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  • Playing Card Divination

    Every Card Tells a Story

    by Stephen Ball ...
    Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expert Delphi

    Robust and fast cross-platform application development

    by Marco Cantù, Paweł Głowacki ...
    Harness the power of the Delphi IDE and programming language, coupled with the FireMonkey library, to develop modern desktop and mobile apps with high speed and natively compiled efficiency from a single source code baseKey FeaturesUnderstand the fundamentals of Delphi for building multi-device applicationsBuild desktop and mobile apps with the help of extensive examples that guide you through ... Read more

    $35.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing Card Divination

    Every Card Tells a Story

    by Stephen Ball ...
    Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis

    Edited by Stephen Ball, Meg Maguire, Ivor Goodson ...
    Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis focuses on Andrew Gamble’s book The Spectre at the Feast and its analysis of the background to, conduct of, and possible consequences and opportunities brought about by, the current global economic crisis. The views expressed represent a range of responses to Gamble’s analysis and examination of the crisis, both in different locations and from different ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16

    New Youth, New Economies in the Global City

    by Stephen Ball, Sheila Macrae, Meg Maguire ...
    This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It looks at their choices, the market behaviour of local education and training providers and those who help and advise these choices. The authors show that recent and current political ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Policy Actors

    Edited by Stephen Ball ...
    Policy analysis has always attended to the role of elite actors, but much less often has the policy activity of ‘street level’ actors been attended to. The ‘implementation’ paradigm has tended to caricature the level of practice in terms of ‘resistors’ or policy failure, and ignored the demanding, creative and complex processes of enacting policy. The move from policy texts to policy in action ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Foucault and Education

    Putting Theory to Work

    Edited by Stephen Ball ...
    Series series Education and Social Theory
    Specially selected by Stephen Ball, this is a collection of the best and most interesting recently published papers that ‘use’ Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational ‘problems’. Arguably the best known social theorist in the western world, Foucault’s work is now widely used by researchers and writers in many fields of social science. These papers not only demonstrate the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Governing by Numbers

    Education, governance, and the tyranny of numbers

    Edited by Stephen Ball ...
    Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test results, and output and performance statistics are now routinely reported and debated in the media. Numbers are a powerful resource for governments as a means to manage and ‘improve’ their populations, and we are increasingly represented, organized and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Michel Foucault and Education Policy Analysis

    Edited by Stephen Ball ...
    The work of Michel Foucault has become a major resource for educational researchers seeking to understand how education makes us what we are. In this book, a group of contributors explore how Foucault’s work is used in a variety of ways to explore the ‘hows’ and ‘whos’ of education policy – its technologies and its subjectivities, its oppressions and its freedoms. The book takes full advantage of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Crisis and Hope

    The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America

    Edited by Gustavo Fischman, Stephen Ball, Silvina Gvirtz ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Food Supply Chain Management

    Edited by Jane Eastham, Liz Sharples, Stephen Ball ...
    The key to the success of a company is their ability to co-ordinate the key supply chain i.e their key suppliers and suppliers of suppliers. 'Food and Drink Supply Chain Management' looks specifically at the supply chain in the food and drink industry to provide readers with an understanding of the areas as it is now and its growing importance, and where it is going in the future. 'Food and Drink ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Defining The Curriculum

    Histories and Ethnographies

    Edited by Ivor F. Goodson, Stephen Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school subjects. The first section of the book outlines the theoretical and methodological basis for the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD