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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, Vol. 1
Book SynopsisThe aspiring heroes of My Hero Academia team up with pro heroes for action-packed missions!The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there’s just one catch—there’s no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team.Midoriya is excited for his first team-up mission until he learns that his team includes the explosive Bakugo. The pro hero they’ve been matched with is also a real wild card. Can this makeshift team cooperate, or will Midoriya’s first mission be his last?
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VIZ Media LLC My Hero Academia TeamUp Missions Vol. 7
Book SynopsisThe aspiring heroes of My Hero Academia team up with pro heroes for action-packed missions!The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there's just one catchthere's no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team.The ever-cheery Hado is handling a beautification drive, and who better to help her than the ever-grumpy Bakugo? Then, Yaoyorozu and Uraraka wage war over a blowout sale, while Kirishima pushes muscle hopefuls to the limit at Tiger's boot camp! Also includes ';Endeavor's Mission,' a prequel story to the My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission film!
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HardPress Publishing Aspiration an Autobiography of Girlhood
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc My Hero Academia TeamUp Missions Vol. 5
Book SynopsisThe aspiring heroes of My Hero Academia team up with pro heroes for action-packed missions!The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there’s just one catch—there’s no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team.Like always, the students take on crazy challenges on the path to full-fledged herodom. To kick things off, Deku and Bakugo battle the desert island demons that traumatized even the powerful All Might! Then, these hero hopefuls learn discipline through the art of cleaning the school and the power of cuteness by playing the part of an idol!
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University of California Press Amateurs without Borders The Aspirations and
Book SynopsisAmateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale.Trade Review"Amateurs Without Borders is an engaging and lively read. It is apt to be particularly useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who are exploring development and constitutes an important addition to sociology’s collective understanding about the contours of the field." * Social Forces *"Amateurs without Borders offers valuable information and insights." * Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Origin Stories 2 Who, What, Where? The Projects of Grassroots International NGOs 3 Amateurs without Borders: A Role for Everyday Citizens in Development Aid 4 Provide and Transform: Grassroots INGOs' Models of Aid 5 Resources, Relationships, and Accountability 6 Seen It with Their Own Eyes: Grassroots INGOs' Discourse 7 Networks, Frames, Modes of Action: Roles for Religion Conclusion: Possibilities and Perils of Amateur Aid Appendix 1: Note on Methods Appendix 2: Codes Used in Content Analysis Appendix 3: Grassroots International NGOs in Website Sample Notes Bibliography Index
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Omnidawn Publishing Aspiration
Book SynopsisLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. LGBT Studies. I think of aspiration as the state where a poet's thrown together life-structures both invite and are breached by the poet's preoccupations-known ones, new ones. It's the dream of meaningful placement and the open set.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aspirations Education and Social Justice Applying Sen And Bourdieu
Book SynopsisCaroline Sarojini Hart is Senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and Affiliated Lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.Trade ReviewIn Aspirations, Education and Social Justice: Applying Sen and Bourdieu, Caroline Sarojini Hart provides a new and innovative approach to understand how aspirations are developed and realized ... The strongest parts of the book are the chapters where Hart unfolds the impressive data set she produced through the Bradford and Sheffield studies. Especially, the insightful, thoughtful, and often witty interview extracts are introduced eloquently, and ... illustrate Hart’s eminence in conducting interviews ... Aspirations, Education and Social Justice: Applying Sen and Bourdieu is a well-written and well-researched book that introduces a new approach to evaluate the ways in which students build aspirations and how they transform aspirations into decisions ... The book is therefore highly recommended for scholars interested in Sen’s capability approach and for policy-makers involved in the education sector. * Journal of Human Development and Capabilities *This is a wonderfully probing work on the contribution of aspiration and confidence in education, along with the role of education in the pursuit of social justice. Caroline Hart combines lessons from her empirical investigations with a sharp understanding of the conceptual and analytical problems that bear on this centrally important issue in public policy and social ethics. The result is a deeply engaging book with important lessons on a neglected aspect of educational policy. * Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Education Policy Issues 2. Sen's Capability Approach 3. Blending Sen and Bourdieu 4. Evolving Theory into Method 5. The Nature of Aspirations 6. The Genesis of Capabilities 7. Aspirations, Capabilities and Choice 8. The Promise of Higher Education 9. The New Pursuit of Justice Bibliography Index
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, Vol. 2
Book SynopsisThe aspiring heroes of My Hero Academia team up with pro heroes for action-packed missions!The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there’s just one catch—there’s no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team.Whether it’s Deku descending into the abyss with Tokoyami or an amusement park adventure with Todoroki, Bakugo, and others, you never know what’s next. Then, a bonus story about Deku and Bakugo’s encounter with a villain before the events of the main series!
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, Vol. 3
Book SynopsisThe aspiring heroes of My Hero Academia team up with pro heroes for action-packed missions!The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there’s just one catch—there’s no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team.Mineta attempts to impersonate a cute pooch and is nabbed by dastardly dognappers! Will the series’ dog have his day? Later, Midoriya and Bakugo give tree hugging a try, and their peers visit a zoo to pick up some wild tips from the animal world’s heroes. Also includes an epilogue story to the My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission film!
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Legare Street Press Aspirations and Influences
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iUniverse In 3 Words or Less Simply Stated Aspirations to Live and Thrive By
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iUniverse ASPIRATION HIGHWAY The Collective Work of Three Poets
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, Vol. 4
Book SynopsisThe aspiring heroes of My Hero Academia team up with pro heroes for action-packed missions!The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there’s just one catch—there’s no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team.Are these hero hopefuls ready for a scare? Between a battle of spooks, an intense ski competition, and a ridiculous game of dodgeball, the U.A. students will have their mettle tested! Later, Eri recruits a bunch of friends to throw an apple party, while Yaoyorozu, Kaminari, and Hatsume get this series back on track with a proper team-up mission!
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iUniverse Pithy Precepts Aspirations and Inspirations
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Legare Street Press Short Aspirations To God For Every Day In The Year
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HardPress Publishing Aspirations of Nature
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should
Book SynopsisIn 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa. Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices that lifted a billion people out of abject poverty within a single generation, the largest such shift in human history. The relevance of Asia's example comes as Africa is facing a population boom, which can either lead to crisis or prosperity, and as Asia is again transforming, this time out of low-cost manufacturing into hi-tech, leaving a void that is Africa's for the taking. Far from the optimistic determinism of 'Africa Rising', this book calls for unprecedented pragmatism in the pursuit of African success.Trade Review‘Unlike most of the recent books vaunting the economic success of East Asia relative to Africa, this one does not limit its Asian examples to China, South Korea, and Taiwan; the authors also discuss poorer countries, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, whose history and pas economic policy failures make their recent successes more instructive for African countries.’ -- Foreign Affairs
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iUniverse Up Your Aspirations by Thinking Like a Kid and Earning Like a CEO Start Market and Run Your Own Business
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HardPress Publishing The Daisy Chain Or Aspirations a Family Chronicle
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University of California Press Amateurs without Borders The Aspirations and
Book SynopsisAmateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale.Trade Review"Amateurs Without Borders is an engaging and lively read. It is apt to be particularly useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who are exploring development and constitutes an important addition to sociology’s collective understanding about the contours of the field." * Social Forces *"Amateurs without Borders offers valuable information and insights." * Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Origin Stories 2 Who, What, Where? The Projects of Grassroots International NGOs 3 Amateurs without Borders: A Role for Everyday Citizens in Development Aid 4 Provide and Transform: Grassroots INGOs' Models of Aid 5 Resources, Relationships, and Accountability 6 Seen It with Their Own Eyes: Grassroots INGOs' Discourse 7 Networks, Frames, Modes of Action: Roles for Religion Conclusion: Possibilities and Perils of Amateur Aid Appendix 1: Note on Methods Appendix 2: Codes Used in Content Analysis Appendix 3: Grassroots International NGOs in Website Sample Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
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Harvard University Press Symphonic Aspirations German Music and Politics
Book SynopsisPainter examines the politicization of musical listening in Germany and Austria, showing how nationalism, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and socialism profoundly affected the experience of music. She draws on extensive writings on the symphony, particularly those of Mahler and Bruckner, to offer evidence that music can and did serve ideological ends.Trade ReviewFamiliar questions are addressed to freshly illuminating effect in Karen Painter’s Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900–1945, one of the first books in English to take a wider historical view of the phenomenon of the politicization of classical music in Nazi Germany. -- Terry Teachout * Commentary *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Tradition in a Modern Age: Bruckner and Mahler at the Fin de Siecle 1. Symphonic Idealism in Crisis 2. Symphonic Conventions of a World Past 3. Sensuality and Redemption Part II: The Politics of Tradition: Mahler and Bruckner, 1914-1933 4. Mahler's Progressive Legacy and the Aestheticization of Violence 5. Bruckner's Nationalist Legacy and the Aestheticization of Space Part III: Symphonic Traditions under National Socialism 6. Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony and Symphony Ambitions under National Socialism 7. Symphonic Defeat Notes Index
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas President Obama Constitutional Aspirations and
Book SynopsisOn the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles. In particular, he objected to George W. Bush's claim to certain “inherent” presidential powers that could not be checked by Congress or the judiciary. After his inauguration, how did President Obama's constitutional principles fare? That is the question Louis Fisher explores in this book.Trade ReviewLou Fisher is among our most highly regarded scholars of American political institutions and constitutional law. His most recent book, President Obama: Constitutional Aspirations and Executive Actions, illustrates why this is so. Fisher’s focus on President Obama’s propensity for unilateral governance captures the contradictions between, on the one hand, Obama’s statements respectful of constitutional limitations on executive authority and of the lawmaking responsibilities of Congress and, on the other hand, his frequent resort to unilateral executive behavior in the absence of congressional assent. Fisher’s deep case law knowledge demonstrates how the courts often have been complicit in allowing discretionary presidential authority where there may be little basis for it. Readers may come to different judgments as to why presidents exercise discretionary authority when there are few or nonexistent constitutional grounds for doing so. Fisher’s book contributes greatly to this debate, even if it does not bring closure to it."" - Bert A. Rockman, professor emeritus of political science, Purdue University""A revealing and learned manuscript by one of America’s finest scholars of constitutional government. It sparkles with interpretations and critiques of the relevant literature and of the many Supreme Court cases that impact this most important of subjects. It is certain to be read and debated by scholars and citizens interested in the legacy of President Obama’s administration."" - Joel D. Aberbach, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles""Lou Fisher’s latest book is the definitive account of President Barack Obama’s expansive exercise of Article II powers. Although Obama had pledged to respect the separation of powers and the limits of the president’s constitutional authority, Fisher shows that the forty-fourth president was really not all that different from previous modern chief executives in his actions. This volume says much about the continual march down the path of unilateral actions by presidents of both parties that has culminated in President Donald J. Trump’s current push for lodging even more power in the hands of the chief executive."" - Mark J. Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University""President Obama: Constitutional Aspirations and Executive Actions is a must-read for anyone concerned with understanding the consequences of ever-expanding executive power. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised a different approach to constitutional issues than that of George W. Bush. How much really changed? Eminent constitutional scholar Louis Fisher posits in this engagingly written, clearly argued, and extensively documented analysis that Obama’s lofty ambitions often failed to become reality."" - Jeffrey Crouch, author of The Presidential Pardon Power
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Transform Your Aspirations into Reality
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AltaMira Press,U.S. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam
Book SynopsisIn Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam starts with the spread of Vietnamese imperial control from south to north, marking the earliest efforts to create a common Vietnamese culture, as well as resistance to that cultural and culinary imperialism. Once the French conquered the country, new opportunities for culinary experimentation became possible, although such experiences were embraced more by the colonized than the colonizers. This book discusses how colonialism changed the taste of Vietnamese fish sauce and rice liquor and shows that state intervention made those products into tangible icons of a unified Vietnamese cuisine, under attack by the French. Vietnamese villagers began to see the power they Trade ReviewAppetites and Aspirations in Vietnam is food studies at its best, but it is also much more. Erica J. Peters demonstrates, with both intellectual elegance and a deeply rooted sense of food, how culinary choices are a marker of historical change. Using a diverse array of sources, she goes against the grain to explore everyday life in Vietnam in the long nineteenth century, affording a penetrating insight into what Vietnamese people wanted to be in a time of economic struggle and colonialism, and into how ordinary people experienced habitus and change, adaptation and contestation, even creativity. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam is a gourmet meal that leaves the reader satisfied…. The wide range of narratives of food Peters explores … sheds new light on disparities of gender, ethnicity, and wealth. Food may have been a tool of imperialism; it certainly became a tool of nationalism in modern Vietnam. Nobody would have expected the history of a ‘fusion cuisine’ would tell as much. -- Laurence Monnais, Université de MontréalA reviewer of the wide-ranging Appetites and Aspirations could evaluate this rich study along any number of axes: economic history, the history of imperial and colonial Vietnam, or the history of race and ethnicity, to name a few. Nonetheless, food is most emphatically Peters’s preferred ground and where she anchors her argument that French and Vietnamese used diet to shape radically divergent identities in colonial Indochina….It would be unfair to expect a study so ambitious to succeed equally well on so many fronts….Nonetheless, this fascinating and suggestive narrative of nineteenth-century imperial and colonial Vietnam will appeal to a wide range of general readers and specialists. * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Prologue: Hunger and Revolution Chapter 1. Vietnamese Culinary Imperialism Chapter 2. Culinary Diversity in the Colonial Countryside Chapter 3. Cooking up Monopolies Chapter 4. Fighting Back: The Factory Alcohol Boycott Chapter 5. Chinese Cuisine, Commerce, and Contamination Chapter 6. Imported Foods, Imperial Foods Chapter 7. Conspicuous Consumption Epilogue Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography and Sources Index
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Clear Light Publishers Peace: Quotations & Aspirations
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Lulu.com Achieve your Aspirations Career Development Planner
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Taylor & Francis Aspirations and Challenges for Undocumented
Book SynopsisAspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success. Compiling the most significant work in the field in terms of its contributions to research and professional practice, the volume opens with an exploration the aspirations of undocumented students and the fight for equity, followed by an examination of the impact and influence of parents and families on educational outcomes. Finally, it concludes with testimonios reflecting on the educational experiences of undocumented students in America. Each section presents readings in chronological order, demonstrating the progression around undocumented student success in the field over the past 20+ years, in respect to the intentionality about integrating undocumented student success throughout equity initiatives, breaking down institutional silos, fostering welcoming campus en
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American Society of Civil Engineers Raising Student Aspirations Classroom Activities
Book SynopsisAn engineer's personal take on what it's like to be a civil engineer in the 21st century - the life, the practice, the profession. This work covers aspects ranging from discussions of suburban sprawl, bridge aesthetics, and the engineering body of knowledge to comical accounts of packrat habits, quacking moments, and engineering fashion.
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Relation of Adaptation in Stuttering to Selfacceptance Manifest Anxiety and Level of Aspiration
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Melbourne University Press Aspiration and Anxiety Asian Migrants and
Book SynopsisWhile the hard work of Asian migrants has been praised, their achievements have ignited fierce debates. What is missing in these debates is an understanding of what drives Asian migrant parents' approaches to education. This book explores how aspirations for their children's future reinforce anxieties about being newcomers in an unequal society.
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Ageless Aspirations
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Blank Forms Editions Blank Forms: Aspirations of Madness
Book SynopsisA rare look at an underappreciated and pioneering figure in Japanese free jazzAspirations of Madness, Blank Forms? fifth collection of archival, unpublished, or newly translated texts, takes its title from a series of interviews with Japanese free jazz pioneer Masayuki Takayangi that were published in Japanese in 1975?76 and are published here in English for the first time. The interviews provide a rare look at Takayanagi?s eccentric practice and personality, both long under-recognized by audiences outside (and often, inside) of Japan. The postwar Japanese history that Takayanagi describes also surfaces in this publication?s opening piece, a poetic tribute by the writer and artist Louise Landes Levi to one of Takayanagi?s contemporaries, the poet Kazuko Shiraishi. Aspirations of Madness includes a second Levi poem as well, ?A Deep River,? written while at La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela?s Dream House in 2003. Complementing this tradition of Japanese free improvisation and poetry is the republication of a 1977 interview with Joseph Jarman, the great composer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist. We also feature Charles Stein?s introduction to Being = Space x Action. Further along, Aspirations of Madness features an excerpt from The Tree of Music, a cross-cultural treatise by the Russian musicologist Genrich ?Henry? Orlov, the English translation of which has never been published before. Aspirations of Madness closes with one of Maryanne Amacher?s final pieces of writing, ?The Agreement,? from 2009. The text takes the form of a letter between Amacher and the Open Ended Group, with whom she had planned to collaborate on her final, unfinished project, Lagrange: A Four Part Mini Series.
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Relation of Adaptation in Stuttering to Selfacceptance Manifest Anxiety and Level of Aspiration
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University of Toronto Press Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education
Book SynopsisUsing extensive and novel new research, this book explores one of the long-standing challenges in legal education the prospects for bringing legal theory into the training of future lawyers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Lawyer As Citizen: Integrating Theory and Practice in Legal Education 2. Contracts and the Eclectic Toolkit of Legal Reasoning 3. Promise and Performance in Canadian Contracts Casebooks 4. Making Better Lawyers: The Aspiration to Translate Theory into Practice 5. The Failure to Operationalize: Realism and Formalism in Canadian Contracts Teaching 6. Transcending Langdell: Agency, Structure, and Transformation in Contemporary Legal Education Works Cited
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Power of Simple Aspirations
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Independently Published Law of Aspiration to Higher Power: Laws of the Universe #27
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Independently Published Financieel en emotioneel welzijn bereiken door uw kernwaarden en aspiraties te gebruiken
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New York University Press The Burdens of Aspiration Schools Youth and
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at how aspirations are developed in public schools in Silicon Valley through emphasis of the region's success-driven culture and economic insecuritiesTrade Review"Wonderfully imaginative and skillfully done, Davidson offers a searing assessment of the aspirations and asymmetries in attainment for working-class and middle-class youth as they navigate the real and imaginary geography of Silicon Valleys techno-entrepreneurial landscape, confronting vast economic uncertainties in search of success." -- Amy L. Best,author of Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars"Davidson evokes the particulars of unequal schooling framed by the politics and economy of Silicon Valley. Davidson compares students management of aspirations as they try to grow into responsible, always flexible, citizens as the schools communicate to them that they are either at risk or exceptional. The students emerge in this rich account as both fully human and deeply conflicted members of a harshly polarized world." -- Brett Williams,American UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. Introduction 1 Phantoms of Success: The Politics of Aspiration in Post-Boom Silicon Valley Part II. Aspirations of Youth in Silicon Valley 2 Managing "At-Risk" Selves and "Giving Back": Aspiration Management among Working-Class Youth 3 Marketing the Self: Aspiration Management among Middle-Class Youth in Silicon ValleyPart III. The Politics of Social Reproduction in Silicon Valley 4 "Every Youth a Start-up": Education and Training in Silicon Valley 5 A Fear of Slipping: A Cultural Politics of Class Part IV. Conclusion 6 A Flexible Politics of Citizenship: Old Patterns, New Burdens, and the Space of Contradiction Notes References Index About the Author
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