Build a positive, accountable classroom environment with restorative discipline!With restorative discipline, schools move beyond punitive approaches to shared expectations for learning and behavior. Used together with The School Leader′′ Guide to Restorative Discipline, this teacher′s guide shows how to create a welcoming and responsible community within your classroom, contributing to a consistent, schoolwide approach to discipline.Author...

In the new global economy, more countries have opened up to international competition and rapid capital flows. However, in the triad the process of globalization is rather asymmetric. With a rising role of multinational companies there are favorable prospects for higher global growth and economic catching-up, respectively. Theoretical analysis suggests key ingredients of sustained growth, but there is also a new concept of a long-term equilibrium income gap in which convergence is rather u...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

Zack Curtis truly dreads his thirtieth birthday. Estranged from his family and friends, he hopes his trip to Italy will lift his spirits and trigger the inspiration for a happier life. But he soon offends an elusive mobster who threatens to turn his dream trip into a nightmare. From the splendor of Amalfi, to the grandeur of Rome, to the pageantry of Siena during its Palio Festival, John Meyer presents a unique travel memoir that masterfully combines a love story with an exhilarating adven...

Part biographical sketch, part autobiography, part tragicomedy, part romance, part song-and-dance, "Heartbreaker" will have you riding the highs and lows, the love and despair — of living for two months with Judy Garland.— Bonnie J. Ross, The Post-StarJohn Meyer's book, when all is said and done, is a love story, albeit a heartbreaking one. Garland died at the too-young age of 47. She may have sung about a mythical happy place somewhere over the rainbow, but she never steppe...

Ebook version. This recipe book is a collection of some of my favorite snacks and treats. For the most part, they are originals that I created in my kitchen. They have been designed specifically for the freeze dryer. It is envisioned that you will use this book in conjunction with my videos on YouTube and is not meant to be a replacement for the videos. I believe that much can be learned by watching the videos and using this hard copy of the recipes together.

Arthur Helman, an egomaniac businessman, is founder and majority stockholder of Lunarcom, the world's largest electric power company. Lunarcom's source of electric power is space solar power satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit. Lunarcom's biggest competitor, Hydroteck, is about to test an innovative power production device called an IPT ( interdimentional Power Transmitter ). The IPT transmits power from the newly discovered Interdimension. Helman believes that the success of Hydrotck...

Understanding Humor through Communication explores theories of humor origin as well as humor functions in human groups and societies through communication. A model of humor decision by individuals is detailed, followed by humor’s emergence in communication. Elements of humor sources (incongruity, superiority, and relief), humor intent (comic or tragic perspectives), and humor perception (ego-involvement, script awareness, bona-fide messages, and non-bona-fide messages) are incorporated. Pe...

In the last decade many countries turned to private sources to provide services formerly offered by public agencies. Europeans, particularly the British and the French, were leaders in this movement. Developing countries also experimented extensively with privatization in the 1980s, with varying degrees of success. Because governments around the world are heavily involved in transportation, it is a natural focus of privatization experiments and in many ways has been at the cutting edge.

How are economists and historians to explain what happened in history? What statistical inferences can be drawn from historical data? The authors believe that explanation in history can be identified with the problems of prediction in a probabilistic universe. Using this approach, the historian can act upon his a priori information and his judgment of what is unique and particular in each past event, even with data hitherto considered to be intractable for statistical treatment. I...

An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.Far-reaching efforts to address environmental issues rarely seem to resonate with citizens of the United States or other wealthy postindustrial societies. In Engaging the Everyday, John Meyer considers this impediment to action on environmental problems—which he terms “the resonance dilemm...

Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered. They explain the key principles in business and are expertly written by some of the world’s leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint essential concepts of business and management, and to offer insights that stimulate critical thinking.Providing an informative overview of workplace commitments, this Concise Introduction explores how this knowledge can influence management practices. Investigating...