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A. S. Neill was probably the most famous school teacher of the twentieth century. His school, Summerhill, founded in 1921, attracted admiration and criticism from around the world, and became an emblem of radical school reform and child-centred education. Neill claimed that he was a practical man, but this book reveals that Summerhill expresses a comprehensive and distinctive set of ideas. Whether he wanted to be or not, Neill was an important...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, enlightenment philosopher and founder of 'natural education', is one of the most influential philosophers of education in the western world. In order to fully understand Rousseau's impact as a true educational thinker, Jurgen Oelkers argues that we must take into account his paradoxical style, unique intellectual biography and his turbulent and unconventional way of life. Combining historical analysis and contemporary et...

In this book, leading practitioners, researchers, software architects, developers, and scientists offer insight on the parallel I/O ecosystem. The book explains how large-scale HPC facilities scope, configure, and operate systems. It covers the file system layer, middleware, user-facing libraries, real-world scientific applications that use the parallel I/O infrastructure, and profiling and benchmarking tools used by practitioners. The book al...

Dewey is known for education theories to promote democracy, but what is democracy for? His philosophy advanced democracy as education itself, reaching higher levels of social intelligence. Praising community or promoting rights doesn't get to the heart of Dewey's vision, which seeks everyone's good in a social life that is intelligently lived.

Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected. To explore how female singers negotiate issues of gender, race, and nation through their performances, Poey engages with the ways they problematize the idea of the nation and facilitate their musical performances' movement across multiple borders.

As marketing leaders look for ways to evolve from order takers to market makers, Nirell shows managers the more contextual, intuitive and innovative dimensions of marketing. The Mindful Marketer provides marketers with a powerful nexus between data-fueled analytic thinking and creative, immensely human approaches to marketing.

Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.

Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society, they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular movements and to relations between industrial workers and those in power. The metaphor of the scar pinpoints the inherent ambiguity of memory work by signifying both positive and negative experiences, as well as the contemporary challenges of living with these physical and mental marks. In this book, An...

Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries.

Aimed at business students preparing to enter the workforce, Leadership and Mindful Behavior provides readers with guidelines for effective and perceptive leadership. Some of the aspects to be reviewed will be the importance of both soft and hard skills, the concepts of sleepwalking and wakefulness, mental models, respect, change, and compassion.

Technology, global economics, and demographics are colluding to create workspaces that thrive on communities rather than hierarchies. Our industrial paradigm with its roots in the military is swiftly being replaced by a paradigm based on networks that are held together by passion and social connections, and fueled by instantaneous interactions between members of communities.

Aligned with an emerging area of scholarship devoted to identifying and analysing the material physical links of media technologies, cultural production, and environment, this book contributes to the project of greening media studies by raising awareness of media technology¿s concrete environmental effects.

This book explores the legal notion of consent, arguing that when it is applied to situations of human trafficking, migration and sexual exploitation, it presents a series of problems and issues which the current law may be inadequate to address. The book argues that no clear line can be drawn between those who have been smuggled, trafficked, or `consensually trafficked¿ into a situation of exploitation.

This research-based book examines the design, implementation, and working of accounting, accountability, governance, and performance management measures of nonprofit organizations. It presents critical commentaries, contemporary and retrospective views, and useful insights from leading scholars in the field"--

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Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 32. Kapitel: Obiter dictum, Ratio Decidendi, Geschworener, Law of country sports, Restschuldbefreiung, Öffentliches Wegerecht, Inner Temple, Jury, Middle Temple, Kronanwalt, Inns of Court, Solicitor, Gray's Inn, Landlord and tenant law, Common Law, Lincoln's Inn, Law of bailment, Kautionssystem, Barrister, Coram nobis, Amicus Curiae, Indian Evidence Act, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Accord and satisfaction, Adjudica...

This innovative collection investigates the ways in which television programs around the world have highlighted modernization and encouraged nation-building. It is an attempt to catalogue and better understand the contours of this phenomenon, which took place as television developed and expanded in different parts of the world between the 1950s and the 1990s.

Reveals the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. The author begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to be longer and more violent in France than elsewhere in Europe and left a legacy of unresolved tensions between church and state with serious repercussions for each.