As collaboratives increasingly make a difference in educational reform, a growing number of states are examining the entire K-16 system and exploring ways to connect educational levels and systems to better serve students-especially those at-risk and underrepresented. The Collaborative Advantage contributes to the field by documenting the benefits of a collaborative, K-16 approach to educational reform and by providing a comprehensive set of lessons and recommendations developed by inter-institutional collaboratives from around the United States. This jargon-free book identifies three critical stages in the development of a collaborative: foundation-building, growth, and making collaboration a sustainable force for reform. Numerous challenges, solutions, and examples are provided for each stage. To further assist practitioners, the authors identify three partnership types-program, pathway, and policy. This book will be of interest to administrators, practitioners in both higher education and K-12, and faculty who teach courses in education, sociology, public policy, and organizational behavior.

Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts."Natural Connections" focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity in rural areas. It represents the first systematic analysis of locally based efforts, and includes a comprehensive examination of cases from around the world where the community-based approach is used. The book provides: an overview of community-based conservation in the context of the debate over sustainable development, poverty, and environmental decline case studies from the developed and developing worlds -- Indonesia, Peru, Australia, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom -- that present detailed examples of the locally based approach to conservation a review of the principal issues arising from community-based programs an agenda for future action

Based on a true story from the nineteen-forties, CAPE TORMENT recreates the incredible events surrounding one of Canada's most shocking crimes. Quebec City jeweller, Marcel Gagnon, is desperate to be free to marry his stunning, teenage mistress, Therese Sainte-Angele. But divorce is an impossible option in his repressive Catholic community, and his frustration mounts when Therese threatens to leave him. Determined to get what he wants, he resorts to committing an unprecedented atrocity, one that wrecks lives and leaves the world a less trusting place. Rita Gagnon is the loyal wife fighting for the man she loves, swearing to honour her marriage vows to the end of her days. Marguerite Laval is the coarse, small-time felon who dresses in black, and runs errands for the jeweller she owes money to. Xavier Levesque - her crippled brother - is Gagnon's womanizing clock-maker assistant. And, Liffey MacBaine is the pretty airline stewardess, from Alberta, haunted by her past, and longing to be reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption in the midst of appalling tragedy. All of these characters are researched representations of the real life people whose lives were forever bound by an act of cold blooded evil. Who will live and who will die? That is the question answered in this gripping novel's suspenseful, climactic scenes.

This book presents and comments on four short works of Japanese literature by prominent writers of the early twentieth century, including Natsume Soseki and Miyazawa Kenji. These are their first-ever published English translations.The book is designed to be used as a textbook for the translation of modern Japanese literature-another first. Each chapter introduces the writer and his work, presents the original Japanese text in its entirety, and encourages students with advanced Japanese to make their own translation of it, before reading the author's translation that follows. The detailed commentary section in each chapter focuses on two stylistic issues that characterise the source text, and how the target text-the translation-has dealt with them, before the chapter concludes with questions for further discussion and analysis.