Authors:Pamela A. Mason, Jeanne Shay Schumm, Pamela A. Mason
Publisher: International Reading Association
Keywords: instruction, reading, urban, practices, promising
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2003-09
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0872075184
ISBN-13: 9780872075184

As the reading profession faces the challenge of high-stakes testing and standards-based curricula, it is essential that administrators, teachers, and teacher educators who plan and implement reading programs in urban settings have a professional development resource that speaks directly to urban education and diversity. This collection is that resource, showing what works-or what has the promise of working-in urban settings. This collection of research-based articles is framed around the International Reading Association position statement Making a Difference Means Making It Different: Honor

Authors:Anil Markandya, Renat Perelet, Pamela Mason, Tim Tayl
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: economics, environmental, dictionary
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1853835420
ISBN-13: 9781853835421

Now available in paperback, this is the first comprehensive dictionary of environmental economics, compiled by leading academics in the field. Each expression or phrase is explained clearly in non-technical language, with references given to its use in the growing literature on the subject area. From abatement to zonal travel cost method, this dictionary encompasses over 1000 cross-referenced entries on topics such as: * environmental instruments for policy-making * techniques applied in environmental and natural resource economics * major issues in environmental economics and environmen

Authors:Mary Ann Mason, Eve Mason Ekman,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: balance, family, careers, generation, new, fast, track, mothers
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-06-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195182677
ISBN-13: 9780195182675

In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off the fast track? In this timely book, Mary Ann Mason traces the career paths of the first generation of ambitious women who started careers in academia, law, medicine, business, and the media in large numbers in the 1970s and ’80s. Many women who had started families but continued working had ended up veering off the path to

Authors:Dr Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead, Dr Tom Mason,
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: study, skills, series, nurses, sage
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-12-07
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1412934176
ISBN-13: 9781412934176

This thoroughly revised Second Edition of Study Skills for Nurses will show you how to develop the skills and techniques you need for stress-free studying throughout your nursing training. Written in a lively and down-to-earth style it will help you face everyday challenges with confidence.

Authors:Mary Ann Mason, Eve Mason Ekman,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: family, careers, balance, generation, fast, track, mothers
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-12-24
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0195373693
ISBN-13: 9780195373691

In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off the fast track? In this timely book, Mary Ann Mason traces the career paths of the first generation of ambitious women who started careers in academia, law, medicine, business, and the media in large numbers in the 1970s and ’80s. Along with her daughter, Mason has written a guide for young women who are facing the tough decis

Authors:Pamela Redmond Satran, Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Sat
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: babies, names, cool
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-08-07
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0312304390
ISBN-13: 9780312304393

As America’s leading baby-name experts, Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran hear the same question again and again: ’What are the cool names?’ Here are the fun, fresh answers, conveyed with the authors’ trademark wit and authority, incuding: -HOT COOL-From the top 100 cool names to why Ivy is cooler than Ivana -COOL COOL-Celebrity names (Heath, Jada); athlete names (Venus, Ali); artist/literary names (Monet, Dashiell) -NEW COOL-Spiritual names (Pax, Eden); color names (Indigo, Lavender); foreign-word names (Alouette, from the French for ’lark,’ or Lu

Authors:Lorne Mason, Lorne Mason, Tadeusz Drwiega, James Yan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: networks, canada, ottawa, june, telecommunications, proceedings, itc20, teletraffic, performance, traffic, converged, international, managing, congress
Number of Pages: 1191
Published: 2007-07-20
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540729895
ISBN-13: 9783540729891

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 2007, held in Ottawa, Canada in June 2007. The 93 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks and 3 contributed papers of a plenary session were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on IPTV planning and modeling, network performance, routing, server/switch performance, service overlay networks, traffic source and aggregate models, performance optimization in mesh networks, QoS in converge