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Transformations : Women, Gender & Psychology
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Subject(s): Women -- Psychology | Gender identity | Feminist psychology | Sex role | Sex differences (Psychology) | Social change Summary: "Transformations presents a broad, comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding how the lives of all people, but particularly the lives of girls and women, are shaped by gender. Rather than conc

Planning and Observation of Children Under Three
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Subject(s): Early childhood education -- Planning | Child development Summary: "Effective planning and observation are absolutely fundamental to young children's learning and development. The learning opportunities for children need to be relevant for their age group, realistic and challenging. Drawing on recent research, Planning and O

Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems
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Subject(s): Feedback control systems Review: "This revision of a top-selling textbook on feedback control provides greater instructor flexibility and student readability. Chapter 4 on A First Analysis of Feedback has been substantially rewritten to present the material in a more logical and effective manner. A new case study on biological c

Writing for Visual Thinkers : a Guide for Artists and Designers.
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Subject(s): Written communication -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Visual communication -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Authorship | Designers -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Authorship | Thought and thinking Summary: This book is designed to help people who think in pictures--a segment of learners that by some estimates includes almost 30 percent of

Landscaping with Stone
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Subject(s): Stone in landscape gardening | Masonry | Stone walls -- Design and construction | Garden walks -- Design and construction | Patios -- Design and construction Summary: Featuring more than 290 full-colour photographs and 40 full-colour illustrations, "Landscaping with Stone" provides readers with everything they need to know a

Assessment of Groundwater Resources and Management
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Subject(s): Groundwater -- Congresses -- Management -- India | Groundwater -- Congresses -- Management | Water resources development -- Congresses -- India | Conference proceedings, published Summary: Papers presented at the International Conference "IGC-2006" on Groundwater, held at New Delhi in February 2006. Holdings: ,B

Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Geological Media : State of the Science
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Subject(s): Geological carbon sequestration | Carbon sequestration -- Technological innovations | Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Storage Technological innovations | Carbon dioxide mitigation Summary: "Over the past 20 years, the concept of storing or permanently storing carbon dioxide in geological media has gained increasing attention as pa

Public Expenditures for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa
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Subject(s): Government spending policy -- Case studies -- Africa | Agricultural development projects -- Case studies -- Africa | Rural development -- Case studies -- Africa | Economic assistance, Domestic -- Case studies -- Africa | Africa -- Case studies -- Appropriations and expenditures Summary: "The Minister of Finance of an African cou

Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research : Politics, Languages and Responsibilities
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Subject(s): Education research | Access to knowledge movement Summary: "How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better 'mobilized' among users such as practicing educators, policy makers,

Adaptation in Dynamical Systems
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Subject(s): Dynamics | Control theory -- Mathematical models | Neurosciences -- Mathematics Summary: "In the context of this book, adaptation is taken to mean a feature of a system aimed at achieving the best possible performance, when mathematical models of the environment and the system itself are not fully available. This has application

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