Walt Disney on the front lines : the war years

On the front lines : the war years

War years

Disney DVD

Walt Disney treasures

Education for death.

Victory through air power.

Disney DVD.

Walt Disney treasures.

Donald gets drafted The Army mascot The Vanishing private Sky trooper Private Pluto Fall out; fall in Victory vehicles The old army game Home defense How to be a sailor Commando duck Thrifty pig Seven wise dwarfs Food will win the war Out of the frying pan and into the firing line Donald's decision All together The new spirit The spirit of '43 The winged scourge Defense against invasion The grain that built a hemisphere Cleanliness brings health What is disease?/the unseen enemy Planning for good eating Der Fuehrer's face Education for death Reason and emotion Chicken little

Victory through air power Four methods of flush riveting Stop that tank Training film montage

Campus Compact's Introduction to service-learning toolkit : readings and resources for faculty.

Introduction to service-learning toolkit

Service-learning : a balanced approach to experiential education / At a glance : what we know about the effects of service-learning on college students, faculty, institutions, and communities, 1993-2000 / Service-learning practice : developing a theoretical framework / Toward a theory of engagement : a cognitive mapping of service-learning experiences

Academic service learning : a couternormative pedagogy / Pedagogy and engagement / Reflection in sevice learning : making meaning of experience / Reading, writing, and reflection / Community service learning in the curriculum / Course organization / From accreditation to strategic planning : an administrator's interpretation of service learning

Rediscovering our heritage : community service and the historically black university / Long-term effects of volunteerism during the undergraduate years / Comparing the effects of community service and service-learning / Civic skill building : the missing component in service programs? / Service/politics split : rethinking service to teach political engagement

What should be learned through service learning? / What is good citizenship? Conceptual frameworks across disciplines / State of the "engaged campus" : What have we learned about building and sustaining university-community partnerships? / Higher education/community partnerships : assessing progress in the field / Principles of best practice for community-based research

Assessment model for service-learning : comprehensive case studies of impact on faculty, students, community, and institution / How do we know that our work makes a difference? Assessment strategies for service-learning and civic engagement / Scholarship of engagement / Factors and strategies that influence faculty involvement in public service / Addressing academic culture : service-learning, organizations, and faculty work

Uncovering the values in faculty evaluation of service as scholarship

Public communication campaigns

Public communication campaigns : the American experience / Input and output variables currently promising for constructing persuasive communications / Theory and principles of media health campaigns / Sense-making methodology : communicating communicatively with campaign audiences / Creating fear in a risky world : generating effective health risk messages / Evaluating communication campaigns / Formative evaluation research in campaign design / Systems-based evaluation planning model for health communication campaigns in developing countries / Communication campaign effectiveness : critical distinctions / How effective are mediated health campaigns? / Stanford community studies : campaigns to reduce cardiovascular disease / Using theory to select messages in antidrug media campaigns : reasoned action and media priming / Public relations as communication campaign

Strategic communication for international health programs / Singing the (VD) blues / McGruff crime prevention campaign / Smokey Bear / Littering : when every litter bit hurts / Strategic extension campaigns on rat control in Bangladesh / Mass campaigns in the People's Republic of China during the Mao era / Designated driver campaign / RU SURE? Using communication theory to reduce dangerous drinking on a college campus / Sensation seeking in antidrug campaign and message design / Cumulative community response to AIDS in San Francisco / America's sacred cow / Nazi antitobacco campaign / Community partnership strategies in health campaigns / Entertainment-education strategy in communication campaigns / Web-based smoking cessation and prevention program for children aged 12 to 15 / Using interactive media in communication campaigns for children and adolescents / Putting policy into health communication : the role of media advocacy

Approaching death : improving care at the end of life

The Need for Consensus and Action Initiatives to Improve Care at the End of Life Overview of Report Guiding Principles A Profile of Death and Dying in America When People Die: The Aging of America Why People Die: Causes of Death Where People Die: Death in Institutions and Residences How People Die: Symptoms of Impending Death Attitudes Toward Dying and Death Caring at the End of Life Differences in Dying Pathways: Illustrative Cases Determining and Communicating Diagnosis and Prognosis Establishing Goals and Plans Fitting Care to Goals and Circumstances The Health Care System and the Dying Patient Characterizing Care Systems Illustrative Case Histories Settings for End-of-Life Care Coordinating Care Within and Across Settings Revisiting the Care System at the Community and National Levels Accountability and Quality in End-of-Life Care Concepts of Accountability and Quality Evidence of Quality Problems in End-of-Life Care Dimensions of Quality in Care at the End of Life Measurement Instruments and Issues Guidelines for Clinical Practice Financial and Economic Issues in End-of-Life Care Who Pays for Care at the End of Life? What Is Spent for Care at the End of Life? Do Financing Mechanisms Impede Good End-of-Life Care? What About Proposals to Reduce the Cost of End-of-Life Care? Legal Issues Prescription Laws and Barriers to Pain Relief Informed Consent and Advance Care Planning Physician-Assisted Suicide Educating Clinicians and Other Professionals Core Components of Professional Preparation for Care at the End of Life Physician Education Nursing, Social Work, and Other Professions Continuing Professional Education Directions for Research to Improve Care at the End of Life A Symptom-Based Strategy for Biomedical Research Social, Behavioral, and Health Services Research Ethical Issues in Research on Dying Patients Research Leadership Today and Tomorrow Findings and Recommendations A Institute of Medicine Feasibility Study on Care at the End of Life August 1993-Feburary 1994 Institute of Medicine Committee on Care at the End of Life Public Meetings Examples of Initiatives to Improve Care at the End of Life Prognosis and Clinical Predictive Models for Critically Ill Patients Cultural Diversity in Decisionmaking About Care at the End of Life Measuring Care at the End of Life Excerpts from Medical Guidelines for Determining Prognosis in Selected NonCancer Diseases American Board of Internal Medicine Clinical Competence in End-of-Life Care Examples of Medical Education Curricula

ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States 2020.

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Statistical abstract of the United States 2020 : the National Data Book

National Data Book

Section 1, Population: -- Estimates and projection by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2, Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces: -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3, Health and Nutrition: -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4, Education: -- Overview: All levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- School crime and safety -- Libraries -- Section 5, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons: -- Crimes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6, Geography and Environment: -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7, Elections: -- Voter registration and vote results -- Campaign finances -- Section 8, State and Local Government Finances and Employment: -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9, Federal Government Finances and Employment: -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10, National Security and Veterans Affairs: -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower -- Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11, Social Insurance and Human Services: -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12, Labor Force, Employment, and Earnings: -- Labor force status -- Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13, Income, Expenditures, Poverty, and Wealth: -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14, Prices: -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15, Business Enterprise: -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16, Science and Technology: -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17, Agriculture: -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18, Forestry, Fishing, and Mining: -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fishery -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19, Energy And Utilities: -- Energy production, consumption -- Energy expenditures and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20, Construction And Housing: -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21, Manufactures: -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and finances -- Industry reports by subject and subsector -- Section 22, Wholesale and Retail Trade: -- Wholesale trade -- Retail trade -- Section 23, Transportation: -- Transportation system -- Air transportation -- Water transportation and port traffic -- Highways -- Motor vehicle registrations and fuel consumption -- Motor vehicle accidents -- Urban transit and commuting -- Trucks, railroads, and pipelines -- Postal service -- Section 24, Information industries -- Publishing: newspapers, books and online -- Recording media and broadcasting -- Telecommunications -- Internet access and use -- Libraries -- Section 25, Banking, Finance, and Insurance: -- Establishments, receipts -- Flow of funds, financial assets, and liabilities -- Financial institutions -- Payment instruments, credit and debit cards -- Consumer credit, mortgage debt -- Money stock, interest rates -- Stocks and bonds, equity ownership, mutual funds -- Insurance and real estate -- Section 26, Arts, Recreation, and Travel: -- Employees, establishments, and payroll -- Performing arts -- Leisure activities -- Sports -- Parks and wildlife activities -- Travel -- Section 27, Accommodation, Food Services, and Other Services: -- Section 28, Foreign Commerce and Aid: -- International transactions -- Foreign investments -- Foreign grants and credits -- Exports and imports -- Section 29, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas: -- Section 30, International Statistics: -- World population, vital statistics -- Economic measures -- Labor force -- Agriculture -- Energy and environment -- Technology -- Finance -- Security and Terrorism.

Engaging adolescents in reading

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the editor -- About the contributors -- Reading motivation and engagement in middle and high school : appraisal and intervention / Dilemmas of students' motivation and engagement in school reading -- Challenge : teacher support for motivation and engagement -- meaning is motivating : classroom goal structures -- Control and choice : supporting self-directed reading -- Reading is social : bringing peer interaction to the text -- Self-efficacy : building confident readers -- Interest in reading : potency of relevance -- Struggling readers : boosting motivation in low achievers -- Merging engagement support into structured classroom management -- Next steps : transforming classrooms and schools -- Meaning is motivating : classroom goal structures / Providing mastery goals -- Making tasks relevant -- Using hands-on activities -- Mastery versus performance motivation : theory and research -- Transforming text to meaning -- Scaffolding mastery motivation -- Providing reteach opportunities -- Rewarding effort over performance --

Control and choice : supporting self-directed reading / Providing control and choice in instruction -- Overview of instructional practices -- Ownership of text -- Options for how to learn from text -- Input into curriculum -- Student self-direction and shared control : theory and research -- Self-selection of knowledge displays -- Voice in standards for evaluating -- Inquiry projects -- Scaffolding control and choice for diverse students -- Order in the classroom! -- Roles for administrators -- Reading is social : bringing peer interaction to the text / Open discussions -- Student-led discussions -- Collaborative reasoning -- Why social interaction: Research and theory -- Arranging partnerships -- Socially constructing class management -- Scaffolding social motivation over time -- Self-efficacy : building confident readers / Recognizing the gap -- Matching text to students -- How self-efficacy develops in a classroom : theory and research -- Establishing initial confidence -- Setting realistic goals -- Assuring enabling skills --

Interest in reading : potency of relevance / Rationale for relevance -- Real-world connection -- Personalizing with questioning -- Extending intrinsic interests -- How relevance works : theory and evidence -- Self-expression -- Puzzling -- Growing motivation : how students develop / Situated motivation is significant -- Motives move from outside to inside -- Internal motivation drives achievement -- General motivation is stable -- Global internal motivation declines across time -- Cause and effect? -- Struggling readers : boosting motivation in low achievers / Our challenges -- Varieties of unmotivated readers -- Externally motivated low achievers -- Approaches to motivation for moderately struggling readers -- Low achievers who resist reading -- Approaches to motivation for resistant students -- A learning curriculum for struggling readers -- Resistant students who struggle to recognize words -- Instructional approaches for resistant students with word reading deficits -- Next steps for teachers / Identifying one motivation to address -- Selecting several instructional practices to initiate motivation -- Planning short-term change -- Planning long-term change -- Phasing in support for all motivations and implementing all practices -- Tools for teachers -- Questionnaires -- Resources -- Bibliography -- Index.

The relevant library : essays on adapting to changing needs

Orchestrating collaborations: a systematic approach to gaining campus allies / Getting things to pop: how collaboration, umbrellas and popcorn machines changed the relevancy of the Auburn University at Montgomery library / An academic library partnering with TRiO SSS to increase student success / Paradox in resource development and knowledge organization: negation of the negation / Open educational resources: why libraries are incentivizing open content creation, curation and adaptation / Digitizing the community monthly newspaper / Redefining collections: circulating kits for playing and making / Leaving a legacy for 21st-century learners / The need for digital coaches in USVI public libraries / Integrating ICT literacy through OERs / Collaborating with campus partners to promote user cyber security awareness / A research librarian in every pocket: research genius / Innovating for the changing demographics of students and faculty around the world through information literacy webinars ? / Leveraging state arts funding to promote literary events in libraries / African American glam in Missouri: creating successful art programming; incubator space at a historically black college academic library / Sounding out: Texas Tech libraries' crossroads recording studio, a creative process service / Makerspace/cakerspace: making space for the makerspace at a community college / A new approach to space planning in libraries: the image + text survey / Using data strategically to optimize library planning and impact / Action research, effective communication and your library program / Opening community dialog with wisdom cafes / Diversity and inclusion: libraries as accessible places of learning / Becoming a dementia-friendly library / The sky's the limit: providing e-book access to airport travelers / Sustaining community gathering places and useful work spaces / Learning commons in action: connecting innovative learning outcomes to the library / Rebranding the library environment / Public libraries helping patrons with legal needs: virtual pro se clinic of Colorado / Family engagement at the library: bringing families together to learn, grow and have fun / Research and retreat: stress relief in libraries / Tips on creating a diversity committee: what to do? / Public library RX: adapting the residency experience / "Yes, and!" using the rules of improv to improve library service / Libraries as catalysts for service engagement

What is it about me you can't teach? : Culturally Responsive Instruction in Deeper Learning Classrooms

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden -- The Challenge of 21st Century Deeper Learning -- Reform Efforts -- Made, Not Born -- High-Expectations Research -- The Number One Challenge -- High Expectations for All: Practicing What We Preach -- The Magic of Mediation -- The Evidence Pathway -- A Substantive Pathway to Higher Achievement for All -- The Big Picture -- High Expectations and Professional Development -- Key Points to Remember -- Checking the Sample Lessons -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Two Sides of the Same Coin -- The Teacher's Intention -- The Students' Response -- Designing Intentionality and Reciprocity in Every Lesson -- Tactics to Promote Intentionality and Reciprocity -- Two Sides of a Coin -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Just What Do You Mean? -- The Mediation of Meaning -- Strategies for the Mediation of Meaning -- Sample Lessons -- Key Points to Remember About Making Meaning -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Rising Above It All -- Getting to the Heart of the Thought -- The Transcending Idea -- Transcendence: The Highest Expectations; the Deepest Learning -- Formulating Principles -- Learning for a Lifetime -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Stop and Think -- Discipline and Intrinsic Motivation -- Interrupting Impulsive Behavior -- Instrumental Enrichment -- Stop, Think, Achieve -- The STANDARD Instruments -- Getting to the Basics -- The BASIC Instruments -- The Power of Metacognition -- Promoting Self-Regulation Every Day, All Day -- Tactics for Fostering Self-Regulation -- Bridging Self-Regulation Into Every Lesson -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Good to Go -- Strengthening the Will to Succeed -- A Lifelong Learning Goal -- Students Who Feel Incompetent -- Mediating the Feeling of Competence -- The Right Way to Ask the Right Questions: Tactics for Success -- The No-Hide Tactics -- Seeing Is Believing -- This One Is Just Like the Other One -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Sharing Behavior -- Looking Back: The Advocates of Sharing Behavior -- Sharing Behaviors in the Home and Family -- Cooperative Learning: The Primary Evidence-Based Strategy for the Development of Sharing Behaviors -- Cooperative Team Skills -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Who Is in Charge? -- The Mediation of Individuation -- The Multiple Intelligences: Many Ways to Solve a Problem -- Applying Gardner's Theory -- Differentiating Instruction in a Multiple Intelligences Framework -- MindQuest21 Cycle -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- What's Your Goal? -- The Mediation of Goal Planning -- Four Aspects of Goal Setting -- The Rubric for Goal Planning: Standards and Criteria -- Reflective Goal-Setting Strategies -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Finding My Way -- Mediating Self-Directed Change -- Quick-Start Tactics -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- Meeting the Challenge -- The Mediation of Challenge -- Creating Challenges -- Five Things Not to Do -- Integrating Thinking Across the Curriculum -- Using the Three-Story Intellect Model -- More Question-Asking Strategies -- Key Points to Remember -- Sample Lessons -- Takeaways From This Chapter -- The No-Frills Pathway to Deeper Learning -- Maintaining the Dream for All -- Making Simple Changes Simply -- No-Frills Professional Development for All -- Critical Elements in the No-Frills Model -- Building a History of Improvement: A Yearbook of Progress -- Key Points to Remember -- In Conclusion -- Takeaways From This Chapter.

Positive behavior support in secondary schools : a practical guide

The Guilford practical intervention in the schools series

Guilford practical intervention in the schools series.

Foundational Ideas -- Guiding Principles -- Needs and Behavior -- Replacements for Problem Behavior -- Beliefs That Facilitate Change -- Teaching Approach to Discipline -- Teaching Acceptable Behaviors -- Side Effects of Coercion -- Creating a Supportive Environment -- Positive Behavior Support -- Key Components of SWPBS -- Three-Tiered Approach -- Summary -- Adolescent Needs and Secondary Settings -- Developmental Changes -- Physical -- Cognitive -- Social -- Developmental Interactions -- Autonomy and Responsibility -- Identity and Self-Concepts -- Moral Awareness and Functioning -- Strengths and Challenges of Secondary Education Contexts -- Opportunities and Choices -- Misfits and Conflicts -- Schools, Communities, and Adolescent Belonging -- Summary -- Importance of School Climate -- Understanding School Climate -- Characteristics of a Healthy School Climate -- Drawbacks of a Reactive and Punitive Approach -- Benefits of a Healthy School Climate -- Fostering a Healthy School Climate -- Positive Personal Relationships -- Positive Classroom Management -- High-Quality Teaching -- School Leadership -- Community Involvement -- Measuring School Climate -- Process -- Applicable Data -- SWPBS and School Climate -- Focus on Prevention -- Middle School Case Study -- Summary -- Planning for Implementation -- Creating the Context for Implementation -- Assembling a Planning Committee or Team -- Creating Committee Objectives and Structure -- Determining Responsibility for Professional Development -- Establishing Roles and Responsibilities -- Accessing School Resources -- Human Resources -- Physical Resources -- Creating Buy-In from Teachers and Other School Stakeholders -- Using Data -- Working with District Administrators -- Working with Parents and Community Members -- Working with Students -- Building Capacity through Teacher Development -- Establishing' Alignment -- Collaborating -- Investing Time -- Including Important Components -- Summary -- Schoolwide Interventions: Tier 1 -- Importance of Expectations -- Creating Behavioral Expectations in Secondary Schools -- Teaching Social Skills to All Students -- Nature of Social Skills -- Social Skills Assessments -- Teaching Social Skills -- Social Skills Rationales -- Instructional Procedures -- Schoolwide Encouragement and Praise -- Schoolwide Token Economy Systems -- Administrative Interventions -- Summary -- Monitoring Implementation and Outcomes Using Data -- Recognizing the Importance of Data for Decision Making -- Establishing a Data-Based Decision-Making System -- Using a Variety of Data -- Using Systems Productively -- Using ODRs -- Implementing an ODR System -- Using ODR Data to Monitor Interventions -- Recognizing Strengths and Weaknesses of ODR Data -- Attending to Treatment Fidelity -- Meaning of Treatment Fidelity -- Assessing Treatment Fidelity -- Understanding Social Validity -- Measuring Social Validity -- Summary -- Schoolwide Screening -- Overview of Screening -- Purposes of Screening -- Uses of a Screening Process -- Role of Screening in General Education -- Role of Screening in Preventing Mental and Emotional Health Problems -- Characteristics of Effective Screening -- Universal Scope -- Repeated and Continuous -- Technically Adequate -- Multigated -- Integrated with Interventions -- Approvals Needed for Screening -- Protection of Pupil Rights Act -- Exceptions to PPRA -- Questions to Guide Decision Making -- Examples of Screening Measures -- Instruments -- Existing Data -- Summary -- Targeted Interventions: Tier 2 -- Self-Management -- Assessing Needs -- Establishing Behavioral Objectives -- Implementing Interventions -- Monitoring Outcomes -- Summary -- Individual Interventions: Tier 3 -- Problem-Solving Process -- Problem Identification -- Plan Development and Implementation -- Evaluation -- Individualized Interventions -- Social Skills Instruction -- Goal Setting -- Social and Emotional Learning -- Service Learning -- Mentoring -- Administrative Interventions -- Behavioral Contracting -- Collaborating with Community Resources and Wraparound Processes -- Summary -- Sustainability and Maintenance -- Sustainability -- Faculty and Staff Buy-In -- Data Analysis and Continued Problem Solving -- Capacity Development -- Leadership -- Summary.

The everything guide to being a paralegal : secrets to a successful career!

Everything career guide series

An everything series book

Everything series.

Top ten reasons to become a paralegal -- Introduction -- What is a paralegal? -- Why consider becoming a paralegal? -- Defining a paralegal -- What does a paralegal do? -- Traits of a successful paralegal -- Skills of a successful paralegal -- Preparing to become a paralegal -- Paralegal salaries and career opportunities -- Regulation versus evaluation -- right paralegal program -- Types of paralegal education programs -- Which program is right for you? -- Practical experience opportunities -- ABA approval -- AAfPE affiliation -- Selecting a curriculum -- Paralegal career options -- Planning your paralegal career -- Tricks of the trade -- Applying for a paralegal position -- Reaching your career goals -- Law firms -- Large law firms -- Corporate legal departments -- Government -- Banks and insurance companies -- Title and mortgage companied -- Self-employment opportunities -- Working with lawyers -- paralegal working environment -- Law firm management -- Organization of a low office -- Timekeeping -- Billing -- Client trust accounts -- Docket control -- File and records management -- Ethics and professional responsibility -- How ethical rules affect paralegal practice -- Regulation of the legal profession -- Unauthorized practice of law -- Competence -- Confidentiality -- Conflict s of interest -- Fees and fee splitting -- licensing debate -- American legal system -- Unique structure of the American court system -- Constitutional law -- Statutory law -- Administrative law -- Common law --

American court system -- Unique structure of the American court system -- How the system affects the case -- federal court system -- state court systems -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Choosing a legal specialty -- Specialization : the key to job security? -- When to decide -- What are the options? -- How specialty choice affects compensation -- Predicting the next hot specialty area -- Criminal law -- Why criminal law? -- difference between civil and criminal law -- Types of crimes -- Crimes committed on the Internet -- Constitutional and procedural protections -- Prosecution and trial -- paralegal's role in a criminal case -- Torts and product liability -- What is tort law? -- Intentional torts -- Negligence torts -- Torts committed on the Internet -- Strict liability -- Product liability -- paralegal's role in a tort case -- Family law -- Why family law? -- Marriage -- Termination of a marriage -- Child custody -- Child support -- Alimony/spousal maintenance -- Distribution of marital property -- Paternity -- role of the family law paralegal -- Wills, trusts, and probate -- Probate and nonprobate property -- law of secession -- Wills -- Trusts -- Probate -- role of the wills, trusts, and probate paralegal -- Real property -- Why real-property law? -- Types of rights -- residential real-property transaction -- commercial real-property transaction -- Leases -- role of the real-property paralegal -- Contracts and commercial transactions -- Why contract law? -- formation of a contract -- enforceability of a contract -- Contracts for the sale of goods -- Warranties -- Performance of contract obligations -- Remedies for failing to perform contract obligations -- role of the paralegal in a contract case --

Business organizations -- Sole proprietorships -- Partnerships -- Corporations -- Limited liability entities -- role of the business organizations paralegal -- Investigation -- Why assign a paralegal? -- Defining the goals of the investigation -- Types of investigation -- Investigation resources -- Important investigative qualities -- Communicating your results -- Interviewing -- Why assign a paralegal? -- Types of interviews -- initial client interview -- fact-gathering interview -- Defining the goals of the interview -- Preparing for the interview -- Interviewing experts -- Communicating your results -- Legal research -- Why assign a paralegal? -- Types of legal research -- Sources of legal research -- Computer-assisted legal research -- Communicating your results -- Pretrial preparation -- Why assign a paralegal? -- Pleadings -- Discovery -- E-discovery -- Communicating your results -- Assistance at trial -- Why assign a paralegal? -- Types of trial assistance -- Witness preparation -- Exhibits and documents -- Pretrial conference -- Jury selection -- Trial motions -- Posttrial matters -- Paralegal information on the Internet -- Resources for finding a paralegal program -- Index.

Scientific and humanistic dimensions of language : festschrift for Robert Lado on the occasion of his 70th birthday on May 31, 1985

'Errors' and the teaching of English / Educated spoken Arabic / Case grammar applied to the teaching of English / The Lado legacy / The teacher's role as organizer of classroom activities / Lado's influence in Brazil / On the use of 'valence' in foreign language teaching / The teaching of French in India / Teaching language for communication in Taiwan / Patterns in the organization of teacher training / Memory and the language laboratory

Linguistics and bilingual education / The uses of adversity are sweet: the Cubans and the rebirth of bilingual education in the United States

In the beginning was Lado; the European certificate program: origins and development of language tests in adult education 1965-1985 / Testing, standards, and the curriculum

Translation across cultures / Language teaching for intercultural communication / Comparing apologies across languages / Contrastive analysis, modistae, and case grammar / Contrastive analysis: a linguistic hypothesis / Robert Lado and contrastive linguistics / From the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to cultural semiotics -- some considerations on the 'language-culture problem' / Application of contrastive procedures to Gothic / Translation across languages or across cultures? / A comparison of the phonemic systems of Spanish and Tagalog / Language processes in contrast

Several languages -- one competence? / Linguistic and communicative competence and conversational performance in English as a second language / The fifth skill / Visual and auditory orientations to language learning / The four basic language skills -- myth or reality? / Relevance of the concept of linguistic competence to foreign language learning and acquisition

Some aspects of referential clustering and lexical meaning / Meaning and the idiolect / Leibniz as linguist / Thought without language

The language of the age / Phonemics thirty years after / Notes on the treatment of syntax in the grammatical tradition / The rhythm of English sentences / The influence of the lexicon and semantic content in the perception of English phonemes / Static, dynamic, and relational perspectives suggested in words and phrases / Intonation and topic in Portuguese / A linguistic appreciation of a poem by A.E. Housman / A comparison of oral and written language functions

Nahuatlisms in Mexican Spanish / A sociosemiotic approach to lexicography / On the origin of the term 'psycholinguistics' / Semantic periodicity

TESOL : the Australian experience / Second language teaching and learning in Cameroon today and tomorrow / The societal basis of the intergenerational continuity of additional languages / Language and development / Lexicography and language planning / The Filipino people and English / A research agenda for the profession / The role of New Guinea pidgin (Tok Pisin) in the changing culture of Papua New Guinea

Cuba [electronic resource]

Scribner world scholar series

Gale virtual reference library.

Scribner world scholar series.

v. 1. A-K. Language-Visual Afro-Cuban Spirituality in the Art of Manuel Mendive -- La Anunciación (Antonia Eiriz) -- The Aponte Rebellion: 1811-1812 -- The Art of René Portocarrero -- Autobiography of a Slave (Juan Francisco Manzano) -- Azúcar y Población En Las Antillas (Ramiro Guerra) -- Baracoa -- Bayamo -- Bay of Pigs Invasion: 1961 -- Car Culture -- Cecilia Valdés (Cirilo Villaverde) -- Che Guevara and the New Man -- Che Guevara, Social and Political Thought -- Cienfuegos -- Classical Composers: Alejandro García Caturla -- Classical Composers: Amadeo Roldán -- Classical Composers: Leo Brouwer -- Classical Composers: Tania León -- Cocina Cubana: Nitza Villapol -- The Color of Summer (Reinaldo Arenas) -- Constantino Arias: Havana's Pre-Revolution Photographer -- Constitution of 1940 -- Cuban Adjustment Act -- Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (Fernando Ortiz) -- Cuban Embargo -- Cuban Missile Crisis: October 1962 -- The Cuban Revolution of 1959 -- Cuban Singers in the United States -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity. Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: The Various Ways of (not) Being Cuban --

Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Art and Literature of the 19th Century -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Republican Period -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Revolutionary Period -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Internet Blogging -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: The Internet Experience in Cuba -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Populism, Nationalism, and Cubaanía -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Quinceañeras -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Radical Catholicism and Social Justice -- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Socialist Thought -- Cuentos Negros De Cuba (Lydia Cabrera) -- De Donde Son Los Cantantes (Severo Sarduy) -- Día de Reyes en la Habana (Víctor Patricio de Landaluze) -- Diálogo Agreement -- Diasporas. Diasporas: Introduction -- Diasporas: 19th Century -- Diasporas: 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s -- Diasporas: Afro-Cubans in the Diaspora -- Diasporas: Waves of Immigration Since 1959 -- Diasporas: Cubans Abroad, Post-1959 -- Diasporas: The Politics of Exile in the Early 1960s -- Diasporas: Immigrant Exile Politics -- Diasporas: Political Action Committees and Lobby Groups --

Diasporas: Exiles in the Cuban Popular Imagination -- Dirty Havana Trilogy (Pedro Juan Gutiérrez) -- Dreaming in Cuban (Cristina García) -- Dreaming of an Island (María Magdalena Campos-Pons) -- Ecology and Environment. Ecology and Environment: Colonial Period -- Ecology and Environment: Republican Period -- Ecology and Environment: Revolutionary Period -- Economy. Economy: Colonial Period -- Economy: Republican Period -- Economy: Revolutionary Period -- Economy: Special Period -- Education. Education: Colonial Period -- Education: Republican Period -- Education: Revolutionary Period: Stages of Educational Reform -- Education: Revolutionary Period: Philosophy -- Education: Literacy Campaign of 1961 -- Education: Schools in the Countryside -- Education: Cuban Schools in Miami -- Elpidio Valdés: A Revolutionary Cartoon Hero -- Enrique Jorrín and the Cha-Cha-Cha -- Esculturas Rupestres and other Works by Ana Mendieta -- Esteban Salas: An Eighteenth-Century Composer -- Faith. Faith: Catholicism -- Faith: Afro-Cuban Religions and Revolution -- Faith: Abakuá Society -- Faith: Arará -- Faith: Regla de Ocha and Ifá -- Faith: Reglas de Palo Congo --

Faith: Spiritism -- Faith: Vodou -- Faith: Protestantism in Cuba -- Faith: Rastafari -- Faith: Judaism -- Fefu and Her Friends (María Irene Fornés) -- Film. Film: Early History to 1930 -- Film: 1931-1959 -- Film: 1959-1989 -- Film: 1989-2010 -- Film: Cuban Cinema of the Diaspora -- The Films of Jorge Molina and Eduardo Del Llano -- Florida -- Food. Food: Colonial Period -- Food: Republican Period -- Food: Revolutionary Period -- Food: Ritual Foods and Afro-Cuban Religious Traditions -- Food: Food Shortages and Gender -- Gallo Amarillo (Mariano Rodríguez) -- Gender. Gender: Colonial Period to 1920 -- Gender: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Cuba -- Gender: The Role of Women in the Struggle Against Batista -- Gender: Social Justice in the Revolutionary Period -- Gender: Feminism and Masculinity in the Revolutionary Period -- Gender: Trends in Women's Writing after the Revolution -- Gender: Women Behind the Camera -- Gender: Gender Roles in Union City: A Case Study -- La Gitana Tropical and the Artistic Influence of Víctor Manuel -- Gloria and Emilio Estefan: Latin Music's Power Couple -- Gómez, Guillén, Giral: Three Underappreciated Filmmakers --

Governance and Contestation. Governance and Contestation: Colonial Period -- Governance and Contestation: The Republic: 1902-1952 -- Governance and Contestation: Insurrection, 1952-1959 -- Governance and Contestation: The Cuban Revolution -- "La Guantanamera" -- Guantánamo -- Guerrillero Heroico (Alberto Korda) -- Havana. Havana: Architectural Development and City Planning -- Havana: Atlantic Center of Shipping, Commerce, and Building -- Havana: El Morro and La Cabaña -- Havana: Havana as Cultural Center -- Havana: History of Urbanization, Housing, and Public Services -- Havana: Urban and Social History in the Twentieth Century -- Health and Health Care. Health and Health Care: Introduction -- Health and Health Care: Pre-1959 -- Health and Health Care: Revolutionary Period -- Health and Health Care: HIV/AIDS -- Health and Health Care: Medical Diplomacy and International Medical Education -- History Will Absolve Me (Fidel Castro) -- Holguín -- Indagación Del Choteo (Jorge Mañach) -- Isla De Pinos -- La Isla En Peso (Virgilio Piñera) -- José Martí: Exile in New York -- José Martí: Political Essays -- José Martí: Writings for and about Childrens -- La Jungla and the Artistic Development of Wifredo Lam -- Kid Chocolate -- The Kingdom of this World (Alejo Carpentier).

L-Z. Language. Language: Abakuá In Cuba And Its Influence On Spanish Usage -- Language: Lucumí -- Language: Spanish -- Life on The Hyphen (Gustavo Pérez Firmat) -- Literature. Literature: Nationalist and Reformist Literature, pre-1850 -- Literature: Fiction in the Republican Period -- Literature: Fiction in the Revolutionary Period -- Literature: Fiction in the Special Period -- Literature: Children's Literature in Cuba Since 1959 -- Literature: Nonfiction in the Colonial Period -- Literature: Nonfiction in the Republican Period -- Literature: Nonfiction in the Revolutionary Period -- Literature: Nonfiction in the Special Period -- Literature: Poetry in the Colonial Period -- Literature: Poetry in the Republican Period -- Literature: Poetry in the Revolutionary Period -- Literature: Poetry in the Special Period -- Literature: Publishing in Cuba During the Republican Period -- Literature: Testimonial Literature -- Lucía (Humberto Solás) -- The Machado Dictatorship Falls: August 1933 -- The "Mambo King": Dámaso Pérez Prado -- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos) -- Mario Carreño: His Art and World -- Matanzas --

Mauricio's Diary (Manolo Pérez) -- Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) -- Miami -- Milk of Amnesia (Carmelita Tropicana/Alina Troyano) -- Misa Cubana (Cuban Mass, José María Vitier) -- El Monte (Lydia Cabrera) -- Mr. Rhythm: Benny Moré -- Music. Music: Early History -- Music: 19th Century -- Music: 1900-1945 -- Music: 1945-1958 -- Music: Music since 1959 -- Music: Nueva Trova (New Song): Music of the Cuban Revolution -- Music: Afro-Cuban Religious Influence on Cuban Popular Music -- Music: Ritual Music -- Music: Afro-Cuban Jazz -- Music: Cuban Rock -- Music: Hip Hop -- The Music of Ernesto Lecuona -- New York City -- Operation Pedro Pan -- Orígenes Group and Journal -- Palo Monte and Ancestral Spirits: The Art of José Bedia -- Paradiso (José Lezama Lima) -- Performing Arts. Performing Arts: Cuban Forms of Popular Dance -- Performing Arts: Dance: Ballet -- Performing Arts: Dance: Folkloric Dance -- Performing Arts: Dance: Modern Dance -- Performing Arts: Opera -- Performing Arts: Theater: Colonial Period -- Performing Arts: Theater: Republican Period -- Performing Arts: Theater: Revolutionary Period -- Performing Arts: Bufo Theater --

Performing Arts: Performance Art -- Peruvian Embassy Crisis and the Mariel Boatlift: 1980 -- Platt Amendment -- Playwrights of the Revolution: Abelardo Estorino and Eugenio Hernández Espinosa -- The Poetry of José Kozer -- The Poetry of Nicolás Guillén -- Political Perspectives on Prisoners in Cuba -- The Politics and Death of Eduardo Chibás -- Popular Festivities and Celebrations in Cuba -- Popular Songs of the 1920s -- "Queen of Salsa": Celia Cruz -- Race. Race: Introduction -- Race: Slavery in Cuba -- Race: Free People of Color in Cuba -- Race: Racial Issues During the Transition to Independence -- Race: Afro-Cubanía in the Republic, 1907 to 1959 -- Race: Race Relations After the Revolution -- Race: The Chinese in Cuba -- Racial Uprising and Massacre: 1912 -- Radio. Radio: Beginnings and Development -- Radio: Commercial and Cultural Programming in Cuba -- Radio: Cuban Radio in South Florida -- Radio: Soap Operas -- Rafter Crisis: 1994 -- El Rapto De Las Mulatas and the Artistic Development of Carlos Enríquez -- The Ration System in Cuba -- Raúl Corrales: Photographer of the Revolution -- Relocation of the Audiencia to Cuba, 1799-1801 --

"Rita De Cuba": Rita Montaner -- Sab (Gertrudis Gómez De Avellaneda) -- Santa Clara's Leoncio Vidal Park -- Santiago De Cuba -- Science and Technology in Cuba -- La Sentencia (Belkis Ayón) -- Sexuality. Sexuality: Colonial Period -- Sexuality: Republican Period -- Sexuality: Revolutionary Period -- Sexuality: Jinetera and the Special Period -- Sexuality: Diaspora and Sexuality -- Sexuality: Gay and Lesbian Representation in Cuban Art, Film, and Literature -- Sexuality: The Mulata Figure in the Cuban Imaginary -- Sexuality: The Umap Camps -- Son Innovations: Arsenio Rodríguez -- Spain's "Discovery" of cuba: 1492 -- Spanish-American-Cuban War: 1898 -- Sports. Sports: Colonial Period -- Sports: Republican Period -- Sports: Revolutionary Period -- Sports: Baseball Before 1959 -- Sports: Baseball After 1959 -- Sports: Boxing Before 1959 -- Sports: Boxing After 1959 -- Sports: Soccer in the Cuban Republic -- The Still Lifes Of Amelia Peláez -- Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío) -- Sugar. Sugar: Colonial Period -- Sugar: Republican Period -- Sugar: Revolutionary Period -- Sugar: Representation in Cuban Culture --

The Sugarmill (Manuel Moreno Fraginals) -- Suite Habana (Fernando Pérez) -- El Super (León Ichaso) -- Television. Television: Beginnings and Development -- Television: Television since 1959 -- Television: Russian Cartoons -- Television: Soap Operas -- Ten Years' War: 1868-1878 -- Three Trapped Tigers (Guillermo Cabrera Infante) -- Tobacco. Tobacco: in Art and Culture -- Tobacco: Art of Tobacco Labels -- Tobacco: Cultivation: Botany -- Tobacco: Cultivation: Chemistry -- Trinidad -- El Triunfo De La Rumba (Eduardo Abela) -- Últimos Días De Una Casa (Dulce María Loynaz) -- Valle De Viñales -- Varadero -- Versos Sencillos (José Martí) -- La Virgen De La Caridad Del Cobre -- Visual Arts -- The Works of Tania Bruguera -- The World and Cuba. The World and Cuba: Cuba and Spain in the Colonial Period -- The World and Cuba: Cuba and Spain in the Post-Colonial Period -- The World and Cuba: Cuba and the United States -- The World and Cuba: U.S. Culture in Cuba -- The World and Cuba: Cuba and Africa -- The World and Cuba: Cuba and Socialist Countries -- The World and Cuba: Cuban Revolution and Latin America -- The World and Cuba: Cuban Revolution and the New Left -- The World and Cuba: Ideological Struggle in the United Nations -- Thematic Outline.