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Second International Handbook of Educational Change by Karen Seashore Louis (auth.), Andy Hargreaves, Ann

Second International Handbook of Educational Change by Karen Seashore Louis (auth.), Andy Hargreaves, Ann

By Karen Seashore Louis (auth.), Andy Hargreaves, Ann Lieberman, Michael Fullan, David Hopkins (eds.)

The volumes of the second one variation of the overseas instruction manual of academic switch include a wholly new, and up-to-date number of the main severe and state of the art rules in academic change.

Written by way of the main influential thinkers within the box, those volumes hide academic switch at either the theoretical and sensible degrees. The up-to-date instruction manual is still hooked up to the classical issues of the sphere, reminiscent of academic innovation, reform, and alter administration, and in addition bargains new insights into academic swap which have been led to by way of social swap and moving contexts of academic reform. just like the first top promoting guide, this one also will unquestionably turn into a necessary source for individuals serious about all spheres of schooling, from school room academics, instructor leaders and directors to academic researchers, curriculum builders, and college professors. No different paintings presents one of these wide-ranging and finished exam of the sector of academic change.

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Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of by Michèle Lamont, Laurent Thévenot

Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of by Michèle Lamont, Laurent Thévenot

By Michèle Lamont, Laurent Thévenot

This e-book presents a strong new theoretical framework for knowing cross-national cultural variations. Researchers from France and the United States current 8 comparative case stories to illustrate how the folk of those diverse cultures mobilize nationwide "repertoires of assessment" to make judgments approximately politics, economics, morals and aesthetics. This technique is going past essentialist types of nationwide personality to match various attitudes on subject matters starting from racism and sexual harrassment to id politics, publishing, journalism, the humanities and the surroundings. The e-book will attract sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists alike.

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Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks: Creative and

Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks: Creative and

It's always assumed that picturebooks are for terribly younger readers due to their emphasis at the illustrations and their shortage of textual content; although, there are expanding numbers of picturebooks the place the age of the implied reader is questionable. those are picturebooks whose arguable subject material and unconventional, frequently unsettling sort of representation problem the reader, pushing them to question and probe deeper to appreciate what the e-book is set. as well as the publication hard the reader, the reader often

challenges the publication in an try and comprehend what's being said.

These more and more renowned picturebooks paintings on many alternative degrees; they're actually polysemic and invaluable of in-depth research. They push the reader to invite questions and regularly are intrinsically philosophical, usually facing basic existence issues.

Challenging and debatable Picturebooks examines those unconventional, non-conformist picturebooks, contemplating what they're, their viewers and their goal. It additionally considers: 
• Children’s and adults’ recommendations on these types of picturebooks.
• How not easy and unsettling wordless picturebooks can play with the brain and advertise philosophical thought.
• What creates non-conformity and strangeness … is it the illustrations and their type, the subject material or a mixture of both?
• Why definite international locations create, advertise and settle for those picturebooks greater than others.
• Why convinced picturebooks are censored and what components are in play while those judgements are made.
• The position of publishers in translating and publishing those picturebooks.
• Children’s artistic and significant responses to unusual, unsettling and sometimes nerve-racking visible texts.

This inspiring and thought-provoking quantity explores the paintings of a couple of hugely revered, overseas picturebook specialists and contains an specific interview with the mythical Klaus Flugge, dealing with Director of Andersen Press, one of many few final self sufficient children’s publication publishers in England.

It is an fundamental reference for all attracted to or operating with picturebooks, together with researchers, scholars in larger and instructor schooling, English advisors/inspectors, literacy experts and school room lecturers.

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Understanding Hughes Syndrome: Case Studies for Patients by Graham R.V. Hughes MD, FRCP (auth.), Graham R. V. Hughes

Understanding Hughes Syndrome: Case Studies for Patients by Graham R.V. Hughes MD, FRCP (auth.), Graham R. V. Hughes

By Graham R.V. Hughes MD, FRCP (auth.), Graham R. V. Hughes (eds.)

Besides AIDS, antiphospholipid syndrome used to be the foremost clinical discovery of the past due twentieth century, so for lots of it's nonetheless deemed a ‘new’ disorder. the invention of ‘sticky blood’ (commonly often called antiphospholipid syndrome or ‘Hughes Syndrome’) got here out of years of remark of sufferers who had built lupus. Many experts within the Nineteen Seventies have been drawn to the neurological elements of lupus, and Dr Hughes, between others, spent a couple of years learning the mechanisms of mind irritation. within the mid Seventies, Hughes saw a few younger ladies with a kind of viral paralysis, the place curiously lots of them carried an antibody of their blood really directed opposed to ‘phospholipid’ – one of many parts of mind and spinal twine. It quick turned obvious that people who had "anti-phospholipid antibodies" suffered from a bent not just to increase mind and spinal wire signs, but additionally a bent to advance either vein and artery thrombosis. As research persevered it grew to become obvious that those indicators weren't simply constrained to lupus sufferers, yet happened in others too, particularly people with serious migraines, with repeated strokes, with reminiscence loss, and in girls with recurrent miscarriage.

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Professionelle Videotechnik: Grundlagen, Filmtechnik, by Ulrich Schmidt

Professionelle Videotechnik: Grundlagen, Filmtechnik, by Ulrich Schmidt

By Ulrich Schmidt

Die Videotechnik geht aktuell von einer analogen zu einer digitalen Technik ?ber und verbindet sich mit der desktop- und Telekommunikationstechnik. Das Buch behandelt alle Aspekte der Video- und Videostudiotechnik: Grundlagen der Wahrnehmung und Farbmetrik, analoge und digitale Videosignale, Fernsehsignal?bertragung, Bildaufnahme- und Bildwiedergabesysteme, Bildaufzeichnungsger?te, Videosignalbearbeitung und Videostudiosysteme. Die five. Auflage wurde um Abschnitte zu 3D-TV erg?nzt, die Kapitel ?ber excessive Definition television und digitalen movie erweitert.

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