Spanish Words at the Park
Spanish Words at the Park

Author: Johanna Leigh

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group

Published: 2013-12-30

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1482403471

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A fun setting is a perfect way to introduce Spanish words, and few places are as fun as a park playground. Readers of this book will love learning Spanish vocabulary for their favorite park equipment, such as the pasamanos, or monkey bars. It's easy to understand the words amid the English text, and a pronunciation guide is yet another support and reinforcement for the beginning Spanish student.

A Head Start on Science
A Head Start on Science

Author: William C. Ritz

Publisher: NSTA Press

Published: 2007-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1933531673

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For the littlest scientists, the whole wide world can be a laboratory for learning. Nurture their natural curiosity with A Head Start on Science, a treasury of 89 hands-on science activities specifically for children ages 3 to 6. The activities are grouped into seven stimulating topic areas: the five senses, weather, physical science, critters, water and water mixture, seeds, and nature walks.

The Grid and the Park
The Grid and the Park

Author: Adrián Gorelik

Publisher: Latin America Research Commons

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1951634217

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Since its publication in Spanish in 1998, The Grid and the Park not only revitalized studies on the history of Buenos Aires, but also laid the foundation for a specific type of cultural work on the city —an urban perspective for cultural history, as its author would describe it— that has had a sustained impact in Latin America. Public space, embodied in the grid of city blocks and the park system, here appears as a particularly productive category because it encompasses dimensions of the material city, politics, and culture, which are usually studied separately. From Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s figurations of Palermo Park in the mid-nineteenth century to Jorge Luis Borges’s discovery of the suburb in the 1920s; from the modernization of the traditional center carried out by Mayor Torcuato de Alvear in the 1880s to the questioning of that centrality by the emergence of the suburban barrio, the book weaves the changing ideas on public space with urban culture to produce a new history of the metropolitan expansion of Buenos Aires, one of the most extensive and dynamic urban centers of the early twentieth century.

Evaluating and financing university research
Evaluating and financing university research

Author: Silvia Zanazzi

Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 8868123568

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Il lavoro di ricerca ha come oggetto di studio la valutazione della ricerca universitaria, in un momento in cui il tema della distribuzione delle risorse pubbliche in base a criteri di efficienza e merito è al centro del dibatito politico ed economico. Vengono esaminate e messe a confronto cinque realtà universitarie di paesi europei, al tempo stesso si cerca di evidenziare, atraverso un’indagine campionaria, la percezione dei sistemi di valutazione da parte di ricercatori degli stessi paesi. Lo studio si propone di verificare l’ipotesi che un sistema rigoroso di valutazione della ricerca sia condizione necessaria, ma non sufficiente per produrre un innalzamento qualitativo della ricerca universitaria. Nel nostro paese è imprescindibile un intervento in termini di politiche pubbliche, che valorizzi la ricerca a partire da un più adeguato investimento economico. - The research project focuses on the evaluation of university research, at a moment when a central issue in the political and economic debate is the distribution of public resources based on criteria of efficiency and merit. Five universities in European countries are analyzed and compared, and the perceptions held by the researchers in those countries about evaluation systems are assessed through a survey.The study aims to demonstrate that a rigorous system of research evaluation is a necessary, though insufficient, condition to create an increase in the quality of university research. In our country, what is needed is the enactment of public policies supporting research, beginning with a more adequate economic investment.