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This book highlights the significance and consequences of globalization in the sociopolitical and religious experience with African worldviews, both nationally and throughout its diaspora. Through a multi- and interdisciplinary discourse, the diversity of opinions captures the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on African globalization.

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This book presents an overview of the context and work conditions of contingent faculty in higher education. It addresses questions related to the ways in which faculty theorize about contingent academic labor, and under what conditions they are able to unite, organize, and constitute an opposition to management.

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A major task for social theory in the 1990s is to explain the relationship between individuals and social structures. This text makes two simple suggestions for forging micro/macro social processes, arguing that while they are related, their relationship is contingent and unpredictable.

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New qualifications for those teaching and training in the FE sector became effective in September 2007. This book aims to introduce the notion that there is an opportunity for every teacher to develop their role through their workloads, for example, workloads are a vehicle for professional development.

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Suitable for teachers in the lifelong learning sector, this book introduces the idea that every teacher can develop their role through their workloads. It offers guidelines for promoting constructive practice, which is using the outcomes of reflection in the workplace to achieve role development.

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Leading scholars and practitioners of politics, political science, anthropology, Israel studies, and Middle East affairs examine aspects of continuity and change in political culture in tribute to Professor Myron J. Aronoff whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology.

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Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in Americ...

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Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in Americ...

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This book sheds new light on the role of moderates in the French Revolution and illuminates the changing political currents of the Revolution from Boissy's moderate perspective.

A political moderate during a period of extremes, Boissy served for so long because he was committed to ideals, rather than to groups.

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A reference guide to geography education. Entries, arranged alphabetically, cover: government legislation and reports; famous geography educators; resources; research findings; movements, trends, debates and issues; organizations; and key concepts.

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In Contours of Culture the authors address practical and theoretical problems of using ethnographic methods in the study of culture, drawing on their field research with an opera company, Welsh artists, and classes on a popular Brazilian martial art.

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This book brings together many aspects of concepts and theories of leadership. It is an amalgam of ideas from the social sciences and the humanities woven together in the idea of leadership as an accoutrement, that is, a deliberate woven garment comprising science, art, experience, and craft knowledge.

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Using the concept of 'incomplete contracts' - agreements that are intentionally ambiguous and subject to renegotiation, this title explains how states divide and transfer their sovereign territory and functions, and demonstrates why some of these arrangements offer stable and lasting solutions while others ultimately collapse.

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This allows the authors to examine the topic through a unique cross-cultural lens and provide a fresh take on this expanding topic.

Sources such as survey data, in-depth case studies, and analysis of advocacy coalitions are used to shed new light on contract governance.

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Through a historical studyof two very different pairs of European countries, Glenn illuminatesthe debate surroundingeducational freedom and a State-controlled model.

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Profiles two countries which give most support to parental choice (The Netherlands and Belgium) and two others which maintain a strong State role in controlling education (Germany and Austria). This title is suitable for policy specialists concerned with models of school autonomy versus government control.

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An overview of smoker characteristics and interventions are represented and some of the methodological flaws are offered to alert future researchers.

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Knowing how to end war and to prevent the escalation of conflict is of paramount importance today when weapons of mass destruction have spread beyond the control of major powers and democratically accountable governments, and when regional and global stability have become more precarious.

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