Most Popular Books by michael allen

Flipping is used to obtain the triangulation of the points inserted so far, and the history of the flips is used to locate the position of the next point. We develop a data structure which stores both the current triangulation and the history of flips. This data structure is amodification of the edge-facet data structure. We also describe an extension to a technique for simulating general position, called Simulation of Simplicity, which allows points at infinity to be handled easily. Finally, we give statistics on the performance of the two algorithms."

The updated edition of this bestselling book is for the teacher who wants support and practical advice to recognize and deal with the common misconceptions encountered in the primary science classroom. Michael Allen describes over 100 common misconceptions and their potential origins. In addition to background theoretical and research material, he offers creative activities to help you grasp the underlying scientific concepts and bring them to life in the classroom, as well as practical strategies to improve pupil learning. This easy to navigate and friendly guide is a superb toolkit to support you as you teach or prepare to teach in the primary school, irrespective of your training route.

This book provides an exceptional insight into how children learn science, as well as which teaching approaches have been found to be most successful. Drawing on the significant body of research carried out over the past 35 years, the book provides valuable evidence about which tried-and–tested approaches enhance learning and help children actually learn science. The book:• supports you in becoming more effective in teaching primary science• offers a reliable evidential base, founded on significant research findings• helps you make informed choices about which approaches to use in your teaching repertoire• provides support for completing your written assignments Overall the text helps you develop your knowledge and understanding of primary science, as well as how best to plan for teaching this important subject. Insights into how children best learn science, together with practical teaching ideas that have been tested in a systematic way, makes this an essential book for primary teachers in training and an invaluable guide for primary teachers teaching science in Key Stages One and Two. “This book makes a major, evidence-based contribution to teaching science in the primary school. It provides a solid grounding for busy teachers to access and use research findings to enhance their professional development and practice. Each chapter provides comprehensive coverage of a science topic, including: revision of subject knowledge; research findings on children''s ideas; learning progression; suggested ways to teach, and research exemplars and lesson outlines. This book is a valuable resource for student teachers and for teachers with many years of experience. It is an indispensable addition to every primary teacher’s bookshelf and every university education department.” Rob Toplis, recently Senior Lecturer in Science Education, Brunel University, UK “This is a great ‘why to…’ and ‘how to…’ book. Michael Allen’s use of progressive understanding underscores both the unfolding stories of primary science alongside children’s developing grasp of the key ideas involved. His work is based on a wealth of research that provides the basis for the ‘why to…’ in curriculum organisation and planning. This is then brought to bear on considerable professional experience and classroom practice to provide the ‘how to…’ for teachers, covering a range of important topics in primary science. An excellent compendium of rationales and resources.” Mike Watts, Professor of Education, Brunel University, UK

Designed for undergraduate/graduate-level parallel programming courses. This nontheoretical text - which is linked to real parallel programming software - covers the techniques of parallel programming in a practical manner that enables students to write and evaluate their parallel programs

"Allen interweaves the dreams of the father and daughter, slowly bringing them to reality. The characters are drawn well. The details of Chris'' life--his painting and woodworking are compelling and well crafted." When a near fatal accident separates a single father from his daughter, fate has a way of finding her a good home. While Chris fights for his life in a coma for nine years, his daughter Krista is raised by a couple with good intentions who have no idea how to properly raise a child. Gilmer has wild ideas that he doesn''t think through. Maggie knows the basics, and figures the rest out as she goes. But there is one thing they have in common, the love for the little girl who stole their hearts while her father was absent. When Chris awakens from his coma, his amnesia keeps him from remembering he has a daughter. Putting his life back together, he takes to furniture repair and then design. But, he picks up a paint brush one day when an apparition of a little girl soon starts haunting him even while he is awake. He captures scenes of her on canvas, but can''t figure out what connection they have. While he paints who he has affectionately been calling Angel, she becomes more and more real to him. Years go by and Chris has developed an entire life with a girl he knows only through paintings. He keeps them locked up in a private room while his other paintings have gained notoriety throughout the art community as the "Insider''s Secret." The exposure he is getting brings him face to face with Maggie and a teenage girl named Krista. Something strange suddenly stirs in both of them. Family is a strong connection. Even when it''s the one you adopt, not the one you come into this world knowing. A River in the Ocean is a heartwarming tale about two lost souls. He didn''t know he was looking and she didn''t know she needed found.

Special Committees: Law and Practice provides attorneys with a sound working knowledge of the use, advantages, and equally important, the disadvantages of using a special committee to resolve business conflicts.

Harry is a divorced man who has not been able to see his disabled daughter Lisa since she was five years old. But Harry still loves Lisa more than anyone else in the world. When he is offered the chance to win a million pounds for her, by taking part in a reality TV show, he immediately accepts.

Two unlikely partners join forces to solve a murder disguised as suicide and catch a killer ready to strike again. Gold Coast psychiatrist Jack Caleb is wealthy, cultured, and gay. When one of his clients is found dead in a locked apartment--apparently from a self-inflicted wound-- burned-out Chicago detective John Thinnes doesn''t believe it was suicide. And Caleb is inclined to agree. But Thinnes regards a shrink who makes house calls suspicious and starts his murder investigation with the doctor himself. An attack on Caleb that''s made to look like an accidental drug overdose starts to change the detective''s mind. Soon, the two men find themselves a whirlwind of theft, scandal, and blackmail. Forced into an unlikely partnership, they''ll have to confront not only a killer, but hard truths within themselves that will change them forever.

Months of surveillance-related leaks from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate over privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. This book explores current issues torn from the headlines with a uniquely Canadian perspective.

A novel filled with personnel observations from a lifetime of experience in how our thoughts begin to develop the artistic creativity we store in our head. All great creative sculptors, canvas painters, architects, engineers and scien-tists begin their work with a single thought, or a dream until it passes that phase of mental creativity then manifests from a thought we have lying dormant in a memory into some form of a working model to a physical design. Every human has control of their destiny in a way that propels them to do great things. Although the ability to act on the process that completes the journey is another aspect that separates greatness from mediocracy or failure. This book provides insights into that process. The story is a weave of fabric with many aspects for consideration. The reader becomes captivated in learning the intricate way the mind controls our journey through life. My perspective with a fictional story related to the achievements of a fic-tional character. He finds love in a peculiar place, travels to destinations as his part-ner deals with his tragic loss. While the intricacies of the mind a narrated in between the stories charac-ters. This begins the writing of the widow''s journey within her mind. Constantly questioning and deliberating, the thoughts that control the human interactions to exist in the world. Ending with the discovery of a new partner who has deceived her inherited insurance company out of fifty million dollars. The story is told through the mind''s thoughts. It is a fictional story which intrigues your mind.

Michael Meeropol argues that the ballooning of the federal budget deficit was not a serious problem in the 1980s, nor were the successful recent efforts to get it under control the basis for the prosperous economy of the mid-1990s. In this controversial book, the author provides a close look at what actually happened to the American economy during the years of the "Reagan Revolution" and reveals that the huge deficits had no negative effect on the economy. It was the other policies of the Reagan years--high interest rates to fight inflation, supply-side tax cuts, reductions in regulation, increased advantages for investors and the wealthy, the unraveling of the safety net for the poor--that were unsuccessful in generating more rapid growth and other economic improvements. Meeropol provides compelling evidence of the failure of the U.S. economy between 1990 and 1994 to generate rising incomes for most of the population or improvements in productivity. This caused, first, the electoral repudiation of President Bush in 1992, followed by a repudiation of President Clinton in the 1994 Congressional elections. The Clinton administration made a half-hearted attempt to reverse the Reagan Revolution in economic policy, but ultimately surrendered to the Republican Congressional majority in 1996 when Clinton promised to balance the budget by 2000 and signed the welfare reform bill. The rapid growth of the economy in 1997 caused surprisingly high government revenues, a dramatic fall in the federal budget deficit, and a brief euphoria evident in an almost uncontrollable stock market boom. Finally, Meeropol argues powerfully that the next recession, certain to come before the end of 1999, will turn the predicted path to budget balance and millennial prosperity into a painful joke on the hubris of public policymakers. Accessibly written as a work of recent history and public policy as much as economics, this book is intended for all Americans interested in issues of economic policy, especially the budget deficit and the Clinton versus Congress debates. No specialized training in economics is needed.

How one simple man with the unfortunate case of mistaken identity shook an entire town...and the Good Ol'' Boy network waging war against him! It''s a laugh riot as Michael Allen explores the notions of power, privilege and intoxication. After a brush with the law, Dawg''s life takes a sudden turn as he becomes a hostage of the "system." Fighting against the madness every step of the way, Dawg''s behind the scenes discoveries are hilarious, sobering and often shocking exposures of a transparent Gaggle blatantly making their own rules and disregarding them themselves. They soon find Dawg isn''t who they thought he was and all their tactics, normally quite effective are actually what help him find his way out of their clutches so that he could live to fight another day.