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Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition
The Author's intention, after over 60 years of study and field work, was to publish his final thoughts on the subject, and make them readily available for all scholars to use, free of cost, wherever they may live. Knowing that his time was limited, and that he would be unable to respond to reviewers' comments, he chose, of necessity, not to submit his manuscript for peer review. It was his wish…
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Myths of the Greek and Roman Gods
In book 8 of the Odyssey, Odysseus is a guest of the Phaeacians, a mythical people renowned for their knowledge of ships and the sea. In the extract below, a festival that involves athletic games, dancing, and song, the poet Demodocus (“the minstrel” of the opening line) entertains the assembled guests by reciting the myth of how Hephaestus caught his wife Aphrodite in their marriage bed…
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Advanced Community College ESL Composition : An Integrated Skills Approach
This book has been created to provide a framework for building your skills in writing and critical thinking. It provides access to published samples from professional authors along with essay drafts from ESL students who have polished their skills in their respective writing courses. The themes in the readings will give you a variety of topics to discuss with your classmates, which may inspi…
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- 379 PER a
Developing community schools, community learning centers, extended-service sc…
This book focuses on special organizational configurations for schools in diverse parts of the world. Some of these new organizational and institutional designs are called multi-service schools, others are called extended service schools and still others are called community learning centers. While these schools have different names and notable different characteristics, they belong in the same…
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- 9783319256641
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Developing country perspectives on public service delivery
The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy, and public administration. The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like South Africa, Philippines, India and Malaysia. At the forefront of this movement has been the publ…
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- 9788132221609
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- xix, 293 pages
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Developing Self-regulation of Learning and Teaching Skills Among Teacher Cand…
This book reports an in-depth case study and the student teaching experience of four preservice teachers during practical and clinical experiences in classroom in an urban community in New York. It examines the associations between preservice teachers' self-regulatory skills and motivational beliefs and their clinical experience both in the college training classroom and in the school settings.…
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- 9789401799508
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- xvii, 134 pages
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Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society
This is a free textbook geared towards college-level courses about dress and identity. The purpose of the book is to help students learn about dress, identity, and how these topics intersect with marginalized communities. Everyone interacts with different people in their day-to-day lives. Having a greater understanding of others can lead to a more equitable, just society. This textbook was crea…
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Developing and maintaining police-researcher partnerships to facilitate resea…
This Brief discusses methods to develop and maintain police / researcher partnerships. First, the authors provide information that will be useful to police managers and researchers who are interested in creating and maintaining partnerships to conduct research, work together to improve policing and help others understand the linkages between the two groups. Then, more specifically, they describ…
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- 9781493920556
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- xii, 84 pages ; 23 cm.
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Development disparities in India : an enquiry into convergence
This book highlights the development disparities in India and considers three complex areas of development - economic wellbeing, human progress and agricultural development - over a period of forty years since the 1970s. The novelty of the book lies in its rich analytical foundation and the use of sophisticated statistical and economic tools to determine the causes of socioeconomic disparity be…
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- 9788132223313
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Development and Learning of Young Children with Disabilities : a Vygotskian P…
This book introduces current theories and research on disability, and builds on the premise that disability has to be understood from the dialectical dynamics of biology, psychology, and culture over time. Based on the newest empirical research on children with disabilities, the book overcomes the limitations of the medical and social models of disability by arguing for a dialectical biopsychos…
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- 9783319391144
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- XIII, 212 pages 4 illustrations, 3 illustrations in color
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