Academic & Professional

Ian Craib / Classical Social Theory : An Introduction to the Thought of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel(Large Paperback)

Ian Craib compellingly shows the value of studying classic thinkers such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel alongside the more popular contemporary questions. Providing an account of the key ideas of classical social theory, Dr Craib establishes their...

Tom Albrighton / Copywriting Made Simple (Large Paperback)

How to write powerful and persuasive copy that sells Copywriting is writing with purpose. It's about using words to reach people and change what they think, feel and do.This easy-to-read guide will teach you all the essentials of copywriting, from...

Christopher Tilley / Reading Material Culture : Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism(Large Paperback)

  Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. This book examines...

ED209: Child Development (9 Book Collection)

ED209: Child Development (9 Book Collection)   methodology handbook study guide 4 media notes 4 media notes 3 media notes 2 media notes 1 study guide 3 study guide 2 intorduction and study guide 1

Ulla Neergaard / The Economic and Monetary Union (Large Paperback)

Constitutional and Institutional Aspects of the Economic Governance within the EUEdited by: Ulla Neergraard, Catherine Jacqueson, Jens Hartig Danielsen   The proceedings of XXVI FIDE Congress in Copenhagen in 2014 are published in three volumes,...

John Honeybourne / BTEC First Sport (Coffee Table Book)

Thoroughly rewritten to support the 2006 specification from Edexcel, this student book is in an indispensable resource for those studying for the BTEC First in Sport.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

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...

Patrick Dunleavy / Authoring a PhD (Large Paperback)

Authoring a Ph.D. Thesis involves having creative ideas, working out how to organize them, writing up from plans, upgrading text, and finishing it speedily and to a good standard. It also involves being examined and getting work published. This book...

Andy Northedge / The Good Study Guide (Large Paperback)

 is a set book for the Open University Social Science Foundation Course (D103)   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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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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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...

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

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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...

Robert Corser / Fabricating Architecture - Selected Readings in Digital Design and Manufacturing (Large Paperback)

For years contemporary architects have been inundated with hype about the radical changes expected as a result of technological innovation and the proliferation of new digital tools and techniques. Though architects acknowledge that advances in...

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...

Colin Drury / Costing: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

The aim of the second edition of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory and practice of cost and management accounting. A cost accounting system accumulates financial information for stock valuation and profit measurement whereas a...

Michael J. Morley / Principles of Organisational Behaviour: An Irish Text (Coffee Table Book)

Organisational behaviour is examined within an Irish social, political and cultural context All chapters contain a set of learning objectives and are written in an accessible style Case study vignettes are presented where appropriate to support the...

Paul Blyton / Dynamics of Employee Relations (Large Paperback)

The Dynamics of Employee Relations provides a critical assessment of employee relations within contemporary organisations. Written in a lively and readable style, The Dynamics of Employee Relations captures the essence of working reality within a variety...

Robert Newton; Dearden John; Bedford Norton / Management Control Systems (Large Paperback)

Management Control Systems 10/e builds on strengths from prior editions by offering a rich diversity of cases balanced with current material. The primary market for Management Control Systems is an MBA level elective in control systems. The text may also...

Susan M. Pearce / Museums, Objects and Collections (Large Paperback)

This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as...

Philip Kelly, Paul Jenkins / MRCP 2 - Success in PACES (Large Paperback)

The MRCP Part 2 Oral and Clinical component was replaced by PACES (Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills) in June 2001. This text aims to match the content and level of difficulty of this examination. It contains chapters that cover all...

Hans-Ulrich Laasch / MRCP 2 Practice Papers (Large Paperback)

The MRCP Part 2 Examination is increasingly orientated around evidence-based medicine, up-to-date patient management and current guidelines. This is a move away from the esoteric questions seen in the past and it makes a more useful exam. This book...