Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals studies the degree to which teachers and principals in eight countries view themselves as taking responsibility, working by clear standards, reporting transparently, and accepting feedback at work. The book focuses on cultural values that explain variation in accountability levels of school educators, drawing on data from Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It addresses the question of whether cultural values, specifically collectivism and individualism, are related to teachers' and principals' external and internal accountability dispositions. It also explores the intriguing role of organizational support and key school personnel in school reforms across the world, providing a new way to understand school accountability. The book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, and scholars in the field of education policy and international and comparative studies in education.

Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals studies the degree to which teachers and principals in eight countries view themselves as taking responsibility, working by clear standards, reporting transparently, and accepting feedback at work. The book focuses on cultural values that explain variation in accountability levels of school educators, drawing on data from Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It addresses the question of whether cultural values, specifically collectivism and individualism, are related to teachers' and principals' external and internal accountability dispositions. It also explores the intriguing role of organizational support and key school personnel in school reforms across the world, providing a new way to understand school accountability. The book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, and scholars in the field of education policy and international and comparative studies in education.

Designed to help you quickly learn or review normal anatomy and confirm variants, Imaging Anatomy: Knee, Ankle, Foot , by Dr. Julia R. Crim, provides detailed anatomic views of each major joint of the lower extremity. Ultrasound and 3T MR images in each standard plane of imaging (axial, coronal, and sagittal) accompany highly accurate and detailed medical illustrations, assisting you in making an accurate diagnosis. Comprehensive coverage of the knee, ankle, and foot, combined with an orderly, easy-to-follow structure, make this unique title unmatched in its field. Includes all relevant imaging modalities, 3D reconstructions, and highly accurate and detailed medical graphics that illustrate the fine points of the imaging anatomy Depicts common anatomic variants (both osseous and soft tissue) and covers imaging pitfalls as a part of its comprehensive coverage Enables any structure in the lower extremity to easily be located, identified, and tracked in any plane for a faster, more accurate diagnosis Provides richly labeled images with associated commentary as well as scout images to assist in localization Explains uniquely difficult functional or anatomical regions of the lower extremity, such as posterolateral corner of knee, ankle ligaments, ankle tendons, and nerves of the lower extremity Presents coronal and axial planes as both the right and left legs, on facing pages, making ultrasound/MR correlation even easier Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, videos, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

"It has been said that there is a class of people who feel entitled to smash up things and creatures and then retreat back into their money. As certainly as that is still true...it is now a new aristocracy of bankers, lawyers and CEO's who imagine they turn the levers of the world. Their whims are the highest law, consequences fall where they may for the great mass of people who don't matter."
Such are the thoughts of burnt out San Francisco banking lawyer, Michael Davis, who, having become the man he always swore he never would be, is teetering on the brink of emotional collapse. Atlanta Buchanan, who is questioning everything she thought she knew, sees in Michael something of herself. Her husband, Henry Buchanan, a proud one percenter, is unaware that everything he works so hard to keep under control is about to be upended.
America in the beginning of the new century is very much like America in the beginning of the last: a place of profound social and economic inequities. However, into the America of this century wafts the scent of revolution. This novel chronicles one fateful year in the lives of these people as they struggle to make hard choices in a time when ideas once considered dangerous and people once marginalized are moving in to colonize a center that cannot hold. A furious, modern riff on The Great Gatsby, A.Z. Zehava's novel is a fierce story about a quiet insurgency happening in an America in transition.

Standing for his second term, President of the United States Palmer 'Pace' Rawden hears that El Jibril, respected Bedouin and Osama bin Ladan devotee, also OPEC's senior strategist is launching a new protocol granting China favoured oil status over the United States. Rawden isn't aware this is the first of a series of Jibril US 'paybacks' for the 'murder' of bin Ladan and other US 'atrocities'. Another 'raid' involves constitutionally accessing the White House. Collaterally, US oil supplies will be linked to Chinese immigration. El Jibril is moving towards the impeachment of the president. But Jibril hasn't reckoned on Rawden's tenacity. Approaching Chinese immigrants are denied landing rights, China reacts and a breathless world watches a superpower crisis loom. Angered by US 'vested interests', Rawden seeks change. By adding one word to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address he introduces a new political concept. Americans want politicians removed from government. Threatened, the politicians fight back until the US Supreme Court rules ...

There is no more fascinating saga than that of the Jews. Uninterrupted for four thousand years, it describes how a people 'diasporised' from their 'promised land' still survive a pernicious world, outliving all civilisations despite constant persecution and a Holocaust killing frenzy more malevolent than the Dark Ages' Barbarian freaks who pillaged Europe after the Romans. But there were heroics as well. At Masada, a few Jews held off more Roman Legions than any other Roman challenger in that empire's military history. A few Jews had the Nazis pulling out all stops in to raze the Warsaw Ghetto. No, contrary to Holocaust belief, the Jews are not a meek people. Small numbers of concentration camp survivors defeated the collective power of seven Arab armies five times in five separate wars. The 'Six Day War' lasted that long because their God, it was said, rested on the seventh day Most Jews see the hand of God in their epic struggles for survival. With foresight, their God had equipped them with something more powerful than weaponry. Mental flexibility linked to a Jungian 'collective unconscious' is more effective. By far. Victor Hugo said. "There is no greater power than an idea whose time has come." "Tribes: Israel" demonstrates just that.