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Children's Mathematics: Making Marks, Making Meaning
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Children's Mathematics: Making Marks, Making MeaningChildren's Mathematics: Making Marks, Making Meaning

Based on the authors' many years' experience in teaching children ages three to eight years and on their extensive research with children in the home, nursery and school, this resource discusses the development and range of young children's mathematical marks and visual representations. It illustrates how children make mental connections between their own early marks and subsequent abstract mathematical symbolism, and go on to develop their own written methods. 


 
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The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives
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The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, VivesThe Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives

Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unknown. This volume illuminates three major currents of thought dominant in the earlier Italian Renaissance: classical humanism (Petrarch and Valla), Platonism (Ficino and Pico), and Aristotelianism (Pomponazzi).
 
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Harvard Business Review on the Persuasive Leader
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Harvard Business Review on the Persuasive LeaderHarvard Business Review on the Persuasive Leader

More companies are shifting from command-and-control hierarchies to flat management structures. To get work done through others under these conditions (your central job as a manager), you need to excel at persuading others -- including those over whom you have no formal authority.
 
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The Mobile Marketing Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Mobile Marketing Campaigns
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The Mobile Marketing Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Mobile Marketing CampaignsThe Mobile Marketing Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Mobile Marketing Campaigns

Mobile technology not only lets marketers reach customers where they are, it allows them to engage mobile users by targeting their immediate and specific needs. Giving users what they want when they want it is the unique value proposition of mobile marketing, and businesses, agencies, and nonprofits of all types and sizes can create successful campaigns without breaking the bank.
 
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Global Corruption Report 2006: Special Focus: Corruption and Health
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Global Corruption Report 2006: Special Focus: Corruption and Health In the health sector, corruption is a matter of life or death. It can take many forms: from medical professionals who sell medicines or services that should be freely available, to high-level government officials who embezzle money from health budgets, to pharmaceutical companies that buy influence over research agendas. The impact of corruption is always felt by the end user -- the sick person who is forced to pay over the odds or who is given unsafe, counterfeit medicines

Report shows the impact that corruption has on health care in rich and poor countries.

 
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