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In this second edition of Educational Administration: Leading with Mind and Heart, Palestini shows readers the importance of organizational development and effective management of the change process in successful school administration and leadership.

The inclusive schools movement has been around since the mid 1980s, yet many teachers find themselves ill-equipped to make the transition. This superb book offers information, guidance, and training ranging from background information about the inclusion movement to recommended activities to use with students.

This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the modern world.

Based on the author's experience of working internationally in UN and NGO context, this book argues the case for avoiding internal conflict through better governance. It indicates an effective role for different organizations.

A unique invitation to mothers and parents to pause and reflect on the rhythms , cycles, symbols, and rituals that define who they are, both as caregivers and members of a larger community. Using the liturgical year as her framework, Kathleen Finley explores the spirituality of many kinds of mothers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt led the United States through some of the most dramatic and trying foreign and domestic episodes in its history. In Debating Franklin D. Roosevelts Foreign Policies, noted historians Justus D. Doenecke and Mark A.

This study examines the possibility of a Great Power coalition (between the USA, Japan, the European Union, China and Russia), that would be sustained by the development of overlapping "international clubs" and how the members will have to adjust their policies in order for it to succeed.

Confessions of a Civil Servant is filled with lessons on leading change in government and the military. Bob Stone based the book on thirty years as a revolutionary in government. It comes at a time when the events of 9-11 are sharpening America's demands for government that works at all levels.

This text asks when and how children become aware of racial differences. The ethnographic studies drawn from children as young as three years old lead the authors to question some of the previously-held assumptions regarding racial attitudes and how the world is seen by children.

For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behaviour count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Or is it behaviour that causes serious harm? This examination of crime features contributors who debate the content of crime from various diverse perspectives.

In this text, the author, Paulo Freire, argues against progressive liberalism and its passive acceptance of a world where unemployment and hunger exist side by side with opulence. He shows why an acceptance of fatalism leads to the loss of personal and societal freedom.

From the natural beauty of the Amazon River to the exciting resort city of Rio de Janeiro, from soccer champion Pel to classical musician Villa Lobos, Brazil is known as a distinctive, diverse country. This book provides a brief history of Brazil that focuses on both the politics and culture of the republic.

The Film Studio sheds new light on the evolution of global film production, highlighting the role of film studios worldwide. The authors explore the contemporary international production environment, identifying various types of film studios and investigating the consequences for Hollywood, international film production, and the studio locations.

Offers a fresh perspective on Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, telling the story of how American Jewish women played a leading role in achieving Zionist goals and shaping the state of Israel. This book also traces Hadassah's involvement in the child rescue movement, which saved thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe.

Both proponents and critics of behavioral genetics, reproductive cloning, and genetic testing have mistaken beliefs about the role of genes in human life. This book calls attention to the social context in which both the science and our ethical precepts and public policies play a role.

Presents the complex elements of Jewish mysticism's major ideas. This book sets a contemporary context for understanding Jewish mysticism, and shows how Kabbalah can be incorporated into our daily lives. This book is aimed at Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike.

Presents facts about not only the political events in the news, but also the positive contributions Israel is making in the arts and sciences. This book is suitable for those interested in some of the trivia about Israel and informs those doing more serious research about the economy, government, and culture of the Jewish State.

In this accessible, clear, jargon free, and comprehensive text, Projecting the Holocaust into the Present offers an insightful historical perspective on how public conceptions of the Holocaust in film have changed over time.

Introduces the enterprise in three basic areas: epistemology, ontology and ethics. Emphasising experience based arguments, the book demonstrates techniques that readers of all ages can use to enhance their own understanding of themselves and their world.

In Inclusive Feminism, Naomi Zack provides a universal, relational definition of women, critically engages both Anglo and French feminists and shows how women can become a united historical force, with the political goal of ruling in place of men.

Describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina.