Informed by sociolinguistic research, yet written accessibly, Keep Your Word challenges readers to investigate the act o......more
To get the complete Idioms for Inclusivity experience, this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set, Idioms......more
To get the complete Idioms for Inclusivity experience, this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set, Idioms......more
To get the complete Idioms for Inclusivity experience, this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set, Idioms......more
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Understanding how drugs work is made simple in this easy to use pocket-sized guide. Drugs in common use are described un......more
Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable b......more
This book provides opportunities for older and younger children in different grades to work together on standards-based ......more
This book describes in detail how educators can apply curriculum standards, performance standards and opportunity standa......more
The seven-step Independent Investigation Method (IIM) guides students through group and independent research projects, e......more
Are you seeking to use your subject knowledge and teaching skills beyond the classroom? Many teachers don’t recognise th......more
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"This isn’t learning: this is fun!" - dyslexic pupil "Fantastic ideas that engage learners in their learning: thank you!......more
This book takes into account three core policies: ’Every Child Matters’, ’Personalised Learning’, and ’Harnessing Techno......more
Thousands of students graduate from university each year. The lucky few have the rest of their lives mapped out in perfe......more
This book challenges the assumption that special schools are a second-best educational option for their pupils. It celeb......more
Taking drugs is complex and there are concerns about the best ways of addressing drugs issues in schools - particularly ......more
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Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe s essay on Joseph Conrad s......more
The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert s ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic marked a fo......more
The City of God against the Pagans is a central text in the Western intellectual tradition. Made up of twenty-two length......more
Wright s The New Testament and the People of God is the first volume of his acclaimed series Christian Origins and th......more
On Religion is a major text for the development of modern religious thought in the West and its author, German theologia......more
In The Rights of Others, Benhabib argues that the transnational movement of people across the globe has brought to the f......more
Martin Buber’s I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an ’I’ towar......more
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William Whyte s core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and persona......more
Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the m......more
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Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellect......more
Alasdair MacIntyre s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with......more
Thomas Robert Malthus 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, an......more
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Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered......more
Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian s profession was coming under heavy attack as a ......more
For 2,000 years, the standard philosophical model of knowledge was that it could be defined as a justified true belief. ......more
Despite being written between 170 and 180, Marcus Aurelius Meditations often resonates with modern readers because of ......more
Judith Butler s Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines feminism s struggle again......more
Alexis de Tocqueville s 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory - and of the problem-solving skills ......more
Kenneth Waltz s 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a scientific revolution in the ......more
John Rawls s A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the......more
Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century s most innovative thinkers - and his work on Discipline and Punish......more
Danish philosopher S ren Kierkegaard s 1843 book Fear and Trembling shows precisely why he is regarded as one of the mo......more
C. Wright Mills s 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of pos......more
A critical analysis of David C. Kang s China Rising, which is a fine example of an author making use of creative thinki......more
In Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau looks at old issues in new ways, asking: is there ever a time when individual......more
Thomas Paine s 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history s most explosive and revolutionary......more
St. Augustine s Confessions is one of the most important works in the history of literature and Christian thought. Writ......more
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David Hume s 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemo......more
Clifford Geertz has been called the most original anthropologist of his generation - and this reputation rests large......more
Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz s great work on the symbolic ......more
Hegel s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western p......more
How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccol Machiavelli wrot......more
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Robert O. Keohane s After Hegemony is both a classic of international relations scholarship and an example of how creat......more
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Emile Durkheim s 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also......more
Edward Said s Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded to close analysis. Interpretation is cha......more
Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking......more
To the dismay of many commentators - who had hoped the world was evolving into a more tolerant and multicultural communi......more
Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that ma......more
There are few better examples of analysis - the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built - than......more
Eric Hoffer s The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is one of the most widely read works of socia......more
The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. W......more
Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides s ce......more
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No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast wh......more
A Room of One s Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on......more
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In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from ......more
Friedrich Nietzsche s On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation. Well known as one of......more
Ren Descartes s 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy is a cornerstone of the history of western thought. One of the mos......more
Aristotle s Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Ari......more
Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development.......more
Benedict Anderson s 1983 masterpiece Imagined Communities is a ground-breaking analysis of the origins and meanings of ......more
English economist John Hobson s 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an epoch-making study of the politics and economics of im......more
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Immanuel Kant s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy - not to ment......more
Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of t......more
American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to......more
The Republic is Plato s most complete and incisive work - a detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that ju......more
Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that ......more
S ren Kierkegaard s The Sickness unto Death is widely recognized as one of the most significant and influential works o......more
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Susan Sontag s 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch def......more
Antonio Gramsci s Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist ......more
Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexi......more
A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of transnational history, Timothy Snyder s Bloodlands is, first an......more
Why is it that children from disadvantaged backgrounds find it so difficult - and often impossible - to achieve? Few que......more
Mythologies is a masterpiece of analysis and interpretation. At its heart, Barthes s collection of essays about the myt......more