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  • Beyond The Pride and The Privilege

    The Stories of Doctoral Students and Work-Life Balance

    Series series Work-Life Balance
    Attrition among doctoral students has become a perennial issue in higher education (Gardner, 2009; Golde, 2000) as 40 to 60 percent of doctoral students do not complete their program of study (Bair &Haworth, 2005). Such outcomes are inconsistent with the rigorous evaluation that occurs prior to being accepted into a doctoral program (Bair & Haworth, 2005). Despite deemed levels of student ... Read more

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  • Decolonisation and Democratisation in Namibian Teacher Education

    Practitioner Research and Reflections

    Series series Routledge Research in Teacher Education
    Building on the 1999 work of Kenneth Zeichner and Lars Dahlström, this timely volume provides first-hand accounts as well as both empirical and theoretical case studies on how teacher education is being operationalised in post-colonial Namibia, working to decolonise and democratise the Namibian educational system at all levels.Chapters are comprehensive in approach, offering accounts of the ... Read more

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  • The Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research

    Winner of the Ernest Bormann Research Award from the National Communication AssociationThe Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research considers the current research of group communication scholars, provides an overview of major foci in the discipline, and points toward possible trajectories for future scholarship. It establishes group communication’s central role within research on ... Read more

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  • Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening doors, closing wounds)

    Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia

    Series series Work-Life Balance
    Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy.This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and staff/administrators in higher education and documents their testimonios of achieving a sense of balance between their personal and ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Juggling Flaming Chain Saws

    Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family

    Series series Work-Life Balance
    Challenges of work-life balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many of the not-work aspects of their lives. Imagine a tweedy middle-aged white man, coming home from ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Advertising and Promotional Culture

    Case Histories

    This key textbook traces the development of advertising from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, providing connections with the past that illuminate present developments and point to future possibilities. Chapters take a variety of theoretical approaches to address four main themes: how advertising imagines the future through the promise of transformation; how tribalism creates a sense of ... Read more

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    Maestro Orpheus and The World Clock

    Unabridged

    1 hour 4 min

    In this dream-like tale, Fred is visiting his grandfather when time suddenly stops. Setting out to discover why, Fred meets Maestro Orpheus and his magical lyre. Together they begin a musical adventure along The Corridor of Time, on their way to wind The World Clock.Drawing on a broad range of classical music, by composers from Bach and Haydn to Chopin and Strauss, Maestro Orpheus and The World ... Read more

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  • On the High Wire

    Education Professors Walk Between Work and Parenting

    Series series Work-Life Balance
    The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives. On The High Wire looks at a specific subset of university faculty, education faculty with school-aged children, and the specific professional/personal balance these ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Children and Adolescents in Trauma

    Creative Therapeutic Approaches

    Series series Community, Culture and Change
    Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, violence, self-harm and identity development. They ... Read more

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    Who Shot Ada Tansey? & other thrillers

    14 Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas

    Unabridged

    14 hours 38 min

    A bumper collection of radio thrillers from acclaimed scriptwriter Peter WhalleyPeter Whalley was Coronation Street’s longest-serving writer, scripting 601 episodes between 1979 and 2014. His other works included TV’s Albion Market and Castles, 40 radio plays and 10 novels, and in 2009 he was presented with a Special Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards. Collected here are 14 of his finest ... Read more

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    The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

    Series series Emergent Strategy Series
    Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life’s inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists ... Read more

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  • Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)

    A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

    "A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND“Schools that Learn is a magnificent, grand book that pays equal attention to the small and the big picture - ... Read more

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