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Product Description: This book explains the fundamental tools for achieving a more cohesive and satisfying environment. Using more than 100 photographs and drawings, Hedman illustrates the basic components of urban design. A great book for teaching planning students about urban design and a helpful tool for introducing citizens to the importance of good design...read more

Product Description: Book by Minnery, John R.

Foundations of Education incorporates relevant interdisciplinary perspectives and emphasizes coverage of key issues in education, with up-to-date research, primary resources, and documentation. This text provides comprehensive and substantive coverage of all "foundational" areas—including social, philosophical, historical, political, economic, curricular, and legal—for students who are preparing for a career in teaching and for those who simply wish to learn more about significant contemporary issues in education. The authors have included strong, thought-provoking pedagogy, and have emphasized the growing role of technology in education. This Teaching in Action Edition is packaged with a special guide that correlates text material with the HM Video Cases.In This Case boxed features contain brief, fictional case scenarios that describe situations in which new teachers might find themselves. Readers are asked to think critically about concepts discussed in each chapter.Expanded topical overview charts in each chapter summarize and compare key developments and topics in education.Information about standards addresses the growing emphasis on holding students, teachers, and schools accountable for performing at levels specified by local, state, and national standards.Legal issues, including the No Child Left Behind act, are addressed.Technology@School, a popular feature in every chapter, updates students on relevant developments in educational technology and provides information that may prove useful in their teaching careers.Additional features include Focus Questions at the beginning of each chapter, Refocus Questions after major text sections, and Taking issue charts, offering arguments on both sides of a question.Houghton Mifflin Video Cases, four- to six-minute video modules presenting real classroom scenarios, enable students to observe the day-to-day challenges and rewards of teaching from the convenience of their computers. Available on the Online Teaching and Study Centers, HM Video Cases are enhanced by classroom artifacts, Viewing Questions, Interview Transcripts, Key Terms, and bonus video footage.

Product Description: The contributors to this work provide social interpretations of a wide range of buildings, including Augustinian monasteries in Scotland, Tudor and medieval London houses, an 18th century formal garden, the Iroquian long-house and Carolingian palaces.

Product Description: Many civic leaders in North America and Europe realize that tackling urban crime involves more than adding to the police force. Now, innovative, environmentally based approaches to the crisis have made encouraging progress. Detailing new strategies, this first-of-its-kind handbook shows how smarter urban design and management can be strong deterrents to many site-specific crimes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first comprehensive guide to conducting academic research on the Internet. The book assumes a certain familiarity with standard research procedures (e.g. library and notetaking skills) and a general computer literacy, but assumes little experience with the Internet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Rapid regeneration of city areas has placed the quality of urban design high on public and policy agendas worldwide. Planning for Urban Quality examines the achievement of quality in the urban environment, in a planning context. Tracing urban design from its roots, the authors draw on both historical and current practices to examine the key physical, political and economic forces at play and the social pressures and impacts brought about by both failures and achievements in urban design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A Nobel geneticist confronts a ruthless messianic cult in this suspenseful story of one man's dangerous, determined, global odyssey to save his daughter's life, using the power of modern technology as well as the ancient miracle of healing. A first novel. Reprint. PW.

Even though Remo is being plagued by a prophecy and Chiun discovers a dark family secret that could shatter the House of Sinanju, they join forces to stop an evil enemy from killing members of the Congress. Original.

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Product Description: SNOOZE n. 1. The nicest moment of the day, between dreaming and waking, in a slumbering state of being. 2. Just one more push on the snooze button. 3. An exuberant exploration that couples the hallmarks of successful mass culture to the urban condition...read more

Product Description: What makes a city great? This book reveals the key planning and design guidelines needed to create a lively, appealing city center in any metropolitan area.

Product Description: Making Cities Work examines the characteristics that make cities pleasant and practical places to live and work. Featuring 30 individual case studies which focus on getting to, enjoying, and moving around a city, this beautifully illustrated book is an ideal reference for city and urban planners as well as transport planners and executives...read more