Authors:Cynthia Margarita Tompkins, Kristen Sternberg,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: teen, life, world, caribbean, latin, america
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0313319324
ISBN-13: 9780313319327

Teens in Latin America and the Caribbean generally face a difficult path to adulthood. Poverty and unemployment, violence, political instability, and emigration are frequently the norm in their native countries. Those from poorer families must often work as well as attend school, and opportunities for higher education and good jobs are limited. Wealthier teens, on the other hand, are sheltered from harshness and enjoy private schools, vacations abroad, and access to American consumer products. Yet family is important no matter what the class, and most of these teens share a love of parties, mu

Authors:Robert E. Slavin, Margarita Calder¢n, Margarita Cald
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: students, latino, programs, effective
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $68.95
ISBN-10: 0805834133
ISBN-13: 9780805834130

Latino (or Hispanic) children are one of the fastest-growing groups in U.S. schools today. On average, these students perform worse than Anglo students on measures of academic achievement and other measures of academic success, and their drop-out rate is high. There are schools of excellence among those serving Latino children, but the majority of these children are placed "at risk" by schools and community institutions unable to build on the cultural, personal, and linguistic strengths these children are likely to bring with them to school. Schools serving Latino students need programs based

Authors:Robert E. Slavin, Margarita Calder¢n, Margarita Cald
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: students, latino, programs, effective
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0805834125
ISBN-13: 9780805834123

Latino (or Hispanic) children are one of the fastest-growing groups in U.S. schools today. On average, these students perform worse than Anglo students on measures of academic achievement and other measures of academic success, and their drop-out rate is high. There are schools of excellence among those serving Latino children, but the majority of these children are placed "at risk" by schools and community institutions unable to build on the cultural, personal, and linguistic strengths these children are likely to bring with them to school. Schools serving Latino students need programs based

Authors:Margarita Sordo, Margarita Sordo, Sachin Vaidya, Lakh
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computational, intelligence, studies, healthcare, paradigms, advanced
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2008-06-23
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540776613
ISBN-13: 9783540776611

Computational intelligence paradigms offer many advantages in maintaining and enhancing the field of healthcare. This volume presents seven chapters selected from the rapidly growing application areas of computational intelligence to healthcare systems, including intelligent synthetic characters, man-machine interface, menu generators, analysis of user acceptance, pictures archiving and communication systems. This book will serve as a useful resource for the health professionals, professors, students, and the computer scientists, who are working on or interested in learning healthcare systems,

Authors:Harland Tompkins, Eugene A Irene, Harland Tompkins, E
Publisher: William Andrew
Keywords: process, technology, science, materials, ellipsometry, handbook
Number of Pages: 886
Published: 2006-01-14
List price: $295.00
ISBN-10: 0815514999
ISBN-13: 9780815514992

The Handbook of Ellipsometry is a critical foundation text on an increasingly critical subject. Ellipsometry, a measurement technique based on phase and amplitude changes in polarized light, is becoming popular in a widening array of applications because of increasing miniaturization of integrated circuits and breakthroughs in knowledge of biological macromolecules deriving from DNA and protein surface research. Ellipsometry does not contact or damage samples, and is an ideal measurement technique for determining optical and physical properties of materials at the nano scale. With the accelera

Authors:Professor Margarita Tupitsyn, Margarita Tupitsyn,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: film, malevich
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300094590
ISBN-13: 9780300094596

Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), unlike other prominent Soviet artists, has not often been considered in discussions of the contributions of the avant-garde to photography and film. Yet a close examination of theoretical and practical aspects of Malevich’s oeuvre not only places him fully in the Soviet post-abstract discourse on these media but also, as Margarita Tupitsyn argues in this engaging book, alters the accepted view of his post-Suprematist period. Exploring Malevich’s involvement with film for the first time, Tupitsyn draws on little known writings about cine

Author: Jim Tompkins
Publisher: Tompkins Press
Keywords: acceleration, organizational, leadership, bold
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0965865991
ISBN-13: 9780965865999

Everyone suffers from extreme overload today. The world has morphed into a global village where immediacy rules. Things must be done right away without sacrificing excellence. If we were honest every time someone asked, How are you? the reply would be, Way too busy to even think about it. Our hectic business and personal lives leave us feeling as if we are constantly trying to fit 15 pounds of apples into a 5-pound bag. The more apples we try to stuff into the bag, the more difficult the task becomes and the more frustrated we grow. But here is good news! There is a remedy, and it is