Leadership is not for the timid. Leaders face treacherous trails, blinding sand storms, and teams of trusty cowhands who need guidance and counsel along the way. But there is no need for a Lone Ranger to rescue us from the leadership rattlesnakes that threaten to bite us at every turn. There are specific Transformational Leader skills that can be observed, learned, and fine-tuned that can allow us to grow as leaders and develop the cowhands on our teams. This book is filled with stories of heart, perseverance, courage, and hard work, all bedrock values of middle-America and the foundation for exceptional leaders. Don't be caught without your saddlebag, these Oklahoma leadership stories will demonstrate how to refine old skills and lasso up new ones. As all great stories do, you'll be impressed and inspired as you learn how a few great leaders were able to rustle up premier architectural venues from conception to completion.
This unique compendium elaborates the basic perceptions of data warehouses and data mining. The former part of the book covers concepts like introduction to data warehouses, the need for using such data warehouses and key terminologies used in this framework. The latter part of the book covers the data mining concepts and the data mining techniques used in various applications and also explains the machine learning techniques in detail with suitable examples wherever essential.The book is written in simple English and is user-friendly. Each chapter is modeled with several sample scenarios and illustrations wherever necessary. The complete contents of each chapter include chapter technical content, summary, key points to remember, and few case studies for class group discussions and problem-solving.This volume clearly benefits professionals, academicians, data analysts, machine-learning community, undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Explore young children's remarkable everyday math that can lay the groundwork for formal math education in kindergarten and beyond. Readers will learn how math is embedded in children's everyday lives, how daily routines contribute to the development of important math concepts, and what adults can do to foster the joy of early math learning. Ginsburg describes the development of children's informal ideas about number, shape, space, pattern, and measurement, and offers many specific activities designed to promote learning. This dynamic resource provides over 75 short videos showing individual children, from 9 months to years, engaging in spontaneous everyday math activities or talking with an adult about their thinking. Fascinating and often funny, the videos help adults understand the child's everyday math so they can support meaningful math education. Readers and watchers of the videos are encouraged to think deeply about young children's everyday math and how they can foster it at home, in early learning programs, and at school. Young Children's Amazing Math shows how everyday math can be fun for both children and adults. Enjoy it with the children! Book Features: An examination of young children's everyday math, much of which is universal, despite differences across gender, socioeconomic status, and culture. An exploration of how understanding children's everyday math can lay the foundation for teaching school math. The first book to make extensive use of videos to tell "thinking stories" about young children engaged in everyday math.Videos will help adults, including early childhood education students, professional educators, and parents, to understand that math learning can be enjoyable and is not to be feared or avoided in the early years and beyond.Numerous activities that teachers, day care providers, and parents can use to promote the development of children's everyday math. Available in print with embedded QR codes for video access, as well as in a digital version.
Explore young children's remarkable everyday math that can lay the groundwork for formal math education in kindergarten and beyond. Readers will learn how math is embedded in children's everyday lives, how daily routines contribute to the development of important math concepts, and what adults can do to foster the joy of early math learning. Ginsburg describes the development of children's informal ideas about number, shape, space, pattern, and measurement, and offers many specific activities designed to promote learning. This dynamic resource provides over 75 short videos showing individual children, from 9 months to years, engaging in spontaneous everyday math activities or talking with an adult about their thinking. Fascinating and often funny, the videos help adults understand the child's everyday math so they can support meaningful math education. Readers and watchers of the videos are encouraged to think deeply about young children's everyday math and how they can foster it at home, in early learning programs, and at school. Young Children's Amazing Math shows how everyday math can be fun for both children and adults. Enjoy it with the children! Book Features: An examination of young children's everyday math, much of which is universal, despite differences across gender, socioeconomic status, and culture. An exploration of how understanding children's everyday math can lay the foundation for teaching school math. The first book to make extensive use of videos to tell "thinking stories" about young children engaged in everyday math.Videos will help adults, including early childhood education students, professional educators, and parents, to understand that math learning can be enjoyable and is not to be feared or avoided in the early years and beyond.Numerous activities that teachers, day care providers, and parents can use to promote the development of children's everyday math. Available in print with embedded QR codes for video access, as well as in a digital version.
Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship is the first definitive work to examine the maritime historical and archaeological record of one of the most infamous ships in American history. Clotilda was owned by Alabama businessman Timothy Meaher, who, on a dare, equipped it to carry captured Africans from what is now Benin and bring them to Alabama in 1860—some fifty years after the import of captives to be enslaved was banned. To hide the evidence, Clotilda was set afire and sunk. What remained was a substantially intact, submerged, and partially buried shipwreck located in a backwater of the Mobile River. The site of the wreck was an open secret to some people who knew Meaher, but its identity remained unknown for more than a century as various surveys through the years failed to locate the ship. This volume, authored by the archaeological team who conducted a comprehensive, systematic survey of a forgotten “ship graveyard,” details the exhaustive forensic work that conclusively identified the wreck, as well as the stories and secrets that have emerged from the partly burned hulk. James P. Delgado and his coauthors discuss the various searches for Clotilda, sharing the forensic data and other analyses showing how those involved concluded that this wreck was indeed Clotilda. Additionally, they offer physical evidence not previously shared that situates the schooner and its voyage in a larger context of the slave trade. Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship serves as a nautical biography of the ship as well. After reviewing the maritime trade in and out of Mobile Bay, this account places Clotilda within the larger landscape of American and Gulf of Mexico schooners and chronicles its career before being used as a slave ship. All of its voyages had a link to slavery, and one may have been another smuggling voyage in violation of federal law. The authors have also painstakingly reconstructed Clotilda’s likely appearance and characteristics.
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Il tabacco una delle maggiori sfide per la salute pubblica, che devasta paesi e regioni. Il tabacco prospera ovunque nonostante la disapprovazione sociale (e in alcuni casi religiosa) e causa una vasta gamma di patologie che colpiscono tutti gli organi del corpo. anche identificato come uno dei principali fattori di rischio per molti disturbi orali, che vanno dalla semplice colorazione dei denti al cancro orale mortale. Lo studio dentistico un luogo potenziale per partecipare alle misure di cessazione del tabagismo che raggiungono una vasta popolazione. I consigli forniti attraverso lo studio dentistico sono efficaci quanto il supporto fornito da altri professionisti dell'assistenza primaria. Il personale odontoiatrico ha un'opportunit unica di svolgere attivit di controllo del tabagismo, riconoscendo i primi cambiamenti anomali durante le visite cliniche di routine attraverso controlli orali ripetuti, come parte della loro attivit di assistenza sanitaria orale continua. Il dentista e gli studi dentistici hanno un ruolo fondamentale da svolgere nell'incoraggiare e sostenere la cessazione del tabagismo. Il coinvolgimento del personale odontoiatrico richiede un approccio olistico in diversi modi.
Tytoń stanowi jedno z największych wyzwań dla zdrowia publicznego, niszcząc kraje i regiony. Pomimo spolecznego (i religijnego) potępienia, tytoń rozprzestrzenia się wszędzie i powoduje szereg schorzeń wplywających na wszystkie narządy ciala. Jest r wnież uznawany za gl wny czynnik ryzyka wielu schorzeń jamy ustnej, od prostych przebarwień zęb w po śmiertelny rak jamy ustnej. Gabinet stomatologiczny jest potencjalnym miejscem, w kt rym można podjąc dzialania mające na celu rzucenie palenia, docierając do dużej populacji. Porady udzielane w gabinecie stomatologicznym są r wnie skuteczne, jak wsparcie zapewniane przez innych specjalist w podstawowej opieki zdrowotnej. Personel stomatologiczny ma wyjątkową możliwośc prowadzenia dzialań związanych z kontrolą palenia tytoniu poprzez rozpoznawanie wczesnych nieprawidlowych zmian podczas rutynowych badań klinicznych w ramach regularnych kontroli jamy ustnej, kt re są częścią świadczonej przez nich opieki stomatologicznej. Stomatolodzy i gabinety stomatologiczne odgrywają kluczową rolę w zachęcaniu do rzucania palenia i wspieraniu tego procesu. Zaangażowanie personelu stomatologicznego wymaga holistycznego podejścia na wiele sposob w.
Newsworthy wrestles with living in a culture infected by white supremacy where current media is distrusted, cursory, and impossible to escape. And yet, we yearn to know. We crave a thoughtfulness--apart from soundbites and viral videos--that plumbs deeper, one that reawakens our shared humanity by reminding us that under headlines beat all of our "pierced hearts."A leading light in the new poetic guard, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's collection is a poetic reimagining of the newspaper, collecting cutouts from the editing floor to resurrect those who would otherwise be forgotten. Not content to further sensationalize the horrors perpetrated on Black Americans by a broken justice system, Mouton boldly relays stories of police brutality by reinventing poetic form and function, reminding us that wisdom, context, and every angle of truth is what infuses information with elucidation.Akin to An American Marriage, Newsworthy grounds the fragility and danger inherent in contemporary Black experience in an "ordinary" family: mother, father, brother (Josh), and sister (Amandla), following their near and lived tragedies against the backdrop of murdered black Americans. Amandla serves as a surrogate for all of us, regardless of skin color, morphing from naive bystander to headline herself. Alongside her, we witness the exponential compilation of threat. We learn to conceive of dread, anger, compassion, suffering, and love as survival tactics. And we uncover what we should have seen all along: that to be human in the world is to rectify its injustices. With Newsworthy, Mouton brings us news of the heart.
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best NonfictionNonfiction Finalist for the 2023 Writers' League of Texas Book AwardsNamed one of The Root's 2023 Best Books by Black Authors It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological? Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton yearned for stories she could connect to--true ones, of course, but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and her place in it. Greek and Roman myths felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins, and tales by Black authors were often rooted too far in the past, a continent away. Mouton's memoir is a praise song and an elegy for Black womanhood. She tells her own story while remixing myths and drawing on traditions from all over the world: mothers literally grow eyes in the backs of their heads, children dust the childhood off their bodies, and women come to love the wildness of the hair they once tried to tame. With a poet's gift for lyricism and poignancy, Mouton reflects on her childhood as the daughter of a preacher and a harsh but loving mother, living in the world as a Black woman whose love is all too often coupled with danger, and finally learning to be a mother to another Black girl in America. Of the moment yet timeless, playful but incendiary, Mouton has staked out new territory in the memoir form.
Skyline 2019, the sixth in a series of annual publisher's anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of writers who live or work in Central Virginia or otherwise have writing connections to the region. The title of the anthology is taken from the Skyline Drive, the parkway skipping along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and providing centering for the region to which the authors showcased here are connected. The first four editions followed the seasons in cover image and Skyline contest themes. The theme for the fifth edition and 2017's annual Skyline writing contest, was "nighttime on the mountain." This edition's contest theme is "winter holidays."Other than the 2019 Skyline contest theme, there is no set theme for the other short stories, poems, and essays in this anthology, the content of which also includes pieces by the judges, editors, and publisher of Skyline, and selected award-winning pieces in regional contests in 2018 and 2019. Each of these works can be discovered and appreciated on its own context and merits. As with earlier Skyline editions, eclecticism is the hallmark word for this collection. A third of the works found here won or placed in various Virginia regional and statewide writing contests in 2018 and 2019. The foundation for the juried contest selections combine the 2019 Skyline writing contest and selected placers in the 2018 and 2019 contest of the Blue Ridge Writers (BWR) club. Selected contest-placing works from the 2019 poetry awards of the Poetry Society of Virginia; a second-placed poem in the 2019 Writer's Eye contest, sponsored by the Fralin Museum of the University of Virginia; and a 2018 Jefferson Madison Regional Library/WriterHouse prize-winning poem are published here as well.The anthology is made up of thirty-six works by twelve authors, presented in three sections: fiction (ten short stories), poetry (nineteen poems), and nonfiction (seven essays). Half of the authors here are represented by more than one work and, most of them, in varied media to showcase their writing skills.
P.G. Wodehouse; Frank Skinner; Roddy Doyle; Alan Titchmarsh; Dominic Sandbrook; Deborah Frances-White; Andrew Hunter Murray; Scarlett Curtis; Jasper Fforde; John Finnemore; Ian Moore; William Rayfet Hunter; Fergus Craig
Amaris Brown; Thadious M. Davis; Alexis Pauline Gumbs; Sharon P. Holland; Ra Malika Imhotep; Deborah McDowell; Fred Moten; Kiana T. Murphy; Kevin Quashie; Anthony Reed; Shoniqua Roach; Nicole Adeyinka Spigner
Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies. Edited by Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton, The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers is the first collection to take up directly how Spillers’s writing on literature, culture, and theory have been signal posts to the varied and universal threads of Black thought, as well as countless other areas of the academy. Interspersed with archival fragments from Spillers’s papers kept at the Pembroke Center for Feminist Thought at Brown University, the fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a fidelity to the ways of reading Spillers has taught us, the nomenclature of enslavement keyed into the American lexicon, and the ways that history permeates our cultural boundaries today.
Amaris Brown; Thadious M. Davis; Alexis Pauline Gumbs; Sharon P. Holland; Ra Malika Imhotep; Deborah McDowell; Fred Moten; Kiana T. Murphy; Kevin Quashie; Anthony Reed; Shoniqua Roach; Nicole Adeyinka Spigner
Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies. Edited by Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton, The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers is the first collection to take up directly how Spillers’s writing on literature, culture, and theory have been signal posts to the varied and universal threads of Black thought, as well as countless other areas of the academy. Interspersed with archival fragments from Spillers’s papers kept at the Pembroke Center for Feminist Thought at Brown University, the fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a fidelity to the ways of reading Spillers has taught us, the nomenclature of enslavement keyed into the American lexicon, and the ways that history permeates our cultural boundaries today.
