Good Video Games and Good Learning presents the most important essays by James Paul Gee devoted to the ways in which good video games create good learning. The chapters in this book argue that good games teach through well-designed problem-solving experiences. They also prove that game-based learnin[...]
A cookbook of regional Texas deserts.
Will and Flo Sutherland have found themselves, and each other, in colonial India, but as the war and the age of empire draws to a close, so they must make their way back to England. There, they and their young family attempt to fashion a new life for themselves in rural Devon, but managing a farm p[...]
Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those coming home, as everyone speaks of it, are Will an[...]
Struggling to make a new life for herself and her young brother on a rugged ranch in Texas, Shiloh finds an unlikely protector in the chief of a nearby band of Comanches. But when he kidnaps the two of them, she is torn between outrage and the powerful attraction she feels for the virile warrior.[...]
Salt is an utterly compelling fantasy adventure, the work of a master storyteller at the peak of his powers. When his father Tarl is captured and enslaved to work in Deep Salt, Hari vows to rescue him. This is a forbidding task: no one returns from Deep Salt. But Hari was born and raised in Blood Bu[...]
The POSITIVE Guide for Parents Concerned About Their Kids' Video and Computer Game Playing"Marc knows it all depends on how we use our games. He knows that if parents place good video games into a learning system in their homes they can reap major benefits for their children and themselves. They can[...]
Provides complete instruction for activating and learning to trust your intuition.
With clear, simple prose, and poetic turns of phrase this inspirational collection of quotations reflects the unique country of Bhutan and its universal embrace of compassion, understanding, and kindness.[...]
This book argues that no major campaign has ever been successful without Counterpower, defined as the power that the 'have-nots' can use to remove the power of the 'haves'A". This contention is examined by investigating the history and tactics of the suffrage movement, the labour movement, the anti[...]
The long awaited and much anticipated sequel to 2011's "The Sentinel Mage." "The Fire Prince" continues the saga of Prince Harkeld, Innis the shapeshifter and the imperiled Seven Kingdoms.
"The Seven Kingdoms are in the grip of an ancient and terrible blood curse. Thousands have died. Thousands [...]
The amazing conclusion to the Cursed Kingdom's Trilogy.
"Those who drink the water shall thirst for blood. They shall be as wild beasts."
A blood curse is ravaging the Seven Kingdoms. Fugitive Osgaardan prince, Harkeld, is the one person who can destroy it. Guarded by Sentinel mages, pursue[...]
'My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.' Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local boy call[...]
1. Emily Gee's debut was twice nominated for the RITA awards, the premier romantic fantasy awards in America 2. Her first novel showed strong sales 3. Crossover appeal to both fantasy fans and readers of romanceFollowing on from the success of Emily's award nominated first novel, comes The Laurentin[...]
'Set in the near future, it imagines not a globally warmed world, but an earth slowly returning to aridity and cold. A universal freeze has also descended upon relationships between men and women, who live in morbid segregation, with feathered robots as sexual partners. In a neat reversal of First W[...]
Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies out to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala's Sheraton Hotel. But Mary has her own agenda: her son Jamil is missin[...]
What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century? Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school and flies to New York to pursue her passion for Woolf, whose manuscripts are held in a private colle[...]
In a distant corner of the Seven Kingdoms, an ancient curse festers and grows, consuming everything in its path. Only one man can break it: Harkeld of Osgaard, a prince with mage's blood in his veins. But Prince Harkeld has a bounty on his head--and assassins at his heels.Her magic may be the only t[...]
This is the first short story collection from an acclaimed novelist with a wide and loyal readership. Many of the stories have won prizes, been published or broadcast; some are new, written especially for the collection. Several feature artists, and are set in the past in a rural England; others ar[...]