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A Decade of Research on School Principals: Cases from 24 Countries
This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries. Each of these directions has its own particular cultural, educational and policy history. Taken together, the various chapters in the volume provide a rich and varied mosaic of what is currently known and what is yet to be discovered about the roles and practices…
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- 978-3-319-23027-6
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- Studies in Educational Leadership
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- 320 DEC d
A Critically Compassionate Approach to Financial Literacy
A Critically Compassionate Approachto Financial Literacy offers a unique approach to conceptualizing financial literacy. Differentiating between notions of financial worth and personal self-worth, the authors present a description of financial literacy tenets founded in principles of self-awareness and cooperative community that are rooted in principles of compassion. Basing their work on princ…
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- 978-94-6300-130-4
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- 370 LUC c
A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders: Responsible Adult…
This book presents Responsible Adult Culture (RAC), a truly comprehensive program for helping offenders to think and act responsibly. It provides the tools of the program with great clarity. In addition to exploring the needs of all offenders, the book addresses the special needs of both female and dual-diagnosis offenders. Responsible thinking means habitually seeing others and situations accu…
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- 978-3-319-17536-2
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- 364 POT c
General Principles of Law - The Role of the Judiciary
This book examines the role played by domestic and international judges in the “flexibilization” of legal systems through general principles. It features revised papers that were presented at the Annual Conference of the European-American Consortium for Legal Education, held at the University of Parma, Italy, May 2014. This volume is organized in four sections, where the topic is mainly ex…
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- 978-3-319-19179-9
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- 323.42
A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolutio…
This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years 1950 and 2000. Providing a detailed list of Italian economists associated with Hicks, Harrod, Bacharach, Flemming, Mirrlees, Sen and other distinguished dons, the authors examine eleven research lines, including the Sraffa and the neo-Ricardian school, t…
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- 978-3-319-32219-3
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- 337.1 BAR c
A Comparative Analysis of European Time Transfers between Generations and Gen…
This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household members for their own consumption, without involving market transactions. Despite the economic and social importance of unpaid …
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- 978-94-017-9591-3
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- 304.6 COM c
A Companion To Interdisciplinary Stem Project-Based Learning: For Educators b…
This text contains 25 Project-Based Learning (PBL) lessons written by a combination of undergraduate preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and graduate students. Everyone who wrote a chapter strives to improve STEM education to help others implement standards-based STEM instruction that takes learning in isolation to greater accountability through integrated and meaningful tasks that answer …
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- 978-94-6300-485-5
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A Century of Monetary Policy at the Fed: Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and the …
In this narrative history, David E. Lindsey gives the reader a ringside seat to a century of policies at the US Federal Reserve. Alternating between broad historical strokes and deep dives into the significance of monetary issues and developments, Lindsey offers a fascinating look into monetary policymaking from the Fed's inception in 1913 to today. Lindsey's three decades of service on the …
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- 978-1-137-57859-4
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- 339 LIN c
Outside Director Compensation in German Public Family Firms : An Empirical An…
Pascal Engel investigates how outside directors are incentivized in family firms that are publicly listed but still partly owned by members of the founding family. Owning families significantly influence their firms' corporate conduct with their own set of goals, sometimes in conflict with economically driven goals of the capital markets. The author analyzes how family shareholders exert their …
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- 978-3-658-07316-9
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- Familienunternehmen und KMU
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- 338.7 ENG o
Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan
ntriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within family and non-family contexts, and examine how these relationships, in turn, continue to shape the individual. Transitional periods, in which in…
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- 978-1-4939-2922-1
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