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Prague University Town
ISBN: PB: 9788024640532, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
216 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 141 colour plates, 1 halftone,
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petran and Lydia Petranova guide us through the history and architecture of Prague's diverse univers...
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£23,00
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Agile Faculty Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching
ISBN: PB: 9780226463155, ISBN: HB: 9780226463018, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 13 line drawings, 21 tables
Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techni...
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£17,00
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£49,00
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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables
In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...
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£22,00
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£61,00
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Deaf Students and the Qualitative Similarity Hypothesis Understanding Language and Literacy Development
ISBN: HB: 9781563685842, Gallaudet University Press, December 2013
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 3 figures, 10 tables
The difficulty that deaf and hard of hearing students have in attaining language and literacy skills has led to postulations that attribute their struggle to a developmental deficit. Recent research reveals, however, that deaf students acquire langua...
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£64,00
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Toxic Schools High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam
ISBN: PB: 9780226066417, ISBN: HB: 9780226066387, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest...
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£28,00
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£76,50
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Uncivil Rights Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity
ISBN: PB: 9780226660721, ISBN: HB: 9780226660714, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm
Almost fifty years after "Brown v. Board of Education", a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and ci...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Looking at Textiles A Guide to Technical Terms
ISBN: PB: 9781606060803, Getty Publications, December 2011
112 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 78 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
This is a concise yet detailed guide to the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse – whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish ca...
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£14,99
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Spanish National Deaf School Portraits from the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781563683558, Gallaudet University Press, November 2007
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table, 20 photos
In nineteenth-century Spain, the education of deaf students took shape through various contradictory philosophies and practices. Susan Plann depicts this ambivalence by profiling a select group of teachers and students in her detailed history "The Sp...
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£48,00
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Educating Deaf Students Global Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781563683084, Gallaudet University Press, January 2005
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
The 19th International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED) in 2000, held in Sydney, Australia, brought together 1,067 teachers, administrators and researchers from 46 countries to address an extremely wide selection of topics. Experts from arou...
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£55,50
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