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How Teachers Can Turn Data into Action


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English | ISBN: 1416617582 | 2013 | 149 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
From state and Common Core tests to formative and summative assessments in the classroom, teachers are awash in data. Reviewing the data can be time-consuming, and the work of translating data into real change can seem overwhelming.

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Business on the Edge How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World’s Toughest Places


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English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1541604202 | 272 pages | EPUB | 3.98 Mb
A road map for how businesses can grow and make money while reducing poverty and conflict in some of the world’s most challenging environments

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The Representative Turn in EU Studies


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English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415836026 | EPUB | pages: 156 | 0.7 mb
After the participative and deliberative turns in both democratic theory and EU studies, we are currently witnessing a ‘representative turn’ to which this volume contributes by addressing the relation between representation and democracy in the EU. Although in the Lisbon Treaty the EU conceives itself as a representative democracy, the meaning of this concept in a supranational polity is far from clear – either in theory or practice. Instead, the historically contingent link between representation and democracy is today severely challenged by various processes of diversification at all levels of political action (national, regional, supranational). These processes challenge our understanding of representative democracy as involving electoral democracy within clearly delineated nation-states, provoking a situation in which ‘new frontiers’ of representation develop. Consequently, it becomes increasingly difficult to provide normative standards as well as accurate assessments of democratic representation in the EU.

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Turn Knowledge Into Wealth With Online Courses


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English | February 20, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CW2WMQ53 | 154 pages | EPUB | 0.41 Mb
Empower others to achieve their dreams and guide them along the right path with online courses that engage, inform, and inspire… while you hit the entrepreneurial bullseye!

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The Negative Turn in Comparative Law


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English | ISBN: 0367723034 | 2024 | 346 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1083 KB + 9 MB
This book’s essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law. Beyond harnessing negative critique to resist the orthodoxy’s self-assured cognitive assumptions, at once unexamined and indefensible, the argument mobilizes negativity as an empowering idea, a resource towards the displacement of the brand of comparative law that has been fostering a closing of the comparing mind. To answer the demands of the moment and herald foreign law research as a creditable intellectual development, one requires to engage in a culturalist theorization and practice of comparative law at radical variance from the prevailing positivist model. The negative turn, then, is a call to comparative action – a comparactive motion – in support of the robustly indisciplined thinking that must thoroughly inform research into foreign law. In photography, the negative has been employed productively to generate a positive print. In comparative law, negation wants to affirm edifying epistemic yields.

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Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium


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English | 2015 | ISBN: 1552387992 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.8 mb
Politics and Literature shows how important insights about genocide, poverty, state violence, world terrorism, the clash of civilizations, and other phenomena haunting the world at the turn of the millennium can be derived from contemporary novels. Keren demonstrates ways in which fictional literature can provide new perspectives on the complexities and contingencies of contemporary politics. His fresh readings of well-known novels will be valuable not only for political scientists but also for anyone interested in current affairs who reads fiction but is not always aware of its power to provide enlightenment on world issues. Works by José Saramago, Cormac McCarthy, Anosh Irani, John Le Carré, and Yann Martel, among others, are studied.

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