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How People Learn: Brain Mind Experience and School 2ed

by National Research Council National Academies Press
Pub Date:
09/2002
ISBN:
9780309070362
Format:
Pbk 384 pages

This popular trade book, originally released in hardcover in the Spring of 1999, has been newly expanded to show how the theories...

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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success

by Editied by Susan Burns Peg Griffin and Catherine Snow National Academies Press
Pub Date:
01/1999
ISBN:
9780309064101
Format:
Pbk 192 pages

A devastatingly large number of people in America cannot read as well as they need for success in life. With literacy problems...

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From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development

by Jack Shonkoff and Deborah Phillips National Academies Press
Pub Date:
08/2000
ISBN:
9780309069885
Format:
Hbk 612 pages

How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of...

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Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century

by National Research Council National Academies Press
Pub Date:
01/2001
ISBN:
9780309072809
Format:
Hbk 360 pages

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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, Second Edition

by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne National Academies Press
Pub Date:
04/2001
ISBN:
9780309072700
Format:
Pbk 464 pages

Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 percent...

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How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom

by Committee on How People Learn : Targeted Report for Teachers National Academies Press
Pub Date:
01/2005
ISBN:
9780309089494
Format:
Pbk 272 pages

How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the best-selling How People Learn. Now...

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Educating Children with Autism

by Committee on Educational Interventions for Children with Autism, National Research Council National Academies Press
Pub Date:
10/2001
ISBN:
9780309072694
Format:
Hbk 324 pages

Children with autism are challenged by the most essential human behaviors. They have difficulty interacting with other people-often...

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Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle: Seventh Revised Edition, 2001 7ed

by Lawrence Geiter National Academies Press
Pub Date:
03/2001
ISBN:
9780309069977
Format:
Pbk 408 pages

This widely used reference has been updated and revamped to reflect the changing face of the dairy industry. New features allow...

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Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Reality Ends…and Illusion Begins

by Charles M Wynn and Arthur W Wiggins with Cartoons by Sidney Harris National Academies Press
Pub Date:
08/2001
ISBN:
9780309073097
Format:
Pbk 200 pages

The fact is that not all "science" is created equally. Indeed, some "science" isn't science at all but is really downright bogus-in...

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Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy

by Allison Mack and Janet Joy National Academies Press
Pub Date:
10/2000
ISBN:
9780309065313
Format:
Pbk 216 pages

Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Can marijuana ease...

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Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

by Mortimer L. Mendelsohn, Lawrence C. Mohr, and John P. Peeters National Academies Press
Pub Date:
01/1998
ISBN:
9780309064187
Format:
Hbk 448 pages

The book examines the epidemiology of reading problems and introduces the concepts used by experts in the field. In a clear and...

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Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care

by Philip Aspden, Janet M Corrigan, Julie Wolcott and Shari M Erickson National Academies Press
Pub Date:
05/2004
ISBN:
9780309090773
Format:
Hbk 550 pages

Every day, tens if not hundreds of thousands of errors occur in the health care system. Some can cause disastrous effects, while...

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Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle: Seventh Revised Edition: Update 2000 7ed

by National Research Council National Academies Press
Pub Date:
05/2000
ISBN:
9780309069342
Format:
Pbk 248 pages

"The accompanying computer evaluation programs are a welcome addition... This update is well written and represents a worthwhile...

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From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

by F David Peat National Academies Press
Pub Date:
05/2002
ISBN:
9780309076418
Format:
Hb+ 250 pages

Early theorists believed that in science lay the promise of certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective...

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Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How

by Catherine E Snow and Susan B Van Hemel National Academies Press
Pub Date:
02/2009
ISBN:
9780309124652
Format:
Hbk 520 pages

The assessment of young children's development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations...

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