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Product Description: This fully updated fourth edition of the highly successful guide, Teaching Thinking, explores how to use discussion in the classroom to develop children's thinking, learning and literacy skills. This new edition includes material on the latest trends in teaching thinking, including philosophy for children, dialogic teaching and education for citizenship...read more

Product Description: Todos los ninos necesitan amor y proteccion, pero tambien juegos que estimulen su capacidad de razonamiento y aumenten su potencial intelectual. En esta obra, Robert Fisher recurre a sus treinta anos de investigacion en el campo del pensamiento y aprendizaje infantil para ofrecer mas de 200 juegos que contribuyen a construir el pensamiento, el razonamiento numerico, el lenguaje, y las habilidades sociales de los ninos...read more

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Product Description: What happened during Jack Campbell's childhood in the slums of Glasgow to cause his hatred of British authority and make him willing to spy for Japan? What did the brilliant, aristocratic head of Japan's intelligence service, the most extensive spy network in the world, see in Campbell to believe he could be the key to his ultra secret contingency plan, code named Empire? With Japan's military prowess already proven by the capture of Korea and parts of China, why was it necessary to prepare this back up plan to the upcoming war which would give Japan a dominant role in world affairs? Why was it necessary to restrict knowledge of this plan to five people including the Emperor? Why was it crucial to keep Campbell in the dark over his unwitting role in Empire? Why were Campbell's talents so essential to Japan's war plans for the invasion of Malaya and the capture of Singapore? What did Campbell learn in Asia that sowed the first seeds of doubt about his activities? Was it the contentment he found in Asia that blocked his mind to the danger of the warning signals he saw in the spy master's behavior? All the answers are in this sizzling spy story of World War II made more dramatic by the inclusion of historic facts...read more