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Learning to Lead

A Handbook for Postsecondary Administrators

By: James R. Davis

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Learning to Lead

A Handbook for Postsecondary Administrators

By: James R. Davis

The book also addresses the needs of those who facilitate leadership workshops, serve as mentors to potential leaders, and teach courses on higher education leadership and administration. While presenting all sides of key issues, the author calls for the reader to define his or her own position through a series of provocative questions in "Reflection" sections scattered throughout each chapter. Thus the book invites interaction and teaches administrators not what to think about leadership, but how to think about it."--Jacket.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1573564974

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9781573564977

Pioneer Stories from the Buffalo Trace [Vol. II]

By: James R. Columbia

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Pioneer Stories from the Buffalo Trace [Vol. II]

By: James R. Columbia

This volume is part of a two-volume set that contains over 1,000 local and national articles, from historical newspapers and other publications, relating to the pioneer history of the area of northeastern Kentucky known as the "Buffalo Trace," including the counties of Mason, Bracken, Fleming, Robertson and Lewis, and the adjacent Ohio counties of Adams and Brown.

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382

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Lulu.com

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1387496727

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9781387496723

The Real Custer

From Boy General to Tragic Hero

By: James S. Robbins

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The Real Custer

From Boy General to Tragic Hero

By: James S. Robbins

The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer—from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated last in his class at West Point, went on to prove himself again and again as an extremely skilled cavalry leader. Robbins argues that Custer's undoing was his bold and cocky attitude, which caused the Army's bloodiest defeat in the Indian Wars. Robbins also dives into Custer’s personal life, exploring his letters and other personal documents to reveal who he was as a person, underneath the military leader. The Real Custer is an exciting and valuable contribution to the legend and history of Custer that will delight Custer fans as well as readers new to the legend.

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349

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Simon and Schuster

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1621572366

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9781621572367

Mosaics in the Medieval World

From Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century

By: Liz James

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Mosaics in the Medieval World

From Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century

By: Liz James

In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of medieval mosaics.

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1748

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Cambridge University Press

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1108508596

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9781108508599

Deadhead Miles

By: Katie Jones,Joseph Rubas,James Venn,Martin Slag,Walter Conley,Michael Braken,D. Cedar,Sergio Palimbo,Joseph A. Voegele,Jason R. Davis,Willy Adkins,Joey Webb

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Deadhead Miles

By: Katie Jones,Joseph Rubas,James Venn,Martin Slag,Walter Conley,Michael Braken,D. Cedar,Sergio Palimbo,Joseph A. Voegele,Jason R. Davis,Willy Adkins,Joey Webb

Highway terror as these pages are filled for horror on the road.

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209

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Breaking Fate Publishing

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0615928803

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9780615928807

Managing Your Own Learning

By: James R. Davis,Adelaide B. Davis

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Managing Your Own Learning

By: James R. Davis,Adelaide B. Davis

As the pace of change in the workplace continues to accelerate, individuals are under more pressure to learn new things than ever before. While most people realize they have more to learn, many have trouble translating that anxious need into purposeful action. Managing Your Own Learning demonstrates how to analyze previous learning, design an action plan for future learning, expand opportunities for learning, and use libraries and the Internet effectively to become a lifelong learner. James and Adelaide Davis detail seven major ways of learning: learning new skills, learning from presentations, learning to think, learning to solve problems and make decisions, learning in groups, learning through virtual realities, and learning from experience. They also provide useful guidelines for maximizing results by becoming an effective, active participant in learning. They explain, for example, how learning in a group can be enhanced by knowing how a group works and considering factors such as group size, cohesion, task and process behavior, and participant roles, as well as the things that can go wrong in groups, such as conflict and apathy. For each of the seven ways of learning, the authors tell what is unique about it, how learning actually takes place, and how it can be augmented in each situation. They reveal how the theory behind each way of learning originated, what researchers have learned about it, and what the individual's role is as a participant. And at the end of each chapter, they include a list of ten things that anyone can do to get the most from that particular type of learning. No matter what our previous experiences with learning may have been, we all must become self-directed learners if we are to succeed in this new era. Managing Your Own Learning provides step-by-step, proven advice on how to succeed in the 21st century workplace by becoming a proactive, goal-directed, perpetual learner.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1576750671

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9781576750674

Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success

By: Daniel M. Perna,James R. Davis

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Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success

By: Daniel M. Perna,James R. Davis

The authors have designed a process that respects the teacher′s professionalism and works to collaborate with stakeholders in a discussion about standards and possible educational outcomes without becoming mechanical." -From the Foreword by Fenwick W. English Create a standards-based instructional plan that works! In recent years, educational reform has required standards-based instruction and high levels of accountability from schools. To cope with an overcrowded and often overwhelming curriculum, educators need a way to meet the challenge of translating standards into effective teaching and learning. Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success provides teachers with the tools and strategies they need to plan instruction that meets state and national standards. This updated, revised edition includes the latest research about standards and curriculum design, expanded coverage of the development of criterion standards, increased attention to assessment, and new sample instructional plans. It also features: A structured dialogue process to help stakeholders reach consensus about what students should learn Step-by-step directions for developing criterion standards Guidelines for designing instructional plans based on standards Strategies for using standards to integrate the curriculum Examples of standards-based instructional plans for different content areas, courses, and grade levels A framework for ensuring that teachers evaluate students consistently and with continuity throughout a school or district Providing high-quality instruction and ensuring student achievement in a standards-driven system is a challenge for all educators. This guide offers all the tools needed to successfully align standards to lesson planning.

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145

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Corwin Press

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1483360083

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9781483360089

The Teaching of Psychology

Essays in Honor of Wilbert J. McKeachie and Charles L. Brewer

By: Wilbert James McKeachie,Charles L. Brewer

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The Teaching of Psychology

Essays in Honor of Wilbert J. McKeachie and Charles L. Brewer

By: Wilbert James McKeachie,Charles L. Brewer

The book's goal is to provide coverage & analysis of the basic philosophies, current trends, and basic mechanics related to effective teaching in psych. It will be centered around the work of Wilbert McKeachie and Charles Brewer.

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Taylor & Francis

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0805839534

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9780805839531

Encyclopedia of Microcomputers

Volume 22 - Supplement 1 - Applications of Negotiating and Learning Agents to User Query Performance with Database Feedback

By: Allen Kent,James G. Williams

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Encyclopedia of Microcomputers

Volume 22 - Supplement 1 - Applications of Negotiating and Learning Agents to User Query Performance with Database Feedback

By: Allen Kent,James G. Williams

Applications of Negotiating and Learning Agents to User Query Performance with Database Feedback

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CRC Press

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0824727193

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9780824727192

The Need for Rapid Deployment Is Now

Boots on the Ground

By: James R. Davis

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The Need for Rapid Deployment Is Now

Boots on the Ground

By: James R. Davis

One of the most misquoted scriptures in the Bible that have given rise to the need for rapid deployment is now is Deuteronomy 32:30. This text has been changed to reflect a momentary burst of enthusiasm, motivation, and boldness. However, this text is not a declarative but an interrogative statement. It asks a question: "How can one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight unless their rock had sold them and the Lord had given them up?" This is a question that needs an answer. I believe Leviticus 26:7-8 will speak to this need of our collective effort, working together toward a single goal: to enlarge the kingdom of God. "And you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before by the sword.... Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will put ten thousand to flight; your enemies will fall before you by the sword." The need for rapid deployment is now.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1639039961

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9781639039968

Fortune's Warriors

Private Armies and the New World Order

By: James R. Davis

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Fortune's Warriors

Private Armies and the New World Order

By: James R. Davis

From the jungles of west Africa to the killing fields of the former Yugoslavia, wherever the next global hotspot flares into action, the private military waits, ready to step into the fray. Once they were known as "soldiers of fortune." Now, they call themselves "military advisors." The honourable history of soldiers-for-hire clashes with the modern distaste for "mercenaries." In this compelling and controversial new book, James Davis reveals the shadowy inside world of the multi-billion-dollar international security industry.

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D & M Publishers

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1926706609

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9781926706603

Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning

A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching

By: James R. Davis,Bridget D. Arend

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Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning

A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching

By: James R. Davis,Bridget D. Arend

For teachers in higher education who haven’t been able to catch up with developments in teaching and learning, James Davis and Bridget Arend offer an introduction that focuses on seven coherent and proven evidence-based strategies. The underlying rationale is to provide a framework to match teaching goals to distinct ways of learning, based on well-established theories of learning. The authors present approaches that readers can readily and safely experiment with to achieve desired learning outcomes, and build confidence in changing their methods of teaching.Research on learning clearly demonstrates that learning is not one thing, but many. The learning associated with developing a skill is different from the learning associated with understanding and remembering information, which in turn is different from thinking critically and creatively, solving problems, making decisions, or change paradigms in the light of evidence. Differing outcomes involve different ways of learning and teaching strategies.The authors provide the reader with a conceptual approach for selecting appropriate teaching strategies for different types of content, and for achieving specific learning objectives. They demonstrate through examples how a focused and purposeful selection of activities improves student performance, and in the process makes for a more effective and satisfying teaching experience.The core of the book presents a chapter on each of the seven ways of learning. Each chapter offers a full description of the process, illustrates its application with examples from different academic fields and types of institutions, clearly describes the teacher’s facilitation role, and covers assessment and online use.The seven ways of learning are: Behavioral Learning; Cognitive Learning; Learning through Inquiry; Learning with Mental Models; Learning through Groups and Teams; Learning through Virtual Realities; and Experiential Learning.Along the way, the authors provide the reader with a basis for evaluating other approaches to teaching and other learning methodologies so that she or he can confidently go beyond the “seven ways” to adapt or adopt further strategies. This is the ideal companion for teachers who are beginning to explore new ways of teaching, and want to do some serious independent thinking about learning. The book can also be used to prepare graduate students for teaching, and will be welcomed by centers for teaching and learning to help continuing faculty re-examine a particular aspect of their teaching.

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198

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Taylor & Francis

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1000979571

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9781000979572

High Energy Astrophysics

Models and Observations from MeV to EeV

By: James Matthews

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High Energy Astrophysics

Models and Observations from MeV to EeV

By: James Matthews

This book is a collection of comprehensive reviews on astrophysics at the highest energies. It puts together, for the first time, discussions of astrophysics from MeV to EeV energies and beyond. Observations at these energies reveal nuclear and particle physics throughout our galaxy as well as in the most extreme environments in the entire cosmos. These reports range from the recent spectacular results from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, including the latest information on enigmatic gamma ray bursts, to cosmic rays at the highest energies ever observed by man.

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World Scientific

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9810216807

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9789810216801

Structures and Properties of Rubberlike Networks

By: Burak Erman,James E. Mark

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Structures and Properties of Rubberlike Networks

By: Burak Erman,James E. Mark

Rubber elasticity is an important sub-field of polymer science. This book is in many ways a sequel to the authors' previous, more introductory book, Rubberlike Elasticity: A Molecular Primer (Wiley-Interscience, 1988), and will in some respects replace the now classic book by L.R.G. Treloar, The Physics of Rubber Elasticity (Oxford, 1975). The present book has much in common with its predecessor, in particular its strong emphasis on molecular concepts and theories. Similarly, only equilibrium properties are covered in any detail. Though this book treats much of the same subject matter, it is a more comprehensive, more up-to-date, and somewhat more sophisticated treatment.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195082370

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9780195082371

Commentaries on American Law

Vol. 2

By: James Kent

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Commentaries on American Law

Vol. 2

By: James Kent

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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3368742035

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9783368742034

Pioneer History of Milwaukee

Vol. IV

By: James Smith Buck

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Pioneer History of Milwaukee

Vol. IV

By: James Smith Buck

Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.

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3385472652

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Learning to Lead

Learning to Lead

Pioneer Stories from the Buffalo Trace [Vol. II]

Pioneer Stories from the Buffalo Trace [Vol. II]

The Real Custer

The Real Custer

Mosaics in the Medieval World

Mosaics in the Medieval World

Deadhead Miles

Deadhead Miles

Managing Your Own Learning

Managing Your Own Learning

Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success

Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success

The Teaching of Psychology

The Teaching of Psychology

Encyclopedia of Microcomputers

Encyclopedia of Microcomputers

The Need for Rapid Deployment Is Now

The Need for Rapid Deployment Is Now

Fortune's Warriors

Fortune's Warriors

Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning

Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning

High Energy Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysics

Structures and Properties of Rubberlike Networks

Structures and Properties of Rubberlike Networks

Commentaries on American Law

Commentaries on American Law

Pioneer History of Milwaukee

Pioneer History of Milwaukee

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