Authors:Andrew Brown, Jane Hutchison,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: asia, new, rich, globalising, labour, organising
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-05-04
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0415250609
ISBN-13: 9780415250603

This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organizing capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case studies examine workers’ responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organizations (NGOs) and more (dis)organized struggles.

Authors:Jane R. Harrigan, Karen Brown Dunlap,
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s
Keywords: eye, editorial
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2003-09-05
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0312152701
ISBN-13: 9780312152703

Authors:Jane D. Brown, Jeanne R. Steele, Kim Walsh-Childer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sexual, media, routledge, series, communication, sexuality, influence, teens, investigating, adolescent
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0805834907
ISBN-13: 9780805834901

This collection explores the sexual content of U.S. mass media and its influence in the lives of adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality broadly, including evidence not only about physical sex acts, but also about the role the media play in the development of gender roles, standards of beauty, courtship, and relationship norms. Chapters included here present new perspectives on what teens are paying attention to in the media, and offer insight into how teens are understanding and applying what the media present about sex and sexuality. Employing various methodological approac

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

Authors:Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Jane Stabler,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, park, mansfield
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0199535531
ISBN-13: 9780199535538

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 and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel.