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Barron's Educational Ser., 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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Barron's Educational Ser., 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. For art students and ambitious amateurs seeking to be watercolorists, practical advice is offered on materials, tools, painting basics, and specific techniques for painting different types of pictures. These tips follow a short history of the art form. This is the English translation of the Spanish title, Acuarela, published by Parramon Ediciones in Barcelona in 2000. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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JIST Publishing, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Career coach Wolfinger offers up the results of her intensive searches for the right stuff, including college and financial aid information, distance and lifelong learning, career exploration information (including help with self-assessment), job openings and career clearinghouses, employer and labor market information, military careers, opportunities for self-employment and small business, and alternatives such as temporary work, contract employment, ... more information

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HarperCollins, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Tirman (executive director, Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) protests that he is not being "cranky or clownish" in enumerating 100 things that the United States has dove in the world that "[have] gone awry, or worse, [have] gone as planned with disastrous results for almost everyone else." He urges readers to think of his discussion as a corrective, as he goes about criticizing neoliberali... more information

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Barron's Educational Ser., 2008. New. CD-ROM; not a bound book. ... more information

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Barron's Educational Ser., 2008. New. CD-ROM; not a bound book. CD-ROM included. ... more information

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Barron's Educational Ser., 2004. New Book. Spiral Binding. This guide uses three-dimensional computer animation and instructors who look like crash dummies to illustrate clearly how readers can be safe at home, on the street or in a car, train, plane or bus. From eyeball displacement, extreme cold or heat, and unwanted advances to hijacking and terrorism, these dummies can escape from any danger. (©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Dover Pub. Co., 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The 1958 work (Interscience Publishers, NY) is here reprinted, making available a text suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students written by a renowned researcher and educator affiliated with Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (he was one of the last students of A.M. Liapounov). Coverage includes the methods of Poincaré, Liapounov, Lichtenstein, and Wavre; invariable or varying figures, zonal rotation,... more information

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Beacon Press, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Eisner (a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist) considers the reasons young people don't vote and offers suggestions to encourage their participation. She discusses the influence of party identification, political ads, scandals, volunteerism, peer encouragement, civic education, and public ritual. There is no index. (©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Hoover Institution Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The United States "must develop a strategic foreign cooperation and assistance policy that fosters strong civil societies as an important end for promoting development, in addition to its traditional role as a means to deliver aid," argue Chickering (the Hoover Institution), Coleman (Council on Foreign Relations), Haley (international strategic studies, Claremont-McKenna College), and Vargas-Baron (director, Institute for Reconstruct... more information

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Hoover Institution Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The United States "must develop a strategic foreign cooperation and assistance policy that fosters strong civil societies as an important end for promoting development, in addition to its traditional role as a means to deliver aid," argue Chickering (the Hoover Institution), Coleman (Council on Foreign Relations), Haley (international strategic studies, Claremont-McKenna College), and Vargas-Baron (director, Institute for Reconstruct... more information

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The World Bank, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This report reviews projects financed by the World Bank (mostly during the period 1990-2003) that focused on innovation systems support. It covers some 51 projects involving over $4.2 billion in Bank support. The focus is on industrial technology development, and the authors touch only briefly on the themes of education, and information and communications technology. The volume is not indexed. (©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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The World Bank, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This report was commissioned by The Netherlands Financial Sector Development Exchange (NFX) for its November 2006 conference, held in Amsterdam. The authors (affiliations not cited) assess the extent to which financial sector development can contribute to realization of the eight Millennium Development Goals. Specifically, they consider the effects of financial development and economic growth on four main areas: poverty, education, health, and gender eq... more information

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Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The Pulitzer-winning Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg, Why I Am a Catholic) updates his 1983 memoir with a slightly puzzled new preface: "As a sedentary old man, sitting at a desk and writing, I find it amusing to read about a younger self with the energy to chase around reporting on demonstrations, riots, communes, conventions, and political brawls," he writes. The eloquent essays that follow were written between 1968 and 1982, spanning culture... more information

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The World Bank, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This book is a compilation of two OED (Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank) evaluations on gender and economics in the World Bank: "Integrating Gender in World Bank Assistance" and "The Gender Dimension of Bank Assistance: An Evaluation of Results" from 2000 and 2001. The World Bank's gender policy is first explained, then the role of gender is evaluated in economic policy, relevance as to poverty, specific countri... more information

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Cato Institute, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The libertarian Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies presents the sixth volume of their annual critique of key Supreme Court decisions, covering the 2006 term. Covered in this volume is the Court's treatment of constitutional remedies in Wilkie v. Robbins, the election law case of FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., the First Amendment cases of Davenport v. Washington Education Association and Morse v. Frederick, the federal part... more information

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Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Written for the first-year teacher or new building transfer, this handbook offers practical advice on dealing with issues relating to time management, classroom management, and lesson planning. Strike has added insights gained throughout her career as a teacher and administrator to material taken from the Wisconsin Education Association Council's The Beginning Teacher Handbook (1989). Extensive Internet resources are listed in th... more information

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RDR Books, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In the sweeping set of federal laws known as No Child Left Behind, the contributors see a sustained and damaging campaign to dismantle America's neighborhood-based public school system. Writing for parents, teachers, and the interested public, they lay out the ways that backers of No Child Left Behind, which has been presented as a reform effort, have exaggerated the weaknesses of the system and diverted attention from the real problems that stem from un... more information

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Karnac Books, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This accessibly written resource for parents and caregivers explores some of the emotional and practical consequences of having a child with a learning disability. Drawing upon their personal experience as the parents of a learning-disabled child, Sheila (a psychotherapist) and Martin (a science educator) Hollins describe the ways in which children with learning disabilities differ from their peers at various stages of development. Distributed in the U.S.... more information

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