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The US, the EC and World Trade
From the Kennedy Round to the Start of the Uruguay Round
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The period between the close of the Kennedy Round and the opening of the Uruguay Round replaced a decade of fast growth in world output and trade - and of prevailing harmony in trade relations across the Atlantic - with twenty years of currency and trade turmoil and strains between the US and the...
Columbus and His First Voyage
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left very different accounts, as recorded in those trial...
Mad Dogs and Englishness
Popular Music and English Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Mad Dogs and Englishness connects English popular music with questions about English national identities, featuring essays that range across Bowie and Burial, PJ Harvey, Bishi and Tricky. The later years of the 20th century saw a resurgence of interest in cultural and political meanings of Englishness...
Education in the Balance
Mapping the Global Dynamics of School Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Education in the Balance explores the significant choices and opportunities worldwide that are opening up to school leaders of the future for the development of schools and school systems. It argues that the judgments of individuals in leadership positions in a wide range of settings, including ministries...
Place, Belonging and School Leadership
Researching to Make the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Place, Belonging and School Leadership offers research findings, analysis and accessible tools for further research inquiry that are designed to contribute to the development of professional learning communities. Researching about place and belonging, Kathryn Riley argues, gives new teachers powerful...
Anatomy of a Professionalization Project
The Making of the Modern School Business Manager
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Public services have been a target for reform in Western-style democracies for more than three decades. This volume documents and examines the case of School Business Managers (SBMs) as an example of a growing but scarcely-acknowledged phenomenon: the government-backed creation of new 'professions'...
Mark Twain and Youth
Studies in His Life and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
One of the greatest American authors, Mark Twain holds a special position not only as a distinctly American cultural icon but also as a preeminent portrayer of youth. His famous writings about children and youthful themes are central to both his work and his popularity.
The distinguished contributors...
The House of Commons
An Anthropology of MPs at Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The House of Commons is one of Britain's mysterious institutions: constantly in the news yet always opaque. In this ground-breaking anthropological study of the world's most famous parliament, Emma Crewe reveals the hidden mechanisms of parliamentary democracy.
Examining the work of Members...
by Professor Jonathan Rees
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other technology of the last two thousand years-but have you ever thought seriously about your refrigerator?...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning. Examples of task sequences, and both laboratory and classroom-based research into them, are...
by Northrop Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The media industries in the United States and Japan are similar in much the same way different animal species are: while a horse and a kangaroo share maybe 95% of their DNA, they're nonetheless very different animals-and so it is with manga and anime in Japanese and Hollywood animation, movies, and...
The Coming Swarm
DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
What is Hacktivism?
In The Coming Swarm, rising star Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing....
1938: Modern Britain
Social Change and Visions of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series of case studies that in many ways life in that...
Reforms in Islamic Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In recent times, there has been intense global interest on and scrutiny of Islamic education. In reforming Islamic schools, what are the key actions initiated and are they contested or negotiated by and among Muslims?
This edited collection brings together leading scholars to explore current...