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Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present,...

Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this complete offering for Key Stage 3 History. Designed for the 2014 National Curriculum this supportive learning...

Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this complete offering for Key Stage 3 History. Designed for the 2014 National Curriculum this supportive learning...

'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time ... The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719573477Author Greg HethertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm...

Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations...

Each volume provides a wide-ranging overview of the period it covers. Although the emphasis is clearly on political history, the majoy issues affecting the economy, society, religion, culture and ideas are also given appropriate treatment. Sufficient...

Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations...

Fear in Contemporary Society and its Consequences"A delightfully fearless and deeply sensitive examination of that most primal and formative human experience." Alan Burdick, author of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation#1 New Release in...

Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063265974Author Wilfred ReillyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Preserving What Is Valued explores the concept of preserving heritage. It presents the conservation profession's code of ethics and discusses four significant contexts embedded in museum conservation practice: science, professionalization, museum...

This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate.Adopted as a set book by the Open University.An indispensable guide to Marxist historiography for undergradu. . ...

What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now...

Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463523466Author Alvin Boyd KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together...

Exam Board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Endorsed by WJECHelp every student to develop the in-depth knowledge and historical skills they need to achieve their best with the market-leading series for...

Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art,...

In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relevant even in a...

Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books "Life Against Death" and...

Presenting Oral history as a core part of family history the book demonstrates best practice in carrying out oral family history projects enabling students to get a real practical and theoretical grasp of oral history practice in a field which is often...

The 2nd edition of Public History: A Practical Guide provides a fresh examination of history as practiced in its various worldly guises and contexts. It analyses the many skills that historians require in the practice of public history and looks at how a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645445695Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 86g

Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyses knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990345923Author D Michael HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Rafiki BooksPublisher Rafiki BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190078416Author William Kelleher StoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of...

A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology's purview. Wherever questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985251694Author A H GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966570Author Carroll QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 730g

Historians generally-and Marxists in particular-have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent...

Historians have become increasingly sensitive to social and cultural theory since the 1980s, yet the actual methods by which research is carried out in History have been largely taken for granted. Research Methods for History encourages those researching...

A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future...

Reconstructing Marxism explores fundamental questions about the structure of Marxist theory and its prospects for the future. The authors maintain that the disintegration of the old theoretical unity of classical Marxism is in part responsible for what...

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"History by Numbers" stands alone as the only textbook on quantitative methods suitable for students of history encountering the field for the first time. It is an exceptional book - even the numerically challenged will find inspiration. Taking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908590602Author Ruth LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538182628Author Thomas A MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield