Authors:Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Mariana Petkov
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: learners, teaching, language, english, curriculum, mathematics, across
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0415957893
ISBN-13: 9780415957892

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach mathematics to the English Language Learners in the classroom. The authors offer context-specific strategies for everything from facilitating classroom discussions with all students, to reading and interpreting math textbooks, to tackling word problems. A fully annotated list of math web and print resources completes the volume, making this a valuable reference to help mathematics teachers meet the challenges of including all learners in effective instruction.

Author: Vesselin Petkov
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: fundamental, theories, physics, later, years, spacetime, hundred, minkowski
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2010-03-29
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 9048134749
ISBN-13: 9789048134748

This volume is dedicated to the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Hermann Minkowski’s paper "Space and Time" in 1909. His work on the spacetime representation of special relativity had a huge impact on the twentieth century physics to the extent that modern physics would be impossible without the notion of spacetime. While there is consensus on the mathematical significance of spacetime in theoretical physics, for a hundred years there has been no consensus on the nature of spacetime itself. We owe Minkowski a clear answer to the question of the nature of spacetime -- wheth

Author: Vesselin Petkov
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: collection, frontiers, spacetime, nature, relativity
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2009-08-12
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3642019528
ISBN-13: 9783642019524

The most important question that is addressed in this book is "what is the nature (the ontological status) of spacetime?" or, equivalently, "what is the dimensionality of the world at the macroscopic level?" The answer to this question is developed via a thorough analysis of relativistic effects and explicitly asking whether the objects involved in those effects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional. This analysis clearly shows that if the world and the physical objects were three-dimensional, none of the kinematic relativistic effects and the experimental evidence supporting them would be

Authors:Rainer Kassing, Plamen Petkov, Wilhelm Kulisch, Cyril
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, mathematics, physics, chemistry, science, nato, properties, nanostructured, materials, functional
Number of Pages: 529
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $265.00
ISBN-10: 140204593X
ISBN-13: 9781402045936

This book, based on the lectures and contributions of the NATO ASI on "Functional Properties of Nanostructured Materials", gives a broad overview on this topic, as it combines basic theoretical articles, papers dealing with experimental techniques, and contributions on advanced and up-to-date applications in fields such as microelectronics, optoelectronics, electrochemistry, sensorics, and biotechnology. In addition, it presents an interdisciplinary approach since the authors came from such different fields as physics, chemistry, engineering, materials science and biology. Some emphasis is giv

Author: Mariana Cook
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: world, inner, view, outer, mathematicians
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691139512
ISBN-13: 9780691139517

Mathematicians is a remarkable collection of ninety-two photographic portraits, featuring some of the most amazing mathematicians of our time. Acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook captures the exuberant and colorful personalities of these brilliant thinkers and the superb images are accompanied by brief autobiographical texts written by each mathematician. Together, the photographs and words illuminate a diverse group of men and women dedicated to the absorbing pursuit of mathematics. The compelling black-and-white portraits introduce readers to mathematicians who are young and old, fathers and

Author: Mariana Mazzucato
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: open, university, association, published, business, reader, strategy
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 076197413X
ISBN-13: 9780761974130

`This excellent volume brings together some of the most influential readings in business strategy and explores the content and process of business strategy from a variety of different theoretical stances. It will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the literature and will become required reading for students of economics, organisational behavior and business’ - Costas Markides, London Business School Strategy for Business provides a comprehensive selection of essential readings, covering six key areas in business strategy: § What is Strategy? § Competition and Industry Effect

Author: Mariana Pasternak
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: martha, friends
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0061661279
ISBN-13: 9780061661273

Set in a world of luxury and power, this is the story of two remarkable women and a friendship that changed both their lives forever. For more than two decades, Mariana Pasternak and Martha Stewart were nearly inseparable. They first met over a garden gate in Westport, Connecticut, two suburban wives wedded to successful men but with grand aspirations of their own. Their bond only deepened after their marriages ended in divorce. Struggling as a single mother, but drawn into a seductive world of privilege and adventure, Pasternak watched with admiration as her friend built an empire that wou