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  • Audiobook

    Scarweather

    by Anthony Rolls ...
    Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    7 hours 41 min

    John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen Reisby. At Scarweather – Reisby's lonely house on the windswept northern coast of England – Eric is quickly attracted to Reisby's much younger wife, and matters soon take a dangerous turn. Fifteen years later, the final scene of the drama is enacted. ... Read more

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  • Scarweather

    by Anthony Rolls ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Readers will be rewarded with a suspenseful read, rich in setting; characters; details about WWI and its aftermath; and a horrific resolution worthy of Hitchcock." —Booklist'My friend Ellingham has persuaded me to reveal to the public the astounding features of the Reisby case. As a study in criminal aberration it is, he tells me, of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Family Matters

    by Anthony Rolls ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"A deliciously anti-cozy tale of murder most multiplied..." —Kirkus ReviewsRobert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artifacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a husband ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Family Matters

    by Anthony Rolls ...
    Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artefacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a husband who will persist in making a fool of himself in public. Their marriage consists of horrible quarrels, futile arguments, incessant ... Read more

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  • K-12 Education Finance

    New Directions for Future Research: a Special Issue of the peabody Journal of Education

    Edited by Anthony Rolle ...
    Education finance researchers tend to organize their thoughts on important issues by considering one of the four foundational perspectives: equity, efficiency, liberty, and adequacy. The six essays presented in this special edition of the Peabody Journal of Education base their work within the context of the four pillars and present new directions for future research. While some of the articles ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • To What Ends and By What Means

    The Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory and Policy

    This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of several established theories and policy approaches that undergird contemporary thinking in the field of school finance. These explorations offer ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Leading Schools in Challenging Times

    Eye to the Future

    Series series Educational Policy in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
    Over the past 30 years our public school system has received an unprecedented amount of attention as this concerns methods of school reform and policy strategies for bringing about this reform. During the 1980s the emphasis of school reform was on transparency through school-community partnerships. Business and philanthropy, for example, became involved with issues of schooling that was unheard of ... Read more

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    From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research

    Edited by Peter Cane, Herbert Kritzer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but also as social practices of political, economic and ethical significance, empirical legal researchers ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Opportunity in America

    Evidence and Perspectives

    Edited by Irwin Kirsch, Henry Braun ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly different ... Read more

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  • THE JUDGES HOUSE

    by Bram Stoker ...
    THE JUDGES HOUSEby Bram StokerThe Judge's House is a short story by Bram Stoker.About The Author:-Bram Stoker was born Abraham Stoker on November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland, to father Abraham Stoker and mother Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker. He was one of seven children.He graduated with honors from Trinity College in 1870, earning a mathematics degree. Not long after, he was hired as a ... Read more

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  • Tax Fairness and Folk Justice

    Why have Americans severely limited the estate and gift tax - ostensibly targeted at only the very wealthy - but greatly expanded the subsidies to low-wage workers through the Earned Income Tax Credit, now the single largest poverty program in the country? Why do people hate the property tax so much, yet seemingly revolt against it only during periods of economic change? Why are some groups of ... Read more

    $27.89 USD