This title features favourite athletes from sports such as baseball, basketball, football, tennis and skiing. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of athletes with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach. This title is suitable for children age 5+. Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames' "Draw 50" series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method. His clear instructions help budding artists explore their interests in a fun, familiar way. With over three million copies in print, the "Draw 50" series has successfully shown children how to create everything from a robin to a spaceship, Tyrannosaurus Rex to skyscrapers, and UFOs to racing cars.
This title shows how to draw cars, motorcycles and trucks with ease using the author's signature step-by-step method. It is aimed at age 12 years and upwards. Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames' "Draw 50" series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method. His clear instructions help budding artists explore their interests in a fun, familiar way. With over three million copies in print, the "Draw 50" series has successfully shown children how to create everything from a robin to a spaceship, Tyrannosaurus Rex to skyscrapers and UFOs to racing cars.
Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of fantasy female subjects, this title is suitable for children aged 5-11 years old. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of princesses with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach. His distinctive drawing method has proven to be successful for children and adults alike over the past thirty years and has shown artists, from amateurs to experts, how to draw everything from animals to airplanes. The revised "Draw 50" series gives an old favourite a fresh, new look.
First published in 1961, Consular Law and Practice is a classic work of great interest and practical use to diplomats, consuls, and international lawyers. When persons are out of their home country, consuls are their link with home and a source of assistance. The roles of consuls are many and varied. Consuls promote commerce between the home country and the host country and assist businesspeople in making contacts and in completing commercial transactions. Consuls also handle problems that arise for seafarers and merchant shipping vessels of the home country when they are in port in the host country. When a home country citizen dies while in the host country, consuls may facilitate burial or shipment of the remains home, or deal with the person's estate. Consuls assist individuals arrested on a criminal charge in the host state by visiting them in jail, advising them about the legal system of the host state, and helping to find them a lawyer. If the person is convicted, consuls visit them in prison and may help to secure a transfer to a prison in the home country. This fully updated third edition explains consular privileges and immunities and how consular functions are handled in time of peace and war, when the receiving state experiences civil war, or when the sending and receiving states break off diplomatic or consular relations. It provides valuable background by describing how consular law developed historically and how it became solidified in 1963 in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. It explores the many bilateral consular treaties which supplement the Vienna Convention, examines the traditional and changing role of consuls, explains diplomatic privileges and immunities, and discusses the function of consuls as ambassadors in cultural and scientific exchange.
The 12 Step Process Improvement Quick Reference Guide helps you fast track and energize your initiatives allowing your organization to come up to speed in a short period of time. It can help cut your ramp up time in half for your process improvement projects. It's an easy to read, fast and practical introduction that lays the foundation for a more robust and comprehensive version of 'Feng Shui for Intelligent Process Improvement'. This pocket size version contains concepts that will enable you to begin making the necessary organizational changes that will bring harmony and balance to your work environment and projects. Our series of books incorporate an Eastern conceptual approach in order to implement Western models for process management. The 12 Step Process Improvement Quick Reference Guide will make an insurmountable difference in any organization that's wanting to implement process improvement in a radical new way.
The unique perspective of Richard E. Snow, in recent years one of the most distinguished educational psychologists, integrates psychology of individual differences, cognitive psychology, and motivational psychology. This capstone book pulls together the findings of his own 35 years of research on aptitudes and those from (especially) European scholars, of which he had exceptional knowledge. A panel of experts and former associates completed this book after his death in 1997, expanding his notes on implications of the theory for instructional design and teaching practice. The panel developed Snow's ideas on where the field should go next, emphasizing promising research strategies. Viewing intelligence as education's most important product, as well as its most important raw material, Snow stressed the need to consider both cognitive skills and affective-motivational characteristics. In this book, previously unconnected research and scattered theoretical ideas are integrated into a dynamic model of aptitude. Understanding the transaction between person and situation was Snow's primary concern. This volume draws from diverse resources to construct a theoretical model of aptitude as a complex process of unfolding person-situation dynamics. Remaking the Concept of Aptitude: Extending the Legacy of Richard E. Snow: *presents historical and contemporary discussion of aptitude theory, illuminating recent ideas by pointing to their historic antecedents; *provides evidence of how sound research can have practical ramifications in classroom settings; *discusses the strengths and weaknesses of prominent research programs, including Gardner's "multiple intelligence," meta-analysis, ATI experiments, and information processing; *describes in detail specific research that has developed important concepts--for example, Czikszentmihalyi on "flow"; Lambrechts on success in stressful training; Sternberg on componential analysis; and Gibson on tailoring affordances to match motivations; and *keeps statistical complexities to a minimum, and includes a simply written Appendix that explains the interpretation of key technical concepts. By characterizing sound research in the field, this volume is useful for psychologists and educational researchers. It will also be instructive for teachers seeking to deepen their knowledge of the whole child and for parents of children facing standardized testing.
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What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technology are the primary causes of sustainable development. Institutions are rules that recognized authorities create and enforce. Norms are rules created by long-standing patterns of behavior, shared by people in a society or organization. They combine to play a role in all organizations, including governments, firms, churches, universities, gangs, and even families. This introduction to the concepts and applications of institutional and organizational analysis uses economic history, economics, law, and political science to inform its theoretical framework. Institutional and organizational analysis becomes the basis to show why the economic and political performance of countries worldwide have not converged, and reveals the lessons to be learned from it for business, law, and public policy.
What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technology are the primary causes of sustainable development. Institutions are rules that recognized authorities create and enforce. Norms are rules created by long-standing patterns of behavior, shared by people in a society or organization. They combine to play a role in all organizations, including governments, firms, churches, universities, gangs, and even families. This introduction to the concepts and applications of institutional and organizational analysis uses economic history, economics, law, and political science to inform its theoretical framework. Institutional and organizational analysis becomes the basis to show why the economic and political performance of countries worldwide have not converged, and reveals the lessons to be learned from it for business, law, and public policy.
The unique perspective of Richard E. Snow, in recent years one of the most distinguished educational psychologists, integrates psychology of individual differences, cognitive psychology, and motivational psychology. This capstone book pulls together the findings of his own 35 years of research on aptitudes and those from (especially) European scholars, of which he had exceptional knowledge. A panel of experts and former associates completed this book after his death in 1997, expanding his notes on implications of the theory for instructional design and teaching practice. The panel developed Snow's ideas on where the field should go next, emphasizing promising research strategies. Viewing intelligence as education's most important product, as well as its most important raw material, Snow stressed the need to consider both cognitive skills and affective-motivational characteristics. In this book, previously unconnected research and scattered theoretical ideas are integrated into a dynamic model of aptitude. Understanding the transaction between person and situation was Snow's primary concern. This volume draws from diverse resources to construct a theoretical model of aptitude as a complex process of unfolding person-situation dynamics. Remaking the Concept of Aptitude: Extending the Legacy of Richard E. Snow: *presents historical and contemporary discussion of aptitude theory, illuminating recent ideas by pointing to their historic antecedents; *provides evidence of how sound research can have practical ramifications in classroom settings; *discusses the strengths and weaknesses of prominent research programs, including Gardner's "multiple intelligence," meta-analysis, ATI experiments, and information processing; *describes in detail specific research that has developed important concepts--for example, Czikszentmihalyi on "flow"; Lambrechts on success in stressful training; Sternberg on componential analysis; and Gibson on tailoring affordances to match motivations; and *keeps statistical complexities to a minimum, and includes a simply written Appendix that explains the interpretation of key technical concepts. By characterizing sound research in the field, this volume is useful for psychologists and educational researchers. It will also be instructive for teachers seeking to deepen their knowledge of the whole child and for parents of children facing standardized testing.
What does it mean to be an American? Westward attempts an answer to that question by exploring the lives of common Americans from the founding of Jamestown to the Vanport, Oregon, flood of 1948. Based on the ancestry of the author's grandmother, Wilda Alverda Bowman Ballard, Westward follows one thread of the American tapestry back to the earliest English and German-speaking immigrants who braved the uncertain Atlantic Ocean in hopes of beginning new lives in North America. Moving forward to the time of the French and Indian War and the struggle for independence, Wilda's ancestors found themselves in the middle of bloody conflicts. They pushed westward into western Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Old Northwest in the early nineteenth century. By the coming of the Civil War, they had begun to put down deep roots in the fertile soil of eastern Iowa. Finally, during the uncertain days of World War II, Wilda and her family made that fateful choice, as her ancestors before her, and moved further west to Portland, Oregon, where she built ships for the war and began putting down roots once again. This book contains the history and genealogy of the Bowmans, Heils, Goodwins, Snoebergers, Pooles, and Keisters who settled eastern Iowa in the mid-nineteenth century, and the Zooks and Gilliams who settle Ohio and Indiana in the years following the War of 1812. Includes Wilda's complete memoirs.----------Includes biographies of the following people: Abraham Piercey (1585-1628) & Elizabeth Draper (1587-1624)James Goodwin (c. 1620-1678) & Rachel Porter (1630-1666)Thomas Hill (c. 1612- c.1657) & Mary Piercey (c.1612-1661)Thomas Hollowell (1625-1687) & Alice (1626-1700)William Bush (1645-1716) & Martha Hill (1645-1717)Lewis Williams (1655-1717) & Mary Walburton (c. 1660-1717)John Small (1668-c. 1705) & Alice Hollowell (1664-?)The Bunch/Punch Clan, including John Punch (1610-?), Paul Bunch (1669-1726) & Amy Winigum (1673-1726), and Shadrack Bunch (1718-1786)Wendel Bauman (1681-1735)Johannes Schneeberger (1704-1780) Christian Sch ublin (1683-1752) & Barbara Spitteler (1689-1759)Ulrich Zug (1690-1747) & Barbara Bachman (1700-1758)Johannes Stauffer (1715- 1767) & Katrina Schenk (1720-1760)Heinrich Eschelman (1707-1778) & Barbara Kendig (1725-1755)Mattias H twohl (1711-1776)Ulrich Shively (1722-1776) & Elizabeth Thommen (1722-1777)Theodoris Snowberger (1764-1859) & Elizabeth Eschelman (1777-1825)Roger Dyer (1699-1758) Frederick Keister (1730-1815) & Hannah Dyer (1734-1820)Ulrich Snowberger (1736-1811) & Barbara Ingold (1743-1829)William Goodwin (1746-1826) & Rachel Bunch (1752-1843)Jonathan Gillam (1753-1835) and Sarah Vardaman (1755-1799)Peter Bowman (1763-1823) & Mary Heatwohl (1766-1833)George William Keister (1776-1854) & Susanna Peck (1780-1843)Johannas Zook (1763-1803) & Catherine Shively (1764-1844)Miles Goodwin (1790-1865) & Jane Vandever (1797-1862)Robert Gillam (1795-1838) & Mary Smith (1797-?)Jacob Eschelman Snoeberger (1804-1851) & Mary Schively Zook (1808-1844)Jacob Bowman (1797-1881) & Elizabeth Keister (1806-1885)James Wesley Gillam (1829-1863) & Elizabeth Snoeberger (1835-1901)Philip Heil (1818-1891) & Rachel Goodwin (1820-1863)Benjamin Franklin Bowman (1847-1938) & Catherine Poole (1860-1926)Willis Heil (1849-1922) & Mary Catherine Gillam (1855-1903)Walter Joseph Bowman (1878-1969) & Clara Ellen Heil (1877-1960)Wilda Alverda Bowman (1917-2013) & Lloyd James Ballard (1917-1997)
Almost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for “spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and many other navies have used increasingly specialized ships and submarines to ferret out the secrets of other nations. The United States and the Soviet Union/Russia have been the leaders in those efforts, especially during the forty-five years of the Cold War. But, as Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers reveal, so has China, which has become a major maritime power in the twenty-first century, with special interests in the South China Sea and with increasing hostility toward the United States. Through extensive, meticulous research and through the lens of such notorious spy ship events as the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, the North Korean capture of the USS Pueblo, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s success in clandestinely salvaging part of a Soviet submarine with the Hughes Glomar Explorer, Spy Ships is a fascinating and valuable resource for understanding maritime intelligence collection and what we have learned from it.
