The perfect accompaniment to the selected poems, providing invaluable background and exam advice. Succint and accessible coverage of all the key aspects of the selected poems, including contexts, interpretations and controversies. Students can test and check their knowledge with the Question and Ans[...]

A portrait of Anne Frank's father, the only member of the secret annex to survive Auschwitz, reveals startling information about his privileged youth, arranged marriage, experiences in the concentration camp, decision to publish Anne's diary, flight to Switzerland, and relationship with the annex's [...]

For education courses in Educational Psychology, Advanced Educational Psychology, Differentiated Instruction, Inclusion/Mainstreaming, Mild/Moderate Disabilities Methods, or General Methods (K-12). In this brief Merrill/ASCD text, the leading authority on differentiation explains the most effective[...]

the fourth edition of this classic resource has significant new coverage of assessment. Advocating for early language literacy, Curtain and Dahlberg provide the rationale, strategies and activities for developing early language literacy, helping teachers make the connection between first and second [...]

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, The World's Wife. Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the r[...]

The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book, The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems to th[...]

Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill tha[...]

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.[...]

LOOM WITH A VIEW Della Wright has come to peaceful and picturesque Briar Hollow, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, to realize her lifelong dream of owning a weaving studio. To promote her new business, Dream Weavers, Della is offering weaving workshops for all levels of ability. In her first [...]

It's a joyous time at Dream Weaver--Della Wright's studio in small-town Briar Hollow, North Carolina--as part-time employee and full-time friend Marnie Potter is preparing for her upcoming marriage. Della has enlisted a tight-knit group of close friends to handweave a beautiful collection of fine ho[...]