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1. Confronting Biopiracy

   Challenges, Cases and International Debates

   By Daniel Robinson

   'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorized extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous peoples and local communities, or to the patenting of spurious 'inventions' based on such knowledge or resources without...

   Published August 2nd 2011 by Routledge
2. A Mathematical Look at Politics

   By E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., Daniel H. Ullman

   What Ralph Nader's spoiler role in the 2000 presidential election tells us about the American political system. Why Montana went to court to switch the 1990 apportionment to Dean’s method. How the US tried to use game theory to win the Cold War, and why it didn’t work. When students realize that...

   Published December 8th 2010 by CRC Press
3. Assessing Teacher Effectiveness

   Different models

   By Jim Campbell, Leonidas Kyriakides, Daniel Muijs, Wendy Robinson

   How can we really evaluate teacher effectiveness? Systems of teacher appraisal and evaluation are being created across the world in order to monitor and assess teacher performance. But do the models used really give a fair evaluation? Based on international research, the authors argue that teacher...

   Published January 21st 2004 by Routledge