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This book examines legal responses to euthanasia and whether legal reform is an appropriate response to calls for it to be more readily available.

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This timely work is a balanced overview of end-of-life issues related to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Except for the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, there are no U.S. laws that allow physicians to assist patients in hastening death.

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This book provides comprehensive direction that you need to prepare for your student teacher's arrival and the initial weeks. It includes essential information in an easy-reading, handy format. With key advice from experienced teacher educators sprinkled with gems of research, ...

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This book examines how well the American political systems performs by using multiple criteria, including the level of trust the public has towards the institutions of government, the abilities of the institutions to make good public policy, the extent to which policy is responsive to public opinion, and the extent to which public policy is fair.

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This book examines how well the American political systems performs by using multiple criteria, including the level of trust the public has towards the institutions of government, the abilities of the institutions to make good public policy, the extent to which policy is responsive to public opinion, and the extent to which public policy is fair.

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By combining recent research in how performance is actually improved in corporate organizations with best practices at existing colleges and universities, this book provides a practical system that institutions can adapt for evaluating their governing boards and administrators.

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Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.

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Compared with other developed nations, the United States is unique in its high rates of both gun ownership and murder. Although widespread gun ownership does not have much effect on the overall crime rate, gun use does make criminal violence more lethal and has a unique capacity to terrorize the public.

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Engaging and informative, Evaluating Media Bias provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias. Schiffer explores the contours of the partisan-bias controversy before pivoting to real biases: the p...

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Engaging and informative, Evaluating Media Bias provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias. Schiffer explores the contours of the partisan-bias controversy before pivoting to real biases: the p...

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Chapters provide: an overview of existing literature, model description, research procedures, model application to a specific police executive development program, reaction by North Carolina police chiefs, and a description of how the model can be applied to any police management development program.

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This book outlines the rationale for a regular, systematic, comprehensive evaluation of school district superintendents.

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Social movement impacts are studied through the comparative analysis of British, American, Japanese, and Turkish labor movements, with a special focus on the latter.

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This book seeks to identify key policy and practice recommendations that create a resourceful toolbox for school boards and superintendents to consider when developing methodologies for the evaluation of the superintendent of schools.

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Timely, authoritative and practical material for effective faculty evaluation and professional development within the two-year college systems.

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This tackles the fallacies of marking and grading students work and provides teachers with specific examples of how they might provide evaluative feedback to students that enables and promotes their subsequent growth on learning tasks.

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In one of his commencement talks as President of Princeton University, William G. Bowen called upon the assembled graduates to find ways, in their lives, to blend "the powers of the mind and the promptings of the heart." This collection of his presidential writings--drawn from annual reports, opening exercises addresses, commencement remarks, and

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