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Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies Terminology For Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Updated Edition)

Harping Patricia, Baca Murtha

ISBN: PB: 9781606061503, Getty Publications, December 2013
258 pp., 24x17.8 cm, 68 black&white illus.

This is a practical tool and comprehensive introduction to the use of controlled vocabularies. This authoritative and detailed volume presents readers with a "how-to" guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloguing and indexing cultural ma...

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Education

Improvement by Design The Promise of Better Schools

Cohen David K., Peurach Donald J., Glazer Joshua L., Gates Karen E., Goldin Simona

ISBN: PB: 9780226089386, ISBN: HB: 9780226089249, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school system...

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Education

In Defense of Disciplines Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University

Jacobs Jerry A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226069326, ISBN: HB: 9780226069296, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 17 tables

Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In "Defense of Disciplines" presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument sur...

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Education

Schooling Citizens The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America

Moss Hilary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102986, ISBN: HB: 9780226542492, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps, 4 line drawings, 7 tables

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary...

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Education

Business & Economics

Education Policy in Developing Countries

Glewwe Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226078717, ISBN: HB: 9780226078687, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 36 tables

Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country's economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and...

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Sign Language

Education

Deaf Students and the Qualitative Similarity Hypothesis Understanding Language and Literacy Development

Paul Peter V., Wang Ye, Williams Cheri

ISBN: HB: 9781563685842, Gallaudet University Press, December 2013
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 3 figures, 10 tables

The difficulty that deaf and hard of hearing students have in attaining language and literacy skills has led to postulations that attribute their struggle to a developmental deficit. Recent research reveals, however, that deaf students acquire langua...

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Education

Public School Advantage Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

Lubienski Christopher A., Theule Lubienski Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226088914, ISBN: HB: 9780226088884, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 28 tables

Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vo...

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Education

Evolving Paradigms in Interpreter Education

Winston Elizabeth A., Monikowski Christine

ISBN: HB: 9781563685699, Gallaudet University Press, November 2013
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 4 figures

This volume brings together a cadre of world-renowned interpreting educators and researchers who conduct a rich exploration of paradigms, both old and new, in interpreter education. They review existing research, explicate past and current practices,...

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Education

Toxic Schools High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

Paulle Bowen

ISBN: PB: 9780226066417, ISBN: HB: 9780226066387, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest...

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Gender Studies

Education

Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools

Rosenfeld Gorsetman Chaya, Maryles Sztokman Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...

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