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Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions
NIACE 2010; US$ 28.95This book demonstrates how new initiatives to create learning cities and regions can improve dialogue between the practice and research communities. more...
The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 44.95This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation... more...
Beautiful
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 30.99The Surprising Story of Hedy Lamarr, ?The Most Beautiful Girl in the World? As a teenage actress in 1920s Austria, performing on the stage and in film in light comedies and musicals, Hedy Kiesler, with her exotic beauty, was heralded across Europe by her mentor, Max Reinhardt. However, it was her nude scene, and surprising dramatic ability, in... more...
Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95This authoritative volume is a truly international contribution to the worldwide debate on how best to widen access to lifelong learning. The first section of the book comprises research studies from around the world, reflecting the diversity of contexts in which widening access is researched and considers issues central to the access debate, including... more...
The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook
McGraw-Hill 2004; US$ 16.95A comprehensive guide to cancer prevention. The oldest cancer-prevention institute in the country, New York City's famed Strang Cancer Prevention Center advocates promoting cure through early detection. It has been instrumental in developing early screening and prevention programs as well as nutrition counseling. Now readers can benefit from the same... more...
Social Capital, Lifelong Learning and the Management of Place
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95With contributions from around the world, this book brings together inter-related research from three fields: social capital, place management and lifelong learning regions. Providing valuable insight into the management of place and the development of learning at a regional level, the book presents international research that underpins the development... more...
The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practices in continuing education. It highlights the fact that the wide-ranging conclusions they... more...
Driving Your Company's Value
Wiley 2005; US$ 73.95Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy-to-read format, it brings together... more...
Hormones, Signals and Target Cells in Plant Development
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 42.00In this up-to-date treatise, aimed at researchers in plant developmental biology, the authors discuss how each cell has the ability to discriminate between different chemical signals, determining which it will respond to and which it will ignore. These chemical signals shape the differentiation of that cell and hence the plant as a whole. more...
Improving What is Learned at University
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95Received the ?highly commended? award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010. What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according to what, where and how one studies? As higher education... more...









