THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN, FOR EVERYONE, WHO HAS NEVER READ THE BIBLE, AND HAS NO IDEA WHAT IT SAYS, BUT I WANT THAT PERSON TO KNOW WHAT A WONDERFUL BOOK IT IS, AND EXACTLY WHAT JESUS SAYS, NOT MAN, NOR MY WORDS, BUT HIS WORDS. THE BIBLE IS THE MOST FASCINATING BOOK IN THE WORLD AND ALSO THE WORLD’S BEST SELLER OF ALL TIME, BUT IF YOU NEVER READ IT, YOU ARE MISSING OUT. YOU WON’T EVER SEE THE PROMISES AND COMFORTING WORDS HE HAS GIVEN IN PSALMS. FOR INSTANCE, PSALM 91 IS REALLY GOD’S LOVE-LETTER TO HIS PEOPLE. IT’S MOSTLY JUST THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL SCRIPTURE WAS TAKEN FROM THE NEW KING JAMES BIBLE, ALL IN ENGLISH WORDS. P.S. SOME LINES ARE PARAPHRASED BY THE AUTHOR.
This book is a comprehensive guide for literacy teacher educators and professional development trainers who teach and work in online settings. The authors provide tools, techniques, and resources for developing courses, workshops, and other online learning experiences, including blended/hybrid delivery formats that combine face-to-face meetings with online practices. Moving away from traditional discussions in which technology and delivery systems dominate the conversation, this book focuses on the literacy instructor with techniques for building effective learning communities. The authors outline the unique pedagogical challenges posed by online courses and offer guidance for making decisions about what tools to use for specific instructional purposes. More than simply a “how-to” book, this resource will encourage novice and experienced instructors to extend their thinking and enable online literacy teacher education to grow in productive ways. Book Features: Support for those teaching in many different roles, including program coordinators, professors, and adjuncts. A focus on pedagogical innovation as the key to success, with concrete examples of instructional and assessment practices. Connections to the IRA Standards for Reading Professionals and other national standards for teacher education. A companion website where online literacy teacher educators can communicate and share resources. “Be prepared to experience a compelling journey. . . . This might very well be the book that inspires you, like me, to find a trusted colleague, take a few risks, and begin your own journey toward moving a literacy course or whole program online.” —From the Foreword by Julie Coiro, University of Rhode Island Lane W. Clarke is assistant professor and literacy concentration leader in the Education Department of the University of New England. Susan Watts-Taffe is associate professor and coordinator of the Reading Endorsement program at the University of Cincinnati.
This book showcases effective ways to build the vocabulary knowledge K-8 learners need to engage meaningfully in reading, writing, and discussion on academic subjects. The distinguished authors draw on decades of classroom experience to explain what academic vocabulary is, how it fits into the Common Core State Standards, and how targeting vocabulary can enhance conceptual understanding in English language arts, social studies, and math and science. Rich classroom vignettes, teaching tips, and examples of student work are included. The book also features helpful figures, word lists, discussion questions, and recommended print and online resources.
An estimated 200 million people in the world suffer from schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and according to the World Health Organization it ranks second behind malaria in terms of socioeconomic and public health importance in tropical and subtropical areas. The disease was present in Egypt in the Old Kingdom (c. 2600 BCE), and in 1998 it was estimated that almost six million Egyptians -- one fifth of the rural population -- were infected. Thus it remains one of the most serious public health problems in rural Egypt. This study is the first to paint a broad picture of schistosomiasis in rural Egypt. The authors' research in three Nile Delta villages between 1991 and 1997 provides an in-depth community-level view of patterns of transmission and strategies for control. An analysis of recent research and policy presents the national context for the study. Schistosomiasis is primarily a behavioral disease, associated with human behavior in relation to water, especially canals; strategies for disease control and treatment need to consider what people do, where, when, and why. Gender, Behavior, and Health stresses an area of particular concern to social scientists: gender issues are most fully revealed at the local level, where an infection such as schistosomiasis is transmitted, diagnosed, treated, and ultimately (it is hoped) prevented. This book is unique in presenting schistosomiasis primarily from the viewpoint of the social sciences, yet fully incorporating material from the biomedical sciences and other relevant disciplines.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District operates six water treatment facilities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties of California. The main water source is mountain snowmelt that comes to the treatment plants through three 90-mile closed-pipe aqueducts. The aqueduct is treated with chlorine to provide primary disinfection and to suppress biological growth in the aqueduct. The utility researched the use of ultraviolet light, which has the benefit of not forming disinfection by products, for primary disinfection to partially or completely replace chlorine.
This revised edition of this unique textbook is specifically designed for statistics and probability courses taught to students of forestry and related disciplines. It introduces probability, statistical techniques, data analysis, hypothesis testing, experimental design, sampling methods, nonparametric tests and statistical quality control, using examples drawn from a forestry, wood science and conservation context. The book now includes several new practical exercises for students to practice data analysis and experimental design themselves. It has been updated throughout, and its scope has been broadened to reflect the evolving and dynamic nature of forestry, bringing in examples from conservation science, recreation and urban forestry.
This is the first major book to celebrate the Huntington's collection of five hundred Edward Weston photographs, all of them selected and printed for the institution by the artist in the 1940s. The Guggenheim photographs lie at the heart of this legacy, but Weston also included in his gift still-life studies from the early 1920s and 1930s, as well as later landscapes from the 1940s. Weston selected these photographs as representative of his best work, and they are reproduced here, complemented by investigations into the influences that shaped them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Runners by Susan Gates - Sparrow runs into problems when she tries to employ a deputy to deal with the most feared boy in the school. Graphical by Marilyn Watts - A cat jumps out of a computer game at school - and spine-chilling disaster threatens! The Present Takers by Aidan Chambers - When the persecution becomes too much, Lucy is forced to take the school bullies at their own game.
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