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Sport and Physical Education in Germany
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 63.95Sport and physical education represent important components of German national life, from school and community participation, to elite, international level sport. This unique and comprehensive collection brings together material from leading German scholars to examine the role of sport and PE in Germany from a range of historical and contemporary perspectives.... more...
Secondary Education in England 1870-1902
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 128.00In this comprehensive and extensively researched history, John Roach argues for a reassessment of the relative importance of State regulation and private provision. Although the public schools enjoyed their greatest prestige during this period, in terms of educational reform and progress their importance has been exaggerated. The role of the public... more...
How to Get Into Oxbridge
Kogan Page 2012; US$ 29.95How to Get Into Oxbridge is a comprehensive guide to the whole application procedure, covering the application timeline, college choice, personal statement writing and interview advice. more...
Gelehrte zwischen Humanismus und Reformation
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 35.00The University of Basel was founded in 1460 on the basis of a privilege from Pope Pius II. As a young man, this pope had spent several years in the town and felt a strong affinity with it throughout his life. This volume begins with an examination of this prominent humanist and describes the contexts of the founding of the university in a series of... more...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
BRILL 2011; US$ 158.00Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an essential milestone in the history of European education. more...
The School of Heretics
BRILL 2011; US$ 166.00Exhaustively surveying all known cases of academic condemnation at Oxford, including several never studied before, this book seeks to establish the institutional mechanisms and factors that led the university to condemn scholars and their theories. more...
Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer
Springer 2011; US$ 94.99Physiocracy, or the economic theory that a nation's wealth comes from is agricultural and land development, was a popular school of thought in France in the 18th century. The contribution and significance of the Physiocrats and Antiphysiocrats are explored in detail through chapter contributions by economists, philosophers, and social historians.... more...
De studentenpopulatie van de Leidse universiteit, 1575-1812
Leiden University Press 2011; US$ 86.90Deze studie schetst een, soms vermakelijk, beeld van hoe het was om aan 's lands oudste universiteit te studeren. Martine Zoeteman-van Pelt toont overtuigend aan dat de telling van het begin van de vorige eeuw grote lacunes vertoont. De analyse van de studentenpopulatie is gedaan aan de hand van een zelf ontworpen database van de ruim 60.000 inschrijvingen... more...
Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99Today, higher education and research institutions are confronted with variable and sometimes contradictory demands from state, industry, and society. They have to face growing volatility in education policy, and a research paradigm that sees an accelerating rate of knowledge growth as well as the internationalization of the knowledge process itself.... more...
Academic Interests and Catholic Confessionalisation
BRILL 2010; US$ 278.00Focussing on an anomaly - highly controverisal, but at face value useless privileges granted to the university of Louvain -, this book explores the entanglement of material, political, religious and intellectual interests nurtured by early modern academics in the Confessional Age. more...









