This flexible text can serve as the basis of a course in information literacy or as a supplemental text or basic research guide in any course.Both a students' textbook and an instructional reference for educators, this brief but information-rich text teaches students what information literacy is and why it's such an important skill to develop. Authors Scott Lanning and Caitlin Gerrity concentrate on developing skills and behaviors that positively impact the information literacy process. They teach such skills as evaluating and using information and behaviors like exploring, analyzing, and creating.Updated to incorporate the new AASL standards, this third edition of Concise Guide to Information Literacy includes new information on the value of curiosity and choice in the research process, offers a new model of the research process (the Reflective Inquiry Model), and updates the Decision Points Information Seeking Model that describes how student researchers choose to use the information they've found. This book has proven to be invaluable for high school and college students learning about information literacy and librarians and teachers in upper high school and community college settings.
Recent research demonstrates that for many parents, having a preterm baby is an unexpected and often traumatic experience that shatters their expectations of parenthood. In preparing this book, we listened to parents' stories and talked to physicians, social workers, nurse practitioners and nurses. From these conversations, we created and illustrated the stories of four fictional characters and their journeys through the alien world of the NICU.
'Worlds of Power shows how religious and supernatural ideas dominate African politics and culture, how they shape the ways that Africans both rich and poor view the world. [...] This wide-ranging and thoroughly researched book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern Africa.' --Professor Philip Jenkins, author of The Next Christendom: the Coming of Global Christianity 'Power in the material world, most Africans continue to believe, cannot be separated from its source in the spiritual. It is the singular genius of authors Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar that they understand the encompassing nature and centrality of this belief. [...] The clarity and accuracy of this analytical lens makes Worlds of Power one of the most important books on African religion - and, indeed, on African politics - to appear in many years.' --Professor R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame Far from falling off the map of the world, Africa is today a leading centre of Christianity and a growing field of Islamic activism. African traditional religions are gaining converts in the West. Religious belief has a huge impact on politics in Africa, from the top of society to the bottom. Religious ideas show what people actually think about the world and how to deal with it. Stories about witches, miracles and people returning from the dead incite political action. Ellis and Ter Haar maintain that the specific content of religious thought has to be grasped if we are to appreciate the political significance of religion in Africa today, and this is what their book sets out to do. It also advances understanding of the relation between religion and political action in general.
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Die Autoren arbeiten die verfahrensrechtlichen Probleme auf, die sich in den letzten Jahren für den Bereich der Verrechnungspreise ergeben haben. Dazu analysieren sie aus empirischer und normativer Perspektive, welche praktische Relevanz die Dokumentationspflichten haben, wo sich welche Rechtsunsicherheiten im Verfahrensrecht der Verrechnungspreise ergeben, wie gewichtig sie sind, wie sie sich reduzieren lassen und wie der Zugang zu behördlichem, gerichtlichem und zwischenstaatlichem Rechtsschutz verbreitert werden kann.
