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Free Download Copts in Michigan By Eliot Dickinson
2008 | 103 Pages | ISBN: 0870138243 | PDF | 1 MB
The Copts, or Egyptian Christians, are a relatively small and tight-knit ethno-religious group, numbering perhaps three thousand people and living mostly in the Detroit metropolitan area. Since they began immigrating to Michigan in the mid-1960s, their community has grown exponentially. Granted exceptional access to the Coptic community, Eliot Dickinson provides the first in- depth profile of this unique and remarkably successful immigrant group. Drawing on personal interviews to infuse the book with warmth and depth. Copts in Michigan offers readers a compelling view into this vibrant community.

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Free Download Coping with Iran : Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report By James Dobbins; Sarah Harting; Dalia Dassa Kaye
2007 | 107 Pages | ISBN: 0833041878 | PDF | 1 MB
On March 21, 2007, the RAND Corporation held a public conference on Capitol Hill, Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? featuring high-level experts and hosted by the director of the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center. More than 300 guests attended, including former ambassadors, members of Congress and senior staffers, senior journalists, Pentagon officials, and numerous well-known Middle East analysts. Two high-level officials, Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and Ambassador Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Ambassador to the UN (via videoconference), also shared their national perspectives with the audience. Conference participants sought to facilitate an informed discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of various policy options to address the Iranian challenge. This report summarizes remarks presented during the conference. The views expressed in this document are those of the participants, as interpreted by the RAND Corporation.

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Free Download Cooperative Learning in Context : An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms By Evelyn Jacob
1999 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 079144242X | PDF | 1 MB
Explains why powerful educational innovations like "cooperative learning" do not always reach their full potential in everyday classrooms.Cooperative Learning in Context examines the real-world implications of cooperative learning techniques used in a culturally diverse, suburban elementary school fourth grade mathematics class and sixth grade social studies class. Evelyn Jacob takes an anthropologist's eye to document not just the successes, but also the failures and missed opportunities exhibited by the participating teachers and students. Six interwoven contextual aspects that affect teaching and learning are explored: task structure, psychological and technical tools, interpersonal interactions and social relationships, individual and social meanings, local cultures and institutions, and larger cultures and institutions. In exploring the implications of the study, Jacob discusses how an understanding of contextual features can enable educators to improve the processes and outcomes of cooperative learning and other powerful educational innovations.Evelyn Jacob is Professor of Education at George Mason University. She is coeditor with Cathie Jordan of Minority Education: Anthropological Perspectives.

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Free Download Cooking South of the Clouds: Recipes and Stories from China's Yunnan Province by Georgia Freedman
English | September 25, 2018 | ISBN: 1909487783 | 288 pages | EPUB | 96 Mb
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Free Download Convicted Survivors : The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill By Elizabeth Dermody Leonard
2002 | 219 Pages | ISBN: 0791453278 | PDF | 1 MB
When a woman survives a deadly assault by her male abuser by using lethal self-defense, she often faces a punitive criminal justice system--one that largely failed to respond to her earlier calls for help. In this book, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard examines the lives and experiences of more than forty women in California who are serving lengthy prison sentences for killing their male abusers. She contrasts them with other women prisoners in the state and finds substantial differences. Leonard's in-depth interviews reveal that the women are slow to identify themselves as battered women and continue to minimize the violence done to them, make numerous and varied attempts to end abusive relationships, and are systematically failed by the systems they look to for help. While in jail, these women receive liberal dosages of psychotropic drugs, damaging their ability to aid in their self-defense. Moreover, trials and plea bargains feature little or no evidence of the severe intimate abuse inflicted upon them. Despite a clear lack of criminal or violent histories, the majority of women found guilty of the death of abusive men receive first- or second-degree murder convictions and serve long, harsh sentences. Leonard concludes the book with a discussion of policy implications and recommendations arising from this research.

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Free Download Conversations with Educational Leaders : Contemporary Viewpoints on Education in America By Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood
1997 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 0791432882 | PDF | 1 MB
Educational leaders speak out in their own words--stimulating, accessible, provocative--on contemporary and controversial topics that range from differing attitudes on diversity to the debate over character education to arguments about education reform.Award-winning writer Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood interviews nationally-known leaders in a new genre of conversations about key issues in education that inform the contemporary debate and the general reader. Topics range from the current debate over character education to multicultural education and from multiple intelligences to national standards. Those interviewed include Patricia K. Anderson, Michael W. Apple, Roland S. Barth, Gloria Ladson-Billings, B. Bradford Brown, Kathleen Densmore, Anne Fairbrother, Lily Wong Fillmore, Howard Gardner, Thomas R. Hoerr, Herbert M. Kliebard, Thomas Lickona, Alan L. Lockwood, Fred M. Newmann, Kent D. Peterson, Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Joseph S. Renzulli, Thomas A. Romberg, Kevin Ryan, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Christine E. Sleeter, Theodore R. Sizer, Wayne J. Urban, and Dennis R. Williams. Considered are violence; values; youth culture; cultural diversity in language, race, and ability; professionalism; leadership; the role of teacher unions; and broad perspectives on the status and history of educational reform in the United States.Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin--Madison and is Senior Writer/Policy Analyst for the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Her work has been recognized by the American Educational Research Association Interpretive Scholarship Award and by the University of Wisconsin's School of Education.

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Free Download Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science Missions By National Research Council; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; Space Studies Board; Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions
2010 | 76 Pages | ISBN: 0309157374 | PDF | 1 MB
Cost and schedule growth is a problem experienced by many types of projects in many fields of endeavor. Based on prior studies of cost growth in NASA and Department of Defense projects, this book identifies specific causes of cost growth associated with NASA Earth and space science missions and provides guidance on how NASA can overcome these specific problems. The recommendations in this book focus on changes in NASA policies that would directly reduce or eliminate the cost growth of Earth and space science missions. Large cost growth is a concern for Earth and space science missions, and it can be a concern for other missions as well. If the cost growth is large enough, it can create liquidity problems for NASA's Science Mission Directorate that in turn cause cost profile changes and development delays that amplify the overall cost growth for other concurrent and/or pending missions. Addressing cost growth through the allocation of artificially high reserves is an inefficient use of resources because it unnecessarily diminishes the portfolio of planned flights. The most efficient use of resources is to establish realistic budgets and reserves and effective management processes that maximize the likelihood that mission costs will not exceed reserves. NASA is already taking action to reduce cost growth; additional steps, as recommended herein, will help improve NASA's mission planning process and achieve the goal of ensuring frequent mission opportunities for NASA Earth and space science.

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Free Download Controller Design for Industrial Applications
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1394287070 | 392 Pages | PDF | 71 MB
Industrial processes are often complex and dynamic, making it challenging to design controllers that can maintain stable and optimal operation. Traditional controllers, such as PID controllers, have been widely used in industrial applications but have limitations in handling non-linear and uncertain systems. Intelligent controllers offer an alternative solution that can adapt to changing system dynamics and disturbances. The use of intelligent controllers in industrial applications has gained increasing attention in recent years, with numerous successful implementations in various fields, such as process control, robotics control, HVAC control, power systems control, and autonomous vehicle control. However, the design and implementation of intelligent controllers require careful consideration of hardware and software requirements, as well as simulation and testing procedures to ensure reliable and safe operation.

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Free Download Control of Singular Fractional Order Systems: LMI Approach: Stability, Stabilization and Admissibility
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031873815 | 442 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 32 MB
This book provides a comprehensive study of singular fractional-order systems, presenting a novel perspective on their analysis and control. Using the Linear Matrix Inequalities approach, it provides conditions for admissibility, robust admissibility, stabilization, and robust stabilization of fractional singular linear time-invariant systems. The methods discussed address key challenges in stability and robustness, and provide innovative solutions to open problems in fractional-order control theory.

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Free Download Control Systems Benchmarks
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031763114 | 380 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 43 MB
Control Systems Benchmarks helps control engineers, researchers, and students to evaluate and compare control system performance across a range of critical applications by offering a collection of real-world benchmarks. The book brings together challenges from diverse fields like power grids, robotics, automotive systems, and industrial processes, giving readers practical tools to test their control methods in realistic settings.

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