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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographical fiction Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oz, Amos. Tale of love and darkness. Orlando : Harcourt, ©2004 (OCoLC)643927602 |
Named Person: | Amos Oz; Amos Oz; Amos Oz; Amos Oz; Amos Oz |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Amos Oz |
ISBN: | 0151008787 9780151008780 015603252X 9780156032520 |
OCLC Number: | 54857817 |
Description: | 538 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Policy sociology and critical social research : a personal review of recent education policy and policy research -- Discipline and chaos : the new right and discourses of derision -- What is policy? : texts, trajectories, and toolboxes -- Educational studies, policy entrepreneurship, and social theory -- Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives on education policy -- Ethics, self interest, and the market form in education -- Good school/bad school : paradox and fabrication -- Educational reform, market concepts, and ethical re-tooling -- Standards in education : privatisation, profit, and values -- The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity -- Circuits of schooling : a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts / Ball, S.J., R. Bowe, and S. Gewirtz -- Space, work, and the "new urban economies" / Ball, S.J., M. Maguire, and S. Macrae -- Social justice in the head : are we all libertarians now -- "Ethnic choosing" : minority ethnic students and higher education choice / Ball, S.J., D. Reay, D. and M. David -- "I heard it on the grapevine" : "hot" knowledge and school choice / Ball. S.J., and C. Vincent -- The risks of social reproduction : the middle class and education markets. |
Other Titles: | Sipur ʻal ahavah ṿe-ḥoshekh. |
Responsibility: | Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. |
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One of the funniest, most tragic and most touching books I have ever read. A testament to a family, a time and a place. * Guardian * A masterpiece * Irish Times * One of the most gripping, intense and moving autobiographies I have ever read. * Independent on Sunday * It sweeps across 120 years of family history, weaving a tragi-comic saga of love and books, of Jewish life and immigrant life the world over, and of the universal madness of families. Read it now - I promise you won't read a more brilliant book in a long, long while. * Daily Mail * Oz's account of his childhood is often very funny - and then profoundly moving, as he circles slowly round to confront the intolerable pain at the heart of it -- Michael Frayn * Week * Read more...


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