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Cengage Learning Cengage  Cengage is an educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education, K-12, professional, and library markets worldwide. It has operations in more than 20 countries around the world.[2][3][4]Contents1 Company information 2 Services 3 History3.1 Acquisitions4 Brands/imprints 5 Rankings 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksCompany information[edit] The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has approximately 5,000 employees worldwide across 20 countries.[citation needed] It was headquartered at its Stamford, Connecticut office until April 2014. Gale is Cengage's library reference arm and specializes in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses [...More...] |
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Boston Boston  Boston (/ˈbɒstən/ ( listen) BOS-tən) is the capital city and most populous municipality[9] of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States [...More...] |
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University Of Chihuahua The Autonomous University of Chihuahua  Autonomous University of Chihuahua (in Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, UACH) is a Mexican public university based in the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, but with several campuses across the state. In December 8, 1954 the State Legislature, with Governor Oscar Soto Maynez, issued the decree 171, which founded the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACh). UACh was granted its autonomy in 1968, with the freedom to define its own curriculum and manage its own budget without interference from the government.Contents1 History1.1 Creation of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua2 Academic Units 3 Accreditation and memberships 4 Sports 5 Motto 6 ReferencesHistory[edit] The Literary and Scientific Institute of Chihuahua was founded on March 19, 1835. In order to promote cultural development in the emerging city of Chihuahua, it offered to the community studies of Latin and Spanish grammar [...More...] |
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Special Special  Special or the specials or variation, may refer to:.mw-parser-output .tocright float:right;clear:right;width:auto;background:none;padding:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em;margin-bottom:.5em .mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-left clear:left .mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-both clear:both .mw-parser-output .tocright-clear-none clear:none Contents1 Policing 2 Literature 3 Film and television 4 Music4.1 Albums 4.2 Songs5 Computing 6 Other uses 7 See alsoPolicing[edit] Specials, Ulster [...More...] |
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International Standard Name Identifier The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an identifier for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, television programmes, and newspaper articles. Such an identifier consists of 16 digits. It can optionally be displayed as divided into four blocks. ISNI can be used to disambiguate names that might otherwise be confused, and links the data about names that are collected and used in all sectors of the media industries. It was developed under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as Draft International Standard 27729; the valid standard was published on 15 March 2012 [...More...] |
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Library Of Congress Control Number The Library of Congress  Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially-based system of numbering cataloging records in the Library of Congress Library of Congress in the United States. It has nothing to do with the contents of any book, and should not be confused with Library of Congress Classification.Contents1 History 2 Format 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory[edit] The LCCN numbering system has been in use since 1898, at which time the acronym LCCN originally stood for Library of Congress Library of Congress Card Number. It has also been called the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, among other names. The Library of Congress Library of Congress prepared cards of bibliographic information for their library catalog and would sell duplicate sets of the cards to other libraries for use in their catalogs [...More...] |
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National Geographic Society The National Geographic  National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Founded in 1888, its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. The National Geographic National Geographic Society’s logo is a yellow portrait frame – rectangular in shape – which appears on the margins surrounding the front covers of its magazines and as its television channel logo [...More...] |
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Boston Globe The Boston  Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872. The newspaper has won a total of 26 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2016, and with a total paid circulation of 245,824 from September 2015 to August 2016,[3] it is the 25th most read newspaper in the United States. The Boston Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston.[4] Founded in the later 19th century, the paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic  Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it was sold to The New York Times in 1993 for $1.1 billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in U.S [...More...] |
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Wayback Machine The Wayback Machine  Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web, founded by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. Its founders, Brewster Khale and Bruce Gilliat developed the Wayback Machine Wayback Machine with the intention of providing "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct webpages. Since its launch in 2001, over 452 billion pages have been added to the archive [...More...] |
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Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly  Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, “The International News Magazine of Book  Book Publishing  Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews.[3] The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s, and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name The Publishers' Weekly (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country [...More...] |
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4-year A university (Latin: universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines [...More...] |
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Junior College A junior college is a post-secondary educational institution offering vocational training designed to prepare students for either skilled trades and technical occupations and workers in support roles in professions such as engineering, accountancy, business administration, nursing, medicine, architecture, and criminology or for additional education at another college with more advanced academic material. Students typically attend junior colleges for 1–3 years.Contents1 By country1.1 India 1.2 Japan 1.3 Singapore 1.4 South Korea 1.5 United States1.5.1 Cultural connotations 1.5.2 Athletics 1.5.3 Military junior college2 See also 3 References 4 External linksBy country[edit] India[edit] In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade [...More...] |
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Web-based Training Educational technology  Educational technology is "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources".[1] Educational technology Educational technology is the use of both physical hardware and educational theoretics. It encompasses several domains including learning theory, computer-based training, online learning, and where mobile technologies are used, m-learning [...More...] |
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K-12 K–12  K–12 (spoken as "k twelve", "k through twelve", or "k to twelve"), for kindergarten to 12th grade, is an American expression that indicates the range of years of publicly supported primary and secondary education found in the USA, which is similar to publicly supported school grades prior to college in several other countries, such as Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Iran, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey.[1]Contents1 History 2 Etymology 3 Usage 4 P–12 5 K–14, K–16, K–18 and K–20 6 See also 7 References 8 Further readingHistory[edit] US Public education was conceived of in the late 18th century. In 1790, Pennsylvania became the first state to require some form of free education for even those who could not afford it. New York passed similar legislation in 1805 [...More...] |
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Imprint (trade Name) An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work. A single publishing company may have multiple imprints, often using the different names as brands to market works to various demographic consumer segments.[1] Description[edit] An imprint of a publisher is a trade name—a name that a business uses for trading commercial products or services—under which a work is published. Imprints typically have a defining character or mission. In some cases, the diversity results from the takeover of smaller publishers (or parts of their business) by a larger company. In the case of Barnes & Noble, imprints have been used to facilitate the venture of a bookseller into publishing.[2] Use[edit] A single publishing company may have multiple imprints, with the different imprints often used by the publisher to market works to different demographic consumer segments [...More...] |
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