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With its wealth of suggestions for new initiatives and areas for collaboration, this book will be required reading for academics and university leaders.

Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical and factual information but significant interpretation of those facts and figures.

Offers historical and present-day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it.

As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around ...

This book is a pragmatic linguistic analysis of the American University Alma Mater and Fight Song.

Analyzes value changes arising from new university-industry research relationships.

This handbook will be invaluable to all teachers involved in higher education, especially those who are dissatisfied with the assessment procedures they are using for setting and marking assignments, examinations and theses.

a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment.

New to this edition is an in-depth examination of corporate sponsorships, as well as a detailed chapter on endowment campaigns.

This book comprehensively examines the current trends in further education by means of both policy analysis and research in the field.

This volume provides a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the history, the law, and the mechanics of modern airline labor bargaining.

This book does not compare the planes, nor claim that all are "classics" in the traditional sense of the word. Instead, it is a celebration of a love affair with aircraft that all served a purpose in their own time.

The illustrated story of the banana boats of Elders & Fyffes.

A history of the study of the tides over two millennia, from Ancient Greeks to present sophisticated space-age techniques.

A fascinating variety of open, closed, convertible, and semi-convertible cars, propelled by horse, steam, cable, and electricity, parade through the pages of this book.

Transportation involves several modes of travel, and although the details of each mode can be quite different, this book demonstrates how all follow a basic conceptual structure.

"The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a resource that provides safety knowledge and tools in a useful form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance.

A catalog of archaeological artifacts that have been left behind in space as a result of human exploration, this work describes the remnants of lost satellites, discarded lunar rovers, depleted rockets, and various abandoned spacecraft.

This book provides an explanation of key underlying economic principles, allowing the reader to come to a better understanding of the critical factors that structure and guide transport markets.

This book reflects on experiences in other countries and makes recommendations for improving the capability and capacity of institutions and organizations, in order to achieve sustainable development of the Chinese high-speed railway (HSR) ...

When it comes to conning each other, we have some of the most colourful and interesting hucksters in the world. This book contains stories from all regions of the country.

Based on previously sealed testimony and interviews, this disturbing true account paints a horrifiying portrait of Wayne Adam Ford, a twisted man who, unable to control his perverse sexual appetites, brutally tortured, mutilated, and ...

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel about the harsh realities of American life. Based on an actual murder case, the story concerns a young man, Clyde Griffiths, who is born into a religious family.

Here Michaud and Hazelwood go beyond the lurid details, to a deeper understanding of the depraved minds behind the grisly crimes, in a stark, startling, and fascinating work you will not soon forget.

But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies.

In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden’s astonishing story—from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive ...

In this true crime classic, out of print since 1981, Lucky Luciano remains a mythical underworld figure.

FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVIL In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective ...

An attorney and alumnus of Mount Hermon School for Boys in Northfield, Massachusetts, offers an in-depth account of the unsolved 1934 murder of the school's charismatic headmaster, Elliott Speer, offering a biographical portrait of the ...

Find yourself spending a fortune on new locks after someone lost their keys again? Forgot your keys in the car one too many times? Free yourself once and for all from ever having a keyless crisis again with The CIA Lockpicking Manual.