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A Year in the Scheisse

Getting to Know the Germans

By: Roger Boyes

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A Year in the Scheisse

Getting to Know the Germans

By: Roger Boyes

It was time, the editor told me, for a more modern approach to Germany...The three of us were the backbone of the British press corps. No cliche about Germany left the country without us having given it our seal of approval.'Laugh-out-loud funny, this is the memorable story of an English journalist's adventures - including his encounters with women - as he tries to get to grip with the Germans. Facing bankruptcy, Roger is advised by his accountant to make use of a legal loophole: in Germany married couples have their tax bill halved. So the search is on for a German bride. Meanwhile his father, a former bomber pilot and war hero, is also in financial trouble and is threatening to move to Germany and sponge off his son.The combination of financial, romantic and parental crises sets in train a hilarious romp during which we discover more than we really wanted to about speed-dating and nudist beaches, the British media obsession with Adolf Hitler and how to cheat at the Berlin marathon, curry wurst and stuffed cabbage. Writing incisively and almost without prejudice, Roger Boyes describes the peculiarities of everyday life in Germany. AUTHOR: Roger Boyes, 54, was born in Hereford into a military family and moved around a lot. He has been a foreign correspondent for over thirty years, and is currently the GErmany correspondent for The Times and author of the column 'My Berlin' in Tagesspiegel.

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1840246480

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Project Management for IT-Related Projects

By: Roger Ireland,Brian West,David I. Shepherd,Norman Smith

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Project Management for IT-Related Projects

By: Roger Ireland,Brian West,David I. Shepherd,Norman Smith

Annotation Written by the team who created the syllabus and exam papers, this textbook encompasses the entire syllabus of the ISEB Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management.

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BCS, The Chartered Institute

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1780171188

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9781780171180

Silent Fields

The Long Decline of a Nation's Wildlife

By: Roger Lovegrove

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Silent Fields

The Long Decline of a Nation's Wildlife

By: Roger Lovegrove

Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book documents the history of that battle in England and Wales from the Middle Ages, shedding a new light on the history of our much-loved wildlife.

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Oxford University Press

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0199548153

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Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

By: Roger deVeer Renwick

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Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

By: Roger deVeer Renwick

A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study. In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong: folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis. In the first, on British traditional ballads in the West Indies, he shows how even the best of folklorists can produce an unconvincing study when theory is overvalued and texts are slighted. In the second he navigates the many manifestations of a single Anglo/American ballad, "The Rambling Boy," to reveal striking differences between a British diasporic strain on the one hand and a southern American, post-Civil War strain on the other. The third essay treats the poetics of a very old, extremely widespread, but never before formalized trans-Atlantic genre, the catalogue. Next is Renwick's claim that recentering folksong studies in our rich textual databanks requires that canonical items be identified accurately. He argues that "Oh, Willie," a song thought to be a simple variety of "Butcher's Boy," is in fact a distinct composition. In the final essay Renwick looks at the widespread popularity of "The Crabfish," sung today throughout the English-speaking world but with roots in a naughty tale found in both continental Europe and Asia. With such specific case studies as these, Renwick justifies his argument that the basic tenets of folklore textual scholarship continue to yield new insights.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604738189

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9781604738186

Dead Ringer

By: Roger Ormerod

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Dead Ringer

By: Roger Ormerod

“Bracing wit, taut dialogue and a suspenseful plot that features several betrayals and some essential mayhem” (Publishers Weekly). Jerry Boyes used to be one of the most in-demand stuntmen in the business, until a car accident left him maimed and unable to work. So when a former actor for whom Jerry used to double turns up with a job offer he’s suited for, Boyes jumps at the chance. It’ll be three thousand for one week’s work: All Boyes has to do is hand over half a million in ransom money to the kidnappers of Howard Maxwell, a multimillionaire businessman, after helping the victim’s wife gather the money. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. Maxwell may have been rich in capital assets, but he has almost no cash. And as Boyes agrees to help the distraught wife, he cannot help feeling that things are not what they seem . . . “A traditionally plotted British mystery in a modern setting . . . The writing is expert, the characterizations are well realized, and Boyes himself is an interesting man with some deep inner problems to overcome.” —The New York Times Book Review

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183901055X

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Masques, Mayings and Music-dramas

Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-century Stage

By: Roger Savage

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Masques, Mayings and Music-dramas

Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-century Stage

By: Roger Savage

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843839199

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9781843839194

The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, Volume 1

Introductions, Key Into the Language of America, Letters Regarding John Cotton

By: Roger Williams

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The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, Volume 1

Introductions, Key Into the Language of America, Letters Regarding John Cotton

By: Roger Williams

Ten years after the U. S. Civil War, a group of men in Rhode Island made a conserted effort to rescue the widely scattered writings of Roger Williams. Few sets were printed though, and under the guidance of Perry Miller, The Complete Writings of Roger Williams were brought back in 1963, but still in short numbers. The present collection now makes these volumes available to readers in their original orthography. The theme of religious liberty is dominant in these volumes, running through Williams's correspondence with John Cotton and on through his famous pair of works on The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution. All of the extant shorter writings and letters of Roger Williams are included in this set, along with two significant works resulting from his engagement with Native Americans: his seminal Key into the Language of America and Christenings Make Not Christians.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725220458

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9781725220454

Selected References in Elective Orthopaedics

By: Anthony H.C. Ratliff,Roger M. Atkins,Deborah M. Eastwood

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Selected References in Elective Orthopaedics

By: Anthony H.C. Ratliff,Roger M. Atkins,Deborah M. Eastwood

References, to the reader, are like insulin to the diabetic: when needed they are indispensable, but in excess they induce coma. Moreover, when references are simply shovelled into a text in great gobbets, it is hard to resist the suspicion that the author has not read them all, but has copied some from a previous author's list. The story is told of one author who mischievously included in his list a bogus reference to an obscure foreign journal, and gleefully noted its frequent appearance in future articles. One of the joys of this present book is that the number of references to each topic is very small. But these few have been selected with dis cretion and studied with care. Each group of references is followed by a critical assessment, written with balanced judgment and commendable brevity, and how refreshing it is to find authors who read much but write little. In fact, these authors have followed the pattern of the sister work, Selected References in Orthopaedic Trauma, published in 1989.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447118693

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9781447118695

Berlin at War

By: Roger Moorhouse

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Berlin at War

By: Roger Moorhouse

The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.

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Basic Books

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0465022758

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9780465022755

All Rise

Tales of Human Rights and Wrongs

By: Roger Chennells

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All Rise

Tales of Human Rights and Wrongs

By: Roger Chennells

Roger Chennells is a human rights lawyer and conflict resolver by trade. In ALL RISE, he shares encounters with a host of quirky characters balanced on the scales of justice. His captivating stories include rites of passage in Zululand, student pranks, forays into the law courts, legal work for the Pitjantjatjara in Australia, the San and Rastafarians, paranormal encounters, and service to clients ‛in low places'. He has a fine ear for mimicry and the dramatic moment. These Multifaceted tales are sprinkled with irony and paradox, conveyed through a sometimes off-beat sense of humour. And like all good storytellers, he leaves us wanting more. A collection of stories from the life and career of a human rights lawyer, with the focus more on the human condition, and with the law as the backdrop.

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Digital on Demand

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0796130477

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9780796130471

Searching for the True Church

Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

By: Roger N. Shuff

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Searching for the True Church

Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

By: Roger N. Shuff

Roger Shuff holds that the influence of the Brethren movement on wider evangelical life in England in the twentieth century is often underrated. This book records and accounts for the fact that Brethren reached the peak of their strength at the time when evangelicalism was at its lowest ebb, immediately before World War II. However, the movement then moved into persistent decline as evangelicalism regained ground in the postwar period. Accompanying this downward trend has been a sharp accentuation of the contrast between Brethren congregations who engage constructively with the non-Brethren scene and, at the other end of the spectrum, the isolationist group commonly referred to as Exclusive Brethren. Besides being the first scholarly study of Brethrenism in England for nearly forty years, the book will find a wider audience among present and former adherents of the Brethren movement in its various guises. It also offers useful insights for Christian leaders and other professionals who find themselves with pastoral care for people upon whom their encounter with the Brethren has had a profound psychological impact.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597527947

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9781597527941

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Compendium

By: Roger L. Lundblad

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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Compendium

By: Roger L. Lundblad

While biomedical investigation has greatly advanced, investigators have lost touch with and inadvertently corrupted significant nomenclature at the foundation of their science. Nowadays, one has to be an insider to even understand the titles of journals, as modern biochemists have a tendency to invent new terms to describe old phenomena and apply a

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CRC Press

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142004348X

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9781420043488

The Complete Writings of Roger Williams

By: Roger Williams

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The Complete Writings of Roger Williams

By: Roger Williams

Ten years after the U. S. Civil War, a group of men in Rhode Island made a conserted effort to rescue the widely scattered writings of Roger Williams. Few sets were printed though, and under the guidance of Perry Miller, 'The Complete Writings of Roger Williams' were brought back in 1963, but still in short numbers. The present collection now makes these volumes available to readers in their original orthography.The theme of religious liberty is dominant in these volumes, running through Williams's correspondence with John Cotton and on through his famous pair of works on 'The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution.' All of the extant shorter writings and letters of Roger Williams are included in this set, along with two significant works resulting from his engagement with Native Americans: his seminal 'Key into the Language of America and Christenings Make Not Christians.

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1556352816

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An Imaginary England

Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840–1920

By: Roger Ebbatson

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An Imaginary England

Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840–1920

By: Roger Ebbatson

In his highly theorised and original book, Roger Ebbatson traces the emergence of conceptions of England and Englishness from 1840 to 1920. His study concentrates on poetry and fiction by authors such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Richard Jefferies, Thomas Hardy, Q, Rupert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence, reading them as a body of work through which a series of problematic English identities are imaginatively constructed. Of particular concern is the way literary landscapes serve as signs not only of identity but also of difference. Ebbatson demonstrates how a sense of cultural rootedness is contested during the period by the experiences of those on the societal margins, whether sexual, national, social or racial, resulting in a feeling of homelessness even in the most self-consciously 'English' texts. In the face of gradual imperial and industrial decline, Ebbatson argues, foreign and colonial cultures played a crucial role in transforming Englishness from a stable body of values and experiences into a much more ambiguous concept in continuous conflict with factors on the geographical or psychological 'periphery'.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351958852

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Vozandes

By: Roger D. Reimer

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Vozandes

By: Roger D. Reimer

Establishing an environment for teaching, training and the exploration of evidences of divine design in the context of an integrated approach to healing. This is one man's story reflecting 16 years in leadership within a career of 38 years as a cross cultural healthcare professional.

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FriesenPress

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146023460X

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Social Psychology, 2nd Edition

By: Roger Brown

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Social Psychology, 2nd Edition

By: Roger Brown

The Second Edition succeeds in showing that social psychology has a potent contribution to make to understanding human behavior. Drawing on landmark experiments, real-life cases, and his own valuable insights, Brown analyzes a wide range of subjects including obedience and rebellion, altruism, group decision processes, the psycholegal questions of eyewitness testimony, jury size and decision rule, the psychosexual question of androgyny, the sources of ethnic conflict, and much more.

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Simon and Schuster

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074325340X

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9780743253406

At the Fireside - Volume 1

True South African Stories

By: Roger Webster

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At the Fireside - Volume 1

True South African Stories

By: Roger Webster

At the Fireside was born out of the need to preserve, retell and rekindle some of the stories of events and lives that have shaped and coloured South Africa. This book recalls our history and enables the reader to relive the stories of our sometimes forgotten past. These are tales of bravery and honour, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately the stories are of real people who went beyond the expected and of events that surpassed the ordinary.

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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1868425797

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9781868425792

The Scholemaster

in large print

By: Roger Ascham

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The Scholemaster

in large print

By: Roger Ascham

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387013795

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9783387013795

Cognitive and Psychometric Analysis of Analogical Problem Solving

By: Isaac I. Bejar,Roger Chaffin,Susan Embretson

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Cognitive and Psychometric Analysis of Analogical Problem Solving

By: Isaac I. Bejar,Roger Chaffin,Susan Embretson

If one were to conduct an analysis of any profession the "ability to think analogically" is more than likely to be one of the requirements for success, be it an architectural studio, a research laboratory, a legal office, or a nuclear plant. Cognitive scientists are aware of the prominence of analogical reasoning in all forms of reasoning and learning, and have devoted substantial effort to ascer taining its nature. Test builders, like cognitive scientists, are aware of the cen trality of analogical reasoning and figure, correctly, that a test that samples a student's ability to think analogically may well be a good predictor of success in a variety of fields. This book is the result of a project to investigate analogical reasoning from both an individual differences and a cognitive perspective. The book is directed to both researchers and practitioners concerned with the nature and measurement of analogical reasoning. Cognitive scientists, linguists, psycholinguists, and natural language researchers will find the seman tic taxonomy and accompanying empirical results food for thought. Test devel opers will fmd it reassuring that performance on verbal analogy items is not just a reflection of the size of a person's vocabulary, and that tests can be designed according to principles, rather than assembled to satisfy a set of statistical speci fications. Psychometricians will find that content and response modelling can go together and that there are distinct benefits in approaching psychometric re sponse modelling from that integrative perspective.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461396905

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9781461396901

Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents

Shaping the Role and Promise of Education

By: Roger J.R. Levesque

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Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents

Shaping the Role and Promise of Education

By: Roger J.R. Levesque

Teachers make a difference. As someone who grew up in one of the po- est and rural areas of a poor state and ended up attending elite graduate and professional schools, I have much to credit my public school teachers. My teachers sure struggled much to teach an amazingly wide variety of students from different backgrounds, abilities, and hopes. Given that re- ity, which undoubtedly repeats itself across the United States and globe, one would think that I should be quite hesitant to criticize a system that produces countless grateful students and productive citizens. I agree. The pages that follow surely can be perceived as yet another attack on already much maligned schools that do produce impressive outcomes despite their limited resources, increased obligations, and the sustained barrage of attacks from competing interest groups. Some may even view the text as an affront to the inalienable rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit. Others surely could understand the analysis as another assault on our decentralized legal and school systems that should retain the right to balance the needs of communities, parents, schools, and students. I clearly did not intend, and do not see the ultimate result, as yet another diatribe on the manner teachers, parents and communities treat students.

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0306475405

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9780306475405

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