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Proposes an ethical framework for educators and school leaders who find their practice constrained by the demands of policies and structures created in response to accountability legislation.

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Examines the aesthetic event of education. This title takes a broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances. It focuses on several questions: What are the possibilities and limitations of building analogies between teachers and artists, education and specific aesthetic forms And, more.

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Uses studies for the empirical audience reception data, together with discussions of the different representations of violence to look at violence in the media as an art form in of itself. By looking at "The Simpsons", "Bowling for Columbine" and Norma Khouri's "Forbidden Love", just to name a few, it cross-analyzes violence in multiple media.

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Renowned scholars examine the core precepts that guided the American Founding, looking at the Founders' intellectual groundings from philosophy of law to architecture.

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Examines the deep roots of the American model of schooling to highlight the problems that stem from the clash of government and education.

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Examines the deep roots of the American model of schooling to highlight the problems that stem from the clash of government and education.

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Analyzes the rhetorical construction of the Iranian nuclear threat during the Bush presidency, and US/Iran relations more generally. This book offers a consideration of the rhetoric surrounding Iran's controversial nuclear programme. It points out the conditions that lent credibility to the Bush administration's position.

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Analyzes the rhetorical construction of the Iranian nuclear threat during the Bush presidency, and US/Iran relations more generally. This book offers an in-depth consideration of the rhetoric surrounding Iran's controversial nuclear programme. It points out the conditions that lent credibility to the Bush administration's position.

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This study of a Markan genre, represented in Mark 8.27-10.4, covers Greek, rabbinic and early Christian literature, with comparison to the anecdotes in Lucian's "Demonax" and the "Mishnah". It concludes that the Markan anecdotes follow the definition of, and typologies for, the Greek chreia.

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Includes the studies that examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. This book discusses examples including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. It also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone.

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The studies included in the book examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world.

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Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society. Their spirituality has been appropriated on a relatively large scale by Europeans and non-Native Americans. This title analyses Native American objections to appropriations of their spirituality.

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A guide that explains what the term Arab-Israeli Conflict refers to, providing a description of the situation, its origins, as well as the people involved and their motivations. It examines key questions such as the importance of Jerusalem, borders and the West Bank, settlements, terrorism, Palestinian and more.

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The Arctic region has undiscovered oil and natural gas reserves that would be profitable for any country that managed to secure control over them. Gold, platinum, copper and other precious metals have also been found along the coast. This book presents a study of the impact Arctic reserves have on the global political and environmental stages.

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This book examines the post Cold War security environment and how the U.S. has learned to wage war in this complex assymetrical world of conflict.

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This reference work focuses on contemporary anarchism and covers a broad range of themes using a multidisciplinary approach.

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The definitive guide to historical linguistics, covering all the most important issues in the field. >

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Suitable for advanced students and academics in phonology, this title covers the important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. It presents a survey of the research and also offers practical guidance on advanced study and research in the area.

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Analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. This title examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasy - by enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen.

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Analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. This title examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasy - by enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen.

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A celebration of the 350th anniversary of the publication of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, underlining its current and continuing relevance.

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