the popular tide, independent, honest, and challenging essays and reviews. Here are fifteen ...
This collection of essays, based on a conference at the Hoover Institution, compares the governmental policies and institutional determinants of economic development for sixteen countries within the context of Western economic development and national trends in the world economy. The study also includes an essay by Amartya Sen that examines the ...
This book covers the proceedings of a seminar held on 14-15 February 1995. The first section of these proceedings groups together papers concerned with processes of disturbance and recovery, both natural (floods, grazing competition from introduced species) and artificial (pollution, deforestation, aquaculture). The second section of the ...
A bear, a fox, a skunk, and a racoon find and play musical instruments in the woods but the other animals find them too loud. So they meet at the lake, play louder, and all dance in the moonlight.
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