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A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning

Auteure: Dongdong Chen

Nombre de pages: 197

A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning presents an exposition of current thinking, research, and best practices in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Digital Humanities (DH), and Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in the context of teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL). It proposes integrating CALL and DH into PBLL to form a Digital Humanities–Augmented Technology-Enhanced Project-Based Language Learning (DATEPBLL) approach to transform student learning. By combining DH pedagogy and CALL technology with PBLL, the approach takes advantage of their synergies, which enables instructors to help students develop linguistic and cultural competency as well as 21st century skills. Case studies and best practices from experienced Chinese language teachers are presented to demonstrate the value of the DATEPBLL approach. This is the first volume that covers all three fields and makes a strong case for the importance of incorporating CALL, DH, and PBLL for effective language learning. Written for professionals in language education, including educators, curriculum designers and developers, graduate students,...

Build4Skills

Auteure: Asian Development Bank

Nombre de pages: 59

This practice guide aims to help procurement practitioners integrate youth traineeship specifications into key bidding documents for ADB-supported infrastructure projects in Asia and the Pacific. Designed to complement the Build4Skills Handbook, it details how to select which projects could potentially incorporate trainee programs and provides templates for projects in the energy, transport, water, urban, and social sectors. Explaining how to calculate traineeship cost estimates to be included in the bill of quantities and manage related disbursements for projects, the guide shows how to monitor trainee programs and collect feedback to ensure infrastructure projects maximize their skills development potential.

Danni Gu Collection:Battle Procrastination

Auteure: Danni Gu

Nombre de pages: 436

Crap Dad

Auteure: Mark Catley

Nombre de pages: 74

When Paul meets Marie outside the headmaster’s office it’s hardly love at first sight. More like “what you playing at you frigging psycho?” And when the two sixteen-year-olds find out Marie is pregnant, things get a little dicey. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as a grown up Paul waits to meet his children for the first time it’s time for some serious thinking. “I drink too much, my toilet looks like a bomb site and I eat crisps for breakfast. I’m not fit to be someone’s father”.

From Water to Wine

Auteure: Timothy Paul Neller

Nombre de pages: 420

Fifteen years have passed since Terry and Nick have graduated from high school, and during that time, a lot has happened. Terry has gone to Vietnam as a medic, and Nick has been to Costa Rica as a Peace Corps Volunteer. When Terry returns to St. Louis to join his wife, Jenny, and his one-year old son, he pursues his commitment to God by becoming a minister in a local Lutheran church and dedicates his life to serving Christ. Nick too returns to St. Louis where he marries his high school sweetheart, Lolly, and graduates from college with a PhD in Geophysics. Although totally dedicated to their husbands, Lolly and Jenny have their own interests as well. Lolly has become a pediatrician and balances her time as a doctor with the scheduled piano tours she makes worldwide to raise money for a medical clinic and shelter she has founded for the homeless in North St. Louis. Jenny, on the other hand, is busy running a dance studio and directing the St. Louis Ballet Company. Their hectic schedules soon lead to rising tension in their relationships, and they soon find themselves drifting apart and questioning their purposes in life. However, their lives are forever changed when they all decide ...

Dans l'azur d'un regard - Tendre piège - Une baby-sitter de charme

Auteure: Michelle Douglas , Marion Lennox , Fiona Harper

Nombre de pages: 289

Dans l’azur d’un regard, Michelle Douglas Tandis que son père, le richissime homme d’affaires italien, lui présente Dominic Wright, à qui il vient de confier la direction de son hôtel de luxe, Bella se prend à rêver : comme il serait doux de s’abandonner dans les bras de cet homme au sourire énigmatique et aux yeux bleus comme l’azur... Mais, brusquement, la voix de son père la ramène à la réalité : Dominic Wright est son futur patron et, si elle a failli l’oublier, le regard dur qu’il vient de poser sur elle est là pour le lui rappeler... Tendre piège, Marion Lennox Alors, c’est elle, Alice, alias Miss Mischka, dompteuse d’animaux, et directrice de cirque ? Habitué aux hommes d’affaires sérieux, Matthew Bond est totalement déstabilisé. Comment va-t-il s’y prendre pour annoncer à cette adorable jeune femme vêtue d’un justaucorps rose bonbon que son cirque est en faillite et que la banque Bond a décidé de lui refuser tout crédit ? Il est loin de se douter que la jolie Alice, sous son apparente fragilité, est une redoutable adversaire, prête à toutes les astuces pour sauver l’entreprise familiale. Y compris à charmer le séduisant ...

Adult CNS Radiation Oncology

Auteure: Eric L. Chang , Paul D. Brown , Simon S. Lo , Arjun Sahgal , John H. Suh

Nombre de pages: 826

This new edition elucidates the radiation therapy protocols and procedures for the management of adult patients presenting with primary benign and malignant central nervous system tumors. With the development of new treatment strategies and rapid advancement of radiation technology, it is crucial for radiation oncologists to maintain and refine their knowledge and skills. Dedicated exclusively to adult CNS radiation oncology, this textbook explores CNS tumors ranging from the common to the esoteric as well as secondary cancers of metastatic origin. The first half of the book is organized anatomically: tumors of the brain, spinal cord, leptomeninges, optic pathway, ocular choroid, and skull base. The second half covers primary CNS lymphoma, rare CNS tumors, metastatic brain disease, vascular conditions of the CNS, radiation-associated complications, and radiation modalities. This new edition is updated throughout and includes several new chapters, including: palliative radiation therapy for leptomeningeal disease, preoperative treatment for brain metastases, advanced neuroimaging for brain tumors, and MR-LINAC for brain tumors. Each chapter provides guidance on treatment field...

Expanding Underground - Knowledge and Passion to Make a Positive Impact on the World

Auteure: Georgios Anagnostou , Andreas Benardos , Vassilis P. Marinos

Nombre de pages: 5086

Expanding Underground - Knowledge and Passion to Make a Positive Impact on the World contains the contributions presented at the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2023 (Athens, Greece, 12 – 18 May, 2023). Tunnels and underground space are a predominant engineering practice that can provide sustainable, cost-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions to the ever-growing needs of modern societies. This underground expansion in more diverse and challenging infrastructure types or to novel underground uses can foster the changes needed. At the same time, the tunneling and underground space community needs to be better prepared and equipped with knowledge, tools and experience, to deal with the prevailing conditions, to successfully challenge and overcome adversities on this path. The papers in this book aim at contributing to the analysis of challenging conditions, the presentation and dissemination good practices, the introduction of new concepts, new tools and innovative elements that can help engineers and all stakeholders to reach their end goals. Expanding Underground - Knowledge and Passion to Make a Positive Impact on the World covers a wide range of aspects and topics...

Scuffer

Auteure: Mark Catley

Nombre de pages: 113

Danny's skint, no change there. His girlfriend Amy's left him, the flat's a mess, got nothing to smoke. The only thing different today is that he's going to get his legs broken. Danny owes some bad people money. If he doesn't come up with £800 by tonight a lady called Cathy will be calling with a baseball bat. He can't beg, can't borrow and isn't much cop at stealing so Danny, Amy and her Dad set off on a quest through Leeds to get him the dosh. From Beeston to Briggate, casino to karaoke, with Cathy and a psycho called Cauldron in pursuit, will Danny get his happy ending or is he just the no-hope Scuffer other people see? Scuffer opened at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in March 2006. Mark Catley's acclaimed plays Sunbeam Terrace and Crap Dad also premiered at the Playhouse, and are both published by Oberon Books.

Service-Oriented Computing

Auteure: Chengfei Liu , Heiko Ludwig , Farouk Toumani , Qi Yu

Nombre de pages: 811

This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2012, held in Shanghai, China in November 2012. The 32 full papers and 21 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service engineering, service management, cloud, service QoS, service security, privacy and personalization, service applications in business and society, service composition and choreography, service scaling and cloud, process management, service description and discovery, service security, privacy and personalization, applications, as well as cloud computing.

PC Mag

Nombre de pages: 346

PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. Our expert industry analysis and practical solutions help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology.

Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema

Auteure: Lisa Odham Stokes , Rachel Braaten

Nombre de pages: 654

Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation Meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art

Auteure: Daniele Peila , Giulia Viggiani , Tarcisio Celestino

Nombre de pages: 952

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 5: Innovation in underground engineering, materials and equipment - Part 1 contains the contributions presented in the eponymous Technical Session during the World Tunnel Congress 2019 (Naples, Italy, 3-9 May 2019). The use of underground space is continuing to grow, due to global urbanization, public demand for efficient transportation, and energy saving, production and distribution. The growing need for space at ground level, along with its continuous value increase and the challenges of energy saving and achieving sustainable development objectives, demand greater and better use of the underground space to ensure that it supports sustainable, resilient and more liveable cities. The contributions cover a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence techniques for geomechanical forecasting, via fiber reinforced concrete segmental lining, to advanced 4-channel scan systems for tunnel inspection. The book is a valuable reference text for tunnelling specialists, owners, engineers, archaeologists, architects, artists and others involved in underground planning, design and...

Exchange Behavior in Selling and Sales Management

Auteure: Peng Sheng , Aziz Guergachi

Nombre de pages: 241

Exchange Behavior in Selling and Sales Management presents a pragmatic and easy-to-implement framework for the successful operation of selling and sales management. Focused specifically on the value-exchange behavior of buyers and sellers, the book is composed of eight fundamental building blocks, which provide: * A revolutionary framework to describe the dynamics of consumer and organizational buying processes * A scientific, analytical approach to the personal elements in selling * A much needed insight into the personal interactions between buyers and sellers, both the implicit and explicit * A new and unique structure which integrates psychographic data mining and modeling techniques in a sales context, for the first time Exchange Behavior in Selling and Sales Management reflects selling and sales management practices within the field, based upon the extensive experience of the authors and other contributors. It is essential reading for advanced students, practitioners and researchers in sales and marketing.

Leading the Global Workforce

Auteure: Phil Harkins , David Giber , Mark Sobol , Madeline Tarquinio , Louis Carter

Nombre de pages: 316

Leading the Global Workforce provides a handy guide for international organizations that must achieve results in managing and sustaining a global workforce. The fourteen illustrative cases outlined address the major concerns—recruiting and developing global leaders, global organizational learning, cross-cultural communication, outsourcing line functions, and managing global careers and transitions—from sixty of the world’s best-practice global organizations. Each case shows how the organization advanced a global business strategy with a new initiative in the areas of global leadership development, cultural change, career transition, succession planning, change management, outsourcing, and global performance. In addition, Leading the Global Workforce also describes the overall strategy, planning, and implementation of the initiative; feedback from participants; and overall evaluation of results. Many of the cases contain competency models, practical tools, instruments, and materials that were most effective.

Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California

Auteure: California. Legislature. Senate

Nombre de pages: 1602

Realm of the Cold Man

Auteure: Zhui Yixinrenlei

Nombre de pages: 383

Dong Haoyan picked up his son and gave him a kiss. Han Yiping stood off to the side, smiling blissfully as she immersed herself in the warmth of home.It didn't matter if Dong Haoyan was right or wrong. All of the past injuries, all of his betrayals, all of his deceit, had all been forgotten by time the moment he sacrificed himself for Han Yiguang.Han Yiguang loved him a lot, but she would always love him because Dong Haoyan had already settled into her heart. No matter what Dong Haoyan did, he was now Han Yiguang's husband, and there was no longer any hatred between them. These things, even if it was a test for two people, the price would be too heavy.

Forced Love: Sweetheart, Don't Go

Auteure: Xing Fumeiyoujintou

Nombre de pages: 1357

At the start of the new story, Su Xiaomeng said happily, "Mommy, I stole daddy's land." Su Yan's head was filled with questions: "..." A certain man seriously and seriously said, "Since I'm not married, you'll have to take responsibility in the future!" Later, he was buried in the sea of flames by his first love's schemes, returning from amnesia. The beginning was already over: After a transaction, Gu Ruoyun had said ...

追梦中国：妈妈，我是你的眼（英）Through Jenny’s Eyes Memoirs of a Guide Dog

Auteure: 陈燕

Nombre de pages: 163

该书以导盲犬珍妮的口吻讲述了它与主人陈燕之间成长励志的故事，其中的酸甜苦涩是她们一生最珍贵的回忆。 她生于北京，它长于大连。 她从小被亲生父母抛弃，它却有三个深深爱着自己的家庭。 它离开故乡，只为日夜陪伴在她身旁。她放弃蒸蒸日上的事业，就为给它一个无牵无绊的家。她是中国第一位女盲人钢琴调率师，它是一条拉布拉多导盲犬。 命运使她和它走到了一起，她是它的“妈妈”，它是她的“眼睛”。他们一起担当，共同分享喜悦，他们是两个不能分开的灵魂。 Born in Beijing, Chen Yan is a blind woman who was abandoned by her parents when she was a child. Born in Dalian, Jenny is a Labrador guide dog raised by three loving families. One day, fate brings them together.

Huddersfield

Auteure: Ugljesa Sajtinac

Nombre de pages: 102

Rasha is 30 and it's all gone wrong. His alcoholic father has taken the toilet door, he's got a 16-year-old schoolgirl in his bed and his best friend is the lunatic living downstairs. To top it all, his country has gone to pot. When an old school friend turns up, it's the start of an evening where the sparks and ketchup fly.

Evaluating Civic Youth Work

Auteure: Ross Velure Roholt , Michael Baizerman

Nombre de pages: 209

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many have turned to civic engagement methodologies to create opportunities for young people to have a voice in decisions that affect them. With the dissemination of youth civic engagement practice, there is a need to evaluate these efforts to satisfy funders, stakeholders, and participants. As a social innovation, youth civic engagement efforts present unique issues to evaluation and invite innovative and participatory evaluation designs. This volume brings together experienced evaluators, evaluation and youth civic engagement scholars, and civic youth workers to inform evaluation designs for youth civic engagement practice and programs. The book uses the US Center for Disease Control's framework for evaluation process, and explores issues, questions, and choices an evaluator can make when designing an evaluation of youth civic engagement practices. The heart of the book includes case studies written by professional evaluators, evaluation and youth scholars, and youth workers to define issues for each stage and provide guidance for others who...

Virtual Environments for Corporate Education: Employee Learning and Solutions

Auteure: Ritke-jones, William

Nombre de pages: 425

"This book should be used by human resource managers, corporate educators, instructional designers, consultants and researchers who want to discover how people use virtual realities for corporate education"--Provided by publisher.

Journals of the Legislature of the State of California

Auteure: California. Legislature

Nombre de pages: 1602

One Night With The Billionaire: Sparks Fly with the Billionaire / The Nanny Plan / Second Chance with the Billionaire (Mills & Boon By Request)

Auteure: Marion Lennox , Sarah M. Anderson , Janice Maynard

Nombre de pages: 383

One Night with the Billionaire

Build4Skills—Integrating Traineeships into ADB-Supported Infrastructure Projects

Auteure: Asian Development Bank

Nombre de pages: 94

Designed as a step-by-step guide, this handbook shows how ADB-backed infrastructure projects in Asia and the Pacific can integrate employability and skills development by delivering work-based youth traineeship opportunities that amplify project benefits. It provides practical guidance for project processing teams and implementation units including templates for direct use. It also sets out how to weave cost-effective traineeships into project procurement documents and deliver training programs. The handbook shows how integrating traineeships into projects requires marginal budget increases and explains why offering work-based training helps build a more skilled and productive workforce that improves youth inclusion and boosts employability.

David Copperfield

Auteure: Charles Dickens

Nombre de pages: 128

The treacherous Uriah Heep, the jovial nurse Peggotty, the adorably dim-witted Dora, the improvident Mr Micawber and the egotistic and charming Steerforth come to life in this new adaptation of Dickens’ classic. From seaside Yarmouth to London and beyond, as plots and counterplots effortlessly interweave into one intricate, grand design, David Copperfield captures the brightness, magic and terror of the world as seen through the eyes of a child: his bafflement turning to self-awareness and his young heart growing ever more disciplined and true.

Strengthening Disability-Inclusive Development

Auteure: Asian Development Bank

Nombre de pages: 126

ADB’s Strategy 2030’s first operational priority focuses on addressing remaining poverty and reducing inequalities through a three-pronged strategy: investing in human capital and social protection, facilitating access to good-quality jobs, and reducing inequality of opportunity through such means as removing barriers to access to services and infrastructure, especially for the poor and vulnerable. The Strategy commits ADB to increasing its emphasis on social inclusion and human development to address the non-income dimensions of poverty. This road map provides a framework to support disability-inclusive development, focusing first on short- and medium-term actions and building an inclusive organizational culture that can accelerate and strengthen the implementation of Strategy 2030 goals and priority areas.

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Nombre de pages: 806

Climate Change Action Plan, 2023–2030

Auteure: Asian Development Bank

Nombre de pages: 249

Setting out ADB’s ambitious climate targets, this publication lays out action how ADB plans to catalyze climate finance and incentivize innovation to help shepherd Asia and the Pacific towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. Underscoring why hard-fought development gains are at risk, the publication shows how ADB plans to invest $100 billion of its own funds and work with the public and private sector to maximize its climate impact. With the region on the frontline of the growing climate crisis, ADB aims to help decarbonize transport and energy, employ climate-smart planning to boost resilience, and work with partners to develop climate-critical outcomes.

International Perspectives on School Settings, Education Policy and Digital Strategies

Auteure: Annika Wilmers , Sieglinde Jornitz

Nombre de pages: 394

An exchange on education ideas has shaped the transatlantic discourse in education for a long time. Over the past two decades education science has increasingly become networked internationally. Since 2015, the Office for International Cooperation in Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education has organized international sessions on education research at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, thus providing a floor for transatlantic exchange on current research topics. The volume gives an overview of the transatlantic activities in education research with regard to these sessions representing a collection of topics ranging from school development over the use of large scale assessment and digital data in education to questions related to migration and public education or the economization of education. At the same time the volume offers a reflection on the assets and obstacles of international exchange.

Magasin d'education et de recréation

Auteure: Jules Verne

Nombre de pages: 650

The Lemon Princess

Auteure: Rachael Mcgill , Ruth Carney , Richard Stacey

Nombre de pages: 132

"Despite their bickering stage double act on the Leeds pub circuit, Mike and his seventeen year old daughter Becky are close. She pretends not to laugh at his jokes, he pretends not to encourage her singing career. Then Becky's behaviour starts to become very unusual. The Lemon Princess is the story of a very British family and a very British political cover-up."--BOOK JACKET.

How Many Miles to Basra?

Auteure: Colin Teevan

Nombre de pages: 114

Based on recent events in the Middle East. Likelihood of wide media coverage with production.

Marine Technology and SNAME News

Nombre de pages: 468

Encyclopédie du cinéma de Hong Kong

Auteure: Emrik Gouneau , Léonard Amara

Nombre de pages: 584

Propose un ensemble de notices sur les films (du début du XXe siècle à nos jours), les acteurs, les réalisateurs, les chorégraphes et les musiciens représentatifs du cinéma hong-kongais ainsi que sur la culture cantonnaise.

American Doctoral Dissertations

Nombre de pages: 776

The Chicago Reporter

Nombre de pages: 392

PC Magazine

Nombre de pages: 802

Life Changing

Auteure: Alasdair Thompson

Nombre de pages: 337

In Life Changing, Alasdair Thompson outlines the events surrounding his sacking as chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association, New Zealands largest business membership organisation, after twelve years of reorganisation and rebuilding the Association. He reveals his upbringing, the people and events that shaped him, his views on business, economics and public policy, and outlines a career in local government and in various local authorities and boards. We see the man behind the media target, and he shares his beliefs and values, his crises, as well as personal transformation and newfound faith and peace. Thompsons was at the centre of a media maelstrom that led to his downfall. This book describes how he and his family coped with the aftermath and ultimately moved on, happier and stronger. Life Changing learning from the past fixing the future By Alasdair Thompson Life Changing is what I have called my book due out early October. It is partly autobiographical and partly a commentary on a wide range of political, business, and media issues including the ethics of some leaders in those fields. It's also about my transformation from having been publicly disgraced...