Read With Biff, Chip and Kipper is the UK's best-selling home reading series. It is based on Oxford Reading Tree which is used in 80% of primary schools. Read With Biff, Chip and Kipper Level 5 Phonics storybooks have been specially written to allow children to practise their letters and sounds as t[...]
BTEC Level 2 Firsts in Sport Student Book: Second Edition for 2012 Specification has been fully revised to match Edexcel's 2012 specification, using the same active, accessible approach that students know and love, but with updated content to support all the units in the specification and the new ex[...]
BTEC Level 2 Firsts in Sport Teacher Guide: Second Edition for 2012 Specification contains a book and DVD-ROM. It has been fully revised to match Edexcel's 2012 specification and to support BTEC Level 2 Firsts in Sport Student Book: Second Edition for 2012 Specification.[...]
In what was once described as "the century of nerves", a fascination with the processes governing physical and psychological states was shared by medical and fiction writers alike. This study offers an analysis of how medicine and literature figured the connection between the body and the mind.[...]
Black Milk is the first in-depth analysis of the visual arts that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exploring prints, photographs, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and ephemera, it will change everything we knew, or thought we knew, a[...]
Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the[...]
The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period that was central to the formation of modern Europe. This period has often been drawn into a series of discourses that are more concerned with the eighteenth, nineteenth, a[...]
Reflecting the multitude of avenues into the police force now open to future police officers, from student officers and pre-join students to Specials, Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2014 ensures you have the knowledge and understanding necessary to undertake independent patrol in a prof[...]
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of the USA. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most estee[...]
Explores American History through the theme of equality. With its inclusive view of American history, Created Equal, Brief Edition emphasizes social history-including the lives, labors, and legacies of women, immigrants, working people, and minorities in all regions of the country-while delivering t[...]
Today we often identify artifacts with the period when they were made. In more traditional cultures, however, such objects as pictures, effigies, and buildings were valued not as much for their chronological age as for their perceived links to the remote origins of religions, nations, monasteries, a[...]
Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and used by the general public. In "The Natures of Map[...]
'Poor old fox has lost his socks. He looks in a chest and finds a vest.' Can you help fox find his socks? Are they in the kitchen or under the stairs? Are they inside the clock or hidden in a chest? Lift the flaps and find out! Collect all four books in "The Acorn Wood series:" "Postman Bear," "Rabb[...]
'Rabbit's feeling sleepy. She curls up in a chair. Tap! Tap! Who's that? Oh dear! It's Builder Bear.' Rabbit is trying to get to sleep, but everyone is being so noisy. Lift the flaps and find out who is keeping Rabbit awake! Collect all four board books in "The Acorn Wood series:" "Postman Bear," "F[...]
'Now it's time for Pig to seek. Can you see a yellow beak?' Pig and Hen are playing hide-and-seek. Can you lift the flaps and help Pig find out where Hen is hiding? Collect all four books in "The Acorn Wood series": "Fox's Socks," "Rabbit's Nap" and "Postman Bear."[...]