Unlock the power and potential of formative assessment! Down to earth, 'hands-on' and direct, with numerous examples, this book gives practical strategies for implementing formative assessment in your own classroom .[...]

Down to earth, 'hands-on' and direct, with examples from across the curriculum, this book gives practical strategies for implementing formative assessment in the secondary classroom.[...]

This follow-up to Shirley Clarke's hugely popular Unlocking Formative Assessment focuses on bringing it all together in the primary classroom - how to weave all the elements of formative assessment, coherently and manageably, into everyday teaching.[...]

OCR GCSE Product Design offers complete coverage of the new OCR specifications. Underpinning theoretical knowledge is described using clear language, concise explanations and numerous full colour illustrations. This knowledge is then referenced to each of the GCSE units, to ensure that both practica[...]

2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dav[...]

Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind begins....

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"A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."*Carl SaganNine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft*to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for[...]

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a [...]

A mysterious glowing orb appears over the region of central Asia, ripping the Earth into a kaleidoscopic patchwork of conflicting eras of the past, present, and future, mingling UN peacekeepers from the year 2037 with nineteenth-century British soldiers, the Mongol army of Genghis Khan, and the forc[...]

The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century's most colorful and fascinating literary figures.
Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wro[...]

She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age forty-seven. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit—and demons—until now. From her tumu[...]