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Cover of Chemistry and Technology of Printing and Imaging Systems
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Printing and imaging has a major impact on everyone. From the obvious examples of newspapers, magazines and comics through to photographs, currency and credit cards, and even the less obvious example of compact discs, everyone is familiar with the end products of printing and imaging. Until recently,...
Cover of Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance
by Susan Groundwater-Smith, Nicole Mockler
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009

Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result. The...
Cover of Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Learning Policy and Management
by Richard G. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004

This work is concerned with appraising the contemporary ethical impact of lifelong learning ideology and advocacy on education, through focusing on trends in educational policy and management that flow from the ideology. It has its origins in the author's concern that many of those trends are being...
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Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry

Essays in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith

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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011

Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools, she is a staunch advocate of innovative methods of practitioner inquiry with a particular emphasis upon student...
Cover of World Forests from Deforestation to Transition?
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Cover of Topics in Constraint-Based Grammar of Japanese
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This collection of papers reports our attempt to sketch how Japanese grammar can be represented in a constraint-based formalism. Our first attempt of this nature appeared a decade ago as Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar (Gunji 1987) and in several papers following the publication of the book. This...
Cover of The United States Attorneys General and international law
by David R. Deener
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The scope of this study is not as broad as its title might indicate. The Attorney General of the United States performs several functions that affect in one way or another the relations of the United States with foreign nations. But this study focuses mainly on only one of these, namely, the duty...
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Migration and Transformation:

Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism

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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012

People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s  world.  The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland....
Cover of Introduction to the Principles of Phonological Descriptions
by N.S. Trubetzkoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

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Renewable Energy in the Middle East

Enhancing Security through Regional Cooperation

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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009

Energy insecurity is not normally associated with the Middle East. However, away from the oil-rich Persian Gulf, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean are particularly vulnerable. Their fossil fuel endowments are low, while their fractious relationships with each other have long fostered wider...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

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Paulo Freire: Teaching for Freedom and Transformation

The Philosophical Influences on the Work of Paulo Freire

by John Dale, Emery J. Hyslop-Margison
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010

The primary mission of this text is clarifying many of the misconceptions about Paulo Freire’s theories, concepts and his implications for education. It revisits his ideas and explains more fully the philosophical influences that shaped concepts such as problem posing, conscientization and praxis....
Cover of Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

​ This volume contributes to the research in two different research areas: lexical availability studies and vocabulary research in second or foreign languages. Lexical availability is defined as the words that immediately come to mind as a response to a stimulus provided by topics related to domains...
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Cross-Language Studies of Learning to Read and Spell:

Phonologic and Orthographic Processing

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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

The present volume is based on the proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute (AS I) sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held in Alvor, Algarve, Portugal. A number of scholars from different countries participated in the two-week institute on Cognitive and linguistic aspects...
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