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Childhood Cancer

Information for the Patient and Family

By: Ronald D. Barr

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Childhood Cancer

Information for the Patient and Family

By: Ronald D. Barr

This vital resource provides an up-to-date and informative account of childhood cancer. The purpose of this book is to provide a source of information and guidance for children with cancer and for their families. It is intended to help them understand their new experiences and so reduce the fear that accompanies uncertainty. The material is meant to complement and not substitute the essential continuing dialogue between families and members of the health care team.

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164

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PMPH-USA

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155009145X

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9781550091458

Schooling Corporate Citizens

How Accountability Reform has Damaged Civic Education and Undermined Democracy

By: Ronald W. Evans

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Schooling Corporate Citizens

How Accountability Reform has Damaged Civic Education and Undermined Democracy

By: Ronald W. Evans

Schooling Corporate Citizens examines the full history of accountability reform in the United States from its origins in the 1970s and 1980s to the development of the Common Core in recent years. Based in extensive archival research, it traces the origins and development of accountability reform as marked by key government- and business-led reports—from A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. By using the lens of social studies and civic education as a means to understand the concrete impacts of accountability reforms on schools, Evans shows how reformers have applied principles of business management to schools in extreme ways, damaging civic education and undermining democratic learning. The first full-length narrative account of accountability reform and its impact on social studies and civic education, Schooling Corporate Citizens offers crucial insights to the ongoing process of American school reform, shedding light on its dilemmas and possibilities, and allowing for thoughtful consideration of future reform efforts.

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304

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Routledge

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1317657888

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9781317657880

Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth

By: Ronald Allan

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Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth

By: Ronald Allan

In 1931 a book appeared in London with the title A Yellow Sleuth: Being the Autobiography of "e;Nor Nalla"e; (Detective-Sergeant Federated Malay States Police). It was met with puzzled enthusiasm, The Straits Times commenting that the book "e;presents an interesting problem of distinguishing fact from fiction"e;. The author claimed to be of mixed Malay and Sakai descent, fluent in many of the languages spoken in Southeast Asia, and able to pass as Malay, Sakai, Chinese, Javanese or Burmese. He began by stating that "e;this story will honestly recount the part I have played in the detection of crime"e;, but added that he had changed personal and place names, and used a pseudonym because it would "e;be foolish of me to advertise my identity"e;. He concluded, engagingly enough, "e;So there you have it! A true history! And, for a start you learn that it is largely untrue."e; The name Nor Nalla is an anagram, and the author has been identified as Ronald (Ron) Allan, who worked on a rubber plantation in Malaya shortly before World War I. But many questions about his authorship remain. Nor Nalla is an "e;impossible fantasy of hybridity"e; in the words of Philip Holden's introduction. Like Kipling's famous colonial spy, Kim, the yellow sleuth is a master of the undercover operation, from the forests of Malaya, to the ports of Java, in London's Chinatown and with Chinese labourers in WWI Flanders. Contemporary readers will enjoy the book's stories of detection and adventure, but they can also savour the way the author and his narrator navigate and reveal the contradictions of late colonial society.

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244

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Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

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9813250038

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9789813250031

An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World

The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation

By: Ronald Herms

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An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World

The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation

By: Ronald Herms

This monograph examines the problem of universally inclusive language in the book of Revelation and the resulting narrative tension created by narrowly exclusive language. Analysis is conducted by placing relevant texts within their literary-narrative context and through consideration of how the author understood and appropriated biblical traditions. A key feature of this study is its examination of four early Jewish documents with significant similarities to the problem being examined in Revelation. From these documents (Tobit; Similitudes of Enoch [1 Enoch 37-71]; 4 Ezra; and, Animal Apocalypse [1 Enoch 85-90]) a contextual picture emerges which allows a fuller understanding of Revelation’s distinctive approach toward the problem of the fate of the nations. This study contends that the interpretive strategies applied to biblical traditions in Revelation have their roots in the wider early Jewish milieu. From this comparative analysis, identifiable patterns with regard to the role of ‘universal terminology’ in the communicative strategy of John’s Apocalypse emerge.

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317

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110914514

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9783110914511

Free Schools, Free People

Education and Democracy after the 1960s

By: Ronald J. Miller

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Free Schools, Free People

Education and Democracy after the 1960s

By: Ronald J. Miller

This first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s documents the formation of hundreds of small, independent schools across the United States that marked a turning point in American education. The book revisits and interprets the radical democratic educational vision behind those schools through the works of some of the authors of that time such as John Holt, A. S. Neill, Paul Goodman, and George Dennison. These authors—and the thousands of educators, parents, and young people who took part in the free school movement—passionately advocated for students' intellectual and psychological freedom, and for their autonomy and individuality in a society they saw as increasingly standardized and corporately managed. Although free school ideology was renounced during the conservative restoration of the 1970s and 1980s, and the once popular literature is now largely forgotten, Miller argues that radical educational critique is especially relevant in today's educational climate, in light of the standards movement, high stakes testing, school violence and its suppression, and corporate influence over the curriculum.

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238

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State University of New York Press

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0791488241

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9780791488249

The Hope for American School Reform

The Cold War Pursuit of Inquiry Learning in Social Studies

By: Ronald W. Evans

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The Hope for American School Reform

The Cold War Pursuit of Inquiry Learning in Social Studies

By: Ronald W. Evans

The Hope of American School Reform tells the story of the origins of the reform in science and math education. The book is drawn, in part, on new research from previously untapped archival sources. The aim of this work is to contribute to our understanding of a major effort to reform school curricula.

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462

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Springer

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0230116671

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9780230116672

Rational Choice and Situational Crime Prevention

Theoretical Foundations

By: Graeme Newman,Ronald V. Clarke

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Rational Choice and Situational Crime Prevention

Theoretical Foundations

By: Graeme Newman,Ronald V. Clarke

A collection of original papers examining the theoretical and philosophical bases of the perspective of situational crime prevention. Among issues examined are: the status of situational crime prevention as a theory; the theoretical traditions and context of SCP; the relationship of rational choice to SCP; utilitarianism and SCP; and the ethical./policy implications of SCP.

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261

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Routledge

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1351906763

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9781351906760

Book's by Ronald D. Barr

Childhood Cancer

Childhood Cancer

Schooling Corporate Citizens

Schooling Corporate Citizens

Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth

Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth

An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World

An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World

Free Schools, Free People

Free Schools, Free People

The Hope for American School Reform

The Hope for American School Reform

Rational Choice and Situational Crime Prevention

Rational Choice and Situational Crime Prevention

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