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Explores the divide between men and women in their consumption of news media, looking at how the sexes read and use news, how they use technology to access their news, and how news pertains to and is used by women. This book addresses diversity issues among women's use of news, considering racial, ethnic, international and feminist perspectives.

An analysis of, and explanation of, Southeast Asia's extraordinary growth.

This text examines liability issues and discusses disputes involving some of the most famous people and events in sports history. Lawyers unfamiliar with sports law could appreciate this book, as well as scholars in other fields, as it also serves as a legal primer and survey of cases and issues.

Presents each topic from the cellular level to the ecological and environmental levels, placing it in the context of the whole plant. This book emphasizes the importance of teaching and learning pathways within the framework of what the pathway does and why it is needed. It illustrates how plants impact human activity and success.

Discusses the connection between structure and mechanisms of atomic or molecular transport in different classes of materials - from metals and semiconductors to network glasses, polymers and supercooled liquids. This book also discusses the fundamentals of diffusional transport (Tools).

Provides catalogue librarians and students with a comprehensive instructional resource on the ongoing convergence of cataloguing and metadata. This book serves as an introduction to the concepts of metadata within bibliographic contexts, demonstrating the potential for resource description. It introduces various metadata schemes.

Brings together in one place essential information about college students in the US in the 21st century. Synthesizing existing research and theory, the book presents an introduction to studying student characteristics, college choice and enrolment patterns, institutional types and environments, student learning, persistence, and outcomes.

Presents the distilled wisdom of scores of instructors across ranks, disciplines and institution types, whose contributions are organised into a thematic framework that progressively introduces the reader to the key dispositions, principles and practices for creating the inclusive classroom environments that will help students succeed.

Drawing on the concept of the student-ready college, and on emerging research and practices that colleges and universities can use to explore campus-specific social class issues and identify barriers, this book provides examples of support programs and services across the field of higher education.

Describes the development of Purdue University's IMPACT program (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation), from its tentative beginning, when it struggled to recruit 35 faculty fellows, to the present, when 350 have been enrolled and the university has more applications than it can currently handle.

Drawing on the concept of the student-ready college, and on emerging research and practices that colleges and universities can use to explore campus-specific social class issues and identify barriers, this book provides examples of support programs and services across the field of higher education.

In addressing the experiences of inclusion, exclusion, affirmation, and challenges that they encounter, contributors to this book identify the sites in higher education that affect perceptions of self, belonging, rejection, and resilience; describe strategies they used to support themselves; and advocate for greater awareness of multiracial issues.

You've heard it said many times; reading and writing go hand in hand. It's true. But how do you meaningfully connect the two in everyday classroom practice? Taking cues from their students, two seasoned teachers will share what they've learned from occasionally converging their separate reading and writing workshops into one literacy workshop.

A book about creating invitations for young children to engage with math ideas through art, literacy, and outdoor play. It focuses on building spaces in early childhood classrooms where children see themselves as mathematical thinkers with valuable ideas from the very start.

What can we teach kids today that will have utility ten or fifteen years from now? Angela Kohnen and Wendy Saul propose an approach to information literacy that uses activity to help students build identities as curious individuals empowered to ask questions and able to navigate their information-filled world in pursuit of credible answers.

Whether they recognize it or not, virtually all colleges and universities face three Grand Challenges: improve the learning outcomes of a higher education; extend more equitable access to degrees; make academic programs more affordable. This book analyses how six pioneering colleges and universities have begun to make progress on all three fronts.

The field of survey sampling has grown considerably. This work covers the modern innovations of survey sampling, both methodological and theoretical.