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#1 The Oxford comma is the comma you see before the and in a list. It is highly encouraged by The Chicago Manual of Style, but The Associated Press Stylebook, which governs a lot of what you see in newspapers, doesn't advocate using it unless it's necessary for clarity. I believe strongly in The Chicago Manual of Style, and I use it often. It is a great resource, and...
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Una de las inquietudes ms acentuadas en el siglo XXI gira en torno a los modelos de formación por competencias que permean en los planes de estudio de los diversos niveles educativos de algunos pases de Latinoamérica. Está por demás decir que la necesidad de profesionalizar al profesorado en este tema versa como punto nodal en la mayoría de las agendas de gobierno. Se pretende conseguir que, frente a las preceptivas y las recomendaciones oficiales...
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The Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina quickly achieved a national reputation for its contribution to pure research, university teaching, and public affairs. From its inception in 1924, it addressed touchy issues such as race relations, industrial inequities, and political inefficiency in the South. Despite worries about academic acceptance and funding, the institute's scholars produced research and publications...
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#1 The book was made into a movie in 1958, and it was groundbreaking for its frankness on sexual matters at the time. It was seen as a testament to the unwritten law, which stated that a husband who found another man in bed with his wife was justified in killing him. But the law was a myth.
#2 Anatomy of a Murder is a film noir, and it is largely because of its atmospheric,...
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#1 I wrote three pieces that became a book called Encounters with the Archdruid. I had been writing profiles for more than a decade at Time magazine and then at The New Yorker, and I was desperate to escalate.
#2 I decided to do a double profile, through a process similar to the one I described above. I would meet myself coming the other way. I would not be able to do...
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En Ciencia y vida. Mi verdad, Antonio Alcaide se nos muestra como lo que es: un científico con una gran vertiente humanista. En cada capítulo desgrana sus aportaciones en líneas de investigación punteras, tanto en investigación académica como aplicada, sin olvidar los aspectos humanos que han rodeado su vida en cada una de las etapas de investigador y profesor universitario en distintos países.
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#1 Lex Greensill was a young man who grew up on a farm in Queensland, Australia. He had a difficult childhood, but eventually his farm tripled in size within twenty years. He was skilled in law, wireless applications, international trade, insurance, capital raising, sales and marketing, public speaking, written communications, corporate governance, training, organization...
68) Desarrollo De Competencias Comunicacionales Con El Modelo De Programación Neurolingüistica Para L
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La comunicacin constituye una estrategia clave para optimizar el aprendizaje y representa la va para relacionarse con otras personas. Actualmente se considera que la calidad educativa est circunscrita a la transformacin de los paradigmas pedaggicos utilizados por los docentes con respecto a las estrategias metodolgicas. Los docentes deben concebirse como protagonistas de la transformacin educativa, ser gestores de sus investigaciones para as solventar...
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10 règles, plus 1 nouvelle règle d'or sur l'importance d'agir en toute intégrité. Toutes ces règles s'appuient sur de nombreuses références, sur l'opinion de plusieurs rédacteurs en chef de revues prestigieuses ainsi que sur l'expérience personnelle de l'auteur, lui-même chercheur et évaluateur.
Ces règles aideront le chercheur à élaborer un projet de recherche et à rédiger le texte rendant compte de sa réalisation de façon à persuader...
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This book is the first in a series. It focuses on how people can fulfil their responsibility to live as fully as possible the values that give their lives and work meaning and purpose, and that contribute to the flourishing of humanity and their own development. The importance of researching one's own practice to improve it is highlighted in terms of sharing and creating the individual s values based explanations for their educational influences in...
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#1 We are born to eat wild. Our bodies have not changed much since the days when we lived as hunter-gatherers, but our way of life and diets have changed dramatically. Today, just a few people continue to source most of their calories from the wild.
#2 The foods we are about to meet are all important in understanding why wild foods are so important. They provide less...
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#1 The Great Law of Peace was brought to the Iroquois by a Huron man. The Peacemaker taught the Mohawks about the Creator's desire for harmony, and Aionwahta was needed to translate his words.
#2 Disability has a history among North American indigenous people, but it is different than what Europeans and Americans understand today. It is defined in relational terms, rather...
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La obra Probabilidad y Estadística es el fruto de las experiencias académicas y profesionales de sus autores, así como de sus inquietudes por describir, analizar y simular los fenómenos que se presentan en los campos científicos y prácticos. El material que aquí se presenta se caracteriza por estar orientado especialmente a los problemas comunes de la ingeniería de la producción, de la industrial y de la administración. Su desarrollo es...
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This book is aimed at engineering academics worldwide, who are attempting to bring social justice into their work and practice, or who would like to but don't know where to start. This is the first book dedicated specifically to University professionals on Engineering and Social Justice, an emerging and exciting area of research and practice. An international team of multidisciplinary authors share their insights and invite and inspire us to reformulate...
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For anyone interested in Northern Ireland, its history, its culture, its music.... finally here comes a book that offers a new approach into understanding the complex diversity that has shaped Northern Irish society and its people during the times of the Troubles and beyond. Like poems, songs, in their own right, should be recognized as historical documents. From Mickey McConnell's Only our Rivers Run Free and Phil Coulter The Town I loved so Well...
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A step-by-step guide to Brain-Friendly MOVIE language courses. Use the latest development of the Birkenbihl method! Including valuable learning tips! It is the better, more accessible, and motivating learning method. The annoying vocabulary cramming was in the past. The basis for the new learning with Brain-Friendly Movies is de-coding, i.e., the Birkenbihl method. Connections between words and their meaning are created in the brain. It is essential...
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What has been done to achieve fairer and more efficient education systems, and what more can be done in the future? Stephen Gorard provides a comprehensive examination of crucial policy areas for education, such as differential outcomes, the poverty gradient, and the allocation of resources to education, to identify likely causes of educational disadvantage among students and lifelong learners. This analysis is supported by 20 years of extensive research,...
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In interviews with brilliant and controversial medical researchers and practitioners, David Jay Brown reveals "proposed solutions for what's wrong with modern medicine, ideas about reversing the aging process and suggestions that can lead to a future in which all diseases are easily curable." Interviews with Andrew Weil, Jonathan Wright, Barry Sears, Garry Gordon, Jacob Teitelbaum, Marios Kyriazis, Peter Duesberg, Kary Mullis, Durk Pearson & Sandy...
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#1 The Netherlands was the most logical place to build an ark. With more than a quarter of the country lying below mean sea level, canals, rivers, and lakes were almost as common as trees.
#2 The Netherlands is a country that was built on land that was reclaimed from the sea. The country is known for its flatness and its windmills, which were used to pump fields dry....
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