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Cronicas vampiricas es la historia de dos hermanos vampiros y de la hermosa muchacha que debe elegir entre ellos. Bonnie la gran amiga de Elena empieza a verla en suenos y esta le transmite un mensaje aterrador: una nueva amenaza se cierne sobre Fell 's Church... Elena necesita a Stefan para ayudarla a combatir el Mal. Pero el no regresara solo: su hermano Damon lo seguira. Seran ambos capaces de olvidar su enemistad y colaborar para vencer a este poderoso adversario? Mas aun aceptaran la eleccion de Elena? ... Read more

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Basic principles and practical strategies to promote learning in any setting!

From K-12 to corporate training settings––the Third Edition of Patricia Smith and Tillman Ragan’s thorough, research-based text equips you with the solid foundation you need to design instruction and environments that really facilitate learning.

Now updated to reflect the latest thinking in the field, this new edition offers not only extensive procedural assistance but also emphasizes the basic principles upon which most of the models and procedures in the instructional design field are built. The text presents a comprehensive treatment of the instructional design process, including analysis, strategy design, assessment, and evaluation. ... Read more

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Boring, Boring, Boring
I am in an Instructional Design Masters Program and this is the worst textbook I have seen.The writing is unbelievably dry.I reads like a manual.The typeset is small, the pages are organized in columns and there are very few visual aids.In general I have very good reading comprehension but with this book I had to re-read pages several times because because it was so dull I wasn't retaining anything.

Just OK
I had this as a graduate school text and while it seemed to cover the subject well, it's not well written at all. Expect a dull, dry slog through the material if you have it for a class.

Good Book
I am new to instructional design (ID). The first ID book I read was Gagne's Principles of Instructional Design. That was a tough book to read and understand for me. Patricia's book, however, is easier to read and understand about the field of ID. I particularly like how she related the concept of scaffolding with the Gagne's events of instructions. One thing I hope to see is the relation of Merrill's Component Display Theory to Gagne's events of instruction. Overall, I recommend this book.

Instructonal design
This book is good if you have an amazing teacher helping you through the process and referencing parts for you.When I read it the first time on my own I didn't find it nearly as useful as I had it with a professor.So if you already know how to do instructional design or if you have an expert helping you this book will be beneficial.

Instructional Design
This text was quite informative and covered everything. However, the layout of the text was boring. The font was small and each page had double columns which just made reading the material very arduous. ... Read more

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As interest in the public health challenge of youth inactivity increases, the ambitious Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior sets a standard for addressing a problem with worldwide implications. Drawing on the contributions of a diverse group of international experts, this reference challenges professionals, researchers, and students to implement new solutions and further their research and work.

No other text addresses the causes, contributing factors, and fundamental issues in dealing with youth physical activity with such depth or comprehensive coverage. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior breaks away from traditional thinking that places activity and sedentary behavior on a single continuum, which may limit progress in addressing youth inactivity. Instead, the authors encourage readers to focus on how sedentary and physically active behaviors coexist and consider how the two behaviors may have different determinants. In doing so, the text also considers developmental features such as maturation, ethnicity, environment, and genetics across both childhood (through age 12) and adolescence (the teen years). By looking at a variety of psychosocial and epidemiological factors, the authors set the stage for a critical analysis of beliefs and views at a time when many assumptions are taken for granted.

This book is organized in three parts that build on one another to deepen readers' understanding of this complex problem. This text begins by addressing the fundamental issues and assumptions pertaining to youth physical activity and sedentary behavior, covering such topics as measurement of the behavior in question, health outcomes, concepts, and trends in a public health context. Once readers have grasped this foundational knowledge, they advance to part II for a comprehensive account of personal factors likely to be associated with the problem. Part III moves beyond the individual into the wider social and contextual aspects of physically active and sedentary living in young people. Through this concluding part, readers gain the latest thinking on how parents, peers, schools, organized sport, and related factors link to youth physical activity and sedentary behavior.

Each chapter presents the latest theory and research, real-world approaches to implementation, and background information to encourage discussion and future directions in national policy making. Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior also contains the following features that add to an unprecedented learning experience:

• An at-a-glance look at why and how research can be used in the real world helps researchers relate their work to overall solutions.
• Coverage of more issues related to this subject than are available in any other reference makes this a one-stop resource.
• Internationally respected foreword writer, editors, and contributors provide a cross-disciplinary perspective valuable for putting solutions into a wider context.
• Applications for Professionals boxes and Applications for Researchers boxes at the end of each chapter provide practical suggestions for implementing solutions.

Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: Challenges and Solutions considers current research about youth physical activity and sedentary behavior across a range of personal factors as well as cultural and social influences. The text communicates the knowledge base on developmental, economic, psychological, and social factors related to youth physical activity and sedentary behavior and provides an overview of youth-specific approaches to addressing the problem of inactivity among youth. ... Read more

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A top pick for community library health collections
The rising rates of obesity in today's world has many experts looking to the lifestyles of America's children. "Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: Challenges and Solutions" is a scholarly examination of a health dilemma facing today's children. Identifying the problem, discussing its causes in great depth, Smith and Biddle also present many solutions to help the physical fitness of modern children. With advice aimed at professionals, covering related issues such as childhood diabetes, "Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior" is an absolute must for any charged in finding a solution, and a top pick for community library health collections.
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Bonnie, la gran amiga de Elena, empieza a verla en suenos, y esta le transmite un mensaje aterrador: una nueva amenaza se cierne sobre Fell's Church... Elena necesita a Stefan para ayudarla a combatir el Mal. Pero el no regresara solo: su hermano Damon lo seguira. Seran ambos capaces de olvidar su enemistad y colaborar para vencer a este poderoso adversario? Mas aun, aceptaran la eleccion de Elena? Cronicas vampiricas es la historia de dos hermanos vampiros y de la hermosa muchacha que debe elegir entre ellos. ... Read more

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In So Deadly A Battle...

United at last with Diana, the mistress of her coven, Cassie must first sacrifice her love for Adam to save the Secret Circle and the town of New Salem from the evil powers of the witch Faye.

Threatened by the possibility of her destruction in a final battle between good and evil, Cassie must hope that her supernatural gifts are strong enough to obliterate the powers of evil.

If victorious, Cassie will win more than she ever dreamed. But if she and Diana fail, the Power will go to those who seek only to destroy.

...Can Anyone Triumph?

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My favorite book in my favorite series
We see Cassie develop from an "everywoman" to a strong and powerful leader.This book turned me into a reader of fantasy books.In this series, magic and sisterhood go hand in hand and it is an irresistible combination.

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Faye proceeds to tell Diana about Adam and Cassie, twisting the actual truth to suit her needs, making it looks as if the two have carried on an affair behind the coven's and Diana's back. After hearing her "version" of events, Adam tells her to shut up and tells the truth to the coven and Diana; explaining that as far as he knew Cassie was nothing more then an outsider girl that protected him from three witch hunters this summer, even though it got her hurt in the process. Adam thanked her and never expected to see her again after that. Diana says that she's heard enough and the group heads to their homes, Cassie stopping by a neighbor's to check on her mom before heading to Diana's for the night.

At her grandmother's funeral to group meets and recognizes the new form of Black John; it's the new high school principal John Brunswick. Mr. Brunswick makes short work of insuring that the circle can't have free rein of the school anymore and seduces Faye to his side as his assistant. Cassie soon discovers her connection to him, she's John's daughter and he wants her to help him lead the coven in the direction he wants and she also finds out the coven is of his own making, setting himself up as the leader of it.

The coven fights as best it can without Faye and elects Cassie to lead them in her place, since it has become clear where Faye's loyalties lie. As a hurricane that could wipe out the town approaches, John calls to Cassie and the final showdown between good and evil begins.

Great Conclusion
I first read this book and the two before it as a teenager about a decade ago and still enjoy re-reading them. Through the story the characters change and grow lending an air of conviction and meaning to their actions and their fight. The true "villian" is not Faye, but the same dark force fought by the young coven's parents, with devestating results, the generation before. Cassie, Diana, and Faye come together to fight in the end.

A fitting conclusion
The first time around, I read this trilogy out of order. I picked this book up in a used bookstore when I was about ten, and I loved it so much that I went out and bought the two other books in the trilogy, and every other one that L.J. Smith had written at that point. Eight years later and it's still probably my favorite book by her.

The development of Cassie throughout all three books is fantastic, and so gradual that you almost don't see it until the second or third book, when you suddenly go, "Cassie, my girl! When did you grow a spine?" In the first book she's a mouse, and by the third one she's a heroine in every sense of the word, without being so larger-than-life and perfect that you can't identify her. The development of the other characters is equally fabulous.

As I mentioned in my review for the second book, I absolutely adore the fact that this author can have half a dozen seemingly disparate plots running, then tie them together in a way which is both elegant and believable. In this book, all of the loose ends are tied up: the Master Tools are found, Black John makes his appearance, the murders are solved, and the coven is faced the choice of standing together or falling apart. The final confrontation with the villain is more mystical than violent, and a fitting conclusion to this marvelous series.

The entire trilogy is excellent, but this is without a doubt the best book of the three.

Good Twist
I liked the twist in this book.I really wasn't expecting some of the things that happened, though they may have been right under my nose.I won't say more because I don't want to spoil the book for anyone, but you're going to be surprised.

This book, more than the first two, is very complex.Smith really does an excellent job of playing on many of the central themes of most pagan philosophy.The story is woven around the ideas of balance and sort of yin-yang philosophy.Plus, she obviously did her research on stones and herbs (as with the previous novels).The only complaint I really have is that there isn't a fourth book.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an outsider in her small hometown. Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. But Kait's not a witch: She's a psychic. Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can have a fresh start and study with other psychic teens. At the insitute, she learns to hone her telepathic powers-and finds herself torn between two different guys. Then an experiment is revealed to be threatening the teens' sanity, and their lives. And Kaitlyn must decide whom to trust...and whom to love. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Collects the final two volumes of ""The Vampire Diaries,"" in which Elena sacrifices an immortal love to end the constant strife between two vampire brothers who love her, and then raises them from the dead to save her town from an unknown evil. ... Read more

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Few writings are more often cited as a cornerstone of modern economic thought than those of Adam Smith. Few are less read.

The sheer strength of his great work, The Wealth of Nations, discourages many from attempting to explore its rich and lucid arguments. In this brilliantly crafted volume, one of the most eminent economists of our day provides a generous selection from the entire body of Smith's work, ranging from his fascinating psychological observations on human nature to his famous treatise on what Smith called a "society of natural liberty," The Wealth of Nations.

Among the works represented in this volume in addition to The Wealth of Nations are The History of Astronomy, Lectures on Jurisprudence, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and Smith's correspondence with David Hume.

Before each of Smith's writings Robert Heilbroner presents a clear and lively discussion that will interest the scholar as much as it will clarify the work for the non-specialist. Adam Smith emerges from this collection of his writings, as he does from his portrait in Professor Heilbroner's well-known book, as the first economist to deserve the title of "worldly philosopher."

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A good, concise summary of Smith
Content Summary: Adam Smith wrote two major works in his life - "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", which is lesser known, and his master work "The Wealth of Nations."Smith is remembered as one of the founding fathers of classical economic theory, known to us today as free market capitalism.In this concise summary, Heilbroner successfully gives us the essence of Smith's moral and economic theory Smith accomplished in both books.

Analytical Review:Heilbroner says that many people quote Adam Smith for their ideas, without actually having read Smith.This short work should help correct that, and I would recommend it (especially for the second half on The Wealth of Nations) as a concise introduction to Smith's thought.Both books would be over three times the length of this volume, so Heilbroner has slimmed the work down considerably, without sacrificing too much of its important meaning.Reading Smith, one is surprised how much his labor theory of value initially correspond to that of Marx, but Smith is much more comfortable with the use of money, and shifts away from the labor theory to market and exchange as the center of value.Like Marx's Capital, there may be parts to agree with, parts to dissent from here.Smith clearly would not give "carte blanche" to the capitalist, as many later thinkers would maintain.In fact Smith quite succinctly says that we should very skeptical of any legislation that is heavily sponsored by the commercial sector, as their interests are often contrary to the public interest.While Smith champions the free market, he has also some consideration for the poor.What he lacks, however, is the crystal clear solidarity with the working poor that is demonstrated in Marx's Capital.Smith's theory makes it seem as if capitalism results in a tide of wealth where all boats rise.This indeed may be true, but it also results in very gross and considerable inequalities.If people would read both works before they may hasty judgments about capitalism or socialism, it would certainly be beneficial.

Nice to have the author's help
Adam Smith obviously is not the easiest read but this book does a great job of pointing out the important chapters and sections of Smith's two books. In fact, this book introduced me to "Theory of Moral Sentiments" which seems like a very interesting book too. I have enjoyed Robert Heilbroner's other books and this is right up with them. You can see that he is very passionate about Adam Smith's work and we all benefit from Heilbroner's guidance.

good - but now new
I ordered a new book and I received a very good condition used book. The pen marks on pages were the obvious tip off.Not a big deal but it was not as represented

Condensed Capitalism
To understand capitalism, read the Wealth of Nations. But, to really understand it, as well as the other ideas of Adam Smith, read his essential works. This book allows the reader to fully grasp the concepts of capitalism and get a clear picture of how and why it works. Thankfully, Heilbronner did not dilute the works of Smith, he just condensed them for the modern day reader. With this book you can cut through the jargon and see the real points that Smith was trying to get across.

A Great Introduction to Adam Smith's Ideas
After reading Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, I decided to read Smith's Wealth of Nations, but found myself daunted by the length and language of the book.Then I discovered Heilbroner's Essential Adam Smithand was hooked.The book offers the essential parts of Wealth of Nations, as well as a good sampling of some of his other works.As a result, I havenot only read the entire Wealth several times, but have also readeverything by and about Smith that I can find.Heilbroner's book is a goodway to get to the heart of Smith's thinking, but, like me, you willprobably find yourself wanting to learn more about the man, his ideas, andhis life.Enjoy! ... Read more

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This book discusses the ecology of viruses with an emphasis on the emergence of devastating hemorrhagic diseases, and a review of the molecular and cellular basis of the pathogenesis of several viral diseases. The volume provides an introduction to the mathematical analysis of recurrent epidemic viral diseases and examines the neurological and psychological diseases in relation to the pathological mechanisms underlying prion disease.Chapters explore new viral threats including HIV, bunyaviruses, morbilliviruses and caliciviruses. ... Read more

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Stefan Salvatore has come to terms with being a vampire. The events of the past few months have sobered him, and the fog of his own blood lust has begun to lift. He travels to New York City to start a new life, one that does not require him to kill humans to survive. Instead he feeds off of animals in Central Park. But the quiet life he envisioned is jolted when he runs into his brother Damon, who has convinced New York high society that he is Italian royalty. While Stefan is regaining his humanity, Damon has completely lost his. Stefan will do whatever it takes to protect Damon from himself, but there is another villain present. A vampire that seeks revenge for a death the Salvatores are responsible for. Stefan and Damon will have to work together to fight the greatest evil yet. ... Read more

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Ecosystem management has gained widespread visibility as an approach to the management of land to achieve sustainable natural resource use. Despite widespread interest in this emerging management paradigm, Ecosystems: Balancing Science with Management is the first book to directly propose approaches for implementing ecosystem management, give examples of viable tools, and discuss the potential implications of implementing an ecosystem approach. These ideas are framed in a historical context that examines the disjunction between ecological theory, environmental legislation and natural resources management. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more