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The Education Mayor: Improving America's Schools (American Governance ...
Wong, Kenneth K.; Shen, Francis X.; Anagnosto...
paperback. In 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. This work takes a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JN; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781589011793
- ISBN
- 9781589011793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.92
€ 74.92
paperback. Examines reasons why environmental laws seldom work out exactly as planned. Casting federal-state working relationships as 'pulling together,' 'coming apart,' or somewhere in-between, this title provides dozens of observations from federal and state officials. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ; JPR; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised and Updated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589011007
- ISBN
- 9781589011007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.77
€ 74.77
Ten Thousand Democracies: Politics and Public Opinion in America's Sch...
Berkman, Michael B.; Plutzer, Eric
paperback. Begins with educational reforms from the Progressive era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the civil rights movement and ending with Pennsylvania's 2004 tax relief measure. This title explores what factors determine education spending levels in school districts. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 27 figures, 23 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781589010765
- ISBN
- 9781589010765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.04
€ 75.04
Paperback. Demonstrating that the family is both distinctive in its own right and deeply interwoven with other institutions, this title examines the roles of education, work, leisure, consumption, legal regulation, public administration, and biology in shaping the ways we court and marry, bear and raise children, and make and break family bonds. Editor(s): Tipton, Steven M.; Witte, John, Jr. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589010666
- ISBN
- 9781589010666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.85
€ 74.85
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842382120
- ISBN
- 9780842382120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.89
€ 11.89
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842352529
- ISBN
- 9780842352529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.29
€ 31.99
€ 23.29
Paperback. For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they are supposed to have sex: their spouse. This title situates marital HIV risk within an exploration of marital and extramarital sexuality in five diverse settings: Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea. Num Pages: 256 pages, 34 b&w illustrations, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JHBK5; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826516831
- ISBN
- 9780826516831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.81
€ 51.81
Paperback. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans s classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition." Editor(s): Stavans, Ilan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2AB; 2ADSL; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826354952
- ISBN
- 9780826354952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.72
€ 39.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826353955
- ISBN
- 9780826353955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.28
€ 34.28
Paperback. Originally published: New York; William Morrow & Company, 1966. Editor(s): Hofer, Matthew. Series: Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826353818
- ISBN
- 9780826353818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.26
€ 39.26
Paperback. This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826353580
- ISBN
- 9780826353580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. "The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juarez" Editor(s): Lane, Kris. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JKVG; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826351982
- ISBN
- 9780826351982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.28
€ 34.28
Paperback. This is an eloquently written autoethnography in which researcher Hillary S. Webb seeks to understand the indigenous Andean concept of yanantin or 'complementary opposites'. Webb embarks on a personal journey of understanding the yanantin worldview of complementary duality through participant observation and reflection on her individual experience. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JFSR; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826350732
- ISBN
- 9780826350732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. Containing more than three hundred photographs, this is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms. Num Pages: 556 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBW; JWM; TTM; WCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826349989
- ISBN
- 9780826349989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 134.87
€ 134.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 459 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 459
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826348920
- ISBN
- 9780826348920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.26
€ 39.26
Paperback. This study utilizes archival materials to reconstruct Lipan history through numerous threats to their society. Winner of the 2010 TOMFRA Award. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826345875
- ISBN
- 9780826345875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Paperback. An exploration of 'the Black Legend' - the popular myth that colonial Spain and her military and religious agents were brutal and unrelenting in their conquest of the Americas. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBJK; JFSL4; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826345769
- ISBN
- 9780826345769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.76
€ 34.76
Paperback. Father Gregory J Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth. This title presents the story of Boyle's unconventional ministry and its extraordinary successes. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826344854
- ISBN
- 9780826344854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Paperback. Steven Bunker's study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that "incredible things are happening in this world." Num Pages: 352 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826344557
- ISBN
- 9780826344557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. A collection of essays that places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It emphasizes human actors and accounts of lived experiences. Editor(s): Lesser, Jeffrey; Rein, Raanan. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826344014
- ISBN
- 9780826344014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.28
€ 34.28