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Making a Difference: Advocacy Competencies for Special

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fiedler, Craig R., PUBLISHER: Pro-Ed, ""Making a Difference: Advocacy Competencies for Special Education Professionals" is the only single comprehensive source on the role and responsibility of special education professionals as advocates for children with disabilities. Most pre-service educational programs only cursorily cover the topic of advocacy, leaving many to enter the field without the knowledge and skills necessary for effective advocacy." This highly specialized book fills this training void by presenting the competencies, dispositions, knowledge, and skills necessary to become an effective advocate. Pre-service and in-service educators are introduced to topics such as ethical disposition, special education law, dispute resolution mechanisms, interpersonal communication skills, collaboration skills, and conflict resolution skills. In addition, numerous vignettes and case studies throughout help readers connect text concepts to real-life issues. Compassionate and informative, this book helps special education professionals learn how to make a difference in the educational lives of children with disabilities." For special education teachers and administrators.

Land Development for Civil Engineers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dion, Thomas R. / Dion, T. R., PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, A hands-on guide to beginning, managing, and completing all land development projects Land Development for Civil Engineers provides essential facts and recommendations for bringing the nonstructural features of a land development project to successful completion. Regulations, standards, and permit data have all been thoroughly updated, including EPA General Stormwater Permits and the agency's rulings on water supply, ADA considerations, American Concrete Pipe Association bedding requirements, wetland permitting changes, and other pertinent information. This single-source reference covers all engineering, legislative, and administrative concerns, including design procedures, construction contracts, development guidelines, and final inspections. New techniques for project management, including use of intranet and extranet management tools on the Internet, are featured, in addition to the latest material on: * Soil remediation and brownfield development * GPS use and new surveying techniques * Streetscaping * Developments in design-build methods * Photogrammetric surveys and GIS use in area and site planning Complete with hundreds of maps, diagrams, drawings, tables, and charts, this Second Edition is the ideal reference for civil design engineers, site design analysts, and students, as well as government personnel, developers, landscape architects, urban planners, civil engineering technology students, land surveyors, and geotechnical, structural, transportation, and environmental engineers.

Stonework

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bridgewater, Alan / Bridgewater, Allen / Bridgewater, Gill, PUBLISHER: Voyageur Press (MN), As a building material, stone has been valued for centuries for its strength, durability, versatility, and beauty. This straightforward guide will appeal to those who wish to add interest to their outdoor space with stonework features that are both functional and decorative. "Stonework" includes: o Fifteen unique and distinctive weekend projects, including a traditional rock garden, brick walkway, retaining wall, and arched bench. o Complete, easy-to-follow instructions, including material lists and cross-section drawings. o Includes comprehensive information on planning and design, tools and materials, and techniques for preparing foundations and cutting and shaping stones.

Bakuman., Vol. 18

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ohba, Tsugumi / Obata, Takeshi, PUBLISHER: Viz Media, Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen audiences.

DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for developing and executing all the processes needed to implement an end-to-end development process using a CD and CI in a security framework starting from development environments to production. The Mission Is Design, develop and evolve cloud native application infrastructure supporting digital channels Design, develop and evolve Devops version control/build automation/continuous integration/continuous delivery processes and tools Java and J2EE proven development skills Java IDE proven development skills (e.g. Eclipse or IntelliJ) REST APIs proven development skills (e.g. Spring Boot) Unit testing proven skills (e.g. Junit) API Gateway good knowledge(e.g. Apigee, IBM Connect) Modern web development framework proven knowledge (e.g. Bootstratp, Angular, React, Ionic, iOS/Android native) Excellent Version control and build automation systems proven skills (e.g. Git, SVN, Maven) Excellent Continuous integration/delivery proven skills (e.g. Jenkins, Jira) Excellent Cloud-native architectures proven skills including containers, orchestrators, microservices (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Openshift) Ability to influence, coach and mentor Digital Factory Development team (SW Engineers and QA Specialists) and Ops team to follow Agile best pratices/tools Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across multiple Agile teams. Location: Milan, Italy

Healthy Jewish Cooking

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Raichlen, Steven, PUBLISHER: Viking Books, Award-winning cookbook extraordinare Steven Raichlen is back with a makeover for some of the heaviest, yet most scrumptuous food in the world: Jewish cuisine. Drawing from his colorful holiday dinners as a youth, Steven Raichlen has come up with ways to make the delicious yet rich klugels, pirogis, and lakes of his childhood suitable for today's healthy lifestyle. In "Healthy Jewish Cooking", Raichlen gives practical tips on how these traditional Jewish flavors can be made healthier with fresh ingredients, grilling and baking techniques, and tasty substitutions. His approach is threefold: 1. He focuses on traditional Jewish dishes that are naturally low in fat. 2. He has created techniques, like using egg whites instead of whole eggs and chicken broth instead of schmaltz, to lighten up recipes that are notoriously heavy in fat. 3. He has created healthy dishes that are Jewish in feel, but that the typical Jewish grandmother may never have heard of. With over 150 delicious recipes, Steven Raichlen proves that high-flavor, low-fat Jewish cooking is no longer an oxymoron

Usborne Book of Magic Tricks

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heddle, Rebecca / Keable-Elliott, I., PUBLISHER: E.D.C. Publishing, -- Clear step-by-step magic guides explain basic techniques and skills -- Lots of practical advice on equipment and materials, and how to use them effectively

Improving Mobility in Older Persons

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewis / Lewis, Carole Bernstein, PUBLISHER: Aspen Publishers, This is a concise comprehensive guidebook for all allied health professionals who help older patients improve their mobility skills. Filled with illustrations and diagrams, this easy-to-use manual offers treatment techniques for a wide range of mobility issues, from total dependence to community independence.

A Churchmouse Christmas

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Davoll, Barbara / Hockerman, Dennis, PUBLISHER: Moody Publishers, The hour is drawing near for the church's special Christmas play, and Christopher wants to add a churchmouse to the church's nativity scene. When the play finally comes together, Chris learns that the true meaning of Christmas is for all God's creation to celebrate Jesus' birth-even mice

Japanese candlestick charting techniques

Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques: A Contemporary Guide to the Ancient Investment Techniques of the Far East. Traditional Western methods for chart analysis (the basis of all technical analyses) use bar or points and figure charts. Yet over 100 years before these methods originated, the Japanese were using their own style of technical analysis for use in the rice futures market. This technique - known as the Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques because of its close resemblance to andlesticks - has recently been attracting attention because it provides unique insights into the market. This work features over 300 charts that use candlesticks alone and in conjunction with Western charting techniques, and explains their use.

Look, Listen and Learn

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: Modern Publishing, Barbie and friends guide preschoolers through educational activities that will help build basic skills in such areas as number and letter recognition, letter sounds, beginning vocabulary, fine motor coordination and more. These entertaining, full-color workbooks are sure to spark an enthusiasm for learning in youngsters.

Grammar Sense 3A [With CDROM]

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bland, Susan Kesner, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, - Offers creative yet practical techniques for presenting the grammar, along with troubleshooting tips, cultural notes and suggestions for additional activities- Contains an Answer Key for the "Student Book and the complete Tapescripts for the Audio Program

Cop Talk: Essential Communication Skills for Community

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kidd, Virginia / Braziel, Rick / Kidd, Dr Virginia, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Community oriented policing requires increased and improved communication between officers and their community. COP Talk provides officers concrete ways to improve their communication with community members, fellow officers, government agencies, and the media. COP Talk blends proven academic principles with practical skill-building tools tailored to the special needs of police-community interactions. Includes key features to enhance learning and recall: Composite Stories of actual experiences illustrate communication concepts and techniques. Action Clips show how specific communication techniques and strategies have been used successfully in real-life application. Pocket Guides expand on the topic at hand, introduce helpful related information, and summarize complex processes. Activities help officers apply the concepts and practice implementing new techniques. Packed with advice, COP Talk demystifies the art of building relationships, conducting meetings, giving talks, involving the community, problem solving, and getting publicity.

Designing Enterprise Client/Server Systems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gold-Bernstein, Beth / Marca, David, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, This book contains a complete, proven set of tools and techniques for reducing the risks and increasing the manageability of client/server projects.The book contains extensive coverage of the organizational and management issues involved in successful client/server planning, followed by an exclusive method for modeling adaptive client/server systems that are business-driven, scaleable, and enable change. Among the many powerful real-world tools this book provides are: specific decision criteria for choosing technical components of a distributed system; methods and guidelines for partitioning data and processing across processors and locations; and techniques for performing traffic analysis even before one line of code is written.All IT executives, project managers, business analysts and implementers of client/server technology.

Marriage and Family Assessment: A Sourcebook for Family

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Filsinger, Erik E., PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Family studies scholars describe the use in therapy of techniques for the assessment of family characteristics and problems. Each author was given an outline to follow in order that a wide range of theoretical or therapeutic approaches would be coherently presented. Evidence for the validity of each assessment technique, suggestions for its practical administration and interpretation, illustrations by case example of its function and utility, and the actual questionnaire itself or instructions on how to get it are provided. The use of third party observers, and techniques for getting information from the family itself about marital relations or the full family structure are described.

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Springhouse Publishing / Schull, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Springhouse Corporation, Photos and illustrations bring every technique to life in this friendly, unconventional reference. Nurses will master -- perhaps in just days -- complete assessment skills for all major body systems. Contents include beginning the assessment: health history, fundamental physical assessment techniques, nutritional assessment; assessing body systems: skin, hair, and nails; eyes; ears, nose, and throat; respiratory system; cardiovascular system; breasts and axillae; gastrointestinal system; female genitourinary system; male genitourinary system; musculoskeletal system; and neurologic system.

Berlitz Dictionary of American English: For Students of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berlitz Guides, PUBLISHER: Berlitz Guides, This monolingual dictionary for non-native speakers eager to learn English helps users develop basic vocabulary. Featuring entries, this reference features clear sample sentences for each word, copious black-and-white illustrations, and full-color pages that teach word families such as "rooms in the house", "fruits", and "emotions". An Activity Guide helps users develop skills and strategies, such as choosing the right definition and finding synonyms.

Learning to Read the Numbers: Integrating Critical Literacy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Whitin, David J. / Whitin, Phyllis E., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Being a critical reader of data is an integral part of being fully literate in todaya (TM)s information age. Children need to know how to challenge conclusions, uncover assumptions, and analyze how data can both reveal and conceal certain kinds of relationships. This text shows prospective and practicing K-8 teachers how to help students develop a critical perspective involving knowledge of essential skills and concepts in both mathematics and language, and the ability to use this knowledge to both effectively compose statistical texts and critique the texts of others. Data-related texts are multimodal, incorporating language as well as visual and numerical information. Arguing that these texts must be interrogated for their biases and limitations, and underscoring the interdisciplinary importance of this stance by drawing on theoretical perspectives from both the fields of language and mathematics, Learning to Read the Numbers: Uniquely addresses both mathematics and language issues as they relate to developing a critical perspective toward data-related texts in the elementary classroom Presents a heuristic outlining key parts of the data-gathering process and important questions that teachers can pose to nurture this critical orientation Examines the dimensions of this process in depth, drawing on examples from a range of elementary school classes, as well as some examples from the media Suggests questions that teachers might consider as they think about fostering a critical perspective in their classrooms Features a close look at a fifth grade class as it engages in a long-term study of the school lunch program a DEGREES' their experience illustrates how the various aspects of the heuristic are developed over time Engaging, concise, rich with examples and clear connections to classroom practice, this text is designed for teacher education courses in the areas of language arts, mathematics, and curriculum studies, and for elementary teachers, administrators, and literacy and mathematics coaches.

Creative Lighting Techniques for Studio Photographers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Montizambert, Dave, PUBLISHER: Amherst Media, This book provides a full explanation of lighting by demonstrating professional techniques for tabletop, commercial, portrait, food, and automotive studio photography. Tips are given on how to analyze light quality, select the proper size light and distance between the subject and the light source, place light modifiers, and select and use a light meter. The book includes an explanation of more complex topics, such as how to set up backlighting, simulate sunlight in the studio, and feather light. Descriptions of how to use specular light include lighting with specular light sources and controlling unwanted specular highlight on shiny surfaces. Also included are specialized techniques such as painting with light, use of softening filters, and suggestions for lighting subjects in motion.

Professional Multicore Programming: Design and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hughes, Cameron / Hughes, Tracey, PUBLISHER: Wrox Press, "Professional Multicore Programming: Design and Implementation for C++ Developers" presents the basics of multicore programming in a simple, easy-to-understand manner so that you can easily apply the concepts to your everyday projects. Learn the fundamentals of programming for multiprocessor and multithreaded architecture, progress to multi-core programming and eventually become comfortable with programming techniques that otherwise can be difficult to understand. Anticipate the pitfalls and traps of concurrency programming and synchronization before you encounter them yourself by finding them outlined in this indispensable guide to multicore programming.

The Sport Psych Handbook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Murphy, Shane, PUBLISHER: Human Kinetics Publishers, Athletes' physiques and conditioning levels have advanced significantly in the past decade. Now, it's time for their mental prowess to catch up. "The Sport Psych Handbook" makes significant performance improvement possible through training the mind to parallel the body's enhanced development. Experts covering each facet of the mental game present research-based, field-tested approaches to enhance individual and team performance. More specifically, this comprehensive guide will give athletes breakthrough methods to do the following: -Optimize inner drive for training and competition -Maintain emotional and mental control for unwavering focus -Improve communication skills for better leadership and teamwork -Avoid and overcome slumps, injuries, and other challenges to a successful seasonComplement your physical skills with sharper mental skills. Make "The Sport Psych Handbook" part of your training arsenal, and start performing to your potential.

The Least You Should Know about English: Writing Skills,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Paige / Glazier, Teresa Ferster, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Quickly master English writing skills with THE LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH: WRITING SKILLS, FORM B, Tenth Edition. Brief and uncomplicated, this text has helped students learn the basics of English writing for thirty years with its clear, concise concept explanations and useful, relevant corresponding exercises. Topics include spelling, word choice, sentence structure, and punctuation as well as more advanced topics such as the writing process, argumentation, and summarizing skills. Check your work easily with exercise answers located in the back of the book. When the course ends, this text is an excellent writing resource for all your college courses and beyond.

Data for Biochemical Research

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dawson, R. M. / Elliott, W. H. / Elliott, Daphne C., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Fully updated, this new edition supplies researchers with precise information in tabular form about the compounds, reagents, and techniques most frequently used in laboratory work. For the new edition, data have been rearranged to improve their display, many obscure compounds have been deleted, and many new compounds and techniques added.

Woven Treasures: One-Of-A-Kind Bags with Folk Weaving

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lamb, Sara, PUBLISHER: Interweave Press, With weaving enjoying a resurgence in popularity among crafters and cottage industries worldwide, this guide enables novice weavers to explore basic folk techniques and styles to produce beautiful and evocative handcrafted works of art. From creative conception to completion, aspiring fiber artists are given accessible yet in-depth instructions on hand-manipulating weaving techniques, such as soumak, twining, cut pile, cardweaving, inkle weaving, and plain weave. Containing six easy-to-follow weaving tutorials and projects for eight exquisite hand-woven bags, this manual encourages personal, creative distinctions and promotes understanding and appreciation of the color and textural components of traditional folk weaving style. Designed to instill a sense of creativity and accomplishment through the learned techniques and finished product, this delightful guide is certain to become an essential reference for those starting out in the rewarding and inspirational field of fiber arts.

At Home with Thimbleberries Quilts: A Collection of 25

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jenson, Lynette / Jensen, Lynette, PUBLISHER: Rodale Press, Lynette Jenson knows what quilters want and her techniques guarantee beautiful results every time. A quilter and quilt teacher for over 20 years, Lynette shares her definitive colour patterns and her successful techniques for rotary cutting, strip piecing, fusible applique, primitive stitching, and so much more. She shares decorating tips and ideas for using quilts in the home, from bed quilts to tablecloths to tree skirts. A special section is devoted to colour photos of quilts in Lynette Jenson's home.

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