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The Man Who Owns the News
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00If Rupert Murdoch isn?t making headlines, he?s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings?from the New York Post , Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal , to name just a few?are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer... more...
The Man Who Owns the News
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 13.34In a career spanning four decades Rupert Murdoch has built News International into a $70 billion corporation. Through a series of breathtaking gambles he expanded from his base in the Australian newspaper business to achieve a preeminent position in the UK's media, and to control a huge slice of Hollywood. Increasingly his company has built a presence... more...
Burn Rate
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 18.95Michael Wolff's wickedly funny chronicle of his rags-to-riches-to-rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars -- and notably devoid of profit-making enterprises. As he describes his efforts to control his company's burn rate -- the amount of money the company... more...
The Man Who Owns The News
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08If Rupert Murdoch isn?t making headlines, he?s busy buying the media outlets that generate them.Murdoch's News Corp holdings - from The New York Post, Fox News, The Australian, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few - are vast , and his power is unrivalled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive... more...
Science Education from People for People
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 49.95Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book introduces science educators to various dimensions of viewing science and scientific literacy from the standpoint of the learner, engaged with real everyday concerns within or outside school; develops a... more...
Re/Structuring Science Education
Springer 2009; US$ 179.99Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge. With little work being done on showing how the perspectives of these separate approaches might be integrated, this work aims... more...
Language, Learning, Context
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment? How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential? Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions for all involved; whether it affects the linguistic... more...
Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 140.00This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand at later points in their lives. Roth's analyses explain how... more...
Passibility
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 109.99This book argues that the 'constructivist metaphor' has become a self-appointed overriding concept that suppresses other modes of thinking about knowing and learning science. Yet there are questions about knowledge that constructivism cannot properly answer, such as how a cognitive structure can intentionally develop a formation that is more... more...









