California and the Western States are rich in abundant and diverse species of mushrooms. Amateur mushroom collectors and mycologists alike will find over 300 species of the region's most common, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms profiled in this comprehensive field guide. It provides the most up-to-date science on the role of fungi in the natural world, methods to identify species, and locations of mushroom habitats. With excellent color illustrations showing top and side views of mushrooms of the Western States and a user-friendly text, it is informative but still light enough to be carried into the woods. When used to identify mushrooms, keys bring the reader to individual species, with a descriptive text providing cues for identifying additional species. Mushrooms common in urban landscapes are included, which is especially useful for the casual encounter with backyard fungi. The guide also provides a table of both old and new species names, and information on edibility and look-alikes, both dangerous and benign.
A section on mushroom arts and crafts features mushroom photography, painting, philately, spore prints, dyes, and cultivation. The guide also offers a comprehensive list of resources including national field guides, general mushroom books and periodicals, club and society contact information, and web sites.

· Primary descriptions and illustrations of 300 species of mushrooms plus text descriptions of many more.
· Latest word in mushroom taxonomy and nomenclature. Clear discussion of DNA sequencing and new classifications.
· Especially good coverage of southern California and Southwestern mushrooms often neglected in other field guides.

Explains the right to bear arms as provided in the Bill of Rights; describes the history of the Constitutional amendment; and discusses the controversies involving the amendment throughout United States history.

This handbook provides 30 structured learning opportunities for meetings of professional learning communities (PLCs). The book is written as a companion to the author's previous work, Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research and Practice, but can also be used as a stand-alone guide. It begins by briefly reviewing what a PLC is, the roles of its members, and the reasons for establishing and supporting the PLC in a school. The activities are designed to facilitate individual and team development, and explore shared leadership, intentional collective learning, and values and vision. Each activity gives notes on outcome, assumptions, materials, and suggested time (one or at most two consecutive group meetings), then provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by charts, worksheets, readings, research briefs, surveys, or other tools. Hord is a scholar laureate associated with the National Staff Development Council. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This research-based, step-by-step guide shows principals how to build leadership capacity, embed professional development, create a positive school culture, develop accountability, and increase student achievement.

Discusses some of the issues surrounding virginity for teens, dispels myths about it, and suggest ways for youth to express their sexuality.

Paul Engelmann was Adolf Loos’s favorite pupil, private secretary to Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most important interlocutor in the years between 1916 and 1928 as well as his partner in building the Stonborough House. Thus it was that the trenchant critique of modernity associated with Wittgenstein’s Vienna originated around Paul Engelmann. The present volume of essays from an international symposium in Aarhus, Denmark in 1999 offers an interdisciplinary perspective on issues bearing upon architecture, language and cultural criticism as they relate to the life’s work of Paul Engelmann.

This collection of insights, anecdotes, gifts, and guidance on shared leadership in schools is written by principals for principals.

This introductory text, of advanced undergraduate/first-year postgraduate level, is also suitable as an introduction to the field for workers in industrial research laboratories. It offers an accessible introduction to the development, mechanisms, chemistry, characterisation methods and applications of the technique, providing the reader with an extensive yet concise grounding in the theory of each area of the subject, as well as detailing the real and potential applications and the Future prospects of sol-gel chemistry.