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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Daniel A. Strachman
Daniel Opoku's exhibition points to the political and epistemological inequalities in our mathematics pedagogy, in a way not to criminalize the structured academic discipline of mathematics, but to subject a different cultural interpretation of the concept to critical mathematics pedagogy. He postulates through his work that, across all cultures, people add, subtract, divide and multiply in both simple and complex terms making mathematics a global language.
Programe su Mente para Triunfar
Daniel A. Illingworth
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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Hasta cierto punto es sorprendente que con todo el nfasis que se le da hoy en d a al xito (financiero, sentimental, empresarial, personal, emocional), en el transcurso de todos los a os que un individuo promedio se encuentra inmerso en el sistema educativo "formal", pocas personas hayan tenido la oportunidad de aprender, entender y aplicar exitosamente la estructura del planteamiento adecuado de metas y objetivos. Todo lo que nos rodea (incluyendo a nosotros mismos), as como todo lo que sentimos, pensamos y hacemos, tiene una estructura. Podemos hablar desde la estructura del ADN hasta la estructura del Universo, pasando por estructuras mec nicas, arquitect nicas, matem ticas, sem nticas, ling sticas, art sticas, musicales... Si todo tiene una estructura, no es natural que el camino al xito tambi n lo tenga? Cuando pensamos en ello, llama la atenci n que tantas personas en el mundo, independiente de su localizaci n geogr fica, posici n econ mica o social, educaci n, religi n, raza, sexo, etc., se encuentren frente a obst culos en el camino a sus metas que no saben c mo superar, sencillamente porque no han tenido la oportunidad de encontrar el camino correcto o motivarse lo suficiente como para descubrir en s mismos la energ a, voluntad y los recursos necesarios para superar ese obst culo.
Program your Mind to Succeed!
Daniel A. Illingworth
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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Family-Based Therapy for Latine Adolescents
Daniel A. Santisteban; Maite P. Mena; David Santisteban
Guilford Publications
2025
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Filling a key need for clinicians working with at-risk Latine adolescents, this book bridges the gap between evidence-based and culturally informed adolescent and family therapy. The authors explore the unique challenges facing Latine youth and families--including immigration- and acculturation-related stressors and minoritization--as well as culturally based sources of resilience. They present Culturally Informed and Flexible Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA), which combines manualized family and individual interventions. Therapists can select from an extensive list of psychoeducational modules to tailor the intervention to unique client needs. Vivid case examples illustrate high-quality, time- and cost-effective treatment strategies for a range of mental health and substance use problems. The book also provides information about comprehensive CIFFTA training.
Family-Based Therapy for Latine Adolescents
Daniel A. Santisteban; Maite P. Mena; David Santisteban
Guilford Publications
2025
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Filling a key need for clinicians working with at-risk Latine adolescents, this book bridges the gap between evidence-based and culturally informed adolescent and family therapy. The authors explore the unique challenges facing Latine youth and families--including immigration- and acculturation-related stressors and minoritization--as well as culturally based sources of resilience. They present Culturally Informed and Flexible Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA), which combines manualized family and individual interventions. Therapists can select from an extensive list of psychoeducational modules to tailor the intervention to unique client needs. Vivid case examples illustrate high-quality, time- and cost-effective treatment strategies for a range of mental health and substance use problems. The book also provides information about comprehensive CIFFTA training.
NYC Big Book Award (Distinguished Favorite 2023)Book Excellence Awards (Historical Fiction Winner 2022)Maincrest Media Book Award (Mainstream Winner 2021)Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award (Top 100 Notable 2016)Historical Novel Society (Editor's Choice 2015)Best Indie Book Award (Literary/Mainstream Winner 2013) "A stunning novel and a joy to read" Helen Hollick, Managing Editor - Historical Novel Society (Editor's Choice)"Smith writes fluidly, and the society he depicts is intriguingly complex." - Kirkus Reviews"Steeped in immediacy and vivid detail." D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer - Midwest Book Review The first recorded Europeans to cross the Mississippi River reached the western shore on June 18, 1541. Hernando De Soto and his army of three hundred and fifty conquistadors spent the next year and a half conquering the nations in the fertile flood plains of eastern Arkansas. Three surviving sixteenth-century journals written during the expedition detailed a complex array of twelve different nations. Each had separate beliefs, languages, and interconnected villages with capital towns comparable in size to European cities of the time. Through these densely populated sites, the Spanish carried a host of deadly old-world diseases, a powerful new religion, and war. No other Europeans ventured into this land until French explorers arrived one hundred and thirty years later. They found nothing of the people or the towns that the Spanish had so vividly described. For those lost nations, the only hope that their stories, their last remaining essence will ever be heard again lies with one unlikely Storykeeper. Editorial Reviews of Storykeeper"'A man without a story is one without a past, ' Smith writes, 'and a man without a past is one without wisdom.' By the time readers have wandered freely through the strange realm of the Storykeeper, they may well find those words more prophetic, and more powerful." - Kirkus Reviews "Storykeeper is a complex read . . . With both perspective and time in flux, readers are carried along on a historical and cultural journey that, while compelling, requires attention to detail: not for those seeking light entertainment, it's a saga that demands - and deserves - careful reading and contemplation." D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer - Midwest Book Review" I was not only entertained by this book, but educated about a period of history of which I knew nothing. I loved the chapter structure which has a rhythm of its own, all wrapped in an attractive and appropriate cover. I have no hesitation in recommending this book no matter where your historical interest may lie. I give it 5 stars " Helen Hollick, Managing Editor - Historical Novel Society (Editor's Choice) "Smith has created a wealth of history and culture that will make you weep. Creating words and phrases with a poetic sense, building a feel for Native American culture that feels so genuine and, yet, is eminently readable." Kathy Davie - Books, Movies, Reviews "I love this story, and I applaud Daniel A. Smith on his diligent research. Smith writes some strong characters in this gripping story. Every human emotion is engaged, and at times I felt like I was right there with Manaha and the tribes who fought against DeSoto. Superbly done. I'm sure I will be reading this book again." SK - The Jelly Bomb Review "The book's images, enhanced by objective historical writing are portals into the distant past, sometimes humorous, often heartbreaking, but always illuminating." Fred Petrucelli - Log Cabin
Dawn of Darkness: Daeva: Book One
Daniel A. Kaine
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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Can Regulation Work?: The Implementation of the 1972 California Coastal Initiative
Daniel A. Sabatier
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2012
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Although loeal governments have traditionally exereised almost exclusive regula- tory eontrol over land development within their jurisdictions, throughout the 1970s state governments began to amass eonsiderablc authority over loeal land use deeisions. Studies of the implementation of these new programs, however, have generally had the drawbacks of not being integrated into theoretieal litera- tures in the soeial seien ces and suffering from substantial mcthodologieal prob- lems. On the basis of a review of literatures on poliey making by regulatory ageneies, the implementation of federal soeialldistributive programs, and the situational variables affecting ageney behavior, in this study we develop a general eoneeptual framework of the implementation proeess of regulatory statutes. The framework is then applied to the implementation of one of the more novel and eomprehensive state-levclland use statutes, the California Coastal Zone Conser- vati on Act of 1972. In this undertaking we reeeived eonsiderable assistanee in the design stage and later in review of preliminary drafts of our report from aNational Advisory Committee eomposed of persons actively involved in the implementation ofland use poliey, representatives of groups affected by land use regulation, and seholars in the field. For serving on the eommittee we are indebted to James Carroll, California Couneil for Environmental and Eeonomie Balance; Paul Culhane, Department of Politieal Seience, U niversity of Houston; Grant Dehart, Office of Coastal Zone Management, Washington, D. C.
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba, Rodriguez argues, they evolved into important expressions of anticolonialnationalismas Cuba struggled to establish itself as a modern state. A younger generation of Cuban medical reformers, including physicians, patients, and officials, imagined disease as a kind of remnant of colonial rule. These new medical nationalists, as Rodriguez calls them, looked to medical science to guide Cuba toward what they envisioned as a healthy and independent future.Rodriguez describes how medicine and new public health projects infused republican Cuba's statecraft, powerfully shaping the lives of Havana's residents. He underscores how various stakeholders, including women and people of color, demanded robust government investment in quality medical care for all Cubans, a central national value that continues today. On a broader level, Rodriguez proposes that Latin America, at least as much as the United States and Europe, was an engine for the articulation of citizens' rights, including the right to health care, in the twentieth century.
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba, Rodriguez argues, they evolved into important expressions of anticolonialnationalismas Cuba struggled to establish itself as a modern state. A younger generation of Cuban medical reformers, including physicians, patients, and officials, imagined disease as a kind of remnant of colonial rule. These new medical nationalists, as Rodriguez calls them, looked to medical science to guide Cuba toward what they envisioned as a healthy and independent future.Rodriguez describes how medicine and new public health projects infused republican Cuba's statecraft, powerfully shaping the lives of Havana's residents. He underscores how various stakeholders, including women and people of color, demanded robust government investment in quality medical care for all Cubans, a central national value that continues today. On a broader level, Rodriguez proposes that Latin America, at least as much as the United States and Europe, was an engine for the articulation of citizens' rights, including the right to health care, in the twentieth century.
Dans ce livre, travers l'histoire de quelques personnages imaginaires et de quelques-uns biens r els, dans le milieu hippique et de la spiritualit , y sont pr sent s certains principes de l'ontologie, la science des lois de la vie, qui peuvent se r v ler comme tant notre ultime et unique recours. Non pour convaincre qui que se soit, mais pour donner mati re r flexions et laisser chacun le soin de se forger sa propre opinion, selon le principe du respect de soi et des autres. Il contribue l' mergence d'une nouvelle fa on d'appr hender les probl mes, qui l'heure actuelle n'est pas superflue. Le r ve et la magie peuvent, parfois, apporter la bouff e d'air pur dont nous avons tant besoin. La vie tant une aventure int rieure merveilleuse, nous devrions pouvoir la vivre ensemble et la partager avec tous. (Utopie ?) Ceci est le fruit de cinquante ann es de recherches et de m ditations.
Graph Theory presents a natural, reader-friendly way to learn some of the essential ideas of graph theory starting from first principles. The format is similar to the companion text, Combinatorics: A Problem Oriented Approach also by Daniel A. Marcus, in that it combines the features of a textbook with those of a problem workbook. The material is presented through a series of approximately 360 strategically placed problems with connecting text. This is supplemented by 280 additional problems that are intended to be used as homework assignments. Concepts of graph theory are introduced, developed, and reinforced by working through leading questions posed in the problems.This problem-oriented format is intended to promote active involvement by the reader while always providing clear direction. This approach figures prominently on the presentation of proofs, which become more frequent and elaborate as the book progresses. Arguments are arranged in digestible chunks and always appear along with concrete examples to keep the readers firmly grounded in their motivation.Spanning tree algorithms, Euler paths, Hamilton paths and cycles, planar graphs, independence and covering, connections and obstructions, and vertex and edge colorings make up the core of the book. Hall's Theorem, the Konig-Egervary Theorem, Dilworth's Theorem and the Hungarian algorithm to the optional assignment problem, matrices, and latin squares are also explored.
Whether it's a public health and safety mandate, the enforcement of building and safety codes, or the actions of law enforcement officers within a municipal police department, most people tend to think of Washington D.C. when it comes to the government. The sober reality, however, is that the most relevant government happens at the local level. Death of a Public Servant is a true story about a former City Manager's personal experience. After serving his community for thirty years, he was accused of misconduct, labeled a whistleblower, and publicly terminated. These actions would blackball his reputation and nearly destroy his personal life. Over the next six years, he would embark on the steep, uphill journey to clear his name in court, while attempting to pivot from an otherwise stellar career in public service. After a challenging and lengthy court battle, he would go on to win a multi-million-dollar jury verdict. This book delves into the intricacies of the local public administrator role from the vantage point of someone with firsthand experience. It is raw and unfiltered, and shines a light on the actions of elected officials which often go unchecked. It is both personal and thought-provoking and will leave you to consider your civic responsibility as a member of your local community.
Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Edinburgh University Press
2019
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Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics. Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental ethics.