The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and the cozy crкperies of Ile St. Louis—Rick Steves’ Paris 2009 allows any traveler to experience all that the City of Light has to offer, from the big-name attractions to the local favorites. Rick covers the best of Paris, providing full tours of the museums and historic sights, detailed walks through various neighborhoods, and complete coverage of Parisian cuisine. Pick from over 400 types of cheeses at the fromagerie on Rue Cler or take a day trip to Versailles—it's all possible with Rick Steves as your guide.
Covers various major areas of mechanical engineering with coverage of the definitions, formulas, examples, theory, proofs, and explanations of various principle subject areas. This book is suitable for mechanical engineering students and those preparing for the engineering licensing examinations.
500 Tips for Open and Flexible Learning, but it is a sign of the times that in the half-dozen years since its predecessor was published, e-learning and online learning have become quite dominant among the various manifestations of open learning, hence the tweaking of the title of the book.
Most of the contributions to this volume are revised versions of papers presented at two symposia, organised by the editors, at the 4th Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction in Turku, Finland, in 1991. Four of the contributors were specifically invited to submit a paper for this volume, so that the various approaches to intelligence, mind and reasoning are better presented.
Women's Lifeworlds is a collection of engaging narratives from fifteen women of various age groups, cultures, social and geographical backgrounds. The stories cover the lives of their grandmothers, mothers, daughters, as well as their own testaments, to illustrate the changing meaning of "place" in women's lives over time and across space.
The women--from a Mexican polititican and Muslim psychiatrist to a Finnish housewife and Indian guru--explore the complexity of their perceptions to their own lives and their sources of strength. This book is a lively challenge to thegeneralized assumptions of how women in various historical and cultural contexts feel about womanhood, life, society, culture.
