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  • When Life Hands You Lemons …

    Inspiring Stories of Tenacious Teens

    by David Bridges ...
    These kids today just might change the world.Do you ever feel like life has handed you lemons? Within the pages of this book you will discover kids who have been handed lemons. Yet, instead of allowing these lemons to make them sour, they have chosen to make the sweetest lemonade you have ever tasted. If you like a good story, you will love this book. David Bridges draws you into each and every ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Philosophy in Educational Research

    Epistemology, Ethics, Politics and Quality

    by David Bridges ...
    This book provides critical and reflective discussions of a wide range of issues arising in education at the interface between philosophy, research, policy and practice. It addresses epistemological questions about the intellectual resources that underpin educational research, explores the relationship between philosophy and educational research, and examines debates about truth and truthfulness ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Mixed Ability Grouping

    A Philosophical Perspective

    by Charles Bailey, David Bridges ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Education
    The book, first published in 1983, explores the argument that justifies mixed ability groupings in schools and the consequences of practicing the different justificatory arguments. The issues to be dealt with by staff making decisions about grouping arrangements in their schools are clearly worked out from basic principles rooted in social philosophy. The ideas of social justice and fraternity, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Railroads of Meridian

    by J. Parker Lamb, David H. Bridges, David S. Price ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    "Lively, well-written and informative . . . It will be of great interest to fans of railroads in the deep South and their motive power and operations." — Railfan & RailroadThis generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of separate railroads in the Meridian, Mississippi, area from the destruction of the town's rail facilities in the 1850s through the current era of large ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No. 8 Re-wired: 202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World

    202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World

    by David Downs, Jon Bridges ...
    If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father. No. 8 Re-wired is a comprehensive, colourful treasury of New Zealand inventions – jam-packed with the stories behind 202 home-grown creations and the crafty people who dreamt them up. From well-known innovations (human flight, the discovery of DNA, the pavlova) to lesser-known feats (instant coffee, the referee's whistle, ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • The Broken Circle

    by David P. Bridges ...
    Dr./Major Breathed chooses the cause of the Confederacy over medicine but will that decision cost him the love of his life? James is swept away into a war created by divisions between the northern and southern states. The Broken Circle has elements that mirror a Greek tragedy that sets up the paradoxical inner conflict of saving life as a doctor versus destroying life as a soldier. He re-channels ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Consorting And Collaborating In The Education Market Place

    by Chris Husbands, David Bridges ...
    This text offers descriptions and analyses of some of the different ways in which schools and other educational institutions have started to establish new collaborative relationships in today's competitive educational marketplace. Using case studies, the book describes examples of such collaborative structures.; Educational consortia have been established as a vehicle for professional and ... Read more

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    Trouble on the Thames

    by Victor Bridges ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    Owen Bradwell is a courageous naval officer who returns to England in the 1930s. He believes that his career is over because he has become colour-blind – but with Nazi Germany an increasing menace, the authorities cannot do without Bradwell, and he is assigned a special mission. A former acquaintance of Bradwell's has been trapped into betraying his country's secrets by a Nazi agent. Bradwell is ... Read more

    $39.71 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hope's Boy

    A Memoir

    by Andrew Bridge ...
    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother—a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him—slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship

    Philosophy in a Changing World

    Edited by David Bridges ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    Across the globe educators are being required to respond to a changing political environment. New nations emerge out of the collapse of old empires; new democracies struggle out of old structures of oppression. Driven on by the fierce competitiveness of the ‘tiger economies’ of the east, old social welfare[1]based democracies are transformed into new market led enterprise societies. The essays in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Higher Education and National Development

    Universities and Societies in Transition

    Edited by David Bridges, Palmira Juceviciene, Roberta Jucevicius, Terence H. Mclaughlin, Jolanta Stankeviciute ...
    Universities and societies around the world are involved in significant transition. Universities are now invited to expand their central aims and purposes in order to embrace a role in relation to the development of the societies in which they are located. This change of focus has major implications for curricula, modes of teaching and the student body.International contributors to this ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Education And The Market Place

    by Terence H. McLaughlin ...
    This collection of essays debates the application of market principles to and within the context of education. The contributors are all leading figures in their field, presenting their ideas in an accessible style to the lay reader. Throughout, the educational and public policy issues raised by the application of market principles to education are closely examined. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD