Product Description: ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free-market vision of relationships among the United States, Mexico, and Canada...read more

Product Description: With new forms, techniques, and checklists, this second edition provides 101 strategies for using learners’ prior knowledge.

Provides classroom strategies and applications based on Gardner's 'Theory of Multiple Intellgences.'

An autobiographical novel by the popular B-movie actor follows his imagined efforts to debut on the 'A' list by starring in a big-budget film, an endeavor he attempts to legitimize by attending a crash course in method acting.

Product Description: Invaluable information on key issues for Canadians -- energy, water, security and surveillance, military integration, social servicesLiving With Uncle examines the new realities of Canada's relations with the US in a world of a Conservative government in Ottawa, a trade agreement that often proves ineffective, and the post 9/11 American preoccupation with security and military dominance...read more

Product Description: This proceedings volume contains pedagogical lectures on theoretical and experimental particle physics, cosmology and atomic trap physics. It also includes additional contributions that provide up-to-date information on new experimental results from accelerators, underground laboratories, and nuclear astrophysics...read more

Product Description: B-movie megastar Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, and Bubba Ho-Tep fame comes to comics with this adaptation of his upcoming feature film. With more talent than you could fit in his freakishly large chin, Campbell not only co-wrote the film with David Goodman, but directed and starred in it as well...read more

Product Description: * Examines the links between woodcarving and deforestation, conservation, and international trade with case studies from Australia, India, Africa, and Mexico* Highlights the vital importance of traditional industries to rural economies: more money and jobs are generated per unit of wood in woodcarving than in any other part of the timber industry* Part of the cutting-edge People and Plants seriesMuch has been published on the impacts of logging in tropical forests for timber, but relatively little has yet been written about the effects of felling hardwood and softwood trees for commercial scale woodcarving enterprises...read more

Product Description: " A History Book Club Alternative Selection No part of the Nazi movement contributed more to Hitler's success than the Sturmabteilung (SA) -- the notorious Brown Shirts. Bruce Campbell offers the first in-depth study in English of the men who held the three highest ranks in the SA...read more

This outstanding resource offers an accurate reflection of Howard Gardner's "Theory of Multiple Intelligences" -- and the knowledge to extend this theory to effective classroom practice. This book describes implications for pedagogy, team teaching, student strengths, curriculum, assessment, community involvement, and diverse classroom models. Designed for the teacher who wishes to teach effectively to all types of learners. The authors devote one chapter to each of the eight intelligences: Verbal-Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Kinesthetic, Visual-Spatial, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalist. They define the intelligence, provide a checklist for identifying it, suggest environmental considerations, and offer related teaching strategies. Additional chapters survey Gardner's recent work on teaching for understanding, performance-based assessment, and model MI school programs and student outcomes. For classroom teachers, school psychologists, and anyone with an interest in intelligences. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Murals have been an important medium of public expression in Mexico since the Mexican Revolution, and names such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco will forever be linked with this revolutionary art form...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

With tireless good humor and biting wit, the autobiography of the unlikely star of the legendary Evil Dead movies describes how a combination of ambition and disappointment, fame and anonymity have led him to lead a unique double life as a cult movie icon and ordinary man. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: The primary aim of this book is to provide clear and concise explanations about all aspects of the medico-legal process for surgeons, other doctors and lawyers. A wide range of topics is covered including: how the medico-legal arena is changing; the legal principles involved; how to avoid medico-legal problems; resolving complaints out of court; the surgeon as defendant; the surgeon as expert; the GMC and the Coroner...read more

Product Description: What do your donors need? How can you win their support? For the nonprofit seeking to improve programs and increase fundraising, this book provides a step-by-step guide to listening to the needs of your donors through effective survey research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A pocket-size colour atlas illustrating with high-quality photographs all common physical signs that indicate a need for surgery. This useful reference offers students access to a wealth of clinical photographs at a low cost. It is also an excellent review resource for students preparing for examinations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers six case studies of elementary, middle-level, and high schools that have used multiple intelligences theory for five or more years which highlight the impressive gains they made by using this approach to student learning.

Amazon.com Review: As the title suggests, Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week is a straightforward tutorial, designed to provide you with enough information and practice to quickly begin coding for 4.0 browsers. While some titles lump multiple HTML topics together under the "Dynamic HTML" banner, this one sticks strictly to its subject, covering both Netscape and Microsoft implementations of scripting, HTML, and style sheets to create dynamic and interactive content...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains how to create VRML worlds using events, routings, collision detection, pushbutton response, and animated viewpoints, as well as detailed backgrounds, lighting, and textures

Product Description: "... required reading for Canadians who want to understand the social disasters of the last decade". -- Sun (Vancouver) "... will have many Canadians gnashing their teeth in anger and humiliation -- make sure you have a good dental plan before you read it"...read more

Product Description: An analysis of the uses of routinely collected health data in management to increase the overall effectiveness of the health care system. Assumptions, designs and tools are addressed, along with lessons learned. Based on experiences in Ghana.

Product Description: In the first part of the book, general problems are given their own chapters: haemorrhagic, cardiac, respiratory and renal complications are each discussed, as is venous thromboembolism. The complications of specific operations are then covered, including carotid, aortic (infrarenal and suprarenal), femorodistal and visceral reconstruction...read more