A practical illustrated guide to sleep disorders which will give health professionals confidence in this complex area of diagnosis and management.It explains the differences between normal and abnormal sleep, and looks in depth at individual disorders such as sleep apnoea, insomnia, narcolepsy, rest[...]

The best-selling Improve your sight-reading series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and con[...]

Today's teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it.

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A book that brings the habits of reading to life Great readers are not made by genetics or destiny but by the habits they build-habits that are intentionally built by their teachers. The early formal years of education are the key to reversing the reading gap and setting up children for success.[...]

Features units that contain two reading passages, and an optional video activity. This title includes reading passages that cover a wide range of real-world topics covering culture, science, social issues, and travel and adventure; develop visual literacy; and, incorporate graphic organisers to help[...]

This first-of-its-kind text connects theories and research with classroom practice to provide a comprehensive and balanced view of reading and deafness that addresses a broad scope of literacy concepts. An excellent classroom resource, the text offers current and future deaf educators with research-[...]

This book will guide students through everything they need to know to become a confident sight reader, working up towards exam-standard practice tests. The accompanying CD demonstrates every piece in the book, offering spoken hints and encouragement along the way. It is designed to help students che[...]

In The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction, Paul Smethurst introduces a new theory of the postmodern. This is a bold attempt to synthesize a number of recent theories of space and time and to present this synthesis through the organizing metaphor of the postmodern c[...]