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Mentoring and Diversity: Tips for Students and Professionals for Developing and Maintaining a Diverse Scientific Community (Mentoring in Academia and Industry)

This book will provide basic guidelines for facilitating the educational advancement of under represented students in the sciences, not only from the student perspective but also from the perspective of faculty advisors/mentors. Although the proper mentoring and advising of students … Continue reading

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Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place (Information Science and Knowledge Management)

The book offers two themes: one is about Communities of Practice (CoPs) and learning, the other is about social informatics approaches. First, in order to facilitate designing effective learning environments both online and offline, this book calls attention to the … Continue reading

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Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-Esteem

We use the word all the time, but what exactly is self-esteem, and how do young people develop it? “Feeling Like Crap” explores how a young person’s self is constructed, and what might help that self to feel more valued … Continue reading

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Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach

Engineering has made an enormous contribution to providing the material well-being that promotes human flourishing. It can also be the cause of immense human suffering. The ethics of engineering is relatively unexplored compared to other professions such as medicine and … Continue reading

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Write to the Top!: How to Become a Prolific Academic

This concise guide to writing is designed to help any academic become not only productive but truly prolific. It is a pithy, no-nonsense, no-excuses guide to maximizing the quality and quantity of scholarly output. Johnson and Mullen offer an accessible … Continue reading

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Sourcebook in Expressive Arts Therapy

The purpose of this book is to introduce ways of using the expressive arts in counseling and psychotherapy. It offers experiential expressive-arts activities for counselors, therapists, students, and expressive artists interested in the arts and healing. This book provides resources … Continue reading

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A Pig Don’t Get Fatter the More You Weigh It: Classroom Assessments that Work

No matter how many times you weigh a pig, all you learn is how much it weighs. If you want to learn something else, you need a different assessment. This sensible book explains how well-constructed assessments provide data that is … Continue reading

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Write to the Top!: How to Become a Prolific Academic

This concise guide to writing is designed to help any academic become not only productive but truly prolific. It is a pithy, no-nonsense, no-excuses guide to maximizing the quality and quantity of scholarly output. Johnson and Mullen offer an accessible … Continue reading

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Lessons Learned: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistakes Made by College Resident Assistants

Lessons Learned is designed for use in training programs for newly hired resident advisors or assistants (RAs). Its uncomplicated format allows users to select from among several dozen issues of importance to a particular campus. This volume is the ideal … Continue reading

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Understanding Career Counselling: Theory, Research and Practice

Understanding Career Counselling explores the theory, research, and practice of career counseling from a British perspective and brings them together in one concise volume. The book addresses exactly what is meant by the term ‘career’ in the 21st century and … Continue reading

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