Education

Being a learning mentor means supporting children and young people and helping them deal with the problems that they face, so that they are free to learn and reach their potential. This book will be your guide to achieving this and making sure you get...

In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first...

This beautifully illustrated, therapeutic picture book tells the story of Stan the Giraffe. Stan loves the sun and to feel its warmth on his long back; but one day it suddenly and unexpectedly falls from the sky and disappears from his life. Stan...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and...

How to be an Outstanding Early Years Practitioner is an all-encompassing, comprehensive guide to improving and developing your early years knowledge and delivering outstanding practice on a daily basis. It is the perfect companion for any new...

Undertaking Capstone and Final Year Projects in Psychology serves a seminal purpose in guiding its readers to create a capstone project. The text employs traditional and emerging methodologies and methods in order to posit an exhaustive approach that the...

Prioritizing wellbeing alongside academic development, this book provides practical advice to help students write well, and be well, during their PhD and throughout their career. In this unique book, Katherine Firth offers expert guidance on developing a...

Learning a language and being able to speak it do not go hand in hand. This book provides both structured activities to get students speaking and ideas for developing confidence in using English outside the classroom. Essentially, this book: examines the...

In this new collection of essays, Eco focuses on what he calls the limits of interpretation, or, as he once noted in another context, ""the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation"". Readers of Eco's other work will find here all the ingredients with which...

'I am strength I am power I am courage I am revolution I am Amber Rai' Amber is trapped - by her family's rules and expectations, and by her own fears. But on the running track she feels free. As her body speeds up, the world slows down. And...

These canons (or rules) for church organization and life and Christian morals issued at a council held in Constantinople in 691/2 form the foundation of Byzantine Canon Law. They show an intense concern to restore the proper discipline of clerical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566961Author Hoxton Mini PressFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens only to his flatterers. When his cousin Bolingbroke, previously banished, returns to seize the crown, Richard discovers that the...

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative...

Learn how to plan, deliver and evaluate successful events with this clear and comprehensive textbook which explores the latest developments in this challenging and fast-paced environment. Written by authors with extensive industry experience of...

'A Quiet Education' serves as an unashamed cheerleader for all that is quiet, challenging the myth that collaboration and noise should be at the heart of what happens in schools. It examines how we can ensure more introverted students and teachers can...

Comprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures are reinforced and contextualized through authentic materials. You will not only learn how to construct grammar correctly, but when and where to use it so you sound natural and...

The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an...

Effective Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) provision is a right for all learners, yet it often proves challenging for educators and caregivers, particularly those teaching learners with additional needs.This book provides practical guidance for...

Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains...

The textbooks offer engaging and relevant content and provide comprehensive coverage of the WJEC themes and sub-themes, incorporating all of the new exam components, including: Literary and authentic texts Listening and reading tasks that...

Six short plays in two complementary programmes, exploring estrangement and loneliness, moving towards redemption and hope. Inside looks at the lives of three women forgotten by the world, but not by themselves. Guidesky and I by Deborah BruceWhen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934034401Author Sergio AdorniFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Olivia & Hill Press,U.S.Publisher Olivia & Hill Press,U.S.

'Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.' New York TimesPhiloctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he sees a chance of escape when a young soldier appears...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Psychology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.Our Student Workbooks build students'...

Transform your down time into 'do time'.The most successful language learners create a habit of studying on a regular basis. 50 Swedish Coffee Breaks makes it easy to master a simple routine of improving your Swedish by effortlessly integrating it with...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and...

In Dexter's Dinosaurs Dexter is mad about dinosaurs. He wants a dinosaur for his birthday. Can his friend the magician help him? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes...

National Geographic Primary Readers is a high-interest series of beginning reading books that have been developed in consultation with education experts. The books pair magnificent National Geographic photographs with lively text by skilled children's...

A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry has stirred our souls,...

The complete play translated into plain English. It's 11th century Scotland. Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, is one of King Duncan's greatest war captains. Upon returning from a battle with the rebellious Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth and Banquo encounter three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535132961Author Assane DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Exam board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: Religious StudiesFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in WJEC GCSE Religious Studies with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with...

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the...

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with...

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre...

Build essential maths, literacy and working scientifically skills to boost marks in GCSE Chemistry and ensure that students reach their full potential.Suitable for all specifications, this skills book provides additional support and will help to:-...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: Eduqas Level: GCSE Subject: English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 Student Book 2 provides extensive guidance and activities, in the context of the...