Whether you're dealing with a problem employee or praising the good work of a colleague, you need to communicate in a way that promotes positive change in others. Giving Effective Feedback quickly walks you through the basics of delivering feedback that gets results, including: 1. Choosing the right time to talk 2. Engaging in productive dialogue 3. Helping both star and struggling performer…
This volume in the new Arthritis & Arthroplasty series offers expert guidance on everything from patient selection and pre-operative planning to surgical approaches and techniques.
WHAT TOOLS ARE IN THE TOOLKIT OF AN EXCELLENT SPECIAL EDUCATOR, AND HOW CAN TEACHER PREPARATION programs provide these tools in the most efficient, effective way possible? This practical, clearly written book is grounded in current research and policy as well as the author's extensive experience as a teacher educator. It identifies what special education teachers need to know to work competentl…
Whether you are an experienced teacher, principal, or coach or are just starting out, you will find the 100 literacy and learning lessons an invaluable resource for energizing your teaching and learning and raising achievement and enjoyment. While each lesson stands on its own and can be read in any order, taken together the lessons create a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the expert p…
Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology introduces students to the techniques, methods, and theoretical frameworks of contemporary archaeology in a brief format. Adopted and streamlined from the authors' hardcover text, Archaeology: Discovering Our Past, this book provides students with a variety of archaeological perspectives through comprehensive information on contemporary …
he Common Core State Standards place an emphasis on teaching students to read and understand increasingly complex texts. That teaching requires more than just assigning students hard books and hoping they get better at reading. Teaching starts with a deep understanding about what makes text complex. In this book, you'll learn about the quantitative and qualitative factors of text complexity as …
Although early visitors dismissed the Galapagos Islands as "useless," "hell," "so parch'd that [the islands] will not bear a man," and "the most dreary, barren, and desolate [place] I have ever beheld," today the islands are among the world's top destinations. Indeed, more than 170,000 tourists now visit Galapagos each year (Figure 1), despite the high cost of getting there and the archipelago'…
The tenth edition of d/ner/ca, Russia, and the Cold War traces U.S. foreign policies in general, and American-Russian relations in particular, from the pre-World War II years through the Cold War of 1945 to 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. Chapters covering the post-1991 era describe what some expert observers see as a new Cold War emerging. Some of the additions in the new edition inclu…
much time on strategy development with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. This book will inspire you to: 1. Distinguish your company from rivals 2. Clarify…
The eighth edition of Social Stratification and Inequality continues to provide a _ comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the economic and social divisions in human societies. Extensive comparative information, as well as an overview of how social stratification has changed and evolved over time, gives readers a global perspective on class conflict. Praised for its thorough research and scho…
We've examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
Applied research methods in criminal justice and criminology provides a solid foundation in research methods for undergraduated students who are studying to become practitioners in the criminal justice field. This text takes a practical applied approach that is both engaging and useful in developing students into ducated consumers of research.
ADDRESSING A KEY SKILL IN READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING, THIS COMPREHENSIVE BOOK IS grounded in cutting-edge research on vocabulary development. It presents evidence-based instructional approaches for at-risk students, including English language learners and those with learning difficulties. Coverage ranges from storybook reading interventions for preschoolers to direct instruction and indepen…
When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a luxury. But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over.
"In After Cocteau, Carolyn Miller reminds us that we are constantly sur¬rounded by the miraculous, and fills us 'with a sweet, deep nourishment.' In her poems of sensual celebration and penetrating hope, we are comforted by the voice of a mature poet equally talented in handling ekphrasis, the elegy, and the lyric, as well as narrative and persona poems. With seamless clarity and a painter's p…
There are many ways to arrange human lives—different kinds of families, economies, and governments; and endlessly varied values, beliefs, norms, and customs. Using a comparative framework, Global Sociology: Introducing Five Contemporary Societies, Sixth Edition, provides a broad and comprehensive sociological description of Japan, Mexico, Egypt, Germany, and the San peoples of Namibia. Wor…
In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones…
I wrote the first edition of this book during a time of rapid change in my favorite academic discipline— anthropology. My colleagues and I were excited about new discoveries and directions in all four of anthropology's subfields—biological anthropology, anthropological archaeology, sociocultural anthropol¬ogy, and linguistic anthropology. My goal was to write a book that would capture that…