A fully revised introduction to learning theories for trainee teachers in the Lifelong Learning Sector, demonstrating the relationship between learning theories and effective classroom practice.[...]

This book presents 27 versions of Beauty & the Beast and provides several tales that reverse traditional gender roles. Included are a commentary on each tale, activities, bibliographies, and resources.[...]

This fifth edition is an accessible guide written for nonspecialists that contains extensive new materials covering developments in the past ten years of employee labor laws.[...]

* Comer and Gould's Psychology Around Us demonstrates the many-often surprising, always fascinating-intersections of psychology with students' day-to-day lives. * Every chapter includes sections on human development, brain function, individual differences and abnormal psychology that occur in that a[...]

Students are introduced to psychology as it relates to real life The interconnected approach makes links between different areas of psychological science An interactive ebook (included with every copy) has video cases, quizzes and exercises embedded right in the text Aimed at students in the UK a[...]

Bryan Gould draws on his experience as a leading British politician and as a lawyer, academic, diplomat and television journalist to explain why the political and economic doctrines that have dominated the western world for three decades have meant that western countries have found that their democr[...]

Just one month after his twenty-first birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist and 2000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and t[...]

This book will enable early year's leaders, managers and practitioners to identify and address issues around transitions across the early years. Through its focus on identifying the key principles which underpin the transition process, and on the cycle of transition itself, a greater understanding o[...]

This brand new Course Companion provides learners with access to a multitude of learning activities that will assist in practicing PLTS and Functional Skills. Written by leading author Francesca Gould, this workbook style resource provides one place for learners to record their progress and practic[...]

Population and Society is an undergraduate introduction to population that explains the latest shifts in population studies. The text provides a detailed and completely accessible overview that: - situates demographic aspects of population - births, deaths, migration, disease - within the context of[...]