Author: Mr. Hal Portner
Publisher: Corwin Press
Keywords: teachers, new, mentoring
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-04-25
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1412960096
ISBN-13: 9781412960090

This latest edition draws upon research to illustrate essential mentoring behaviors. Provides new tools such as classroom observation methods, teacher mentor standards, and learning styles assessment.

Author: Mr. Hal Portner
Publisher: Corwin Press
Keywords: districts, need, schools, everything, mentors, training
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-04-24
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0761977384
ISBN-13: 9780761977384

This how-to guide and practical workbook will help planners and participants develop an exemplary mentoring program or upgrade an existing one.

Author: Ralf Pörtner
Publisher: Humana Pre
Keywords: methods, biotechnology, protocols, cell
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-04-05
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1588296601
ISBN-13: 9781588296603

Animal Cell Biotechnology: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition constitutes a comprehensive manual of state-of-the-art and new techniques for setting up mammalian cell lines for production of biopharmaceuticals, and for optimizing critical parameters for cell culture considering the whole cascade from lab to final production. The volume is divided into five parts that reflect the processes required for different stages of production. In Part I, basic techniques for establishment of production cell lines are addressed, especially transduction techniques, cells for gene therapy and antibody pro

Author: Paul Portner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: pragmatics, semantics, surveys, oxford, modality
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-03-25
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0199292434
ISBN-13: 9780199292431

This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and adverbs represent the core phenomena. Chapters are then devoted to the possible worlds semantics for modality developed in modal logic; current theories of modal semantics within linguistics; and the most important empirical areas

Author: Paul H. Portner
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: fundamentals, linguistics, semantics, formal, meaning
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-02-11
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1405109181
ISBN-13: 9781405109185

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field’s key ideas about how language works. explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learn

Author: Jessica Portner
Publisher: Robins Lane Press
Keywords: thirteen, one
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 1589040015
ISBN-13: 9781589040014

This sobering examination of teenage suicide offers honest reflection on a crisis that is too often ignored. This year, at least 700,000 high school students will attempt suicide-one in every 13 high school students in the United States. This thought-provoking study looks into the troubling questions that such statistics raise, such as why teenage girls attempt suicide at a rate three times that of boys and why the suicide rate for African American teens has more than doubled in the past 20 years. Using more than 100 interviews, visits to schools, and studies with teens, Portner creates a fran

Authors:Paul Portner, Barbara H. Partee,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: readings, essential, linguistics, semantics, formal
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-10-18
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0631215425
ISBN-13: 9780631215424

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.