Authors:Mark Bray, Bob Adamson, Mark Mason,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: comparative, education, cerc, studies, approaches, research, methods
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $289.00
ISBN-10: 1402061889
ISBN-13: 9781402061882

Approaches and methods in comparative education research are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attention. This book contributes new insights within the longstanding traditions of the field. A particular feature is the focus on different units of analysis. Individual chapters compare places, systems, times, cultures, values, policies, curricula and other units. These chapters are contextualised within broader analytical frameworks which identify the purposes and strengths of the field. The book includes a focus on intra-national as well as cross-national comparisons,

Authors:Mark R. Leary Phd, Robin Mark Kowalski,
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: anxiety, social
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1997-07-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1572302631
ISBN-13: 9781572302631

Social anxiety is a pervasive part of everyday life. Whether experienced during public speaking, in casual conversation, or in interactions with a boss, a potential romantic partner, or a complete stranger, feelings of anxiety, uncertainty, and awkwardness are often the consequence of quite ordinary encounters. Why does social anxiety occur? Why are some people more prone to it than others? A complete and authoritative review of the latest theory and research, this book examines the situational, dispositional, and evolutionary causes of social anxiety, its physiological, cognitive, and emotion

Authors:Mark J. P. Anson, Mark Anso,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: assets, alternative, handbook
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2002-05-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 047121826X
ISBN-13: 9780471218265

The Definitive 4-in-1 Reference Guide to Alternative Assets Many books cover individual alternative asset classes, but none offers a comprehensive examination of the four major classes as presented in the Handbook of Alternative Assets. This complete handbook merges data and strategies scattered in numerous volumes into one handy guide for the serious investor. The four major classes discussed are: Hedge funds Commodity and managed futures Private equity Credit derivatives Organized by sections-one for each alternative asset class-the Handbook of Alternative Assets demonstrates the benefits an

Authors:Mark Hyman, Mark Liponi,
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: life, healthy, plan, week, ultraprevention
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-01-04
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743448839
ISBN-13: 9780743448833

Any program promising better health is only as good as the work you put into it, but Ultraprevention authors Mark Liponis and Mark Hyman, co-directors of medicine at Canyon Ranch, have designed their program so that not everyone must follow every little detail to the letter. Their six-week program is divided into three stages, but you can decide which suggestions will help speed you towards your goals. They begin by simplifying illness and reducing the various causes to five possible categories: Burnout (metabolism), Heat (inflammation), Rust (presence of free radicals or absence of antioxidan

Authors:Mark L. Herman, Mark D. Frost,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: battlefield, boardroom, making, decision, leaders, strategic, wargaming
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-11-13
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0071596887
ISBN-13: 9780071596886

If you had the opportunity to probe the future, make strategic choices, and view their consequences before making expensive and irretrievable decisions, wouldn’t you take advantage of it? . . Of course you would. And in a world of asymmetrical conflict, security threats, intense global competition, and economic uncertainty, there is an even higher premium on road-testing plans and strategies--whether they’re spearheaded by government organizations, transnational corporations, or emerging megacommunities.. . Wargaming for Leaders provides a methodology to get at the issues that one

Authors:Mark J Kransdorf, Mark D Murphey,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: tumors, tissue, soft, imaging
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0781747716
ISBN-13: 9780781747714

Based on a vast number of cases seen at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Mayo Clinic, this volume is a comprehensive reference on the radiologic evaluation of soft tissue tumors. The book covers the entire spectrum of soft tissue pathologies, with over 1,400 images showing common and atypical appearances. The authors discuss the relative utility of all imaging modalities in assessing each lesion. This edition features expanded coverage of masses that mimic tumors, more illustrations of each lesion, and information on recently described tumors. Coverage of each lesion begins with

Authors:Mark J. Powers, Mark G. Castelino,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: inside, futures, market, markets, financial
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1991-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0471536741
ISBN-13: 9780471536741

Co-authored by Mark Powers who has been called one of the ``founding fathers of financial futures,’’ this revised text contains more material than the previous edition. Along with expanded coverage of fixed income securities and foreign currency markets, it includes new chapters on portfolio insurance; interest rate and foreign currency swaps; options on fixed income securities and other topics of current interest.