Author: Dr. James Comer M.D.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: tomorrow’s, world, youth, today’s, child, preparing, leave
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-08-11
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0300103913
ISBN-13: 9780300103915

“Dr. Comer’s work [is] thoughtful and necessary. It is not going too far to say that our schools, and our children, would be lost without him.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from the forewordThe call-to-arms to “leave no child behind” in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration’s education plan—a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children’s Defense Fund, which originated the concept. Here, in a bold and engaging new book, Dr. James Comer reclaims this now-famous exhortation as a tool for posit

Author: James P. Comer
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: school, development, reform, child, race, reflections, learned
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-10-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0470407719
ISBN-13: 9780470407714

From the Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2007"In the world of education reform, where silver-bullet ideas, ideologies, and intellectual fashion clamor for influence, James Comer’s thinking has long been a sea of calm, balanced, and humane wisdom focused on the needs of the whole person. Reading Comer you see the incompleteness of so many other approaches to reform, as well as learn an integrated approach to making schools work. And now, here it all is in a single book. If you want to see how schools can actually work, as opposed to affiliate with a prior belief about how t

Author: Douglas E Comer
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: internet, networking, works, computer, need, book, everything
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-09-08
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0132335530
ISBN-13: 9780132335539

Internet Book, The: Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works, 4/e utilizes a non-technical perspective to explain the technology of how computers communicate, what the Internet is, how the Internet works, and what the Internet can do for people. This book works to fully connect readers to the “big picture” by presenting a solid overview of networking and the Internet, rather than burying them with details. Comer assumes no prior background in computer networking or the Internet. Introduces computer communication system concepts and technolog

Author: Ronald J. Comer
Publisher: Worth Publisher
Keywords: rom, psychology, abnormal, fundamentals
Published: 2007-03-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1429200359
ISBN-13: 9781429200356

Author: Douglas E. Comer
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: internets, networks, computer
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2008-04-28
List price: $131.00
ISBN-10: 0136061273
ISBN-13: 9780136061274

Written by a best-selling author and leading computer networking authority, this updated book builds a comprehensive picture of the technologies behind Internet applications. It answers the basic question “how do computer networks and Internets operate?” in the broadest sense and includes an early optional introduction to network programming and applications. The book provides a comprehensive, self-contained tour through all of networking from the lowest levels of data transmission and wiring to the highest levels of application software, explaining how underlying technologies provide s

Author: Douglas E. Comer
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: vol, tcp, internetworking
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2005-07-10
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0131876716
ISBN-13: 9780131876712

This best-selling, conceptual introduction to TCP/IP internetworking protocols interweaves a clear discussion of fundamentals with the latest technologies. Leading author Doug Comer covers layering and shows how all protocols in the TCP/IP suite fit into the five-layer model. With a new focus on CIDR addressing, this revision addresses MPLS and IP switching technology, traffic scheduling, VOIP, Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), and Selective ACKnowledgement (SACK). Includes coverage of Voice and Video Over IP (RTP), IP coverage, a discussion of routing architectures, examination of In

Author: Ronald J. Comer
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Keywords: psychology, abnormal, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 497
Published: 2004-04-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0716786257
ISBN-13: 9780716786252

For over ten years, Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology has been recognized as the ideal concise textbook for abnormal psychology. The book distinguishes itself by seamlessly integrating various theoretical models, sociocultural factors, research, clinical experiences, and therapies. Ron Comer not only encourages students to think critically about the science and study of mental disorders—he also reveals the humanity behind them. Now in its Fourth Edition, the book builds on its predecessors with an abundance of new material and improved media tools.