Authors:Tony Wheeler, Maureen Wheeler,
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: story, planet, lonely, destinations, unlikely
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0794605230
ISBN-13: 9780794605230

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe.Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. This was quickly followed by what soon became the backpackers’ bible, South-East Asia on a Shoestring. Going boldly where no other travel publisher had ventured, they catered to a new generation of independent, budget-conscious travelers long before the advent of mass tourism.Unlikely Destinations: T

Authors:Benjamin Wheeler, Gilda Wheeler, Wendy Church,
Publisher: Facing the Future: People and the Planet
Keywords: sustainable, solutions, issues, global, comprehensive, guide, connected
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0971100543
ISBN-13: 9780971100541

"It’s All Connected" is the ultimate resource for teaching about global issues and sustainability in our ever changing and complex world. It can be used as a stand- alone text for a global issues course or as a supplemental text for other classes, including social studies, science, environmental studies, and ESL. "It’s All Connected" provides a thorough overview of global issues, as well as in-depth explorations of particular topics, debates, and solutions.

Authors:Maureen Neihart, Maureen Neihart, Sally M. Reis, Nanc
Publisher: Prufrock Press
Keywords: children, gifted, development, emotional, social
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1882664779
ISBN-13: 9781882664771

The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? offers an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including minority, le

Authors:Maureen McMahon, Maureen McMahon, Patricia Simmons, R
Publisher: National Science Teachers Association
Keywords: research, pb204x, education, experiences, science, practical, assessment
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2006-03-27
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1933531002
ISBN-13: 9781933531007

If you want the latest research about assessment techniques that really work, you want Assessment in Science. This collection of informative, up-to-date reports is by authors who are practicing K-12 classroom teachers and universitybased educators and researchers. Working in teams, they tried out and evaluated different assessment approaches in actual classrooms. The research is sound, but that doesn’t mean it’s hard to grasp. The book stays true to its title by capturing practical lessons in accessible language. As the introduction notes, the reports feature “classr

Authors:Dr Maureen V Cox, Maureen Cox,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: people, drawings
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0750705841
ISBN-13: 9780750705844

This work traces the development of the human figure in children’s drawings, showing how children add to and alter their figures as they get older and more skilful. It discusses why children’s drawings often seem so bizarre to adults, revealing what these figures tell as about the child’s Intelligence Or Emotional Stability.; The Book Is Based In Examples From hundreds of children, but concentrates on a particular set of drawings gathered from one group of children attending a nursery. Also featured are drawings by children with learning difficulties, so that readers may see

Author: Maureen F. McHugh
Publisher: Orb Books
Keywords: zhang, mountain, china
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312860986
ISBN-13: 9780312860981

Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade’s best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyberkite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers bl

Author: Maureen Mitto
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: presentation, models, techniques, second, graphics, guide, design, visual, interior
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2003-07-10
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0471225525
ISBN-13: 9780471225522

The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on CAD, digital portfolios, resume preparation, and Web page design. It remains the only comprehensive guide to address the visual design and presentation needs of the interior designer, with coverage of design graphics, models, and presentation techniques in one complete volume. Approaches to the planning, layout, and design of interior spaces are presented through highly visual, step-by-step instructions, supplemented with more