Provides subjects aimed at attracting and sustaining reluctant readers, particularly boys. This work includes illustrations and photography, and a variety of non-fiction features to help support NLS non-fiction objectives, and a Take-Home card to support your Home-School agreement. It is part of the[...]

Accurate and accessible, Concentrate guides enable you to take exams with confidence. Including revision tips and advice for extra marks, alongside a thorough and focussed breakdown of the key topics and cases, this guide will help you to get the most out of your revision and to maximise your perfor[...]

Accurate and accessible, Concentrate law study and revision guides enable you to take exams with confidence. Including revision tips and advice for extra marks, alongside a thorough and focussed breakdown of the key topics and cases, this guide will help you to get the most out of your revision and [...]

"You'll call this sentimental--perhaps--but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side," Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. In this charming and engaging book, Maureen Adams celebrates this private, playful side telling readers about the relationships between five remar[...]

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, b[...]

Do you want to be stronger, more optimistic and creative? Want to be better at grasping opportunities, pursuing goals and facing set-backs? Do you want to Flourish? You may think that in times of crisis survival is the best strategy. But here psychologist Maureen Gavan's shows that in an increasingl[...]

The Earth's population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth will need to support 9.6 billion people by the year 2050, a figure that climbs to nearly 11 billion by the year 2100. At the same time, most people envi[...]

Evangeline Starr Raybuck -- plain-spoken, lusty, and hardworking -- and June Keel are high school seniors, best friends going out with best friends, working together at Noecker's chicken farm after school. Vangie and June make out with their boyfriends together in the same car; they pass dirty notes[...]

"Managing for the Future" is an approach to teaching organizational behaviour based on the course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The text's flexible design and its' experiential-based approach should make it an appealing choice for MBA students.[...]

Examines the relationships between the personal, social and educational experiences of children and explores the ways in which they are influenced by the use multiple modes of communication and the use of new technologies that enable them to make meaning in multimodal environments. This book is conc[...]

"Given the increasing complexities of co-morbidities in women of childbearing age, this book provides a case study approach to several critical conditions which challenge all health care professionals working in this field. The case study approach will help midwives, doctors, midwifery and medical s[...]

This wide-ranging handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of education as viewed from a sociological perspective. Experts in the area present theoretical and empirical research on major educational issues and analyze the social processes that govern schooling, and the role of schools[...]