Sentences with phrase «leading textbooks on»

Lewis has coauthored two leading textbooks on world geography.

These include the leading textbook on accounting used in law schools, a popular narrative on contracts, and best - selling books on Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett (The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values).

These include the leading textbook on accounting used in law schools, a popular narrative on contracts, and best - selling books on Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett (The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values).

The Director of the Centre is Dr David Harvey, a former Judge of the District Court and well known for his expertise in the area of law and information technology and the author of the leading textbook on law and online systems internet.law.nz.

at the University of Lucerne, where he contributed to the complete overhaul of a leading textbook on international arbitration.

Not exact matches

This has led Arthur H. Robinson, professor emeritus of cartography at the University of Wisconsin and author of the most widely used textbook on cartography, Elements of Cartography (John Wiley, 1984), to describe the Gall - Peters land - masses as «somewhat reminiscent of wet, ragged, long winter - underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle» («Arno Peters and His New Cartography,» The American Cartographer, October 1985)

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

No history textbook could say that the Romans landed on the moon, yet an RE textbook can write «Followers of all religions have religious experiences which lead them to believe that God exists».

She also led Project 2061's evaluative studies of science and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

While not addressing charges that Archaeopteryx status as a bird was based on faked evidence (that fooled the evolutionist community, textbook writers, and students for 150 years), leading paleontologists are coming to the conclusion that Archaeopteryx is a dinosaur.

The Spanish textbook quoted, which might be expected to see Spain as an aggrieved party, in fact mostly dwells on the internal dissension and clumsy colonial governance that led to the war and defeat even though the United States «hardly had a professional army.»

In their report, The Digital Imperative, Terri Duggan Schwartzbeck and Mary Ann Wolf contended that,» [s] imply slapping a netbook on top of a textbook... will not necessarily lead to significant outcomes» (2012, p. 8).

Traditionally, companies relied heavily on textbooks and instructor - led trainings to deliver the learning content, while more recently eLearning has emerged as a valuable tool for staff education.

Traditionally, companies relied heavily on textbooks and instructor - led trainings to deliver the learning content, while more recently eLearning has emerged... Continue reading «4 Types of eLearning Solutions to Boost Your Business»

Community colleges are taking the lead in building degree pathways based exclusively on OER, easing the burden of textbook costs for many students and providing opportunities to improve instruction and learning.

Advocates of choice have been too quick to characterize the add - ons, rhetoric, and ad campaigns as the leading edge of a business - like, performance - oriented response to competition, because they have failed to recognize that these changes are the product of a market that is fundamentally different from the hypercompetitive models described in economics textbooks.

Teachers can lead discussions on why those perspectives were not included in the official class textbook.

State and local authorities require students to take certain courses, minutes of classroom instruction are specified, limits on the ratio of students to teachers are set, textbooks are approved, and teachers leading instructional activities are certified by the state.

The author calls for a debate on standardized tests led by education leaders instead of politicians and the testing, tutoring, and textbook industries that benefit the most from testing.

Many districts have curriculum directors that lead the textbook adoption process, but sometimes this process falls back on the school principal.

After conducting a decade of in - school research on the state and status of classroom assessment in U.S. schools, Dr. Stiggins authored a leading and award - winning introductory textbook for teachers on classroom assessment, An Introduction to Classroom Assessment FOR Student Learning, now in its seventh edition with Pearson Education.

A lack of oversight and confusion among several departments with little experience in understanding how affiliated charter school should operate, including school operations, school management services and budget services, lead the district to purchase textbooks, classroom furniture and other supplies for years on behalf of the autonomous schools.

But simply slapping a netbook on top of a textbook will not lead to improvements.

It also has led to such improvements as understanding the differences math textbooks have had on student math skills.

On other occasions, students would double - check our facts: «Mr. Criswell told us... But you said...» This interchange led to interesting dialogue about perceptions of what students had heard in one class or the other and how history is interpreted by readers, writers, textbook companies, teachers, and students.

With a presence on 6,000 campuses in 180 countries, educators and students have access to tens of thousands of titles from the world's leading textbook publishers.

This July, 30 publishers from Tunisia, Libya, Senegal, Mauritania, Algeria and Morocco will attend a workshop on textbook design led by the Frankfurt Academy.

CourseSmart, a leading provider of digital educational materials and textbooks, has been available on the Android platform for some time, but today announced that it is enhancing its current Android capabilities.

«The key factors which we see impacting on the digital textbook market and the educational publishing sector as a whole are the increasing speed of the move to digital as efficacy studies and technological advances enable take - up of suitable devices and solutions,» said Kate Worlock, Lead Analyst for Education & Training at information analytics firm Outsell.

CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).

CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education... [Read more...]

This newest installment significantly evolves the gameplay from the previous two Orcs titles, what was previously a pretty textbook castle defense game has morphed into a full MOBA, with character options that would allow you to defend against invaders by laying traps (if you want to continue the same experience from its prequels) or take an offensive role, leading minions in an assault on an opposing teams defenders and the traps they have prepared.

I'm sure it's not lost on you that you are describing here a textbook example of a paradigm leading scientists to the rejection and reinterpretation of an anomaly that appears to contradict the paradigm.

Prof. Emadi is co-author of what is considered the world's leading introductory textbook on hybrid vehicles: Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory and Design.

Some chemistry textbooks discuss how explosives are made, some posts to computer security discussion groups discuss security bugs in a leading operating system, and some works on criminology or forensics discuss how hard - to - solve murders are committed.

Relying solely on electronic databases: More often than not it is best to first browse a textbook in the relevant area of law before going online; you will be able to benefit from someone else's work, develop ideas for argument, and refine your queries when you do go online; this should lead tobecoming more time efficient [it gets you out of your office, too!]

Derivative claims: Matthew is the author of the chapter in Gore - Browne on Companies, the leading company law textbook, on derivative claims.

(h) Following the hearing the KRG produced copies of extracts from a textbook — Al Waseet on Public International Law — which, it was said, was used in teaching law students at the leading law school in Dubai to show that the concept would be known to UAE lawyers, a point not in issue.

The textbooks donated by Sweet and Maxwell include leading titles such as Archbold, McGregor on Damages, White Book and a number of Nutshells and City and Finance Practitioner's Guide titles.

China University of Political Science and Law Press, a leading legal publisher in China, just published a bilingual (English and Chinese) legal research textbook based on West's Analysis of American Law / Key Number System and WestlawNext.

Jonathan's expertise in judicial review is underpinned by the fact that he is a co-author of the leading practitioners» textbook on the subject, Judicial Review: Principles and Procedure (OUP, 2013).

Andrew's expertise in judicial review is underpinned by the fact that he is a co-author of the leading practitioners» textbook on the subject, Judicial Review: Principles and Procedure (OUP, 2013).

He has published widely on the area in the leading journals and co-authors one of the leading textbooks.

Supperstone, Goudie and Walker on Judicial Review was described by Lord Woolf as a «leading textbook» in R v Home Secretary, ex p Jeyeanthan [2000] 1 WLR 354 at 360C and has been reviewed as «the leading textbook in the field», «wide in scope», «rich in detail and authoritative in expression», with «contributors superbly qualified for the task», providing a «thorough, detailed analysis» and «essential account» and being an «essential» reference volume.

He has authored four leading textbooks and numerous articles on family law, and is a former member of the Law Society's Family Law Certification Committee.

Christopher is also a highly regarded academic writer, publishing widely in journals and is the co-author of the leading textbook Bradley, Ewing & Knight on Constitutional and Administrative Law (2014, Pearson).

More recently, he was the lead writer on a textbook for Kaplan, but now, he ’ s made the trek from Chicago to review appliances in Louisville.

Authored journal articles and an innovative neuroscience textbook; led a large, adult - focused, on - line state college innovation.

The new wave is being led by forensic psychiatrist William Bernet who has led the informal task force of distinguished contributors to what now becomes a movement in support of the diagnosis of parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome to be included in the DSM - 5 and the ICD II, see the textbook on this subject published in 2010.

She authored the first two textbooks on kitchen and bath design for the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), and while serving as the NKBA's director of educational services, her research led to new industry planning standards manuals.