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Our day to end poverty 24 ways you can make a difference / by Daley-Harris, Shannon

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: opening our eyes to how we can end poverty in our day -- Break the fast -- Educate every child -- Make work pay -- Care for our children -- Give all children healthy futures -- Help produce a better harvest -- Consume with conscience -- Give from the heart: more thoughts on giving -- End hunger and malnutrition -- Extend the reach of technology -- Expand access to microcredit -- Encourage social entrepreneurship -- Ensure health care for all -- Provide housing -- Call for debt relief -- Serve with satisfaction: more thoughts on volunteering -- Extend hospitality and create community -- Spread literacy -- Improve transportation options -- Travel with a purpose -- Save the lives of mothers and newborns -- Improve access to clean water -- Increase international development aid -- Speak up for justice: more thoughts on advocacy -- Conclusion: dream of a bright tomorrow -- How to use this book with others -- Guide for schools -- Guide for the workplace -- Guide for places of worship -- Index -- About the book team.…”
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Advancing Human Assessment The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS /

Table of Contents: “…Large-Scale Assessments of Adult Literacy -- 10. Modeling Change in Large-Scale Longitudinal Studies of Educational Growth: Four Decades of Contributions to the Assessment of Educational Growth.- 11. …”
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Advancing Human Assessment The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS /

Table of Contents: “…Large-Scale Assessments of Adult Literacy -- 10. Modeling Change in Large-Scale Longitudinal Studies of Educational Growth: Four Decades of Contributions to the Assessment of Educational Growth.- 11. …”
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The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson.…”
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The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson.…”
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The state of play law, games, and virtual worlds /

Table of Contents: “…Michael Froomkin -- The new visual literacy : how the screen affects the law / David R. …”
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Politics of occupation-centred practice reflections on occupational engagement across cultures /

Table of Contents: “…The language of occupation / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- Occupational literacy / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- A grammar for a language of occupation / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- Towards a transformational grammar of occupation / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- Narratives of recognition / Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard -- Narratives and truths / Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard -- Occupation in a Greek town : flowing, emergent, flexible across time and space / Sarah Kantartzis, Matthew Molineux, and Sally Foster -- Indigenous Ainu occupational identities and the natural environment in Hokkaido / Mami Aoyama -- People with disabilities and participation : experiences and challenges of an occupational therapy practice in the city of São Paulo, Brazil / Sandra Maria Galheigo ... …”
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Law, governance, and justice new views on medieval constitutionalism /

Table of Contents: “…Kaeuper -- The Anglo-Saxon origins of English constitutionalism / James Campbell -- Orality and literacy in the age of the Angevin law reforms / Paul Hyams -- Between England and France: a cross-channel legal culture in the late thirteenth century / Thomas J. …”
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The first-year teacher's survival guide ready-to-use strategies, tools & activities for meeting the challenges of each school day / by Thompson, Julia G.

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Politics of occupation-centred practice reflections on occupational engagement across cultures /

Table of Contents: “…The language of occupation / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- Occupational literacy / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- A grammar for a language of occupation / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- Towards a transformational grammar of occupation / Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou -- Narratives of recognition / Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard -- Narratives and truths / Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard -- Occupation in a Greek town : flowing, emergent, flexible across time and space / Sarah Kantartzis, Matthew Molineux, and Sally Foster -- Indigenous Ainu occupational identities and the natural environment in Hokkaido / Mami Aoyama -- People with disabilities and participation : experiences and challenges of an occupational therapy practice in the city of São Paulo, Brazil / Sandra Maria Galheigo ... …”
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Law, governance, and justice new views on medieval constitutionalism /

Table of Contents: “…Kaeuper -- The Anglo-Saxon origins of English constitutionalism / James Campbell -- Orality and literacy in the age of the Angevin law reforms / Paul Hyams -- Between England and France: a cross-channel legal culture in the late thirteenth century / Thomas J. …”
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The first-year teacher's survival guide ready-to-use strategies, tools & activities for meeting the challenges of each school day / by Thompson, Julia G.

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The state of play law, games, and virtual worlds /

Table of Contents: “…Michael Froomkin -- The new visual literacy : how the screen affects the law / David R. …”
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Internet for nursing research a guide to strategies, skills, and resources /

Table of Contents: “…Goodfellow -- Developing information literacy / Kimberly S. Glassman -- Data collection with personal data assistants / Cindy L. …”
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The changing identity of rural India a socio-historic analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Capital and labour transformations in shaping rural development in India / Elisabetta Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- Identifying livelihoods in rural India / Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- The institutional embeddedness of Indian rural capitalism / Elisabetta Basile -- Social capital and poverty reduction strategies : the case of rural India / Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas, and Fabio Sabatini -- An overview of Indian microfinance / Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya -- Income-based estimates vs. consumption-based estimates of poverty : evidence from rural Tamil Nadu after liberalization / Marco Cavalcante -- Occupational diversification of the rural workers : some results from field surveys in West Bengal / Sankar K. Bhaumik -- Literacy and externalities in human development / Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay and Sudeshna Ghosh -- The social context of politics in rural West Bengal (1947-92) / Mario Prayer -- Agrarian expansion under colonial rule and its impact on a tribal economy / Sanjukta Das Gupta -- Acting on institutions to preserve agricultural biodiversity : the Syngenta controversy in Chhattisgarh / Christine Lutringer -- The conflicting opinions of the colonial bureaucracy over the Paraiyans right over 'waste' in late 19th century Tamil Nadu / Raj Sekhar Basu -- Appendix 1. …”
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Whole novels for the whole class : a student-centered approach / by Sacks, Ariel

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Victorian literature : an anthology /

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The changing identity of rural India a socio-historic analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Capital and labour transformations in shaping rural development in India / Elisabetta Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- Identifying livelihoods in rural India / Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- The institutional embeddedness of Indian rural capitalism / Elisabetta Basile -- Social capital and poverty reduction strategies : the case of rural India / Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas, and Fabio Sabatini -- An overview of Indian microfinance / Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya -- Income-based estimates vs. consumption-based estimates of poverty : evidence from rural Tamil Nadu after liberalization / Marco Cavalcante -- Occupational diversification of the rural workers : some results from field surveys in West Bengal / Sankar K. Bhaumik -- Literacy and externalities in human development / Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay and Sudeshna Ghosh -- The social context of politics in rural West Bengal (1947-92) / Mario Prayer -- Agrarian expansion under colonial rule and its impact on a tribal economy / Sanjukta Das Gupta -- Acting on institutions to preserve agricultural biodiversity : the Syngenta controversy in Chhattisgarh / Christine Lutringer -- The conflicting opinions of the colonial bureaucracy over the Paraiyans right over 'waste' in late 19th century Tamil Nadu / Raj Sekhar Basu -- Appendix 1. …”
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Whole novels for the whole class : a student-centered approach / by Sacks, Ariel

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