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In the next few years the world will be facing a huge talent shortage. Demographic trends in America, Europe, Russia, and Japan are reducing the pool of new workers. As the need for talent grows, China's and India's educational systems won't be able to produce enough qualified graduates for themselves, let alone the rest of the world. But the heart of the problem is that the education-to-employment system worldwide is badly outmoded. We're not...

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Creating Belfast

No prior studies have examined the role, relationship, and impact of advertising and information technologies on African societies. Critically exploring the dominant cultural values and symbols conveyed in Nigerian mass media advertising, and the impact of this advertising on the socioeconomic development of Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa, this volume examines the many facets of the African marketplace. Marketing in Developing Countries: Niger...

Educational policy continues to be of major concern. This AERA-sponsored Handbook presents two themes of defining the theoretical boundaries and methodological approaches of education policy research.

Presents homework from several perspectives, including its political and cultural contexts aspects of parental involvement and parent-child relationships school contexts and practices observable impacts. This book considers how both teachers and parents can ensure a balance between the child's school life and his or her overall development.

A passionate and informed look behind the scenes of the floral industry to discover the amazing and often draining journey flowers now make from seeds and bulbs to our shops, tables and vases.

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Three hilarious short tales that are rich in wordplay, but are also touching stories about love and loss and what draws us together.

A history of maritime Portsmouth

Boldly going where no popular-science book has gone before, this is an exhilarating exploration of the imminent reality of personal space travel - for anyone who wanted to be an astronaut when they grew up.

Aristotle's Politics is widely acknowledged as a classic and one of the founding texts of political theory and philosophy. Written by a leading expert in ancient philosophical thought, Aristotle and the Politics is a coherent guide that makes sense of an often difficult and disorganized work, carefully explaining its key themes. Jean Roberts introduces and assesses: Aristotle's life and the background to Politics the ideas and text of Politics...

Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Covering the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and British Caribbean, this collection explores the cultural and social domains of medical experience and considers the dynamics and tensions of power.

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing ever...

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Jin Li, the beautiful young manager of a Manhattan office-cleaning firm, is on the run. She has been 'disposing' of valuable information from top corporations, and now the people she has stolen from are desperate for revenge. Meanwhile, the mysterious Ray Grant, Jin Li's former lover, is tracked down by her ruthless brother Chen and offered an impossible choice: help Chen find Jin Li, or place his own father in danger. As the hunt for Jin Li g...

In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. These melodramas illustrated a particularly religious world-view that dominated American life and promoted the sexually ...

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This second volume of Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights includes the key documents published between 1998 and 2007. The book provides, not only the basic documents, but also the less well-known material related to the jurisprudence emanating from the consideration of communications. It therefore includes, amongst other material, the most recent activity reports adopted by the African Commission, resolutions, and ...

Presents transcriptions, English translations, and annotations of more than 1, 600 gravestones from Suriname's oldest Jewish burial grounds. This title examines three Sephardi cemeteries, whose monuments date from 1666 to 1904. It is based on years of on-site fieldwork in Suriname and research in archives in the United States and the Netherlands.