Titles starting with F from Gulls Nest Books

Routledge, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Cost-effectiveness aside, teaching assistants (TAs) in primary and secondary schools have proven their worth in enabling teachers to be efficient and effective in practice. Add to this expanding roles academically and in the classroom and increased acceptance of TAs as professionals, and it is relatively easy to see how being a teaching assistant has become an attractive career path. Consultant Holmes gives potential TAs (and TAs with enough service to know ... more information

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Routledge, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this guide for experienced and newly qualified teaches, a veteran teacher answers common questions on the UK's Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspections in mainstream school settings. The book's question-and-answer format guides readers through the pre- and post-inspection stages and offers insight on what happens during the inspection itself. Covering recent legislative changes, it outlines the tea... more information

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United Nations Publications, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has provided this report on the relationship between foreign direct investment and tourism in East and Southern Africa, and how these relatively new priorities are being used for economic and human development in areas formerly dominated by agriculture and manufacturing. After an overview of FDI patterns and trends in this region, UNCTAD provides case studies for countries such as Kenya... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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No Starch Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Every year thousands of children between the ages of nine and fourteen compete in teams to design and build LEGO robots. Kelly, who helps to develop the program and Daudelin, who won the world championship, have collaborated on this comprehensive guide to setting up teams in schools, focusing first on funding, coaching and mentoring. They also give advice on setting up the assigned project and building the robots. Lastly, they discuss preparing for the... more information

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U. of Washington Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Constantine and Koren Christofides and Carsten, all of the Institute for American Universities, have realized the dream of the French caricaturist Honoré Daumier to create new illustrations for the fables of Jean de la Fontaine. The illustrations in this volume, which were made by painters, printmakers, photographers, ceramists, sculptors, conceptual artists, fiber artists and art historians, create an intersection of contemporary art wit... more information

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W.W. Norton, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Depicting projects from around the globe, from simple awnings to large-scale structures and futuristic sculptural forms, over 300 color photographs are presented in an oversize format (10x.25x11.25") to provide inspiration for architects, landscape designers, and planners interested in making use of fabric architecture. Pioneered by German architect and engineer Frei Otto (b.1925), these types of construction are known also as tensile membrane structu... more information

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W.W. Norton, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Depicting projects from around the globe, from simple awnings to large-scale structures and futuristic sculptural forms, over 300 color photographs are presented in an oversize format (10x.25x11.25") to provide inspiration for architects, landscape designers, and planners interested in making use of fabric architecture. Pioneered by German architect and engineer Frei Otto (b.1925), these types of construction are known also as tensile membrane structu... more information

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Kaplan Publishing, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Siemionow is head of plastic surgery research and head of microsurgery training in the Plastic Surgery Department of Cleveland Clinic. Here, she chronicles the 30 year journey leading up to the moment in December 2008 when she led the team that performed the first near-total face transplant in the US. She describes in detail the events, influences, and patients who fueled her determination, reveals technical details of the immune system and transplan... more information

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O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. A user experience specialist/visual designer introduces Facebook Platform as an operating system for social networking. The book's 14 contributors present problems with a solution and discussion on building Facebook productivity applications including: using Facebook Thrift to develop cross-[programming] language data systems, checking out Facebook Query Language (FQL) with test modules, and attracting users. Leisure-time 'recipes'... more information

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W.W. Norton, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This guidebook illustrates through black-and-white photographs over 100 architectural carvings, mostly faces, found primarily in Manhattan but with a few examples in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Each example includes the street address and public transportation access, and a detailed map marks the location of each building; however, building names, histories, or architects are not listed. Nicely illustrated but lacking in information outside of locations, this ... more information

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Demos Medical Publishing, Inc., 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Author and visual journalist Coddington tells the story of the lives of 77 Confederate soldiers as they returned home, exhausted, to occupied cities, destroyed farmland, an economy in shambles, and a society in upheaval. The author writes of the lives of 33 common soldiers, not war heroes or famous generals. His book includes, in most cases, full-page photos of his subjects. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Raue (Unitetd Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) and Sutter (U. of Zurich, Switzerland) present 15 papers describing and analyzing various facets of international state-building efforts. Opening chapters address foundational issues such as great power responsibility vis-á-vis "failed states" and the interplay between security and legitimacy, as well as causal factors such as war and state weakness. Fi... more information

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U. College Dublin Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Murray (sociology, National U. of Ireland-Maynooth) describes how Ireland received US aid as part of the postwar Marshall Plan from 1948 to 1951, to establish a foundation of manufacturing that allowed the country to mitigate its economic dependence on Britain--until recently the colonial power--and participate more fully in the burgeoning integration of Europe, eventually joining the European Economic Community in 1973. Among his topics are te... more information

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Otago University Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. A Dublin-born writer long based in New Zealand, Woods presents a biography of the publisher of The Triad; A Journal Devoted to Literature, Art, Science, and Music, which ran from 1893 to the late 1920s, then relocated from New Zealand to Sydney and became pan-antipodean. Distributed in the US by ISBS. (©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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CRC / Taylor & Francis, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. For mathematicians working in other specialties, Szabó (U. of Pecs, Hungary) and Sands (U. of Dundee, Scotland) gently introduce the factorization theory of abelian groups, which deals with decomposing an abelian group into a direct sum of its subsets. They focus mainly on cyclic groups, even though some of the results become trivial. Their topics include new factorizations from old ones, periodic factorizations, factoring by many fac... more information

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American Water Works Assn., 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This research examines the occurrence of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in drinking water and in wastewater treated for reuse, and the reactions and treatment processes that influence this occurrence. Two universities and a water district report the results of an occurrence survey and mechanistic reaction, treatment technology, and process simulation studies. The conclusions recommend limiting chlorine disinfection in wastewater, keeping the ... more information

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Facts On File, Inc., 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Some 1,600 brief entries explain the most relevant and frequently used terms in computer science, encompassing hardware, software, and applications, and terms related to the latest technology, such as artificial intelligence and palmtop computers. Includes b&w line drawings and cross references. Illingworth is a physicist who has edited a number of dictionaries. Daintith is a former research chemist and editor and contributor to many reference ... more information

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Facts On File, Inc., 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume nearly doubles an earlier one limited to classical and biblical allusions, drawing as well from Shakespeare, Norse and other mythology, literary texts, historical events, and popular culture including film and television. In addition to explaining what people usually mean when they use the word or phrase and its origin or possible origins, the articles provide an example of its use, a guide for pronouncing any but common English words, ... more information

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