Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education
by Theodore Kowalski and Thomas J. Lasley
Education has fought long and hard to gain acceptance as a profession and, since professionals by definition use data to shape the decisions they make, education has little choice but to continue moving in this direction. This 3-part handbook represents a major contribution to the literature of education. It is a unique compendium of the most original work currently available on how, when and why evidence should be used to ground practice. It is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary, research-base...
In her first book since Friend of Heraclitus (1993), Patricia Beer comes to terms with a serious illness; the deaths of friends; and the encroachments of age.
The lyric and satirical muses have kept busy with Les Murray. Subhuman Redneck Poems, awarded the 1996 T.S. Eliot Prize, Dog Fox Field (1991), Translations from the Natural World (1993) and Conscious and Verbal (1999) are added to his expanded and corrected volume, bringing the first 60 years of his life into memorable focus. 'It would be as myopic to regard Mr Murray as an Australian poet as to call Yeats an Irishman. He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives', Joseph Brodsky said...
A poet whose being was nurtured in a landscape divided by competing conflicts, Kathleen struggled to cross bridges and 'bridge those crosses' ('Lagan') from a position of marginality. Readers will recognise in this collection Kathleen's familiar intellectual and emotional insistence on the need to reverence the spirit. This is nowhere more pronounced than in the final line of the title poem, where Kathleen observes that in order to greet the spirit we need 'To tune the strings to meet her pulsin...
Hopkins's Poetics of Speech Sound: Sprung Rhythm, Lettering, Inscape
by James I. Wimsatt
The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw Volume II
by Richard Crashaw
Elizabethan Songs "In Honour of Love and Beautie," Collected and by Edmund H. Garrett
by Edmund Henry Garrett
The focus of this book is on women's literature and women's experience in World Wars I and II, analyzing the impact of war on women's lives and how women writers (both poets and prose writers) represented these issues in their writing.