"A great read...Goldberg is an excellent guide."--Mario Livio, bestselling author of "The Golden Ratio"
Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe--from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies--is sha[...]
Working at a tiny Rhode Island bait and tackle shop in the three years after ending her engagement and leaving the city, Emmy Everett learns that her brother is experiencing cold feet twenty-four hours before his own wedding, a situation in which Emmy accompanies her brother on a road trip to help h[...]
As heard on NPR?a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity
StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps? collection, creating a moving portrait of American life.
The voices here connect us to real people and thei[...]
A funny graphic-novel series by Aaron Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Creepy Carrots His grandpa invented fire. His dad invented the wheel. How will Caveboy Dave leave his mark? Dave Unga-Bunga has always been more scrawny than brawny. This is a major problem when your village expect[...]
Meet Oz ...he's got a talent for trouble but his heart's always in the right place (well, nearly always). Uprooted from his friends and former life, Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school, Oz attracts the attention of Is[...]
Two pen and paper test packs which provide an easy, practical way of grading students.
Two pen and paper test packs which provide an easy, practical way of grading students.
There is currently enormous interest in task-based teaching and learning. But some teachers are still unsure of how to put it into practice. This book gives examples of a range of task sequences suitable for all levels of learners, using both written and spoken English. The advice is based firmly in[...]
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustration[...]
A new edition of the most student-friendly and engaging resource for Edexcel GCSE Specification B, written to match the demands of the re-accredited specification (for teaching from 2012). This student book motivates your students with accessible, interesting content and up-to-date case studies, whi[...]
The only book specifically created for students needing to get grade C in one year, ideal for re-sits, returners to study. Based on Edexcel's official 1-year linear scheme of work and targeted on the Foundation tier, it offers plenty of support for C/D borderline.[...]
Devised for the new Edexcel specification B from 2010, this unique levelled approach allocates just one of four highly-focused books to each student for the whole course, making learning simpler, more focused, and therefore more successful. This student book focuses on grade A, and targets grades A*[...]
Devised for the new Edexcel specification B from 2010, this unique levelled approach allocates just one of four highly-focused books to each student for the whole course, making learning simpler, more focused, and therefore more successful. The Higher student book focuses on grades B-D.[...]
A course for the two-tier GCSE, covering the UK exam boards specifications and suitable for either Foundation or Higher tier entry, this book is aimed at students who are aspiring to achieve a grade C in their examination.[...]
This book provides a concise and readable summary of the ecology and behaviour of bumblebees, with a particular focus on practical issues such as conservation strategies, management of bumblebees for crop pollination, and the possible impacts of bumblebees as non-native invasive species.[...]
This is the only official study text, used alongside the Investigators' Manual 2012, for the National Investigators' Exam (NIE). Based on the bestselling Blackstone's Police Manuals, it provides all legal information relevant to the role of a trainee investigator.[...]
Big ideas in the mathematics curriculum for older school students, especially those that are hard to learn and hard to teach, are covered in this book. It will be a first port of call for research about teaching big ideas for students from 9-19 and also has implications for a wider range of students[...]
With USB 2.0, the USB standard for PC peripheral connectivity delivers up to 40 times the speed of USB 1.1 -- plus many other extensions, clarifications, and reliability improvements. Now's the time for professional engineers working with PC hardware and peripherals to master USB 2.0 -- and this is [...]
In A Buzz in the Meadow Goulson tells the story of how he bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow and how, over a decade, he has created a place for his beloved bumblebees to thrive. But other creatures live there too, a myriad insects of eve[...]
"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book. When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty - and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a[...]