Hers is the most famous portrait in the world. Here, in prose as rich as the high Renaissance, is Mona Lisa's tale?a story of passion, loss, and, above all, love. Elisabetta longs for romance, though she thinks she's too plain. Then, on a visit to Florence, she catches the eye of the great Leonardo [...]
A recent assessment of mathematics performance around the world ranked the United States twenty-eighth out of forty countries in the study. When the level of spending was taken into account, we sank to the very bottom of the list. We are falling rapidly behind the rest of the developed world when it[...]
"Highly accessible and enjoyable for readers who love and loathe math." --"Booklist"
A critical read for teachers and parents who want to improve children's mathematics learning, "What's Math Got to Do with It?" is "an inspiring resource" ("Publishers Weekly"). Featuring all the important advice[...]
A second revised edition of this sourcebook on Roman social history with selections drawn from letters, manuals, recipes, graffitti and inscriptions as well as literary sources; which offer a glimpse into topics such as: family life, housing, entertainment, health, education, and religion.[...]
This book addresses the question of what world history looks like when the family is at the center of the story. People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically over time and across cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon-it has a history. And family lif[...]
This book challenges current beliefs about organizational identity, reputation, and branding. It contains a wealth of new ideas for finding the elusive answers to questions troubling contemporary organizations. How does an organization create a strong reputation? What are the implications of corpora[...]
The Foundation Tier Student Book provides the most in depth and up-to-date material. Written to reflect how the exam papers are structured and marked, this book provides extensive guidance on what is expected in exam responses together with tasks to enable students to develop the skills they need to[...]
Build solid critical thinking skills - and a strong foundation for future study, including IB Theory of Knowledge. This structured, comprehensive resource develops key thinking, reasoning, planning, research and presentation skills through engaging, up-to-date global contexts. Varied activities are [...]
"Oxford Reading Tree Sparrows" offer consolidation and breadth for children who need plenty of reading practise before moving up to the next stage. "Stage 3 Sparrows" comprise 6 familiar Sparrows stories. The Sparrows stories introduce different characters, families and settings to broaden children'[...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
Oxford Reading Tree Sparrows are written to offer consolidation and breadth for children who need plenty of reading practise before moving up to the next stage. The stories are written by Roderick Hunt and introduce different characters, families and settings to broaden children's reading base. All [...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
Oxford Reading Tree Sparrows are written to offer consolidation and breadth for children who need plenty of reading practise before moving up to the next stage. The stories are written by Roderick Hunt and introduce different characters, families and settings to broaden children's reading base. All [...]
This Very Short Introduction introduces the ways in which Spanish literature has been read, in and outside Spain, explaining misconceptions, outlining the insights of recent scholarship, and suggesting new readings. It explores the relationship between Spanish literature and modernity and issues of [...]
During a career spanning over thirty years Philip Pettit has made seminal contributions in moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of mind and action, and metaphysics. His many contributions would be remarkable enough in themselves, but they are made all[...]
The global environment is a complex mix of interlinked processes, about which observation can tell us a great deal. But how can we use current observation to model future events, or to predict the consequences of scenarios that don't yet exist? Environmental Modelling: An Introduction shows how mode[...]
Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in [...]