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A volume in Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral
Sciences: Issues, Research, and Teaching Series Editor Ron Serlin,
University of Wisconsin (sponsored by the Educational
Statisticians, SIG) Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data,
co-edited by Ann A. O'Connell, Ed.D., and D. Betsy McCoach, Ph.D.,
is the next volume in the series: Quantitative Methods in Education
and the Behavioral Sciences: Issues, Research and Teaching
(Information Age Publishing), sponsored by the Educational
Statisticians' Special Interest Group (Ed-Stat SIG) of the American
Educational Research Association. The use of multilevel analyses to
examine effects of groups or contexts on individual outcomes has
burgeoned over the past few decades. Multilevel modeling techniques
allow educational researchers to more appropriately model data that
occur within multiple hierarchies (i.e.- the classroom, the school,
and/or the district). Examples of multilevel research problems
involving schools include establishing trajectories of academic
achievement for children within diverse classrooms or schools or
studying school-level characteristics on the incidence of bullying.
Multilevel models provide an improvement over traditional
single-level approaches to working with clustered or hierarchical
data; however, multilevel data present complex and interesting
methodological challenges for the applied education research
community. In keeping with the pedagogical focus for this book
series, the papers this volume emphasize applications of multilevel
models using educational data, with chapter topics ranging from
basic to advanced. This book represents a comprehensive and
instructional resource text on multilevel modeling for quantitative
researchers who plan to use multilevel techniques in their work, as
well as for professors and students of quantitative methods courses
focusing on multilevel analysis. Through the contributions of
experienced researchers and teachers of multilevel modeling, this
volume provides an accessible and practical treatment of methods
appropriate for use in a first and/or second course in multilevel
analysis. A supporting website links chapter examples to actual
data, creating an opportunity for readers to reinforce their
knowledge through hands-on data analysis. This book serves as a
guide for designing multilevel studies and applying multilevel
modeling techniques in educational and behavioral research, thus
contributing to a better understanding of and solution for the
challenges posed by multilevel systems and data.
The law and policy applicable to the not-for-profit sector is of
growing importance around the world. In this book, legal experts
address fundamental questions about not-for-profit law from a range
of theoretical and comparative perspectives. The essays provide
scholarly analysis of not-for-profit law, organised around four
themes: (1) Politics, in the broader sense of living as a
community, and the narrower sense of political power; (2) Charity,
how it is defined and changes in its meaning over time; (3)
Taxation, including the rationale for government support of the
sector through the tax system; (4) Regulation, which is of
increasing significance as governments establish increasingly
complex forms of regulation of not-for-profit activity. The
fundamental aim of the book is to deepen our understanding of
not-for-profit law and of the rationales and modes of government
support for the not-for-profit sector.
Vegetarians have never had it so good: a wealth of new vegetable
types, skilled and inventive cooks delivering dishes from cuisines
unknown to our parents' generation, and new kitchen technologies
that deliver freshness and flavour inconceivable to the age of
castiron ranges and steaming boiling-pots. So, while today a
vegetarian can eat a light, exciting, fully flavoured and
satisfying meal which may be the envy of many a carnivore, everyone
will admit that the fate of a vegetarian or food-reformer in the
reign of Queen Victoria was possibly not so blessed. This little
book explores the recipes that were developed by, and available to,
the vegetarians of yesteryear. We will not pretend, nor does the
author, that every recipe is a culinary thrill but each does unlock
a certain secret about early vegetarianism, a movement that was of
much greater significance in the years before the First World War
than we sometimes acknowledge.The literature of vegetarian cookery
starts with Thomas Tryon's 1690, "Wisdoms Dictates" but then is
virtual blank until the second half of the nineteenth century when
vegetarianism became more widespread. This book offers a selection
of recipes culled from manuals dating broadly from 1856 to 1908. It
is arranged in logical chapters covering Soups; Salads; Beans,
Lentils and Rice; Cheese and Egg Dishes; Cutlets, Croquettes and
Sausages; Moulds and Galantines; Pies and Pastries; Vegetable
Dishes; Sauces; Bread; Sweets; Porridge, Gruel, etc.; and closing
with menus for banquets and celebrations including Christmas
Dinner. The recipes are offered in their original form with a
minimum of editorial suggestion as to how they may be achieved.
Clearly, the cooking was not very complicated.This book will be of
interest to those curious about the history of vegetarianism. Those
with longer memories will recall that vegetarian cooking, for
instance after the Second World War, was surprisingly tasty and
adventurous (they could work miracles with a nut cutlet). This book
will give some hint as to how they achieved their ends. "Early
Vegetarian Recipes" is another volume in "Prospect Books'" series
of little monographs on the food of our forefathers, "The English
Kitchen".
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