Traces the life of Soong Ching-ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen, briefly describes the history of modern China, and depicts her role in its development

Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling (Lives of Modern Women)

Biographies & Memoirs

CHANG, JUNG

Halliday, John

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

This text offers support to those who believe that no amount of administrative development, curricular development, management reorganizations, quality audits or any related endeavour is as important to education as the promotion and maintenance of good teaching. The idea that good teaching can somehow be ensured by attempting to standardize practice is rejected; instead, the author argues that good teaching consists of a set of diverse practices that are sustained by professional discourse and that are subject to democratic accountability.

Back to Good Teaching: Diversity Within Tradition (Cassell Education)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Macy grew up unwanted, unloved, and alone. By his teens he had quit school and begun stealing. In and out of juvie, Macy is a shoplifter, a car thief, and, by age eighteen, a murderer. Danny grew up physically disabled, raised by his grandmother, and a loner. Now sixteen, he finds solace in taking photographs, particularly of monarch butterflies, and thinking about Leah, the most beautiful girl in town. It is Leah who unwittingly causes these two very different boys, who share some startling similarities, to meet in a first and final terrifying encounter. The outcome of this hard-hitting and spellbinding novel from an exciting new author will rivet readers and leave them thinking about nature, nurture, justice, and the remarkable power of human kindness.

Shooting Monarchs

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Margaret K. McElderry

Unable to rely on the predictions of his mystic board, Josh Jolly enters into the sixth grade unprepared and is partnered with snobby Kate Haskell, eccentric Rainy Day, and gigantic genius Bill Dumper for a class project--an unlikely alliance that leads to friendship, which unexpectedly affects their town.

PredicKtions

Children's Books

Practical Goat-Keeping

Sports & Outdoors

David&Charles

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals.

Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits

Business & Money

Peltz, Eric

Frelinger, David R.

Sollinger, Jerry M.

McNerney, Michael J.

Eaton, Derek

Greenfield, Victoria A.

Lostumbo, Michael J.

Mills, Patrick

Nardulli, Bruce R.

Worman, Stephen M.

Management & Leadership

RAND Corporation

The Rustic Bard Or A Voice From The People: Being Miscellaneous Poems And Songs (1847)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Originally published in 1990. This book is concerned with the logic of the relationship between educational theory and practice. It is a fundamental examination of three ideas: Vocationalism - the idea that the central purpose of education is to prepare people for work. Managerialism - the idea that this preparation can be managed by those not intimately concerned with the practice of teaching. Consumerism - the idea that education should be led by the demands of the ‘market’. Halliday argues that promoters of these ideas share a mistaken belief in the value of pursuing a supposed ideal of objective precision in education. He traces the theoretical origins of this ideal and its practical consequences. In particular, he argues that educational development is likely to remain ossified within a particular theoretical framework, unless competing developments are allowed to flourish alongside one another. He concludes by outlining the ways in which this competition might be managed.

Markets, Managers and Theory in Education (Routledge Library Editions: Education Management) (Volume 11)

Routledge

Originally published in 1990. This book is concerned with the logic of the relationship between educational theory and practice. It is a fundamental examination of three ideas: Vocationalism - the idea that the central purpose of education is to prepare people for work. Managerialism - the idea that this preparation can be managed by those not intimately concerned with the practice of teaching. Consumerism - the idea that education should be led by the demands of the 'market'. Halliday argues that promoters of these ideas share a mistaken belief in the value of pursuing a supposed ideal of objective precision in education. He traces the theoretical origins of this ideal and its practical consequences. In particular, he argues that educational development is likely to remain ossified within a particular theoretical framework, unless competing developments are allowed to flourish alongside one another. He concludes by outlining the ways in which this competition might be managed.

Markets, Managers and Theory in Education (Routledge Library Editions: Education Management)

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