Authors:Hugh Vasquez, M. Nell Myhand, Allan Creighton, Todos
Publisher: Hunter House
Keywords: making, middle, school, peace, curriculum, allies, friends
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06-12
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0897933079
ISBN-13: 9780897933070

Designed for students in grades six to nine, this curriculum offers more than 30 innovative class sessions that address diversity (racial, ethnic, and sexual) and violence issues. Each session contains a warm-up exercise, theme information, value clarification, and an experience or activity. Journal writing, critical thinking about history textbooks, role-playing, storytelling, poetry/rap, photographs, illustrations, tables, and whole-school research projects are just some of the tools presented in this hands-on guide to defending against violence in middle school.

Author: Tim Vasquez
Publisher: Weather Graphics Technologie
Keywords: handbook, forecasting, weather
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0970684029
ISBN-13: 9780970684028

The Information Age has blossomed and now anyone can run a weather center from their own office or home. Unfortunately, nearly all popular weather books are nothing more than essays on the science of meteorology. The Weather Forecasting Handbook breaks this mold by explaining all the latest forecasting principles, techniques, and tools. Basic physical concepts are reviewed, and commonly-employed analysis methods are presented. Then weather systems are explained in terms of their thermal structure, dynamics, and effects. Special problems such as thunderstorms, winter weather, and tropical weath

Author: Tim Vasquez
Publisher: Weather Graphics Technologies
Keywords: handbook, map, weather
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2003-09
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0970684045
ISBN-13: 9780970684042

The science of forecasting has not changed, but the Internet and new marvels of technology have completely redefined the process. It is not a rare thing for weather hobbyists and National Weather Service forecasters to get a product from the very same site. With more and more charts and tools appearing on the Internet by the week, how do you make sense of the avalanche of weather imagery and data? Using a double-page format, the Weather Map Handbook demonstrates nearly every type of weather map, image, and product in common use. An overview of each item’s origin, purpose, shortfalls, an

Author: Ian Vasquez
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: point, lonesome
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312378106
ISBN-13: 9780312378103

Different as they are, the Varela brothers are bound by a decades-old secret surrounding the events of one long-ago night during their childhood back home in their native Belize. Today Patrick is the Miami-Dade County commissioner and a probable candidate for mayor of Miami, while his brother, Leo, a sometime poet and mental health worker, spends more time getting high than anything else. Still, they’ve both been struggling for years to completely sever their ties to their father, his illegal businesses, and his secrets.But those years quickly vanish the moment an old friend recently re

Author: L. O. Vasquez
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: trends, research, cell, fuel
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 2008-02
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 1600216692
ISBN-13: 9781600216695

A fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device. It produces electricity from external supplies of fuel (on the anode side) and oxidant (on the cathode side). These react in the presence of an electrolyte. Generally, the reactants flow in and reaction products flow out while the electrolyte remains in the cell. Fuel cells can operate virtually continuously as long as the necessary flows are maintained. Fuel cells differ from batteries in that they consume reactants, which must be replenished, while batteries store electrical energy chemically in a closed system. Additionally, while

Author: Ely P. Vasquez
Publisher: Hope Publishing House
Keywords: ana, historia, story
Number of Pages: 28
Published: 1985-06-01
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0932727018
ISBN-13: 9780932727015

A bilingual (Spanish/English) children’s book written and illustrated by El Salvadoran children who had been brought to the U.S. by their parents and who had to cope with a strange land, a new language, feeling marginalized from their schoolmates and yet who wanted to succeed in their new home.

Author: Tim Vasquez
Publisher: Weather Graphics Technologies
Keywords: handbook, chasing, storm
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2002-10-28
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0970684037
ISBN-13: 9780970684035

The Storm Chasing Handbook is the definitive bible on storm chasing, packed with nearly 300 pages of storm chase history, philosophy, technique, and travel information. Learn about tornadoes, hail, gustnadoes, lightning, thunderstorms, and much more. Using key findings from the past four decades of scientific literature, readers learn the inner workings of severe weather and dabble with the fundamentals of forecasting techniques, blended with wisdom from the author’s own experiences. Many skilled chasers contribute their own wisdom in the form of anecdotes, tales, and funny stories. From tar