William Damon - Bringing in a New Era in Character Education

William Damon - Bringing in a New Era in Character Education
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press | File type: PDF | 194 pages | 5.63 mb

Education in the United States has at last ended its failed experiment with separating the intellectual from the moral��and schools from K�C12 to college campuses are increasingly paying attention to students' values and accepting responsibility for students' character. But how can we bring in this new era in character education in a way that makes the right kind of difference to young people? What are the approaches that will provide character education the solid foundation necessary to sustain it now and into the future? What obstacles in our current educational system must we overcome, and what new opportunities can we create? This book provides a unique perspective on what is needed to overcome the remaining impediments and make character
education an effective, lasting part of our educational agenda. Each chapter points out the directions that character education must take today and offers strategies essential for making progress in the field. The expert contributors explain, for instance, how we can pass core values down to the younger generation in ways that will elevate their conduct and their life goals. They reveal why relativism has threatened the moral development of young people in our time��and what we can do to turn this around. And they show the critical importance of reestablishing student morality and character as targets of higher education's central mission. The authors make a strong case for quot;moral exemplarityquot;��actual human examples of moral excellence��as an effective tool of educational practice and describe how stoic quot;warriorquot; principles can offer a moral manner of managing one's emotions in times of pressure. Perhaps most important, they clarify the necessity of authority in any moral education endeavor��and show how it is actually a powerful force for both personal freedom and character building.

Guitars, Design, Production and Repair

Guitars, Design, Production and Repair

The Digital Songstream: Mastering the World of Digital Music

Brad Hill quot;The Digital Songstream: Mastering the World of Digital Musicquot;
Published by Routledge | File type: PDF |248 pages | English | 7.1 mb

The Digital Songstream is the first practical guide to getting up and running in the new digital world of music.
Cutting through myths, it offers a step-by-step introduction to what's possible for performers, composers, and listeners-addressing legal and ethical issues as well as the nuts and bolts of what equipment to buy and what services are available.

Written in a friendly, easy-to-understand way by a master musician and computer expert, The Digital Songstream will be the first-and only-reference needed for anyone wishing to enter the world of computer music.

Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, and Ashby H. B. Monk

Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, and Ashby H. B. Monk
Publisher : Oxford University Press | 304 pages | File type: PDF | 7 mb

Recent market turmoil, bank runs, global equities sell-off, and the quot;credit crunchquot; have demonstrated the sophisticated and interconnected nature of financial markets today seemingly localized problems have quickly spread, putting at risk the solvency of both local and global financial institutions. As these markets are increasingly complex, interconnected, and embedded in the daily lives of individuals, there is a pressing need to unravel and understand the complexities and prospects of this new and transformative social, political, and geographical paradigm.
This book brings together a group of leading scholars from a range of disciplines to formulate a more holistic understanding of financial risk by rooting it in different environments, spatial scales, and disciplines. The result is an all-encompassing exposition of current and future financial risk management practices, possibilities, and problems.

Reconciling Environment and Trade, Second Revised Edition

Reconciling Environment and Trade, Second Revised Edition
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff | File type: PDF | 716 pages | 2,5 mb

This volume focuses on five cases, all of which remain cornerstone trade-environment cases of the WTO. The subject matter of these cases reflects five basic issues in the clash between trade and the environment: public health, air pollution/ozone depletion, food safety, destruction of endangered species, and biosafety. five issues surface dramatically in international disputes over tobacco, reformulated gasoline, beef growth hormones, commercial fishing methods, and genetically modified organisms. In the second edition of this book, Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder joins the original editors to update and contextualize the five case studies in new introductions to each section.These introductions provide an overview of developments since the first edition, including subsequent related cases. The second edition also includes updated bibliographic materials.In their penetrating analyses of these cases and their vast implications, the authors take into account the entire disciplines of both trade law and environmental law, noting especially the points of friction between the multilateral instruments in each field and the developing jurisprudence of the WTO Dispute Settlement with regard to the exceptions specified in Article XX of the GATT. The articulated standpoints of all parties-governments and NGOs on both sides of the controversy-are probed for 'agendas', whether stated or unstated. No one involved in international trade or environmental activism can afford to ignore this vital publication. The information it provides (on WTO jurisprudence, on current and pending environmental initiatives, on the science behind the disputes), no less than the fresh and convincing analysis it holds forth, make it an essential tool for understanding some of the most crucial issues in international law today.

WordPress 2.8 E-Commerce

WordPress 2.8 E-Commerce By Brian Bondari
Publisher: Packt Publishing 2010 | 284 Pages |File type: PDF | 6 mb


Build a proficient online store to sell products and services
Earn huge profits by transforming WordPress into an intuitive and capable platform for e-Commerce
Build and control a vast product catalog to sell physical items and digital downloads
Configure and integrate various payment gateways into your store for your customers' convenience
Promote and market your store online for increased profits
Follow a practical, step-by-step guide packed with screenshots to ensure your store is created and deployed successfully

In Detail
WordPress is easily one of the hottest platforms for building blogs and general web sites. With the addition of the WP e-Commerce plug-in, it's also a competent platform for easily creating and running an online store, capable of selling physical items as well as services and digital downloads. WordPress with e-Commerce offers every feature that a seller and a customer may need. You can build an online store that makes it easier for the customers to find and buy products.
WordPress 2.8 e-Commerce focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in, covering all aspects of building and developing an online store from scratch.
This book provides a simple, step-by-step approach to developing an effective online store. It guides you through your initial planning and first steps, plug-in installation and configuration, building your catalog of products to sell, accepting payments for your orders, and dealing with taxes and shipping. You will also learn how to promote and market your new store, handle customer accounts and staff roles, and deal with essential store security.
As you work through each chapter, your online store will grow in scope and functionality. By the time you finish this book, you will have a complete and working store, ready to release your products to the world.

What you will learn from this book
Tweak WordPress to build an adept, business-friendly online store
Install and configure WP e-Commerce and add products to your online catalog
Manage and sort your products with groups, categories, tags, and variations
making it easier for your customers to find any product
Automate the delivery of digital downloads after purchase ensuring the convenience of your customers
Create and manage user account roles and permissions for customers and staff
Brand your site by customizing WordPress themes
Accept payments using a variety of payment processors and automatically apply sales tax and shipping
Create your own customizable shipping rates and connect to shippers such as USPS and UPS
Secure your online store against attacks and data loss
Explore alternative e-Commerce plug-ins for WordPress

Approach
This book provides an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to installing, configuring, and using WP e-Commerce to run your online store. We will construct an example store in the book with enough information and flexibility to adapt the store to your specific needs.

Who this book is written for
This book is for you, if you are interested in using WordPress as the basis for a store that can sell physical items, downloads, or services.
It is ideal for a sole proprietor or small business owner with only basic, in-house technical skills. Some prior knowledge of WordPress will help, but is not required. No knowledge of PHP is expected, but it will also be helpful.

About the Author
Brian Bondari is a musician, composer, and teacher with equal loves for both music and technology. His hobbies include reading, hiking, composing music, and playing with his pet rabbit. He also spends an exorbitant amount of time lying on the floor grading papers.
Brian earned his doctorate from the University of Kansas in 2009 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Texas at Tyler. When he is not writing music or grading papers, he serves as Senior Editor for the multi-author technology blog, TipsFor.us.

Principles of Inventory Management: When You Are Down to Four, Order More

Principles of Inventory Management: When You Are Down to Four, Order More By John Muckstadt A. Sapra
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition 2009| 339 pages | File type: PDF | 9 mb

Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores, manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even your own household. This textbook examines basic mathematical techniques used to sufficiently manage inventories by using various computational methods and mathematical models. Such models discussed include: EOQ model and extensions, power-of-two models, single and multi-period models, probabilistic lot sizing models, multi-echelon stochastic models, Laplace and Normal demand models, exact Poisson model, and many more.

Principles of Inventory Management begins with an introductory chapter in which the basics of inventory systems and mathematical assumptions for all models are grouped together. The text is presented in a way such that each section can be read independently, and so the order in which the reader approaches the book can be inconsequential. It contains both deterministic and stochastic models along with algorithms that can be employed to find solutions to a variety of inventory control problems.

Key topics include:
* Economic order quantity (EOQ) model
* Power-of-two policies
* Dynamic lot sizing
* Single and multi-period stochastic models
* Echelon-based approaches
* Multi-echelon systems
* Single and multi-item models..

Exam Prep for Principles of Managerial Finance by Gitman, 10th Ed. Created MznLnx

Exam Prep for Principles of Managerial Finance by Gitman, 10th Ed.
Publisher: MznLnx | 222 pages | File type: PDF | 8 mb

The MznLnx Exam Prep series is designed to help you pass your exams. Editors at MznLnx review your textbooks and then prepare these practice exams to help you master the textbook material. Unlike study guides, workbooks, and practice tests provided by the texbook publisher and textbook authors, MznLnx gives you all of the material in each chapter in exam form, not just samples, so you can be sure to nail your exam.

Family Time: The Social Organization of Care

Family Time: The Social Organization of Care
Publisher: Routledge | File type: CHM | 256 pages | 11,9 mb

Conventional economics fails to properly measure the benefits to society of looking after a household and caring for our families. In this impressive new study Nancy Folbre and Michael Bitman recruit an excellent contributors to explore the issue of..

Work Motivation: Past, Present and Future

Work Motivation: Past, Present and Future (SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series)
Ruth Kanfer, Gilad Chen, Robert D. Pritchard | Routledge Academic | File type: PDF | 720 pages | 5.5 mb

This edited volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series presents the current thinking and research on the important area of motivation.Work Motivation is a central issue in Industrial organizational psychology, human resource management and organizational behavior. In this volume the editors and authors show that motivation must be seen as a multi-level phenomenon where individual, group, organizational and cultural variables must be considered to truly understand it. The book adopts an overall framework that encompasses quot;internalquot; - from the person - forces and quot;externalquot; - from the immediate and more distant environment - forces. It is destined to challenge scholars of organizations to give renewed emphasis and attention to advancing our understanding of motivation in work situations.

UML 2004 - The Unified Modeling Language

Thomas Baar, Alfred Strohmeier, ?UML 2004 - The Unified Modeling Language?
Springer | File type: PDF | 454 pages | 5.04 mb

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, UML 2004, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2004.
The 30 revised full papers presented together with summaries on the workshops and tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 technical paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on metamodeling, aspects, profiles and extensions, OCL, model transformation, verification and model consistency, security, and methodology.

Top Google Story

The Google Story By David A. Vise
Publisher: Pan | 336 Pages | File type: PDF | 1 mb


The Google Story is the entertaining and definitive account of the most compelling innovation since the creation of the internet. Used in over 100 countries by more than 65 million users a day, Google is the most well known global brand to emerge in decades. It has become so popular that its name has become a verb. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to the founders of Google, this book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has transformed how we access information about everything and everybody. Readers will learn about the amazing network of thousands of computers that store over four billion web documents and which are kept in specially chilled, secretly located rooms. They will discover the creative ways Google makes money while it provides a free service to millions and they will experience something of the world of ��Googleplex��, the company��s colourful Silicon Valley headquarters, where staff receive free massages at the end of the day.
But even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in a busines that changes at lighting speed. Can it continue to compete while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL?

With Mathematica Code By Alan L. Lewis

Option Valuation Under Stochastic Volatility: With Mathematica Code By Alan L. Lewis
Publisher: Finance Press | 350 pages | djvu | 9 mb

This book provides an advanced treatment of option pricing for traders, money managers, and researchers. Providing largely original research not available elsewhere, it covers the latest generation of option models where both the stock price and its volatility follow diffusion processes. These new models help explain important features of real-world option pricing, including the quot;volatility smilequot; pattern. The book includes Mathematica code and 37 illustrations.

Glynis D Morris, Sonia McKay, Andrea Oates - Finance Director's Handbook, Fifth Edition

Glynis D Morris, Sonia McKay, Andrea Oates - Finance Director's Handbook, Fifth Edition
Publisher: CIMA Publishing | File type: PDF | 500 pages | 5.11 mb

Financial reporting is becoming more onerous and complex, particularly for listed companies. Accounting scandals have led to a greater regulatory focus on the role of audit committees, non-executive directors, risk management and internal control which put the Finance Director under new and more stringent pressures.
This quick reference manual provides extensive information on recent changes and authoritative coverage of all the financial operations a busy Finance Director has now to undertake. All the key business critical information is here in one book - everything a busy Finance Director needs access to. Written by professionals for professionals so that key information is easily accessed, assimilated and used. Detailed sections are devoted to audit, cash flow management, corporate transactions, financial reporting, management accounting, taxation and treasury and risk management.
* the vast range of business critical issues is constantly changing - to help you stay up to date, included in the price of the book are free regular on-line downloads of updates to legislation/standards
* packed with over 1000 pages, on key areas such as audit, company law, corporate governance, financial reporting, investor relations - you'll never be stuck for an answer again
* stay on top of the waves of legislation and standards as they roll in with the help of specialists in the field..

Off the Wall Chess Trivia

Off the Wall Chess Trivia
Publisher:Pickard Son | Pages: 216 | File type: PDF | 1.6 mb

Off the Wall Chess Trivia is jammed with tons of little-known facts, historical gems, and amazing stories - all you could possibly think of that defines chess. Whether you are a chess enthusiast or just a dabbler, you will be delighted, amazed and amused by this resource.

The Middle Game in Chess

The Middle Game in Chess
Publisher:Dover Publications | Pages: 224 | File type: PDF | 4.6 mb

Znosko was the Silman of our time and one of the strongest GMs of the early part of the 20th Century. In his day he was considered one of the best chess teachers and it's amazing his books have held up for over 50 years. This book is still standard reading by the Soviet school of chess and actually covers almost all of the key concepts covered by Silman in his Reassess your chess book. In fact it is recommended by the Dvoretsky school (Specifically mentioned in the Positional play book) why? Because the principles taught are still relevant, space, time, material balance, open lines and Tempo (Nowadays called development). The game examples are from the greats, Capa, Alekhine, Tarasch etc. Also some of the ideas have been forgotten and are now being revived. I think a newly minted International Master said it best The reason I made the jump from Fide master to IM was mainly due to study of tactical variations and working through Znoskos's Middlegame book Finally its written in Znosko's famous easy reading style.

Computer Chess

Computer Chess

Dutch Stonewall (Everyman Chess)

Dutch Stonewall (Everyman Chess)
Publisher: Everyman Chess | Pages: 144 | File type: PDF | 5.6 mb

This book avoids both of these shortcomings. It gives a reasonably large number of variations - anything worthwhile/likely to be played by white, AND detailed explanations regarding the strategies behind the moves. The variations are all supported by games of leading players. The book is well written and easy to read.

Importantly, it clearly points out some of the pitfalls to be aware of in playing this opening.

It also provides brief but insightful annotations to a large number of complete games, adding value beyond simply opening theory.

Thoroughly recommended.

Formula one. Driver's biography. Damon Hill

Damon Hill. On top of the world
Patrick Stephens Limited | Alan Henry | File type: PDF | 2.5 mb | 142 Pages | New Edition

Damon Hill won the 1996 Formula 1 World Championship with a brilliant victory in Japan, the final round of the 16-race season, to cap a dramatic career and emulate his father Graham, who won the title in 1962 and 1968. It wasn't an easy victory. Hill, a thoroughly decent man, made it to the very top of the world's most spectacular sport through his own hard slog, commitment, and utter refusal to be deterred by the many setbacks he found in his path.
This all-new book covers his full story, from boyhood as the son of a famous father, through competing in the junior formulae, to joining Williams as a test driver in 1991 then, in just his second full Grand Prix season, having to don the mantle of team leader after Ayrton Senna's death. It covers his epic battles with Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve, his dismissal by Williams and surprise decision to join TWR Arrows for 1997, culminating in a moving description of his crowning glory at the Japanese Grand Prix.
Written by a top motorsport expert and supported by first-hand interviews with the key people involved, this is a tale about indomitable human spirit. It shows that anything is possible for those determined to realise a personal dream...

Yoga for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Step-by-Step Guide for Paren

Yoga for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Pub | Pages: 112 | File type: PDF | 6.6 mb

Having successfully used yoga to combat the stress of their own busy lives, Dion and Stacey Betts discovered its potential for their son Joshua, who has Asperger Syndrome. This fully-illustrated book combines the authors' professional expertise with their experience of parenting, offering a range of gentle and fun yoga positions and breathing techniques that are effective in dealing with the increased levels of anxiety, disorientation and tactile sensitivity often found in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
The authors give step-by-step descriptions of warming-up, strengthening, calming and tension-releasing exercises that are suitable for reducing coping mechanisms, such as hand-flapping and increasing muscle tone, muscle strength and body awareness. They also offer a range of short and long sequences that can be tailored to fit the needs of the individual child.
Yoga for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders is ideal for parents and caregivers who want to use simple yoga techniques to help children with ASDs overcome some of the symptoms of the disorder...