Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing (U Toronto Press, 2025) takes historiographic and sociological perspectives developed to understand large-scale scientific and technical systems and uses them to highlight the standardization that went into "standardized testing."Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the century more than two million people had written

Provides an extensive overview of modern cybersecurity strategies, emphasizing the evolving role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) from a technical expert to a strategic business leader. It covers critical aspects such as building a culture of security, managing diverse threat actors (nation-states, cybercriminals, hacktivists, and insider threats), and addressing the cybersecurity skills and diversity gaps. The text also details effective approaches to cyber risk management,

On Episode 476 we discuss...→ Detective Fudge→ They’re Just Dead→ Sweet little cinnamon roll→ The Weight of Betrayal→ Reckoning with Guilt and Innocence→ Sweater Weather and Seasonal Fashion→ Hermione's Dilemma: Snitching or Protecting?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/alohomora-the-original-harry-potter-book-club--5016402/support.

Hello everyone!  Welcome to episode 280, where we will discuss chapter 16 of Lady Midnight, By the SideJoin the discussion in our FB group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/286288765619887 Follow us on Instagram @Downworlderdishpodcast E-mail us: downworlderdish@gmail.com Intro Music - The Gatekeepers by Shane Ivers Music from https://filmmusic.io Outro Music - "Ice Flow" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Send us a text You can contact Michele at https://www.bookclues.com Have you ever read Dracula??? child's play compared to John Blair's Killing the Dead; Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World. A corpse that won’t stay put tells you as much about the living as it does about the dead. We sit down with Oxford’s Professor John Blair to chart how vampire epidemics rise when communities are shaken by disease, war, or rapid change—and why the freshly buried beco...

A clinical guide on Removable Partial Dentures (RPDs), offering detailed information for dental practitioners. The text addresses the increasing future need for RPDs despite declining tooth loss rates, attributing this to an aging and growing population. A significant portion of the material covers the comprehensive diagnostic process for partially edentulous patients, including examination of oral hygiene, periodontal health, and systemic conditions, emphasizing that the prosthodontic treatment

¿Qué pasaría si pudieras embotellar el carisma de una estrella de cine, el atractivo de Cleopatra y la influencia de JFK?Show notes Esa es la explosiva promesa de El Arte de la Seducción de Robert Greene—y en este episodio, desglosamos las estrategias atemporales que han construido imperios, ganado elecciones y cautivado corazones durante miles de años. En este episodio descubrirás: ✅ Los 9 arquetipos seductores – Desde la Sirena hasta el Carismático: encuentra qué tipo de personalidad te

Send us a text Hi exophonic friends, We are here again with yet another amazing guest! Dr Gabriel García Ochoa is a Mexican-born academic and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches at Monash University, where his work explores cultural literacy, world literature, and translation. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is the author of the 2019 science fiction novel The Hypermarket. Join me in my conversation with Gabriel as we discussed cultural liter...

Passengers! Thank you all so much for a delightful Puppets season! If you will be in the Minneapolis area on November 13th, please join us for our live show and screening of Retro Puppet Master! Get your tickets now at the link below!Passages Live Tickets!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/passages-with-robbie-and-amanda--6153882/support.Website:https://www.passagespod.comPatreon:https://www.patreon.com/PassagesBookClubMerch:https://tee.pub/lic/h1auFQsMUVk

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Josh Axe and Jordan Rubin unveil how centuries-old biblical nutrition holds the key to fighting today's skyrocketing lifestyle diseases-heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and high blood pressure-which now account for 71% of global deaths. & successfully tackling the shocking stats of early-onset cancer (under age 50), up 79% since 1990, noted by the American Cancer Society.Both Dr. Axe and Jordan overcame life-threatening illnesses through the principles

Send us a text Well, a logical place to begin would be to ask the Maestro about his beginnings “Ah, señor Bartley, I am pleased to be here. You ask about my beginnings? wery well. I was born October 10, 1813, in Le Roncole, a small willage in the Duchy of Parma. My father, Carlo, ran our taern, and my mother, Luigia, kept the household in order. We were not rich, nor were we musicians by trade, yet music found me nonetheless. The hymns of the willage church, the organ, the singing of neighbo...

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Tad, Sean, and Mark continue their discussion of Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti's seminal run on Jonah Hex.

The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age. As The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean (Oxford UP, 2020) shows, ambitious planters throughout the Greater Caribbean hired a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other "plantation experts" to assist them in adapting industrial technologies to

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Amal El-Mohtar is an award winning speculative fiction author best known for This Is How You Lose The Time War and her newest novella The River Has Roots. I was so excited to sit down and talk craft and music with her. Amal's Website Buy The River Has Roots Amal's IG