Scenography - the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment - is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of scenography and its theories and concepts. Settings and structures, light, projected[...]

This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption which has become part of our collective popular imagination. Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence have synthesised the l[...]

Reviews the history of developmental psychology with regard to both its nature and the effects of the transmission of culture. Major theorists such as Piaget, Vygotsky and Bowlby are introduced to provide a background to contemporary research and[...]

Educational Neuroscience presents a series of readings from educators, psychologists, and neuroscientists that explore the latest findings in developmental cognitive neurosciences and their potential applications to education. It reflects findings in a new research area with direct relevance to cur[...]

The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
M exican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks[...]

A complete assessment tool for investigating maths difficulties in children, this book also provides advice for implementing the findings into teaching plans. Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability involving difficulty in acquiring numeracy skills. A significant group of children fail to prog[...]

An invaluable resource for everything you must remember when doing TEE and for reporting-normal values, explanations of abnormal findings, schematics and tables, formulas, calculations, pitfalls and artifacts-all in the back pocket of your scrubs Quickly look up normal values and obscure normal var[...]

The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron[...]

The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron[...]

Praise for the Presidential Agent series ?Tough-fisted . . . hard-edged . . . Griffin's formula is straightforward: set up a bunch of obstacles, and let us watch Charley Castillo knock them down one at a time. His novels promise action, suspense, and rousing entertainment, and they never fail to del[...]

" "Mojo"] combines the verbal menace of Harold Pinter and the physical violence of Quentin Tarantino."--"Sunday Times"" "Parlour Song"] is blissfully funny . . . combines the comic, the erotic and the downright disconcerting with superb panache."--"Telegraph"" "The Winterling"] is written with all o[...]