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Making Music Special : Practical Ways to Create Music
ISBN: 9781853464171 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Europa World of Learning 2006
ISBN: 9781857433104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive directory and guide to the organizations and institutions throughout the sphere of higher education and learning.
Profiling some 30,000 academic institutions and over 200,000 staff and officials, this highly esteemed work covers the whole of the higher education and learning spectrum. Available in both print and online editions, there is no other source that provides such comprehensive, international coverage. Now in its 56th Edition, "The World of Learning "has become established as one of the world's leading reference works. Meticulously updated to the highest... A comprehensive directory and guide to the organizations and institutions throughout the sphere of higher education and learning.
Profiling some 30... |
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Teachers and international labour standards. A handbook
ISBN: 9789221070993 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are 40 million teachers in the world, they constitute the backbone of their nation's educational system and their status is of critical importance to educational quality and hence to national development. This publication offers a basic guide to international legal texts of relevance to the teaching profession, and is primarily intended for teachers and their organizations, policy-makers, planners and administrators in education, and private educational employers. It gives clear and extensive coverage of the provisions of the 1966 Recommendation concerning the status of teachers, as...
There are 40 million teachers in the world, they constitute the backbone of their nation's educational system and their status is of critical importan...
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85,92 |
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Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology
ISBN: 9780393329988 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in honour of its centenary, this history of Caltech explores its contribution to science and technology by providing profiles of its most famous scientists, such as von Karman in aeronautics, Morgan in biology, Gutenberg in seismology, Noyes in physical chemistry and Epstein in physics.
Written in honour of its centenary, this history of Caltech explores its contribution to science and technology by providing profiles of its most famo...
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95,29 |
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Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun
ISBN: 9780813124919 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr., Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, novelist Toni Morrison, and Wall Street pioneer Reginald F. Lewis. Despite the profound influence of these groups, many now question the continuing relevance of BGLOs, arguing that their golden age has passed. Partly because of their perceived link to hip-hop culture, black... During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplif... |
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The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos, and the End of an Era
ISBN: 9781401301965 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years ago, in the fall of 1957, two thirteen-year-old boys were enrolled at an elite, boys-only New England boarding school. One of them, descended from wealth and eminence, would go on to Yale, then to a career as a navy officer and Vietnam war hero, and finally to the U.S. Senate, from where he would fall just short of the White House. The other was a scholarship student, a misfit giant of a boy from a Pennsylvania farm town who would suffer shameful debasements at the hands of his classmates, then go on to a solitary and largely anonymous life as a salesman of encyclopedias and...
Fifty years ago, in the fall of 1957, two thirteen-year-old boys were enrolled at an elite, boys-only New England boarding school. One of them, descen...
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The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions: Stories for Resistance
ISBN: 9780230606319 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher's union leaders from around the world fuses insights with background andanalysis to make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children."
Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted scholars, tea...
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201,72 |
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In Theory and in Practice: Harvard's Center for International Affairs, 1958-1983
ISBN: 9780674027770 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harvard University inaugurated a new research center devoted to international relations in 1958. The Center for International Affairs (CFIA) was founded by State Department Director of Policy Planning Staff, Robert R. Bowie, at the invitation of McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Joined by Henry A. Kissinger, Edward S. Mason, and Thomas C. Schelling, Bowie quickly established the CFIA as a hub for studying international affairs in the United States. CFIA affiliates produced seminal work on arms control theory, development and modernization theory, and transatlantic... Harvard University inaugurated a new research center devoted to international relations in 1958. The Center for International Affairs (CFIA) was f... |
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Rise and Progress of Universities
ISBN: 9781408603673 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains the third volume of John Henry Newman s 1891 treatise on the rise and progress of universities in ancient civilisations. This fascinating book contains a wealth of historical information concerning the development and importance of numerous prodigious universities from various parts of the world, and is highly recommended for those with an interest in the topic. Contents include: What is a University, Site of a University, University Life: Athens, Free Trade in Knowledge: The Sophists, Discipline and Influence, Athenian Schools: Influence, Macedonian and Roman Schools:...
This book contains the third volume of John Henry Newman s 1891 treatise on the rise and progress of universities in ancient civilisations. This fasci...
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145,10 |
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Ebony Towers in Higher Education: The Evolution, Mission, and Presidency of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
ISBN: 9781579222741 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the purpose of black colleges? Why do black colleges continue to exist? Are black colleges necessary?
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are at the same time the least studied and the least understood institutions of higher education and the most maligned and the most endangered. This unique study examines the mission of four-year HBCUs from the perspective of the campus president, as a foundation for understanding the relevance and role of these institutions. This is the first research to focus on the role of presidents of black... What is the purpose of black colleges? Why do black colleges continue to exist? Are black colleges necessary?
Historically Black colleges a... |
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Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education
ISBN: 9780415965033 / Angielski / Twarda / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This forty-two chapter Handbook will be a major contribution to the literature of education. It will be a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary, research-based, and practice-based resource that all educators can turn to as a guide to data-based decision making. This forty-two chapter Handbook will be a major contribution to the literature of education. It will be a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary, resear... |
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1268,22 |
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Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education
ISBN: 9780415965040 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education has fought long and hard to gain acceptance as a profession and, since professionals by definition use data to shape the decisions they make, education has little choice but to continue moving in this direction. This 3-part handbook represents a major contribution to the literature of education. It is a unique compendium of the most original work currently available on how, when and why evidence should be used to ground practice. It is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary, research-based, and practice-based resource that all educators can turn to as a guide to data-based decision... Education has fought long and hard to gain acceptance as a profession and, since professionals by definition use data to shape the decisions they m... |
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Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform
ISBN: 9780739128107 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book offers a comparative historical investigation of education reform policies in these two war ravaged and ideologically compromised countries. While in Japan large-scale reforms were undertaken swiftly after the end of the war, the U.S. zone in Germany maintained most of the traditional aspects of the German education system. Why did Japan so readily accept ideas and values developed in the allied countries while Germany resisted? Masako Shibata...
Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book off...
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Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition
ISBN: 9780713002126 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries, the idea of collegiality has been integral to the British understanding of higher education. This book examines how its values are being restructured in response to the 21st-century pressures of massification and managerialism.
For centuries, the idea of collegiality has been integral to the British understanding of higher education. This book examines how its values are bein...
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731,67 |
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Education Policy Unravelled
ISBN: 9781474270052 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised edition charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking a historical perspective broadly from the 19th century and towards the emerging position of the current Conservative government in the UK. This new edition now includes:
- the developments in education policy which took place under the Coalition government administration between 2010-2015; - a brand new chapter on policy developments in early... Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised...
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667,49 |
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Education Policy Unravelled
ISBN: 9781474270069 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised edition charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking a historical perspective broadly from the 19th century and towards the emerging position of the current Conservative government in the UK. This new edition now includes: - the developments in education policy which took place under the Coalition government administration between 2010-2015; Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revi... |
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146,29 |
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Golden Days: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women
ISBN: 9781604730975 / Angielski / Twarda / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Golden Days includes twenty oral histories of women who graduated from Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for Women) at least fifty years ago. From Mary Ellen Weathersby Pope's (1926) description of a teaching career beginning just before the 1927 Delta flood to Juanita McCown Hight's (1934) account of campus conversations with violinist Jascha Heifetz and writer/adventurer Richard Halliburton, these stories illustrate the profound influence of the nation's first public college for women on the lives of the storytellers. Vivid reminiscences about life on... Golden Days includes twenty oral histories of women who graduated from Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for W... |
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141,40 |
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Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition
ISBN: 9780713040333 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries, the idea of collegiality has been integral to the British understanding of higher education. This book examines how its values are being restructured in response to the 21st-century pressures of massification and managerialism.
For centuries, the idea of collegiality has been integral to the British understanding of higher education. This book examines how its values are bein...
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341,40 |
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Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732702 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi by David G. Sansing The troubled history of higher education in Mississippi is a mirror image of the cultural and political dynamics that have shaped the state's history over the last two centuries. The interaction between race and place, the juxtaposition of wealth and poverty, illiteracy and literary genius, the conflict and change and continuity that mark the contours of its history, have influenced the development of higher education in Mississippi. In this study of the origin and evolution of the state's...
Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi by David G. Sansing The troubled history of higher education in Mississip...
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136,53 |
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The Idea of a University
ISBN: 9780268011505 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Idea of a University is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all Newman's] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . O]nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an 'epoch' in the life of a college man; why Walter Pater thought it 'the perfect handling of a theory'; why the historian G. M. Young has ranked it with...
"The Idea of a University is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all Newman's] books and certainly the...
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136,53 |