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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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- Ed. 1
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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 Cultural-Historical Study of Children Learning Science: Foregrounding Affec…
This book moves beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view of learning and development in science. It draws upon cultural-historical theory in order to theorise early childhood science education in relation to our currently globalised education contexts. The book argues that concept development in science for young children can be better theorised by using Vygotsky’s…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-017-9370-4
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- Cultural Studies of Science Education
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- 507 FLE c
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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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-130-4
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- 370 LUC c
PBG based Terahertz Antenna for Aerospace Applications
This book focuses on high-gain antennas in the terahertz spectrum and their optimization. The terahertz spectrum is an unallocated EM spectrum, which is being explored for a number of applications, especially to meet increasing demands of high data rates for wireless space communications. Space communication systems using the terahertz spectrum can resolve the problems of limited bandwidth of p…
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- 978-981-287-802-1
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- xxiii, 51 halaman
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- Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- 621.384 8 CHO p
A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse: The Fir…
This book provides the first critical edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse with English translation and commentary, which records the first scientific analysis of the camera obscura. On the Shape of the Eclipse includes pioneering research on the conditions of formation of the image, in a time deemed to be committed to aniconism. It also provides an early attempt to merge t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-47991-0
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- 621.366 RAY c
A Cp-Theory Problem Book: Functional Equivalencies
This fourth volume in Vladimir Tkachuk's series on Cp-theory gives reasonably complete coverage of the theory of functional equivalencies through 500 carefully selected problems and exercises. By systematically introducing each of the major topics of Cp-theory, the book is intended to bring a dedicated reader from basic topological principles to the frontiers of modern research. The book presen…
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- 978-3-319-24385-6
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- Problem Books in Mathematics
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- 514.1 TKA a
PARP Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy
PARP Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of the role of PARP in cancer therapy. The volume covers the history of the discovery of PARP (poly ADP ribose polymerase) and its role in DNA repair. In addition, a description of discovery of the PARP family, and other DNA maintenance-associated PARPs will also be discussed. The volume also features a section on accessible c…
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- 978-3-319-14151-0
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- xix, 591 halaman
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- Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
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- 616.15 POL
A Cp-Theory Problem Book: Compactness in Function Spaces
This third volume in Vladimir Tkachuk's series on Cp-theory problems applies all modern methods of Cp-theory to study compactness-like properties in function spaces and introduces the reader to the theory of compact spaces widely used in Functional Analysis. The text is designed to bring a dedicated reader from basic topological principles to the frontiers of modern research covering a wide var…
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- 978-3-319-16092-4
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- Problem Books in Mathematics
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- 512 TKA a
A Course in Mathematical Statistics and Large Sample Theory
This graduate-level textbook is primarily aimed at graduate students of statistics, mathematics, science, and engineering who have had an undergraduate course in statistics, an upper division course in analysis, and some acquaintance with measure theoretic probability. It provides a rigorous presentation of the core of mathematical statistics. Part I of this book constitutes a one-semester c…
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- 978-1-4939-4032-5
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- 519.5 BHA c
A Construction Manual for Robots' Ethical Systems: Requirements, Methods, Imp…
This book will help researchers and engineers in the design of ethical systems for robots, addressing the philosophical questions that arise and exploring modern applications such as assistive robots and self-driving cars. The contributing authors are among the leading academic and industrial researchers on this topic and the book will be of value to researchers, graduate students and practi…
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- 978-3-319-21548-8
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- Cognitive Technologies
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- 629.892 CON c
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