How to Talk About Hot Topics on Campus fills a gap in the student services and teaching and learning literature by providing a resource that shows how to construct and carry out difficult conversations from various vantage points in the academy. It offers a theory-to-practice model of conversation for the entire college campus that will enable all constituencies to engage in productive and civil dialogue on the most difficult and controversial social, religious, political, and cultural topics.

Hot Topics in Crystal Engineering covers the design and synthesis of single crystalline solid-state materials, their properties and applications, focusing on the understanding and use of intermolecular interactions that constitute single crystalline materials. Many of the most modern materials, such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) capable of gas storage and separation, and selective entrapment of harmful substances, are the result of the rational use of crystal engineering. Topics covered in this work highlight breakthroughs in this rapidly developing field. This work offers a carefully chosen cross-section of the latest developments, some in their early infancy and some covered for the first time. Provides comprehensive and authoritative articles, giving readers access to a wealth of information to fully support their research and activities Covers the latest developments in crystal engineering, including topics which are in their early infancy Written by leading international experts

This book is the intermediate volume in the Hot Topics series, "a two-book series specifically developed for the intermediate to advanced English language learner. The series is intended to support a discussion-style classroom and contains some of the most current issues of interest. The series is intended to support a discussion-style classroom and contains some of the most current issues of interest to young Koreans. Within each unit, students will be exposed to a variety of ideas and offered multiple opportunities for discussion. Reading and listening passages have been designed to both engage and inform the learner."--Cover.

A practical manual, with complimentary CD, covering key topics in adolescent health for all professionals working with young people.

Edmund Hansen is the pioneer in the use of the episode approach to memoir writing. In the episode approach, an activity like family camping is told in its entirety and not integrated piece-meal chronologically with other on-going activities. Many episodes have the capability to stand-alone as a publishable short story. Edmund views life''''s peaks and valleys as equally important in defining the person we are today, and both are to appear in a memoir. While we share in common with humanity the growth stages of life, individually we have a separate and unique walk. Our task is to identify the 100 or so episodes that clearly characterize us so our relatives both living and yet unborn will better understand the era and culture that molded us, the decisions we made, the historical and family events that occurred and the significant individuals who helped shape our personality. SO HOW DOES THIS MANUAL HELP? It provides step-by-step- assistance with: Listing the significant dates and events in one''''s life Identifying the 100 or so episodes the composite of which is one''''s memoirs

Provides teachers with resources for bringing controversial contemporary issues to students, such as abortion, euthanasia, death penalty, and birth control, using background materials, scenarios, textual study and suggestions for activities.