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Subject(s): School improvement programs | Academic achievement | Teaching Summary: "Teachers are required to increase the rigor for students, but how? This book by bestselling author and rigor expert Barbara Blackburn has the answer! It is a treasure chest of more than 200 practical and highly-effective tools that can be used across grade l

Subject(s): Old age pensions -- Japan Summary: Ageing population poses a set of complex policy and dilemmas for social security systems, intensifying the concerns about rising expenditures in health care and long-term care for elderly. In this context, ageing societies has many valuable lessons to learn by studying Japan's experience dealin

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Subject(s): Bitruji, active 12th century. Kitab fi al-hay'ah | Goldstein, Bernard R., On the principles of astronomy : an edition of the Arabic and Hebrew versions with translation, analysis, and an Arabic-Hebrew-English glossary | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 | Astronomy, Islamic | Astronomy, Medieval | Jewish astronomy | Jews -- Intellect

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