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  • The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

    Edited by John Lauermann, Cristina Temenos ...
    This book contributes to debates in geography and urban studies by analysing the spatial dimensions and politics of urban policy failure. Attention is most often paid to successful urban policies. Policymakers go to great lengths to emulate success by importing policy 'models', implementing best practices, or pursuing 'silver bullet' solutions. Yet, stories of failure are at least as common as ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Motivation, Achievement, and Situated Expectancy-Value Theory

    Making One's Future

    by Jacquelynne S. Eccles, PhD, Allan Wigfield, Sandra D. Simpkins, PhD, Fani Lauermann, PhD ...
    How do young people determine what activities they value--and are good at? What motivates an individual to choose a particular career? What key factors should be addressed in interventions to enhance academic engagement? This book offers the first comprehensive presentation of situated expectancy–value theory (SEVT), a multidimensional model that has guided research into motivation and achievement ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Someone Made a Mistake, So I am Here Now

    The Dagmar Lieblová Story

    by Dagmar Lieblová, Marek Lauermann ...
    Translated by Rita McLeod ...
    The true story of Dagmar Lieblová, who survived the Holocaust, while the rest of her family perished. Some memories are about people seemingly unknown and obscure. You won’t find among them famous poets, musicians or politicians. These were ordinary people, of whom there are many. And yet, nobody can say that they were less important, or that they suffered, hoped and fought for their lives any ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Constituent Perceptions of Political Representation: How Citizens Evaluate Their Representatives

    by R. Lauermann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the nature of representation in democracy, focusing specifically on the factors shaping constituent evaluations of the US House Representatives and the resulting implications for government. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Everything Is Fine, But I'm Not Worried

    by Susan G Lauermann ...
    I wrote this book for women of all ages who, by intention or circumstances, find themselves going through a transition that has become tougher than expected. My transition began with a divorce, but the lessons I learned speak to the pitfalls and detours that come with any change – particularly when escaping to a private island paradise is not really an option. You are in survival mode, but you ... Read more

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  • Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

    Lasting Legacies?

    by Robert Oliver, John Lauermann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from one ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

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  • The Econocracy

    On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts

    by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins ...
    A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'. Government is being turned over to a publicly ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Becoming a High Expectation Teacher

    Raising the bar

    by Christine Rubie-Davies ...
    We constantly hear cries from politicians for teachers to have high expectations. But what this means in practical terms is never spelled out. Simply deciding that as a teacher you will expect all your students to achieve more than other classes you have taught in the same school, is not going to translate automatically into enhanced achievement for students.Becoming a High Expectation Teacher is ... Read more

    Was $92.06 CAD Now $82.44 CAD

  • Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • A Dictionary of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

    by Prof Matthew Molineux ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Including over 600 A to Z entries, this original dictionary provides clear and succinct definitions of the terms used in the related and developing fields of occupational science and occupational therapy. Entries cover a broad range of topics from activities of daily living and autonomy to task-oriented approach and work-life balance and have a clear occupational focus. They provide an overview of ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

  • Analyzing Public Policy

    by Peter John ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis:institutionsgroups and networkssociety and the economyindividual interestsideas.The book explains each one, offers constructive criticisms and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $86.39 CAD