books about: significant     books:       Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses (Jossey Bass ...10 reviews L. Dee Fink Jossey-Bass, 2003 Creating Significant Learning Experiences - book review Excellent ideas and well-written! I recoommend it for any teachers or trainers who wants to improve their instruction.             The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The World's Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures1 review Firefly Books, 2007 A Quality Purchase! This book is everything I expected. If you are interested at all in archaeology then you definitely should buy this book. It is full of interesting pictures and articles about almost every dig known to mankind. Amazon did a great job getting it to me and I am very pleased with this purchase.             The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness3 reviews Donna J. Haraway Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003 A Social Metaphysics of Humans-in-Relation The previous comment seems to me to miss the plot of Haraway's text. I don't mean to cause offense by saying this, but only to explain why I feel like I should write. The way I read this manifesto, Haraway is working to lay out a social metaphysics that takes relations with radical otherness as integral to and inseparable from any identity. Classical liberalist / modernist theory imagines ...             Significant Changes to the NEC 2008 Edition (Significant Changes to the National Electrical Code (Nec))2 reviews NJATC NJATC Delmar Cengage Learning, 2007 clear instructions and diagrams With the electrical wiring around homes and commercial buildings, I'd always wondered about the governing standards used by electricians. How safely did they really do things? So it's reassuring to read this update of the US electrical code. The diagrams are well done, in colour. The clarity of the schematics and of colour photos of equipment like fixtures is commendable. Clearly, the authors are ...             Significant Others15 reviews Armistead Maupin Harper Perennial, 1989 Summer camp Armistead Maupin is a famously misplaced Southern writer. Mary Ann is a talk show hostess. Brian Hawkins is her husband. The couple and their daughter, Shawna, have moved from Anna Madrigal's 28 Barbary Lane rental to the Summit. Brian asks Mrs. Madrigal if his nephew Jed may stay in his old apartment. Wren Douglas feels that hotel rooms are the best part of a book tour. The fat woman, ...             New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buidlings and Landmarks8 reviews Christopher Gray, Suzanne Braley Harry N. Abrams, 2003 Portraits of the city Some books on the older buildings of New York City will give you the nuts and bolts about the structures: who designed it, who constructed it, when it was built, etc. And some photo books of old New York don't tell you anything at all. New York Times writer, Christopher Gray, with the assistance of the untiring researcher, Suzanne Braley, actually breathe life into these buildings. Not only do we ...             Snot Bubbles! A Football Primer for Moms, Wives & Significant Others 2nd Edition16 reviews Helma Clark Jersten Pr, 2002 Football for real dummies I had originally gotten the book Football for Dummies to prepare for my grandsons' first season playing Pop Warner football. I found that I was too dumb for Football for Dummies. Nowhere was there an explanation as to whether a team's goal line was the goal they were defending or the one they were heading for. Everything else in the book depends on an understanding of this one principle. Nor ...             Seeing Yourself as Others Do: Authentic Executive Presence at Any Stage of Your Career4 reviews Carol Keers, Thomas Mungavan Significant Pursuit Publishing, 2008 You can't control how others see you, but you sure can manage it. Most of us have a very different view of ourselves than others have of us. Whether we have a positive or negative view of our appearance, demeanor, or personality, we do not have the right or ability to have others see us in the same way. How they view us depends on which aspects of our lives they see, their own life context, and whether they have interacted with us personally for a length of ...             Teaching Language Arts, Math, & Science to Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities Brookes Publishing Company, 2006 Drawing upon their years of research and personal experience, contributors to this text provide educators with useful guidelines on teaching language arts, math, and science to students with significant disabilities. Unlike other, more theoretical volumes, this book offers practical suggestions for providing access to the general curriculum. Some of the best known researchers in curriculum and instruction, including Debby Houston, Michael ...             Don't Call Me a Drama Queen!: A Guide for the Overly Sensitive and Their Significant Others Who Need to Learn ...3 reviews Dr. Debra Mandel Alyson Books, 2008 How "Drama Queen" Helped This Man! I initially intended to read this book as the "significant other" to a drama queen. And I found many useful tips and tools on how to make my relationship better with my spouse. What really surprised me, however, was that I saw myself reflected in the pages as well. What an eye-opener! Not only does she convey sensitivity and compassion, but Dr. Debra does a wonderful job of getting rid of useless ...             Jazz on Record - The First Sixty Years: The Complete Story of Significant Artists and Their Recordings ...1 review Scott Yanow Backbeat Books, 2003 Not a complete history--but what is? Scott Yanow takes us through the recorded history of jazz from year by year and recording by recording. He neatly subdivides musicians and groups by type and charts the movements of the players from year to year up through the seventies. At nearly nine-hundred pages, this method of showing jazz history through its recordings works. It is complete as one can get up to 2003 when the book was ...             Significant Studies for Second Grade: Reading and Writing Investigations for Children Karen Ruzzo, Mary Anne Sacco Heinemann, 2004 Congratulations are in order, Karen and Mary Anne. You wanted your readers to feel as if we are sitting on the rug learning alongside you as you and your students unravel these significant studies, and we do. If every student in America were fortunate enough to call you teacher, there would be no need for any conversations about children left behind. - Shelley Harwayne, Consultant and former Superintendent, New York City Public Schools, ...             Significant Changes to the International Building Code 2006 Edition (Signigicant Changes to the International ... Doug Thornburg, John R. Henry Delmar Cengage Learning, 2006 This publication is a "must-have" for anyone who uses the International Building Code®! It enables readers to easily identify the significant changes that occurred between the 2003 and 2006 editions, and provides an analysis of the effect each change has had on the code's application. Coverage reflects those provisions with special significance, including new and innovative design ideas and technologies, modern materials and methods of ...             2008 American Alpine Journal: The World's Most Significant Climbs (American Alpine Journal) American Alpine Club, 2008 This year's American Alpine Journal features Freddie Wilkinson and his all-star partners discovering still-unclimbed summits and awesome new routes in a remote corner of the Alaska Range. Pakistan's fabled Charakusa Valley keeps producing stunning long rock routes and jaw-dropping alpine test pieces, as revealed by Steve House, Nicolas Favresse, and partners. Even the Alps, where the sport began, keeps dishing out new challenges, including Miha ...             Empowered Living: A Twelve-Week Plan for Improving Your Most Significant Relationships1 review Jim Hohnberger, Tim Canuteson, ... Pacific Press Publishing Association, 2002 A definate plus for every day living experiences! I have read this book and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is seeking a more closer experience with the Lord. It teaches you how to gain victory over some of our everyday struggles, overcome them, and continue a closer walk with the Lord. It is a wonderful tool for married couples and even those of us who are seeking to be married soon. I wish I could get a copy for every couple I ...             Improving the Practice of National Security Strategy: A New Approach for the Post-Cold War World (Csis ... Clark A. Murdock Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2003 This volume includes a number of case studies from the post-Cold War era and condenses the lessons learned from them into "do's" and "don'ts" in the exercise of U.S. power.             The Green Gardener's Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve Our Planet3 reviews Joe Lamp'l Cool Springs Press, 2008 Comprehensive Guide to Green Gardening This book covers all aspects of green gardening. Joe Lamp'l explains why eco-friendly gardening is crucial in making a difference for the environment and that your actions count. For example, Lamp'l discusses how our water drinking supply gets contaminated with the use of pesticides in the garden. He details ways in which to conserve water in the garden. The book will teach you how to ...             A Significant Other: Riding the Centenary Tour de France with Lance Armstrong4 reviews Matt Rendell Phoenix, 2005 Best Cycling Journalism I've Read This book is on a different level, artistically and intellectually, from most cycling journalism. I've read a bevy of Tour de France books and this is the best by far. It takes a different angle on professional cycling, the perspective of the domestique, to show you things about the sport that you would never learn reading yet another book about Lance or the other stars. The story of Victor ...             Make the Day Matter!: Promoting Typical Lifestyles for Adults With Significant Disabilities Paul H Brookes Pub Co, 2007 This book focuses on the importance of work and other meaningful daytime involvements (volunteer work, education, relationships, and other types of community participation) in the lives of people with developmental disabilities.             Handling the Big Jets: An Explanation of the Significant Difference in Flying Qualities Between Jet Transport ...5 reviews David P. Davies Pan American Navigation Service, Incorporated, 1973 Definitive aircraft manual Despite its age, this is still the definitive book on handling jets. Comprehensive coverage of the widest range of topics, and to the deepest depth needed to satisfy any technical enquiry. Davies has an unmatched writing style that is highly readable, and right up there with the likes of Bill Gunston. 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