Being a vanguard for the automotive air conditioning industry's professional training was just the beginning. Today, Boyce Dwiggins continues to fulfill his mission of educating tomorrow's technicians by providing them with one of the most authoritative guides to theory, diagnostic procedures, and s..
This book examines the prevailing theoretical frameworks for viewing diversity in social work practice and helps readers develop competencies for work with and on behalf of diverse populations. The theoretical frameworks presented in the book cover three major dimensions of the diversity theme in so..
Wiggins makes the most convincing case yet that school-based assessment should aim mainly to improve, rather than to audit, student performance. Thanks to his penetrating discussions of feedback, the relationship of formal designs to practice, teaching for understanding, and rubrics, this book shoul..
Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions--and does so in a way that the thinking reader, increasingly perplexed by the everyday problem of moral ..
This text is intended to help counselors and other mental health practitioners make informed and effective interventions with clients for whom religion and spirituality are significant concerns. It is comprehensive, providing information on religious systems and spiritual beliefs as well as clinical..
From Marianne Wiggins, the award-winning author of Evidence of Things Unseen and Properties of Thirst delivers “a superb novel, hypnotic, disturbing, and artful...so good that most readers will devour it in one gulp” (The Washington Post Book World).Charlotte Lewes, a young Briton newly widowed by t..
With the help of his pet parrot, Mitch makes some important discoveries about friendship, responsibility, and love Author: Wiggins, Veralee Publisher: Pacific Pr Pub Assn Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0816311730 ISBN-13: 9780816311736..
From information on standard utility graphics through specifics on schedules and sequencing, this book covers every aspect of the working drawings and schedules that comprise a standard set of construction documents:â Site Plansâ Floor Plansâ Roof Plansâ Reflected Ceiling Plansâ Exterior Elevationsâ..
Parenting From The Heights takes a practical approach to raising great kids. Written by two moms, this book is packed with creative ideas to get kids on the right track. They don't stop with getting the right behavior, either. This book goes beyond fixing the outward behavior and goes to the heart o..
The multiple choice and short answer questions in Questions & Answers: Bankruptcy test not only students' knowledge of the bankruptcy code but also their knowledge of how the code occasionally intersects with other related sources of law such as Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as well as va..
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical..
After bouncing from foster home to foster home, Magdalene Mae is transferred to what should be her last foster home in the tiny town of Silver City, New Mexico. Now that she's eighteen and has only a year left in high school, she's determined to stay out of trouble and just be normal. Agreeing to go..
Steven Breckler, James Olson, and Elizabeth Wiggins want to bring social psychology alive for students. They know that the only way to do this is for students to experience social psychology themselves. From the inception of the Social Psychology Alive project, the book, workbook, online labs, and v..
Enriched by examples from actual teaching experience, Teaching for Musical Understanding is an exciting new look at the practice of teaching music. Drawing on current learning theory, the text shows teachers how to step out of the center of the music classroom - to guide, instead of direct, students..
In a thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of The Five Biggest Ideas in Science, authors Charles Wynn and Arthur Wiggins provide a panoramic view of the questions scientists seek to answer about the natural world:* Do basic building blocks of matter exist, and if so, what do they look like ..
Mixing processes occur in many technological and natural applications, with length and time scales ranging from the very small to the very large. The diversity of problems can give rise to a diversity of approaches. Are there concepts that are central to all of them Are there tools that allow for p..