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A blend of quantitative and qualitative data which traces the impact of a state-level policy initiative to raise high school graduation requirements on school-level practices and student outcomes. It is aimed at those concerned with the way educational reform policy is influenced by local context.

Describes a new form of organisation for teachers, a departure from industrial assumptions for schools and for unions. Through case studies in nine districts, the book illustrates how teacher and administrative work change, and how labour and management learn to look at their common needs.

A blend of quantitative and qualitative data which traces the impact of a state-level policy initiative to raise high school graduation requirements on school-level practices and student outcomes. It is aimed at those concerned with the way educational reform policy is influenced by local context.

This collection of papers brings together legal specialists and human rights activists from the US and the Commonwealth of Independent States to discuss their past and recent history, pending problems, and immediate goals in the field of human rights.

For scholars and general readers seeking to unravel some of the complexities in the Middle East, this collection analyses the causes and consequences of the Iran-Iraq war from the standpoint of the belligerent parties and from the perspective of Islamic and international law.

In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas's The Treatise on Law, R. J. Henle, S.J., a well-known authority on philosophy and jurisprudence, fluently and accurately presents the Latin and English translation of this important work. Henle provides the necessary background for an informed reading of the Treatise, as well as the only in-depth commentary available in English on this text. The first section of the book contains an introduction to ...

Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century Tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.

Aesthetics and Economics is a pioneering effort at treating aesthetics from the point of view of economic theory, and addresses the contradictions which have arisen from economists' work in this field over the years. Starting from an historical review of the treatment of aesthetics in economic thought, Aesthetics and Economics goes through the integration of a number of recent advances in economic thinking with the main topics of aesthetics,...

The overarching argument of "Reading the Social Body" is that the body is cultural rather than "natural." Some of the essays treat the social construction of bodies that have actually existed in human history, others discuss the representation of bodies in artistic contexts, all recognize that everything visible to the human body--from posture and costume to the width of an eyebrow or a smile--is determined by and shaped in response to a parti...

Nonlinear difference equations of order greater than one are of paramount impor­ tance in applications where the (n + 1)st generation (or state) of the system depends on the previous k generations (or states). Such equations also appear naturally as discrete analogues and as numerical solutions of differential and delay differential equations which model various diverse phenomena in biology, ecology, physiology, physics, engineering and econom...

Offers a set of photographs which are intended to enhance the reader's knowledge of the largely autobiographical work of Thomas Wolfe. The photographs are of Wolfe's family and close associates (his strong-willed father and Aline Bernstein, the older woman he loved), his childhood and so on.

Explores the connections between modern literary criticism and Renaissance poetry, focusing on rhetoric and rhetorical devices as instances - not just agents - of Milton's complex theological argument. This edition contains a new preface.

This book contains the lectures given at the NATO ASI 910820 "Cellular Automata and Cooperative Systems" Meeting which was held at the Centre de Physique des Houches, France, from June 22 to July 2, 1992. This workshop brought together mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists and mathe­ maticians working in fields related to local interacting systems, cellular and probabilistic automata, statistical physics, and complexity theory, as we...

Professor Dobbs provides an elegant and clear account of the subject, leading the student from electrostatics through to Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves, covering all the material needed by a student taking courses on electricity and magnetism and electromagnetic waves.