The ultimate insider's guide to getting into the nation's most competitive colleges
Written by a former senior admissions officer at Harvard University, this book provides keen insights into what it takes to get into America's top schools. With the help of case studies of successful Harvard applicants, Charles Hughes II defines the goals and mission of highly selective schools. He explains the relative weight given to:
Academics
Extra-curricular activities
Personal qualities
Intangibles in the admission process
Hughes breaks down the...
The ultimate insider's guide to getting into the nation's most competitive colleges
Written by a former senior admissions officer at ...
One of the classics of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel's steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle-class world that it describes. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired. The book includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the...
One of the classics of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel's steady popularity has ...
Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism and global modernity. Theodore Hughes begins by unpacking the relations among literature, film, and art in Korea's colonial period, paying particular attention to the emerging proletarian movement, literary modernism, nativism, and wartime mobilization. He then demonstrates how these developments...
Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of ...
This text provides an in-depth analysis into the main effects of Hughes Syndrome. It offers a detailed history of Hughes Syndrome and examines the effects of the syndrome on the major organs, making it a valuable reference tool for students in training.
This text provides an in-depth analysis into the main effects of Hughes Syndrome. It offers a detailed history of Hughes Syndrome and examines the eff...
Providing the reader with a practice-focussed approach to public health nutrition intervention management, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a crucial resource for dietitians, community and public health nutritionists and related health professionals in need of a practical guide to practicing public health nutrition.
Internationally recognised experts Hughes and Margetts describe in detail the rationale, processes and tools that can be used to assess population needs, analyse problems and develop effective interventions at a community level.
Exercises in each section of the book...
Providing the reader with a practice-focussed approach to public health nutrition intervention management, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a cruc...
Adult Emergency Medicine at a Glance provides a concise and visually-orientated summary of a comprehensive lecture course in adult emergency medicine. The book is aimed primarily at clinical undergraduate medical students undertaking accident and emergency attachments and those revising for assessment.
Adult Emergency Medicine at a Glance provides a concise and visually-orientated summary of a comprehensive lecture course in adult emergency medicine...
This 4-volume collection explores key approaches to visual research methods and considers some of the core principles, issues, debates and controversies surrounding the use of visual techniques in relation to three key enterprises: documentation and representation; interpretation and classification; and elicitation and collaboration.
This 4-volume collection explores key approaches to visual research methods and considers some of the core principles, issues, debates and controversi...
Delving into our unparalleled in-depth journal backlist, this work is a SAGE-only collection that offers systematic, comprehensive overviews of the best of Internet research methods published in our specialist methods journals and empirical subject journals.
Delving into our unparalleled in-depth journal backlist, this work is a SAGE-only collection that offers systematic, comprehensive overviews of the be...
Researching Gender is a comprehensive collection of well-regarded, seminal articles in the field of feminist methodology that will be an essential resource for academics and advanced students in this field.
Researching Gender is a comprehensive collection of well-regarded, seminal articles in the field of feminist methodology that will be an essential res...
Improving teaching is the key to genuine and sustainable school improvement. Improvement involves persuading teachers to change and develop their practice but, as anyone who has ever tried will testify, this is far from easy. The focus of Tweak to Transform is what head teachers and school leaders can do to manage the change process and improve the quality of teaching in a school. Essentially, Tweak to Transform is a practical handbook that seeks to address three questions. - What do we know about change? - What do we know about learning? - What do we know about leading and...
Improving teaching is the key to genuine and sustainable school improvement. Improvement involves persuading teachers to change and develop their p...
