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  • 26 Words That Can Change Your Life

    Nurture Your Mind, Heart and Soul to Transform Your Life and Relationships

    by Phillip Brown ...
    Realize how the power of a single word coupled with some real life experience can Nurture your heart, mind and soul to transform your life and relationships. Experienced how a single word, a sentence or a helping hand at just the right time can change your life. Get ready to be challenged though as 26 Words gets in your face when you pick the first word, the last or one in the middle. Are you ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soul Food

    Nourishing Essays on Contemplative Living and Leadership

    by Althea Banda-Hansmann, Winston Breeden Charles, Anita-Yvonne (AY) Bryant, Kolya Braun-Greiner, Gay L. Byron, Melanie Dobson, Lerita Coleman Brown, Sarah Forti, Amanda Lindamood, Marcelle Martin, Carl McColman, Leah Moran Rampy, DanaLee Simon, Phillip Stephens, Joanne Youn, Elaine Voci, J. M. Smith ...
    Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Shalem Institute, this collection of experiential and academic essays offers modern contemplative reflections from new and renowned voices in spiritual leadership.Founded in 1973 by the Rev. Dr. Tilden H. Edwards, Jr., Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation offers retreats, workshops, and groups centered around contemplative spirituality. The culmination ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Higher Education And Corporate Realities

    Class, Culture And The Decline Of Graduate Careers

    by Phillip Brown, Richard Scase ...
    A new approach to the analysis of cultural reproduction focusing on the impact of economic change. The book demonstrates the reinforcement of cultural stereotypes in recruitment caused by interaction between corporate restructuring and the education system.; This book is intended for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in sociology with an interest in the sociology of work and the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Christ Is All That Matters

    Devoted For Life

    by Phillip Brown ...
    Phillip Brown’s life changed forever on a May evening in 2005. He fell twenty-six feet from a roof gable, landing on his shoulders and head. He survived. Twelve staples closed the head wound, but the worst damage was invisible, tucked within the complex webs of his brain. A traumatic brain injury stole everything he thought was his, gifts he took for granted. He began journaling. In Christ Is All ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Financial Cornerstone

    Following the Biblical Roadmap for Finances

    by Phillip Brown ...
    Are you tired of books telling you how to manage money without giving you any background?Fed up with inspirational money management seminars that focus on financial techniques but seem to forget about the Biblical basis they claim to teach? Ever wonder why following all the popular money management techniques still seems to result in the same circumstances you started in?Budgets and techniques are ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Death of Human Capital?

    Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption

    by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, Sin Yi Cheung ...
    Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and Sin Yi Cheung argue that the human capital story is one of false promise: investing in learning isn't the road to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Global Auction

    The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

    by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, David Ashton ...
    For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Global Auction

    The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

    by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, David Ashton ...
    For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Schooling Ordinary Kids (1987)

    Inequality, Unemployment, and the New Vocationalism

    by Phillip Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published 1987 Schooling Ordinary Kids looks at the ‘invisible majority’ of ordinary working-class pupils. The book explains why these pupils are now at the centre of a major educational crisis surrounding the soaring rates of youth unemployment. The book is a timely examination of educational inequalities, unemployment, and the new vocationalism. Drawing extensively the study of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • International Handbook on Education Development in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Wing On Lee, Phillip Brown, A. Lin Goodwin, Andy Green ...
    Series series Reference Module Education
    The Springer International Handbook of Educational Development in Asia Pacific breaks new ground with a comprehensive, fine-grained and diverse perspective on research and education development throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 13 sections and 127 chapters, the Handbook delves into a wide spectrum of contemporary topics including educational equity and quality, language education, learning ... Read more

    $989.99 USD

  • Olivia Jones

    by Phillip A Brown ...
    Eleven-year-old Olivia "Oli" Jones lives in the backwoods of rural Alabama. Her best friend, Bartholomew "Mo" Wright, helps her make sense of her uncommon life. After all, they both share the same tragic history. Both their fathers enlisted in the Army. Both their fathers fought in Vietnam. Both their fathers never came back. This deeply wounding sadness is something they bear together as only ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Education and Social Mobility

    Edited by Carol Vincent, Diane Reay, Phillip Brown ...
    The study of education and social mobility has been a key area of sociological research since the 1950s. The importance of this research derives from the systematic analysis of functionalist theories of industrialism. Functionalist theories assume that the complementary demands of efficiency and justice result in more ‘meritocratic’ societies, characterized by high rates of social mobility. Much ... Read more

    $72.99 USD