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Book Readiness Realities

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Readiness Subcommittee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Readiness Realities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Readiness Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Readiness Realities

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  • Author : Pamela W. Hollander
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-04-13
  • ISBN : 9463009388
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Readiness Realities written by Pamela W. Hollander and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new U.S. national standards movement has pushed us at “warp speed” from Common Core curriculum standards to updated assessments for college readiness, but we have not fully examined what it means to be college ready. Why is it that roughly half of all high school students need remedial classes before being considered ready for college-level work? Current public policies aim to eliminate the need for remedial college classes by ratcheting up instruction and expectations at the K-12 level, but if we do not find out what these students are missing, how can we expect to be successful? For higher education scholars and practitioners and those generally interested in the future of college, this book helps tell a novel story about the transition to college, from the perspective of an experienced college professor. The first-year experience is conceptualized as a two-way relationship between students and colleges, involving introductions, resistance or acceptance, collaboration and exchange of ideas, and learning. There are both success stories and stories that end in a parting of ways. These stories show what college readiness really means and offer valuable insights about the academic, social, monetary and other forces that can overwhelm the typical college-bound student. Higher education scholars and professionals will benefit from these rich and detailed accounts as they help shape the landscape of 21st century college readiness.

Book Readiness Realities

Download or read book Readiness Realities written by Pamela W. Hollander and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Readiness Realities

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Readiness Subcommittee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Readiness Realities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Readiness Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State of Readiness

Download or read book State of Readiness written by Joseph F. Paris Jr. and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerated Strategy Development and Execution The company of today has its supply chains and finances stretched further around the globe than ever before while simultaneously having increasing pressures to drive value across a complicated and fluid set of metrics and deliver innovations, products, and services more quickly and reliably. The competitive advantage belongs to the companies that can quicken their vision-building and strategy-execution efforts—the ones that can identify challenges more swiftly and accelerate their decision making so they are better able to formulate and deploy responses decisively yet with greater agility. To successfully accomplish this, companies will have to prioritize creating a culture of leadership that strengthens communication skills and emphasizes systems thinking by building capacity and capability that cuts across the business smokestacks and permeates the entire organization. In State of Readiness, Joseph F. Paris Jr. shares over thirty years of international business and operations experience and guides C-suite executives and business-operations and -improvement specialists on a path toward operational excellence, the organizational capability and situational awareness that is attained as the enterprise reaches a state of alignment for pursuing its strategies. In doing so, create a corporate culture that is committed to the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance and the circumstances of those who work there—a precursor to becoming a high-performance organization.

Book Groundless Paths

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  • Author : Karl Brunnholzl
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 2012-08-14
  • ISBN : 0834829509
  • Pages : 897 pages

Download or read book Groundless Paths written by Karl Brunnholzl and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the prajñaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the prajñaparamita sutras—the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through buddhahood. Groundless Paths contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries from the perspective of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. This study consists mainly of translations of Maitreya's famous text and two commentaries on it by Patrul Rinpoche. These are supplemented by three short texts on the paths and bhumis by the same author, as well as extensive excerpts from commentaries by six other Nyingma masters, including Mipham Rinpoche. Thus this book helps close a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the prajñaparamita sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. Arya Maitreya's Ornament of Clear Realization, with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries, presents the complex dynamics of the path to liberation as a succession of realizations of the empty nature of all phenomena. This presentation is a powerful antidote to whatever two-dimensional views we might hold about spiritual experience and the journey to enlightenment.

Book Military Readiness 1997

Download or read book Military Readiness 1997 written by Floyd D. Spence and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of U.S. military forces today is being most directly influenced by two competing pressures: The post-Cold War defense drawdown and the expanding demands of manpower intensive peacekeeping and humanitarian operations known collectively as "operations other than war". These pressures are having a significant impact on the readiness of U.S. military forces and are placing at risk the decisive military edge that this nation enjoyed at the end of the Cold War - an edge that was clearly demonstrated during the Gulf War. Despite the repeated assurances of senior Administration officials, the readiness of our armed forces is suffering.

Book Fiscal year 1978 authorization for military procurement  research and development  and active duty  selected reserve  and civilian personnel strengths

Download or read book Fiscal year 1978 authorization for military procurement research and development and active duty selected reserve and civilian personnel strengths written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt

Download or read book The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt written by Mariano Croce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt provides a detailed analysis of Schmitt’s institutional theory of law, mainly developed in the books published between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. By reading Schmitt’s overall work through the lens of his institutional turn, the authors offer a strikingly different interpretation of Schmitt’s theory of politics, law and the relation between these two domains. The book argues that Schmitt’s adhesion to legal institutionalism was a key theoretical achievement, based on serious reconsideration of the main flaws of his own decisionist paradigm, in the light of the French and Italian institutional theories of law. In so doing, the authors elucidate how Schmitt was able to unravel many of the impasses that affected his previous conceptual framework. The authors also make comparisons between Schmitt and other leading legal theorists (H. Kelsen, M. Hauriou, S. Romano and C. Mortati) and explain why the current legal debate should take into serious account his legacy.

Book Why Free Will Is Real

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian List
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-06
  • ISBN : 0674979583
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Why Free Will Is Real written by Christian List and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scientists and scientifically-minded philosophers are skeptical that free will exists. In clear, scientifically rigorous terms, Christian List explains that free will is like other real phenomena that emerge from physical laws but are autonomous from them—like an ecosystem or the economy—and are indispensable for explaining our world.

Book Net Ready

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  • Author : Amir Hartman
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780071352420
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Net Ready written by Amir Hartman and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses Cisco Systems as an example for detailing how businesses can survive and thrive on the Internet.

Book Storycatcher

Download or read book Storycatcher written by Christina Baldwin and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling - both oral tradition and written word - is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started the personal writing movement, explores the vital necessity of re-creating a sacred common ground for each other's stories. Each chapter in Storycatcher is carried by a fascinating narrative - about people, family, or community - intertwined with practical instruction about the nature of story, how it works, and how we can practice it in our lives. Whether exploring the personal stories revealed in our private journals, the stories of family legacy, the underlying stories that drive our organizations, or the stories that define our personal identity, Christina's book encourages us all to become storycatchers - and shows us how new stories lay the framework for a new world."--Publisher.

Book Question Everything

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Mathews
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2015-04-27
  • ISBN : 1118438191
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Question Everything written by Jay Mathews and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How AVID levels the playing field, helping underserved students come out ahead In Question Everything, award-winning education writer Jay Mathews presents the stories and winning strategies behind the Advancement Via Individual Determination program (AVID). With the goal of preparing students for the future – whether that future includes college or not – AVID teaches students the personal management skills that will help them survive and thrive. Focused on time management, presentation, and cooperation, the AVID program leads not only to impressive educational outcomes, but also to young adults prepared for life after school. This book tells the stories of AVID educators, students, and families to illustrate how and why the program works, and demonstrates how teachers can employ AVID's strategies with their own students. Over the past thirty years, AVID has grown from a single teacher's practice to an organization serving 400,000 middle- and high-school students in 47 states and 16 countries. Question Everything describes the ideas and strategies behind the upward trajectory of both the program and the students who take part. Learn which foundational skills are emphasized for future success Discover how AVID teaches personal management skills in the academic context Contrast AVID student outcomes with national averages Consider implementing AVID concepts and techniques into current curricula As college readiness becomes a top priority for the Federal Government, the Gates Foundation, and other influential organizations, AVID's track record stands out as one of success. By leveling the playing field and introducing "real-world" realities early on, the program teaches students skills that help them in the workplace and beyond.

Book Military Readiness 1997

Download or read book Military Readiness 1997 written by Floyd D. Spence and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of U.S. military forces today is being most directly influenced by two competing pressures: The post-Cold War defense drawdown and the expanding demands of manpower intensive peacekeeping and humanitarian operations known collectively as "operations other than war". These pressures are having a significant impact on the readiness of U.S. military forces and are placing at risk the decisive military edge that this nation enjoyed at the end of the Cold War - an edge that was clearly demonstrated during the Gulf War. Despite the repeated assurances of senior Administration officials, the readiness of our armed forces is suffering.

Book Virtual  Augmented and Mixed Reality  Interaction  Navigation  Visualization  Embodiment  and Simulation

Download or read book Virtual Augmented and Mixed Reality Interaction Navigation Visualization Embodiment and Simulation written by Jessie Y.C. Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNCS 10909 and 10910 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2018, held as part of HCI International 2018 in Las Vegas, NV, USA. HCII 2018 received a total of 4346 submissions, of which 1171 papers and 160 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 65 papers presented in this volume were organized in topical sections named: interaction, navigation, and visualization in VAMR; embodiment, communication, and collaboration in VAMR; education, training, and simulation; VAMR in psychotherapy, exercising, and health; virtual reality for cultural heritage, entertainment, and games; industrial and military applications.

Book Rolfing and Physical Reality

Download or read book Rolfing and Physical Reality written by Ida P. Rolf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and wise self-portrait of the woman who originated the therapy that bears her name. Here, Ida Rolf tells about her life, about the wonder of the human body, about life in general, and about Rolfing in particular, explaining her technique of manipulating muscle tissue to allow the body to come into its correct alignment. After Rolfing, your body has been encouraged to do what it wants to do--you move with ease, your lungs take in more air, and you are taller (and therefore, slimmer).