The Skinny Confidential
Author: Lauryn Evarts
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1624140459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive collection of lifestyle information, including tips on eating, exercising, and fashion.
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Understanding by Design
Author: Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1416600353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.
Wedding Planning and Management
Author: Maggie Daniels
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1000091147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third edition of Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients provides students, consultants, engaged couples, vendors and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to the business of weddings. Looking through an event management lens, this is the only book to thoroughly explore the fundamentals of weddings, including historical and cultural foundations, practice and the business of wedding planning, in one volume. Diversity and inclusivity are emphasized through the integration of wedding traditions from cultures around the globe and international case studies that inspire and set standards for best practice. Key features of the third edition include: Updated research reflecting trends in areas such as technology, social media, marriage equality legislation, LGBTQ+ weddings, celebrity influences, destination weddings, DIY essentials and planning eco-friendly weddings. Cutting-edge innovations in areas such as "green" venues, themed menus, fusion stationery, sustainable floral décor and distinctive site layout, all of which are highlighted by top wedding vendors. Budget management tips, timeline specifics and guidelines for starting and marketing a wedding consulting business. Over 100 international case studies exploring cultural traditions, vendor relations and best practice. A companion website for instructors, including updated PowerPoint slides, syllabus guidelines, real-world assignments and a comprehensive test bank. This full-color book is visually stunning, with over 150 images by top wedding photojournalist Rodney Bailey. End-of-chapter checklists, review questions and practical scenarios support readers' knowledge as they progress. Maggie Daniels and Carrie Wosicki bring a combination of over 45 years of industry practice and teaching experience. They have written a book that is the ideal guide to successful wedding planning and management.
Interstate Planning for Regional Water Supply and Pollution Control
Author: Delaware River Basin Commission
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report presents the results of a study of the problem of water supply and waste disposal in the three-State, six-county region in which the Tocks Island Reservoir and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area are being developed. Peak summer populations are projected over a 50-year period and utilities systems alternatives which could accommodate such projected growth are presented in the report. Water supplies in the region are seen as adequate to meet future demands, with heavy emphasis on development of groundwater resources. Five alternative sewerage plans, ranging in degree of regionalization from 116 local treatment systems to a single system for the entire region, are outlined including detailed cost estimates. Preservation of water quality in the region is a primary objective of the study.
Waste to Energy in the Age of the Circular Economy
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2020-11-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9292624814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook features best practices for integrating waste to energy and related technologies into the operations of various industries. It discusses current technologies, presents a conceptual example of municipal solid waste planning, and provides commentary on waste-to-energy initiatives. The importance of appropriate infrastructure as well as flexibility and openness to technologies and business models is emphasized. The handbook—and its complementary compendium of 18 projects—aim to support the efforts of developing countries in Asia and the Pacific to deploy and scale up technologies relevant to the circular economy.
Sustainable planning and life-cycle thinking of energy infrastructure
Author: Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-05-12
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 2832523285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Climate Planner
Author: Jason King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-25
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1000422623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that urban planners face at a local level. It shows how to draft climate plans that encounter less resistance because they involve the public, stakeholders, and decisionmakers in a way that builds trust, creates consensus, and leads to implementation. Although focused on the local level, this book discusses climate basics such as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement of 2015, worldwide energy generation forecasts, and other items of global concern in order to familiarize urban planners and citizen planners with key concepts that they will need to know in order to be able to host climate conversations at the local level. The many case studies from around the United States of America show how communities have encountered pushback and bridged the implementation gap, the gap between plan and reality, thanks to a commitment to substantive public engagement. The book is written for urban planners, local activists, journalists, elected or appointed representatives, and the average citizen worried about climate breakdown and interested in working to reshape the built environment.
GreenTOpia
Author: Alana Wilcox
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781552451946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore trees. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Urbiology. A new model of taxation. Solar panels on big-box stores. The art of salvage. Composters for dog poo in city parks. Retrofitting our urban slabs. Gardening the Gardiner. Ravine City. What would make Toronto a greener place? In the third volume of the uTOpia series, dozens of imaginative Torontonians think big and small about sustainability. From suggestions for changes to our transit system and more mixed-use neighbourhoods to a tongue-in-cheek proposal for a painted line aroudn the city and a short comic book about Toronto in the year 2057, GreenTOpia challenges the city and its residents to rethink what it means to be green in a metropolis, and how to take their love of the city one green step further. Other pieces include an interview with Mayor David Miller and a breakdown of the ecological impact of our morning coffee. GreenTOpia features photos, maps and a 56 page green directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs promoting sustainability in the GTA.
Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems
Author: Hugo Sanjurjo González
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13: 3030862712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, HAIS 2021, held in Bilbao, Spain, in September 2021. The 44 full and 11 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are grouped into these topics: data mining, knowledge discovery and big data; bio-inspired models and evolutionary computation; learning algorithms; visual analysis and advanced data processing techniques; machine learning applications; hybrid intelligent applications; deep learning applications; and optimization problem applications.
Climate Change 2022 - Mitigation of Climate Change
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-08-17
Total Pages: 2042
ISBN-13: 100917696X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report provides a comprehensive and transparent assessment of the literature on climate change mitigation. The report assesses progress in climate change mitigation options for reducing emissions and enhancing sinks. With greenhouse gas emissions at the highest levels in human history, this report provides options to achieve net zero, as pledged by many countries. The report highlights for the first time the social and demand-side aspects of climate mitigation, and assesses the literature on human behaviour, lifestyle, and culture, and its implications for mitigation action. It brings a wide range of disciplines, notably from the social sciences, within the scope of the assessment. IPCC reports are a trusted source for decision makers, policymakers, and stakeholders at all levels (international, regional, national, local) and in all branches (government, businesses, NGOs). Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
