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The travels recounted here are my experiences and outlook, at the
end of the 20th Century. On these particular trips, I took notes
and wrote them up when I got home. I have relived these years
through the notes and writing of this memoir. It makes me realize
how fortunate I have been to visit these countries. On these trips,
I felt a continual excitement at what we were seeing and doing, and
this was true in spite of physical fatigue. In Greece, I enjoyed
our trek up the Acropolis and the view of Athens on that clear and
sunny day was beautiful. The Parthenon was graceful even as the
workmen were repairing cracks and weathered places in preparation
for the upcoming summer Olympics. It was stimulating to be on a
cruise with Karen Armstrong in Greece. She gave lectures about the
monotheistic religions as we visited a number of sacred sites. Cape
Town, South Africa, is a resort city for Europeans where history
had been made when apartheid no longer governed a primarily black
nation. The changes in law and the culture had been made only a few
years before the Parliament of the World's Religions held its
convocation there. Former President Nelson Mandela addressed us.
Perhaps the greatest treat for me was the visit to the Soviet Union
in 1989 just two months before the Berlin wall came down and the
world rejoiced in the televised performance of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein. I enjoyed our visit to
Spain and Morocco where we learned from Harvey Cox about the
history of "convivencia" that describes the three monotheist
religions as they found ways to live together in Spain. My last
trip was with Janet Moore and her tour, Distant Horizons, to Jordan
where we learned how educated and capable women live and work in
that Muslim country.
Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was
able to curb important unsafe and unfair practices that led to the
recent financial crisis. In interviews with key government,
industry, and advocacy groups along with deep archival research,
Kirsch and Squires show where the CFPB was able to overcome many
abusive practices, where it was less able to do so, and why. Open
for business in 2011, the CFPB was Congress's response to the
financial catastrophe that shattered millions of middle-class and
lower-income households and threatened the stability of the global
economy. But only a few years later, with U.S. economic conditions
on a path to recovery, there are already disturbing signs of the
(re)emergence of the high-risk, high-reward credit practices that
the CFPB was designed to curb. This book profiles how the Bureau
has attempted to stop abusive and discriminatory lending practices
in the mortgage and automobile lending sectors and documents the
multilayered challenges faced by an untested new regulatory agency
in its efforts to transform the broken—but lucrative—business
practices of the financial services industry. Authors Kirsch and
Squires raise the question of whether the consumer protection
approach to financial services reform will succeed over the long
term in light of political and business efforts to scuttle it. Case
studies of mortgage and automobile lending reforms highlight the
key contextual and structural conditions that explain the CFPB's
ability to transform financial service industry business models and
practices. Meltdown: The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and
the Road Forward is essential reading for a wide audience,
including anyone involved in the provision of financial services,
staff of financial services and consumer protection regulatory
agencies, and fair lending and consumer protection advocates. Its
accessible presentation of financial information will also serve
students and general readers.
This book reports the impact a four-year longitudinal study
(Representations, Oral Language and Engagement in Mathematics
(RoleM)) had on teachers and students from 16 schools in
disadvantaged contexts. It offers theories with regard to the
interplay between teaching and learning mathematics as teachers and
students in these contexts implement a mathematics program. The
data are longitudinal, drawn from 154 teachers and their students
(up to 1738 students) from the first four years of school
(Foundation to Year 3). To ascertain the effectiveness of the RoleM
Professional Learning model, teachers were interviewed three times
a year and pre and post-tests were administered to students at the
beginning and end of each year. Students' results indicated that
all students' understanding of mathematics improved significantly,
with the ESL students showing the greatest gains. Their results
matched the norm-referenced expectations for all Australian
students of this age. This book shares the journey of these
teachers, Indigenous teacher aides and students. It outlines the
dimensions of the research findings that supported teachers to
become effective teachers of mathematics and assisted students in
becoming successful learners of mathematics. The book also draws on
the expertise of researchers from both Canada and New Zealand. They
share the similarities and the differences between RoleM findings
and their own contexts, in order to draw general conclusions for
the effective teaching and learning of mathematics at the margins
of society.
An unlikely political star tells us how Washington really works -
and really doesn't. As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth
Warren yearned to go to college and become a teacher. Early
motherhood seemed to put that dream out of reach, but fifteen years
later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep
understanding of why people go bankrupt. Then came the phone call
that changed her life: could she come to Washington to help
Congress rewrite the bankruptcy laws? So began an unsentimental
education in the bare-knuckled ways of Washington. She fought for
better bankruptcy laws for ten years, and lost. She tried to hold
the federal government accountable during the financial crisis, but
became a target of the big banks. She tried to protect consumers
from predatory bankers, but was thwarted. Finally, at 62, she
decided to run for the Senate, and won. In this passionate, funny,
rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she fights tooth and nail for
the middle class - and why she has become a hero to all those who
believe that America's government can and must do better.
This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.
The travels recounted here are my experiences and outlook, at the
end of the 20th Century. On these particular trips, I took notes
and wrote them up when I got home. I have relived these years
through the notes and writing of this memoir. It makes me realize
how fortunate I have been to visit these countries. On these trips,
I felt a continual excitement at what we were seeing and doing, and
this was true in spite of physical fatigue. In Greece, I enjoyed
our trek up the Acropolis and the view of Athens on that clear and
sunny day was beautiful. The Parthenon was graceful even as the
workmen were repairing cracks and weathered places in preparation
for the upcoming summer Olympics. It was stimulating to be on a
cruise with Karen Armstrong in Greece. She gave lectures about the
monotheistic religions as we visited a number of sacred sites. Cape
Town, South Africa, is a resort city for Europeans where history
had been made when apartheid no longer governed a primarily black
nation. The changes in law and the culture had been made only a few
years before the Parliament of the World's Religions held its
convocation there. Former President Nelson Mandela addressed us.
Perhaps the greatest treat for me was the visit to the Soviet Union
in 1989 just two months before the Berlin wall came down and the
world rejoiced in the televised performance of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein. I enjoyed our visit to
Spain and Morocco where we learned from Harvey Cox about the
history of "convivencia" that describes the three monotheist
religions as they found ways to live together in Spain. My last
trip was with Janet Moore and her tour, Distant Horizons, to Jordan
where we learned how educated and capable women live and work in
that Muslim country.
Title: Asaph; or, Faith's conflict with infidelity. A poem. By
Elizabeth Warren.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and
changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry
to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important
dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover
of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous;
Warren, Miss Elizabeth; 1856. 153 p.; 8 . 11645.h.14.
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pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
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preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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Edited By Harris Gaylord Warren. Picture Editor Is J. Bradford
Pengelly.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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