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This book provides students and general readers with an introduction to revolutionary France whilst also presenting a clear argument to explain the events of the period. Provides students and general readers with an introduction to revolutionary France . Also presents a clear argument to explain the events of the period. Argues that the French Revolution encountered resistance from the poor as well as the privileged. Includes substantial discu...

A spiritual crisis sent Orthodox rabbi Gershon Winkler to remote regions of the Southwest, where he studied with Native American healers. From them he began to recover the long-lost wisdom of what he calls "Aboriginal Judaism”: the religion's tribal roots. This book tracks his personal journey and draws from a dazzling mix of sources to detail the surprising connections between two seemingly unrelated religions.

This book is a social psychological inquiry into identity in modern society. Starts from the social psychological premise that identity results from interaction in the social world. Reviews and integrates the most influential strands of contemporary social psychology research on identity. Brings together North American and European perspectives on social psychology. Incorporates insights from philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, cul...

Prepared in response to ASBO International members' requests for help preparing financial statements under the Governmental Accounting Standards Board's Statement No. 34, this guide provides a wealth of information about new requirements for accounting and reporting. The guide outlines the sections of a Comprehensive Annual Finance Report (CAFR) under GASB Statement No. 34 and offers specific examples of financial statements and other applicab...

Now everyone has the opportunity to capitalize on the highly acclaimed energy program developed by the New Jersey ASBO Facilities Committee. This comprehensive guidebook includes all the procedures and forms school officials need to save their school district thousands of dollars in energy costs. Topics include the business administrator's role in energy management, operations and maintenance audit for energy conservation, as well as detailed ...

This basic reference for grant applicants, executors, project managers, administrators, and staff members provides strategies for writing effective grants and contracts. The ideas are school-tested and based on information gathered from institutions and agencies over the past two decades.

BDReporting complex budget information isn't always easy, nor is it stimulating for the audience. However, budget presentations don't have to be dry and lifeless. This book offers new and veteran financial officers with tips and tricks for using multimedia applications to improve budget presentations. Chapters include: 'Multimedia Fundamentals, ' 'The Graphically Thinking Business Manager, ' 'The Effective School Budget Presentation, ' 'On Bec...

Effective time management can help school officials become more efficient, more effective, and more balanced. Time Wasters/Time Savers: 61 Ways to Beat the Clock provides practical suggestions for getting a better handle on responsibilities at work so administrators can have a fuller life outside the office.

This introductory text on the legal aspects of public education school district management introduces school business officials to the basics of fiscal and legal management. It offers an overview of the scope of issues that school district fiscal officers deal with almost every day as well as the skills and knowledge they need to fulfill their responsibilities to the district and the community.

ASBO International's Facilities Project Team helps school business officials meet the challenges of improving school facilities in this comprehensive report. The team addresses three specific areas: maintenance and operations solutions, financing school facilities, and technology solutions for schools. A wealth of information and experience contribute to this valuable 'how-to' guide.

School officials face many questions when implementing a school district-wide or school building technology plan. This report supplement to School Business Affairs, prepared by the ASBO International Facilities Project Team, provides information and guidance to help school business officials meet the challenges of improving school facilities for technology implementation.

Chloe, Josh Miller's younger sister, is a free spirit with funky clothes and dramatic hair. She struggles with her own identity, classmates, parents, boys, and -- her biggest question -- whether or not God is for real. But this unconventional high school freshman definitely doesn't hold back when she meets Him in a big, personal way. Refusing to change her image to fit into the "stereotypical Christian preppy mold, " Chloe expresses God's love...

This book explores Jewishness in the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author makes a close examination of Singer¿s literary works, Judaism, Jewish history and related criticism to illustrate Singer¿s unique but ambiguous position in American Jewish literature. The book offers a discussion of Singer¿s modernity. Singer¿s Jewishness finds its major expression in challenging the notion of covenant and the concept of «the coming modern con...

Produced in his pre-mil days, but still very useful, as Pink always is. The beginning of a nation arrests world attention, the bondage of a people evokes the full range of human feeling, the effective work of a human deliverer for one or a million raises human emotions to an exceedingly high pitch. In Exodus we have the beginning of a nation, Israel, we have the enslavement of a people, the Israelites, we have the arrival of a deliverer named ...

This comprehensive volume ranges across the entire spectrum of contemporary sociological inquiry, as seen by Durkheim. It also includes secondary readings by social thinkers of today, connecting the classic writings of Durkheim to contemporary issues. Organizes Durkheim's writings thematically, in a comprehensive collectionIncludes selections from Durkheim's best-known writings as well as less widely-known texts that explore the themes of mod...

Forensic Linguistics" is an introduction to the fascinating interface between language and the law. Provides an integrated and fully theorized understanding of language and law issues. Contains many helpful examples from genuine legal contexts and texts. Discusses linguistic sources of disadvantage before the law, particularly for ethnic minorities, children and abused women.

Ulli hat sich entschieden: Sie geht ins Internat. Zunächst ist sie unsicher, ob ihre Entscheidung richtig war, denn in Waldau fühlt sie sich sehr allein. Den beiden munteren Schwestern Caroline und Friederike, mit denen sie das Zimmer teilt, mag sie nichts von ihrem Kummer erzählen. Und leichter wird es auch nicht, als die drei »I's« - so nennen sich die Mädchen - auch noch die verschlossene Esther in ihren Raum aufnehmen sollen. Aber dass es ...

Die Abhandlung über den Patentschutz für pharmazeutische, medizinische und biotechnologische Erfindungen vereint eine konzentrierte Darstellung der historischen Rechtsentwicklung sowie der allgemeinen Lehren des Patentrechts mit einer systematischen Untersuchung von Sonderproblematiken der Patentfähigkeit von Arzneimitteln. Schwerpunkt ist die Kommentierung umstrittener Vorgaben der sog. Biopatentrichtlinie (98/44/EG) zur Schutzfähigkeit von B...

Have you ever wanted to know why civilizations decay or why war has been a recurrent phenomena throughout history, what are the forces causing population explosions, and why it is very likely that the power balance between today's developed countries and the less-developed world will be altered in the decades to come?

Sherlock Holmes travels the length of Asia to solve his most confounding caseand thwart his most terrifying foe.