1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387027003316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

A vvay to get vvealth [[electronic resource] ] : containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. : As 1. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattel and fowl ... 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, in physick, chyrurgery, extraction of oyles ... 4. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds ... 6. The making of orchards, planting, and graffing ... / / the first five books gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. ; for the benefit of Great-Brittain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by William Wilson, for George Sawbridge ..., 1660 [i.e. 1664?]

Edizione

[The eleventh time corrected, and augmented /]

Descrizione fisica

7 v. in 1 : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

LawsonWilliam <fl. 1618.>

Soggetti

Agriculture - England

Home economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Each section has special t.p. and separate pagination.

Includes marginal notes.

Imperfect: copy at reel 1746:21 contains only "Cheape and good husbandry. 11th ed. 1664."

Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library (reel 1746) and Birmingham Central Reference Library (reel 2644).

Nota di contenuto

Cheap and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowls ..., 1664 -- Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations ... 1656 -- The English hous-wife ... 1653 -- The inrichment of the weald of Kent, or, A direction to the husband-man, for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds ... 1653 -- Markhams farewell to hvsbandry, or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our nation ... 1653 -- A new orchard, and garden, or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any



ground good ... 1656 -- The country hovse-wifes garden ... 1656.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824527903321

Autore

Golunov Serghei

Titolo

The elephant in the room : corruption and cheating in Russian universities / / Serghei Golunov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : ibidem-Verlag, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-8382-6670-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Collana

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, , 1614-3515

Disciplina

378.1958

Soggetti

Cheating (Education)

Education, Higher - Russia (Federation)

Cheating (Education) - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1. The problem; 1.2. Existing works on the topic; 1.3. The approach; 1.4. Book structure; 2 VULNERABILITIES OF THE RUSSIAN HIGHEREDUCATION SYSTEM; 2.1. Russian higher education system at a glance; 2.2. Some key system trends of the post-Soviet period; 2.3. Influence of environment; 2.4. Conclusion; 3 CORRUPTION AND CHEATING PRACTICES; 3.1. Conceptualisations; 3.2. Corruption; 3.3. Cheating; 3.4. Consequences; 3.5. Conclusion; 4 COUNTERACTION EFFORTS; 4.1. Strategies and best practices; 4.2. Official efforts

4.3. Academic and student activism4.4. International impact; 4.5. Conclusion; 5 CONCLUSIONS; 5.1. Roots and relative importance of malpractices; 5.2. Damage from malpractice; 5.3. Efficiency of counteraction measures; 5.4. Recommendations; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a long overdue account of the wide range of corruption and cheating practices in Russian higher education,



including bribery, financial fraud, clientelism, plagiarism, exam cheating, and much more. Serghei Golunov ruthlessly uncovers the recent social trends that have created a favourable ground for such malpractices and evaluates the efficiency of measures taken against corruption and fraud by various actors. Although corruption and cheating are so wide-spread in most Russian universities that the real value of their diplomas is very questionable, these problems are prioritiz