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In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved-including measuring educational policies by their costs and economic benefits, shaping family life to ensure productive workers and high-achieving students, introducing entrepreneurship education into curricula from preschool through higher education, and increasing the involvement of economists in educational policy analysis. Close...

A middle-aged man, caught up in the doldrums of life, is awakened in mind, body, and spirit, thanks to the highjinks of a group of worm-like creatures who kidnap him and take him on the ride of his life. "In Orville And Erval Bend My Life: The Legends Of Verbal Cartoonery," the protagonist is forced by his peculiar pack of captors to hear them out as they deliver their wacky stories, vignettes, and poetry. The kidnappers have a dark conviviality that is at once confusing, threatening, and entertaining. Why would they need a captive audience for their wit and witticisms? They offer no...

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A threatening text, an empty bottle of heparin, a sick dog, and missing property all lead Christina and the police chief of Alva, Texas, to conclude that the person they have locked up in Dallas was either working with someone, or another individual is threatening the Sanders family.

As threats escalate, not only toward Christina's family but the residents of Alva, it becomes apparent that there are evil forces, human and spiritual, at work.

When the first explosion rocks the town, the Sanders family and their friends are thrown into a life-and-death situation. As memories...

The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.

This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the "American rebellion" at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America.

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