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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

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    The Hans Christian Andersen Treasury: Bedtime Fairytales

    by H.C. Andersen ...
    Narrated by Joan Collins, Roger Moore, Joanna Lumley, David Walliams, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Ball, Michael Caine, Stephen Fry, Emma Samms, Paul McKenna, Ewan McGregor ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 21 min

    The most beloved fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen, narrated by the very best of British stage and screen talent. Perfect for bedtime, the long car journey or rainy afternoons at home, let Andersen delight and enchant children (and adults) of all ages with characters that stand the test of time.The Princess and the Pea and the Steadfast Tin Soldier by Sir Roger MooreThe Little ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences

    Pelle the Conqueror, Little Aliens, The Italians, The Able McLaughlins, Mr. Dooley Says, etc.

    by Martin Andersen Nexø, Myra Kelly, Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, Margaret Wilson, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Finley Peter Dunne, Broughton Brandenburg, Mary Antin, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Peter A. Speek, George Fraser Black, Sui Sin Far, United States. Office of Education, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, John Robertson Henry, Council of Women for Home Missions, Home Missions Council, Eva Stern, Anzia Yezierska, Eustace Hale Ball, Stephen Graham, Emily P. Weaver, Thomas Ostenson Stine, J. P. MacLean, George T. Flom, Clara M. S. Lowe, Patrick Matthew, Scots New Zealand Land Company, F. S. Brereton, James Seton Cockburn, George A. Birmingham ...
    Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences offers a profound exploration of the immigrant narrative through an array of literary styles, from poignant autobiographies to insightful essays and fiction. This anthology embraces the complexity of the immigrant experience by collating stories that discuss the nuances of cultural identity, displacement, and assimilation. The works ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reforming Education and Changing Schools

    Case studies in policy sociology

    by Richard Bowe, Stephen J. Ball, Anne Gold ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 1992, was the first to look at the effects of the Act in all its aspects on the basis of empirical evidence gathered from schools over the first three years of the Act's implementation. It looks at how ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 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

  • Class Strategies and the Education Market

    The Middle Classes and Social Advantage

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Politics and Policy Making in Education

    Explorations in Sociology

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities of the politicians, civil servants and government advisers who were influential in making changes. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Against School

    Thinking Education Differently

    by Stephen J. Ball, Jordi Collet-Sabé ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult and dangerous world we live in. That invitation means testing our limits, questioning and changing ourselves and thinking the practice of education ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Education Policy and Social Class

    The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen key essays divided into three sections:perspectives on policy researchpolicy technologies and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Education Debate

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book looks at the role of the UK as a social laboratory for global education policy. Covering key concepts, it then examines new areas, including:• Global education policy mobility• Edu-business and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Global Education Inc.

    New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision ofbest practice based on the methods and tenets of theneo-liberal imaginary. Philanthro ... Read more

    $66.99 USD