This book traces the policymaking processes of the Review of Funding for Schooling (2011), which fundamentally changed school funding policy in Australia.School funding is a key element of any equitable school system. This is because the distribution of government funding for schooling leads to significant differences in the educational opportunities available for individual students, schools, and communities. The book shows that although education policy is often ...

Fifty books. Endless inspiration. One collection that will last a lifetime. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die gathers the world's greatest novels, plays, epics, and stories into a single volume. From ancient epics and Shakespearean drama to modern classics of love, tragedy, and adventure, this anthology offers a journey through the very best of world literature. Inside this landmark collection you'll find: ✔ 50 complete works by legendary authors who defined culture and story...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Continue your journey through the greatest works ever written. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die – Volume 2 expands your literary adventure with another carefully selected collection of timeless classics that have shaped cultures, inspired thinkers, and captivated readers across generations. This volume brings together unforgettable stories from diverse genres and literary traditions, offering readers a rich and rewarding experience filled with depth, emotion, and intellectua...

Timeless literature continues with even more unforgettable classics. In 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2, another carefully selected anthology brings together powerful works that have shaped the world of literature and storytelling. This volume continues the journey through classic novels, short stories, and poetic works that explore the depth of human experience. Each masterpiece offers a unique perspective on life, emotion, society, and imagination—capturing themes ...

Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place saying they will curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. There is little evidence that those policies are an efficient way to cut emissions. They simply do not represent good value, and the public are right to...

Step into sixteenth-century England to shatter the myth of squalor and uncover the fascinating history of daily hygiene. Perfect for an educational commute or an afternoon of historical discovery, this immersive journey walks you through the streets, manors, and artisan workshops of the era. You will explore a world where staying clean meant much more than climbing into a steaming wooden tub.Instead of modern plumbing, society relied on a rigorous, layered system of crisp linens, m...

This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of ‘transition’ as used to describe the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for considering other transformations – social, political and economic –under way in the archipelagic nati...

In the noise of the debate about the EU, it is rare for fundamental questions to be asked. For example, for what purposes should we have international institutions at all? Does the EU meet those purposes and, if not, is reform possible? This book considers these questions. An international team of renowned authors looks at each area of economic policy in which the EU has an interest, as well as at the governing structures of the EU, and asks what, if anything, the EU should be doing. In mo...

A practical introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the general reader.From one of the co-authors of the Little CBT Workbook,***The Little ACT Workbook***is a simple, hands-on, practical guide introducing essential ACT techniques you can use to live a full and meaningful life and change your life for the better.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an empirically-supported mindfulness-based behavioural thera...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!NovelsAlcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honoré de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBrontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBrontë, Charlotte: Jane EyreBrontë, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler,...

This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] Emma [Jane Austen] Father Goriot par [Honoré de Balzac] The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] Tarzan of the Apes [Edgar Rice Burroughs] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] My Ántonia [Willa Cather] Don Quixote [Miguel Cervantes] The Awakening & Other Short Stories [Kate...