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  • Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy
    Davydd J Greenwood / Morten Levin
    Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the...
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    38,08 €

  • Shadow Work
    Tavius Dyer
    Tavius Dyer looks at the parts of himself he hasn't wanted to look at--those hiding in the shadows--and brings them into the open for re-integration. The poems move from darkness to recovery by creatively exploring a self sometimes reluctant to step into the light. Near-death experiences, incarceration, divorce, and the loss of an only child are motivations to finding the o...
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    8,83 €

  • Almost a Mother
    Christy Wopat
    "After my infant twins died, I couldn’t find anything on the shelves at the bookstore that was actually honest."I found books about grief, sure. Books written by psychologists on the stages of grief and books that assured me that I would find my answers in prayer. This isn’t meant to replace those. Those books are necessary, but in the raw, emotional weeks and months after losi...
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    17,37 €

  • 'All About Equity Spending... With a Love Story'
    Oscar Dean Windham
    'All About Equity Spending... With a Love Story', is the only book in the entire world, at this time, that brings into sharp focus the facts which illustrate that our United States federal deficit is irrelevant. A lot of people think that the deficit is meaningless but they aren’t exactly sure why and how. All those misconceptions fade away after reading this literary contribut...
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    15,46 €

  • Politics and Governance in Indian States
    Harihar Bhattacharyya / Subrata Mitra
    Understanding India's politics and governance requires an examination of how politics and governance occur in the regional States, which constitute the federal units of India.This book addresses the issues of federalism, power-sharing and constitutional reforms, and their effects on governance in Indian States. Located within the growing literature on new State politics in ...
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    175,09 €

  • Tu tipo de personalidad - Presentador (ESFP)
    Jaroslaw Jankowski
    «Tu tipo de personalidad: Presentador (ESFP)» es un extraordinario compendio de conocimiento acerca del presentador, uno de los 16 tipos de personalidad ID16. Esta guía es parte de la serie ID16, formada por 16 libros dedicados a los diferentes tipos de personalidad. De forma exhaustiva y clara responden a las siguientes preguntas: ¿Qué piensan y sienten las personas que pert...
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    9,31 €

  • Tu tipo de personalidad - Protector (ISFJ)
    Jaroslaw Jankowski
    «Tu tipo de personalidad: Protector (ISFJ)» es un extraordinario compendio de conocimiento acerca del protector, uno de los 16 tipos de personalidad ID16. Esta guía es parte de la serie ID16, formada por 16 libros dedicados a los diferentes tipos de personalidad. De forma exhaustiva y clara responden a las siguientes preguntas:  ¿Qué piensan y sienten las personas que pertene...
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    9,94 €

  • China Through American Eyes
    Wenxian Zhang
    Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this collection also contains pictur...
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    165,78 €

  • Self-Talk
    Sally H Hall
    Does life have you on an emotional roller coaster? Up one day and down the next? If so, what are you telling yourself and why? Your thoughts not only control how you feel but also how you behave, which ultimately leads to the overall direction of your life. For example, if your self-talk is negative, you could be experiencing low self-worth, lack a sense of purpose, confusion, ...
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    10,10 €

  • The Origin Comes Alive
    Cale Rainer
    Believers and Atheists alike will get a firsthand look at the Divine Presence as it reveals the intimate behaviors and processes that compose a sense of GOD, and how this arose in social consciousness to inspire a global phenomenon known as Religion.The sense of life is taken to the limits of extreme perspective in this somewhat involved, yet intimate look into our social origi...
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    9,92 €

  • China’s Township System
    Licai Wu
     This book is based on an empirical research on the governance and reform of the contemporary township system in China. It provides an insightful and innovative understanding of China's township system. The book consists of four parts. The first part discusses the historical changes, present situation and practical operation of China's township system. The second part c...
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    205,51 €

  • Engaging Adolescent Students in Contemporary Classrooms
    Prathiba Nagabhushan
    Preparation for university study and integration into the workforce is the academic goal in the final years of secondary education. This preparedness can only be achieved through the motivation and involvement of students in secondary education programs which will lead to successful outcomes. Engaging Adolescent Students in Contemporary Classrooms: Emerging Research and Opportu...
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    177,14 €

  • The Walter Clinton Jackson Essays in the Social Sciences
    Vera Largent
    From varying fields of interest, not always with complete unanimity, twelve members of the faculty of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro make their thoughtful contributions on the subject of democracy as a way of life and comment on its successes or failures in the region, the nation, and the world.Originally published in 1942.A UNC Press Endu...
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    61,07 €

  • Illiteracy in the United States
    Sanford Winston
    This is a statistical study designed to analyze the trend of illiteracy in the United States and its present relation to sex, age, urban and rural environment, race and nationality, and school systems, together with its quantitative effect on the selected factors of birth-rate, infant mortality, early age of marriage, size of family, mobility, suicide, and urbanization.Original...
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    48,32 €

  • The Energy Conundrum
    Neil A C Hirst
    This book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of global energy policy; covering moral, political, social, technical and economic aspects of the subject. While The Energy Conundrum does not offer easy solutions, it provides the facts and evidence gathered from sources in government, industry, academia, and NGOs alike, for readers to understand the issues and make their...
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    105,27 €

  • Why Write? Why Read?
    Michael Rosen
    This booklet gathers together some recent talks and blogs on writing and reading, for use by teachers, librarians, parents, or anyone interested in engaging children and students in reading, writing, analysing why and how we do both. ...
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    5,67 €

  • The Unforgotten Babies
    Marina Young / Peter Young
    Healing starts the moment you feel heard.This is part of my abortion story and journey of healing. Along with my husband, Peter, sharing from a male perspective, which is often not heard.I am not a counsellor, but someone with certain life experiences which has shaped me into the person I am today. I did, however, train in Mental Health and did some community papers, which have...
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    12,25 €

  • Sustainability
    With "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation", first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowldege - including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is th...
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    82,56 €

  • Enhancing Knowledge Discovery and Innovation in the Digital Era
    With the dawn of electronic databases, information technologies, and the Internet, organizations, now more than ever, have easy access to all the knowledge they need to conduct their business. However, utilizing and detecting the beneficial information can pose as a challenge. Enhancing Knowledge Discovery and Innovation in the Digital Era is a vibrant reference source on the l...
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    295,60 €

  • Differentiated Instructional Design for Multicultural Environments
    Diane Stottlemyer
    Modern technology is creating new challenges for teachers to keep up with today’s education and advancing teaching styles. The development of a differentiated curriculum is necessary and needed particularly for a diversified group of students. Differentiated Instructional Design for Multicultural Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research on mo...
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    170,46 €

  • Couples by Intention
    Elliott Kronenfeld LICSW CST
    Wouldn’t it be great if relationships came easy? What if we all just knew intuitively what to do to make our marriages and committed partnerships the absolute best and deepest that they could be?But the reality is that none of us are pros, and even our best relationships can go deeper. We often use love and sex as measurements for how developed our relationships are, but in rea...
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    13,86 €

  • Understanding 'Knowledge', the Essential Approach to Teaching & Learning
    Ching Leen Chiam
     This pioneering text contributes to the theory and practice of teaching and learning. The purpose is to unlock how key stakeholders of the spectrum of pre-universities in Singapore make sense of "knowledge" and "knowledge work", and endeavour to determine how their understanding of "knowledge" shapes their understanding of "knowledge work" and the conditions that affect their ...
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    175,07 €

  • Can’t Trump This 2017
    Ed Martin
    This book is a sword not a shield! It is a handbook of what President Trump has accomplished for you to use on other people. This reference guide includes not only the top Trump Wins of 2017 but also seven of his most definitive speeches of 2017. This is a book that you can hand to others and say “Face these facts” or “Get over your doubts and delusions.”By listing 100 Trump Wi...
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    12,20 €

  • Curriculum Integration in Contemporary Teaching Practice
    Rina Bousalis / Susannah Brown
    Teaching and learning practices that are interconnected and value all subject areas benefit K-12 students by supporting creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Curriculum Integration in Contemporary Teaching Practice: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that presents detailed information on the benefits and implementat...
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    170,53 €

  • Words of Hope in Troubled Times
    José Ramos-Horta
    The Twenty-first Century offers us a chance, a unique chance, to coalesce around common global interests – to reverse the nefarious consequences of climate change, manage clean water reserves that are becoming a rare commodity, save our polluted rivers, lakes, and seas, replenish the depleted fish stock, eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and de-escalate tensions on the Kore...
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    23,52 €

  • Caregiving 101
    Dave Leffmann
    This personal yet clinically relevant guide stands out as a must read for anyone faced with caregiving. These pages, penned from the heart and soul of a physical therapist turned caregiver, offers simple yet well thought through and medically accurate essays, external links, even video, to help you with most everything you will face on your journey. The links are written out so...
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    21,47 €

  • Let’s Talk Sex & STDs
    Dr. Katina Davis-Kennedy / DrKatina Davis-Kennedy
    There comes a time when every person has to learn about sex; typically, students learn within their middle school years about sex education. Unfortunately, by then they have been influenced by others with the wrong information, or have heard rumors that are mostly untrue. Let's Talk Sex and STDs: The Student Edition is here to lay all of the misleading information and stori...
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    25,31 €

  • Being 2.0
    Razique Mahroua / Paloma Vita
    To which degree does said culture define oneself and one’s choices? Can one shed the layers of cultural conditioning past the thickness education creates?Being 2.0 aims to reflect on such questions and offer the reader a transpersonal experience fed by an in-depth work of deconstruction. Being 2.0 is the retelling of the author’s story, son of immigrants who moved from Algeria ...
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    32,76 €

  • Handbook of Research on Program Development and Assessment Methodologies in K-20 Education
    As the educational system continues to evolve, it is essential that educators of today devise innovative and strategic approaches to program development and assessment. The Handbook of Research on Program Development and Assessment Methodologies in K-20 Education is an essential reference source for the latest terminology and concepts related to program development. Featuring e...
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    361,51 €

  • Uncertainties and Risk Assessment in Trade Relations
    Marianne Ojo
    Country’s affairs are greatly impacted by shifts in government; thus, the availability of research on current happenings within governmental policy and relations is imperative to keep citizens informed. Uncertainties and Risk Assessment in Trade Relations presents an innovative examination of the ambiguities of foreign importing and exporting and its impact on governmental aspe...
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    295,43 €