Product Description: This thesis, examining the Treatise of Garcia of Toledo, explores the connection between the legend of Cockaigne and its connection with the powerful monastic foundation of Cluny. The Treatise was written as a condemnation of Cluniac influence in 11th and 12th century Spain.

Product Description: This book investigates and analyses critical issues in education reform and discusses possible pitfalls in the current global drive to promote excellence. Instead of documenting the successes and frustrations encountered by education reformers in specific jurisdictions, this book aims to offer directions for all education reformers, and sets out to be prescriptive rather than descriptive...read more

Product Description: The New Right group in New Zealand believes that government should be separate from a country's economy. Its growth between 1984 and 1999 is set within its global economic and moral context in this study, providing a more accurate picture than that given by those who only see the reforms as part of the play of global capitalism or in terms of local personalities and agendas...read more

Product Description: "SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled" shows where XML as a data model makes sense, when and how best to get both relational databases and XML to work together, and how to set up and configure the SQL Server XML environment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the approach to civic education in six societies located on the Pacific Rim: Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and the US. In these scrupulously designed studies, the contributors investigate the recent re-emergence of civic education in this region...read more

Product Description: Originally published as Felix Paul Greves Karriere: Frederick Philip Grove in Deutschland, this volume reveals the previously unknown life of Canadian author F.P. Grove. Prior to his arrival in Canada, Grove was a widely known-and somewhat outrageous-editor, writer, translator, and literary personality in Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A practical guide to fund-raising for schools. Funding for schools from the customary sources has become more difficult and schools are having to raise funds through schemes involving community and commercial support. This guide explains everything that schools need to know about funding, including;*researching funds available*commercial funding*government funding*European funding initiatives*business sponsorships*how to enter local partnerships*writing a bid*making and maintaining contacts*paperwork*legalities*staffing the funding team*target-setting and monitoring*the governing body's role.

Demonstrates SQL Server 2000's advanced features, including updating databases and retrieving data with XML documents and working with XML schemas and update grams. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This work investigates the relationships between education and national development in an area of the world where both have acquired considerable importance. It questions assumptions which view education primarily as a direct investment in human capital and approaches which measure the efficiency of educational provision solely in terms of quantifiable differences between inputs and outputs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity is the first book to engage the study of religion with contemporary theorizing about culture. It addresses important issues such as whether there are postmodern forms of religion, whether theories of religion framed in terms of modernity can be recast to suit new or emerging circumstances, and how the study of religion can be better integrated with recent developments in the study of culture...read more

Product Description: The modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the world. This volume reverses the emphasis, to focus on modes of authority and identity, and to examine the roles which existing and new traditions may play in our epoch...read more

Product Description: Can the "open" market system with its inevitable creation of a nation of rich and poor, winners and losers, be held to be moral? The enterprise culture is now more firmly on the agenda than in the past and all three major political parties emphasize the importance of the "open market"...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays by notable scholars offers a unique, multi-faceted approach to the understanding of the Garden story. Starting with the motifs, context, structure and language of the biblical text itself, the chapters trace the Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions, and developments in literature and iconography...read more

Product Description: There is currently an intense interest in curriculum planning in East Asian countries, many of which are expending considerable funds and at the same time re-examining fundamental concernes about the curriculum. While educational developments in the USA, UK and other countries have had some impact on official educational policies in Asia, the overall goals of curriculum policy, its form and priorities must be understood in the context of the country in question...read more