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This is a book about educational fads, why they arise, and how we might learn to live with them.Those working in schools are subject to perpetual waves of novelty in the name of school improvement. And yet, in the long term very little actually changes. Big ideas come and go, leaving only faint clues as to their existence. The trouble is that the appealing stories that take hold will never solve the fundamental problems of modern schooling. The school system is too complex, too dive...

Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem' which goes to the heart of the conflict. Israel defines itself not as a state of its citizens, but as a Jewish state, despite the substantial and increasing Palestinian population. White ...

The mysterious town doesn't seem to have a name. That's part of what makes it mysterious, maybe. I mean I don't know. I'm just guessing. None of the Treasure Guardians have thought to name it, although Candy Stocking has whole notebooks full of observations about the town, and Liquorice Cupcake has drawn hundreds of pictures of the streets and views and monsters and everything, and Trouble Fox has explored pretty much everywhere even if getting her to talk about anything is a chore and a h...

John Overstreet was a cowboy for a west Texas ranch when he killed a man in self-defense. Forced to leave the country or fight the man's whole family, he follows his fortune to Como, Colorado, and the ULC Ranch. As the years go by and he tries to build both the 'You'll See' and himself into something, he must face blizzards, fires and gold-hunters. He pursues love and fortune as he sees the turn of the century bring changes to transportation and every aspect of life. But he must keep looki...

He guessed he was about nine years old when he woke up by that dusty road in far west Texas, beaten, bruised and bloodied. He didn't remember where he came from or even what his name was.He found his way to a saloon in the New Mexico territory and there he learned how to swamp out a bar and watch for a bottom deal. On a cattle drive to Wyoming in his fourteenth year, he was finally given a name, and the world discovered that he was lightning-fast with a six-gun.Still, he ha...

“Spanning forty years and more than three hundred victories, the contributions of countless people have built Hendrick Motorsports into the greatest team in NASCAR history. This book is made up of their stories.” —Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, from the forewordCelebrate the NASCAR-champion team’s 40th anniversary with this officially licensed history featuring stunning photography, including rare images from the Hendrick Motorsports archive.

John kills a man in a gunfight in a Breckenridge Cafe. He went to the mining town to learn about gold, and came back with something much more a wife!Meanwhile, someone is buying up the land all around the 'You'll See', at the point of a gun when necessary. But no offers have been made on the 'You'll See'. John is wondering why until he learns the name of the family behind the C Bar Bellows.

No longer going by the name of Parson Bob, and hoping no one will connect him with the young gunfighter who was said to have killed men from Colorado to Alaska, Rash Pargun finds himself in Van Bent, Texas, on the trail of the man who murdered his mother and left him beaten beside a road many years before.Now just a cowboy, known to no one as a gunfighter, Rash dreams that once the matter is settled about his parentage he can just find a place to settle down, raise a few cattle and...

Morgan James rode onto the lonely T-Bell ranch just north of McKeon, TX, ahead of a necktie party. There, he found that the spread was owned and run by a strange and quiet woman, whom the local children said was a witch. Morgan didn't believe that story, but he came to think that death stalked the T-Bell range.

When cowboy Mars Peters rode into Gunfighter's Gulch on his spotless appaloosa, he had no idea he would be the spark that would ignite the waiting powder keg.The keg was placed, inadvertently, by the old prospector Cactus Percival. He used to come into Gunfighter's Gulch now and again from the New Mexico Territory, spending silver like it was gold, and always wearing new boots. But then, one day he didn't come back and in the years since then tales of Cactus Percival's silver stash...

This unique Research Handbook examines voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws through the lens of regulatory theory. It sheds light on interdisciplinary perspectives and outlines policy debates around the revision and implementation of these laws.Ben P. White brings together global experts to discuss the law and practice of VAD in all permitting jurisdictions. They explore contested questions about eligibility, including access for minors, those with mental disorders, and those who ex...

Gabriel's trumpet has sounded.In a flash, the wicked have been swept away and only the saved are left. All aches and pains and worries are gone, but this isn't what those left were expecting. It's not what they had been taught.One by one, the saved are finding themselves drawn together; in praise, in worship, in Scripture. The children aren't children and the elderly are no longer old. There is no more sorrow and no more death.What comes next?And where is th...