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Victoria's Multilingual Dictionary - Volume 1

By: Erik Zidowecki

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Victoria's Multilingual Dictionary - Volume 1

By: Erik Zidowecki

Basic Words in 14 Languages This dictionary is formatted to give you words in 14 languages for easy searching and cross-referencing. Over 800 basic words like ""airplane"", ""money"", and ""zoo"" from categories including animals, bank, hotel, number, colours, and vegetables translated from English into Albanian, Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Slovene, and Swahili. Victoria's Multilingual Dictionary is a great tool for when you want to see what one word means across other languages, giving you an idea of how similar and different one language is to another. It is a great gift for etymology lovers as well as translators or word lovers.

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Lulu.com

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035919866X

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9780359198665

Performance Management at Universities

The Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator at Work

By: Poul Erik Mouritzen,Niels Opstrup

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Performance Management at Universities

The Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator at Work

By: Poul Erik Mouritzen,Niels Opstrup

Mouritzen and Opstrup's book is a most welcome addition to the subject of the management of academic performance. It is certainly well-worth reading and considering."—Bruno S. Frey, Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel and Research Director CREMA - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Switzerland "Performance Management at Universities could not possibly be more timely. With universities and university faculty throughout the world being pressed to give more evidence and more precise indicators about their productivity, this thoughtful contribution provides a much needed and unusually thoughtful analysis of the possibilities and pitfalls found in current approaches to university performance evaluation. Given policy-makers’ and politicians’ calls for evidence-based management and evaluation, let us hope that policy-makers heed their own rhetoric and act on the evidence provided here. The authors show that performance measures, while sometimes beneficial, are subject to gaming and manipulation and that more precision does not necessarily equate with better performance, but rather altered performance. This superb book should be read by anyone interested higher education evaluation as well as by those who are subjected to it."—Barry Bozeman, Regents' Professor, Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, USA "In Performance Management at Universities, Mouritzen and Opstrup definitively answer the question: What are the effects of national university performance-based funding schemes that use bibliometric indicators? As these schemes have proliferated, the question has become urgent. The authors marshal comprehensive data on the Danish university system to sift through the many predictions commonly made by academics newly subject to these systems to identify what actually happened to Danish research as the system took hold." —Diana Hicks, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and first author on the Leiden Manifesto on research metrics This book gives an account of what can happen when performance management is introduced at universities. How do scholars – for better or worse – respond to a system which counts the number of articles and books? Many myths exist about scholar’s reactions: They cheat, slice their production to the least publishable unit, become more risk averse and will go for the low-hanging fruits; in short, they develop a “taste for publication” at the cost of a “taste of science”. Systematic knowledge about the consequences of such systems for the motivation, behavior and productivity of university scholars is in short supply. The book is a major contribution to remedy this situation.

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301

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Springer

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3030213250

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9783030213251

Paddling New York City

Kayak, Canoe, and Stand-Up Paddle the Greatest Waters in the Five Boroughs and Long Island

By: Erik Baard

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Paddling New York City

Kayak, Canoe, and Stand-Up Paddle the Greatest Waters in the Five Boroughs and Long Island

By: Erik Baard

The waters of New York City and Long Island provide extensive and unique paddling experiences. There are reaches accommodating every ability level, and are suitable for an array of crafts including, touring kayaks, recreational kayaks, stand-up paddleboards, and canoes. A guidebook dedicated to the city would make for a compelling resource for growing demographics of outdoor enthusiasts living in or near the city seeking readily accessible recreation, as well as support environmental improvements, and reduce their impact by exploring locally. This guidebook provides vital information paddlers need to safely and fully experience the rush of paddling around one of the world’s busiest ports.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493058355

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9781493058358

American Perceptions of the Soviet Union as a Nuclear Adversary

From Kennedy to Bush

By: Erik Beukel

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American Perceptions of the Soviet Union as a Nuclear Adversary

From Kennedy to Bush

By: Erik Beukel

Beukel (political science, Odense U., Denmark) analyzes the ways in which American governments have perceived the Soviet Union as a nuclear adversary since the early 1960s. American images, he finds, are influenced not only by Soviet behavior, but also by traditionally dominating views of the US's proper role in the world as well as by the domestic political process. Distributed in the US by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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428

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Burns & Oates

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0861870336

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9780861870332

The East River

By: Erik Baard,Thomas Jackson,Richard Melnick

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The East River

By: Erik Baard,Thomas Jackson,Richard Melnick

The East River captures the history of New York's premier waterway. The river, a source of life for Native Americans, spawned communities from Brooklyn to Harlem. Its shipyards and docks projected American enterprise around the world. The waterfront, an industrial and commercial dynamo, forged a continent. The dreams of immigrants who arrived and lived on its banks created this nation. The river's strong currents guarded prisons and hospital quarantines while keeping secret legends of gold on its bottom. The sinews of a great city are knitted by more than a score of its tunnels and bridges. Today, a renaissance draws people to this river, the heart of New York.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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073853787X

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9780738537870

EAST RIVER

By: The Greater Astoria Historical Society,Erik Baard

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EAST RIVER

By: The Greater Astoria Historical Society,Erik Baard

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Arcadia Library Editions

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1531622399

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9781531622398

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Victoria's Multilingual Dictionary - Volume 1

Victoria's Multilingual Dictionary - Volume 1

Performance Management at Universities

Performance Management at Universities

Paddling New York City

Paddling New York City

American Perceptions of the Soviet Union as a Nuclear Adversary

American Perceptions of the Soviet Union as a Nuclear Adversary

The East River

The East River

EAST RIVER

EAST RIVER

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