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This book is one of very few which, address in detail and in-depth, how preservice teachers build important mathematical ideas. A detailed case study of important mathematical learning by five preservice elementary school teachers, who construct powerful mathematical ideas by working through a major influential construction personally.

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This book is one of very few which, address in detail and in-depth, how preservice teachers build important mathematical ideas. A detailed case study of important mathematical learning by five preservice elementary school teachers, who construct powerful mathematical ideas by working through a major influential construction personally.

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Offers analysis into political, economic and business mistakes and solutions within fragile states. This title argues that to avoid revisiting the carnage and catastrophes seen in places like Iraq, Bosnia, and the Congo, the West needs to rethink its ideas on fragile states and start helping their peoples build governments that fit the landscape.

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There is no core foundation for critical instruction. Such instruction leads students to think, read, and write critically in the context of gaining comprehension of new and revisited subject matter. Although long sought, critical instruction remains an unrealized professional...

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There is no core foundation for critical instruction. Such instruction leads students to think, read, and write critically in the context of gaining comprehension of new and revisited subject matter. Although long sought, critical instruction remains an unrealized professional...

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Despite past management problems, the author argues that America's intelligence system is reasonably well prepared to deal with the many threats to national security. He offers a range of ideas for making the system work better and for attracting new kinds of intelligence professionals.

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Despite past management problems, the author argues that America's intelligence system is reasonably well prepared to deal with the many threats to national security. He offers a range of ideas for making the system work better and for attracting new kinds of intelligence professionals.

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Populism is a genuine 'third way' in politics, a middle path between the extremes of corporate anarchy and collective authoritarianism. Fixing the System is a trenchant and timely study of Populism.

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Populism is a genuine 'third way' in politics, a middle path between the extremes of corporate anarchy and collective authoritarianism. Fixing the System is a trenchant and timely study of Populism.

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Author Bruce S. Cooper looks at truancy as an indication that curricula and pedagogy are not serving students needs, especially for ethnic minorities and English language learners. This book explores different types of truancy, major research in the field, and how teachers, school leaders, and students can work together to solve this problem.

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Author Bruce S. Cooper looks at truancy as an indication that curricula and pedagogy are not serving students needs, especially for ethnic minorities and English language learners. This book explores different types of truancy, major research in the field, and how teachers, school leaders, and students can work together to solve this problem.

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Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one.

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Flannery OConnors fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which OConnor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why OConnor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.

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Flannery OConnors fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which OConnor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why OConnor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.

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This book offers an examination of the Roaring Twenties in the United States, focusing on the vibrant icon of the newly liberated woman-the flapper-that came to embody the Jazz Age.

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This book examines the crime of mass murder, and the complex motivations of the mass murderer, presenting a new method of categorizing and analyzing the crime and its perpetrator. The evolving nature of the crime is examined in the context of actual case histories of mass murder in America.

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This authoritative volume analyzes the state of Russia's power transfer crises throughout time, taking aim at Russia's unpredictable leadership changes and the consequent crises that result from the absence of a mechanism for legitimate succession. Leading scholars analyze thi...

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In the heyday of Studio 54, a nave, gay, college student is seduced by a demonic Svengali into smuggling a hash-lined suitcase from India, but detours to a mystical ashram and explores new worlds. The untested disciple must then find his way back to New York for the biggest score of all - saving his own soul.

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In the heyday of Studio 54, a nave, gay, college student is seduced by a demonic Svengali into smuggling a hash-lined suitcase from India, but detours to a mystical ashram and explores new worlds. The untested disciple must then find his way back to New York for the biggest score of all - saving his own soul.

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Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration. This book looks at why flexibility has become such an important feature of the EU, examining its history and putting forward a typology to explain the models by which it is understood.