Authors:Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: law, school, public, american
Number of Pages: 1232
Published: 2008-05-16
List price: $177.95
ISBN-10: 0495506192
ISBN-13: 9780495506195

Alexander and Alexander’s best-selling AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW, Seventh Edition, sets the standard for texts in educational law, an increasingly vital area of expertise for today’s school and district administrators. This combined textbook/casebook provides an authoritative and comprehensive view of the law that governs the public school system of the United States, including common law, statutes, and constitutional laws as they affect students, teachers, and administrators. Featuring civil and criminal cases selected from hundreds of jurisdictions and newly updated to reflect t

Authors:Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: law, school, public, american
Number of Pages: 1104
Published: 2004-07-23
List price: $168.95
ISBN-10: 0534274242
ISBN-13: 9780534274245

This market-leading text for graduate-level courses in educational law is a combined textbook/casebook that provides a comprehensive view of the law that governs the public school system of America. The case method approach allows instructors to involve discussion to discover and expose the reasoning of the law. This helps students relate factual situations to the law while recognizing similar experiences they may have as practicing teachers and administrators.

Author: David Alexander
Publisher: FT Press
Keywords: introduction, international, accounting, financial
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2004-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0273685201
ISBN-13: 9780273685203

"I find this book highly readable and a very useful introduction to financial accounting, in particular the regulatory framework influencing accounting in an international context" Fredrik Ljungdahl, Senior Lecturer, Jonkoping University ’Financial Accounting’ is the ideal choice for all those looking for an introductory text in financial accounting, particularly those with little or no previous knowledge of the subject. With a clear writing style, this accessible book is unique in teaching financial accounting from a non-country specific perspective, using International Financial

Author: David and Pat Alexander
Publisher: Zondervan Pub. House
Keywords: revised, bible, handbook, zondervan
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2002
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0310262712
ISBN-13: 9780310262718

This softcover edition of Zondervan Handbook to the Bible is a four-color guide to all the books of the Bible that includes 119 expert articles, over 500 color photographs, 68 maps, 30 charts, and a complete Rapid Factfinder reference section.

Author: David E. Alexander
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: biomechanics, flight, insects, birds, flyers, nature
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-10-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0801880599
ISBN-13: 9780801880599

David E. Alexander’s fascination with the many animals and plants that have harnessed the air is evident in Nature’s Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, a detailed account of our current scientific understanding of the primary aspects of flight in nature.Instead of relying on elaborate mathematical equations, Alexander explains the physical basis of flight with sharp prose and clear diagrams. Drawing upon bats, birds, insects, pterosaurs, and even winged seeds, he details the basic operating principles of wings and then moves progressively through more complex m

Author: David Alexander
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: pentagon, biography, building
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-10-03
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 076032087X
ISBN-13: 9780760320877

It’s one thing to write an appreciative history of the Pentagon that hews to the official viewpoint and rarely deviates from orthodoxy. It’s another to write an account that pulls no punches and genuflects to nobody, that respects no authority higher than the absolute truth. David Alexander has written such a book. He has practically singlehandedly ferreted out the ground truth that makes up both literal and figurative foundations of The Building. He has written the truth when the truth was noble, and he has also written the truth when it was less than noble. But he has always up

Author: David Alexander Clark
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: elgar, reference, original, development, companion, studies
Number of Pages: 713
Published: 2007-12-07
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1847206247
ISBN-13: 9781847206244

"The Elgar Companion to Development Studies" is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers.While the Companion is organised alo