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The Palestinian Economy Studies in Development under Prolonged Occupation

The Palestinian Economy Studies in Development under Prolonged Occupation

This volume brings together the results of the symposium on ‘Economic Development under Prolonged Occupation’ held at Oxford University in January 1986. The basic aim of the symposium was to stimulate research and discussion on issues of economic development by a prolonged occupation. It brought together a number of development economists representatives from development assistance organisations and other individuals engaged in one facet or another of social and economic development in the occupied areas. The papers presented here reflect the wide range of thought on the issues surrounding the Palestinian Economy. | The Palestinian Economy Studies in Development under Prolonged Occupation

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Mind Language and Morality Essays in Honor of Mark Platts

Mind Language and Morality Essays in Honor of Mark Platts

Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a generation of philosophers on to the Davidsonian program. He is also a pioneer in discussions of moral realism and has made important contributions to bioethics the philosophy of human rights and moral responsibility. This book is a tribute to Platts’s pioneering work in these areas featuring contributions from number of leading scholars of his work from the US UK and Mexico. It features replies to the individual essays from Platts as well as a concluding chapter reflecting on his philosophical career from Oxford to Mexico City. Mind Language and Morality will be of interest to philosophers across a wide range of areas including ethics moral psychology philosophy of law and philosophy of language. | Mind Language and Morality Essays in Honor of Mark Platts

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The Routledge Companion to Strategic Marketing

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Marketing

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Marketing offers the latest insights into marketing strategy. Bodo Schlegelmilch and Russ Winer present 29 specially commissioned chapters which include up-to-date thinking on a diverse range of marketing strategy topics. Readers benefit from the latest strategic insights of leading experts from universities around the world. Contributing authors are from among others the U. S. (Berkeley Cornell MIT New York University Texas A&M) Europe (the Hanken School of Economics INSEAD the University of Oxford the University of Groningen WU Vienna) and Asia (the Indian School of Business Tongji University). The topics addressed include economic foundations of marketing strategy competition in digital marketing strategy (e. g. mobile payment systems and social media strategy) marketing strategy and corporate social responsibility as well as perspectives on capturing the impact of marketing strategy. Collectively this authoritative guide is an accessible tool for researchers students and practitioners.

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The Complete LNAT Guide An Expert Guide to Success

The Complete LNAT Guide An Expert Guide to Success

This is a complete and comprehensive guide for applicants sitting the National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT) examination. As a one-stop solution to performing well in the LNAT this guide comes with tips strategies full practice papers and answers with detailed explanations. Compiled by a team of LNAT mentors consultants and coaches with input from admissions officers this book offers the most comprehensive and accurate practice papers available. The papers were vetted by Oxford and Cambridge graduates with personal experience of the examination and are set to a standard of difficulty that is on a par with the actual LNAT. This provides students with a thorough and accurate simulation of the questions they will face. The Complete LNAT Guide: An Expert Guide to Success is an essential book for all applicants preparing to sit the LNAT examination. | The Complete LNAT Guide An Expert Guide to Success

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The Poet as Believer A Theological Study of Paul Claudel

The Poet as Believer A Theological Study of Paul Claudel

This is the first comprehensive study of the theological significance of Paul Claudel a poet frequently cited by literary-minded theologians in Europe and theologically-minded poets (such as von Balthasar de Lubac and Eliot). His writing combines cosmology and history Bible and metaphysics liturgy and the drama of human personality. His work which continues to arouse discussion in France was acclaimed in his lifetime as the 'summa poetica' of a new Dante. Aidan Nichols' study demonstrates how Claudel's oeuvre which is not only poetry but theatre and prose including biblical commentaries constitutes a rich resource for constructive doctrine liturgical preaching and theological reflection. As the comparable example of Geoffrey Hill Professor of Poetry at Oxford suggests Aidan Nichols illuminates how Claudel's synthesis of many dimensions remains an important way of practising poetry in the Christian tradition today. | The Poet as Believer A Theological Study of Paul Claudel

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Managing International Schools

Managing International Schools

It is estimated that there are some 12 000 international schools world-wide with over 25 000 middle managers and head teachers. Within this there are several different types of international school including British schools abroad English-speaking schools overseas European English-speaking schools and forces schools - in spite of some differences they and their managers share certain needs for administrative efficiency. This practice-based management book for international schools provides support and development for middle and senior managers and teachers. The book concentrates on school improvement and effectiveness by drawing on best practice from international schools around the world using school-based research. It is written by a team from the Oxford Brookes Centre for Educational Management (OXCEM) the UK's most active International Schools' consultancy service. Issues discussed include teaching learning and the curriculum primary and secondary curriculum development recording and reporting assessment English as a second language school management and staff development. | Managing International Schools

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William Lawes (1602-1645) Essays on His Life Times and Work

William Lawes (1602-1645) Essays on His Life Times and Work

First published in 1998 this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of his death. They examine not only Lawes’s music but the milieu in which he worked. Part One examines the musical life of the English Court in Lawes’s day noting his activities there and his involvement with companies of players. Manuscript studies and a detailed account of the fatal battle are also included. Part Two comprises seven essays exploring the wide range of his instrumental and vocal music. William Lawes is acknowledged as the most exciting and innovative composer working in England during the reign of Charles I. His tragic early death at the Siege of Chester in 1645 only served to heighten his reputation among his contemporaries lending him also the cloak of martyrdom in the service of his king. | William Lawes (1602-1645) Essays on His Life Times and Work

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Child Care Needs and Numbers

Child Care Needs and Numbers

Originally published in 1968 the study described in this title began in a very small way in late 1960. At that time some Oxfordshire county councillors and children’s department officials were very conscious that the number of children in care in the county was high in comparison with the national average. This meant that expenditure was also high. The County’s position however was not unique. Oxford City was in a similar position but other neighbours did not appear to have the same problem. A small research project was launched to investigate and it soon became apparent that there was a large and complex problem to be solved. The problem was of striking persistent and puzzling variations in the proportion of children in care in the different local authority children’s departments of England and Wales. This seemed to warrant a larger investigation on a country-wide basis and this book outlines the findings of that project. | Child Care Needs and Numbers

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A History of South Africa to 1870

A History of South Africa to 1870

Originally published in 1982 and based on the 1969 Oxford History of South Africa this book discusses some of the trends in the historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870. A deliberate attempt was made to look at the roots of South African society and to take due account of all its peoples. The book includes a survey of archaeological data emphasizing the links between South Africa and the rest of the continent and between the more remote and more recent past in South Africa. The lives of the hunting herding and cultivating peoples who lived in South Africa before the advent of the Europeans. The foundation of a colonial society is described and the expansion of that society until the 1770s. The final chapters review the relations between the peoples of the Cape Colony and the Nguni cultivators from their first meetings until about 1870 and the growth of the plural society in the Cape Colony until 1970. | A History of South Africa to 1870

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The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies

The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies

This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long out of print but they are essential to an understanding of how English studies developed. They show how English was influenced by pre-existing subjects like rhetoric and classics and how it assumed different faces in different academic institutions. Each text is given an introduction which sets it in context and highlights themes. A general introduction to the book sketches the history of English studies in the nineteenth century. London was central to the early history with University College King’s College and Queen’s College all looming large. Oxford figured later in the century and became the centre of a truly national debate over the future of the subject. Schools played a part especially grammar schools catering for middle-class pupils who were commonly identified as the main market for English. | The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies

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Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century Enquiry Controversy and Truth

Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century Enquiry Controversy and Truth

Many books have been written about nineteenth-century Oxford theology but what was happening in Cambridge? This book provides the first continuous account of what might be called 'the Cambridge theological tradition' by discussing its leading figures from Richard Watson and William Paley through Herbert Marsh and Julius Hare to the trio of Lightfoot Westcott and Hort. It also includes a chapter on nonconformists such as Robertson Smith P. T. Forsyth and T. R. Glover. The analysis is organised around the defences that were offered for the credibility of Christianity in response to hostile and friendly critics. In this period the study of theology was not yet divided into its modern self-contained areas. A critical approach to scripture was taken for granted and its implications for ecclesiology the understanding of salvation and the social implications of the Gospel were teased out (in Hort's phrase) through enquiry and controversy as a way to discover truth. Cambridge both engaged with German theology and responded positively to the nineteenth-century 'crisis of faith'. | Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century Enquiry Controversy and Truth

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Reason Community and Religious Tradition Anselm's Argument and the Friars

Reason Community and Religious Tradition Anselm's Argument and the Friars

This title was first published in 2001: Reason Community and Religious Tradition examines key questions about the relationship of rationality to its contexts by tracing the early history of the so-called 'ontological' argument. The book follows Anselm's Proslogion from its origins in the private devotional context of an eleventh-century monastery to its reception in the public and adversarial contexts of the friars' schools in the thirteenth century. Using unpublished manuscript evidence from the Dominican and Franciscan schools at Oxford Paris and Bologna in the thirteenth century Matthews argues that the debate over Anselm's argument embodied the broader religious differences between the Franciscan and Dominican communities. By comparing the most famous figures of the period with their lesser-known contemporaries Matthews argues that the Friars thought as communities and developed as traditions as they developed their arguments. This book will interest anyone concerned with the nature of rationality and its relationship to communities and traditions and what this entails for rational debate across cultural divides. In particular it offers a fresh perspective on traditional approaches to the rationality of religion and religious belief. | Reason Community and Religious Tradition Anselm's Argument and the Friars

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Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

This volume sheds new light on one of the most remarkable polymaths of the English Renaissance. It offers original perspectives not only on Harriot’s personal achievements in mathematics and natural philosophy but also on the wider realms of exploration colonial ambition and philosophical debate in which he earned the attention and respect of contemporaries in and far beyond the socially elevated circles of his two great patrons first Walter Ralegh and then Henry Percy the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Harriot’s sixteenth-century world was one of unprecedented expansion in both scientific understanding and the discovery of new lands and peoples. The essays gathered here bring out forcefully the effect of this expanding vision encapsulated in Harriot’s Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1588) the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language. In addition to an essay by a recent biographer of Harriot the volume contains reworked versions of seven Thomas Harriot Lectures an annual lecture series inaugurated in 1990 in Oriel College Oxford. It follows two earlier volumes of Harriot Lectures also edited by Robert Fox that appeared in 2000 and 2012. | Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

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Learning to be Human The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray

Learning to be Human The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray

The educational writings of John Macmurray one of the finest 20th century philosophers of his generation have a special relevance for us today. In similar circumstances of international crisis he argued for the central importance of education addressing fundamental issues of human purpose - how we lead good lives together the emphasis on wisdom rather than knowledge alone the advancement of a truly democratic culture and the overriding importance of community in human flourishing. This remarkable collection of articles from leading international scholars includes the hitherto unpublished John Macmurray lecture – Learning to be Human – and brings together invited contributions from a range of fields and disciplines (e. g. philosophy of education moral philosophy care ethics history of education theology religious education future studies and learning technologies) and a number of countries across the world (e. g. Australia the UK and the USA). Countering overemphasis on technique and its typical separation from wider human purposes emblematic of much of our current malaise this book asks what it might mean to take the education of persons seriously and how such a perspective helps us to form judgments about the nature and worth of contemporary education policy and practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education. | Learning to be Human The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray

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Nervous Disorders and Religion A Study of Souls in the Making

Nervous Disorders and Religion A Study of Souls in the Making

Originally published in 1951 this title is a study in developmental psychology with special reference to the effect of various types of religion on mental health and religious experience. With instinct as a ‘disappearing category’ in the psychology of human nature a new approach to the realization of a harmonious interior life has been made using a doctrine of biological and personality needs as a starting point. Human nature is acquired and is not a static datum. The interior conflicts the development of conscience and the origin of guilt feeling the morbid complexes and the character-trends resulting from these conflicts with their sense of guilt are all studied. A long chapter on the various methods of mental healing through the doctrines of psycho-somatic medicine with a new approach to Spiritual Healing in particular prepares the way for the final chapter on the types of religion which originate or accentuate psychological conflicts and the kind of religion which leads to a basic sense of security and harmonious personality. The illustrations are nearly all taken from Dr McKenzie’s own thirty years’ experience of dealing with neurotic disorders. This volume contains the substance (greatly expanded) of the Tate lectures delivered in Manchester College Oxford in 1947 and repeated at the St Andrews Summer School of Theology in1948 and at Iona Community. | Nervous Disorders and Religion A Study of Souls in the Making

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The Public Understanding of Assessment

The Public Understanding of Assessment

Assessment of educational achievement whether by traditional examinations or by teachers in schools attracts considerable public interest particularly when it is associated with ‘high stakes’ outcomes such as university entry or selection for employment. When the individual’s results do not chime with their or their teachers’ expectations doubts creep in about the process of assessment that has arrived at this result. However educational assessment is made up of many layers of complexity which are not always clear to the general public including teachers students and parents and which are not easily understood outside of the expert assessment community. These layers may be organized in highly co-dependent relationships that include reliability validity human judgment and errors and the uses and interpretations of the various types of assessment. No-one could reasonably argue that the principles and complexities of educational assessment should be core learning in public education but there is a growing realization that trust in the UK assessment system is under some threat as the media and others sensationalize or politicize any problems that arise each year. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of how the general public is considered to perceive and understand a wide variety of aspects of educational assessment and how this understanding may be improved. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education. | The Public Understanding of Assessment

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Mobilising Teacher Researchers Challenging Educational Inequality

Mobilising Teacher Researchers Challenging Educational Inequality

'[A] really important book […] the growth of interest in teachers in England taking part in educational research is significant. ' – John Furlong Emeritus Professor of Education Oxford University UK. Mobilising Teacher Researchers brings together the results of a research project carried out over a two-year period commissioned by the National College for Teaching and Leadership and involving over 650 schools in England. An internationally renowned group of contributors present crucial and intriguing lessons learnt from the 'Closing the Gap: Test and Learn' project aimed at identifying ways in which to close the attainment gap raise the achievement of disadvantaged children in England and introduce new research methods into schools. From the project’s policy origins to its implementation the book captures the diverse range of outcomes from the project both intended and unexpected. It reveals the ways and extent to which teachers were mobilised as researchers and how analysis will impact on the future of research-informed practice in schools. This resulting collection of evolutionary debates focuses on topics such as new forms of governance teacher engagement and the effectiveness of Randomised Controlled Trials. It foregrounds new approaches to school-based educational research and is crucial reading for anyone concerned with educational research and seeking to understand education for social mobility. | Mobilising Teacher Researchers Challenging Educational Inequality

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Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies Self-Regulation in Context Second Edition

Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies Self-Regulation in Context Second Edition

Now in its second edition Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners students and researchers. This volume carries on the author's tradition of linking theoretical insights with readability and practical utility and offers an enhanced Strategic Self-Regulation Model. It is enriched by many new features such as the first-ever major content analysis of published learning strategy definitions leading to a long-awaited encompassing strategy definition that to a significant degree brings order out of chaos in the strategy field. Rebecca L. Oxford provides an intensive discussion of self-regulation agency and related factors as the soul of learning strategies. She ushers the strategy field into the twenty-first century with the first in-depth treatment of strategies and complexity theory. A major section is devoted to applications of learning strategies in all language skill areas and in grammar and vocabulary. The last chapter presents innovations for strategy instruction such as ways to deepen and differentiate strategy instruction to meet individual needs; a useful scenario-based emotion regulation questionnaire; insights on new research methods; and results of two strategy instruction meta-analyses. This revised edition includes in-depth questions tasks and projects for readers in every chapter. This is the ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in TESOL ELT education linguistics and psychology. | Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies Self-Regulation in Context Second Edition

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Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson Volume 2

Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson Volume 2

Dick Leonard’s Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson surveys the lives and careers of all the 24 Prime Ministers from Arthur Balfour to Boris Johnson in succinct informative and entertaining chapters. Bringing to life the political achievements and personal idiosyncrasies of Britain's rulers over the 20th and 21st centuries the author recounts the circumstances which took them to the pinnacle of British political life probes their political and personal strengths and weaknesses assesses their performance in office and asks what lasting influence they have had. Along the way Leonard entertains and informs revealing little-known facts about the private lives of each of the Prime Ministers for example which two Premiers one Tory one Labour were taught by the same governess as a child? Who was thrashed at his public school for writing pornography and later donated one-fifth of his wealth to the nation? Who was awarded a fourth-class degree at Oxford and went on to father eight children? Who was described by his son as ‘probably the greatest natural Don Juan in the history of British politics'? This book can also form part of a two-volume set published by Routledge including the companion volume British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries. This book will be of key interest to scholars students and readers of British political history the Executive government and British politics. | Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson Volume 2

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Snapshots of Museum Experience Understanding Child Visitors Through Photography

Snapshots of Museum Experience Understanding Child Visitors Through Photography

Children are one of the major audiences for museums but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience Will Buckingham draws upon Elee Kirk’s research amongst child visitors to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History to take a different approach. Using a method of photo-elicitation with four-and five-year-old child visitors to the museum the book investigates children’s experience of the museum and in the process undermines many of our assumptions about the interests needs and demands of child museum visitors. Drawing together the fields of museum studies and childhood studies the book considers children as active creators of the museum visit. It investigates the way that children navigate and take control of the physical and social spaces of the museum finding their own idiosyncratic pathways through these spaces. It also explores how elements of the museum ‘light up’ becoming salient to the child visitor. Finally it investigates how children make sense through intellectually and imaginatively engaging with these elements of the museum visit. Snapshots of Museum Experience gives a unique insight into the sheer diversity of children’s museum experiences and discusses how museums might cater more successfully to the needs of their child visitors. As such it should be of great interest to academics researchers and students in the fields of museum studies visitor studies and childhood studies. It should also be essential reading for museum educators and exhibition designers. | Snapshots of Museum Experience Understanding Child Visitors Through Photography

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