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“raphael wilkins”

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  • An Educational Journey

    by Raphael Wilkins ...
    Education expert Raphael Wilkins, author of Accidental Traveller, recounts his travels around the world as a visiting expert, where he set up and advised on several educational projects, all very different from each other, and all providing challenges in working across languages and cultures. He battles with unenthusiastic school principals in Dammam, a volatile project manager in Mexico and ... Read more

    $12.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting to Know Colombia

    A story of loss and discovery

    by Raphael Wilkins ...
    A story of loss and discovery which is part memoir and part travelogue. In the wake of losing his wife Mary the author accepted an unexpected invitation to travel to Colombia. This became both a journey through the Colombian Andes and also one through the stages of bereavement. How does a person mourn when their leading emotion is relief? After being trapped by circumstances into caring for, in ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Zindabad! Supporting Education Leaders From Accra to Taipei

    by Raphael Wilkins ...
    ZINDABAD! A COLOURFUL TRAVEL MEMOIR SPANNING EIGHT COUNTRIES IN FOUR CONTINENTSThis travel memoir narrates 14 journeys in the capacity of a visiting education expert, spanning eight countries in four continents. The story combines personal and professional concerns; it is told lightly, in a conversational tone, intended to be informative, entertaining and thought-provoking for a broad range of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Education in the Balance

    Mapping the Global Dynamics of School Leadership

    by Raphael Wilkins ...
    Education in the Balance explores the significant choices and opportunities worldwide that are opening up to school leaders of the future for the development of schools and school systems. It argues that the judgments of individuals in leadership positions in a wide range of settings, including ministries of education, schools, private companies and NGOs may, cumulatively, have unintended ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Accidental Traveller

    by Raphael Wilkins ...
    Travel memoir by educationist Raphael Wilkins, frankly and humorously describing his unexpected introduction to work-related international travel. Highlights include sightseeing in Delhi, meeting a Crown Prince in Riyadh, the sunset call to prayer in Jeddah old town, walking on the Great Wall of China, dining in Raffles, a tour of Yemen, and flying on a light plane up-country in South Sudan. As ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Policy Transfer and Educational Change

    by Mayumi Terano, Roger Slee, Chris Husbands, Raphael Wilkins, David Scott ...
    Improving education through policy learning is an important notion for countries in need of educational reform. However, identifying a successful set of practices and transferring them from one national setting to another is a complex exercise. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explore a single case study of policy transfer in India, demonstrating how and under what conditions ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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    Around the World by Bike Part One: From England to South Africa

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    An updated edition including new color photographs and a new afterword looking back at the journeyAlastair Humphreys' around-the-world journey of 46,000 miles was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget, and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans, his ride took four years to complete, on a tiny budget of hoarded student loans. Here is the story of the ... Read more

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  • Living In The Real Cyprus

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    Cyprus ticks all the boxes. Sun. Sea. Cheap food and drink. Friendly, smiling people. How would you like to live there? Is this island heaven too good to be true? Surely there can be no darker side? Is there no lingering resentment from the colonial period and the bitter and vicious guerrilla war which ended it? What happens when Vic and his wife Gay come into contact with the real Cyprus, away ... Read more

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  • Last Call for the Dining Car

    The Daily Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys

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    Ever since Paul Theroux embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing.This is truer than ever in the twenty-first century. As the environmental implications of relentless air travel cast an ominous shadow over the prospect of foreign adventure, the opportunity to jump on a train at St Pancras and be whisked straight ... Read more

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  • Nick Sanders: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

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    In this first volume of his no-holds-barred autobiography, Sanders starts to take us on the journey of his life. Interspersed with tales of the great explorers and authors in whose footsteps he sought to follow, he recounts the story of his boyhood and formative years through to his cycling career and the beginning of his love of motorcycles. He reveals the inspiration for his record-breaking ... Read more

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    Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and one-time glamrock fan Peter Millar uses what is now the country's best visited tourist destination as the embarkation point for a literally reverse ... Read more

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