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Written specifically for education studies students, this
accessible text offers a clear introduction to education policy. It
aims to help the reader understand what is meant by educational
policy, how policy can be made and the main discourses that have
driven education. Capturing the essential aspects of educational
policy over the last thirty years, the book provides an overview of
political themes in education demonstrating how education policy
has progressed and the effect this and politics have had on
schools. It then covers key themes such as performance, choice and
professionalism to show how education policy is constructed and
implemented and how this has impacted on education in practice.
Features include: * activities that can be undertaken individually
or as a group to promote discussion * annotated further reading
lists; * chapter overviews and summaries Written as part of the
Foundations in Education Studies series, this timely textbook is
essential reading for students coming to the study of education
policy for the first time.
Your go-to-guide to delivering effective and transformative change
that lasts All too often, change efforts fail to deliver on their
promise. However it is possible to turn an organization around
quickly to create a new future one where people think and behave
differently and deliver extraordinary results together. Whether you
are the chairman, a board director or an aspiring senior executive,
The Little Black Book of Change provides a practical, concise and
insightful guide to understanding your organization and inventing
something extraordinary. It is not about run of the mill' change
programmes. It is about delivering extraordinary results something
that is not at all predictable. It will be your insight into
creating significant shifts in the way people think and behave
which can be applied in any area you wish; from improving service
levels to cost reductions, innovation or increasing market share. *
Demystifies organisational transformation in 7 practical steps *
Based on real business case studies * Grounded and accessible,
rather than purely from theoretical models or processes * The
authors have 25 years' experience of implementing and facilitating
transformations change * Visit
http://www.littleblackbookofchange.com/
Borley Rectory in Essex, built in 1862, should have been an
ordinary Victorian clergyman's house. However, just a year after
its construction, unexplained footsteps were heard within the
house, and from 1900 until it burned down in 1939 numerous
paranormal phenomena, including phantom coaches and shattering
windows, were observed. In 1929 the house was investigated by the
Daily Mail and paranormal researcher Harry Price, and it was he who
called it 'the most haunted house in England.' Price also took out
a lease of the rectory from 1937 to 1938, recruiting forty-eight
'official observers' to monitor occurences. After his death in
1948, the water was muddied by claims that Price's findings were
not genuine paranormal activity, and ever since there has been a
debate over what really went on at Borley Rectory. Paul Adams,
Eddie Brazil and Peter Underwood here present a comprehensive guide
to the history of the house and the ghostly (or not) goings-on
there.
In this introductory text, emphasis is placed on the geographical diversity of saltmarsh vegetation as well as the ecophysiological mechanisms that respond to the major challenges of variable soil salinities and frequently waterlogged soils.
Written specifically for education studies students, this
accessible text offers a clear introduction to education policy. It
aims to help the reader understand what is meant by educational
policy, how policy can be made and the main discourses that have
driven education. Capturing the essential aspects of educational
policy over the last thirty years, the book provides an overview of
political themes in education demonstrating how education policy
has progressed and the effect this and politics have had on
schools. It then covers key themes such as performance, choice and
professionalism to show how education policy is constructed and
implemented and how this has impacted on education in practice.
Features include: * activities that can be undertaken individually
or as a group to promote discussion * annotated further reading
lists; * chapter overviews and summaries Written as part of the
Foundations in Education Studies series, this timely textbook is
essential reading for students coming to the study of education
policy for the first time.
A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place,
this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as
communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the
very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize
place actually increase the importance of individual localities,
which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods,
and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is
fundamental to how the world works.
The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from
geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and
English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is
embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation
of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and
reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of
methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography,
poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to
examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention
and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home,
nature, and cosmos.
The haunted history of England's churches and chapels is brought
vividly to life in this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated
modern guide. Here you will encounter the compelling world of the
unseen linked with a thousand years of worship - including the
Tudor phantom of Rycote, the lonely monk of Minsden Chapel and the
black-magic ghosts of Clophill, to name but a few. From the authors
of The Borley Rectory Companion comes this astonishing book, which
covers seventy-five of the most notorious and lesser known of our
haunted ecclesiastical buildings. Combining a wealth of historical
and paranormal information with stunning original and atmospheric
photographs, this volume is perfect for researchers and armchair
ghost hunters alike. Paranormal historian Paul Adams and writer and
photographer Eddie Brazil join Peter Underwood, the UK's most
experienced ghost hunter and respected author of over fifty books
on the supernatural, in another literary partnership that will
chill all but the sturdiest of hearts.
St Albans is a city steeped in history, a place of former martyrs,
Roman legions, battles, bloodshed ... and ghosts. Here the
paranormal history of this remarkable area is brought vividly to
life in the first dedicated guide to its unique haunted heritage
that presents true encounters with the world of the strange and the
unseen. Paranormal historian Paul Adams opens case files both
ancient and modern to compile a chilling collection of supernatural
experiences - the much haunted St Albans Cathedral where phantom
monks have been seen in daylight and the fighting ghosts of
Battlefield House and the legless apparition of a long-dead butler
are just some of the unnerving experiences that await the reader.
Violinmaker Giovanni Castiglione searches for a long-lost
instrument that was possessed by famed violinist Niccolo Paganini.
Full of remarkable history and musical lore, "Paganini's Ghost"
will enchant music lovers and Italophiles alike.
Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking
justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have
adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This
chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the
mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element
of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK, cases include the
discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium, a murder solved by a
dream of the mother of the victim, and evidence at a Scottish
murder trial provided by the ghost of the victim herself. Featuring
visions, psychometry, ghosts, haunted prisons, possessions, and
spiritualist detectives, this book is a fascinating look at
criminology and ghost hunting. Paranormal historian Paul Adams has
opened the case files of both the criminologist and the ghost
hunter to compile a unique collection of crime from British
history. No true-crime bookshelf is complete without Ghosts &
Gallows.
Greenhouse Gases Balance of Bioenergy Systems covers every stage of
a bioenergy system, from establishment to energy delivery,
presenting a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of all the
relevant issues and environmental risks. It also provides an
understanding of how these can be practically managed to deliver
sustainable greenhouse gas reductions. Its expert chapter authors
present readers to the methods used to determine the greenhouse gas
balance of bioenergy systems, the data required and the
significance of the results obtained. It also provides in-depth
discussion of key issues and uncertainties, such as soil,
agriculture, forestry, fuel conversion and emissions formation.
Finally, international case studies examine typical GHG reduction
levels for different systems and highlight best practices for
bioenergy GHG mitigation. For bringing together into one volume
information from several different fields that was up until now
scattered throughout many different sources, this book is ideal for
researchers, graduate students and professionals coming into the
bioenergy field, no matter their previous background. It will be
particularly useful for bioenergy researchers seeking to calculate
greenhouse gas balances for systems they are studying. I will also
be an important resource for policy makers and energy analysts.
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