Bert: 448 books
World Class Schools
International Perspectives on School Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In this book the authors have conducted extensive research and describe what makes a successful school and how this varies in different countries. The book follows the progress of a cohort of 7-year-old children through their schools over a two-year period. It covers schools in the US, Canada, Hong...
by George Waterbury, Claudine Waterbury, Bert Ruiz
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Mount Pleasant has deep American roots going back to the Revolutionary War, when local tenant farmers filled the ranks of General Washington�s Continental army. For years, travel to New York City was difficult, until the arrival of the railroad in 1846 allowed easy transportation to lower Manhattan....
Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome
Key Sources, with Text, Translation, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The founding of the Roman Principate was a time of great turmoil. This book brings together a set of important Latin inscriptions, including the recently discovered documents concerning the death of Germanicus and trial of Cn. Piso, in order to illustrate the developing sense of dynasty that underpinned...
by Bert
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Discover a provocative new conceptual model for the physics of the universe that answers some difficult questions: (1) What is dark matter? (2) What is dark energy? (3) What are virtual particles and antimatter? (4) What explains the Big Four of natural forces? (5) What are gravity waves, really?...
by Alain Peeters*, Alex De Vliegher, Christian Huyghe
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The European project Multisward (http://www.multisward.eu/multisward_eng/) aims at supporting developments and innovations in grassland use and management in different European farming systems (including low-input and organic farming systems), pedoclimatic and socio-economic conditions i) to enhance...
by Emil Reif, Torsten Bert Moeller
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In this easily accessible pocket atlas, two expert radiologists present the normal radiographic anatomy readers need in order to interpret conventional diagnostic radiographs. Each practical, two-page unit displays a standard radiograph of a different projection on the left-hand side supplemented by...
by Bert O'Flannagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
If in my writing of this book my words appear to be telling the life of Ned Kelly in a different way to other books, or if some may believe that some of what my pen has been guided to write, may not be the actual facts, then I cannot apologise. I can only say that how do we or anyone write anything...
Meeting Physical Education Standards Through Meaningful Assessment
Research-Based Strategies for Secondary Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
As the use of standards-based assessment spreads in response to the increased emphasis on accountability, physical educators are faced with the task of demonstrating how their curricula and learning outcomes align with national, state, and district standards. Implementing assessments that align with...
Climate Policy Options Post-2012
European strategy, technology and adaptation after Kyoto
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses the following key questions: * What long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance sustainability on a global level? * What are the implications of long-term European climate...
by Leonidas Kyriakides, Bert Creemers, Evi Charalambous
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each...
The Social Movement Society
Contentious Politics for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1997
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from...
Helder
van Arsenal tot de bajes
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Glenn Helder (1968) had met zijn talent een gouden toekomst. Dat talent bracht hem tot het Nederlands elftal. Als voetballer van Arsenal en Benfica verdiende hij een fortuin, maar dat verdween in een bodemloze put. Nooit zal hij zijn schulden kunnen aflossen. Het ging mis met Helder, en niet zon klein...
Extreme Right Activists in Europe
Through the magnifying glass
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Since the 1980s, one of the main political changes in Western Europe has been the electoral upsurge of extreme right-wing parties. However, while the electoral support of these movements has been studied extensively, their membership has largely been ignored. This book examines who joins the extreme...
Interkosmos
The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space. The chapters shed light on the space program that was at that time a prime outlet for the...