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Playing Card Divination

Every Card Tells a Story

by Stephen Ball ...

Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This ... Read more

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Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This
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Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences

Pelle the Conqueror, Little Aliens, The Italians, The Able McLaughlins, Mr. Dooley Says, etc.

by Martin Andersen Nexø, Myra Kelly, Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, Margaret Wilson, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Finley Peter Dunne, Broughton Brandenburg, Mary Antin, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Peter A. Speek, George Fraser Black, Sui Sin Far, United States. Office of Education, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, John Robertson Henry, Council of Women for Home Missions, Home Missions Council, Eva Stern, Anzia Yezierska, Eustace Hale Ball, Stephen Graham, Emily P. Weaver, Thomas Ostenson Stine, J. P. MacLean, George T. Flom, Clara M. S. Lowe, Patrick Matthew, Scots New Zealand Land Company, F. S. Brereton, James Seton Cockburn, George A. Birmingham ...

Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences offers a profound exploration of the immigrant narrative through an array of literary styles, from poignant autobiographies to insightful essays and fiction. This anthology embraces the complexity of the immigrant experience by collating stories that discuss the nuances of cultural identity, displacement, and assimilation. The works ... Read more

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Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences offers a profound exploration of the immigrant narrative through an array of literary styles, from poignant autobiographies to insightful essays and fiction. This anthology embraces the complexity of the immigrant experience by collating stories that discuss the nuances of cultural identity, displacement, and assimilation. The works
... Read more
Playing Card Divination

Every Card Tells a Story

by Stephen Ball ...

Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This
... Read more
Foucault, Power, and Education

by Stephen J. Ball ...

Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational
... Read more
Contemporary Hospitality and Tourism Management Issues in China and India

by Stephen Ball, Susan Horner, Kevin Nield ...

This book represents a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date analysis of key sectors in the hospitality and tourism industries in China and India, and will address the market's growing need for information on Tourism in China and India. The text will be written in an accessible style drawing on the authors’ wealth of theoretical, educational and industry experience. The text will contain ... Read more

$94.99 USD

This book represents a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date analysis of key sectors in the hospitality and tourism industries in China and India, and will address the market's growing need for information on Tourism in China and India. The text will be written in an accessible style drawing on the authors’ wealth of theoretical, educational and industry experience. The text will contain
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Against School

Thinking Education Differently

by Stephen J. Ball, Jordi Collet-Sabé ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult and dangerous world we live in. That invitation means testing our limits, questioning and changing ourselves and thinking the practice of education ... Read more

$143.99 USD

This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult and dangerous world we live in. That invitation means testing our limits, questioning and changing ourselves and thinking the practice of education
... Read more
Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16

New Youth, New Economies in the Global City

by Stephen Ball, Sheila Macrae, Meg Maguire ...

This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It looks at their choices, the market behaviour of local education and training providers and those who help and advise these choices. The authors show that recent and current political ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It looks at their choices, the market behaviour of local education and training providers and those who help and advise these choices. The authors show that recent and current political
... Read more
The Education Debate

by Stephen J. Ball ...

Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book looks at the role of the UK as a social laboratory for global education policy. Covering key concepts, it then examines new areas, including:• Global education policy mobility• Edu-business and ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book looks at the role of the UK as a social laboratory for global education policy. Covering key concepts, it then examines new areas, including:• Global education policy mobility• Edu-business and
... Read more
Governing by Numbers

Education, governance, and the tyranny of numbers

Edited by Stephen Ball ...

Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test results, and output and performance statistics are now routinely reported and debated in the media. Numbers are a powerful resource for governments as a means to manage and ‘improve’ their populations, and we are increasingly represented, organized and ... Read more

$66.99 USD

Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test results, and output and performance statistics are now routinely reported and debated in the media. Numbers are a powerful resource for governments as a means to manage and ‘improve’ their populations, and we are increasingly represented, organized and
... Read more
Class Strategies and the Education Market

The Middle Classes and Social Advantage

by Stephen J. Ball ...

Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis ... Read more

$72.99 USD

Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis
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Politics and Policy Making in Education

Explorations in Sociology

by Stephen J. Ball ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities of the politicians, civil servants and government advisers who were influential in making changes. ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities of the politicians, civil servants and government advisers who were influential in making changes.
... Read more
Education Policy and Social Class

The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball

by Stephen J. Ball ...

Series series World Library of Educationalists
Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen key essays divided into three sections:perspectives on policy researchpolicy technologies and ... Read more

$66.99 USD

Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen key essays divided into three sections:perspectives on policy researchpolicy technologies and
... Read more

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