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  • Educational Policy and the Politics of Change

    Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation.This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding ... Read more

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  • Understanding Schooling

    An Introductory Sociology of Australian Education

    This analysis of Australian schooling relates international sociological research to the actual experiences of teachers in the classroom, and sets those experiences in the wider context of the Australian school system and of the socioeconomic conditions which shape children before they even enter school. From this basis of understanding, it shows how theory can be used to help teachers to reflect ... Read more

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  • Home for Christmas

    Stories for Young and Old

    "If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one." —Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud HandbookThey are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a story. Now, with this collection, you can keep the story-telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Home for Christmas

    Stories for Young and Old

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Twenty tales for the holiday season selected for their spiritual value and literary quality.For readers who are tired of Christmas commercialism, or who feel that Santa Claus and reindeer don’t tell the whole story, these classic gems provide a winning alternative. Selected for their insightfulness, spiritual value, and literary quality (nothing moralistic here) they project the spirit of the ... Read more

    $22.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ma(r)king the Text

    The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 2000, this volume is a unique collection of essays which draws our attention to the importance of those textual elements traditionally ignored in literary criticism. These include punctuation, footnotes, epigraphs, typography, cover design, white space and marginalia; features which significantly affect the meaning of a literary text.The first section of the book opens with a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Public Enemies

    Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

    The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Mark Twain

    Young Writer

    Illustrated by Henry S. Gillette ...
    Series series Childhood of Famous Americans
    Samuel Langhorne Clemens is perhaps best known by his pen name Mark Twain. He was a writer of such classic American novels as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, served as an apprentice printer, and wrote newspaper articles. Later he was a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to work as a miner. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Prison Blossoms

    Anarchist Voices from the American Past

    Series Book 120 - The John Harvard Library
    In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engagement via primitive means and sympathetic ... Read more

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  • Angle of Investigation

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    LAPD Detective Harry Bosch tackles three tough cases that span a legendary career in this never-before-collected trio of stories.In "Christmas Even," the case of a burglar killed in mid-heist leads Bosch to retrace a link to his past. In "Father's Day," Bosch investigates a young boy's seemingly accidental death and confronts his own fears as a father. In "Angle of Investigation," Bosch delves ... Read more

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  • The Burning Room

    Series Book 17 - A Harry Bosch Novel
    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot ... very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are ... Read more

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  • The Crossing

    Series Book 18 - A Harry Bosch Novel
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