Education/Academic

Every year, students are rejected from their first choice universitysimply because they have submitted a UCAS application that fails (read more)

Every year, students are rejected from their first choice universitysimply because they have submitted a UCAS application that fails to make theright impact on admissions tutors. Thisannually updated guide has been helping students stay off the reject pile forover 30 years. With step-by-step guidance on how to fill in your UCASapplication, and helpful tip boxes throughout, it provides vital advice onavoiding common mistakes and making your personal statement stand out.
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This book contains straightforward, down-to-earth, bread-and-butter information chords. As soon as you read it you will understand (read more)

This book contains straightforward, down-to-earth, bread-and-butter information chords. As soon as you read it you will understand it, and wonder why is has never been written like this before. It reveals secrets that take students YEARS to discover.

It has taken Raymond Fricker over sixty years to find this extraordinarily simple system. RIGHT NOW it can be YOURS in SECONDS. Raymond explains how you can find eighty-four different chords, each one in less than ten seconds.
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This guide provides students with invaluable first-hand guidance on how to impress university admissions tutors and create a winning (read more)

This guide provides students with invaluable first-hand guidance on how to impress university admissions tutors and create a winning personal statement. The personal statement can be the most challenging section on the UCAS application form, so this book takes a fresh look at how students can make the most of their university or college application, teaching them how to successfully sell themselves for the first time. With an unrivaled depth of information - based on original, first-hand research carried out among admissions tutors - it includes insider tips on what admissions tutors are really looking for, common mistakes to avoid, and what NOT to write, as well as subject-specific advice for all the main degree disciplines.

Read and improved by the authors' students to give an insider's perspective, this fully updated 3rd edition includes new information to reflect updated government policy and up-to-date statistics. The author uniquely recognises that different subjects require different approaches and have created an important book in this crowded field. This book will guide applicants through the process of putting together a great personal statement that sensibly conveys their skills and that will help them to win a place at the university of their choice. (hide)

What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are (read more)

What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to receive toilet paper in the post? What if the show you just damned turns out to be a classic? If you gave it a five-star rave will anyone believe you? Drawing on his long years of experience as a national newspaper critic, Mark Fisher answers such questions with candour, wit and insight. Learning lessons from history's leading critics and taking examples from around the world, he gives practical advice about how to celebrate, analyse and discuss this most ephemeral of art forms - and how to make your writing come alive as you do so. Today, more people than ever are writing about theatre, but whether you're blogging, tweeting or writing an academic essay, your challenges as a critic remain the same: how to capture a performance in words, how to express your opinions and how to keep the reader entertained.

This inspirational book shows you the way to do it. Foreword by Chris Jones, Chief theater critic, Chicago Tribune (hide)

An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers (read more)

An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This brand new, updated edition also includes a new chapter on editing one's own work, a section on publicizing and archiving one's paper, and updates on authorship, including information on new authorship criteria and on the author identification number ORCID. The book guides readers through the processes involved in writing for and publishing in scientific journals, from choosing a suitable journal, to writing each part of the paper, to submitting the paper and responding to peer review, through checking the proofs.
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Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea (read more)

Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that 'poetry makes nothing happen') together have produced a misleading account of the relations between words and human action. Words do make things happen.

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In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its (read more)

In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the actors' studio, when he was Associate Director of the Royal Court and then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers called The Theatre Machine.
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"Improve your teaching!" is a 'must have' handbook for all instrumental and singing teachers. Packed full of comprehensive advice (read more)

"Improve your teaching!" is a 'must have' handbook for all instrumental and singing teachers. Packed full of comprehensive advice and practical strategies, it offers creative yet accessible solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It outlines Paul Harris' innovative strategy of 'Simultaneous Learning': a method that encourages the development of musical insight by making connections between all aspects of musicianship and discusses topics including lesson preparation, aural and memory work, effective practice, improvisation and composition, sight-reading and group teaching.

Cleverly fusing established teaching techniques with fresh and exciting ideas, "Improve Your Teaching!" represents a modern and holistic approach to musical instruction. (hide)

When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book (read more)

When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective, and institutional standpoints.

This third edition is fully updated and expanded, including a new section on the 2007-08 financial crisis and a new chapter on networks as well as specific applications of school placement for students, search engine ad auctions, pollution permits, and more. (hide)

This book will help you to understand what inclusion is, what it means for teachers, parents and the wider community and how to create (read more)

This book will help you to understand what inclusion is, what it means for teachers, parents and the wider community and how to create an inclusive environment in your own classroom. By busting some myths and looking beyond the labels, Nancy Gedge believes that every teacher can improve their practice for every child - because what is good for special needs is good for everyone! That's what being an inclusive teacher means. Full of practical ideas and advice, this warm and inspiring book is an accessible introduction to inclusion for primary school teachers.

It translates the SEND Code of Practice into practical classroom strategies covering topics such as: an inclusive classroom environment and what it looks like, the responsibilities of the teacher and how to set meaningful targets, plus lots of tips on how to get the best out of available support and intervention strategies. Nancy Gedge provides impassioned guidance in the form of real classroom anecdotes and tried-and-tested exercises together with a 'jargon buster' to help you decipher unfamiliar terms. NANCY GEDGE has been a primary school teacher for over 20 years, and is currently a SEND specialist in a mainstream school in Gloucestershire. (hide)