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Standards-Based Leadership is written specifically for superintendents and is framed within the most recent national standards: Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015. The cases provide an opportunity for superintendents, as well as those in training, to criticall...

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The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the latest in more than two decades of federal efforts to raise educational standards and an even longer stream of initiatives to improve education for poor children.

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History will remember Roy Wilkins (1901--1981) as one of the great leaders of the twentieth century for his contributions to the advancement of civil rights in America. For nearly half a century--first

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A centuries-spanning story of dispossession and resistance culminating in the events of Standing Rock.

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Provides lessons from the past to inform the future: from Afghanistan to Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons; from international alliances and interests the US needs to consider in a changing world to specific ideas for jumpstarting technological innovation that could boost American security and our economy today.

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This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day.

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This book traces the changing representation of female characters in the Star Wars franchise through the lens of the four feminist waves, arguing that while the original trilogy reflects the second wave of feminism, the prequels mirror the girl power era that followed, and the sequels are helping define a new fourth wave of inclusion and diversity.

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This book traces the changing representation of female characters in the Star Wars franchise through the lens of the four feminist waves, arguing that while the original trilogy reflects the second wave of feminism, the prequels mirror the girl power era that followed, and the sequels are helping define a new fourth wave of inclusion and diversity.

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This book tells the story of a filmmaker and a fandom that, while wildly popular and financially successful, never really received the kind of recognition reserved for films often described as small, gritty, and personal.

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A journey through time and space with Australia's best known astronomer, Fred Watson

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In 1973, the author was a 19 year old hippy art student when he was interviewed for the job of Relief Lighthouse Keeper by The Commissioners of the Northern Lights in Edinburgh. For the next 12 months he would work on 3 legendary lighthouses off the coast of Scotland. In this book, he provides details about the history and legend of this vocation.

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The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system.

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Recent years have seen the rise of EU State aid law as a crucial component of the European economic constitution. To date, however, the literature has neglected the contribution of this area of EU law to the internal market. This book seeks to fill this gap in our understanding of the economic constitution.

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He describes the current and emerging agenda of state and local governments and of the growing number of private profit and not-for-profit organizations that are assuming ever-widening responsibility for leadership and performance in state and local affairs.

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Draws on the authors practical experience and her research to provide a broad perspective on the challenge of state and local pensions. Alicia H. Munnell shows that the story is big and complicated and cannot be viewed through a narrow prism such as accounting methods or the role of unions.

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Provides an overview of state and local taxation, the current and future outlook across the nation, the role of taxes in economic development, and tax administration.

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Does the objective of state building require significant modifications in the essence and form of democracy

This collection combines theoretical explorations with empirical case studies.

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This book analyzes state capitalism in Brazilian agri-food under neoliberalism and investigates the actions of the Workers Party administrations attempts to counter the negative consequences of neoliberalism and globalization.

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If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. This book systematically examines the reasons why some states die while others survive, and the remarkable decline of state death since the end of World War II.

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Since September 11, the threat of terror gives the failed state problem an immediacy and an importance that transcends its previous humanitarian dimension. With the new implications of state failure for peace and security, preventing nation states from failing, and reviving those that do fail, has become a strategic, as well as moral, imperative.