Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter edwards

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  • POLICY AND POWER IN EDUCATION
    HAROLD HELLER / PETER EDWARDS
    The fortunes of the education service in Britain have been intimately bound up with the vitality of the local education authorities, particularly in the decades following the 1944 Education Act. The passing of the 1988 Education Reform Act saw the LEAs in serious—perhaps terminal—decline. First published in 1992, Policy and Power in Education sets out to map the contours of thi...

    $1,480.00

  • REFRAMING LEARNING
    STEPHEN KEMMIS / CHRISTINE EDWARDS-GROVES / PETER GROOTENBOER
    Disrupting the individualism of much conventional psychological research into learning, this book presents a situated, practice-based understanding of learning, based on the theories of situated learning and practice architectures, conceptualising learning as ontological transformation. While accepting that learning is consequential for learners, this book explores how learning...

    $640.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGY AND SCIENCE
    JEANETTE EDWARDS / PENNY HARVEY / PETER WADE
    What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global 'places' created by new information technologies, Anthropology and Sci...

    $1,160.00

  • MIDDLE LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOLS
    PETER GROOTENBOER / CHRISTINE EDWARDS-GROVES / KARIN RÖNNERMAN
    Middle leading refers to those teachers that both teach and have leadership roles, and thus can bridge the gap between the practices of learning and the managemant of schooling. Focusing on the practices of middle leaders, this book addresses the current lack of support and professional development for middle leaders in educational settings. Middle Leadership in Schools positio...

    $960.00

  • RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN A PLURALIST SOCIETY
    JOHN EDWARDS / PETER R. HOBSON
    Religious education in liberal pluralist societies such as the UK, the USA, and Australian underwent radical change in the 1980s and 1990s, with a major shift towards multi-faith, educationally oriented programmes. This has meant significant modifications to both the content and the methodology of religious-education courses and to the way they are conceived of and taught in sc...

    $1,640.00

  • POWER INVESTING WITH BASKET SECURITIES
    PETER W. MADLEM / LARRY D. EDWARDS
    Tremendously versatile, basket securities have the potential to change the way money is managed. This book provides the proper definition of the basket security, a brief exploration of their true history, and powerful ways to exploit their advantages. The authors explore simple yet effective ways basket securities can be used in asset management strategies including trading the...

    $2,800.00

  • SHARED CARE
    PETER EDWARDS / JONES STEPHEN / DENNIS SHALE / MARK THURSZ
    Using practical examples this book demonstrates how a theoretical model for shared care operates in practice to deliver improved health outcomes within limited resources. It shows how clinically-led initiatives can influence health care commissioning strategies and how the implementation of the model meets the needs of clinicians purchasers and providers. The model and evalua...

    $1,200.00

  • BUSINESS AND HEALTH PLANNING IN GENERAL PRACTICE
    PETER EDWARDS
    For GPs and practice managers the challenge of the NHS reforms is to understand the business context in which general practice operates. Of the many skills learned from commerce and industry needed for the development of an effective strategy, business planning has been demonstrated to bring important benefits to the practice. However, for many the concept is necessary but unfa...

    $1,200.00

  • GYÖRGY LIGETI'S LE GRAND MACABRE: POSTMODERNISM, MUSICO-DRAMATIC FORM AND THE GROTESQUE
    PETER EDWARDS
    György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed by Ligeti as an ‘anti-anti-opera’, the piece is a highly ambiguous, apocalyptic fable abo...

    $1,240.00

  • EMERGING APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
    TARA FENWICK / RICHARD EDWARDS / PETER SAWCHUK
    The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural or postmodern. The works of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard have variou...

    $1,220.00

  • RISK MANAGEMENT IN PROJECT ORGANISATIONS
    PETER EDWARDS / PAUL BOWEN
    This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and learn from those risks.While based on the experience of the construction industry, the book also acts as a broader project management text, meeting the needs of project managers and st...

    $1,420.00

  • HEROES AND LANDMARKS OF BRITISH AVIATION
    RICHARD EDWARDS / PETER J. EDWARDS
    Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation tells the dramatic story of a world leading aviation industry, from the sweat and grease of the workshop, to the board rooms and government nationalisations that ultimately fashioned its destiny.The heroes are Britains most innovative aviation pioneers and their aircraft, the men and women who persevered to be the first into the air, to ...

    $164.00

  • CULTURAL-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
    ELLIS, VIV / EDWARDS, ANNE / SMAGORINSKY, PETER
    Teachers, both in and beyond teacher education programmes, are continual learners. As society itself evolves, new settings and the challenges they provide require new learning. Teachers must continually adapt to new developments that affect their work, including alterations to qualification systems, new relationships with welfare professionals, and new technologies which are re...

    $1,380.00

  • JORDAN
    BEVERLEY MILTON-EDWARDS / PETER HINCHCLIFFE
    Created as a mechanism for maintaining British influence through a local patron, Jordan’s future never looked certain. Nevertheless, under the leadership of the Hashemite monarchy led by Abdullah and then his grandson Hussein, the Kingdom of Jordan became a permanent feature on the map of the modern Middle East. Under the rule of King Abdullah II, Jordan has remained an influen...

    $1,460.00

  • CONFLICTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1945
    PETER HINCHCLIFFE / BEVERLEY MILTON-EDWARDS
    This third edition of Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 analyzes the nature of conflict in the Middle East, with its racial, ethnic, political, cultural, religious and economic factors. Throughout the book Peter Hinchcliffe and Beverley Milton-Edwards put the main conflicts into their wider context, with thematic debates on issues such as the emergence of radical Islam, t...

    $1,120.00

  • RETHINKING TEACHER EDUCATION
    ANNE EDWARDS / PETER GILROY / DAVID HARTLEY
    Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher education to try to make sense of current practices and where they might lead. The book analyzes past and present constructions of teacher education and offers insights into how a ...

    $1,380.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIME
    EDWARDS, ADAM / GILL, PETER
    The perceived threat of 'transnational organized crime' to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy makers and social scientists over the last decade. This book considers the origins of this crime, how it has been defined and measured and the appropriateness of governments' policy responses. The contributors argue that while serious harm is often cause...

    $1,460.00

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE
    PETER J. EDWARDS
    This book describes in considerable detail the people, events ships and aircraft that shaped the Air Service from its origins in the late 19th century to its demise in 1945. The formative years began when a British Naval Mission was established in Japan in 1867 to advise on the development of balloons for naval purposes. After the first successful flights of fixed-wing aircraft...

    $119.00

  • CHANGING CLIMATE, CHANGING RELIGION
    PETER MANLEY SCOTT / CELIA DEANE-DRUMMOND / GEMMA EDWARDS / FINLAY MALCOLM
    This book analyses the wide-ranging changes occurring across Christian theology as religious environmental activists and advocates understand their part in ‘saving the planet’. As the planet’s climate changes, so are the theologies of the Christians working to address it. Among the Christian organisations taking bold action to tackle the climate crisis, creative theological ide...

    $1,240.00

  • SALAMANCA 1812
    PETER EDWARDS
    1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwardss compelling new history. The year began with Wellington launching a series of raids in Estramadu...

    $119.00