Bring your computer literacy course back to the BASICS. COMPUTER LITERACY BASICS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO IC3 provides an introduction to computer... concepts and skills, which maps to the newest Computing Core Certification (IC3) standards. Designed with new learners in mind, this text covers Computing Fundamentals, Key Applications, and Living Online - everything your students need to ace the IC3 exam, and finish the course as confident computer users.

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches,... government--do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like--there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches,... government--do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like--there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

Tourism development in a practical guide written for practitioners, professionals and students. Community Tourism Development applies theory to real... life -- delivering the essentials of planning, developing and managing tourist destinations from a community standpoint. Based on extensive research, this comprehensive, 250-page manual takes you step-by-step through the process of developing and enhancing local tourism.
This third edition features new information on social media marketing and digital mapping, examples of how communities are meeting the needs of today's tourist, the latest data on travel trends and more. Updated and expanded case studies show how four communities across the United States have developed tourism with varying degrees of success.
The manual includes a CD-Rom of the more than 30 worksheet and assessment forms found in the manual, presented in an interactive format that allows you to easily record your data within community planning efforts.
This manual is useful if you are a tourism, economic or community development professional; a community tourism volunteer; an educator or simply interested in the tourism potential of communities.

This wide-ranging reader introduces student writers to the forms and genres typical of the academic, work and public communities. Featuring a three-part... structure that distinguishes between writing for the academic, workplace, and public communities, this innovative reader opens each part with introductions to the expectations of readers in that community. Readings and discussion identify and explore the relevant concerns, issues, trends, and ethical standards of each group. Comprehensive collections of “Texts and Documents” provide numerous and varied examples of the common forms of writing within each community—from abstracts, to brochures, to letters to the editor. Accompanying apparatus encourages students to analyze the writing conventions in each community in order to communicate effectively.

Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices focuses on positive methods for youth development that are rapidly supplanting the... traditional deficit-oriented, problem-reduction approaches. Edited by eminent scholars Francisco A. Villarruel, Daniel F. Perkins, Lynne M. Borden, and Joanne G. Keith, this accessible volume provides practical tools and models for developing community-wide initiatives that strengthen protective factors, build competencies, and focus on thriving indicators. Examining the needs of multiple audiences, programs, and policies, each chapter contributes to an overall understanding of the "how" and "why" of community youth development. Designed for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in human development, family studies, and education, Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices is also an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and policy advocates for youth and community development.

This is a comprehensive review of commutative algebra, from localization and primary decomposition through dimension theory, homological methods, free... resolutions and duality, emphasizing the origins of the ideas and their connections with other parts of mathematics. The book gives a concise treatment of Grobner basis theory and the constructive methods in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry that flow from it. Many exercises included.

In addition to being an interesting and profound subject in its own right, commutative ring theory is important as a foundation for algebraic geometry... and complex analytical geometry. Matsumura covers the basic material, including dimension theory, depth, Cohen-Macaulay rings, Gorenstein rings, Krull rings and valuation rings. More advanced topics such as Ratliff's theorems on chains of prime ideals are also explored. The work is essentially self-contained, the only prerequisite being a sound knowledge of modern algebra, yet the reader is taken to the frontiers of the subject. Exercises are provided at the end of each section and solutions or hints to some of them are given at the end of the book.

This book is available to instructors and students in an electronic version! Click here for more information. Addressing the full range of curricular... and instructional issues that face professionals working in middle school, high school, and post-high school programs, Transition Programs for Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Second Edition is the most relevant text available for teachers and administrators. Authors John McDonnell and Michael L. Hardman take the position that the most effective transition programs are those that cumulatively build on the capacity of students for employment, community living, and citizenship. Key Features and Benefits Covers systematic transition planning, employment preparation, participation in the general education curriculum, instruction in community settings, and preparing students to live as independently as possible Aligns with recommended practice in the field and with federal legislation governing educational and community service programs Contains ecological curriculum models for students with intellectual and developmental disabilitiesIncludes focus review questions, real-life example windows, and point/counterpoint boxes from key researchers on controversial issues to help readers connect the book’s concepts with the typical needs of students

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of... poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.From the Paperback edition.

This book provides a "comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis" of the current knowledge about normal and impaired bilingual and second language... acquisition. Typical dual language development varies greatly from monolingual development, and professionals must understand these differences to successfully diagnose and treat dual language learners with language delays and disorders. The book divides dual langauge learners into two types: bilingual children, who have learned two languages from infancy, and second language learners, children who learn a second language after significant progress has been made in the first language. The book is divided into three sections: Foundations, which includes definitions, the influence of culture, and the cognitive aspects of dual language learning; Understanding Bilingual and Second Language Acquisition, which examines research and theory, discusses second language acquisition, and explores school issues; and Clinical Implications, which discusses assessment and intervention issues and a synthesis. Eight case studies, with children representing the various types of dual language learners, are introduced in Chapter 1 and reoccur throughout the book.