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It's hard to find an educational book that relates to the boots-on-the-ground educator right away. But project-based learning and student-centered learning is the direction education is going no matter your context. Project Based Learning Stories and Structures is a practical guide to starting a PBL journey complete with examples of fails, wins, and a place to get started. Everyone on your staff will have a place to relate in the practical structures and the humorous stories from the classroom.

This has been the most controversial pontificate in memory. Catholics are taking sides, for and against the pope and each other. Some Catholics like everything Pope Francis says and does. Others think he’s tearing the Church apart. Some say he’s a breath of fresh air. Others say he’s sowing confusion in the ranks. In recent months three best-selling books have appeared criticizing Francis. Are their criticisms warranted, or do they go too far? How are faithful Catholics to understand this pontificate, and what limits, if any, should there be on criticizing a reigning pope?

Happily Ever After...and 39 Other Myths About Love provides you with communication guidelines and tools that will enhance and strengthen your ability to avoid many of the pitfalls that so many couples experience when they mistakenly accept widely held opinions that are masking as "truths".

In a novel that could have been pulled from today’s headlines, Dr. Tom Barrett, respected surgeon and returning war veteran, discovers the practices of some unscrupulous executives in the American pharmaceutical industry. Dangerously effective, they result in skyrocketing prices, misleading advertising, manipulation of health care professionals, rigged research, and the suppression of competition. Their objective is to spike earnings by constantly raising prices of medicines for patients whose health and survival depend on them.

This mystery novel lampoons the foolish pretentions of individuals caught up in the investigation of whether Sunny was murdered and, if so, where was her body. Two lonely people meet at the Happy Place Bar, where a swimsuit model, who isn’t one, seduces the anti-hero - a PI - who isn’t one, with hints of sex to assist her in finding murdered Sunny’s body.

Twenty-four-year-old medical student Nick Weissman spends two weeks delivering babies in the kitchens and bedrooms of the inner city's slum tenements. Over his head medically and unprotected in one of America's most dangerous neighborhoods, his character and resourcefulness are tested in the extreme when a national tragedy intervenes. The young White protagonist steps into his racial fear, testing his fledgling professionalism and his honor to care for a Black family in grave danger.

This humorous mystery unfolds as a group of rapacious cable-show producers meet at an isolated retreat to determine which shows will be renewed, and which will be cancelled. Caustic struggles ensue among the producers of such shows as 600 Pound Fatties, Naked Survivors in Borneo, The Love Life of Little People, and other shows. The intensity of the infighting increases with the advent of Tattoo Man pitching his show.

Do you want to double or even ten times your productivity? This audiobook contains world-renowned techniques and strategies on how to push the limits on your work output. In this audiobook you’ll learn: The secret to overcoming procrastination, how to create habits that literally put your success on autopilot, how to double or even ten times your willpower, how to design and execute a morning ritual, how to manage your time on a yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and even hourly basis, how to use focused time blocks to ramp up your productivity, and much more.

Eight hilarious satirical essays depicting people who believe they lean forward, believe they know, say they know, give advice with what they know, and try to keep others from accomplishing risky historical challenges. Included are the Antarctic Expedition, Constructing the Panama Canal, The Battle of Trenton, in addition to five more farcical stories exposing the naysayers, all written in the light comical style of Evelyn Waugh, and sure to amuse the listener.

Don’t just survive a technical career, thrive in it! This book helps you understand technology positions and titles. We also outline potential tech career landmines and pitfalls. Branding isn’t something just for marketing people, analysts, developers, and network engineers need it, too! To thrive in your career you need the right mindset to take you where you want to go. Leading and building great tech teams are important, too. So we cover it all in this great work from two experienced professionals. Listen today and go from surviving to thriving!

Have you ever wondered where your organization is headed? Have you ever asked yourself: why is it that some organizations are more successful than others? Management fads can bring some benefit, but they rarely deliver the sustained success their advocates promised. Equally, while the caliber of an organization's leadership is important, along with the strategies they pursue, they in themselves are not the answer to the question. Beyond Default argues that there is something more fundamental at play; something that ultimately determines the destiny of an organization.

A collection of 12, some new, some previously published satirical and/or politically incorrect mysteries that will challenge your mind, tickle your funny bone, and shock your sensibilities. Dr. Charles E. Schwarz has received advanced degrees in mathematics, education, and philosophy and is professor emeritus of mathematics. He has published two volumes of his Lonely Detective series.

Throughout this series, you will find tools that will let you gain control over your life and more importantly, over your wealth. Concepts ranging from simple definitions, powerful money management techniques, the right approach and exact trading psychology needed, to explained proven profitable trading systems, all of these will be covered, letting the series convert into a complete guide to finding your own profitable trading system.

This is a complete guide that takes you from scratch to finding a proven profitable system, one that truly suits you: Forex trading.

Why don’t we measure performance in IT development organizations? To answer that question, Nucleon introduces a task-independent KPI. We search for greater understanding of performance factors in every area of our organizations except IT, and that’s a major problem, as IT is both a major enabler and a major inhibitor of business success. Do we know what to prioritize in our IT departments? What areas should we be spending time and resources on to drive peak performance? In Nucleon, Jeppe Hedaa introduces the first formula to measure what holds back an organization's IT performance, along with the most impactful areas for improvement.

A complete guide that takes you from scratch to finding a proven, profitable system, one that truly suits you.

This is a complete guide to finding a proven profitable system in Forex trading. Discover all you need to know about brokerage.

Find tools that will let you gain control over your life and, more importantly, over your wealth. Concepts ranging from simple definitions, powerful money management techniques, the right approach to exact trading psychology needed to explained proven profitable trading systems will be covered in this book, helping you find your own profitable forex trading system. Every relevant concept you might need in order to launch yourself into forex trading and more will be covered throughout this series.

Through out this series, you will find tools that will let you gain control over your life and, more importantly, over your wealth. Concepts ranging from simple definitions, powerful money management techniques, the right approach, and exact trading psychology needed to explained proven profitable trading systems, all of these will be covered, letting the series convert into a complete guide to finding your own profitable trading system.

Where is the next big development paradigm? Many companies are moving beyond Agile methods to release faster and delivery value. In this book we review some of the cutting edge methods.