Author: Publisher:
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Announcer
Author: When You Can't Believe Your Eyes
Author: Hannah FairbairnPublisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398092826
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book was first projected in 2004, when Author Hannah Fairbairn was teaching interpersonal skills at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts. The experiences of her adult students—and her own experience of sight lost—convinced her that everyone losing vision needs access to good information about the process of adjustment to losing sight and practical ways to use assertive speech. When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes is intended for anyone going through vision loss, their friends, and families. It will inform readers how to get expert professional help, face the trauma of loss, and navigate the world using speech more than sight. Each of the twelve chapters in the book contain many short sections and bullet-point lists, intended to facilitate access to the right information. It begins where you begin—at the doctor’s office or the hospital. Since vision loss takes many forms, there are suggestions for questions you might ask to get a clear diagnosis and the best treatment. Part One also has a description of legal blindness and possible prevention, advice about your job, and tips for life at home. Part Two is about believing in yourself as you deal with the loss, the anger, and the fear before you come up for air and consider training. Parts Three and Four describe using assertive speech and action in all kinds of settings as your independence and confidence increase. Part Five gives detailed information about everything from dating, and caring for babies to senior living, volunteering, and retaining your job. It is hoped that by reading and trying out the suggestions, the reader will recover full confidence, become a positive, assertive communicator, and lead a satisfying life. Because vision loss happens mostly in older years, the book is written with seniors particularly in mind. Professionals will also find it to be a useful resource for their patients.
Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309142393
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.
Geo Year Book 2007
Author: UnepThe American Philatelist
Author: Geo Year Book 2007
Author: United Nations Environment ProgrammePublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. EpsteinPublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1483320014
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
The Big Bang Book
Author: Charles SvenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967035314
Category : Big bang theory
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Usually it takes an outsider, to incorporate what may seem to be many unrelated events into the new understanding and that's what is in this book. Everything significant is included and fully documented employing the latest replicable physics reported by impeccable organizations such as NASA, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Space Telescope Science Institute and other equivalent research centers. The only material used in this Big Bang analysis is that physics that can be repeated, demonstrated, or observed over and over again in glorious 3d. The language employed can be assimilated by anyone who is interested and can follow a beginning course in a basic general science program given at a freshman high school level. This Big Bang Book describes the KEY found to solving 'How' the Big Bang started. That KEY incorporates atoms, that have an unbelievable life span noting that all atoms were created during the Big Bang era, made into a match that when struck sends off light photons at 186,282 miles per second with instant velocity. With that KEY we are able then to describe 'Where' the Big Bang took place using the Hubble Deep Field findings first reported in 1996 and expanded since then along with the Planck and WMAP satellite measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. Once we know 'how' and 'where' we can then proceed to describe the explosive power of the Big Bang - 'Demonstrated' by employing NASA's study of the powerful pulsating Gamma Ray Burst explosions coming from deep space and how these pulsating explosions relate to those supernovae measurements and dark energy. Combining all these pieces along with huge modern telescopic galactic surveys that pinpoint Earth's location creates the data base for computing 'When' this Big Bang took place giving us a greatly expanded age of our Universe. Amazingly this new time framework allows us to better describe the formation of galaxies using gravity, time, that pulsating explosion, turbulence and the thermo nuclear electro magnetic pulse force found in all nuclear explosions. Only grammar school math used.
Basketball in the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference)
Author: Jason PorterfieldPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1435846028
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
NCAA mens basketball is always a hot sport because of the talented young players and exciting action on the court. However, history and tradition also play huge roles in the sports popularity. Inside Mens College Basketball takes a closer look at the great teams, players, and coaches in the powerhouse Atlantic Coast Conference, as well as the heated rivalries and longstanding traditions that make the ACC one of the best and most popular sports conferences in the country.
Meeting Electricity Demand in the West Through Responsible Development of Energy Rights-of-way on Federal Lands
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Water and PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description