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Using Effectiveness Data for School Improvement
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95Data metrics in schools are becoming increasingly complex, but despite their best efforts, teachers and academics generally find them something of a ?black-box?. This book lifts the lid on that box, exploring the provenance and problematization of existing techniques and developing new algorithms for measuring the more oblique aspects of in-school... more...
Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. more...
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition. more...
The Roman Empire
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 9.99The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. With a population of sixty million people, it encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from northern England to North Africa and Syria. This Very Short Introduction covers the history of the empire at its height, looking at its people, religions and social structures. It explains how it deployed violence,... more...
Attila The Hun
Random House 2011; US$ 13.34Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction. His reign of terror shattered an imperial world that had been securely unified by the conquests of Julius Caesar five centuries... more...
Cassian's Conferences
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the 'Conferences', especially its biblical models to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul. This book demonstrates how the scriptures functioned as a dynamic force in the lives of Christian, emphasizes the importance of Cassian in the development... more...
The Darwin Awards 4
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 13.00Over 1.5 million copies sold in this New York Times bestselling humor series The Darwin Awards series is the alpha chimp of humorous human mishaps. Despite being an international bestseller and inspiring the movie The Darwin Awards , these hilarious, cautionary chronicles have failed to stop another generation of Darwin Award winners from steering... more...
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT
Springer 2011; US$ 39.99Congratulations! You're on Mars Base Alpha, the first human outpost on the red planet. Don't relax, though. It's not all roses and unicorns up here. Mars isn't called "The Bringer of War" for nothing! You've just been rained on by a meteor shower and it's up to you - you! - to put your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics... more...
The Challenge of Rousseau
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00The essays in this volume focus on Rousseau's genuine yet undervalued stature as a philosopher. more...
Protein Misfolding Diseases
Wiley 2010; US$ 214.00An increasingly aging population will add to the number of individuals suffering from amyloid. Protein Misfolding Diseases provides a systematic overview of the current and emerging therapies for these types of protein misfolding diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Mad Cow. The book emphasizes therapeutics in an amyloid disease context... more...









