Search Results - subject:"‘Reading’"

Reading Jewish women : marginality and modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society

Parush, Iris - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004488254

Beyond the Dogma of the Fixed Book Price Agreement

Ploeg, Frederick van der - In: Journal of Cultural Economics 28 (2004) 1, pp. 1-20

given. Allowance is made for theopportunity cost of reading. Theoretically such an agreement pushes up bookprices and … concerned about the falling proportion ofpeople reading books. Governments fail to set (quantitative) objectives forthe fixed …

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The Literacy Hour

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall … compulsory education (age 16). We find a larger increase in attainment in reading and English for pupils in NLP schools as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703795

The Rhetoric of a Juggernaut: AOLTimeWarner's Internet Policy Statement

Amernic, Joel; Craig, Russell - In: Prometheus 22 (2004) 1, pp. 21-41

This paper addresses an issue of public policy regarding the Internet. It is motivated by the belief that the Internet is in danger of being controlled by a few megacorporations. We seek to understand the nature of such control by performing a textual analysis of the 'Internet Policy Statement'...

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Reading beyond the alphabet : innovations in lifelong literacy

Kothari, Brij (contributor) - 2003

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In praise of books : ¬a cultural history of Cairo's middle class, sixteenth to the eighteenth century

Hanna, Nelly - 2003 - 1. ed.

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Total literacy : reading, writing, and learning

Sampson, Mary Beth (contributor); … - 2003 - 3. ed.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004802124

Developing research awareness in students: an action research project explored

Paisey, Catriona; Paisey, Nicholas - In: Accounting Education 12 (2003) 3, pp. 283-302

. The action research question posed was how students could be encouraged to increase their awareness and reading of quality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005491856

Local vs. global covert visual attention: Are two states necessary? Comment on Liechty et al., 2003

Reichle, Erik; Nelson, Jessica - In: Psychometrika 68 (2003) 4, pp. 543-549

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Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...

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