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Written as a leadership guide for practicing and future leaders, this handbook will guide each reader through ten chapters that include frameworks, tools, and exercises to develop collaborative leadership.

Gifted and Talented Females Speak Out on Parental Influences and Achievement! examines how to promote female achievement. Using face-to-face interviews with eight women and scholarly research, the book explores topics such as the role of parents, teens and the growing brain, the importance of achieving, and the dilemma of being a gifted and talented female. In addition, each chapter includes recommendations for practice, study questions, and r...

On November 9, 1999, the Governor of Florida issued Executive Order 99-281 to establish the 'One Florida Initiative', which abolished the use of race as a factor in university admissions. In February 2001, the South African government issued its 'National Plan for Higher Education', which outlined a framework to redress inequities in the country's higher education system perpetuated by the former government's apartheid ideology. In Access to H...

This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern).

Mortimer finds a stick in the woodpile. With his imagination, he transforms into a mighty warrior. Mortimer finds himself battling ferocious dragons, murderous pirates and blood-thirsty trolls. These are only the beginning of Mortimer's adventures. When he meets the mysterious Queen Valora, Ruler of the Land of Ruen, Mortimer must choose his allegiance. His decision triggers the final epic battle for control of the Western Lands.

Class Questions: Feminist Answers examines feminist theories of class and intersectionality and proposes a theory of gendered and racialized class processes as deeply embedded in capitalist practices, both historically and today. Joan Acker argues that large work organizations are primary locations in which gendered and racialized class inequalities are created. As neo-liberal market practices reorganize work, gendered and racialized class ine...

This handbook is a timely resource for the rapidly growing field of heavy-ion transport-model theory and its applications to the fields of accelerator development, heavy-ion radiotherapy, and shielding of accelerators and in space. Data from over 20 years of experiments in the production of secondary neutrons and spallation products are contained in the handbook, and are available on the accompanying CD. Transport modelers and experimentalists...

A new liberal theory awaits, one that properly acknowledges the fundamental values and commitments of theocrats and liberals alike." -- from The Liberal of ConscienceIn recent years, the battle between liberalism and theocracy has taken center stage around the globe. To many it is a dispute that can only end in a confrontation of competing values and worldviews. In this bold new work, Lucas Swaine combines discussions of political philosophy a...

This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe.Authored by 19 experts in the field.Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work, piecing together information from both material culture and documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and societies they study.Engages with...

This volume contains articles based on lectures given at the Workshop on Transition and Turbulence Control, hosted by the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 8?10 December 2004. The lecturers included 13 of the world's foremost experts in the control of transitioning and turbulent flows. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects in the broad area of flow control, and will be useful to researchers working in...

The Catherine that emerges from Luongo's well-written pages is a splendid example of what can result when a historian asks fresh questions about a familiar figure's life and brings new materials and methods to bear in formulating answers. The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena offers a more complex, more interesting, woman than the figure portrayed in most contemporary scholarship.

Spanning from the birth of Christianity through the Crusades and the Protestant Reformation to John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council, Key Moments in Church History is a brief and accessible guide to the origins and evolution of the Catholic Church. In this insightful and informative look at eleven of the most significant periods in church history, Finley not only helps readers understand the context and characters of the past, but sheds li...

Tell Faith-Filled Fish Tales Fishing stories. We've all heard them. "It was this big." "You should have seen the one that got away." People love to tell stories of their fishing adventures. When it comes to faith, however, most people clam up. Why is it we can't talk about what God has done in our lives as naturally as we can spin fishing tales? In this six-session companion study guide to the Go Fish DVD, Andy Stanley explores the motivation ...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Beihilfekontrolle der Europäischen Kommission auf dem Gebiet der Beihilfen im Bereich der direkten Steuern. Dabei wird der Prüfungsmaßstab, wie er in den Leitlinien für steuerliche Beihilfen niedergelegt ist, anhand der Anwendungspraxis der Kommission einer kritischen Würdigung unterzogen. Der Aufbau der Arbeit orientiert sich an den Merkmalen des primärrechtlichen Beihilfetatbestands, um die Besonderheiten und Proble...

Reveals a remarkable range of animal behaviours and makes the case that the ethical treatment of animals is an especially significant issue

Here is an easy to understand guide to elementary education. This book is the first of its kind to take the language of education and define all the words, phrases, and processes involved in a child's school. This book will teach parents how to better support their child in the classroom and at home to ensure his or her educational success.

This book contributes to the literature on the ethical use of power and political skills to lead whole system change within school districts.

Dismantling Tyranny offers a rigorous set of case studies of seven formerly communist-ruled countries and how they resolved the dismantling of their respective secret police organizations. Each country profiled had a unique experience: e.g., the Russian experience of cosmetic transformation, the Czech Republic's model of political screening (de jure lustration), Estonia's model of absolute screening (de facto lustration), and Nicaragua's compl...

Dieser Band vereinigt die Studien der Jahre 1996 bis 2004 zum Forschungsschwerpunkt des Autors, dem Weisheitsbuch des Jesus Sirach (Ben Sira). Die Beiträge geben neben einer Gesamtschau Einblick in historische und literarische Fragen, aber auch in Einzeltexte und -themen des Buches als gewichtiges Zeugnis der Überlieferungen Israels angesichts der Herausforderungen durch den Hellenismus um die Wende vom 3. zum 2. vorchristlichen Jahrhundert. E...

Die bisherige Auslegung von Schillers Begriff des Erhabenen als ausschließliche Konsequenz seiner Lektüre von Kants «Kritik der Urteilskraft» beruht auf einer verengten Perspektive. Mit diversen Mängeln behaftet zeigt sie sich als unfähig, den Begriff in seinem ganzen Umfang zu erfassen. Nicht zuletzt verkennt sie, dass Schillers Ausbildung an der Militärakademie bis in die Reifezeit nachwirkte. Der Einfluss der empirischen Psychologie von Jac...