Sentences with phrase «of leading textbooks»

Members of Chambers edit or contribute to a number of leading textbooks.

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

«The connection between inflammation and cancer has moved to center stage in the research arena,» notes Robert A. Weinberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, who has highlighted the changing emphasis in a revision of his leading textbook, The Biology of Cancer (Garland Science, 2006).

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.

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).

Not exact matches

The instructor guiding you through it all, Stephan Sorger, has taught for over a decade at UC Berkeley Extension, previously led product management and strategy at Oracle and SAP, and is the author of two marketing textbooks.

He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook «Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication» and «Thinking Things Over,» a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

Dismissing the traditional, yet ineffective, textbook methods for leadership and management (that likely led you here), Kennedy presents a straightforward assessment of the real relationship between employers and their employees, and dares you to take action.

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).

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)

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

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».

Indeed, the leading textbook of the radical midwifery theorists is Promoting Normal Birth — Research, Reflections and Guidelines best understood as Promoting Midwives — Research, Reflections and Guidelines.

As late as the 1970s, leading American medical textbooks still advocated routine circumcision as a way to prevent masturbation.5 The antisexual motivations behind an operation that entails cutting off part of the penis are obvious.

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.

When they examined otoliths from adult brown trout caught near the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, Limburg and her colleagues found that most trout don't lead textbook lives.

«These processes lead to invention of new reactions that are not yet in the textbook,» Yu said.

«This is a tantalizing discovery with a low chance of being a false alarm, but before we can start rewriting the textbooks, we'll need to see more bursts associated with gravitational waves from black hole mergers,» study lead author Valerie Connaughton, of the National Space, Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in a statement.

«We found there is little diversity in skin tone in these textbooks,» said the study's lead author Patricia Louie, who began the research at UBC and is now a PhD student at U of T. «Proportional to the population, race is represented fairly accurately, but this diversity is undermined by the fact that the images mostly depict light skin tones.»

In terms of what's in medical textbooks and medical studies, you will not find any reliable medical studies or textbooks that claim that what we eat affects the pH of our blood because the pH range of our blood is so tightly controlled by our body that it's not possible to alter it just by what we eat, and the reason for this is that even slight changes in the pH or acidity of our blood can lead to very, very serious consequences, including death.

Unfortunately, the leading exercise physiology textbook also claims a «low - carbohydrate diet sets the stage for a significant loss of lean tissue as the body recruits amino acids from muscle to maintain blood glucose via gluconeogenesis [2].»

The first paragraph led like the textbook [i.e. «Fifty Shades of February 14»] perfect Valentine's Day date, minus the flowers, Michelin starred restaurant and the limo.

Fast forward to the present day and a salvage crew led by Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne, fulfilling the legitimate actor requirement of the movie) and run by a crew with names taken straight out of a cheap Screenwriting 101 textbook.

Books When Tim Oates, director of assessment research and development at exam board Cambridge Assessment, was asked to use his school curriculum expertise to lead the government's review of the national curriculum, his international research highlighted the importance of high quality textbooks in realising the aims of national curricula and supporting effective teaching.

McGraw - Hill is one of the nation's leading textbook publishers, and CTB / McGraw - Hill is a major assessment company and the producer...

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).

The logic of the argument that it is the Asian culture or something «beyond their textbooks» that produces math success leads to the conclusion that, as NCTM adherents often contend, content doesn't matter nearly as much as the teacher or the culture that produces the «proper conditions for learning.»

This has led to one of the teachers questioning the advisability of senior examiners writing textbooks in the same subject as that in which they are examining.

Managing Director of Kortext, a leading digital textbook and learning platform provider and one of the fastest growing edtech businesses in UK.

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.

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.

As the leading provider of digital textbooks, curriculum - based digital content, and professional development, Discovery Education is transforming teaching and learning worldwide.

Jason Zimba, one of the lead writers of the math standards, told the Hechinger Report: «That question would not be in a textbook if I wrote it.»

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.

This is a question that has become especially important last week when Fordham's Kathleen Porter - Magee took aim at textbook publisher Heinemann and a team led by writing curricula player Lucy Calkins for publishing a new polemic that attempts an «ideological co-opting» of the standards and tries to defend the publisher's «existing — and poorly aligned — materials».

He is the Associate Editor of Educational Theory, lead author of a textbook for teachers, School and Society, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 6th Edition (2009), and lead editor of The Handbook of Research in Social Foundations of Education (2011).

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.

Nor will the two groups leading the effort tell textbook publishers how to measure student attainment of the standards.

Along with the new devices, the district invested in classroom training and professional development to support its digital transition and bolstered its teacher resources with Discovery Education Techbook, a digital textbook series from Discovery Education, a leading provider of digital textbooks and curriculum - based digital content for K — 12 school districts.

The team members have taught in leading schools, been members of the state textbook committees and designed and taught courses at the school as well as teacher - training level.

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.

When the authors of the AERA study analyzed the literature used by Common Core writers to justify the need for more complex texts, what they found was: «a tight and closed loop of researchers citing one another and leading... to an artificially heightened sense of scholarly agreement about a decline in textbook complexity.»

Ave Maria Press is a leading provider of Catholic books, spiritual books, prayer books, and Catholic textbooks with 140 years of Catholic publishing experience.

Funded by a U.S. Department of Education grant, in partnership with the Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC), this project will remediate more than 1,000 leading textbook titles requested by students and instructors with print disabilities.