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When repressed British schoolfriends Nina and Noa start writing a parody American coming-of-age romance, the colourful, familiar characters come to life and show them that they might just have a story of their own to tell. Cowboys and Lesbians is a...

Whisper it quietly: a lot of time is being wasted in a lot of schools. Actually, why are we whispering? What we should really be doing is calling this out - loudly! The job of schools is too important for us to keeping quiet. Schools are in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912826001Author Hoa HoangFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint Star Foreign Language BooksPublisher IBS Books

Navigate your way around Oxford with detailed street maps from A-Z This up-to-date, folded A-Z street map includes 1,600 streets in and around Oxford. As well as the University of Oxford colleges, the other areas covered are Jericho, Cowley,...

Practise and prepare for AQA A-level 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...

In Purple Buttons, Rachel loves all of the buttons in Gran's tin - gold buttons, silver buttons, buttons shaped like cherries and snowflakes. Then she sees the purple buttons at the bottom of the tin. Are they as unlucky as she thinks? TreeTops Fiction...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Foundation Subject: Maths Suitable for the 2024 exams Get ready for the exams with test-style...

This bestselling workbook provides a resource for students studying towards the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam. It has been written for students at intermediate level and above, and is particularly appropriate for anyone who...

Being a "good teacher" is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching Skills For Dummies focuses on these 'soft' skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline to creating...

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780572048150Author Francis MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Foulsham Publishing LtdPublisher W Foulsham & Co LtdWeight(grams) 148g

Why we need to stop wasting public funds on educationDespite being immensely popular-and immensely lucrative-education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive book argues that the primary function of education is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940785417Author Rachael HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Hga PublishingPublisher Hga PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845971Author Coleman BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 484gDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

A lively and popular introductory textbook teaching French to absolute beginners working in a classroom setting. A diverse range of dialogues, video clips, and reading passages deliver new material which is carefully practised in a wide variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018589Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and...

Build the confidence, knowledge and skills your students need to succeed in OCR GCSE Religious Studies.This time-saving, write-in workbook can be used flexibly for classwork or homework, throughout the course or for revision and exam practice.- Improve...

Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studies Wordsworth's poetry to understand more fully this deeply private and often enigmatic personality, and it observes the artist's life to better grasp the...

During the last decade, 'Hybrid Warfare' has become a novel yet controversial term in academic, political and professional military lexicons, intended to suggest some sort of mix between different military and non-military means and methods of...

The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the...

Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and...

The most challenging, most invigorating holes a golfer can tackle. Playing on a links-which is golf the way it should be played-is every golfer's dream. But among serious golfers, there is also controversy. What constitutes a true links course? How many...

This book is the result of a unique experience: a research mathematician teaching in an elementary school. It tells about a fascinating discovery made by the author - that elementary mathematics has a lot of depth and beauty, and that the secret to its...

Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in this new EXPANDED edition of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM! 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908828675Author Philip MussellFormat HardbackPage Count 696Imprint Token Publishing LtdPublisher Token Publishing Ltd

Get Started in Latin is the course to follow if you are taking your first steps in Latin, whether classical or medieval. Follow a Latin story set in a medieval monastery, where conspiracy unfolds in the cloisters, Vikings threaten to attack, and young...

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2022.Provide guidance, exercises and examples in all four key skills, with speaking, listening, reading and writing integrated into...

The second volume of the popular 101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions: an authoritative and invaluable resource for football coaches looking for varied and inclusive coaching ideas. Written by celebrated football coaches Tony Charles and Stuart Rook,...

Written by an award-winning teacher, this guide equips teachers with the depth of knowledge they need to talk confidently and competently about maths to students of all attainment levels - in short, to be an expert in secondary-level mathematical...

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the...

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2021.Strengthen language skills and cultural awareness with a differentiated approach that offers comprehensive coverage of the...

Pride & Progress began as a podcast created to amplify the voices of LGBT+ educators and allies. This book builds upon the podcast's success to create an essential guide for teachers and educators who want to make their educational spaces LGBT+...

In Powering Up Children Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon harness the design principles of the Learning Power Approach to provide a rich resource of effective teaching strategies for use in the primary school classroom. The Learning Power Approach (LPA)...

Build better schools by training better leaders A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership answers the question that district leaders have been asking across the country: if Leverage Leadership is a roadmap for principals on how to lead great...

Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to this new edition considers Shakespeare's...

Talk Russian (Book and CD) has already inspired thousands of people to learn Russian from scratch and find the confidence to give it a go. This pack includes a 144-page, full-colour course book and 2 x 60-minute audio CDs.Whether you're learning for...

Why do we have so many dialects in England? Why do we not all speak in standard English? How has our history shaped and influenced the language we speak today? In a Manner of Speaking is a fun and fascinating exploration of spoken English that...

'This book should rock Whitehall to its foundations.' - Andy Burnham'This is crusading journalism at its best.' - Lord OwenIn the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 people in the UK contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated NHS blood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899559712Author MonocleFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag