This text offers insights into the emotional classroom climate necessary for successful and effective learning. The authors present a range of ideas and understandings to support teachers in proactively building and sustaining an emotionally empowering classroom.[...]

Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in the post-punk era, creating a new sound--dark, hypnotic, and intense--that would influence U2, Morrissey, R.E.M., Radiohead, and numerous others. The story is now legendary: in 1980, on the heels of thei[...]

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss - it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, e[...]

A roller-coaster, inside story of life, love, and loss with one of the cult seminal postpunk bands of the 1970s and 1980s, with rare photographsAs cofounder of Joy Division, Peter Hook was the inspiration behind a band that would shape the course of popular music. He provided the propulsive bass gui[...]

Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Mancheste[...]

A part of "Teachers' Pocketbooks Series", this collection contains practical skills and strategies that can be used by all educational professionals. This book opens with a consideration of coaching as a concept, what makes a good coach and practical considerations such as time, confidentiality, rec[...]