Academic & Professional

Richard Craze / Chinese Astrology (Coffee Table Book)

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Barbara T. Hoffman / Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice (Coffee Table Book)

Art and Cultural Heritage is appropriately, not solely, about the law-national and international-respecting cultural heritage. It is a bubbling cauldron of law mixed with ethics, philosophy, politics and working principles about how cultural heritage...

Martin J. Siegert / Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change (Coffee Table Book)

Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change provides a detailed account of the temporal and spatial distribution of ice sheets during the last ice age, and how these ice masses interacted with the environment. This is the first book in 20 years...

Diane M. Barone / Narrowing the Literacy Gap (Large Paperback)

This engaging book offers new insights and information on why students in high-poverty schools struggle with literacy achievement and what specific factors promote success. Findings from a unique study are translated into clear recommendations for...

Peter Jarvis / The Theory and Practice of Teaching (Large Paperback)

An introduction to the techniques, contemporary theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of the lecture, this book explores the issues that underpin interpersonal methods of teaching, and offers genuine...

Hilary A. Radnor / Researching Your Professional Practice (Large Paperback)

Researching Your Professional Practice: Doing Interpretive Research (Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings) This volume is for the professional educator who wants to make use of good interpretive research practice to help them do their...

Tamara L. Jetton / Adolescent Literacy Research and Practice (Large Paperback)

This much-needed book addresses the role of literacy instruction in enhancing content area learning and fostering student motivation and success well beyond the primary grades. The unique literacy needs of middle school and secondary students are...

Helen Arnold / Listening to Children Reading (Large Paperback)

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Paul Castle / How to be a Successful Teacher (Large Paperback)

How to be a Successful Teacher: Strategies for Personal and Professional Development   Paul Castle, Scott Buckler   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Gilly Salmon / How to Create Podcasts for Education (Large Paperback)

Gilly Salmon, Palitha Edirisingha, Matthew Mobbs, Richard Mobbs, Chris Dennett  "Few other technological developments have the same potential for transforming teaching and learning as podcasts … This step by step...

Paul Black / Assessment For Learning (Large Paperback)

Assessment For Learning: Putting it into Practice   Paul Black, Chris Harrison, Clare Lee, Bethan Marshall, Dylan Wiliam, Open University Press    "This is a surprising and welcome book... a...

Michael Pressley / Reading Instruction That Works (Large Paperback)

This widely adopted text provides a comprehensive guide to effective literacy instruction in the elementary grades. Distinguished scholar and educator Michael Pressley presents research-based, classroom-tested best practices for combining skills-based...

Alastair Irons / Enhancing Learning through Formative Assessment and Feedback (Large Paperback)

This book is based on the argument that detailed and developmental formative feedback is the single most useful thing teachers can do for students. It helps to clarify the expectations of higher education and assist all students to achieve their...

Jen Allen / Helping Your Pupils to be Resilient (Large Paperback)

Jen Allen, Michele Murray, Kelli Simmons For many children, school life is hard. They may have a learning difficulty or problems at home. They may feel left out or have trouble making friends. Other children may be stealing from them or...

Jonathan Weyers, Kathleen McMillan / How to Write Essays & Assignments (Large Paperback)

How to write great essays covers everything a student is likely to need to research, plan and write academic essays and assignments that will get you great marks.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Peter Levin / Perfect Presentations! (Large Paperback)

Peter Levin, Graham Topping 'Perfect Presentations!' helps students gain the skills they need to give an effective presentation in a class, seminar, or tutorial. The book discusses the importance of knowing your topic area well, structuring your...

Susan Hart / Learning Without Limits (Large Paperback)

"The style and language used by the authors make the book readable and therefore a book that practising teachers can actively use as a guide to improve their practice ...it is amply demonstrated that teaching can and should be an activity whose...

Janet Soler / Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development (Large Paperback)

Janet Soler (Primary Contributor), Gavin Reid (Editor), Janice Wearmouth (Editor) This book provides a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives on difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team...

Michael Fullan / Leadership & Sustainability (Large Paperback)

Fullan provides a comprehensive examination of what leaders at all levels of the educational system can do to promote large-scale, sustainable reform.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

James A. Rycik / What Adolescents Deserve (Large Paperback)

What Adolescents Deserve: A Commitment to Students' Literacy Learning   James A. Rycik (Editor), Judith L. Irvin What do adolescents deserve? According to editors James A. Rycik and Judith L. Irvin, adolescents deserve...

Karen D. Wood/ Literacy Instruction for Adolescents (Large Paperback)

Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: Research-Based Practice   Karen D. Wood (Editor), William E. Blanton (Editor Thorough and accessible, this professional resource and text shows how the latest research in adolescent...

John Walshe / A New Partnership in Education (Large Paperback)

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Catherine McConville / Company Law (Large Paperback)

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John Van Maanen / Representation in Ethnography (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

R. Barrass / Students Must Write (Large Paperback)

The third edition of this well-respected guide will help students of all subjects to write more clearly and more effectively, with valuable advice on how Written by an esteemed author with many years of experience of helping students improve key...

Ted Glynn / Supporting Students with Literacy Difficulties (Large Paperback)

Supporting Students with Literacy Difficulties Ted Glynn, Janice Wearmouth, Mere Berryman The authors illustrate the way in which teachers and other adults can create responsive social contexts at school and at home to enable all children...

Richard Williams , Colin Pritchard / Breaking the Cycle of Educational Alienation (Large Paperback)

'Breaking The Cycle of Educational Alienation' shows how a family-teacher-community alliance can be effectively developed, with measured improvements, not only in child & family functioning, but also in school attendance & educational success...

Jere Brophy / Motivating Students To Learn (Large Paperback)

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivational theorists...

Mary E. Curtis / When Adolescents Can't Read (Large Paperback)

The reading field expects that the reading of children who lag behind during the first few grades can significantly improve with good instruction. Similar confidence in treating the reading difficulties of adolescents has not been common. The general...

Delwyn P. Tattum, David A. Lane / Bullying in Schools (Large Paperback)

Book by Tattum, Delwyn, Lane, David A.   120 pages, Paperback First published September 1, 1989   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the...

Kenneth N. Anderson / Mosby's Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Allied Health

This convenient reference is the only pocket-size dictionary with a strong emphasis on nursing and allied health terminology. Derived from Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, it condenses nearly all the terms in the large...

Frank J. Convery / Privatisation : Issues of Principle and Implementation in Ireland (Large Paperback)

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Ken McElroy / ABCs of Buying Rental Property ( USA) (Large Paperback)

Many Americans dream of financial freedom, but they’re stuck in dead-end jobs and don’t know how to get there. You don’t need to be one of them. If you invested $35,000 in the stock market today, it could take 52 years for that...

S.I. Strong / How to Write Law Essays & Exams (Large Paperback)

How to Write Law Essays and Exams provides law students with a practical and proven method of analyzing and answering essay and exam questions. The book focuses on those questions that give students the most trouble, namely problem questions, but its...

Vera Bermingham / Tort (Large Paperback)

Nutshells present the essentials of law in clear and straightforward language, explaining the basic principles. Features such as diagrams and checklists make them easy to use, while the inclusion of model questions and answer plans help students test...

Peter L. Shillingsburg / Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age: Theory and Practice (Large Paperback)

Most readers, including professional literary academics, spend little time wondering about the state of the texts they are using. Yet the nature and status of texts, and the method of their editing, have profound effects on the ways they can be read...

David C. Greetham / Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

Beginner's guide to the general treatment of the enumeration, description, transcription, editing, and annotation of texts.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

James D. Lester , James D. Lester Jr. / Writing Research Papers (Large Paperback)

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Richard Hickman (Editor) / Art Education 11-18 (Large Paperback)

This volume seeks to build a bridge between theoretical and practical issues in art education. The theoretical areas consider such big questions as: why teach art?; and how does art relate to other subjects? The practical areas draw out the...

Parker J. Palmer / The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal (Large Paperback)

The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection & Renewal is a helpful companion to Parker J. Palmer's classic work on restoring identity and integrity to professional life. A superb resource for those who wish to extend their exploration of the ideas...

Barbara A. Misztal / Theories of Social Remembering (Large Paperback)

“brilliant… an impressive tour de force” Network *Why does collective memory matter?*How is social memory generated, maintained and reproduced?*How do we explain changes in the content and role of collective memory?Through a...

Lesley Britton / Montessori Play and Learn (Coffee Table Book)

We all want the best possible start in life for our children, and one of the best possible starts in life, educationally, is the 'method' pioneered by Maria Montessori and taught successfully today throughout the world, especially at preschool level...

Sönke Ahrens / How to Take Smart Notes (Large Paperback)

The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics and nonfiction writers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take...

Bill A. Rogers / Cracking the Hard Class - 2nd Edition (Coffee Table Book)

`In Cracking the Hard Class , the undisputed master of behaviour management, Bill Rogers, shows us that being an effective teacher isn′t a result of God-given gifts of charisma and presence, but can be developed through a series of specific...

Frazer Brookes / I DARE YOU - The Ultimate Guide to Building a Network Marketing Business(Large Paperback)

WHAT IS I DARE YOU ABOUT? In Network Marketing, if you want to achieve the success you want, you have to be willing to complete certain assignments. Some like to call them action steps, I like to call them “dares”. I Dare You was written to...

Yrjö Engeström / Perspectives on Activity Theory (Large Paperback)

Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school of thought, intitiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev and Luria. Activity theory takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated...

Bruce Mazlish / The Fourth Discontinuity (Large Paperback)

From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to current films like The Terminator about menacing androids, writers have expressed concern about computers and biogenetic creations taking over or altering human life. In this engrossing and lively book, Bruce Mazlish...

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill / Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (Large Paperback)

Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the...

Christine Hine / Virtual Ethnography (Large Paperback)

Cutting though the exaggerated and fanciful beliefs about the new possibilities of "net life", Hine produces a distinctive understanding of the significance of the Internet and addresses such questions what challenges do the new technologies of...

Kevin Robins, Frank Webster / The Virtual University? (Large Paperback)

The Virtual University brings together some of the best-known writers on contemporary social change to reflect on the radical transformations going on in higher education.Expansion, technology, and changing financial and performance structures have...

Gavriel Salomon / Distributed Cognitions (Large Paperback)

Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely "inside" a person, irrelevant to the social, physical, and artifactual context in which cognition takes place. This book reexamines the nature of cognition and proposes that...

Chris Mann, Fiona Stewart / Internet Communication and Qualitative Research (Large Paperback)

Communication and Qualitative Research is the first textbook to examine the impact of Internet technology on qualitative research methods. Drawing on many pioneering studies using computer-mediated communication (CMC), the authors show how online...