Author: Marleen Westera
Publisher: Lemniscaat USA
Keywords: goat, sheep
Number of Pages: 99
Published: 2006-11
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1932425810
ISBN-13: 9781932425819

Sheep and Goat engage in heated discussions about everything from earthly affairs to Goat’s birthday and Sheep’s family. However sheepish they may seem, Sheep and Goat know what matters in life.

Author: Marleen Owen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: conversation, 3cds, guide, dutch, yourself, teach
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2005-11-21
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 007146347X
ISBN-13: 9780071463478

A lively, practical way to develop and improve basic foreign language skills This audio-based language series from Teach Yourself is an entertaining, non-intimidating way for you to begin building conversational proficiency. Each course covers ten key situations—from greetings and buying food and drink to shopping, asking for directions, and visiting locals—and includes two conversations per topic. The explanations and instructions are simple and bite-size, making this a very accessible program.

Author: Marleen Kassel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: asian, east, institute, columbia, university, studies, tanso, education, confucian, kangien, academy, hirose, tokugawa
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1996-03
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0791428079
ISBN-13: 9780791428078

This book presents the world of Hirose Tanso, a late Tokugawa period (1603-1868) educator whose goal was to train men of talent in practical learning for the benefit of the country. Tanso founded a private academy called Kangien in Hita City of present-day Oita prefecture. Some 3,000 young men from 64 of the then total 68 provinces of Japan were educated at Kangien during Tanso’s 50-year career as educator and administrator. Firm in his conviction that the problems he and others faced in contemporary society would be solved by setting right the moral priorities of the people, Tanso es

Author: Marleen Rozemond
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: dualism, descartes
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $66.50
ISBN-10: 0674198409
ISBN-13: 9780674198401

Descartes, an acknowledged founder of modern philosophy, is identified particularly with mind-body dualism--the view that the mind is an incorporeal entity. But this view was not entirely original with Descartes, and in fact to a significant extent it was widely accepted by the Aristotelian scholastics who preceded him, although they entertained a different conception of the nature of mind, body, and the relationship between them. In her first book, Marleen Rozemond explicates Descartes’s aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism

Author: Marleen Wynants
Publisher: ASP-VUB Press
Keywords: changeability, cases, weather, change
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-09-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 9054876921
ISBN-13: 9789054876922

Bringing together investors, business owners, energy providers, policy makers, researchers, and individuals, this compilation showcases the winning projects of the European Union’s 100 Energy Efficiency project. Providing solutions to energy conservation—both from the ground up and the top down—these featured winners take a cross-disciplinary approach and cover topics such as laboratory science, mathematics, funding, utopian building design, legal actions, organizing, and personal narratives.

Author: Marleen C. Pugach
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: matters, teaching
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2009-01-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0470408200
ISBN-13: 9780470408209

Because Teaching Matters provides teachers with a realistic depiction of today s classrooms while highlighting the enormous impact they have on everyday lives. The second edition presents material around a framework of five professional commitments that allows them to make sense of what it means to be a teacher. A new critical-thinking framework helps them manage the content better and retain more of what they learn. Increased coverage of diversity and technology is integrated throughout the chapters. A new chapter has also been added on the history and philosophy of education. This book will

Authors:Jan Cornelis, Marleen Wynants,
Publisher: ASP-VUB Press
Keywords: interfaces, impact, generation, economic, crosstalks, social, new, individual, brave
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 9054874163
ISBN-13: 9789054874164

Compiled by the CROSSTALKS program for policy-probing scientific issues, this volume reflects on the meaning and impact of existing and future interfaces—and what the added value could be. Offering a broad analysis of the individual, social, and economic impacts that the next generation of interfaces will have, its unique interdisciplinary approach combines the perspectives of artists, academics, and businesspeople.