Product Description: Everyday Literacies in Africa: Ethnographic Studies of Literacy and Numeracy Practices in Ethiopia is a product of Learning for Empowerment Through Training in Ethnographic Research (LETTER) programme conducted in Ethiopia. It outlines the story of a journey towards a clearer and more focused understanding of what literacy and numeracy mean...read more

Product Description: This bestselling book will help anyone who is engaged in teaching adults. Whether you are working with groups or individuals, in a formal or informal setting, face-to-face or via distance learning channels, it will help you to develop a relationship with your student learners while increasing your understanding of yourself as a teacher...read more

Product Description: The importance of photonics in science and engineering is widely recognized and will continue to increase through the foreseeable future. In particular, applications in telecommunications, medicine, astronomy, industrial sensing, optical computing and signal processing continue to become more diverse...read more

Product Description: Optical fibers are central to telecommunication and sensor technologies, and polarization behavior within these fibers has a profound impact on their performance. This work examines polarization phenomena, and delivers analytical and practical knowledge that is suitable for engineers seeking to optimize and advance optical fiber performance...read more

For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder, but with a sharp eye on "due proceeding" and against the backdrop of popular ambivalence about the death penalty's morality, cruelty, efficacy, and constitutionality. In this authoritative book, Alan Rogers offers a comprehensive account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts.In the seventeenth century, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts General Court understood murder to be a sin and a threat to the colony's well-being, but the Puritans also drastically reduced the crimes for which death was the prescribed penalty and expanded a capital defendant's rights. Following the Revolution, Americans denounced the death penalty as "British and brutish" and the state's Supreme Judicial Court embraced its role as protector of the rights extended to all men by the Massachusetts Constitution. In the 1830s popular opposition nearly stopped the machinery of death and a vote in the Massachusetts House fell just short of abolishing capital punishment.A post--Civil War effort extending civil rights to all men also stimulated significant changes in criminal procedure. A "monster petition" begging the governor to spare the life of a murderer convicted on slight circumstantial evidence and the grim prospect of executing nine Chinese men found guilty of murder fueled a passionate debate about the death penalty in the decade before World War I.The trials and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti focused unwanted international and national attention on Massachusetts. This was a turning point. Sara Ehrmann took charge of the newly formed Massachusetts Council Against the Death Penalty, relentlessly lobbied the legislature, and convinced a string of governors not to sign death warrants. In the 1970s the focus shifted to the courts, and eventually, in 1980, the Supreme Judicial Court abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it violated the Massachusetts Constitution.

Product Description: Book by Rogers, Alan, Rogers, Lisa

Product Description: A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.This fascinating collection examines murder jurisprudence—the social rules that govern the arrest, trial, and punishment of people accused of murder—in the United States from the colonial period to the present...read more

Product Description: The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong is proud and privileged to present this book in its series CERC Studies in Comparative Education. Alan Rogers is a distinguished figure in the field of non-formal education, and brings to this volume more than three decades of experience...read more

Blue Tortoise would like her friends to join her in playing with her round ball, but they are busy with objects of other shapes

When Yellow Hippo bounces on her trampoline, she can jump higher than her friends can climb

As Green Bear goes on vacation, he passes different vehicles

When Red Rhino goes outside, the weather keeps changing and his friends suggest different clothing

Product Description: "Blue Tortoise" is one of the popular books in the "Little Giants" series. It's a fun storybook for toddlers (available in English, Spanish, and French). Young children will learn all about colors, shapes, weather, travel, and motion while they enjoy hearing the adventures of a cast of funny animal characters...read more

Yellow Hippo creates a yellow surprise by placing yellow objects on her yellow trolley.

Product Description: In the Little Giants series (Pequeos Gigantes), young children find out all about colors, shapes, weather, travel, and motion while they enjoy hearing the adventures of a cast of funny animal characters. Surprise lift-the-flap endings let kids help tell the story...read more

Red Rhino has trouble finding his red balloon among the many other red objects he sees.

Although not as fast as the blue ant, tiger, and rabbit, Blue Tortoise arrives first at the picnic.

As Green Bear goes on vacation, he passes different vehicles.

Product Description: In the Little Giants series (Pequeos Gigantes), young children find out all about colors, shapes, weather, travel, and motion while they enjoy hearing the adventures of a cast of funny animal characters. Surprise lift-the-flap endings let kids help tell the story...read more

Product Description: In the Little Giants series (Pequeos Gigantes), young children find out all about colors, shapes, weather, travel, and motion while they enjoy hearing the adventures of a cast of funny animal characters. Surprise lift-the-flap endings let kids help tell the story...read more