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A Diamond to Die for (Hardcover): Ann Blair Kloman A Diamond to Die for (Hardcover)
Ann Blair Kloman
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R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Isobel's Odyssey (Hardcover): Ann Blair Kloman Isobel's Odyssey (Hardcover)
Ann Blair Kloman
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R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Challenges to School Exclusion - Exclusion, Appeals and the Law (Paperback, New): And Ann Blair, Karen Eden, Neville Harris Challenges to School Exclusion - Exclusion, Appeals and the Law (Paperback, New)
And Ann Blair, Karen Eden, Neville Harris
R1,464 Discovery Miles 14 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Permanent exclusion is the most severe sanction a school can impose on a child and the number of permanently excluded children is rising. Based on systematic observation of exclusion appeal panel hearings.Challenges to School Exclusion offers a unique insight into the appeal process. It focuses on:
*mechanisms by which parents and children can challenge permanent exclusion
*the law and current practice
*the social context of exclusion
*reforms of the appeal system made by the School Standards and Framework Act
*the DfEEs latest guidance on pupil inclusion.
Challenges to School Exclusion is the first study to examine permanent exclusion. The findings reveal serious deficiencies in the appeal system, including a frequent failure to deal fairly with excluded children. The text will be of particular interest to head teachers, local education authorities, school governors, education lawyers and education charities.

Information - A Historical Companion (Hardcover): Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony Grafton Information - A Historical Companion (Hardcover)
Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony Grafton
R1,361 Discovery Miles 13 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing and storage make our data-driven era possible? This volume is the first to consider these questions in comprehensive detail, tracing the global emergence of information practices, technologies, and more, from the premodern era to the present. With entries spanning archivists to algorithms and scribes to surveilling, this is the ultimate reference on how information has shaped and been shaped by societies. Written by an international team of experts, the book's inspired and original long- and short-form contributions reconstruct the rise of human approaches to creating, managing, and sharing facts and knowledge. Thirteen full-length chapters discuss the role of information in pivotal epochs and regions, with chief emphasis on Europe and North America, but also substantive treatment of other parts of the world as well as current global interconnections. More than 100 alphabetical entries follow, focusing on specific tools, methods, and concepts-from ancient coins to the office memo, and censorship to plagiarism. The result is a wide-ranging, deeply immersive collection that will appeal to anyone drawn to the story behind our modern mania for an informed existence. Tells the story of information's rise from 1450 through to today Covers a range of eras and regions, including the medieval Islamic world, late imperial East Asia, early modern and modern Europe, and modern North America Includes 100 concise articles on wide-ranging topics: Concepts: data, intellectual property, privacy Formats and genres: books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls and rolls, social media People: archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers Practices: censorship, forecasting, learning, political reporting, translating Processes: digitization, quantification, storage and search Systems: bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications Technologies: cameras, computers, lithography Provides an informative glossary, suggested further reading (a short bibliography accompanies each entry), and a detailed index Written by an international team of notable contributors, including Jeremy Adelman, Lorraine Daston, Devin Fitzgerald, John-Paul Ghobrial, Lisa Gitelman, Earle Havens, Randolph C. Head, Niv Horesh, Sarah Igo, Richard R. John, Lauren Kassell, Pamela Long, Erin McGuirl, David McKitterick, Elias Muhanna, Thomas S. Mullaney, Carla Nappi, Craig Robertson, Daniel Rosenberg, Neil Safier, Haun Saussy, Will Slauter, Jacob Soll, Heidi Tworek, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Alexandra Walsham, and many more.

Forgers and Critics, New Edition - Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Paperback): Anthony Grafton Forgers and Critics, New Edition - Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Paperback)
Anthony Grafton; Foreword by Ann Blair
R499 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R57 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the "criminal sibling" of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals-forgers from classical Greece through the recent past-who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, as well as the scholarly detectives who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers. In the process, Grafton discloses the extent, the coherence, and the historical interest of two significant and tightly intertwined strands in the Western intellectual tradition.

Mastering Conversational Hypnosis: Learn How to Influence and Persuade Someone Easily Without Them Knowing It (Paperback):... Mastering Conversational Hypnosis: Learn How to Influence and Persuade Someone Easily Without Them Knowing It (Paperback)
Cheryl-Ann Blair
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Are you tired of ineffective debates and not being able to be persuasive? Do you see others who can instantly connect to others and seem to be able to sway opinions their way easily? What if I told you that you could be just as persuasive? You can be. Conversational hypnosis is your gateway to becoming a better communicator, with better persuasive power and the ability to influence. Linguistic principles are used to improve the power of your speech, making people pay attention and listen. Not only will they listen, but you will also find that they are agreeable to what you are suggesting. Make the power of suggestion work for you and learn how to get people to do what you want through influence and persuasion. This book will walk you through how to establish rapport and then how to get people to do what you want, without realizing you are influencing them in any way.

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, Revised): Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, Revised)
Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe" focuses on the ways culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth. The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars. Anthony Grafton's contribution on the fifteenth-century forger Annius of Viterbo emphasizes the role of imagination in the classical revival; Lisa Jardine demonstrates the way in which Erasmus helped turn a technical and rebarbative book by Rudolph Agricola into a sixteenth-century success story; Alan Charles Kors finds the roots of Enlightenment atheism in the works of French Catholic theologians; Donald R. Kelley follows the legal idea of "custom" from its formulation by the ancients to its assimilation into the modern social sciences; and Lawrence Stone shows how changes in legal action against female adultery between 1670 and 1857 reflect basic shifts in English moral values. Anthony Grafton is Professor of History at Princeton University. Among his many books are "Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship" and "The Footnote: A Curious History." Ann Blair teaches history at Harvard University. She is author of "The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science."

The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Paperback): Ann Blair The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Paperback)
Ann Blair
R1,812 Discovery Miles 18 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience," fueling a vigorous cycle of text-based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. He combined arguments from reason, experience, and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Hardcover): Ann Blair The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Hardcover)
Ann Blair
R4,556 Discovery Miles 45 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience," fueling a vigorous cycle of text-based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. He combined arguments from reason, experience, and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Revival - A Bella James Mystery (Paperback): Alexis Koetting Revival - A Bella James Mystery (Paperback)
Alexis Koetting; Edited by Mary Ann Blair; Cover design or artwork by Ruth Dwight
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R476 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Diamond to Die for (Paperback): Ann Blair Kloman A Diamond to Die for (Paperback)
Ann Blair Kloman
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R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rhymes with Little Reason (Paperback): Anne Blair Rhymes with Little Reason (Paperback)
Anne Blair
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Isobel's Odyssey (Paperback): Ann Blair Kloman Isobel's Odyssey (Paperback)
Ann Blair Kloman
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R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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