Alaska's Constitution
Author: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781304117380
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New York State Government
Author: Robert B. Ward
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2006-12-07
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9781930912168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expanded and updated edition of the 2002 book that has become required reading for policymakers, students, and active citizens.
Letters to a Young Scientist
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0871407000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career—both his successes and his failures—and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill, but rather a passion for finding a problem and solving it. From the collapse of stars to the exploration of rain forests and the oceans’ depths, Wilson instills a love of the innate creativity of science and a respect for the human being’s modest place in the planet’s ecosystem in his readers.
Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures
Author: Dragan Perakovic
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2021-06-20
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9783030784584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, FABULOUS 2021, held in May 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. This year’s conference topic covers security of innovative services and infrastructure in traffic, transport and logistic ecosystems. The 30 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in thematic sessions on: Internet of things and smart city; smart environment applications; information and communications technology; smart health applications; sustainable communications and computing infrastructures.
Gender and Education
Author: Barbara J. Bank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-09-30
Total Pages: 892
ISBN-13: 0313041962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education. Their entries deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across historical and cultural contexts. The various contributors discuss gender as a social construction. The latest research on boys and masculinities, as well as girls and feminism, is included. The entries in this work cover the breadth of topics related to gender and education. They provide reference information on the history and condition of gender and education from elementary to high school. Entries cover such topics as: alternative schools, historically black colleges and universities in the United States, military colleges and academies, private and public single-sex and co-educational schools, literacy, mathematics achievement, women's centers, teacher interactions with girls and boys, affirmative action in U.S. higher education, sororities and fraternities, educator sexual misconduct, expectations of teachers for boys and girls, heterosexism and homophobia, bullying, harassment, and violence among students, salaries of male and female educators, school choice and gender equity, disabled students and gender equity, Title IX and school sports, black feminism, womanism, and queer theory.
Privatization and Educational Choice
Author: Myron Lieberman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780312027995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes how and why educational choice movements will affect public education. It uses a public-choice approach to argue that both the supporters and opponents of private and school choice have failed to address several critical issues. Following an introductory chapter, chapter 2 is devoted to the rationale for contracting out instructional services, its development in other public services, and its advantages and disadvantages. Chapter 3 focuses on two issues critical to all forms of privatization--comparative costs and the evaluation of outcomes. The fourth chapter examines previous efforts to contract out instruction and issues for making such efforts more effective. Chapter 5 discusses educational vouchers and the broader political and intellectual controversy over whether certain services should be provided through our political or our economic system. Competition issues raised by voucher proposals are discussed in the sixth chapter, and chapter 7 takes up four independent arguments for vouchers. The eighth chapter presents a political analysis of voucher plans and an assessment of their chances for enactment. Chapter 9 discusses whether or not privatization will develop as a cottage industry or as a large-scale enterprise and explores the possibilities of franchising certain kinds of educational services. Proposals for the withdrawal of government support for and provision of education ("load shedding") are analyzed in the 10th chapter, with a focus on home schooling. The final chapter analyzes the ethical and professional issues raised by privatization in education. Seven tables, an index, and notes for each chapter are included. (LMI)
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe types of findings included for each category include program characteristics, services, strategies, staffing, outreach, educational material needs, successes, and additional observations. Various types of maternal and infant health resources (coalitions, clearinghouses, books and directories) are identified. A copy of the survey instrument and the names and addresses of survey respondents are provided.
Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide
Author: United States. National Air Pollution Control Administration
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelationship between concentration of carbon monoxide in the air and its adverse effects on man and the environment.
Summit Power Station
Author: Faye H. Horn
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Decades of Legislative Politics and Governance in Nigeria’s National Assembly
Author: Fatai Ayinde Aremu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9813344555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book unpacks two decades of Nigeria’s National Assembly spanning 4th–8th legislative sessions. It focuses on the core areas of legislative functions – lawmaking, appropriation, oversight and representation – in examining the achievements, challenges and prospects of the legislature. This is particularly important because Nigeria being the most populous country in Africa is a crucial bastion of democratic governance in the region. Therefore, conducting deep diagnostics of the federal legislature as the custodian of popular mandate and the anchor of accountability offered immense opportunity for learning that would catalyze further institutional reforms and democratic consolidation.
