Sunday, September 13, 2015

McGraw-Hill"s Math, Grade 7




McGraw-Hill"s Math, Grade 7 by McGraw-Hill Education


2011 | ISBN: 0071748636 | English | 160 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 5 MB + 5 MB




Now students can bring home the classroom expertise of McGraw-Hill to help them sharpen their math skills!




McGraw-Hill"s Math Grade 7 helps your middle-school student learn and practice basic math skills he or she will need in the classroom and on standardized NCLB tests. Its attractive four-color page design creates a student-friendly learning experience, and all pages are filled to the brim with activities for maximum educational value. All content aligned to state and national standards




"You Know It!" features reinforce mastery of learned skills before introducing new material


"Reality Check" features link skills to real-world applications


"Find Out About It" features lead students to explore other media


"World of Words" features promote language acquisition


Discover more inside:




A week-by-week summer study plan to be used as a "summer bridge" learning and reinforcement program


Each lesson ends with self-assessment that includes items reviewing concepts taught in previous lessons


Intervention features address special-needs students


Topics include: Addition; Subtraction; Multiplication; Division; Fractions; Adding and Subtracting Fractions; Multiplying and Dividing Fractions; Geometry; Customary Measurements; Metric Measurements








The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation [Repost]




The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation by Saul Levmore


English | Jan. 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0674050894 | 312 Pages | PDF | 1.56 MB




The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communications Decency Act, which enables Internet Service Providers to allow unregulated discourse without danger of liability, all in the name of enhancing freedom of speech. But an unregulated Internet is a breeding ground for offensive conduct. At last we have a book that begins to focus on abuses made possible by anonymity, freedom from liability, and lack of oversight. The distinguished scholars assembled in this volume, drawn from law and philosophy, connect the absence of legal oversight with harassment and discrimination. Questioning the simplistic notion that abusive speech and mobocracy are the inevitable outcomes of new technology, they argue that current misuse is the outgrowth of social, technological, and legal choices. Seeing this clearly will help us to be better informed about our options. In a field still dominated by a frontier perspective, this book has the potential to be a real game changer. Armed with example after example of harassment in Internet chat rooms and forums, the authors detail some of the vile and hateful speech that the current combination of law and technology has bred. The facts are then treated to analysis and policy prescriptions. Read this book and you will never again see the Internet through rose-colored glasses.








Pharmacy on a Bicycle: Innovative Solutions to Global Health and Poverty




Pharmacy on a Bicycle: Innovative Solutions to Global Health and Poverty by Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein


English | 2013 | ISBN: 1609947894 | 240 pages | PDF | 4,4 MB




Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $ 1.50.




Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can’t get it to them. They are dying not because we can’t solve a medical problem but because we can’t solve a logistics problem.




In this profoundly important book, Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein lay out a solution: a new kind of bottom-up health care that is delivered at the source. We need microclinics, micropharmacies, and microentrepreneurs located in the remote, hard-to-reach communities they serve. By building a new model that “scales down” to train and incentivize all kinds of health-care providers in their own villages and towns, we can create an army of on-site professionals who can prevent tragedy at a fraction of the cost of top-down bureaucratic programs.




Bing and Epstein have seen the model work, and they provide example after example of the extraordinary results it has achieved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is a book about taking health care the last mile—sometimes literally—to prevent widespread, unnecessary, and easily avoided death and suffering. Pharmacy on a Bicycle shows how the same forces of innovation and entrepreneurship that work in first-world business cultures can be unleashed to save the lives of millions.







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