Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education reconceptualizes the purpose of education to include the attainment of global or cosmopolitan perspectives. This goal has important implications for how we not only educate today’s students, but also how we prepare teachers to teach in a diverse and complex world in which habits of perspective, inquiry, imagination, empathy, communication, commitment, humility, integrity, and judgment increasingly resonate in importance. T...

An aging botanist withdraws to the seclusion of his family’s vacation home in the German countryside. In his final days, he realizes that his life’s work of scientific classification has led him astray from the hidden secrets of the natural world. As his body slows and his mind expands, he recalls his family’s escape from budding fascism in Germany, his father’s need to prune and control, and his tender moments with first loves. But as his disintegration into moss begins, his fascination w...

'An agile and compelling storyteller' Nick Cutter1865. Coal lies beneath Scratch Moss Hall and Lord Henry Brody is determined to get to it. But something else lurks below, something dark and evil.1905. Reverend George Ackman has never known such godless people as those of Scratch Moss. But if not God, what do they believe in?1945. Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nat...

C’è una cosa che accomuna gli imprenditori di successo e i grandi maestri di scacchi: la capacità di guardare avanti e anticipare le loro prossime cinque mosse. In questo libro, Patrick Bet-David traduce questa abilità in una preziosa metodologia applicabile a tutti i livelli di business per raggiungere risultati elevati. Se hai la sensazione di non saper cosa fare, di aver perso la motivazione o di essere alla ricerca di strategie innovative per far crescere la tua attività, Le tue prossi...

Dossier : Comment se définissent et se construisent les émotions en Grèce ancienne ? Comment sont elles instrumentalisées ? Différents types d’émotions (la douleur, l’amour, la jalousie, le dégoût, la haine, la colère, etc.), leur valeur, leur place et leurs fonctions sont analysés. Les auteurs se demandent si et en quoi, pour les Anciens, leur perception, leur description et leur compréhension, ainsi que leur pratique diffèrent des nôtres. Varia : Les articles proposés ensuite abordent de...

Don’t let your fear of finance get in the way of your success. This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, brings together everything a manager needs to know about financial intelligence. It includes Financial Intelligence, called a must-read” for decision makers without expertise in finance; A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, which covers the essentials of macroeconomics and examines the core ideas of output, money, and...

'An agile and compelling storyteller' Nick Cutter1865. Coal lies beneath Scratch Moss Manor and Sir Henry Brody is determined to get to it. But something else lurks below, something dark and evil.Reverend George Ackman has never known such godless people as those of Scratch Moss. But if not God, what do they believe in?Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nationalisation. On his visit to ...

Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.

O que gestores, executivos e estudantes precisam de saber.A Economia é frequentemente ensinada através de equações e gráficos que acabam por distrair os estudantes e gestores das ideias essenciais e da intuição que envolvem as questões económicas.A verdade é que estas questões são tudo menos académicas. Desde as crises monetárias até ao rebentar das bolhas especulativas, a economia mundial está repleta de armadilhas. Neste ambiente, a compreensão prática dos conceitos económicos tor...

A smart debut sends Jackson Oliver, head of online gambling casino VegasVegas, headquartered in San Jose, Costa Rica, to a New England village where he suspects someone has gotten away with murder—and used VegasVegas as part of the clever con. Jackson not only feels like a chump for accepting a bet that will cost VegasVegas a hundred grand, he's exposed the casino to blacklisting by the Offshore Gaming Association, which could ruin it.How did this happen? It's a celebrity-obsessed ...

Family isn't just important. It's everything.From lions hunting as a pride to penguins huddling together to keep from freezing in the bitter Antarctic winter, many animals are dependent on complex social relationships for their survival. Powerful dynasties lay claim to vast swathes of territory, fighting off rivals and securing their hunting grounds for generations to come.Dynasties offers an immersive insight into the shifting hierarchies of anima...

The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the potential to transform the composition of congress and set the stage for the nation's politics for the next decade, or even the next generation.In this new edited volume, Charles S. Bull...