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Rock, Donald A. Mathematics course-taking and gains in mathematics achievement. [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, 1995.

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Judith, Pollack, and National Center for Education Statistics, eds. Mathematics course-taking and gains in mathematics achievement. [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, 1995.

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Rock, Donald A. Mathematics course-taking and gains in mathematics achievement. [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, 1995.

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Grissmer, David W. Exploring rapid achievement gains in North Carolina and Texas: Lessons from the states. [Washington, DC]: National Education Goals Panel, 1998.

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Barton, Paul E. Growth in school: Achievement gains from the fourth to the eighth grade. Princeton, N.J: Policy Information Center, Research Division, Educational Testing Service, 1998.

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Lee, Valerie E. Effects of high school restructuring and size on gains in achievement and engagement for early secondary school students. Madison, Wis: Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools, 1994.

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Griffin, Patricia. The achievement of planning gain in Ireland. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1994.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Rewarding Performance in Compensation Act: Report, together with minority views (to accompany H.R. 1381) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 1999.

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Serra, Hagedorn Linda, and Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.), eds. Factors leading to gains in mathematics during the first year of college: An analysis by gender and ethnicity. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1996.

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A, Scott Leslie, United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement., and National Center for Education Statistics., eds. Two years later: Cognitive gains and school transitions of NELS:88 eighth graders. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1995.

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Two years later: Cognitive gains and school transitions of NELS:88 eighth graders (Statistical analysis report / National Center for Education Statistics). For sale by U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs, 1995.

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Mortimer, Anthony. Shakespeare and Italian Poetry. Edited by Jonathan Post. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607747.013.0019.

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Shakespeare’s poetry gains much by being read in the light of the Italian texts that founded both the genres he exploits: the Ovidian erotic narrative and the sonnet sequence. Italian poets such as Anguillara and Dolce had already adapted episodes from the Metamorphoses for stanzaic poems and their treatment of the Venus and Adonis story establishes the essential contours of Shakespeare’s version. Reading the Sonnets as part of a tradition that derives not only from Petrarch’s Canzoniere but also from Dante’s Vita Nuova illuminates such aspects of the genre as the relation between putative autobiography and exemplary narrative, stasis and progression, the sequence as open-ended form, and the corruption of vision. Finally, as an example of how Petrarchism enables some of the characteristic achievements of the late Renaissance, one may look briefly at the poetry of Michelangelo which foreshadows Shakespeare’s Sonnets by a thematic expansion which embraces problems of social and sexual identity and questions the validity of analogy as poetic argument.

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Jensenius, Francesca R. Trade-Offs in Institutional Design. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190646608.003.0009.

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Chapter 9 summarizes the empirical findings and argues that quotas for SCs have played an important role in breaking down the social barriers associated with the caste system. This success is only partial, as SC politicians are still perceived as weaker than other politicians, and they still experience subtle forms of discrimination. However, important achievements have been made: members of this large community that probably would have been excluded from politics have had the opportunity to gain political experience and know-how, and it now appears less socially acceptable to treat SC elites disrespectfully in public. How, then, do these findings speak to other cases? The findings from India demonstrate that institutional design is important in shaping the behavior of political parties, politicians, and voters—but also that a policy that incentivizes integration rather than group representation may produce important effects.

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Ahuja, Amit. Mobilizing the Marginalized. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190916428.001.0001.

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In India, a young democratic system has undermined the legitimacy of a two-thousand-year-old social system that excluded and humiliated an entire people by treating them as untouchables. This incomplete, but irreversible change in Indian society and politics has been authored by the mobilization of some of the most marginalized citizens in the world and counts as one of the most significant achievements of Indian democracy. Dalits, the former untouchables in India, who number over 200 million, have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but their mobilization is puzzling. Dalits’ parties perform poorly in elections in states historically home to movements demanding social equality while they do well in other states where such movements have been weak or entirely absent. For Dalits, collective action in the social sphere appears to undermine rather than bolster collective action in the electoral sphere. Mobilizing the Marginalized shows how social movements by marginalized ethnic groups—those who are stigmatized by others and disproportionately poor—undermine bloc voting to generate competition for marginalized citizens’ votes across political parties. The book presents evidence showing that a marginalized group gains more from participating in a social movement and dividing support among parties than from voting en bloc for an ethnic party.

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Patterson, Robert J., ed. Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042775.001.0001.

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Through its analysis of film, drama, fiction, visual culture, poetry, and other cultural -artifacts, Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights offers a fresh examination of how the historical paradox by which unprecedented civil rights gains coexist with novel impediments to collectivist black liberation projects. At the beginning of the 1970s, the ethos animating the juridical achievements of the civil rights movement began to wane, and the rise of neoliberalism, a powerful conservative backlash, the co-optation of “race-blind” rhetoric, and the pathologization and criminalization of poverty helped to retrench black inequality in the post-civil rights era. This book uncovers the intricate ways that black cultural production kept imagining how black people could achieve their dreams for freedom, despite abject social and political conditions. While black writers, artists, historians, and critics have taken renewed interest in the historical roots of black un-freedom, Black Cultural Production insists that the 1970s anchors the philosophical, aesthetic, and political debates that animate contemporary debates in African American studies. Black cultural production and producers help us think about how black people might achieve freedom by centralizing the roles black art and artists have had in expanding notions of freedom, democracy, equity, and gender equality. Black cultural production continues to engage in social critique and transformation and remains an important site for the (re)making of black politics.

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Tarrant, Richard. Horace's Odes. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195156751.001.0001.

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Horace’s body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice—usually detached, often ironic, always humane—reflecting on the changing Roman world that Horace lived in and also on more universal themes of friendship, love, and mortality. This book introduces readers to the Odes by situating them in the context of Horace’s career as a poet and by defining their relationship to earlier literature, Greek and Roman. Several poems have been freshly translated by the author; others appear in versions by Horace’s best modern translators. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace’s range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure. A substantial final chapter traces the reception of the Odes from Horace’s own time to the present. Readers of this book will gain an appreciation for the artistry of one of the finest lyric poets of all time.

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Bosco, Robert M. Development and Religion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.143.

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The study of religion and development focuses on how the moral and ethical resources of the world’s major faith traditions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism might tame the worst excesses of market civilization. Whereas states, corporations, and international development institutions often define “development” as economic growth and all of the adjustments required to achieve it, religious approaches consider the consequences of this conception of development and recommend that the achievement of material gain be tempered by compassion, conscience, a greater concern for social equity, and a responsible application of science and technology to both the social and natural worlds. The origins of the field of religion and development can be traced back to Max Weber's seminal investigations into the elective affinities between Protestantism and the spirit of capitalism. In the 1980s, the majority of scholarly literature grappled with the meaning and significance of Weber’s basic ideas in various contexts and locales as scholars examined whether, when, and how religious traditions enhance or inhibit development at the international, regional, national, or community levels of analysis. After a period of hibernation, the study of religion and development was reenergized in the late 1990s as religious leaders and faith-based organizations played a central role in challenging the policies and practices of international development institutions, especially the World Bank.

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Shaikh, Omar, and Stefano Bonino. Heritage. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427234.003.0009.

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The Colourful Heritage Project (CHP) is the first community heritage focused charitable initiative in Scotland aiming to preserve and to celebrate the contributions of early South Asian and Muslim migrants to Scotland. It has successfully collated a considerable number of oral stories to create an online video archive, providing first-hand accounts of the personal journeys and emotions of the arrival of the earliest generation of these migrants in Scotland and highlighting the inspiring lessons that can be learnt from them. The CHP’s aims are first to capture these stories, second to celebrate the community’s achievements, and third to inspire present and future South Asian, Muslim and Scottish generations. It is a community-led charitable project that has been actively documenting a collection of inspirational stories and personal accounts, uniquely told by the protagonists themselves, describing at first hand their stories and adventures. These range all the way from the time of partition itself to resettling in Pakistan, and then to their final accounts of arriving in Scotland. The video footage enables the public to see their facial expressions, feel their emotions and hear their voices, creating poignant memories of these great men and women, and helping to gain a better understanding of the South Asian and Muslim community’s earliest days in Scotland.

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Kennedy, J. Gerald, and Scott Peeples, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190641870.001.0001.

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No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for “the world at large” and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe’s complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe’s work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe’s troubled life and checkered career as a “magazinist,” his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe’s lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.

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Clark, David. To Comfort Always. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199674282.001.0001.

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Palliative medicine was first recognized as a specialist field in the United Kingdom in 1987. One hundred years earlier, the London-based doctor William Munk had published a treatise on ‘easeful death’ that mapped out the principles of practical, spiritual, and medical support at the end of life. In the intervening years a major process of development took place, which led to innovative services, new approaches to the study and relief of pain and other distressing symptoms, a growing interest in ‘holistic’ care for those with advanced disease, and a desire to gain more recognition for end-of-life care. This book traces the history of palliative medicine, from its nineteenth-century origins, to its modern practice around the world today. It takes in the changing meaning of ‘euthanasia’; assesses the role of religious and philanthropic organizations in the creation of homes for the dying; and explores how twentieth-century doctors created a special focus on the care of those for whom cure or recovery is not possible. To Comfort Always traces the rise of clinical studies, academic programmes, and international collaborations to promote palliative care. It examines the continuing need to provide evidence in support of development and assesses the dilemmas of unequal access to services and pain-relieving drugs, as well as the periodic accusations of creeping medicalization within the field. The first history of its kind, it concludes with some reflections on the achievements of palliative medicine to date and the challenges that remain.

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Bollard, Alan. Economists at War. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846000.001.0001.

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Economists at War tells the story of a group of remarkable economists, and how they used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the turbulent period covering the Chinese–Japanese War, World War I, and the Cold War. Politicians and generals cannot win wars if they do not have resources. This book focuses on the lives and achievements of seven finance ministers, advisors, and central bankers from Japan, China, Germany, the UK, the USSR, and the US. They all had connections, and their stories are interlinked. 1935–55 was a time of conflict, confrontation and destruction. It was also the time when the skills of economists were called upon to finance the military, to identify economic vulnerabilities, to help reconstruction. Economics was first used as a policy tool, and economists started to gain importance: macroeconomics, managerial economics, and computing were all born during this time. The reader sees the struggle to raise funds by taxing peasants, controlling banks, working in disrupted debt markets, inflating currencies, and cajoling aid-givers. There is tension between civilian resources and military requirements. There are desperate attempts to control economies wracked with inflation, depression, political argument, and fighting. There are clever schemes to evade sanctions, develop barter trade, and use economic espionage.There are struggles to apply good economic policy in the regimes of despots like Stalin, Hitler, and Chiang Kai-shek.. This book will interest economists, devotees of military history, and interested lay readers alike. It is a book about economics, but it is also a human story.

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