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41) The deep
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"A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget--small things at first, like where they left their keys...then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily...and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia"...
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"Benjamin Monroe is pretty sure how his life will play out. He'll continue teaching chemistry in his small college, and spend his free time biking through the valley. Eventually, he'll retire to putter around in his garden and greenhouse. His colleague, Virginia Clark, is not one for routines. She's chatty, spontaneous, and bubbly, and before Benjamin realizes what happened, she's talked him into collaborating on a research project--studying the mating...
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Este libro contiene una denuncia intelectual de la guerra, de la restricción de los derechos fundamentales, o las reformas constitucionales sectarias como instrumentos para pretender alcanzar una paz nominal, falsa, no basada en el respeto a los valores del Estado de Derecho y del propio Derecho como mecanismo objetivo para conseguir la paz social. Será de gran utilidad para los juristas interesados en comprender el papel de la Corte Constitucional...
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#1 I biked from Mexico to Canada and back with the migrating monarch butterflies.
#2 The monarch butterfly is an ectothermic animal that matches its environment temperature. As temperatures drop, they become unable to move and can't seek out microclimates such as tree trunks.
45) Media, Religion, History, Culture: Selected Essays from the 4th Elon University Media and Religio
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This volume contains papers presented at the fourth Elon University Media and Religion Conference held at Elon University, April 13, 2013
46) Desarrollo De Competencias Comunicacionales Con El Modelo De Programación Neurolingüistica Para L
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La comunicacin constituye una estrategia clave para optimizar el aprendizaje y representa la va para relacionarse con otras personas. Actualmente se considera que la calidad educativa est circunscrita a la transformacin de los paradigmas pedaggicos utilizados por los docentes con respecto a las estrategias metodolgicas. Los docentes deben concebirse como protagonistas de la transformacin educativa, ser gestores de sus investigaciones para as solventar...
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#1 We all have strategies to keep us from hearing our own voices. It's easier to drink wine and watch TV than it is to try and figure out why this voice is urging us to quit our jobs, set new boundaries in our old friends, or let go of some stability or security that has given us peace for years.
#2 The Hang-Up is the fear of expressing ourselves honestly. We try to...
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Una de las inquietudes ms acentuadas en el siglo XXI gira en torno a los modelos de formación por competencias que permean en los planes de estudio de los diversos niveles educativos de algunos pases de Latinoamérica. Está por demás decir que la necesidad de profesionalizar al profesorado en este tema versa como punto nodal en la mayoría de las agendas de gobierno. Se pretende conseguir que, frente a las preceptivas y las recomendaciones oficiales...
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Book Preview:Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (2021) explores
the possible origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-authors
Alina Chan and Matt Ridley examine both the lab leak and
natural origin theories while making clear that more
research is needed to prevent such occurrences from
happening again. They provide a transparent and
comprehensive account of the...
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#1 Not everything that is written contains an argument. In order to determine whether a text contains an argument, we must carefully examine the structure of the text. The first step in analyzing a text for argument is to identify the author's main purpose. Is the author introducing a new idea or refining an existing one. Is the author describing an experience or an...
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Measuring research impact and engagement is a hot topic in the UK and internationally. This book is the first to provide a critical review of the research impact agenda, situating it within international efforts to improve research utilisation. Using empirical data, it discusses research impact tools and processes for key groups such as academics, research funders, 'knowledge brokers' and research users, and considers the challenges and consequences...
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The design of this book owes much to M. David Merrill, Ph.D., who in the 70s was a professor at Brigham Young University. At the time, he was researching concepts for designing curriculum. He developed a method of designing instructional materials that used the principles of Rule Example - Practice. The term rule covered such items as a mathematical rule, a classification paradigm, a descriptive category, or other information that gives the students...
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#1 Scientists have long studied sex to understand human sexual response. However, they have done so by studying animals. It took science a long time to get its nerve up to put sexually aroused human beings under scientific scrutiny.
#2 The first to dip a toe in the potentially scalding waters of research into human sexual response was William Masters, but he was aided...
54) Curriculum and Instruction: Selections from Research to Guide Practice in Middle Grades Education
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This first volume in the series, Curriculum and Instruction: Selections from Research to Guide Practice in Middle Grades Education is comprised of the following chapters largely drawn from the original book's section on academic excellence: -"Charting the Course of Curriculum Integration" by Mark Springer -"Differentiating Instruction as a Response to Academic Diversity" by Carol Ann Tomlinson -"Service-Learning: Connecting Curriculum to Community"...
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Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo mancomunado de reflexiones e investigaciones entre docentes expertos nacionales e internacionales y tesistas que se plantean resultados de las innovaciones educativas, en el contexto de nuevas miradas y experiencias que permean la pedagogía en los albores del siglo XXI, y son el resultado de un continuo proceso reflexivo centrado en la pedagogía que tematiza la educación y que a su vez acopia multiplicidad...
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Research and Resources in Support of This We Believe is an invaluable and concise guide for educators and those dedicated to the education of young adolescents. This edition, an essential companion to NMSA/AMLE's position paper, This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents, articulates the research related to the middle school concept and the 16 characteristics of successful middle grades schools. This book includes: -Rationale for middle...
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#1 Vagabonding is about gaining the courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world. It is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. It is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
#2 Earning your freedom to travel is a personal investment...
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The underdog story of Will Haskell, who became a Democratic state Senator in 2018 at age twenty-two-taking on an incumbent who had been undefeated for Haskell's entire life and earning an endorsement from President Obama, and is determined to pave the way for his peers to transform government from the bottom up.
President Obama left office with these parting words for Americans: "If you're disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard,...
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Book Preview:Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19 and
Plandemic: Indoctornation are respectively a video and a
short film, both released in 2020 and produced by filmmaker
Mikki Willis. They claimed to uncover the truth behind the
coronavirus pandemic and bring to the public all secrets
masked by controllers of the global narrative.
This 2021 book version, entitled...
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#1 Skip told the stockholders a story about how he had gotten mixed up while drawing electrical engineering plans for a boat building company. He had been so sure of himself that he had transposed starboard and port, which made the drawing an exact mirror image of what it should have been.
#2 Story is your path to creating faith. Telling a meaningful story means inspiring...
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