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Focusing on creating learning environments, this book explores what it means to be an innovative leader of learning and teaching in higher education.Providing practical tips and guidance to support those designing or redesigning higher education curricula, this book highlights approaches and solutions to leading change in learning and teaching. Covering all areas from an overview of external pressures, through to developing a vision and strategy for a programme, to classroom practi...

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J.T. Geissinger

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Tara Langella, Troy Duran, Eric Nolan, Sam Williamson, Jessica Threet

From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Geissinger comes the long-awaited sequel to Pen Pal**, a twisty paranormal romantic suspense.**Death was only the beginning.Can true love survive death? For Aiden and Kayla, the answer was yes. Ripped apart in a cruel twist of fate, the star-crossed lovers were reunited in the afterlife by a bond so strong, it couldn't be broken.But the ...

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Doug Newton, Sam Nolan, Simon Rees

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For physics researchers, creative thinking is used daily to solve challenges at the forefront of what is known about the Universe. In this book, the authors introduce concepts and ideas around creative thinking and provide practical advice and guidance for those who teach physics in universities to help them embed opportunities for creativity in their teaching and in their students’ learning. A range of voices from across the globe share their experiences as creative teachers. Opportunitie...

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Sam Lau, Joseph Gonzalez, Deborah Nolan

As an aspiring data scientist, you appreciate why organizations rely on data for important decisions--whether it's for companies designing websites, cities deciding how to improve services, or scientists discovering how to stop the spread of disease. And you want the skills required to distill a messy pile of data into actionable insights. We call this the data science lifecycle: the process of collecting, wrangling, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data.Learning Data Scienc...

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Education (R0)

This book highlights the problems that have developed as students lack either the social or cultural capital to take the opportunity of Higher Education through conventional routes. This might be due to leaving school early, lacking entry qualifications or wanting to further their education and prospects after entering the workplace. Foundation courses help to widen participation and create a route towards higher education. This book offers tried and tested practical solutions, from the no...

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Lou Nolan, Sam Carchidi, Sam Carchidi

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If These Walls Could Talk

Relive the Philadelphia Flyers' greatest moments with insider stories from the team's legendary announcer!From the days of Bobby Clarke and the Broad Street Bullies to today's stars, If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Flyers offers a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the team's history. Longtime announcer Lou Nolan shares his most memorable moments and untold stories from the ice, locker room, and press box.Is this for you? Absolutely, if you'...

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Teaching School Subjects 11-19

In recognizing that new teachers often feel disempowered by the subject expertise they bring into teaching, this book not only covers the training standards for NQTs and the Induction Standards, but takes the reader beyond this by fully exploring issues relating to subject knowledge in learning to teach.Divided into three sections the book covers:framing the subject - defining subject knowledge and focusing on questions about science as a school subjectteach...

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John Brockman

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Edge Question Series

Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains ...

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Aurélien Géron

Through a recent series of breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This bestselling book uses concrete examples, minimal theory, and production-ready Python frameworks (Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow) to help you gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts and tools for building intelligent...

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Colin Marsh

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Teachers' Library

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the field. Written in Marsh's clear and accessible style, the book details the strengths, weaknesses and controversies around major concepts in curriculum, includingcurriculum planning and d...

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John Brockman

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Edge Question Series

The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant mind...

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Estelle Phillips, Derek.S. Pugh, Colin Johnson

How to Get a PhD is the market leading, classic book for PhD students and their supervisors.