Product Description: Now in its fourth edition, the bestselling text Mathematical Knowledge for Primary Teachers provides trainee teachers with clear information about the fundamental mathematical ideas taught in primary schools. With rigorous and comprehensive coverage of all the mathematical knowledge primary teachers need, the text goes beyond rules and routines to help readers deepen their understanding of mathematical ideas and increase their confidence in teaching these ideas...read more

Product Description: Colleges and universities have administrative and governance arrangements that can come to terms with change. These can come into play to interpret and modulate change and to allow necessary adjustments through participatory processes...read more

Product Description: Over the past decade, the political ground beneath the Middle East has shifted. Arab nationalism the political orthodoxy for most of this century has lost its grip on the imagination and allegiance of a new generation. At the same time, Islam as an ideology has spread across the region, and "Islamists" bid to capture the center of politics...read more

Product Description: Providing extensive real life examples, Transitions Between Faculty and Administrative Careers delves into the main challenges of transitioning between faculty and administrative careers. Issues such as building a diverse support team, developing flexible management skills to enhance all types of professional relationships, actively bridging academe and administration, and articulating your vision, among others, are discussed in detail...read more

Product Description: Danny Finn-a pop star with a tendency to faint when nervous-has grown weary of living in fame's fishbowl. He's tired of touring, fed up with teenage girls intent on tearing his clothes and screaming in his ear, sick of the endless stream of tabloid lies...read more

Product Description: In this collection of essays Farhad Kazemi and Olivier Roy consider the remarkable election of Mohammad Khatami as Iran's president, Fred Halliday looks at the Middle of nationalism., Johannes J.G. Jansen Islamic fundamentalism to its Christian Jewish counterparts, and Allastair Hamilton reviews Enlightenment scholarship on Islam...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nine authors leading protagonists in the Islamism debate from the United States, France, Britain, and Israel address the controversial questions that surround political Islam. Is it driven by religious fervor, social protest, or nationalist xenophobia? Is the rise of Islamism a threat to stability, tolerance, and order? Or is it the first step towards reform, participation, and democratization? Does repression of Islamists radicalize or tame them? are Islamists in power guided by their ideals or interests? Should the governments of the West base their policy on human rights or realpolitik? Contributors to the book include Daniel Brumberg, François Burgat, Graham E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of lectures from the Moshe Dayan Center that represent current thinking on a variety of contemporary and historical issues in the the Middle East. Included is the last interview with the late Elie Kedourie.

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Product Description: This exciting resource encourages students, faculty, and administrators alike to address diversity by questioning campus policies and activities in order to develop more creative solutions. Dialogues for Diversity features a unique format designed to allow readers to skim and identify elements that will lead to discussion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume of New Directions for Higher Education is about linking assessments of students' learning with the patterns of their coursework. The contributors illustrate how and why assessment and curriculcum reform need to be combined, and they describe an innovative way in which to use student transcripts and college catalogues to analyze the curriculum in orcer to associate the coursework of students with the learning that they gain...read more

Product Description: A dialogue on the role of biography and the interpretation of self-narrative in the Middle East. The dearth of intimate source materials, the discrepancy between public and private personae of Muslim intellectuals and the sense of propriety challenge this genre.

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