Jerome Charyn has been writing some of the most bold and adventurous American fiction for over forty years. His ten-book cycle of novels about madcap New York mayor and police commissioner Isaac Sidel inspired a new generation of younger writers in America and France, where he is a national literary[...]

To carry out his investigations, Bruner went to "the clutter of life at home," the child's own setting for learning, rather than observing children in a "contrived video laboratory." For Bruner, language is learned by using it. An central to its use are what he calls "formats," scriptlike interactio[...]

Jerome Bruner is one of the best-known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His theories about cognitive development dominate psychology around the world today, but it is in the field of education where his influence has been especially felt. In this two volume set, Bruner ha[...]

Non-academic history - 'public history' - is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In "Consuming History", Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and [...]

Its Critical. This groundbreaking text offers a fresh perspective on how to effectively and purposefully implement childrens literature into and across the curriculum in ways that are both effective and purposeful. Examples throughout show teachers implementing critical pedagogy in classrooms.[...]

This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy-in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power [...]

Get the Diagnosis Right! presents a better way to make more accurate diagnosis-including the hows and whys (if known) of mental disturbance.[...]

Therapists inevitably feel more gratified in their work when their cases have better treatment outcomes. This book is designed to help them achieve that by providing practical solutions to problems that arise in psychotherapy, such as: Do depressed people need an antidepressant, or psychotherapy al[...]

A new strain of mass destruction... The most dangerous man of this century has employed the most dangerous weapon yet. Criminal mastermind Harlan DeVane has developed %151; and spread %151; a deadly, genetically engineered "superbug" resistant to all known cures. A microscopic time bomb, it will lie[...]

As the Allies pressed forward both in Europe and the Pacific in the waning days of World War II, a little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway...and changed the course of the war.
By February of 1944, both Germany and Japan were falling back under constant attac[...]

Recounts events surrounding the mysterious sinking of the Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, and its recent recovery from deep in the waters off the coast of South Carolina. Simultaneous.[...]

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder that afflicts an estimated 1of the world's population. Many of the symptoms can make the sufferer fearful and withdrawn and cause difficulties when they try to have relationships with others.[...]