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Education is becoming more competitive - choice in education is now a key issue. This book will help parents, schools, colleges, universities and policy makers understand how education and training markets work. Choosing Futures offers a wide ranging perspective on how young people, and their parents, make choices as they travel through a lifetime of education and training. The authors challenge traditional views of how choices are made of pri...

Published in cooperation with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology and AECT, this volume of EMTY provides essential and timely information to help educational technologists, librarians, and media specialists practice their profession in a dynamnic and changing field. Focusing on topics of technology integration, respected authorities have contributed essays that address technological trends in education and training. There are ...

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Based on previously unpublished archival records, this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the development of Hong Kong as one of the worlds premier international financial centres.

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who thinks there are big questions lurking out there, but does not know how to approach them. Written by the author of the bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important.

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One of the mistresses of classic crime Patricia Wentworth returns with the first Miss Silver mystery in stunning new packaging.

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Recent years have seen rapid growth in the numbers of children being taught foreign languages at younger ages. While course books aimed at young learners are appearing on the market, there is scant theoretical reference in the teacher education literature. Teaching Languages to Young Learners is one of the few to develop readers' understanding of what happens in classrooms where children are being taught a foreign language. It will offer teach...

This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value ...

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Mit einem Klavierstück in Es-Dur, das den Titel "Lied" trägt, überraschte Felix Mendelssohn am 14. November 1828 seine Schwester Fanny zum Geburtstag. Wenig später bezeichnete diese das Werk als "Lied ohne Worte". Damit fällt zum ersten Mal jener Begriff, unter dem ca. 50 lyrische Klavierstücke Mendelssohns populär geworden sind. Sechs Hefte ließ der Komponist zu Lebzeiten drucken, zwei weitere Sammlungen wurden posthum zusammengestellt und ve...

Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, or management gurus, have promoted a number of performance improvement programs or management fashions that have greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organizational life and the preoccupations of academic researchers. This book provides a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashion phenomenon with a view to building on the important theoretical progress that has rec...

The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. 'As Time Goes By' puts this revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.

This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as: * decoding the sign* the politics of performance* the politics of gender and sexual identity* performing ethnicity* the performing body* the space of performance* audience and spectatorship* the bo...

Rather than just offer background readings or a survey of views on a subject, as traditional anthologies do, this volume tries to engage the reader's active participation in understanding how philosophy came to be split between analytic and continental approaches and in finding ways to reconcile the two. It does so by tracing the history of philosophy as a perennial contest between two opposing worldviews: one that relates change to an underly...

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The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.

This important collection of essays assesses the harvest of the post-colonial project. It spans an impressive range, from stimulating sceptical analysis by distinguished novelists Nayantara Sahgal and Dan Jacobson on the forces that underlie much post-colonial literature and Yasmine Gooneratne on issues of gender, to original essays by eminent critics. The scholarly essays examine crucial general topics: Ken Goodwin on writing as a reflection ...