Product Description: This is a practical guide to studying more effectively at first and higher degree levels. Primarily for students looking for more than just a basic study skills book, it blends practical ideas with sound principles to offer a readily accessible, handy guide...read more

Product Description: So you really want a world without God Then come in, look-see. Enjoy your inheritance. "You've been abandoned. Your creator has performed a Michelangelo on the human race. The wine was sour so he poured it out." So says the voice of Bane, the dark presence revealing itself to Alex when the world has been brought to its knees...read more

Product Description: This fully illustrated new reference guide for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 children provides comprehensive definitions of words and concepts used in the teaching of art. Clearly worded, The Questions Dictionary of Art will shed light on what can often be a confusing vocabulary, and is fully cross-referenced...read more

Positive Teaching, Positive Learning offers teachers and student-teachers in training a number of practical strategies for developing and improving teaching and learning. It provides insights into very positive teacher-pupil management and learning, such as ways to increase pupil involvement and give constructive feedback from assessment. The book draws together findings about pupils' and teachers' classroom practice, and suggests how practical steps can be taken to create a positive attitude towards generating high expectations. It includes quoted material researched over five years through interviews with known effective teachers (identified by OFSTED) about the teaching strategies they use.

Product Description: A text designed to provide teachers with valuable insights and a variety of suggestions to help construct a balanced and relevant curriculum in art and design for 8-13 year olds, an age when the author stresses that children are particularly susceptible to sensitive teaching.