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A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English ...

A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English ...

Marek Kohn

'A marvellous book.' New Scientist. 'A real triumph.' Guardian Marek Kohn's A Reason for Everything is a brilliant and surprising fusion of science and biography.
Trust: Self-Interest and the Common Good

Trust: Self-Interest and the Common Good

Marek Kohn

Trust lies at the very heart of our relationships, our society, and our everyday lives. Kohn's essay consider its connections to a wider complex of factors, including equality, social capital, community, democracy, and health.
Arc 2.2: Chromewash:

Arc 2.2: Chromewash:

Marek Kohn

The second volume of Arc continues with an issue that wants to peel back the futuristic shine.
Transformacje uniwersytetu. Zmiany instytucjonalne i ...

Transformacje uniwersytetu. Zmiany instytucjonalne i ...

Marek Kwiek

Kwiek, Marek (2006a). The University and the State. A Study into Global Transformations. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang. Kwiek, Marek (2006b). „ The Harmonisation of European Educational Policies vs. Private Institutions in the ...
Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the ...

Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the ...

Marek Kohn

... Faber, John Best, Stuart Blackhall, Alison Blackwell, John Boardman, Aletta Bonn, Tatiana Bosteels, Mark Broadmeadow, Lindell Bromham, 287 Back matter.
The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science

The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science

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Marek Kohn examines the resurgent racialism in science in a timely expose. The ideas, which exploit anxieties about race and social breakdown and their defenders, are analysed in this book."
Uniwersytet w dobie przemian: Instytucje i kadra akademicka ...

Uniwersytet w dobie przemian: Instytucje i kadra akademicka ...

Marek Kwiek

Kwiek, Marek (2005). „The University and the State in a Global Age: Renegotiating the Traditional Social Contract?” European Educational Research Journal, 4(4): 324–341. Kwiek, Marek (2006a). „The Institution of the University: The ...
Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the ...

Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the ...

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For addiction paradigm, see Marek Kohn, Narcomania, chapter 4; or Geoffrey Harding, Opiate Addiction, Morality and Medicine: From Moral Illness to Pathological Disease (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1988); Herbert ...
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground

Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground

Marek Kohn

A drug panic. Murder. Terrifying and mysterious black and Chinese immigrants. Dope Kings. Jazz. War. An actress dead of an overdose. Dope Girls is about the transformation of drug use into a national menace.
Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

Alfie Kohn

For this 10th anniversary edition, Kohn adds a new afterword that expands on the book's central themes and responds to questions from readers.
Reflections on Modern History: The Historian and Human ...

Reflections on Modern History: The Historian and Human ...

Hans Kohn

This collection of essays and addresses epitomize the thinking of Kohn on how he regards the history profession, how he interprets the events of his time, and how he applies his understanding of liberalism, nationalism, and the ...
What to Look for in a Classroom: ...and Other Essays

What to Look for in a Classroom: ...and Other Essays

Alfie Kohn

Through all these essays, Kohn calls us back to our own ideals, showing us how we can be more effective at helping students to become good learners and good people.
Kohn on Music Licensing

Kohn on Music Licensing

Al Kohn

Proven tips and suggestions, along with the most up-to-date analysis, are given for the technical aspects of music licensing, from the perspective of both the rights owners and prospective licensees, including How to andquot;clearandquot; a ...
The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional ...

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional ...

Alfie Kohn

ALSO BY ALFIE KOHN No Contest: The Case Against Competition The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life You Know What They Say The Truth About Popular Beliefs Punished by Rewards: The Trouble ...
No Contest: The Case Against Competition

No Contest: The Case Against Competition

Alfie Kohn

Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers.
Schooling Beyond Measure and Other Unorthodox Essays about ...

Schooling Beyond Measure and Other Unorthodox Essays about ...

Alfie Kohn

In this collection of provocative articles and blog posts originally published between 2010 and 2014, Alfie Kohn challenges the conventional wisdom about topics ranging from how low-income children are taught, to whether American schools ...
Die Hochschule: Journal für wissenschaft und bildung

Die Hochschule: Journal für wissenschaft und bildung

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Available from his SUNY-Buffalo website. Kwiek, Marek 2003: „The State, the Market, and Higher Education. Challenges for the New Century" in Marek Kwiek ( ed.). The University, Globalization, Central Europe, Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 71-113.
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Kwiek, Marek (1996) Rotry's elective affinities. The new pragmatism and postmodern thought. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Kwiek, Marek ( 1997) "Zygmunt Bauman and the question of the intellectual in postmodernity". Working ...
The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, ...

The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, ...

Alfie Kohn

Kohn's central message is that standardized tests are "not a force of nature but a force of politics-and political decisions can be questioned, challenged, and ultimately reversed."
World Yearbook of Education 2008: Geographies of Knowledge, ...

World Yearbook of Education 2008: Geographies of Knowledge, ...

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Kwiek, Marek (2004a) Intellectuals, Power, and Knowledge: Studiesin the Philosophyof Cultureand Education, Frankfurt amMain andNew York: Peter Lang. Kwiek, Marek (2004b) 'The emergent European educational policies under scrutiny.
Quarterly journal of the history of science and technology:

Quarterly journal of the history of science and technology:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Historii Nauki

35-42. 3988. MAREK Edmond: Le jeu des echecs. Poeme her'o'i'-comique de Jean Kochanowski (1530-1584). Lille 1993. Rec.JerzyStarnawski, Ruch Literacki 1994 R. 35 z. 1/2 s. 157-159. 3989. MAREK Iwona: Początki matryc logicznych.
Drafting License Agreements

Drafting License Agreements

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Al Kohn and Bob Kohn § 15.01 Introduction § 15.02 Basic Music Licensing Factors [A] Fee Structure [1] Practical Constraints [2] Legal Constraints [B] Value of the Song [1] Quantitative Factors Affecting Value [2] Qualitative Factors Affecting ...
Toward Nationalism's End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn

Toward Nationalism's End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn

Adi Gordon

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist.
The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers: A Legal Toolkit for ...

The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers: A Legal Toolkit for ...

Thomas A. Crowell

... Nondisclosure Agreements (Nolo Press 2001). MUSIC LAW Al Kohn et al., Kohn on Music Licensing (Aspen Publishers 2002). WEBSITES Attorneys AttorneyThomas A. Crowell,Esq.: www.thomascrowell.com AttorneyIvanSaperstein,Esq.: ...
Czech It Out: Czech American Biography Sourcebook

Czech It Out: Czech American Biography Sourcebook

Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr.

LC KOHEL Descendants of Joannes Kohel and Related Families: Auclair, Ferguson, Grube, Hörz and Panzer. By Michael E. Kohel. Franklin, NC: Genealogy Pub. Service, 2006. 369p. KOHN Illustrated Family Tree of the Kohn, Barnett and ...
Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2003

Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2003

Tomasz R. Bielecki

Tomasz R. Bielecki, Tomas Björk, Monique Jeanblanc, Marek Rutkowski, Jose A. Scheinkman, Wei Xiong René Carmona, ... Tomasz R. Bielecki,1 Monique Jeanblanc2 and Marek Rutkowski3 1 Department of Applied Mathematics Illinois  ...
Franz Kafkas Literatursprache: Deutsch im Kontext des Prager ...

Franz Kafkas Literatursprache: Deutsch im Kontext des Prager ...

Boris Blahak

Nekula, Marek (1997): Theodor Lessing und Max Brod. Eine mißlungene Begegnung. – In: brücken. Germanistisches Jahrbuch Tschechien – Slowakei. Neue Folge 5, 115–122. Nekula, Marek (1998): Diminutive bei Franz Kafka. – In: Harden ...
Uncensored Poland News Bulletin

Uncensored Poland News Bulletin

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The other twelve, mostly Warsaw University students and NZS activists, receive fines as follows: Marek Gefel, reading 3rd year history - 30 thousand zlotys; Marek Gogacz - 20 thousand zlotys; Mariusz Kaminski, reading 4th year history - 40 ...

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