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Sometimes the small things make all the difference. Moved by the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, Ferial Pearson wondered if a…
simple act of kindness could change a life. She thought of the school where she taught and the students she guided every day and wondered, what would happen if we started secretly carrying out small acts of kindness in school? Could a modest act of compassion really change the course of a life? She posed the question to her students. They didn’t have the answers but they were willing to find out. And so they became the Secret Kindness Agents. They not only changed the lives of those they met, they changed their own. Their hope, their hearts, and their hunger for happiness will inspire you to change your small corner of the world, in your own way, for the better. Let them show you how they did it, and how you can do the same.
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الدين الإسلامي هـو رسالة الله الأخيرة إلى الثقلين جميعـا ، ومـن ثم فقد " اقتضت الحكمة الإلهية أن يكون هذا…
الدين الخاتم الذي بعث به النبي الخاتم صالحا ومصلحا للإنسانية ، وملائما للطبيعة البشرية ، متمشيا مع كل زمان ومكان ، لا يصادم مصالح الناس ، ولا يعوق تقدمهم ... " ، ودين هذا شأنه مـن البديهي ، أن يشكل منظومـة رحمـة إلهية متكاملة ، مهداة من الله تعالى ، الرحيم بجميع خلقه ، إلى العالمين كافـة ، لإصلاح البشرية ورقي الإنسانية ، وليخرج الناس به من الظلمـات إلى النور ، ويرشدهم إلى سبل الخير والهدى والرشاد ، ويدرأ المفاسد ويدفع المضار عنهم جميعـا ويحقق مصالحهم ويقيم سعادتهم في الحال والمآل
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Hassan Al Nawwab is a former Iraqi soldier who came to Australia after the war with his family 20 years…
ago. With devastating simplicity, these imagistic poems speak of war and terror, of homesickness in exile, the blessings of peace and the pain of belonging. The collection is in two parts, ‘Tree Flying' and ‘Diaspora', and each poem is presented with its counterpart in Arabic on the opposite page, as translated from English by the poet himself.
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Riḥla ilā Bilād al-‘Arab starts with the Arabic alphabet and gradually and systematically builds the reading and writing skills and…
mastery of Fuṣḥā grammar. As students develop their reading, writing, and grammar skills, they will be learning about Arab history, society, and culture. This book contextualizes Arabic grammar teaching with sufficient and relevant drills and exercises. Added personal and cultural interest is given by the diary of Amal, an American student of Arab descent, who travels to Jordan and Palestine. This textbook includes maps, illustrations, and photographs and is accompanied by audio on the companion website that can be viewed here: www.routledge.com/cw/younes . The book is designed for Arabic heritage students—students who can understand and speak an Arabic dialect (Egyptian, Iraqi, Moroccan, etc.) but are unfamiliar with Modern Standard Arabic, known as Fuṣḥā.
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In 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become ‘eugenics.’ The same…
year, Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii addressed similar issues in a sizeable treatise, entitled Human Perfection and Degeneration. Initially unheralded, Florinskii’s book would go on to have a remarkable afterlife in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia. In this lucid and insightful work, Nikolai Krementsov argues that the concept of eugenics brings together ideas, values, practices, and fears energised by a focus on the future. It has proven so seductive to different groups over time because it provides a way to grapple with fundamental existential questions of human nature and destiny. With and Without Galton develops this argument by tracing the life-story of Florinskii’s monograph from its uncelebrated arrival amid the Russian empire’s Great Reforms, to its reissue after the Bolshevik Revolution, its decline under Stalinism, and its subsequent resurgence: first, as a founding document of medical genetics, and most recently, as a manifesto for nationalists and racial purists. Krementsov’s meticulously researched ‘biography of a book’ sheds light not only on the peculiar fate of eugenics in Russia, but also on its convoluted transnational history, elucidating the field’s protean nature and its continuing and contested appeal to diverse audiences, multiple local trajectories, and global trends. It is required reading for historians of eugenics, science, medicine, education, literature, and Russia, and it will also appeal to the general reader looking for a deeper understanding of this challenging subject.
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This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most…
important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew addresses this lacuna, with eight lucid but technically rigorous articles written in English by a range of experienced scholars, focusing on various aspects of Rabbinic Hebrew: its phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and lexicon. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Rabbinic studies alike, and constitutes the first in a new series, Studies in Semitic Languages and Cultures, in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and detailed commentary on Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov, (The Rectifying of the Curved), a…
14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of geometry. The book is a mixture of two genres: philosophical discussion and formal, Euclidean-type geometrical writing. A central issue is the use of motion and superposition in geometry, which is analyzed in depth through dialog with earlier Arab mathematicians. The author, Alfonso, was identified by Gita Gluskina (the editor of the 1983 Russian edition) as Alfonso of Valladolid, the converted Jew Abner of Burgos. Alfonso lived in Castile, rather far from the leading cultural centers of his time, but nonetheless at the crossroad of three cultures. He was raised in the Jewish tradition and like many Sephardic Jewish intellectuals was versed in Greek-Arabic philosophy and science. He also had connections with some Christian nobles and towards the end of his life converted to Christianity. Driven by his ambition to solve the problem of the quadrature of the circle, as well as other open geometrical problems, Alfonso acquired surprisingly wide knowledge and became familiar with several episodes in Greek and Arabic geometry that historians usually consider not to have been known in the West in the fourteenth century. Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov reflects his wide and deep erudition in mathematics and philosophy, and provides new evidence on cultural transmission around the Mediterranean.
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¿Cómo es el sueño normal en la infancia? ¿Cómo y cuánto duermen los niños? ¿Problemas para dormir? ¿Tiene riesgos el…
colecho? En este texto breve, didáctico y riguroso, Alberto Soler responde a estas y otras preguntas y explica cómo es la estructura del sueño y cómo este evoluciona a lo largo de la infancia, además de proponer rutinas adaptables a cada familia. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook Hijos y padres felices, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “El sueño en la infancia”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, la operación pañal, la guardería, las pantallas y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
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¿Cómo conciliar? ¿Necesito una guardería? ¿A qué edad debo escolarizar a mi hijo? En este texto breve, didáctico y riguroso,…
Alberto Soler responde a estas y otras preguntas y explica cómo es la adaptación a estos centros y que pautas debemos tener en cuenta. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook Hijos y padres felices, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “La guardería, ¿es necesaria?”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, el sueño, la operación pañal, las pantallas y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
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¿Debo permitir que mis hijos vean dibujos en el móvil? ¿Es perjudicial la tecnología? En este texto breve, didáctico y…
riguroso, Alberto Soler responde a estas y otras preguntas y explica la relación entre los niños y las pantallas y la conveniencia (o no) de exponer a nuestros hijos a móviles, tablets y televisión. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook Hijos y padres felices, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “Los niños y las pantallas”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, el sueño, la operación pañal, la guardería y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
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¿Por qué se producen las rabietas? ¿Son todas iguales? En este texto breve, didáctico y riguroso, Alberto Soler responde a…
estas y otras preguntas y explica cómo manejarlas y prevenirlas. Para profundizar en temas relacionados con la crianza, recomendamos el ebook Hijos y padres felices, de Alberto Soler y Concepción Roger, que incluye “Los terribles dos años y las rabietas”, además de capítulos dedicados a la alimentación, el sueño, la guardería, las pantallas y los estilos parentales, entre otros.
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Arabic edition. Vision Australia exists to support people who are blind or have low vision to live the life they…
choose. This document covers key information about client rights and responsibilities, privacy, services and how clients can provide feedback and make a complaint. It also includes a list of relevant contacts.
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Journals and memoirs, Music
في عصر المعلومات يجب أن تزداد قدرة رجال وسيدات الأعمال على فهم المنافسة والبيئة والشركات والاستراتيجيات ليتمكنوا من تحقيق النجاح.…
إدارة الأعمال هي طريقة لتنظيم شركة وضعت نصب أعينها هدف تطوير قيمها وقدراتها الإدارية ومسؤولياتها التنظيمية ونظمها الإدارية التي تربط عملية اتخاذ القرارات الاستراتيجية والتكتيكية والتشغيلية بجميع المستويات التراتبية والصلاحيات
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Holy Quran complete in Arabic Language
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"This book is a godsend . . . a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels…
and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators. ” --Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatch Darrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always struggled with his reading and writing skills. Darrell’s father, a single parent, couldn't afford private tutors. By the end of middle school, Darrell’s grades and his confidence were at an all time low. Then everything changed. When education journalist Kristina Rizga first met Darrell at Mission High School, he was taking AP calculus class, writing a ten-page research paper, and had received several college acceptance letters. And Darrell was not an exception. More than 80 percent of Mission High seniors go to college every year, even though the school teaches large numbers of English learners and students from poor families. So, why has the federal government been threatening to close Mission High--and schools like it across the country? The United States has been on a century long road toward increased standardization in our public schools, which resulted in a system that reduces the quality of education to primarily one metric: standardized test scores. According to this number, Mission High is a "low-performing” school even though its college enrollment, graduation, attendance rates and student surveys are some of the best in the country. The qualities that matter the most in learning--skills like critical thinking, intellectual engagement, resilience, empathy, self-management, and cultural flexibility--can’t be measured by multiple-choice questions designed by distant testing companies, Rizga argues, but they can be detected by skilled teachers in effective, personalized and humane classrooms that work for all students, not just the most motivated ones. Based on four years of reporting with unprecedented access, the unforgettable, intimate stories in these pages throw open the doors to America’s most talked about--and arguably least understood--public school classrooms where the largely invisible voices of our smart, resilient students and their committed educators can offer a clear and hopeful blueprint for what it takes to help all students succeed.
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القـــــــوانــيــن والـسـياســــــــــــــــــــات الـمـتـعـلـقــــــــة بحـمـايـــة حقــــــــــوق أصــــحـــــاب الــهــمـــ
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الأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة هم أشخاص مثلهم مثل الآخرين لديهم مشاعر وأحاسيس وعادات وحاجات ومواقف واتجاهات ولديهم الحق في الحصول على الخدمات بنفس النوعية والجودة التي تقدم لغير المعاقين
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يعتبر إقرار الأمم المتحدة للاتفاقية الدولية لحقوق الأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة الصادرة في عام 2008 بمثابة انعكاساً لحجم التضامن الدولي، ويضفي…
هذا القرار الطابع القانوني لأوجه الحماية المختلفة لذوي الإعاقة و اعترافاً بحقوقهم و توفير الإطار اللازم لحمايتهم و توحيد القيم و ترشيد السياسات و الممارسات للاستجابة لاحتياجاتهم و متطلباتهم و الاعتراف بالأهلية القانونية لهم امام القانون
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Journals and memoirs, Music
شكل هذا الكتاب موسوعة علمية أدبية راقية حيث جمع فيه المصنف خطب العرب في العصور الذهبية الزاهرة للغة العربية وآدابها…
وفنونها، من العصر الجاهلي إلى العصر العباسي الأول مرورا بصدر الإسلام والراشدي والأموي، حيث إن الخطب وخاصة بعد البعثة النبوية ومجيء الإسلام كان لها الأهمية البالغة في الوعظ والإرشاد وإرسال الجيوش وتولية الخلفاء والولاة والمحافل الأدبية فكانت تشكل فنا خاصا بحد ذاتها . فجمعها في كتاب واحد يمثل عصارة أدب تلك العصور.
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كتاب "شرح قطر الندى" لابن هشام الانصاري هو احد كتب علوم اللعة والنحو والصرف ويشتمل على تلخيص شامل لقواعد الاعراب والنحو