Product Description: This very well organized book is packed with practical solutions to the most common classroom problems – side talk, rude behavior, calling out, students losing focus, and students refusing even to try. Every solution is classroom-tested, highly effective, and quick and easy to implement! Use this book to help make your classroom a happier, more productive learning environment – one in which your students thrive and everyone benefits...read more

Product Description: Drive boredom out of your classroom – and keep it out – with the student-engagement strategies in this book. You’ll learn how to gain and sustain the attention of your students from the moment the bell rings. Perfect for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, these activities go head-to-head with student boredom and disengagement, resulting in class time that’s more efficient, more educational, and loads more fun! Contents include: Strategies to Begin a Lesson Strategies to End a Lesson Strategies for Solo/Independent Work Strategies for the Whole Group Author Bryan Harris, an expert in student engagement and classroom management, has extensive experience in K-12 motivation and brain-based learning...read more

Product Description: Is your classroom culture conducive to the expectations of the Common Core? Teaching content is not enough; students need a classroom structure and atmosphere that will help them learn key academic skills. This practical book will show you how to transform your classroom culture, raise the level of rigor, encourage higher-level questioning and critical thinking, and promote academic discussions...read more

An irreverent look into the lives of some of the traditional marriage institution's most outspoken defenders reveals how many of them fail to live up to the standards they set, in a volume that considers the examples of such figures as Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, and Defense of Marriage Act author Bob Barr. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Fibre composites, like metals, exhibit a form of degradation in service described as fatigue. Engineers must understand composite fatigue because it is a causative agent of design and structural failures. Engineers need to increase their knowledge of the mechanisms that result in degradation in order to predict the life of a composite under specified conditions and produce composites with greater durability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This major handbook is the first authoritative survey of current knowledge of fatigue behaviour of composites. It deals in detail with a wide range of problems met by designers in the automotive, marine and structural engineering industries...read more

Book by Harris, Bryan (view table of contents)

Product Description: The block exemption regulation for franchise agreements removes much of the anxiety and reduces the risk of infringement of competition law when establishing franchise networks within the EU. This is a lucid and practical guide to EC Regulation 4087/88 which concerns categories of franchise agreements...read more