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Stop the school bus : getting back on track / by Tirozzi, Gerald N.(CARDINAL)360252;

Includes bibliographical references and index."How to put school reform initiatives back on trackFrom one of the largest organizations of public school principals, this book exposes many misguided school reform initiatives that are negatively impacting students and educators across the country, and recommends ways to make them more effective. Veteran educator Gerald Tirozzi addresses all the hottest school reform trends including: charter schools, teacher merit pay, Race to the Top, Common Core State Standards, and more. While some reform efforts are bringing about positive change, Tirozzi argues, many make egregious promises, lack a research base, fail to address the needs of students and educators, and utilize a "smoke and mirrors" depiction of success. From NASSP, the leading association of U.S. public school administrators Offers solid, actionable ideas for getting school reform back on track Tirozzi is former Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education under President Clinton This passionate, engaging book is filled with specific recommendations as to how each of the reform initiative presented can be improved upon and can lead to more meaningful school reform"--

Subjects: Public schools; Educational change; Education; Educational equalization; Education;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Subjects: Young adult literature.; Handbooks and manuals.; Young adult literature.; Occupations; Vocational guidance.; Vocational guidance;

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Scattered minds : the origins and healing of attention deficit disorder / by Maté, Gabor,author.(CARDINAL)655999;

Includes bibliographical references and index.This book explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based - and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. Gabor Mate is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology - and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents - and for anyone interested how experiences in infancy shape the biology and psychology of the human brain. This book: Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental delay ; Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy - and why ; Shows how d̀istractibility' is the psychological product of life experience ; Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviours ; Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood ; Presents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults.Part one: The nature of attention deficit disorder -- Part two: How the brain develops and how the circuits and chemistry of ADD arise -- Part three: The roots of ADD in family and society -- Part four: The meaning of ADD traits -- Part five: The ADD child and healing -- Part six: The ADD adult -- Part seven: Conclusion.

Subjects: Informational works.; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults.; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3

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A discovery of witches. [videorecording] / by Cree, Steven,actor.; Goode, Matthew,1978-actor.; Palmer, Teresa,1986-actor.; Pettiford, Valarie,actor.; Image Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)328010;

Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer, Valarie Pettiford, Steven Cree, Alex Kingston, Owen Teale, Gregg Chillin, Trevor Eve, Aisling Loftus, Lindsay Duncan, Edward Bluemel, Aiysha Hart, Sophia Myles, Milo Twomey, Holly Aird, Joshua Blue Pickering, Sheila Hancock.Season two sees Diana and Matthew hiding in time in Elizabethan London. Here, they must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Enemies are everywhere, the threat to witches is growing, and Diana and Matthew's romance faces a barrage of new threats, from within as much as without.Rating: TVMA.Blu-ray, wide screen.

Subjects: Fantasy television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Paranormal television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Alchemy; Man-woman relationships; Science and magic; Vampires; Witches;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Creating a website / by MacDonald, Matthew,author.(CARDINAL)278735;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 13: Blogs -- Understanding blogs -- Popular blogs -- Syndication -- Blog hosting and software -- Getting started with blogger -- Creating a blog -- Creating formatted posts -- Managing a blog -- Tweaking common settings -- Configuring your blogger profile -- Giving your blog a custom domain name -- Customizing your template -- Managing comments -- Chapter 14: Making Money With Your Site -- Money-making the Web way -- Google AdSense -- Signing up for AdSense -- AdSense interface -- Creating an ad -- Placing ads in your Web pages -- Google-powered searches -- Amazon associates -- Signing up as an associate -- Generating associate links -- PayPal merchant tools -- Signing up with PayPal -- Accepting payments -- Building a shopping cart -- Withdrawing your money -- Chapter 15: JavaScript: Adding Interactivity -- Understanding JavaScript -- Server-side and client-side programming -- Scripting languages -- JavaScript 101 -- <script> element -- Variables -- Functions -- External script files -- Dynamic HTML -- HTML objects -- Events -- Image rollovers -- Collapsible text -- Interactive forms -- Scripts on the Web -- Finding a simple script -- JavaScript libraries -- Web widgets -- Chapter 16: Fancy Buttons And Menus -- Fancy buttons -- Creating your button pictures -- Making a rollover effect with CSS -- Picture-with-text buttons -- Picture-less buttons -- Fancy menus -- Do-It-yourself collapsible menus -- Third-party menus -- Chapter 17: Audio And Video -- Understanding multimedia -- Linking, embedding, and hosting -- Types of multimedia files -- Basic background music -- <embed> element -- Embedded audio options -- Flash MP3 players -- Premiumbeat player: playing a song list -- Yahoo player: playing all your links -- Flashtrak loops -- Video clips -- Preparing video -- Linking to and embedding video -- Flash video -- Video in HTML5 -- Uploading your videos to YouTube -- Signing up with YouTube -- Preparing a video -- Uploading a video -- Watching a video -- Appendix A: HTML Quick Reference -- Appendix B: Useful Websites -- Index.Chapter 6: Style Sheets -- Style sheet basics -- Three types of styles -- Anatomy of a rule -- Attaching a style sheet to a page -- Using an internal style sheet -- Using inline styles -- Cascade -- Inheritance -- More powerful selectors -- Class selectors -- id selectors -- Colors -- Specifying a color -- Finding the right color -- Text alignment and spacing -- Alignment -- Spacing -- White space -- Basic fonts -- Specifying a font -- Finding the right font -- Font sizes -- Embedded fonts -- Web formats for fonts -- Using a font kit -- Using your own fonts -- Borders -- Basic borders -- Making better borders -- Using borders with tables -- Tutorial: building a style sheet -- Creating a well-structured style sheet -- Saving work with the <div> element -- Saving work with contextual selectors -- Chapter 7: Adding Graphics -- Understanding images -- <img> element -- Alternate text -- Picture size -- File formats for graphics -- Putting pictures on colored backgrounds -- Images and styles -- Inline images in text -- Borders -- Wrapping text around an image -- Adding captions -- Background images -- Techniques with graphics -- Graphical text -- Backgrounds for other elements -- Graphical bullets in a list -- Finding free art -- Chapter 8: Linking Pages -- Understanding the anchor -- Internal and external links -- Relative links and folders -- Changing link colors and underlining -- Mailto links -- Image links and image maps -- Adding bookmarks -- When good links go bad -- Site management -- Link checkers -- Using redirects -- Chapter 9: Page Layout -- Challenge of screen space -- Style-based layout -- Structuring pages with the <div>element -- Floating boxes -- Fixed boxes -- Creating a layout with multiple columns -- Building a fixed-width layout -- Creating a resizable layout -- Maximum width: the safety net -- Stretching column height -- Super-flexible sites: the Zen of Web design -- Few more layout techniques -- Layering -- Combining absolute and relative positioning -- Sizing tables -- Chapter 10: Multipart Pages -- Understanding multipart pages -- Server-side includes -- Page templates -- Understanding page templates -- Creating a new page template -- Anatomy of a page template -- Using a page template -- Chapter 11: Introducing Your Site To The World -- Your Website promotion plan -- Making your site search-engine friendly -- Choose meaningful page titles -- Include a page description -- Supply alternate text for all your images -- Use descriptive link text -- Don't try to cheat -- Registering with directories -- Open directory project -- Yahoo directory -- Registering with search engines -- Rising up in the search rankings -- Hiding from search engines -- Google Webmaster tools -- Tracking visitors -- Understanding Google analytics -- Signing up for Google analytics -- Examining your Web traffic -- Chapter 12: Website Promotion -- Spreading the word -- Shameless self-promotion -- Google places -- Google adwords -- Return visitors -- Transforming a site into a community -- Fostering a Web community -- Website community tools -- Email newsletters -- Twitter -- Groups -- Facebook --Missing credits -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Preparing For The Web -- Introducing the World Wide Web -- Web browsers -- Web servers -- Planning a Website -- Types of sites -- Lifespan of your site -- Practice good design -- Ingredients of a Website -- Chapter 2: Creating Your First Page -- Introducing HTML: The Language of the Web -- Cracking open an HTML file -- Seeing the HTML of a live Web page -- Creating an HTML file -- HTML, XHTML, and HTML5 -- HTML tags -- What's in a tag -- Understanding elements -- Nesting elements -- HTML document -- Document type definition -- Basic skeleton -- Adding content -- Structuring text -- Where are all the pictures? -- 10 most important elements (and a few more) -- Checking your pages for errors -- Chapter 3: Putting Your Page On The Web -- How Web hosting works -- Understanding the URL -- How browsers analyze a URL -- Domain names -- Choosing the right domain name -- Searching for a name -- Registering your name -- Free domain names -- Getting Web space -- Assessing your needs -- Choosing your host -- Free Web hosts -- Transferring files -- FTP -- Browser-based uploading -- Chapter 4: Power Tools -- Choosing your tools -- Types of Web page editors -- Finding a free Web page editor -- Professional HTML editors -- Working with your HTML editor -- Starting out -- Multiple views -- Creating a Web page in code view -- Creating a Web page in WYSIWYG view -- Managing a Website -- Defining a site in Expression Web -- Uploading a site in Expression Web -- Defining a site in Dreamweaver -- Uploading a site in Dreamweaver -- Chapter 5: Text Elements -- Understanding text and the Web -- Logical structure vs physical formatting -- CSS (cascading style sheets) -- HTML elements for basic text -- Paragraphs -- Line breaks -- Headings -- Horizontal lines -- Preformatted text -- Quotes -- Divisions and spans -- HTML elements for lists -- Ordered lists -- Unordered lists -- Definition lists -- Nesting lists -- HTML elements for tables -- Basic table -- Cell spans -- Inline formatting -- Text formatting: italics and bold -- Few more formatting elements -- Special characters -- Non-English languages --Overview: Think you need an army of skilled programmers to build a website? Think again. With nothing more than an ordinary PC, some raw ambition, and this book, you'll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking, visitor-friendly site. This Missing Manual gives you all the tools, techniques, and expert advice you need. Plan your site: create web pages by learning the basics of HTML and HTML5; Control page design with CSS: format text, images, links, tables, and other elements; Attract visitors: ensure that people can find your site through popular search engines; Build a community: add forums, fresh content, and a feedback form to encourage repeat visits; Get smart: use free tools to identify your site's strengths and weaknesses; Create your own blog: post your musings with a free blog-hosting service; Bring in cash: host Google ads, sell Amazon's wares, or push your own products; Add pizzazz: include audio, video, interactive menus, and more.

Subjects: Web sites;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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Computing taste : algorithms and the makers of music recommendation / by Seaver, Nick,1985-author.(CARDINAL)867480;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index.Prologue. Open Plan -- Introduction. Technology with Humanity -- Too Much Music -- Captivating Algorithms -- What Are Listeners Like? -- Hearing and Counting -- Space Is the Place -- Parks and Recommendation -- Epilogue. What Are We Really Doing Here?"For the people who make them, music recommender systems hold a utopian promise: they can broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and their kin. But for critics, recommender systems have come to epitomize the potential harms of algorithms: they seem to reduce expressive culture to numbers, they normalize ever-broadening data collection, and they profile their users for commercial ends, tearing the social fabric into isolated patches of atomized individuals. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologist Nick Seaver offers an account of how the makers of music recommendation navigate these tensions: how product managers understand their relationship with the users they want to help and to capture, how engineers imagine the abstract geography of the "world of music" as a space they control and care for, how scientists conceive of listening itself as a kind of data processing. The book rehumanizes the algorithmic systems that shape our world, foregrounding the ideas animating the people who build and maintain them. Seaver braids together the thinking of programmers and anthropologists, opening up the cultural world of computation in a vividly theorized book that ranges widely from cosmology to calculation, metaphor to myth, and captivation to care"--

Subjects: Music; Recommender systems (Information filtering); Music;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Cutting edge careers in robotics / by Kallen, Stuart A.,1955-author(CARDINAL)343813;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The robot revolution -- Electromechanical technician -- Robotics programmer -- Manufacturing engineer -- Robotics engineer -- Data scientist -- Mathematician -- Computer and information research scientist."Robotics are so well-integrated into modern society as to be nearly invisible. Almost every consumer product, from baby powder to computers to cars, is manufactured by automated robotic hardware controlled by computer software. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics robotics and AI job postings are surging with double- and triple-digit increases seen every year. With a global robotics market expected to attract nearly $150 billion in revenue by 2025, a career in robotics is a career with a future"--

Subjects: Robotics;

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Digital minimalism : choosing a focused life in a noisy world / by Newport, Cal,author.(CARDINAL)468716;

Foundations: A lopsided arms race -- Digital minimalism -- The digital declutter -- Practices: Spend time alone -- Don't click "like" -- Reclaim leisure -- Join the attention resistance.Includes bibliographical references and index.Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They can have fun with friends and family without the obsessive urge to document the experience. They stay informed about the news of the day, but don't feel overwhelmed by it. They don't experience "fear of missing out" because they already know which activities provide them meaning and satisfaction. Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement, and makes a persuasive case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world. Common sense tips, like turning off notifications, or occasional rituals like observing a digital sabbath, don't go far enough in helping us take back control of our technological lives, and attempts to unplug completely are complicated by the demands of family, friends and work. What we need instead is a thoughtful method to decide what tools to use, for what purposes, and under what conditions. Drawing on a diverse array of real-life examples, from Amish farmers to harried parents to Silicon Valley programmers, Newport identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them. He shows how digital minimalists are rethinking their relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline world, and reconnecting with their inner selves through regular periods of solitude. He then shares strategies for integrating these practices into your life, starting with a thirty-day "digital declutter" process that has already helped thousands feel less overwhelmed and more in control. Technology is intrinsically neither good nor bad. The key is using it to support your goals and values, rather than letting it use you. This book shows the way.

Subjects: Information technology; Internet addiction; Technological innovations;

Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 31

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Courting Greta / by Hootman, Ramsey.(CARDINAL)403500;

Samuel Cooke is a prickly computer genius who's just left his high-paying job to teach programing to high schoolers. He doesn't believe in asking for help; he doesn't think much of his fellow man; and he definitely doesn't believe in love. Greta Cassamajor is the tough, take-no-prisoners gym coach no kid dares to mock - at least within hearing. She's got her own issues with her fellow man. An unlikely hero, Samuel only asks Greta out to prove he's got the guts - and when she accepts, he's out of his depth. Pretending he's got his class under control is easy. Being vulnerable enough to admit why he ditched his programming career for teaching? Well...that would require honesty. And if there's one thing Samuel can't exist without, it's the lies he tells himself. Yet Greta has her own secrets. Can their relationship survive the risks they'd take in revealing their truths? Poignant, quirky, and heart-tugging, this is a tender, cheer-inducing debut novel about two people who discover that love can blossom in the most unexpected places.

Subjects: Fiction.; High school teachers; Computer programmers; Courtship; Women physical education teachers; Man-woman relationships; Teachers;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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Learn C++ by making games / by Yuzwa, Erik.(CARDINAL)476055; Laramée, François Dominic.(CARDINAL)667703;

Subjects: C++ (Computer program language); Video games;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 8

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