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 Dennis J. Simon, "Problem-Solving Parent Conferences in Schools: Ecological-Behavioral Perspectives " English | ISBN: 0815376383 | 2019 | 224 pages | PDF | 8 MB Problem-Solving Parent Conferences in Schools presents a Problem-solving Parent Conference (PPC) model that integrates and applies empirically-supported systemic and behavioral intervention strategies to coordinated home-school interventions for student behavioral and social-emotional concerns. Though today's schools seek to further understand student behaviors from ecological and systemic perspectives, there are limited resources available on how to effectively collaborate with families―a key social-environmental context. This unique book engages parents and teachers in a five-stage protocol towards more effective student support. These evidence-based, change-oriented approaches will be essential for graduate students in school psychology, school social work, and school counseling programs; in teacher preparation; and in any related course focused on parents and families in school settings. Its resources are also critical for mental health practitioners who work with children, adolescents, families, and schools.
 Abdelkrim Araar, Paolo Verme, "Prices and Welfare: An Introduction to the Measurement of Well-being when Prices Change" English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030174220 | PDF | pages: 110 | 3.0 mb This book provides a general framework for the use of theoretical contributions in empirical works, addressing the question of what is the effect of a price change on household well-being. This simple question is one of the most relevant and controversial questions in microeconomic theory and one of the main sources of errors in empirical economics. In particular, this book aims to 1) Review the essential microeconomics literature since the first seminal papers by Hicks in the 1930s; 2) Organize and simplify this literature in a way that can be easily used by analysts with different backgrounds providing algebraic, geometric and computational illustrations; 3) identify and measure the essential differences across methods and test how these differences affect empirical results; 4) Provide guidelines for the use of alternative approaches under imperfect information on utility, demand systems, elasticities and more generally incomes and quantities; 5) Provide computational codes in Stata for the application of all methods. The focus of the book is on developing economies and the poor, and the assumptions made will relate primarily to these countries and group of people, presumably the main policy focus of international organizations and national governments.
 Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 and AutoCAD LT 2023: A beginner's guide to 2D drafting and 3D modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD, 2nd Edition English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801816468 | 1027 Pages | PDF MOBI EPUB (True) | 120 MB AutoCAD is one of the most versatile software applications for architectural and engineering designs and the most popular computer-aided design (CAD) platform for 2D drafting and 3D modeling. This hands-on 2nd edition guide will take you through everything you need to know to make the most out of this powerful tool, from a simple tour of the user interface to using advanced tools.  Power Quality Measurement and Analysis Using Higher-Order Statistics: Understanding HOS contribution on the Smart(er) grid English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119747716 | 176 Pages | EPUB (True) | 7.3 MB  Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life By Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 1996 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 0813522641 | PDF | 16 MB Phyllis Shand Allfrey is the first biography of one of the Caribbean's most intriguing writers and politicians. Allfrey (1908-1986) is best known as the author of The Orchid House, a fictionalized account of her early life that was turned into a highly acclaimed film for British television. Born to a prominent family of formerly wealthy sugar planters in Dominica, Allfrey followed an unexpected path: a rising novelist (who is often paired with Jean Rhys in critical discussion) and Fabian socialist in England and the United States, she returned to Dominica to organize the peasantry and estate workers into the island's first political party. Ostracized by the white elite into which she was born, she led the Dominica Labour party to power and became the West Indian Federation's only woman (and only white) minister, only to find herself expelled from the party when the rise of black nationalism made it expedient. The biography recreates Allfrey's life as it unfolds against the background of twentieth-century Caribbean political and literary history, from the decline of the planter class through the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the anglophone West Indies into a federation, to the troubled sixties and seventies, decades marked by racial violence and the emergence of the former British territories from colonial control. This volume includes five autobiographical stories that have long been out of print.  Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies By Nathan Snaza (editor), Debbie Sonu (editor), Sarah E. Truman (editor), Zofia Zaliwska (editor) 2016 | 214 Pages | ISBN: 1433131331 | PDF | 16 MB This edited collection takes up the wild and sudden surge of new materialisms in the field of curriculum studies. New materialisms shift away from the strong focus on discourse associated with the linguistic or cultural turn in theory and toward recent work in the physical and biological sciences; in doing so, they posit ontologies of becoming that re-configure our sense of what a human person is and how that person relates to the more-than-human ecologies in which it is nested. Ignited by an urgency to disrupt the dangers of anthropocentrism and systems of domination in the work of curriculum and pedagogy, this book builds upon the axiom that agency is not a uniquely human capacity but something inherent in all matter. This collection blurs the boundaries of human and non-human, animate and inanimate, to focus on webs of interrelations. Each chapter explores these questions while attending to the ethical, aesthetic, and political tasks of education―both in and out of school contexts. It is essential reading for anyone interested in feminist, queer, anti-racist, ecological, and posthumanist theories and practices of education.  J Gordon Monson, "Pattern Truths and Inspirations: 365 Daily Devotional" English | ISBN: 1951961749 | 2021 | 152 pages | EPUB | 252 KB This book has been on Jim's to-do list for a long time. The idea of a daily devotional came from the long list of one-liners he has written over the years from ideas gained from Bible studies, sitting under some great preaching and teaching, along with innumerable conversations with many friends and relatives. Added to them is quoting or paraphrasing comments from several notable people.  Paradise on Earth: Switzerland by PhotoBarrel Editions English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQQQVXSF | 103 pages | EPUB | 22 Mb If you think there is nothing in Switzerland except snow, chocolate and cuckoo clocks, you are in for a big surprise! Despite its diminutive size, the country offers an amazing wealth of cultures, landscapes and activities. Rugged and mountainous in some parts, serene and leafy in others, it has something for all tastes. It has borders with five countries - Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Liechtenstein - all of which have influenced its language, culture and architecture.
 Hugh Wybrew, "Orthodox Feasts of Jesus Christ & the Virgin Mary: Liturgical Texts With Commentary" English | 2000 | ISBN: 0881412031 | PDF | pages: 148 | 27.3 mb Christian faith in Jesus Christ as both divine and human was formulated as doctrine by the ecumenical councils of the Church in the fourth and fifth centuries. That doctrine was given liturgical expression in the feasts of Christmas and other festivals celebrating events in the life of Christ and Mary. These honor the Christian belief that, in Jesus, the Son of God became human so that human beings might share in the life of God. This book presents selected Orthodox liturgical texts for these feasts of the incarnation. Freshly translated into modern English, each day's material is introduced by a short account of its thematic sources, and accompanied by a brief spiritual and theological commentary. An opening section gives a concise account of the development of the liturgical calendar and the origins of these feasts in the Orthodox Church. Orthodox Feasts of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary introduces Western Christians to the doctrinal richness of Orthodox liturgical celebrations of the Word become flesh. A companion volume to Orthodox Lent, Holy Week and Easter, by the same author (SVS Press, 1997), it provides Christians of all traditions with material for meditation and personal prayer.  Richard Dreyfuss, "One Thought Scares Me" English | ISBN: 1510776125 | 2022 | 160 pages | EPUB | 748 KB We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork. It might not be too late. |
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