Product Description: In July 2015, the Bloodhound team will unveil the car with which they'll launch their assault on the World Land Speed Record. Powered by a jet engine from a Eurofighter Typhoon fighter and a rocket engine developed for the European Space Agency, Bloodhound is the culmination of a ten year beyond the state of the art engineering effort...read more

Product Description: Re-issue of a seminal, widely-acclaimed study on the origins of national education systems in Europe and the USA with a new Postscript exploring education and state formation in East Asia.

Product Description: This collection critically examines the dynamics and social outcomes of systems of lifelong learning.

Creative input is inevitably required of the PR practitioner, and yet many PR practitioners lack a real understanding of the creative process. Creativity in Public Relations addresses this situation. It guides the reader through a range of techniques and tips for generating creative ideas, as described by the ""five Is"" of the creative process: information, incubation, illumination, integration and illustration. Among the topics it explores are: techniques for stimulating ideas, ways to evaluate ideas, obstacles to creativity, the creative individual, and the creative organization. It includes practical examples and research carried out by those in the PR industry who are regarded by their peers as ""creative."" By clearly establishing a definition of ""creativity,"" this third edition will help PR practitioners use the creative process to greater effect in their work.

Product Description: This lecture explores how globalization is changing education and what this means for comparative study. In an age of increasing social fragmentation, Andy Green argues, comparative analysis of education and society has never been more important.

Product Description: The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new 'distributional theory' of the effects of educational inequality on social solidarity. Based on extensive analysis of data on inequality and social attitudes for over 25 developed countries...read more

Product Description: Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

While preparing for her ride in one of the super Mardi Gras parades, Jenny Giraffe discovers the tradition of float riders, masks, and costumes

Jenny Giraffe's parents, teacher, and friends help her learn about Papa Noel, during her first Christmas in New Orleans

While attending a birthday party aboard a historic St. Charles Line streetcar, Jenny Giraffe has the opportunity to learn about the history of New Orleans

The subject of this book is the formation of national education systems in 19th-century Europe and North America. It looks at why modern systems of education arose, and why they arose at different times and in different forms in various states.