China's Educational Language: Education, Curriculum, and Knowledge in a Cross-Cultural Context
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With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China's...

Disaffection from School?: The Early Years
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Originally published in 1989, the purpose of this book was to explore the nature and appearance of...

The Finkler Question
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio...

Stoner: A Novel
Alex Clark Introduces Shelf Help
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William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on...

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy and Roger Cockrell
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On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife...
Master Keaton
Naoki Urasawa and Hokusei Katsushika
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Taichi Hiraga Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance...

Hekla's Children
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A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one...

We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
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Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula (Nia Vardalos). Still unmarried at 30 years...

Gifted (2017)
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Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary...