Academic & Professional

Jerome Bruner / The Culture of Education (Large Paperback)

What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it...

Artin Göncü / Children's Engagement in the World: Sociocultural Perspectives (Large Paperback)

This volume describes children's development in their cultural contexts. It stresses the fact that the development of children in diverse cultures follows different paths, depending on specific developmental opportunities provided by their cultures. The...

Liz Brooker & Susan Edwards / Engaging Play (Large Paperback)

This insightful edited collection brings together the perspectives of leading and emerging scholars in early childhood education and play from within Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America. It includes a preface from...

Anne Meade , Pam Cubey / Thinking Children: Learning about Schemas (Large Paperback)

What are schemas and how can they be used effectively to enhance learning? How can adults best support schema learning to extend children's thinking? This book explores the frequently observed schemas of young children - patterns of behaviour from which...

Barbara Rogoff / Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context (Large Paperback)

In Everyday Cognition leading scholars in developmental psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology have joined forces to examine how thinking and cognitive development are influenced by social context. John Seely Brown, Michael Cole, Herbert P...

Marion Dowling / Education 3-5 (Large Paperback)

This is an excellent book which should be in every playgroup and nursery school′ - Nursery World The National Curriculum, although not applicable to children under five, highlights the significance of education in the earliest years. Unless secure...

G. Dahlberg / Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Languages of Evaluation (Large Paperback)

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Janet R. Moyles / Beginning Teaching: Beginning Learning (Large Paperback)

Reviews of the first"Janet Moyles's carefully and imaginatively edited book will be of great interest to a wide educational community... This is more than a handbook for students and their tutors - it is a manifest of the dedicated and closely focused...

Glenda Mac Naughton / Doing Early Childhood Research: Theory and Practice (Large Paperback)

There are a growing number of courses on early childhood education at university level. This has placed new demands on both students and staff as research is a key feature of many of these courses. Research training is an important element in both...

Open Up Study Skills Succeeding with Your Master's Dissertation: Step-By-Step Handbook (Large Paperback)

What do I need to do to write a literature, context or systematic review? How do I explain my research methods and write up my findings?Help! How do I prepare for a viva?This essential handbook carefully guides the student through the entire dissertation...

Sue Elliott / Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Challenging Assumptions and Orthodoxies (Large Paperback)

This book captures the now burgeoning research field of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) and comprises insights from an ever-widening and diverse pool of researchers, who are promoting, engaging and explaining the latest ECEfS...

Aoife A Donnelly & Tadhg E. MacIntyre / Physical Activity in Natural Settings (Large Paperback)

Exercise interactions with green and blue spaces offer low-cost, non-invasive solutions to public health challenges―particularly around mental health and obesity―and issues around environmental sustainability. Physical Activity in Natural Settings...

Jean Lave , Etienne Wenger / Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Large Paperback)

In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors...

Kath Hirst / Perspectives on Early Childhood Education: Essays on Contemporary Research (Large Paperback)

Fifteen original research accounts are described by the experienced early childhood professionals who carried them out. The research focuses on early childhood services and settings; gender and disability issues in provision and play and on how adults...

Monica Macnamara / Lifeskills - A Positive Approach(Large Paperback)

The keynote of this book is empowerment. Based on years of hands on experience, it provides practical, structured programmes that will enable parents, teachers and carers to train adults who have learning disabilities in the numerous small, everyday...

Rajend Mesthrie / Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics (Large Paperback)

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Matt Green , Tony Edgar / Succeeding in your Medical School Interview (Large Paperback)

An essential student resource which looks at the part the Medical School Interview plays in the overall process through which students are selected to study Medicine.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

David W. Pearce / Economics Of Natural Resources And The Environment (Large Paperback)

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Patricia Kelleher / Safety and Sanctions (Large Paperback)

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Derek Stananought / Keybording: A Universal Approach to Basic Typewriting Skills (Large Paperback)

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Michel Peillon / Place and Non-Place: The Reconfiguration of Ireland (Large Paperback)

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Patrick Gunnigle / Industrial Relations in Ireland: Theory and Practice (Second Edition)c (Large Paperback)

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Crace McNicol / Teaching Shorthand and Typewriting (Large Paperback)

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Michael Mulreany / Cost-Benefit Analysis Reading (Large Paperback)

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Jane Weightman / Managing Human Resources (Large Paperback)

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John Curry / Irish Social Services (Third Edition) (Large Paperback)

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Irish Society: Sociological Perspectives (Large Paperback)

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Paul N. Balchin / Urban Land Economics (Third Edition) (Large Paperback)

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David Tossell / Inside the Caring Services (Large Paperback)

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Ronnie Munck / The Irish Economy: Results and Prospects (Large Paperback)

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Clive T. Goodworth / Effective Delegation (Large Paperback)

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Gerald Hoinville / Survey Research Practice (Large Paperback)

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William A. Belson / Validity in Survey Research (Hardback)

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Richard Dobbins / Practical Financial Management (Hardback)

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Alana Lentin / Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe (Large Paperback)

Remarkable . . . a major contribution to our understanding and handling of one of the crucial contemporary issues that acquires more gravity by the day.' Zygmunt Bauman This is an in-depth sociological study of the phenomenon of anti-racism, as both...

Sadhna Arya / Poverty, Gender and Migration (Large Paperback)

This volume studies the patterns of migration among Asian women, focusing particularly on poverty and the attendant issues of powerlessness that mediate women′s experiences of migration. The contributors engage with perspectives that give a...

Philippa Foot / Theories of Ethics (Large Paperback)

These important essays by leading thinkers center around two principal the nature of moral judgement, and the part played by social utility in determining right and wrong. The contributors include R.M. Hare, John R. Searle, John Rawls, C.L. Stevenson, G...

Ruth Simpson , Patricia Lewis / Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations (Large Paperback)

Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations examines how gender is linked to organizations and accounts for the differences in the experiences of men and women in the world of work. The book is structured around the two interrelated concepts of...

Gabriel Kiely , Anne O’Donnell / Irish Social Policy in Context (Large Paperback)

The historical development of Irish social policy is charted here, with discussion of major influences on policy formation. Ireland is presented in a comparative context and as an example of the mixed economy of welfare. Policy-making, financing and...

John Coakley , Michael Gallagher / Politics in the Republic of Ireland (Large Paperback)

Politics in the Republic of Ireland is newly available in a fully revised fourth edition. Building on the success of the first three editions, it continues to provide the definitive introduction to all aspects of politics in the Irish Republic...

Robert Z. Aliber / The International Money Game (Large Paperback)

Describes the politics and economics of international finance and explains the merits, shortcomings, and future prospects of the world monetary systems     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Maura Adshead / Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland (Large Paperback)

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to public policy and administration in Ireland, thereby bridging the gap between general texts on public policy and policy analysis and books on Irish politics. Each chapter covers one of the key issues in...

William B. Gudykunst / Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures (Large Paperback)

This innovative book contains studies of personal relationships from a variety of non-western cultures, and leaves behind the western biases that are typical of most research and theorizing done in this expanding area. Chapters focus on personal...

Neill Nugent / The Government and Politics of the European Community (Comparative Government and Politics (Large Paperback)

Begins by introducing the origins and historical development of the European Community and then progresses to provide an analysis of the powers, influence and functioning of its principal institutions and political actors as well as analysing its policy...

Jim Mac Laughlin / Ireland: The Emigrant Nursery and the World Economy (Large Paperback)

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Ian Roxborough / Theories of Under Development (Large Paperback)

Focusing on the effects of imperialism on class structures in Third World societies, Roxborough provides a historical explanation of the similarities and differences between these societies.     All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Patricia Kennedy / Contemporary Irish Social Policy (Large Paperback)

This review of social policy provision in Ireland covers the different consumers of services, including children, people with disabilities, older people, Travellers and refugees and asylum seekers. Youth policy, drugs and the criminal justice system are...

Gabriel Kiely / Irish Social Policy in Context (Large Paperback)

The historical development of Irish social policy is charted here, with discussion of major influences on policy formation. Ireland is presented in a comparative context and as an example of the mixed economy of welfare. Policy-making, financing and...

Jane L. Parpart / Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labour (Large Paperback)

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state investment in the Third World. This volume investigates the interrelations between women's participation in...

Seán J. Healy , Brigid Reynolds / Social policy in Ireland: Principles, practice and problems (Large Paperback)

In this volume, 29 Irish social policy commentators contribute to chapters ranging across the social policy spectrum. Some chapters examine issues of principle, some analyze practice and others analyze specific policy problems.     All of our...

Leslie Rae / Using Evaluation in Training and Development (Large Paperback)

Practical in tone, yet firmly based on sound theoretical foundations, the book clearly shows how evaluation can and should be applied before, during and after training Guidelines are suggested, methods described and practical, tried and tested, resources...

Jeffrey Jowell / Understanding Human Rights Principles (Large Paperback)

Human rights are brought to life by a number of defining principles. This text explores each of those principles in depth through comprehensive,informative and provocative papers written by prominent and distinguished practitioners and legal academics...