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Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are 'fast track' in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and experience in the classroom.

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A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world.

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The memoirs of a baby boomer's journey from her forties into her fifties address common fears about growing old.

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This collection argues that issues of sexual diversity are inextricably interwoven into the basic concerns of pre-service teacher education. The essays range from an analysis of gay teacher educators and heterosexual allies who are challenging homophobia and heterosexism in their classrooms.

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Getting Smart About Race offers an accessible introduction on racial inequality. Margaret Andersen discusses why racial healing should be an integral element of our everyday discussions and how to move the conversation in a positive direction. A new prologue discusses the mome...

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This booklet shares with parents everything they need to know to help their child be ready for kindergarten.

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This edition has detailed information on the battle and maps pinpointing key moments in this campaign. The Gettysburg campaign was General Lee's last great gamble. By taking the war to the North he hoped to force Lincoln into peace or win support from European powers watching events closely.

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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, 1964.

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Winner examines the latest scientific evidence about the biological basis of giftedness as well as the role played by parents and schools in fostering exceptional abilities. In this fascinating book, she uncovers and explores nine myths about giftedness, and shows us what gifted children are really like.

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Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade and a half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. What mobilizes giving and volunteering What can policymakers and nonprofit managers do to change ...

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The literature on the post-1950 arms trade is exhaustive.

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Brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. This book contains an analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions, along with a historical dimension through discussions of the alternation of liberalization and repression in authoritarian European states.

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Noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nations highest court, The US Supreme Court. She shows that what the justices do and say about alcohol provides important lessons about their times, our times, and our constitutional cocktail of limited government power and individual rights.

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This edition of The Times War has been revised and updated to include biographies of the war journalists and photographers in the book as well as chronologies of all the major wars.

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This book shows how the current international interest in corruption follows the fifty years of the Cold War in which corruption was regarded in international policy-making circles as off the table.

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An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and states in the United States.

Which are the happiest countries in the world and which nations are the least contented