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  • Audiobook

    The Merchant of Venice

    Unabridged

    2 hours 35 min

    Antonio, a wealthy and popular merchant, is in financial difficulty. He approaches a Jewish money lender, Shylock, who agrees to provide 3000 ducats, with a very curious bond – a pound of the merchant’s flesh, to be levied if Antonio fails to make a timely repayment. Feeling confident that his argosies will arrive in time to cover the debt, Antonio agrees to this bizarre transaction.Meanwhile, a ... Read more

    $21.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Twelfth Night

    Unabridged

    2 hours 29 min

    As the generating force of its plot, Twelfth Night uses a device which has since become a staple in comedy: gender confusion. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian, are shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, a country ruled by the melancholy Duke Orsino. The twins are separated and Viola is led to believe that her brother has perished. She disguises herself as a male under the name of Cesario and ... Read more

    $21.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leading Holistically

    How Schools, Districts, and States Improve Systemically

    Leading Holistically explores systems thinking in educational leadership—a comprehensive framework that enables leaders to improve their practice by taking a holistic perspective, instead of relying on a one-size-fits-all solution to discrete aspects of their organization. Aiming to expand the existing literature on systems thinking in educational leadership and policy, renowned educational ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Thinking and Acting Systemically

    Improving School Districts Under Pressure

    Edited by Alan Daly, Kara Finnigan ...
    This volume argues that districts are important as a lever for change given the limited success of school-by-school efforts. Policies that focus on skill development, recognize and support performance, create opportunities for collaboration, build leader capacity, and create networks of knowledge sharing hold great potential for improving districts but it will require a paradigm shift in the way ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Relational Leader

    Catalyzing Social Networks for Educational Change

    Series series Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Highlighting leadership from a social and relational perspective, this book has a particular emphasis on the innovative role that social networks play in systems change. The social systems engaged in this volume cut across a wide array of stakeholder groups, ranging from student learners, pre-service/in-service teachers, administrators, community leaders, and out to organizations and communities ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Social Network Theory and Educational Change

    Edited by Alan J. Daly ...
    Social Network Theory and Educational Change offers a provocative and fascinating exploration of how social networks in schools can impede or facilitate the work of education reform.Drawing on the work of leading scholars, the book comprises a series of studies examining networks among teachers and school leaders, contrasting formal and informal organizational structures, and exploring the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Using Research Evidence in Education

    From the Schoolhouse Door to Capitol Hill

    Series Book 2 - Policy Implications of Research in Education
    This book includes a set of rigorous and accessible studies on the topic of “research evidence” from a variety of levels and educational vantage points. It also provides the reader with thoughtful commentaries from leading thinkers in the field. The complex process of acquiring, interpreting, and using research evidence makes for a rich and under examined area in educational research, practice and ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Researching and Enacting Change in Postsecondary Education

    Leveraging Instructors' Social Networks

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Calls to improve undergraduate STEM education have resulted in initiatives that seek to bolster student learning outcomes by promoting changes in teaching practices. Written by participants in a series of ground-breaking social network analysis (SNA) workshops, Researching and Enacting Change in Postsecondary Education argues that the academic department is a highly productive focus for the spread ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Robert Louis Stevenson: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and more

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of talesRobert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, his figures swiftly became the shorthand for piracy, monstrous medicine, and the slave trade ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Ethics of Consumption

    The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship

    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice. In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines-philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Improving the Relational Space of Curriculum Realisation

    Social Network Interventions

    Series series Emerald Professional Learning Networks Series
    In educational policy, research and practice circles, there has been much attention in recent times to the power and potential of social networks for supporting educational improvement. Improving the Relational Space of Curriculum Realisation foregrounds the potential of the relational space, and its improvement, in the context of curriculum realisation in particular.Curriculum reform is a key ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Giving to Help, Helping to Give

    The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy

    The past decade has seen a flowering of philanthropic activities across many parts of Africa. Unlike before, this flowering has the distinct character of African agency, energy and engagement. Philanthropy is no longer about narratives of passive, poor and miserable Africans receiving help from rich, fortunate and often Western outsiders. The emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are ... Read more

    $47.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus