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Respecting Difference: Race, Faith and Culture for Teacher Educators
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Respecting Difference: Race, Faith and Culture for Teacher EducatorsRespecting Difference demonstrates how teacher educators in the UK and worldwide can attract, recruit and support black and minority ethnic students to become much-needed and valued future teachers and educational leaders.
This accessible guide presents insights into the institutional and individual dilemmas and experiences of both tutors and students involved in Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses as they deal with issues of race, faith and culture. While the book collects and shares good practice, case studies throughout the book highlight specific ways tutors and students have explored and learned from difficult situations to develop positive outcomes.
 
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You Are Not So Smart
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You Are Not So SmartYou Are Not So Smart

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK - delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's like a psychology class, with all the boring parts taken out, and with no homework.Based on the popular blog of the same name, You Are Not So Smart collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves everyday, including: Dunbar's Number - Humans evolved to live in bands of roughly 150 individuals, the brain cannot handle more than that number.
 
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This and That
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This and ThatThis and That

Ages 2-4
Brightly colored cut-paper collages and simple words tell a warm farmyard story with an ending that is both inevitable and surprising. Cat asks each of the animals in turn for something she needs. Horse lets her borrow his stable. Pig gladly gives her some straw. She collects feathers from Hen, wool from Sheep, tail hairs from Cow. Each time the animals ask Cat why she needs these things ("What do you want it for?" ), she purrs her answer, "This and that."
 
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Endovascular Intervention for Vascular Disease: Principles and Practice
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Endovascular Intervention for Vascular Disease: Principles and PracticeSetting a gold-standard in industry, this guide describes the entire spectrum of current techniques and emerging technologies for endovascular intervention including aneurysm repair, the management of occlusive disease, and vascular trauma. Providing step-by-step guidance on arterial and venous interventions by anatomical site, this reference collects expert discussions on recent clinical trials and procedures for venous disease, reconstruction, and repair.

 
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