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The Shade of Hettie Daynes

By: Robert Swindells

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If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost... That's what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards. Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago. If so, what does she want? And why is she appearing now? Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out! A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.

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Random House

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1407041975

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Leveling the Playing Field

Justice, Politics, and College Admissions

By: Robert K. Fullinwider,Judith Lichtenberg

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Leveling the Playing Field

Justice, Politics, and College Admissions

By: Robert K. Fullinwider,Judith Lichtenberg

Leveling the Playing Field examines the admissions policies of contemporary American colleges and universities in light of the assumption that enhancing the educational opportunities of lower-income and minority students would make American society more just. It asks how current admissions policies affect the prospects of such students, and it evaluates alternative approaches. The book treats a variety of topics relevant to answering these questions. What does it mean to reward people according to merit? Is the American system of higher education a meritocracy, and should it be? How do the missions of contemporary institutions of higher education bear on admissions? What are the implications of the Supreme Court's landmark affirmative action decisions of 2003? What is the proper role and significance of standardized tests like the SAT? How does 'lower' education prepare students, or fail to, for higher education? In answering these questions, the book examines legacy preference, early admissions policies, financial aid, the test-prep industry, college counseling, and athletics, evaluating their effects on the distribution of higher education in the United States, not only for lower-income and minority students but for college-bound students in general.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461638828

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9781461638827

The Benchley Roundup

A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites

By: Robert C. Benchley

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The Benchley Roundup

A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites

By: Robert C. Benchley

Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence—on contemporaries such as E. B. White, James Thurber, and S. J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor—has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. The Benchley Roundup collects those pieces, selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up best over the years"-a compendium of the most endearing and enduring work from one of America's funniest and most penetrating wits. "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous." —Robert Benchley

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University of Chicago Press

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0226042189

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9780226042183

Educational Assessment

Tests and Measurements in the Age of Accountability

By: Robert J. Wright

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Educational Assessment

Tests and Measurements in the Age of Accountability

By: Robert J. Wright

Grounded in the real world of public schools and students, this engaging, insightful, and highly readable text introduces the inner-workings of K–12 educational assessment. There has never been a time when it is more important for educators to have an understanding of testing and assessments. Accountability is now a fact of life for all public school educators, and testing is at the core of all educational assessment programs. It is no longer prudent or even possible for educators to ignore this national zeitgeist. Educational Assessment: Tests and Measurements in the Age of Accountability addresses all of the constructs central to understanding the design, construction and evaluation of educational measures. It goes on to provide students with insight into the link between today′s high-stakes testing mandates and the traditions of the past 125 years of "scientific" measurement in the United States. It addresses the problem of understanding and correctly interpreting test scores on local, statewide, national, and international assessments. It also addresses how certain issues such as institutionalized cheating, test preparation, and individual differences among students and their families influence test score outcomes. Key Features Covers traditional topics in an approachable and understandable way: Reliability, validity, performance assessments, standardized achievement tests, and many more topics are included. Analyzes and interprets "hot-button" issues of today′s complex measurement concerns: The score-gap, high-stakes testing, grade retention, drop-out crises, "academic redshirting,", diversity, family influence, and educational technology, are examined. Relates theory to practice: Each chapter includes relevant real-life examples and case studies to demonstrate how the technical-measurement principles impact those involved. Addresses the needs of diverse students: Issues related to students with special needs and the testing of English Language Learners are discussed. Intended Audience: Educational Assessment: Tests and Measurements in the Age of Accountability has been written to meet the needs of students in graduate programs of special education, reading, school counseling, school social work, curriculum supervision, or administration. Providing grounding in all aspects of measurement, this book is perfect for undergraduate and graduate courses such as Educational Tests and Measurements, Assessment in Education, and Student Assessment.

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SAGE Publications

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1544304005

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9781544304007

The Development of Accounting in an International Context

A Festschrift in Honour of R.H. Parker

By: Robert Henry Parker

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The Development of Accounting in an International Context

A Festschrift in Honour of R.H. Parker

By: Robert Henry Parker

This collection studies the development of accounting in an international context, and contains papers from some of the world's most renowned scholars in accounting, celebrating the multi-faceated contribution of Bob Parker.

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Psychology Press

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0415155282

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9780415155281

Swing Dance

Justice O'Connor and the Michigan Muddle

By: Robert Zelnick

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Swing Dance

Justice O'Connor and the Michigan Muddle

By: Robert Zelnick

With a journalist's eye for detail, Robert Zelnick looks at Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's key role in the controversial University of Michigan affirmative action cases of 2003, providing key background information, detailed descriptions of daily arguments, and an evaluation of the final rulings.

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Hoover Institution Press

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0817945237

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9780817945237

Into the Jaws of Death

The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire

By: Robert Lyman

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Into the Jaws of Death

The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire

By: Robert Lyman

It is the night of March 28, 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one of the most audacious and daring raids of the Second World War. The plan is simple: to drive an old destroyer, packed with three tons of explosives, at full speed into the outer gate of the Normandie dock. The aim is to destroy the base from which the formidable battleship Tirpitz would be able to devastate the convoys supplying Britain from the United States. "Operation Chariot" was to be dramatically successful, but at a great cost. Fewer than half the men who went on the mission returned. In recognition of their valor, eighty-nine decorations were awarded, including five Victoria Crosses. Into the Jaws of Death is the true story of how the decisive courage of a small group of men changed the course of the war.

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Quercus

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1623655218

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9781623655211

Experiencing Change in German Controlling

Management Accounting in a Globalizing World

By: Robert Luther,T Colwyn Jones,Astrid Saxl

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Experiencing Change in German Controlling

Management Accounting in a Globalizing World

By: Robert Luther,T Colwyn Jones,Astrid Saxl

Controlling" is the German term for "Management Accounting". This book explores the unique characteristics of German management accounting as opposed to the the management of companies in other countries. It contains unique research taking three different German companies as case studies. It explores the influence of national characteristics and globalization on the ways businesses are run. - Contains three separate in-depth case studies of actual German businesses - The only book of its kind to explore the distinctive qualities of German management accounting

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Elsevier

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1856179087

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9781856179089

Affirmative Action

By: John W. Johnson,Robert P. Green Jr.

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Affirmative Action

By: John W. Johnson,Robert P. Green Jr.

Affirmative Action recounts the fascinating history of a civil rights provision considered vital to protecting and promoting equality, but still bitterly contested in the courts—and in the court of public opinion. "Special consideration" or "reverse discrimination"? This examination traces the genesis and development of affirmative action and the continuing controversy that constitutes the story of racial and gender preferences. It pays attention to the individuals, the events, and the ideas that spawned federal and selected state affirmative action policies—and the resistance to those policies. Perhaps most important, it probes the key legal challenges to affirmative action in the nation's courts. The controversy over affirmative action in America has been marked by a persistent tension between its advocates, who emphasize the necessity of overcoming historical patterns of racial and gender injustice, and its critics, who insist on the integrity of color and gender blindness. In the wake of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions of 2007, Affirmative Action brings the story of one of the most embattled public policy issues of the last half century up to date, demonstrating that social justice cannot simply be legislated into existence, nor can voices on either side of the debate be ignored.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313081328

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9780313081323

The Esophagogastric Junction

420 Questions - 420 Answers

By: Robert Giuli

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The Esophagogastric Junction

420 Questions - 420 Answers

By: Robert Giuli

This book is the 5th in an exceptional series which, in a most uncommon way, constitutes an original encyclopaedia of esophagology. It is devoted to a single subject: the esophagogastric junction. These few centimetres are dissected into 420 questions which call on all the disciplines involved by its physiology, its diverse diseases and their various treatments. 450 answers, provided by the most renowned experts, each one shedding light on one small, but essential, fragment of the subject. The book offers: A succesion of syntheses; A profusion of targeted bibliographical references; An access, now made easy, to highly elaborated knowledge; A precious volume for researchers, specialists, departments heads, general practitioners and students.

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John Libbey Eurotext

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274200145X

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9782742001453

You Decide

Controversial Cases in American Politics

By: Edward R. Drachman,Robert Langran

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Controversial Cases in American Politics

By: Edward R. Drachman,Robert Langran

The book is a unique and innovative assembly of 14 originally written cases on controversial topics in American government and politics. It is intended to engage students in active learning through discussion, debate and participation in the introductory American Government course.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742538052

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Mental Health Interventions with Preschool Children

By: Robert D. Lyman,Toni L. Hembree-Kigin

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Mental Health Interventions with Preschool Children

By: Robert D. Lyman,Toni L. Hembree-Kigin

Preschool children have been largely neglected in the mental health treatment literature, although research has established that many behavioral and emotional disorders in children result from events occurring during the preschool years or are first manifested during this period. This has occurred for several reasons. Traditional psychoanalytic thinking has considered preschoolers to be too psychologically immature for complete manifestations of psychopathology, and the limited language abilities of young children have complicated assessment procedures and made them less appropriate for treatment approaches that are largely verbal in nature. In addition, the developmental complexity of the preschool period has deterred many researchers from investigating clinical issues with this age group. Partly as a result of the lack of information on preschoolers in the literature, practitioners have historically been uncomfortable in conduct ing assessments and initiating treatment with young children. They have often adopted a "wait and see" attitude in which formal mental health diagnosis and treatment are not implemented until after the child's entry into school. Unfortunately, such a delay may mean wasting the time during which mental health interventions can be maximally effective. Recently, this attitude has changed and practitioners now recognize the need for assessment and treatment of behavioral and emotional disorders early in life. What they require to assist them in the timely delivery of such services is information about assessment and treatment procedures specifically designed for preschoolers and with demonstrated efficacy with that age group.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489909583

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9781489909589

The Hashemites

The Dream of Arabia

By: Robert McNamara

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The Hashemites

The Dream of Arabia

By: Robert McNamara

The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of Lawrence of Arabia as portrayed in David Lean's 1962 film. But behind this romantic image lies a harsher reality of wartime expediency, double-dealing and dynastic ambition, which shaped the modern Middle East and laid the foundations of many of the conflicts that rack the region to this day. Arab nationalists claim that British instigation for the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was a commitment to independence for the Arab people, but in this book Robert McNamara shows how the British cultivated the Hashemite Sherifs of Mecca more as an alternative focus during the First World War for Muslim loyalty from the Ottoman Sultan, who as Caliph had declared a jihad against the Allies when the Turks joined the Central Powers, than a leader of an independent and united Arabia. At the same time, the Sykes-Picot Agreement divided up the Middle East between British and French spheres of influence. The sense of betrayal that this caused has coloured Arab nationalists' views of the West ever since. The main countries of the Middle East —Jordan, Syria and Iraq—are all the creations of the post-First World War settlement worked out at the Paris Peace Conference. The story of the Hashemite dynasty at the Paris Peace Conference is the story of the birth of the modern history of a region that is now more than ever at the centre of world affairs.

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Haus Publishing

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1907822356

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9781907822353

Marine Insurance Legislation

By: Robert Merkin

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Marine Insurance Legislation

By: Robert Merkin

The book provides a heavily annotated text of English marine insurance legislation and the most important of the market clauses (the Institute Clauses) used in respect of marine policies written in the London Market. The operation of each section of the Marine Insurance Act 1906 is explained and references are given to the most important of the early cases upon which the sections are based.

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Taylor & Francis

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1135116040

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9781135116040

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The Shade of Hettie Daynes

The Shade of Hettie Daynes

Leveling the Playing Field

Leveling the Playing Field

The Benchley Roundup

The Benchley Roundup

Educational Assessment

Educational Assessment

The Development of Accounting in an International Context

The Development of Accounting in an International Context

Swing Dance

Swing Dance

Into the Jaws of Death

Into the Jaws of Death

Experiencing Change in German Controlling

Experiencing Change in German Controlling

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action

The Esophagogastric Junction

The Esophagogastric Junction

You Decide

You Decide

Mental Health Interventions with Preschool Children

Mental Health Interventions with Preschool Children

The Hashemites

The Hashemites

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Marine Insurance Legislation

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