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The challenge of school improvement for failing schools is a complex and frequently debated issue. While much has been said on this topic, little has been published that can actually help those in such schools or those working with them. By addressing the issue from a range of perspectives, this edited volume will fill the gap in the existing literature. It contains policy perspectives written by a key national policy maker, an academic, and a...

In the light of a century-long conflict between secularism and popular Islam, this study describes the conflict over the veil as it became a burning issue in the decade following the military intervention of 1980, and remains a matter of controversy.

A comic tale of the desire to be a strongman, this reading book is part of the "Step" level in the "Hop Step Jump" series.

From the "Jump" level of the "Hop Step Jump" series, this text features an adventure story aimed at readers of 10-12 years.

This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his vigorous new survey, Professor Robbins provides the background to these changing attitudes. He considers the development as well as the possible disintegration of the sense of Britishness among the i...

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Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils (1910-1995) brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education. THE CALLING OF EDUCATION features Shils's most illuminating and incisive writing on this topic from the last 25 years of his life.

This lucid introduction to the sociology of consumerism examines the relationship between production and consumption in late capitalist societies. The historical and theoretical discussion provides the student with the tools to examine key themes in the sociology of consumption. After a detailed historical overview of the advent of consumer society, Peter Corrigan examines theoretical accounts of consumption and consumer practice, including: ...

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Covering the principles of chromatographic separation, the chromatographic process from a physical chemical perspective, instrumentation for performing analyses, and operational procedures, this second edition offers information needed for the successful practice of gas chromatography. It contains examples of available apparatus, detectors, columns, stationary phases and operating conditions.

This study challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late 19th century. Author Lisa Moore argues that literary representations of "sapphic" relationships between women were central to 18th-century debates over English national identity and in novels were encoded within wider social concerns regarding race, nation, and colonialist ventures.

This book covering all the standard topics in personality offers readings and active learning exercises. It gives readers the opportunity to become closely involved with the dynamic research and applied issues in the psychology of personality.

Throughout the past decades, the understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic heart failure and the therapeutic approach to this condition have un­ dergone considerable change. New developments are reported every year. Perhaps it is because of this continuing interest of researchers and physi­ th cians that the chapter on chronic heart failure of the 4 edition of Klinische Kardiologie has been so positively received. Several colleagues aske...

Designed to serve as a resource for faculty members at colleges and universities, this "how-to" book offers an overview of the co-operative learning process, including its rationale, research base, value and practical implementation. Examples are provided across a variety of disciplines.

Im vorliegenden Band sind die Vorträge der 20. Gießener Gynäkologischen Fortbildung 1997 niedergelegt. Sie spiegeln den aktuellen Kenntnisstand in der Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe wider. Die Beiträge wurden von namhaften Vertretern der einzelnen Fachgebiete verfaßt und behandeln sehr praxisorientiert die folgenden Themengebiete: Diagnostik und Therapie der Beckenbodenfunktion, operative Behandlung der Harninkontinenz, operative Endbindungs...

In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity.Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar. Using t...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Im Gut Losten wird die Gülle mittels eines mechanisch-biologischen Verfahrens aufbereitet. Als Aufbereitungsprodukte fallen Feststoff, aufbereitete Gülleflüssigkeit und Überschußschlamm an. In der Arbeit werden die Kosten der Gülleaufbereitung und -verwertung für den Zeit-raum Januar bis Juni 1991 berechnet. Die Gesamtverfahrenskosten betrugen ca. 766300 DM, je m3 Gülleanfall bzw. je dt Fleischproduktion ergeben sich ...

Regional economic arrangements such as free trade areas (FTAs), customs unions, and currency blocs have become increasingly prevalent in the world economy. Both pervasive and controversial, regionalization has some economists optimistic about the opportunities it creates and others fearful that it may corrupt fragile efforts to encourage global free trade. Including both empirical and theoretical studies, this volume addresses several importan...

What is the relationship of gender to the micropolitics of school reform? The timely research question is explored in this book which will open the 'black box' of secondary school reform. Teachers are asked to play an increasingly active role in school reform. Datnow reveals the everyday struggles that happen between different factions of teachers with different definitions of what school means for students. The focus of this struggle may not...