Education

'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at...

Drawing on professional experience from university innovators and a wealth of international case studies, The Higher Education Manager's Handbook offers practical advice and guidance on all aspects of university management. An engaging, comprehensive and...

Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in this new EXPANDED edition of MACBETH! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to...

In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher education under this new policy regime? The Great...

A good story can easily be ruined by bad dialogue. Now in its 4th edition, Rib Davis's bestselling Writing Dialogue for Scripts provides expert insight into how dialogue works, what to look out for in everyday speech and how to use dialogue effectively...

Improving Learning Through Dynamic Assessment is a practical tool for helping to assess and support children aged 4+ with learning challenges based on an innovative approach.Contrasting with traditional 'static' assessment methods, this resource enables...

What was Shakespeare's attitude to Semitism? The Introduction to this edition of The Merchant of Venice opens by addressing this vital issue raised by the play, and goes on to study the sources, background, and date, includuing a discussion of Sigmund...

Practise and prepare for AQA GCSE Biology with hundreds of topic-based questions and one complete set of exam practice papers designed to strengthen knowledge and prepare students for the exams.This extensive practice book raises students' performance by...

First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the...

'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a...

Becca and Howie Corbett are a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when their young son Danny is killed in an accident. Eight months on, they are drifting perilously apart. Becca wants to start afresh in a new home and give away their...

An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over. In 100 Children's Books That...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780045153Author Berlitz PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Berlitz LanguagePublisher APA Publications

"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" - 4.48 PsychosisHow on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis' inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her...

Exam Board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Endorsed by WJECDevelop your students' scientific thinking and practical skills with resources that stretch and challenge all levels within the new curriculum...

Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of consolidation activities and exam-style questions, this time-saving Workbook makes it easier to reinforce...

Parents and teachers often struggle with the advice given by occupational therapists regarding support for children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). What makes this book unique is the exploration of secrets that professionals sometimes hold close...

Build confidence in a range of key literary analysis techniques and skills with this practical companion, full of advice and guidance from experienced experts.- Build analysis techniques and skills through a range of strategies, serving as a useful...

From its very first frame, the Star Wars series created a compelling universe, with complex characters and engaging storytelling. In advance of the highly anticipated new movie, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, this essay collection offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692973097Author Denver CasadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Beat by Beat PressPublisher Beat by Beat PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880104142Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm)...

A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer. This is a selection of the very best and most psychologically acute quotations from The School of Life, covering such large and diverse...

Concise Designed to meet the needs both of the Arabic speaker who is learning English and of the English speaker who is learning Arabic. BL Records the different levels of usage met with in newspapers, radio, television, and films. BL Where familiar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569755655Author Matt FargoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 150g

'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** In this remarkable work of...

Be Data Analytical is the book organizations and individuals need to understand how to truly use analytics to turn data into valuable insights and drive smarter decision making. Data needs analytics to turn it into value and for organizations to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553286526Author Louis L'AmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

Inside/Outside is a unique educational resource for those working with young people of secondary school age, providing a variety of tried-and-tested indoor and outdoor lessons and activities to promote and embed emotional literacy.The book is divided...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593542712Author Julie BogartFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Written by leading PE specialists, students will be guided through the AQA GCSE (9-1) PE specification topic by topic and have opportunity to improve their understanding, analysis, evaluation and application skills through exam-style questions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647482220Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 152g

Reading German is a structured reading course designed to take a wide variety of users to an independent reading of authentic German texts. It is ideally suited for courses in colleges and universities, for students or specialists in any discipline, and...

The ""Young American"" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village ""Little Renaissance"" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and...

Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbook.Help more students to access the content for OCR GCSE History B (SHP) with this Foundation Edition,...

Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that...

Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these...

Starting English covers all the key literacy skills for schoolchildren aged 5+, with fun, wipe-clean exercisesBook InformationISBN 9781803687339Author Autumn PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Igloo Books LtdPublisher Bonnier Books...

Boost confidence with our all-in-one textbook for AQA A-level Physical Education. This updated and accessible textbook combines Year 1 and Year 2 content with brand new assessment preparation to provide detailed support for both the academic and...

Jill believes that the qualities that make you a good teacher are closely related to those which will serve you well in leadership. Every teacher is, in fact, a leader of learning within their own classroom. As your career progresses and you move from...