Society and social sciences

Beauty and Education (Hardback - 24 Feb 2010)

Beauty and Education
Incorporating examples across the curriculum, Winston argues that a due consideration of beauty in education can address some of the more fundamental problems that bedevil policy and practice. With its clear style and wealth of practical examples, this book will be of great interest to academics and teachers. Beauty is something we value instinctively. We find it in art and in nature, in words, images and ideas,...

By (author) Joe Winston

ISBN-13: 9780415994903 ; ISBN-10: 041599490X

Price: £70.00 £57.10 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Research for Effective Social Work Practice (Hardback - 24 Feb 2010)

Research for Effective Social Work Practice
Very often research texts for social work students are dry, boring, and hard to relate to. Not this book! Nor do authors Krysik and Finn shy away from teaching research skills that are actually interesting and useful to students interested in real-life social work practice. See the chapter on writing in this book. Also, the brand new chapter on qualitative methods. Go to www.routledgesw.com/research to learn more!...

By (author) Judy L. Krysik; Jerry Finn

ISBN-13: 9780415805056 ; ISBN-10: 0415805058

Price: £105.00 £90.50 Not Available

Handbook of Social Psychology, 5th Edition, Volume One (Hardback - 24 Mar 2010)

Handbook of Social Psychology, 5th Edition, Volume One
First published in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology was the first major reference work to cover the field of social psychology. First published in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology was the first major reference work to cover the field of social psychology. The field has since evolved and expanded tremendously, and in each subsequent edition, The Handbook of Social Psychology is still the foremost...

By (author) Susan T. Fiske; Daniel T. Gilbert; Gardner Lindzey

ISBN-13: 9780470137482 ; ISBN-10: 0470137487

Price: £60.00 £41.50 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Handbook of Social Psychology, 5th Edition, Volume Two (Hardback - 24 Mar 2010)

Handbook of Social Psychology, 5th Edition, Volume Two
The classic Handbook of Social Psychology has been the standard professional reference for the field of social psychology for many years. The classic Handbook of Social Psychology has been the standard professional reference for the field of social psychology for many years. Now available in a new edition, Volume 2 of this internationally acclaimed work brings readers up to date with new chapters on social...

By (author) Susan T. Fiske; Daniel T. Gilbert; Gardner Lindzey

ISBN-13: 9780470137499 ; ISBN-10: 0470137495

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Handbook of Social Psychology: 2 Volume Set (Hardback - 24 Mar 2010)

Handbook of Social Psychology
First published in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology was the first major reference work to cover the field of social psychology. First published in 1935, The Handbook of Social Psychology was the first major reference work to cover the field of social psychology. The field has since evolved and expanded tremendously, and in each subsequent edition, The Handbook of Social Psychology is still the foremost...

Edited by Susan T. Fiske; Daniel T. Gilbert; Gardner Lindzey

ISBN-13: 9780470137475 ; ISBN-10: 0470137479

Price: £120.00 £78.50 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life (Paperback / softback - 12 Feb 2010)

P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life

By (author) Robert S. Feldman

ISBN-13: 9780073375168 ; ISBN-10: 0073375160

Price: £37.99 £31.59 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Narrative Learning (Paperback / softback - 24 Feb 2010)

Narrative Learning
What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives? Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence learning? Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life stories, this book seeks to define a new learning theory which focuses on the role of narrative and narration in learning....

By (author) Ivor F. Goodson; Gert J. J. Biesta; Mike Tedder; Norma Adair

ISBN-13: 9780415488945 ; ISBN-10: 041548894X

Price: £22.99 £20.69 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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What Intelligence Tests Miss – The Psychology of Rational Thought (Paperback / softback - 23 Feb 2010)

What Intelligence Tests Miss – The Psychology of Rational Thought

By (author) KE Stanovich

ISBN-13: 9780300164626 ; ISBN-10: 0300164629

Price: £15.00 £13.50 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The Language of Pain – Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief (Hardback - 23 Mar 2010)

The Language of Pain – Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief

ISBN-13: 9780393070637 ; ISBN-10: 0393070638

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Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving (Hardback - 23 Mar 2010)

Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader
The keys to having an outstanding career as a school leader. The American educational system is in crisis; trends of recent years have been extraordinarily hard on educators. An entire generation of school leaders is retiring, many of them early, and the number of candidates applying to replace them is plummeting. The keys to having an outstanding career as a school leader. The American educational system is in...

By (author) Robert Evans

ISBN-13: 9780470507322 ; ISBN-10: 0470507322

Price: £18.99 £15.89 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The Myth of American Exceptionalism (Paperback / softback - 23 Feb 2010)

The Myth of American Exceptionalism

By (author) G Hodgson

ISBN-13: 9780300164190 ; ISBN-10: 030016419X

Price: £15.74 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Failure-Free Education?: The Past, Present and Future of School Effectiveness and School Improvement (Hardback - 23 Feb 2010)

Failure-Free Education?
David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education? brings together for the first time many of his most influential and provocative pieces. Drawing on the author’s work from over three decades, these extracts from his seminal books, chapters, papers and articles combine to give a unique overview of how the...

By (author) David Reynolds

ISBN-13: 9780415367837 ; ISBN-10: 0415367832

Price: £80.00 £64.90 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Transport, Environment and Society (Hardback - 22 Feb 2010)

Transport, Environment and Society

By (author) Michael Cahill

ISBN-13: 9780335218738 ; ISBN-10: 0335218733

Price: £60.00 £47.50 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Transport, Environment and Society (Paperback / softback - 1 Feb 2010)

Transport, Environment and Society

By (author) Michael Cahill

ISBN-13: 9780335218721 ; ISBN-10: 0335218725

Price: £22.99 £20.69 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Federal Democracies (Hardback - 22 Feb 2010)

Federal Democracies
Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy. Taking the late 18th century US Federal Experience as its starting-point, the book uses the contributions of Calhoun, Bryce and Proudhon as 19th century conceptual prisms through which we can witness the challenges and changes made to the meaning of this relationship. The book then goes on to provide a series of case...

Edited by Michael Burgess; Alain-G. Gagnon

ISBN-13: 9780415555487 ; ISBN-10: 0415555485

Price: £75.00 £60.75 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Teaching Adult Literacy: principles and practice (Paperback / softback - 5 Mar 2010)

Teaching Adult Literacy

By (author) Nora Hughes; Irene Schwab

ISBN-13: 9780335237364 ; ISBN-10: 0335237363

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Teaching Adult Literacy (Hardback - 5 Mar 2010)

Teaching Adult Literacy

By (author) Nora Hughes; Irene Schwab

ISBN-13: 9780335237357 ; ISBN-10: 0335237355

Price: £60.00 £47.50 Not Available

The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a post-disaster environment (Hardback - 22 Feb 2010)

The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery
In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently they also lost their entire neighbourhood and the social systems that under normal circumstances made their lives "work". Katrina raised the questions of whether and how communities could solve the complex social...

By (author) Emily Chamlee-Wright

ISBN-13: 9780415778046 ; ISBN-10: 0415778042

Price: £80.00 £64.90 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Writing for Digital Media (Paperback / softback - 22 Feb 2010)

Writing for Digital Media
This book teaches students how to write effectively for online audiences--whether they are crafting a story for the online face of a daily newspaper or a personal blog--while providing them with a solid understanding of the ways that the Internet has blurred traditional roles of media producer, consumer, publisher, and reader. By understanding this new media audience and exploring how different media behave--their...

By (author) Brian Carroll

ISBN-13: 9780415992015 ; ISBN-10: 041599201X

Price: £32.99 £31.89 Not Available

Developing Teacher Assessment (Paperback / softback - 1 Jan 2010)

Developing Teacher Assessment

By (author) John Gardner; Wynne Harlen; Louise Hayward; Gordon Stobart; Martin Montgomery

ISBN-13: 9780335237838 ; ISBN-10: 0335237835

Price: £19.99 £17.99 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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