Education

A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you. 'I dreamt about this last night. I dreamt that I was packing boxes in boxes in boxes.' Tamsin packs boxes...

Bruno has a friend called Shmuel. Like Bruno, Shmuel is nine years old. Their birthdays are on the same day. But Shmuel lives on the other side of a fence, and he's always wearing striped pyjamas... Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The...

"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in...

If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes.1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today's...

How can you effectively motivate young people to engage with foreign language learning?How can young people engage with new ideas and cultural experiences within and outside the classroom?The new and fully revised edition of A Practical Guide to Teaching...

Twin sisters, Viv and Jess, decide to trick their friends by swapping places for a day. Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've...

Level: KS2 Subject: English Children will have lots of fun practising their vocabulary skills using these word searches. Prepare for school with easy home learning. ...

Readings for Reflective Teaching in Schools provides a portable library of over a hundred readings to support teacher education and professional development. Extensively updated since earlier editions, the book concisely introduces both classic and...

From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account...

A companion to the popular website APracticalWedding.com and A Practical Wedding Planner, A Practical Wedding helps you sort through the basics to create the wedding you want - without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters...

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 9782808018920Author Bright SummariesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Brightsummaries.comPublisher Brightsummaries.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

Using simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw over 400 things, such as an airplane, anteater, submarine, train, kangaroo, gondola, and much much more! This classic book is packed with cool things that kids-and not a few...

Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip...

Drawing on more than three decades of teaching experience, Roger Miesfeld and Megan McEvoy created a book that is both a learning tool for students and a teaching tool for instructors-one that delivers exceptionally readable explanations, stunning...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE 9-1 Subject: Food Preparation and Nutrition Suitable for the 2024 exams ...

Exam board: AQA Level: A-levelSubject: Design and TechnologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019 Target success in AQA A-level Fashion and Textiles with our proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage of both...

This practical resource helps school staff to reframe behaviour as a means of communicating a need, ensuring they can sensitively and effectively support children with a range of Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and Special Educational...

'The resources are wonderful. I like the fact that it has a mix of fiction and non-fiction activities ... and how material can link to other areas of the curriculum, not just literacy.' Miss North, teacher 'Reading for...

In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition, J...

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2021. Develop computational thinking and ensure full coverage of the revised Cambridge Assessment International Education AS & A...

The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew is an integrated language course designed ideally for classroom-based learners. Adopting an eclectic approach, the course contains 90 lessons combining authentic texts, grammar explanations, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014765Author J. B. PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

National Geographic Primary Readers pair magnificent National Geographic photographs with engaging text by skilled authors to help your child learn to read. Developed by education experts, this series of books for beginner readers is spread across four...

Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as...

Mamet's ground-breaking and controversial play on the male-female power struggle, annotated with an introduction, notes and commentary. "An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer...

This is a guidebook to help children who:are insecure or worry too much; suffer from phobias or nightmaresfind it difficult to concentrate to let go and have funhave suffered a trauma; are worryingly good or seem like little adultsuse order and routine...

Effective Interventions and Strategies for Pupils with SEND offers practical, tried-and-tested strategies for supporting and championing pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. Each strategy has been researched, trialled and reviewed,...

Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt...

The world's greatest authority on language explains the secrets and subtleties of the grammar of English. David Crystal explores its history and varieties, explains its rules and irregularities and shows how to navigate its snares and pitfalls. He gives...

From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial...

An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you. As Head of Year 11, Diane is meant to be implementing the new 'Healthy Relationships' curriculum. But then...

After a crash-landing on Planet Celeston, Max, Cat and Nok set off to find the next fragment of Exis. What will they find instead? Find out in The Crystal Planet. In The Ruby Cage, Max, Cat and Nok are chased by a scary Minatroll but will it get them? ...

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand...

'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a...

A compelling new book by Angela Browne, star of the BBC2 documentary series School Amidst the voices questioning the efficacy and morality of the UK's current education system comes a compelling book by Angela Browne, star of the BBC2 documentary...

Essential Korean Grammar is designed for people who already know a bit of Korean and wish to speak and write the language correctly and naturally-as Koreans do!This book is a great resource for reviewing for an exam, preparing for a business meeting, or...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.' Arguably the greatest love story ever told,...

But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight. When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . ...

Exam Board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: MathematicsFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2019This title has been endorsed for use with the CCEA GCSE Mathematics specificationBuild all the necessary skills to progress your students' learning and...