Greater Expectations is the book that exposed the low standards that children are confronted with in our homes, our schools, and throughout our culture. It exploded many of the misconceptions about children and how to raise them, including the cult of self-esteem, “child-centered” learning, and other overly indulgent practices that have been watering down the education and guidance that we are providing our young people. It disclosed how the self-centered ethic is damaging our youth. Greater Expectations started America talking about these issues and about how young people need to be provided with challenges and a sense of purpose if we want them to survive and thrive in life.
Provocative and challenging, Greater Expectations was a wake-up call, a must-read for anyone concerned about the growing youth crisis in America and what we can do about it.
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Author: William Damon Publisher: Free Press ISBN: 9781451603101 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
This work presents current approaches in geophysical research of earthquakes. A global authorship from top institutions presents case studies to model, measure, and monitor earthquakes. Among others a full-3D waveform tomography method is introduced, as well as propagator methods for modeling and imaging. In particular the earthquake prediction method makes this book a must-read for researchers in the field.
Author: Po Chen; Hung-Chie Chiu; Elisabeth Cochran; Benchun Duan; Yong-Gang Li; Peter Malin; Ru-Shan Wu; Xiao-Bi Xie; Xiang-Chu Yin; Yong-Gang Li; Higher Education Press Publisher: De Gruyter ISBN: 9783110259032 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2012 272 pages
In Leipzig an undertaker named Konstantin Korff harbours a cruel secret.
In Minsk an unscrupulous scientist performs questionable experiments.
And in Paris a plane that is about to take off crashes into an airport terminal with deadly consequences for its passengers.
An investigation into the accident begins immediately, but the results are puzzling: all occupants were dead before the plane hit the building. What the police do not know is that there was one survivor. But even as they blunder into the investigation, Konstantin Korff and the mysterious scientist are already on his trail, all three bound together by the same curse. A curse that makes them a danger to everyone around them.
Author: Markus Heitz Publisher: Quercus ISBN: 9781784290412 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
This revision aid will be of great practical benefit to all radiology trainees studying for their professional examinations. The carefully structured questions and answers will enable trainees to undertake a systematic assessment of their knowledge, as well as highlighting areas where additional revision is required. Developed to complement its highly illustrated parent text, Applied Radiological Anatomy, both books can be used together or independently of one another. The choice of questions are relevant and useful for radiology trainees world-wide.
Author: Arockia Doss; Matthew J. Bull; Alan Sprigg; Paul D. Griffiths Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780511059223 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2003 214 pages
The all-in-one guide to modern routed and switched campus network design
Understand the network design process and network design models
Learn how switches are used in network design
Design an IP addressing plan and select appropriate IP routing protocols
Apply network security design principles to boost network security
Enable WLANs to improve workforce mobility
Examine QoS design requirements and tools
Unleash the power of voice transport over data networks, including VoIP and IP telephony
Use content networking to provide content to users quickly and efficiently
Learn how to integrate network management protocols and tools into network designs
Understand how to effectively integrate IP multicast, high availability, storage networking, and IPv6 into your network designs
Over the past decade, campus network design has evolved many times as new technologies have emerged and business needs have changed. For enterprises to take advantage of cost-saving, productivity-enhancing solutions, such as IP telephony and content networking, their core infrastructures must include the key enabling technologies required by these solutions and provide a resilient, secure foundation that can scale to business needs. As with any architecture, designing a solid foundation is the first step.
Campus Network Design Fundamentals is an all-in-one guide to key technologies that can be integrated into network design. The book provides insight into why each technology is important and how to apply this knowledge to create a campus network that includes as many or as few of today’s productivity-enhancing applications as are needed in your environment. Topics covered throughout the book include network design process and models, switching, IP routing, quality of service (QoS), security, wireless LANs (WLANs), voice transport, content networking, network management, IPv6, IP multicast, increasing network availability, and storage networking. Sample network designs are included through-out, and the book concludes with a comprehensive case study that illustrates the design process and solutions for headquarters, branch offices, and home office/remote users.
Whether you need an overview of modern campus technologies or seek advice on how to design switched and routed networks that securely support these technologies, this book is your comprehensive resource to the foundations upon which all modern-day campus networks are based.
This book is part of the Cisco Press® Fundamentals Series. Books in this series introduce networking professionals to new networking technologies, covering network topologies, example deployment concepts, protocols, and management techniques.
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A decade ago no one except geologists had heard of tantalum or ‘coltan’ – an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and laptops. Then, in 2000, reports began to leak out of Congo: of mines deep in the jungle where coltan was extracted in brutal conditions watched over by warlords. The United Nations sent a team to investigate, and its exposé of the relationship between violence and the exploitation of coltan and other natural resources contributed to a re-examination of scholarship on the motivations and strategies of armed groups. The politics of coltan encompass rebel militias, transnational corporations, determined activists, Hollywood celebrities, the rise of China, and the latest iGadget. Drawing on Congolese and activist voices, Nest analyses the two issues that define coltan politics: the relationship between coltan and violence in the Congo, and contestation between activists and corporations to reshape the global tantalum supply chain. The way production and trade of coltan is organised creates opportunities for armed groups, but the Congo wars are not solely, or even primarily, about coltan or minerals generally. Nest argues the political significance of coltan lies not in its causal link to violence, but in activists’ skillful use of mobile phones as a symbol of how ordinary people and transnational corporations far from Africa are implicated in Congo’s coltan industry and therefore its conflict. Nest examines the challenges coltan initiatives face in an activist ‘marketplace’ crowded with competing justice issues, and identifies lessons from coltan initiatives for the geopolitics of global resources more generally.
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Author: Michael Nest Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9780745637716 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2014 232 pages
What Can Happen When We See People the Way God Does
As Christians, we’re called to love our neighbors—all our neighbors. But is that even possible? And can we truly love them well?
People often think of their neighbors as those already belonging to their “tribe” or community. It’s safe, it’s easy, and it doesn’t often cause conflict—politically or religiously. But in today’s world, everyone and everything is interconnected globally in an ever-changing cultural landscape, while religious strife runs rampant. Is it feasible for Christians to live their faith boldly and lovingly while entering into a true relationship with “neighbors” of other faiths, both locally and globally?
In Bold as Love, Pastor Bob Roberts shows you what it looks like to live out your faith daily in the global public square among people of other faiths—Jews, Muslims, atheists, Hindus, Buddhists. While he admits that it can be challenging to engage people of other faiths whose beliefs are as strong as yours, he demonstrates how to enter into this critical dialogue in a radical yet loving way. “We have to learn to speak with one conversation and give the same message everywhere to everyone,” he says. “We are commanded to love God and love others. And sometimes that requires risky boldness.”
Roberts invites you to respond to this call to live a life of fearless and loving engagement with the world. So take the risk! Your faith wasn’t made to live in isolation. It’s something you do face-to-face, heart-to-heart, hand-to-hand. Whether you are in a suburb of Houston or a village in India, put away the fear and suspicion and, instead, answer the call to radically love others the way God loves. And get ready to see your life and the lives of those you touch—your family, your community, even your enemies—transformed!
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Author: Bob Roberts Jr. Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 9781400204212 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2012 208 pages
What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James’s finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue.In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child’s capacity for intelligent `wonder’, James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offersparticularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Author: Henry James; Adrian Poole Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780191623103 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2008 336 pages
First published in 1974, Charles Fried’s Medical Experimentation is a classic statement of the moral relationship between doctor and patient, as expressed within the concept of personal care. This concept is then tested in the context of medical experimentation and, more specifically, the randomized controlled trial (RCT). Regularly referred to as a point of departure for ethical and legal discussions of the RCT, the book has long been out of print. This new, second edition includes a general introduction by Franklin Miller and the late Alan Wertheimer, a reprint of the 1974 text, and an in-depth analysis by Harvard Law School scholars I. Glenn Cohen and D. James Greiner which discusses the extension of RTCTs to social science and public policy contexts. The volume concludes with a new essay by Charles Fried that reflects on the original text and how it applies to the contemporary landscape of medicine and medical experimentation.
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Author: Charles Fried; Franklin Miller; Alan Wertheimer Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780190602741 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2016 176 pages
Ce manuel présente une stratégie fiable et rentable pour mesurer le travail bénévole. Il fournit une définition du travail bénévole, une méthodologie de mesure afin d’identifier les travailleurs bénévoles et ses caractéristiques, et une méthodologie pour estimer la valeur de leur travail. La 18a Conférence Internationale de Statisticiens du Travail a discuté et approuvé le manuel en 2008, lequel est devenu la première directive internationale dirigée vers les agences statistiques pour produire des statistiques officielles sur le travail bénévole, utilisant une définition et une approche communes.Le manuel aspire à servir comme référence pour les statisticiens qui mesurent le travail bénévole, et comme guide pour les chercheurs, décideurs et autres qui désirent comprendre et utiliser les statistiques produites. Ce manuel souhaite contribuer à la sensibilisation du besoin pour des statistiques du travail bénévole, une ressource fondamentale qui améliore la qualité de vie partout dans le monde. Comme tel, ce manuel est une partie intégrale de l’engagement de l’OIT pour le travail décent.Sous les auspices du Département de Statistique de l’OIT, ce manuel a été préparé par des chercheurs du Centre d’études de la société civile de l’université Johns Hopkins, en collaboration avec un groupe d’experts techniques et avec l’appui des Volontaires des Nations Unies. Cette publication coïncide avec le 10ème anniversaire de l’Année Internationale des Volontaires (AIV 2001), qui a fait appel aux gouvernements à reconnaitre et améliorer la mesure du travail bénévole.
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Author: Publisher: International Labour Office ISBN: 9789222250714 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2012 118 pages
