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The Expert Expert

The Path to Prosperity and Prominence as an Expert Witness

by Douglas L. Field ...

Experts occupy a unique position in the litigation process. The law and the courts give them automatic authority and credibility at the outset. But the greatest challenge for experts as they navigate the court process is to preserve that high level of credibility going forward. In The Expert Expert, author Douglas L. Field presents detailed information to help an expert professional become an ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Experts occupy a unique position in the litigation process. The law and the courts give them automatic authority and credibility at the outset. But the greatest challenge for experts as they navigate the court process is to preserve that high level of credibility going forward. In The Expert Expert, author Douglas L. Field presents detailed information to help an expert professional become an
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The Monster Novel Structure Workbook: How to Plot Without Getting Stuck

by R. B. Fleetwood ...

If your novel is a circus, plot structure is what holds the tent up.Keep your tent taut with The Monster Novel Structure Workbook, an illustrated system for structuring your novel's plot.Includes:21 Story Beats - Forget theories that only provide 3, 4, or 7 beats. Monster Novel Structure takes a granular approach so you're never lost.9 Examples - Learn from popular books, movies, and even ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

If your novel is a circus, plot structure is what holds the tent up.Keep your tent taut with The Monster Novel Structure Workbook, an illustrated system for structuring your novel's plot.Includes:21 Story Beats - Forget theories that only provide 3, 4, or 7 beats. Monster Novel Structure takes a granular approach so you're never lost.9 Examples - Learn from popular books, movies, and even
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School Management by Wandering Around

by Larry Frase, Robert W. Hertzel ...

Management by wandering around (MBWA) is the catalyst that brings teachers, aides, parents, and administrators together in the pursuit of excellent schools. MBWA is an active person-to-person process that relies on deeds, involvement, and participation to create better schools. The leader who embraces MBWA does not just talk about his philosophy, he lives it. The MBWA leader possesses an honest ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Management by wandering around (MBWA) is the catalyst that brings teachers, aides, parents, and administrators together in the pursuit of excellent schools. MBWA is an active person-to-person process that relies on deeds, involvement, and participation to create better schools. The leader who embraces MBWA does not just talk about his philosophy, he lives it. The MBWA leader possesses an honest
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Be a Great Tutor: The Inspiring Guide to Tutoring All Ages

by Erin O'Briant ...

Take your tutoring skills from good to great with the inspiring guide to tutoring all ages. Enjoyable to read and easy to understand, Be a Great Tutor leads both beginning and experienced tutors step-by-step to more successful sessions.Erin Quinn O'Briant, MFA, editor of www.Tutoring-Expert.com, explains three fundamentals of tutoring. With major contributions from award-winning education ... Read more

$8.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Take your tutoring skills from good to great with the inspiring guide to tutoring all ages. Enjoyable to read and easy to understand, Be a Great Tutor leads both beginning and experienced tutors step-by-step to more successful sessions.Erin Quinn O'Briant, MFA, editor of www.Tutoring-Expert.com, explains three fundamentals of tutoring. With major contributions from award-winning education
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The Ranch Table

Recipes from a Year of Harvests, Celebrations, and Family Dinners on a Historic California Ranch

by Elizabeth Poett, Georgia Freedman ...

USA TODAY BESTSELLERFrom the star of Magnolia Network’s popular show Ranch to Table—a stunningly beautiful cookbook celebrating a year on a ranch on the California coast, featuring simple yet festive recipes, inspiring menus, and fascinating culture and history.Elizabeth Poett was raised on Rancho San Julian, a 14,000-acre ranch on Santa Barbara’s Central Coast that her family has been working ... Read more

$25.99 USD

USA TODAY BESTSELLERFrom the star of Magnolia Network’s popular show Ranch to Table—a stunningly beautiful cookbook celebrating a year on a ranch on the California coast, featuring simple yet festive recipes, inspiring menus, and fascinating culture and history.Elizabeth Poett was raised on Rancho San Julian, a 14,000-acre ranch on Santa Barbara’s Central Coast that her family has been working
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Career Theory and Practice

Learning Through Case Studies

by Nadya Fouad, Jane L. Swanson ...

Career Theory and Practice: Learning Through Case Studies illustrates the process, theories, and application of career development counseling through a series of rich case studies integrated throughout the text. Authors Jane L. Swanson and Nadya A. Fouad use this case study approach to highlight the similarities and differences between the featured theories, as well as to illustrate proper ... Read more

$100.79 USD

Career Theory and Practice: Learning Through Case Studies illustrates the process, theories, and application of career development counseling through a series of rich case studies integrated throughout the text. Authors Jane L. Swanson and Nadya A. Fouad use this case study approach to highlight the similarities and differences between the featured theories, as well as to illustrate proper
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The Write Formula

by David Rocklin ...

Have you always wanted to be a writer? Do you have a book in your head, but you don't know where to start? Learn how to generate story ideas, create structure and setting, and bring unforgettable characters to life with the helpful strategies in The Write Formula. Now you can take your idea from concept to completion and become the author you've always wanted to be. ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Have you always wanted to be a writer? Do you have a book in your head, but you don't know where to start? Learn how to generate story ideas, create structure and setting, and bring unforgettable characters to life with the helpful strategies in The Write Formula. Now you can take your idea from concept to completion and become the author you've always wanted to be.
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THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods - Sertillanges

by A.D. Sertillanges ...

In 1920, the Dominican monk Sertillanges wrote "The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods," a masterpiece that proposed to address the Sixteen Precepts of Saint Thomas, but which gained practical substance for preparation during and after study. "The Intellectual Life" goes beyond observations for studies. They are completely perennial and fundamental methods for the development of ... Read more

$1.90 USD

In 1920, the Dominican monk Sertillanges wrote "The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods," a masterpiece that proposed to address the Sixteen Precepts of Saint Thomas, but which gained practical substance for preparation during and after study. "The Intellectual Life" goes beyond observations for studies. They are completely perennial and fundamental methods for the development of
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Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity

Edited by Rita Malenczyk, Susan Miller-Cochran, Elizabeth Wardle, Kathleen Yancey ...

Edited by four nationally recognized leaders of composition scholarship, Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity asks a fundamental question: can Composition and Rhetoric, as a discipline, continue its historical commitment to pedagogy without sacrificing equal attention to other areas, such as research and theory? In response, contributors to the volume address disagreements about what it means ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Edited by four nationally recognized leaders of composition scholarship, Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity asks a fundamental question: can Composition and Rhetoric, as a discipline, continue its historical commitment to pedagogy without sacrificing equal attention to other areas, such as research and theory? In response, contributors to the volume address disagreements about what it means
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Obamacare: What's in It for Me?

What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

by Wendell Potter ...

On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.Enter Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin and former health insurance executive. Obamacare: What's ... Read more

$2.99 USD

On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.Enter Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin and former health insurance executive. Obamacare: What's
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Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love

by David I. Hernández-Saca, Holly Pearson, Brittany Aronson, Christina A. Bosch, M. Nickie Coomer, Danielle M. Cowley, Deborah J. Gallagher, JPB Gerald, Shehreen Iqtadar0, Ashley Cartell Johnson1, Gloshanda Lawyer2, Amanda L. Miller3, Martin Musengi4, Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg5, Amy J. Petersen6, Ganiva Reyes7, Sarah Schlessinger8, Chelsea Stinson9, Jane Strauss0, Maria T. Timberlake1, Sarah Arvey Tov2, Ananí M. Vasquez3, David J. Connor4, Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides6 ...

Series series Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education
In Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love, the authors explore what it means to engage in boundary work at the intersection of traditional special education systems and critical disability studies in education. The book consists of fifteen groundbreaking accounts that challenge dominant medicalized discourses ... Read more

$34.99 USD

In Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love, the authors explore what it means to engage in boundary work at the intersection of traditional special education systems and critical disability studies in education. The book consists of fifteen groundbreaking accounts that challenge dominant medicalized discourses
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

by SparkNotes ...

Series series SparkNotes Literature Guide Series
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Robert Louis StevensonMaking the reading experience fun!Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysisexplanations of key themes, motifs, and symbolsa review quiz and essay ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Robert Louis StevensonMaking the reading experience fun!Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysisexplanations of key themes, motifs, and symbolsa review quiz and essay
... Read more
Educating for Equity and Excellence

Enacting Culturally Responsive Teaching

by Geneva Gay ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
In this collection of articles, Geneva Gay invites readers to make educational equity and excellence for all students a reality, not just an ethic or an ideal. Through teaching narratives and pragmatic examples, Gay illustrates that a combination of ideology, ethics, personal commitment, and praxis on the part of educators is essential to achieving equity for underachieving racial and ethnic ... Read more

$35.99 USD

In this collection of articles, Geneva Gay invites readers to make educational equity and excellence for all students a reality, not just an ethic or an ideal. Through teaching narratives and pragmatic examples, Gay illustrates that a combination of ideology, ethics, personal commitment, and praxis on the part of educators is essential to achieving equity for underachieving racial and ethnic
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Яма. Олеся

Повести

by Aleksandr Kuprin, Александр Иванович Куприн ...

Series series Классика и модерн
Александр Иванович Куприн (1870-1938) один из величайших русских писателей, в творческом наследии которого более десятка повестей и романов («Впотьмах», «Олеся», «Гранатовый браслет»), множество рассказов и очерков.В повести «Яма», по словам критика В. Н. Афанасьева, Куприн стремился привлечь внимание к сотням и тысячам публичных женщин, всеми отвергнутых и презираемых, но сохранивших душевную ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Александр Иванович Куприн (1870-1938) один из величайших русских писателей, в творческом наследии которого более десятка повестей и романов («Впотьмах», «Олеся», «Гранатовый браслет»), множество рассказов и очерков.В повести «Яма», по словам критика В. Н. Афанасьева, Куприн стремился привлечь внимание к сотням и тысячам публичных женщин, всеми отвергнутых и презираемых, но сохранивших душевную
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El día del juicio - Novelas en español nivel avanzado (C1)

Spanish Novels Series, #21

by Paco Ardit ...

Series Book 21 - Spanish Novels Series
¿Estás buscando historias para mejorar tu español?Sé lo difícil que es encontrar buenos libros para ayudarte a aprender un nuevo idioma.Usualmente no tienes un vocabulario extenso.No puedes leer novelas largas y complejas destinadas a hablantes nativos.Te gustaría ir directamente a las cosas divertidas, pero tal vez sea demasiado difícil para ti ahora.Las típicas lecturas fáciles en español para ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

¿Estás buscando historias para mejorar tu español?Sé lo difícil que es encontrar buenos libros para ayudarte a aprender un nuevo idioma.Usualmente no tienes un vocabulario extenso.No puedes leer novelas largas y complejas destinadas a hablantes nativos.Te gustaría ir directamente a las cosas divertidas, pero tal vez sea demasiado difícil para ti ahora.Las típicas lecturas fáciles en español para
... Read more
What Good Cooks Know

20 Years of Test Kitchen Expertise in One Essential Handbook

Edited by America's Test Kitchen ...

After more than 20 years of obsessive research and testing, America's Test Kitchen has literally written the book on how to master your kitchen. Logically organized and packed with step photography, this will be the ultimate one-stop resource for both shopping and cooking.Have you ever wished that your kitchen came with instructions? Let the experts at America's most trusted test kitchen show you ... Read more

$17.99 USD

After more than 20 years of obsessive research and testing, America's Test Kitchen has literally written the book on how to master your kitchen. Logically organized and packed with step photography, this will be the ultimate one-stop resource for both shopping and cooking.Have you ever wished that your kitchen came with instructions? Let the experts at America's most trusted test kitchen show you
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Defiant Desire

Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa

Edited by Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser ...

Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love
... Read more
No-Frills Physics

A Concise Study Guide for Algebra-Based Physics

by Matthew D. McCluskey ...

Series series Textbook Series in Physical Sciences
This textbook provides everything you need to get through a basic physics course. It guides students through all the essentials with a concise review of the concept, simple illustrations to demonstrate it, worked problems to showcase how to apply it, and a short quiz for self-testing. Whereas other standard books can be overwhelming to students, the author shares what has worked with his own ... Read more

$51.99 USD

This textbook provides everything you need to get through a basic physics course. It guides students through all the essentials with a concise review of the concept, simple illustrations to demonstrate it, worked problems to showcase how to apply it, and a short quiz for self-testing. Whereas other standard books can be overwhelming to students, the author shares what has worked with his own
... Read more
Saundarya Lahari

Wave of Beauty

by Mani Rao ...

'A joyful rendition of an iconic text' - Arundhathi SubramaniamSaundarya Lahari is a popular Sanskrit hymn celebrating the power and beauty of Sakti, the primordial goddess. In one hundred verses, it underlines the centrality of the feminine principle in Indian thought.Attributed to Adi Sankaracarya, Saundarya Lahari is a valuable source for understanding tantric ideas. Every verse is associated ... Read more

$9.99 USD

'A joyful rendition of an iconic text' - Arundhathi SubramaniamSaundarya Lahari is a popular Sanskrit hymn celebrating the power and beauty of Sakti, the primordial goddess. In one hundred verses, it underlines the centrality of the feminine principle in Indian thought.Attributed to Adi Sankaracarya, Saundarya Lahari is a valuable source for understanding tantric ideas. Every verse is associated
... Read more
How to Write a Damn Good Novel

A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

by James N. Frey ...

Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible rules and principles.An international bestseller, How to Write a Damn Good Novel will enable all writers to face ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible rules and principles.An international bestseller, How to Write a Damn Good Novel will enable all writers to face
... Read more
The Rule of Five

Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

by Richard J. Lazarus ...

“The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus’s compelling narrative is enlivened by colorful characters, a canny dissection of courtroom strategy, and a case where the stakes are, literally, as big as the world.”—Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent“There’s no better book if you want to understand the past, present, ... Read more

$16.59 USD

“The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus’s compelling narrative is enlivened by colorful characters, a canny dissection of courtroom strategy, and a case where the stakes are, literally, as big as the world.”—Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent“There’s no better book if you want to understand the past, present,
... Read more
Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications

by Kathrynn A. Adams, Eva Kung McGuire (aka: Lawrence) ...

Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications by Kathrynn A. Adams and Eva K. McGuire is designed to give students the experience of being a researcher by combining the interrelated concepts of research methods and statistics to better explain how the research process incorporates both elements. Employing a conversational tone throughout, coupled with an emphasis on decision-making, this best ... Read more

$100.79 USD

Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications by Kathrynn A. Adams and Eva K. McGuire is designed to give students the experience of being a researcher by combining the interrelated concepts of research methods and statistics to better explain how the research process incorporates both elements. Employing a conversational tone throughout, coupled with an emphasis on decision-making, this best
... Read more
Building Academic Language

Meeting Common Core Standards Across Disciplines, Grades 5-12

by Jeff Zwiers ...

“Of the over one hundred new publications on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this one truly stands out! In the second edition of Building Academic Language, Jeff Zwiers presents a much-needed, comprehensive roadmap to cultivating academic language development across all disciplines, this time placing the rigor and challenges of the CCSS front and center. A must-have resource!”—Andrea ... Read more

$17.00 USD

“Of the over one hundred new publications on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this one truly stands out! In the second edition of Building Academic Language, Jeff Zwiers presents a much-needed, comprehensive roadmap to cultivating academic language development across all disciplines, this time placing the rigor and challenges of the CCSS front and center. A must-have resource!”—Andrea
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Global Justice, State Duties

The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law

Edited by Malcolm Langford, Wouter Vandenhole, Martin Scheinin, Willem van Genugten ...

The rise of globalization and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks if states possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of its ... Read more

$60.99 USD

The rise of globalization and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks if states possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of its
... Read more

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