Author: Jane Capla
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: germany, history, oxford, short, nazi
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0199276870
ISBN-13: 9780199276875

The history of National Socialism as a movement and a regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe. Featuring ten chapters by leading international experts, this volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the history of Nazi Germany. Opening with an introduction delineating the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, Nazi Germany continues on with chapters that explain how Nazism emerged as an ideology and a political mov

Author: Suzanne Capla
Publisher: Adams Media
Keywords: finances, mba, cpa, manage, books, finance, accounting, streetwise
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1580621961
ISBN-13: 9781580621960

Streetwise is devoted exclusively to business topics. From writing business plans, to financing, to building Web site traffic, these books provide everything ambitious business professionals need. Business happens in the real world, not the classroom. Streetwise recognises this and delivers the goods - fast. No fluff. No wasted time. Just cutting-edge information managers and small business entrepreneurs need to run their business successfully.

Author: Paula J. Capla
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: surviving, academic, world, guide, woman, ton, feathers, lifting
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1993-04-30
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0802074111
ISBN-13: 9780802074119

Any woman who’s tried to break into the academic "old boy’s club" can tell you horror stories. Paula Caplan sifts through the confusion, distills the facts on injustice and prejudice, and offers practical advice on how to survive and even thrive in the academic workplace. This concise, fully referenced, information-packed book isn’t about complaints; it’s about solutions.Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women’s career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which

Author: Bryan Capla
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: policies, new, choose, democracies, rational, voter, myth
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-08-04
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0691138737
ISBN-13: 9780691138732

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan’s sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.Boldly calling into question our most basic assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that democracy fails precis

Authors:Paul Cooper, Mary Jane Drummond, Susan Hart, Jane Lov
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: exclusion, alternatives, positive
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-10-18
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0415197589
ISBN-13: 9780415197588

Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion looks at what schools can do to build more harmonious communities and engage students - particularly those at risk of exclusion - more productively in all areas of school life. It describes the Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion Project, a multi-phase, collaborative initiative based at the School of Education, University of Cambridge.Drawing on the perspectives of staff and pupils, the authors provide detailed case studies of the approaches and strategies being adopted in a variety of settings (primary, secondary and FE) to foster inclusion and

Authors:Jane Austen,  James Kinsley, Jane Stabler,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, park, mansfield
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-10-02
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 019280264X
ISBN-13: 9780192802644

This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel. At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals unleash rivalry and sexual jealousy, Fanny has to fight to retain her independence. This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context a

Authors:Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler, Jane Chisholm, Gill Har
Publisher: Usborne Books
Keywords: linked, history, encyclopedias, internet, world, encyclopedia, ancient, usborne
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0794511414
ISBN-13: 9780794511418

This encyclopaedia traces the extraordinary history of the Ancient World, from the first farmers, and the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome to the eventual decline and fall of the Roman Empire. It covers all aspects of life in the Ancient World - from building the pyramids to a day at the Roman Games. There are photographs of glowing treasures in gold, silver and precious stones, 3000-year-old wall paintings with vivid colours, and blackened, shrivelled mummies, combined with reconstructions and cutaways of architecture, to recreate the atmosphere of the time. Internet