Education

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first...

Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent in the Big Forest, and his slightly-more-intelligent sidekick Owlfred are on the case in this new full colour graphic novel series. Something fishy is going on at the South...

'We're children of God, sister. No hunk of metal could replace any one of us.' Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing. Behold...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's...

This brilliant CGP book covers all the maths skills needed in AS and A-Level Physics (the use of maths is required for up to 40% of the marks in the final exams and assessments). It explains Calculations, Geometry, Trigonometry, Graph Skills and Handling...

Nelson Falcao Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 - December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the...

What makes us a good friend? And what might make us a not-so-good friend? What can friends do together? And how do we make friends? Best-selling author Molly Potter presents practical advice on helping children understand how to be a true friend and...

Eric is a sand dragon who loves the sea very much. Each day, he watches it go out, knowing that it will return. But one day, Eric waits and waits, but it does not come back. He falls on the sand, feeling as if he has lost everything. Eric wants to shut...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171844Author John GlasscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

The Penguin Writer's Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English. Whether you're composing an essay, sending a business letter or an email to a colleague, or firing off an angry letter to a newspaper,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413521309Author Cecil P. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 130g

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can be. Though stories can connect individuals, they also can...

Develop your Year 5 pupils' Maths skills with this essential workbook, designed to address all 6 strands of the Maths curriculum in short 10-minute tests. Give pupils the best chance of success in Pre-Tests and 11 plus exams with varied and thorough...

Do you want a solid foundation to your Gujarati studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will get you speaking, writing, reading and understanding Gujarati in no time...

The home of trusted Irish dictionaries for everyday language use. A handy Irish to English and English to Irish dictionary. Offering learners at home, school and in the office extensive and up-to-date coverage of Irish and English in a...

CGP's Targeted 10-Minute Tests for Ages 9-10 are the perfect way to hone pupils' skills on specific subjects and topics. This Word Problems book is brimming with brilliant practice on all the tricky word-based Maths problems pupils will have to solve...

Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling as a college student, he met a young boy begging on the streets of India who would change...

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening...

The home of trusted Vietnamese dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Vietnamese to English and English to Vietnamese reference for every day, including short grammars of Vietnamese and English. Offers travellers...

Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam...

class="Default" align="left">Written by Graham Chatterley,Changing Perceptions: Deciphering the language of behaviourprovides everyone working with children a better understanding of the causes of challenging behaviour and what motivates it.About the...

The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

One of the most remarkable novels every written by an American woman about women. First published in 1943, the story follows a womanAIs flight from Manhattan and her unfaithful husband to her rural ancestral home. Southern Classics Series.About the...

A colourful workbook that helps children learn addition and subtraction using the Maths Mastery approach!It's time to master the world of maths with this brand new series of workbooks developed by experts to cover all the essential skills for children in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530482Author Kenzaburo OeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

A play about youth work. In one of the thousands of forgotten youth centres across our country, Eric works for a single hour each week to break Daniel out of his spiral towards jail or the grave. But what happens when the work itself becomes a matter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486250649Author Lewis ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Rugby fans will delight in this astonishing collection of outlandish stories from the past 150 years of the game. Here you'll find, among many other curious events, the Irish international who arranged his marriage in order to play against...

'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915261410Author Lekha SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm)...

A beautifully illustrated book packed with fascinating creatures from around the world for children to discover, from dolphins and dragonflies to tigers, toucans and elephants. Each page features animals from a different part of the world, such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855036024Author Lois AddyPage Count 128Imprint LDAPublisher LDA

This authoritative textbook covers ship construction techniques and methods for all classes of the Merchant Navy marine deck and engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as students studying for degrees and diplomas in Naval Architecture and...

There's little that can beat the perfect simplicity of a bike ride. There are many reasons why cycling has such enduring appeal. For some, it is the relaxation and freedom that biking offers - what could be better than pedalling away and leaving our...

*For those aspiring authors who are interested in the path to success*'I read this yesterday in one glorious sitting! What an absolute treat of a book!' Lesley Kara'Illuminating, revealing and absolutely fascinating, Will Brooker offers us the keys to...

The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history. Why, then, have doublets, hose, ruffs and farthingales featured in many Shakespeare productions staged since the turn of the 21st century? This...

In The Learning Imperative Mark Burns and Andy Griffith examine the key ingredients that ensure effective learning, and offer leaders step-by-step guidance on how they can achieve it in their own teams and organisations. Learning is central to...

What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The search for the final resting place of King Edmund has led to this site, beneath which Francis Young argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763106Author Carson McCullersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays