Special education teachers face unique challenges, especially when they are just beginning. This essential resource offers special educators a blueprint for dealing with the most common challenges they face both in the classroom and in the larger school environment.These research-based strategies help teachers meet the academic needs of diverse students with disabilities (including those who are also English language learners) in areas such as setting up a classroom, managing stude...

Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral system. Drawing on detailed case studies, including the United States and countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, the book focuses on three, inter-related causal mechanisms: the pernici...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist enti...

Avid North American birders share wit, wisdom, advice, and what fuels their passion for birds.Birding gets you outside, helps you de-stress, exercises your body and mind, puts your day-to-day problems in perspective, and can be lots of fun. Birders know this, and in this collection of thirty-seven brief essays, birders from diverse backgrounds share their sense of wonder, joy, and purpose about their passion (and sometimes obsession).From the Pacific Ocean ...

The "Following Kaufman" periodicals gather recent master level chess games, that are relevant to the "Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White" and present them with a diagram for each move, so one can review these chess games without a chess set. GM Larry Christiansen recommends reviewing 200 games a week. This format makes it easy to peruse chess games anywhere you can carry your e-pub reader.The games are ordered by ECO classification, and the table of contents identifies the ECO of...

David Sibley, Don and Lillian Stokes, and many more share their inside tips—and witty observations—on the birding life.The biggest names in birding dispense advice to birders of every level—on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding—in these lighthearted essays accompanied by illustrations. Whether satirizing bird snobs or relating the traditions and taboos of the birding culture, this collection of wisdom is as choc...

Todo lo que necesita saber para dominar el arte del management, de una manera accesible y práctica. Josh Kaufman demuestra que, para triunfar, no es necesario pagar el dineral que vale un MBA.Muchas escuelas de negocios se limitan a ofrecer una educación desfasada como si fueran cadenas de montaje. Al cabo de dos años, los recién graduados pasan a engrosar el ejército de mandos intermedios y empiezan a descubrir cómo funcionan de verdad las empresas.Josh Ka...

The "Following Kaufman" periodicals gather recent master level chess games, that are relevant to the "Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White" and present them with a diagram for each move, so one can review these chess games without a chess set. GM Larry Christiansen recommends reviewing 200 games a week. This format makes it easy to peruse chess games anywhere you can carry your e-pub reader.The games are ordered by ECO classification, and the table of contents identifies the ECO of...

The "Following Kaufman" periodicals gather recent master level chess games, that are relevant to the "Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White" and present them with a diagram for each move, so one can review these chess games without a chess set. GM Larry Christiansen recommends reviewing 200 games a week. This format makes it easy to peruse chess games anywhere you can carry your e-pub reader.The games are ordered by ECO classification, and the table of contents identifies the ECO of...

The "Following Kaufman" periodicals gather recent master level chess games, that are relevant to the "Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White" and present them with a diagram for each move, so one can review these chess games without a book.The games are ordered by ECO classification, and the table of contents identifies the ECO of each game along with the players.To view the diagrams it may be necessary to select "use publisher defaults" in your ebook reader and/or adjust the...