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Sometimes luck beats planning. I have been fortunate in my professional career,
a career that began in 1973 as an accountant and continued into operations management
and management consulting. Without realizing it—through a series of
different…

Teaching to Diversity: Teaching and Learning in the Multi-Ethnic Classroom introduces the latest theories about second-language acquisition along with tested teaching approaches and practices for use in elementary schools. It is designed for all…

Starting a new business venture is like going into a tropical forest
on a treasure hunt. There are rewards to be won, both in material
wealth and personal satisfaction, but there
are
dangers lurking
and
you can easily lose your way.
This book…

Perhaps our biggest failure with student teachers is in not preparing them adequately for the emotional pressures on them and for the way their own emotional responses will help determine their reactions and behaviour in the classroom. However much I…

The largest of three pyramids constructed around 2500 B.C. y kings of Egypt, the Great Pyramid of the pharaoh Khufu (called Cheops by the Greeks) is located at Giza on the West Bank of the Nile River. Although most of the stone were taken from nearby…

Many people have helped in the writing of this book, and the
authors are indebted and grateful to all of them. Some deserve a
special mention: Sarah Taylor at the Management Consultancies Association
for allowing us to make use of the detailed…

Management accounting deals with the provision of accounting and nonaccounting
information to internal users for the purpose of facilitating their decision
making. While technical in nature, management accounting still functions in a
behavioral…

WHAT EVERY E-LEARNING designer, developer, and manager wants, at least once in a while, is information and ideas that were use- ful to others. How did other people solve particular problems in the creation, distribution, and tracking of software…

WestEd is a research, development, and service agency working with
education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve
equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. Drawing
on the best knowledge from research and…

The inspiration for the first edition of this book, published in 1997, originated with a workshop held in the summer of 1995 at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York. Participants included colleagues from DEGW and…