Authors:Michael Schatzki, Wayne Coffey,
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: books, signet, getting, art, negotiation
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1981-10-06
List price: $2.95
ISBN-10: 0451112245
ISBN-13: 9780451112248

Authors:Janet Coffey, Janet Coffey, Rowena Douglas, Carole St
Publisher: National Science Teachers Association
Keywords: research, practice, perspectives, learning, science, assessing
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1933531401
ISBN-13: 9781933531403

The National Science Foundation-funded research projects described here show the strong link between assessment and improved student learning; the essays invite science teachers to reflect on their practices and priorities and to consider a variety of productive assessment strategies and frameworks. The central ideas around which the chapters are based and which provide compelling data to fuel conversations about assessment purposes and opportunities include the: Roles of assessment in teaching and learning Characteristics of meaningful assessment items Need for research to validate assessment

Author: Jan Coffey
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: master, puppet
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0778326101
ISBN-13: 9780778326106

Four seemingly disparate lives are beginning to unravel...and one person is holding the strings.The Rocket Scientist--On the eve of a new satellite launch, the fianc? of NASA project manager Alanna Mendes is apparently killed in a fishing accident...only to be spotted six months later in Silicon Valley.The Computer Genius--Four years after being caught by Homeland Security hacking into NASA’s mainframe computer, Jay Alexei is still blacklisted from the top colleges and computer companies. Now a changed man, he is desperate for a second chance.The Financial Wizard--Once a successful inter

Author: Jan Coffey
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: project
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0778324060
ISBN-13: 9780778324065

The nation is gripped by the shocking crimes: "good kids" who are suddenly, inexplicably lethal, shooting their classmates before fatally turning their guns on themselves. When Connecticut mom Dr. Lexi Bradley gets the call that her son Juan has become one of those shooters, her life is turned upside down. Ten years ago, Secret Service agent Bryan Atwood became an expert on school violence. Now the nightmare is back. Just as he is assigned to this new rash of killings, an MRI of Juan’s brain reveals what must be pure science fiction. With Lexi’s help, Bryan is determined to unearth

Author: Jan Coffey
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: eye, blind
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 077832673X
ISBN-13: 9780778326731

Counting down to a Chernobyl-scale disaster, the clock starts now…Tick…Scientist Marion Kagan is the sole survivor after gunmen attack the facility where her team was working on a top secret project. Wounded and trapped in a collapsed building, Marion must stop radioactive test samples from leaking out and killing millions.…tick…In a Connecticut psychiatric hospital, Marion’s twin sister, who has been in a comalike state for years, begins to thrash violently in her bed. When an experimental program is used on her to read the images of her brain, researchers are shocked at what th

Author: Jan Coffey
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: waters, silent
Number of Pages: 393
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0778323196
ISBN-13: 9780778323198

A fast-attack nuclear submarine cuts silently through the waters of the North Atlantic, hijacked by two dozen armed terrorists. The target: New York City. Fighting for their lives aboard the hijacked submarine, ship superintendent Amy Russell and Commander Darius McCann have only one hope for survival. With the lives of millions at stake, they must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where capture would mean certain death. On land, Lieutenant Colonel Sarah Connelly and Commander Bruce Dunn are working to learn the details of the hijacking in time to stop the attack. As mass hysteria paraly

Author: Jan Coffey
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: mira, victim, fourth
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 077832057X
ISBN-13: 9780778320579

Two decades ago, the mass suicide of the members of a New Mexico cult shocked the nation. Miraculously, four people -- one adult and three children -- managed to get away safely. But now it appears that none of them will escape the tragedy that took so many innocent lives . . . Someone is completing the process of ushering the last of Reverend Butler’s chosen disciples into the next world. He has claimed three of his final victims and only Kelly Stone remains. A survivor of the Butler Divinity Mission cult suicide, Kelly grew up safely in the arms of an adoptive family, her identity