Sarah Barbour, David Howard, Thomas Lacroix & Judith Misrahi-Barak (eds.),

Thomas Lacroix

The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the view of Coffey International Development, the consortium members of GSDRC or DFID. This consultancy assesses current migration research to determine the key factors which need to be considered in order to better understand the drivers of migration for poor people, as well as the social and economic costs an...

Curriculum Development Judith Howard

Let’s begin with two foundational works on curriculum, one by Ralph Tyler (1949) and the other by Jerome Bruner (1960). These provide a good beginning, not only because they were among the first books on curriculum to be published but because the ideas they contain have been among the most enduring. Indeed, they continue to provide the foundation for our most current thinking in curriculum deve...

Thomas Lacroix and Stephen Castles

Roger Martin, David Michaels Juan Uriagereka (eds.)

This book contains 10 essays written in honor of Howard Lasnik, as well as an introduction by two of the editors, a list of Lasnik's publications, a list of dissertations supervised by Lasnik, and an index. The dust jacket describes the contents asàn up-to-date overview of research in the minimalist program of linguistic theory'. As such, this review considers the book as a window onto current ...

Host manipulation by parasites David P. Hughes, Jacques Brodeur, and Frédéric Thomas, eds Oxford University Press, UK

The book is a beautiful combination of expert thinking and knowledge on parasites exploiting multicellular host individuals, populations, societies and communities, as their ecosystem. The book comprises eleven chapters by expert behavioural ecologists as main authors, each one appended by an afterword from a nonbehavioural ecologist, a briefer reflection on the main authors’ treatment. Reading...