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This book reviews current research on the nature of high quality learning and the factors that facilitate or inhibit it. The book addresses relationships between quality of learning and learners' dispositions, teaching methods, cognitive strategies, assessment, and technologies that can support learning.

Written by an award-winning teacher, How to Succeed in College (While Really Trying) provides much-needed help to students, offering practical tips and specific study strategies that will equip them to excel in their new environment.

This book provides special and general education teachers the practical steps for preventing and responding to the various phases of meltdown behavior in students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

This book provides a pragmatic, easy-to-follow blueprint for Positive Behavior Support Systems implementation that integrates academics, instruction, and achievement with discipline, behavior management, and student self-management.

This innovative book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. It also examines how we define environmental problems and decide what actions to take with regards to the natural world.

This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people--peasants, fishermen, textile workers--in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light on the socially marginalized.

Sean F. McEnroe reconsiders what it meant to be an Indian vassal, nobleman, soldier, or citizen over three centuries in northeastern Mexico. He argues that the Mexican municipality, state, and citizen were not so much the sudden creations of a revolutionary age as the progeny of a mature multiethnic empire.

This text offers a clear and concise narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy since the Spanish-American War. Special attention is given to the controversial issues and contrasting views that surround major wars and foreign policy decisions that the United States has made from 1895 to the present.

Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports.

The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors while also including less familiar figures as well.

The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel considers the development of the novel in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression, the author gives an original new structure to the field, organizing it through three broad thematic clusters—identity, community and history.

This book provides essential information about Garcia Marquez's life and career, his published work in literature and journalism, and his political engagement. It connects the fiction effectively to the writer's own experience and explains his enduring importance in world literature.

A Student Grammar of German is an invaluable reference guide for undergraduates and other intermediate and advanced students. Written with the needs of the learner very much in mind, it sets out the grammar of the language in as clear and jargon-free way as possible.

Combining rigorous philosophical analysis with a deep knowledge of law, this study of agreements illuminates legal doctrine by philosophical theory and vice versa.

This volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability.

This book offers a dynamic theory of law and economics focused on change over time, aimed at avoiding significant systemic risks, and implemented through a systematic analysis of law's economic incentives and how people actually respond the them.

The law of the sea is a complex and fascinating subject. This textbook explores the subject from the perspective of public international law, covering all the key topics from the legal regimes governing the different jurisdictional zones, to international co-operation for protection of the marine environment.

By tracing the way in which the CJEU and national courts react to legislation and Treaty reform, and the way in which the Member States, Commission and other actors in the legislative process react to judicial interventions, this collection of essays explores the nature of the dynamic relationship between courts and legislatures within the EU.

This book brings together, in a single volume, contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development.

Destined to becoming the definitive collection of essays on Loving v. Virginia, this book offers deep insights about race and civil rights in the twenty-first century.

Despite the disappointing results of fifty years of judicial reform, evidence from Asia suggests that a shift in justice reform efforts could result in important progress being made. The author argues that reform should focus on promoting fairness and equity, as opposed to economic growth and good governance.

This volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms, and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide, illuminating the diverse paths of influence.

This book examines whether WTO laws possess the necessary flexibility and resilience to accommodate the changes brought about by burgeoning digital trade.

When States Go Broke collects insights and analysis from leading academics and practitioners that discuss the ongoing fiscal crisis among the American states.

Larry May examines the normative principles which should govern post-war practices such as reparations, restitution, reconciliation, retribution, rebuilding, proportionality and the Responsibility to Protect.

This second volume of The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy provides a comprehensive overview of Jewish philosophy from the seventeenth century to the present day.

This classic text, with a reputation for accessibility and readability, has been revised and updated to make learning design concepts even easier. Roger E. Kirk shows how three simple experimental designs can be combined to form a variety of complex designs.

Charles C. Camosy offers this valuable book for those who are interested in fresh thinking about the relationship between religious and secular ethics.

Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics.

Although populism has become something of a buzzword in discussions about politics, it tends to be studied by country or region. This is the first book to offer a genuine cross-regional perspective on populism and its impact on democracy.

Since Russia has re-emerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by which Russia's international relations are determined.

Adding a dimension to our knowledge of the world of science in nineteenth-century Germany, Denise Phillips draws deeply and effectively on the wider social and cultural history of the German states in order to illuminate the cultural environment in which the concept, institutions, and practices of modern science emerged.

Written by many of the world's leading experts on the 'fearfully great' reptiles, this book's 45 chapters cover what we have learned about dinosaurs, from the earliest discoveries of dinosaurs to the most recent controversies.

This is a modern textbook for courses in continuum mechanics. It provides both the theoretical frame work and the numerical methods required to model the behavior of continuous materials.

This accessible text on classical celestial mechanics, the principles governing the motions of bodies in the Solar System, provides a clear and concise treatment of virtually all of the major features of solar system dynamics.

Page Keeley provides an indispensable set of tools to help teachers, coaches, and other curriculum leaders strengthen and improve content and pedagogical knowledge of mathematics in a variety of professional development opportunities.

Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth-Century Britain steers away from the traditional explanations of measurement reliability based on the standardization and centralization of metrology; the focus is on changing measurement practices in local economic contexts.

With Statistics: A Gentle Introduction, an introductory stats class needn't be difficult or dull! This textbook has been specifically designed to curtail students' anxieties and minimize unnecessary formulas, while providing a comprehensive review of basic statistical designs and analyses.

Manuel Llorca-Jana explores the marketing chain of textile exports to South American, and sheds light on South Americans' consumer behavior.

This text is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to child maltreatment by disseminating current knowledge about the various types of violence against children.

This book examines the gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside and how it became one of China's most intractable problems.

Foreign Aid in South Asia examines the individual South Asian country experience in dealing with foreign aid.

We are in a crucial juncture in the evolution of business and the economy. In this book, Jay Lorsch has gathered thought leaders and some of the most experienced voices at Harvard Business School to describe this moment we're in and to identify and analyze the salient issues, and chart a course for the future.

Marketplace Lifestyles in an Age of Social Media is exceptionally current and shows how recent trends and developments in social media reflect the importance of lifestyle research in marketing.

In Operation Fly Trap, Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this 2003 FBI-led task force operation and the methods to conduct it.

This is a fully updated version of the first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Herbert Klein analyzes the basic demographic trends in the growth of the preconquest, colonial, and national populations.

In Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles, Andrew Deener invites the reader on an ethnographic tour of this legendary California beach community and the people who live there.

The lives and aspirations of young Chinese have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points--1968, 1988, and 2008--this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots.

Divided into six chapters, Compact Multifunctional Antennas for Wireless Systems encompasses both the active and passive multifunctional antennas and components for microwave systems. It provides a systematic, valuable reference for antenna/microwave researchers and designers.