La ley de las aulas : la enseñanza española desde Franco hasta Wert by Barnés, Héctor G. (Héctor García), 1985-

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Bildungsqualitäten Diskurse - Auswirkungen - Perspektiven. by Obermaier, Michael

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Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter by Newton, Roger G.

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Ancient Indo-European languages between linguistics and philology : contact, variation, and reconstruction

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Hormonally yours

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Lessons learned : what international assessments tell us about math achievement

Table of Contents: “…Papanastasiou and Efi Paparistodemou -- Comparisons between PISA and TIMSS--are we the man with two watches? …”
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Phonological theory and the dialects of Italy

Table of Contents: “…Overlength and maximal moraicity in Italy / John Hajek -- Stress stability under cliticization and the prosodic status of Romance clitics / Michele Loporcaro -- Phonological dissimilation and clititc morphology in Italo-Romance / Martin Maiden -- Oxytone infinitives in the dialect of Pisa / Giovanna Marotta -- Sonority and derived clusters in Raeto-Romance and Gallo-Italic / Jean-Pierre Montreuil -- Stress and schwa in Faetar / Naomi Nagy -- Vowel lengthening in Milanese / Pilar Prieto i Vives -- Uneven or moraic trochees? …”
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Nononsense Rethinking Education : Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? by Unwin, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Neoliberalism: education as commodity; The GERM; Payment by results; International league tables (and PISA envy); Pearson: new markets and a new model; 7. …”
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Monumental sounds : art and listening before Dante by Shoaf, Matthew G.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction An Unheard Art -- 1 Knowing Hearing -- 2 Hearing Eclipsed -- 3 Shapers of Ears -- 4 Monumental Sounds -- Chapter 1 Listening Up -- 1 Aural Sensitivities -- 2 Lost Hearing -- 3 Great Listeners -- Chapter 2 The Ear, Estranged -- 1 Seeing Listening -- 2 Ear Blindness -- 3 Stasis and Significance -- Chapter 3 A Feast for the Ears -- 1 Giotto's The Wedding Feast at Cana -- 2 Scale of Listening -- 3 Rebirth through the Ear -- 4 Aural Ambitions -- Chapter 4 Sound Restoration -- 1 Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in Pisa -- 2 Raising Voices…”
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Image, imagination, and cognition : medieval and early modern theory and practice

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Imagination, Images, and (Im)Mortality; Chapter 2 'Imaginatio' and Visual Representation in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy: Ibn al-Haytham, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch), (Ps.) Māshāʼallāh, and (Ps.) …”
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Meditations on the life of Christ : the short Italian text

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Bodies and Maps Early Modern Personifications of the Continents. by Horowitz, Maryanne Cline

Table of Contents: “…PART 2 Cartographical Origins of Early Continent Personification -- Chapter 5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the Sons of Noah -- Chapter 6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global Allegory in Early Modern Images -- Part 3 Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes -- Chapter 7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa -- Chapter 8 Portraits of the World -- The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and Comparisons…”
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Le lettere di Gilio de Amoruso, mercante marchigiano del primo Quattrocento : Edizione, commento linguistico e glossario by Amoruso, Gilio de, active 14th century-15th century

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The superintendent's fieldbook : a guide for leaders of learning

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John Hawkwood : an English mercenary in fourteenth-century Italy by Caferro, William

Table of Contents: “…1364 -- 5 John Hawkwood of Pisa and Milan, 1365â€?1372 -- 6 In the Service of God and Mammon, 1372â€?…”
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The horned owl = (L'Assiuolo) by Cecchi, Giovanni Maria, 1518-1587

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News media and the neoliberal privatization of education

Table of Contents: “…Chesky -- The news media and the heritage foundation : promoting education advocacy at the expense of authority / Eric Haas -- Testing, testing, read all about it : Canadian press coverage of the PISA results / Michelle Stack -- Neoliberal education reform's mouthpiece : education week's discourse on Teach for America / Michelle Gautreaux -- News framing and charter school reform / Abe Feuerstein -- The media got it wrong! …”
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System recall : leading for equity and excellence in education by Harris, Alma, 1958-, Jones, Michelle S.

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Governing educational spaces : knowledge, teaching, and learning in transition

Table of Contents: “…Functional Determination of School Inspection beyond Control -- Section III: Governing Teachers and Teacher Education -- Governing Teachers: Professional Development and Curriculum Reform in the Republic of Cyprus -- Governing Teacher Education through Digital Media: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Scales and Translations -- Section IV: European and Global Networks of Educational Governance -- European Educational Governance and its Influence on the Development of Slovenian Educational Space -- The OECD Directorate for Education as an Independent Knowledge Producer through PISA -- Section V: Governing Research and Knowledge -- Doctoral Studies in Italy: Old Cultural Traditions and New Governing Pressures -- Governing Knowledge through Language? …”
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Isak Dinesen and narrativity : reassessments for the 1990s

Table of Contents: “…The Phenomenon of Intertextuality and the Role of Androgyny in Isak Dinesen's The Roads Round PisaIsak Dinesen's The Pearls: Resentment and the Economy of Narrative -- Deconstructing the Fictional World of Isak Dinesen's The Monkey -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Notes on the Contributors…”
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Isak Dinesen and narrativity : reassessments for the 1990s

Table of Contents: “…The Phenomenon of Intertextuality and the Role of Androgyny in Isak Dinesen's The Roads Round PisaIsak Dinesen's The Pearls: Resentment and the Economy of Narrative -- Deconstructing the Fictional World of Isak Dinesen's The Monkey -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Notes on the Contributors…”
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Leading futures : global perspectives on educational leadership

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Advance Praise ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; International Comparisons: Critique, Culture and Context ; Section 1: System Level ; Leading Futures: System Transformation ; 1. Who's Afraid of PISA: The Fallacy of International Assessments of System Performance ; 2. …”
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Myths of Europe

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Culture and power : Tuscany and its universities 1537-1609 by Davies, Jonathan, 1966-

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Cognitive science in education and alternative teaching strategies

Table of Contents: “…-- Reading Classical Linear Texts -- Online Informational, Interpretive and Displayable Texts -- Individual Differences in the Process of Learning from E-textbook/E-material -- Reflexion for the Teacher -- Critical Thinking with Thought Experiments -- Tools of Critical Thinking in Education: Thought Experiments in Teaching/Learning Ethics -- Innovative Teaching and the 21st Century Competences -- Collecting of Examples of Promising Practice -- Teacher Training in the Light of the 21st Century Competences -- Resource and Project Management -- The PISA 2012 Study: Comparisons of Student Achievements between Paper-based and Computer-based Assessments -- The Use of ICT in Learning Foreign Languages -- the Results of the European Survey on Language Competences (ESLC) -- Evaluation of the Slovenian Project "Innovative Pedagogy 1: 1 in the Light of the 21st Century Competences" -- Innovative Pedagogy for Future Teachers -- Summary of Theoretical Background -- How to Teach -- Critical Thinking -- ONLINE Reading/Learning Competence -- From Theory to Practice -- Some Conclusions and Recommendations.…”
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A companion to Sardinian history, 500-1500

Table of Contents: “…History -- Overview of Sardinian history (500-1500) / Laura Galoppini -- A revision of Sardinian history between the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Corrado Zedda -- Medieval and modern Sicily and the kingdoms of Sardinia and Corsica / Henri Bresc -- Jews in Sardinia : from antiquity to the Edict of Expulsion of 1492 / Ceclia Tasca -- The Sardinian church / Raimondo Turtas -- The struggle for Sardinia in the twelfth century : textual and architectural evidence from Genoa and Pisa / Henrike Haug -- Establishing power and law in medieval and modern Sardinia / Gian Giacomo Ortu -- Spanish Sardinia : conflicts and alliances / Giovanni Murgia -- Part 3. …”
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Reforming priests and parishes : Tuscan dioceses in the first century of seminary education by Comerford, Kathleen M.

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Školní vzdělávání ve Finsku by Průcha, Jan, Kansanen, Pertti

Table of Contents: “…Evaluace školního vzdělávání; 5.1 FINEEC a celostátní evaluace ; 5.2 Zjišťování vzdělávacích výsledků na národní úrovni; 5.3 Vzdělávací výsledky Finů v evaluacích RLS, PISA a PIRLS; 5.4 Kompetence dospělých Finů podle měření PIAAC; 6. …”
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Poems of Herman Melville. by Robillard, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…The Night-MarchThe Ravaged Villa; The Margrave's Birthnight; Magian Wine; The Garden of Metrodorus; The New Zealot to the Sun; The Weaver; Lamia's Song; In a Garret; Monody; Lone Founts; The Bench of Boors; The Enthusiast; Art; Buddha; C -- 's Lament; Shelley's Vision; Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century; The Marchioness of Brinvilliers; The Age of the Antonines; Herba Santa; Venice; In a Bye-Canal; Pisa's Leaning Tower; In a Church of Padua; Milan Cathedral; Pausilippo; The Attic Landscape; The Same; The Parthenon; Greek Masonry; Greek Architecture; Off Cape Colonna…”
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A scarlet Renaissance : essays in honor of Sarah Blake McHam

Table of Contents: “…The Cavalieri di Santo Stefano and Public Sculpture in Pisa and Livorno under Ferdinando IKatherine Poole; Embellishing the Queen's Residence; Queen Christina of Sweden's Patronage of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Members of His Circle of Sculptors; Lilian H. …”
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BEITRAGE ZUM MATHEMATIKUNTERRICHT 2019 53. jahrestagung der gesellschaft fur didaktik der mathematik;53. jahrestagung der gesellschaft fur.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Band 1 -- 1 Hauptvorträge -- Abraham ARCAVI, Israel -- Making Sense of Sensemaking in Mathematics Education -- Christine KNIPPING, Bremen -- Argumentieren und Beweisen im Mathematikunterricht -- diskursive und epistemologische Herausforderungen -- Kristina REISS, München -- PISA -- Mathematische Kompetenzen im internationalen Vergleich -- Anita SCHILCHER, Regensburg -- Sprache und Mathematik -- Ein mathematikdidaktisches Forschungsthema beleuchtet aus der Sicht der Deutschdidaktik -- Susanne SCHNELL, Frankfurt…”
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U.S. education reform and national security

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Girls' education in the 21st century : gender equality, empowerment, and growth

Table of Contents: “…Overview / Mercy Tembon -- Schooling, gender equity, and economic outcomes / Eric Hanushek -- Student learning outcomes in mathematics from a gender perspective: what does the international PISA assessment tell us? / Andreas Schleicher -- Return to education: the gender perspective / Harry Patrinos -- Is female education a pathway to gender equality in the labor market? …”
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Architecture in Existing Fabric : Planning, Design, Building by Cramer, Johannes

Table of Contents: “…Recording historic buildingsProperty and geographic details; Documentary evidence and archives; Recording the building as found; Metric building survey; Overview: Precision levels in measured surveys; Building survey; Houses on the Mühlenstrasse, Havelberg, Germany; Building archaeology; Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway; Heubach Castle, Germany; Balbarini townhouse, Pisa, Italy; Bernhard chapel, Owen, Germany; Schminke house, Löbau, Germany; Structural survey; Technical and material investigations; Evaluation and interpretation -- strengths and weaknesses; Design strategies…”
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A History of the Church in the Middle Ages. by Logan, F. Donald Donald

Table of Contents: “…The Great Schism. The road to Pisa ; The road to Constance ; Wyclif and Hus ; Back to Constance ; Further reading -- 17. …”
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Empowerment and public service delivery in Developing Asia and the Pacific : policy report

Table of Contents: “…International Test Scores of 15-Year Olds in Selected Asian Countries, 2009 (PISA); 15. Student Arithmetic Achievement by Grade in Rural India, 2011; 16. …”
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La plausibilidad del derecho en la era de la inteligencia artificial filosofia carbonica y filosofia silicica del derecho. by CAMPIONE, ROGER

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Vernacular theology : Dominican sermons and audience in late medieval Italy

Table of Contents: “…; Jacopo da Varazze; Giordano da Pisa; Jacopo Passavanti; Conclusion; Chapter Two: Reception and dissemination of Dominican sermons in late medieval Florence; Sermons as literature.…”
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Implementation of large-scale education assessments by Lietz, Petra, Cresswell, John, 1950-, Rust, Keith, Adams, Raymond J., 1959-

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Waterborne pageants and festivities in the Renaissance : essays in honour of J.R. Mulryne

Table of Contents: “…7 Water Policy and Water Festivals: the Case of Pisa Under Ferdinando de' Medici (1588-1609)8 Arbitrary Reality: Fact and Fantasy in the Florentine Naumachia, 1589; 9 Lepanto Revisited: Water-fights and the Turkish Threat in Early Modern Europe (1571-1656); 10 Mary, Queen of Scots' Aquatic Entertainments for the Wedding of John Fleming, Fifth Lord Fleming to Elizabeth Ross, May 1562; 11 Looking Again at Elvetham: An Elizabethan Entertainment Revisited; 12 The Ice Festival in Florence, 1604; 13 The Thames en Fête; 14 Royal River: The Watermen's Company and Pageantry on the Thames…”
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