Education/Academic

Have a passion for Beethoven? Yearn to play his music? With fingerings clearly marked and designed for easy reading, these books (read more)

Have a passion for Beethoven? Yearn to play his music? With fingerings clearly marked and designed for easy reading, these books are the ideal resource for any piano or keyboard player. Suited to every ability and helpfully grouped by level of difficulty - from Beginner, through Intermediate, to Advanced (covering Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Grades 5 to 8 and above) - each book contains pieces to delight lovers of the classical masterpieces. Ludvig Van Beethoven: Sheet Music for Piano includes everything from 'Fur Elise' to 'Pathetique'.***Stocked 1/9/12*** (hide)

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory (read more)

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Macbeth is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. (hide)

This bestselling planner is the ultimate self-management tool for students. Formerly published as The Palgrave Student Planner, it (read more)

This bestselling planner is the ultimate self-management tool for students. Formerly published as The Palgrave Student Planner, it contains everything students need to organise their information and time effectively, including study skills advice, week-to-view diary pages, habit trackers, personal finance guidance, timetables, useful contacts and websites, spelling rules, notes pages and much more. Now plastic-free, it features a handy card pocket at the back and a second elastic which can be used as a bookmark.

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Making Poetry Happen provides a valuable resource for trainee and practicing teachers, enabling them to become more confident and (read more)

Making Poetry Happen provides a valuable resource for trainee and practicing teachers, enabling them to become more confident and creative in teaching what is recognized as a very challenging aspect of the English curriculum. The volume editors draw together a wide-range of perspectives to provide support for development of creative practices across the age phases, drawing on learners' and teachers' perceptions of what poetry teaching is like in all its forms and within a variety of contexts, including: - inspiring young people to write poems - engaging invisible pupils (especially boys) - listening to poetry - performing poetry Throughout, the contributors include practical, tried-and-tested materials, including activities, and draw on case studies. This approach ensures that the theory is clearly linked to practice as they consider teaching and learning poetry to those aged between 5 and 19 from different perspectives, looking at reading; writing; speaking and listening; and transformative poetry cultures.

Each of the four parts includes teacher commentaries on how they have adapted and developed the poetry activities for use in their own classroom. (hide)

The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major (read more)

The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013, Davis writes innovative short stories that question the boundaries of the genre. She is also an important translator of French writers such as Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, Marcel Proust and Gustave Flaubert.

Translation and writing go hand-in-hand in Davis's work. Through a series of readings, this study investigates how Davis's translations and stories relate to each other, finding that they are inextricably interlinked. It explores how Davis uses translation - either as a compositional tool or a plot device - and other instances of rewriting in her stories, demonstrating that translation is central for understanding her prose. (hide)

Marine eutrophication has been recognized as a global problem with adverse effects on ecosystem's health and the economies of coastal (read more)

Marine eutrophication has been recognized as a global problem with adverse effects on ecosystem's health and the economies of coastal states. Most conventions regarding marine environmental protection of Regional Seas have given priority to eutrophication and relevant management practices. This book presents a global perspective of eutrophication in most of the Regional Seas, including the legal framework, assessment and management practices.

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Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people's identities? (read more)

Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people's identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media's influence on gender and sexuality.

David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men's and women's magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes: a comparison of gender representations in the past and today, from James Bond to Ugly Betty an introduction to key theorists such as Judith Butler, Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault an outline of creative approaches, where identities are explored with video, drawing, or Lego bricks a Companion Website with extra articles, interviews and selected links, at: www.theoryhead.com. (hide)

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like `that wet blanket is a loose cannon', but admire `Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player', (read more)

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like `that wet blanket is a loose cannon', but admire `Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player', and all the metaphors packed into Macbeth's `Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' speech. How is it that metaphors are sometimes mixed so badly and other times put together so well? In Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, Karen Sullivan employs findings from linguistics and cognitive science to explore how metaphors are combined and why they sometimes mix. Once we understand the ways that metaphoric ideas are put together, we can appreciate why metaphor combinations have such a wide range of effects.
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The most up-to-date treatment available on modern optics. The text gives an overview of the topics and an introduction to design (read more)

The most up-to-date treatment available on modern optics. The text gives an overview of the topics and an introduction to design practices for a number of applications. It provides the student with the foundations to enter into advanced courses in nonlinear optics, lens design, laser system design, and optical communications. (hide)

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an (read more)

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.

Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive 'Stagecraft', 'Write about it', 'Language in the play', 'Characters' and 'Themes' features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for 'Much Ado about Nothing' and Shakespeare.
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