Subject(s): Teachers -- Training of -- United States | Urban schools -- United States | College-school cooperation -- United States Summary: "When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward soc

Subject(s): Instructional systems -- Design Summary: "An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design is organized around a groundbreaking new way of conceptualizing instructional design practice. Both practical and theoretically sound, this approach is drawn from current international trends in architectural, digital, and industrial desi

Subject(s): Construction industry -- Technological innovations | Civil engineering -- Technological innovations | Competition Summary: "This book sets out the innovative practices that have been introduced from other industries and shows how the construction industry has learn from these. It explores the commercial significance of innovatio

Subject(s): Radioimmunoimaging | Image processing | Medical radiology Summary: "This book provides complete descriptions of the techniques involved in medical image processing, using sufficient descriptions and practical references. Chapters cover topics of deformable registration, segmentation, image reconstruction, and integration of thes

Subject(s): Chemical engieering | Chemical reactions Summary: "This up-to-date textbook fills a longstanding gap for graduate courses in chemical reaction engineering. It explores the interplay between transport processes and reaction kinetics, multiphase reactions and reactors, and optimization and reactor stability. The book includes a br

Subject(s): Teachers -- Training of Summary: "What do teachers learn 'on the job'? And how, if at all, do they learn from 'experience'? Leading researchers from the UK and Europe, the USA and Canada offer international, research-based perspectives on a central problem in policy-making and professional practice - the role th

Subject(s): Wireless sensor networks | Ad hoc networks (Computer networks) Summary: "Although wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been employed across a wide range of applications, there are very few books that emphasize the algorithm description, performance analysis, and applications of network management techniques in WSNs. Filling this

Subject(s): Education -- Philosophy | Multicultural education -- Philosophy | Education and globalization Summary: "In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and p

Subject(s): Rogers, Carl R. 1902- (Carl Ransom), -- Interviews | Teaching -- Philosophy | Effective teaching | Student-centered learning Summary: "On Becoming an Effective Teacher presents the final unpublished writings of Rogers and as such has a unique historical value. It also documents the research results of four highly relevant, relat

Subject(s): Heat pipes Summary: "Preface This book covers the state of the art of adsorption research and technologies for relevant applications based on the use of the efficient heat transfer devices--heat pipes and two-phase thermosyphons--with the objectives of energy efficiency and sustainability. The severities of energy crisis and env