Product Description: "The most fun I have ever had with dead bodies."—Bill BrysonIn this riveting and often hilarious book—part travelogue and part social history—Ann Treneman visits the most interesting graves in Britain. You'll meet prime ministers, queens and kings, highwaymen, scientists, mistresses, writers, painters, poets, rakes and rogues, victims, the meek and mild, and the just plain mad...read more

Product Description: Effective Classroom Turnaround offers teachers over fifty ways to generate cooperation, enthusiasm, and consistent academic success by utilizing principles of learning and motivation that are often ignored or, at best, underused even in the best schools...read more

Product Description: Changing Attitudes and Behavior: Practice Makes Permanent, the second of the Practice Makes Permanent series, argues that school performance is directly correlated to student motivation. If school administrators and teachers adopt Jensen’s easy, direct, and effective ways to help students manage their feelings and focus their attention, the results will be two-fold: schools will foster a cooperative and high-performing learning community, and students will succeed academically while also mastering important social skills...read more

Product Description: Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century—the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery...read more

Product Description: Students can change rapidly. Just entering a different room they may feel happier and more successful because they respond instantly to changed conditions. The same students may be bored and uncooperative, and then learn zestfully...read more

Product Description: How does a society absorbed in short-term self-interest, group think, moral confusion, and the cowboy problem change itself? In a coffee shop, my friend Dave asked about title of the book I was editing. When I told him, his eyes opened wide a

Product Description: With the opening of the Great Exhibition on May Day 1851 the self- confidence of the Victorian had reached its zenith. While the Queen's loyal subjects carried the crusade to raise Victorian order throughout the world, a panel of 'eminent authorities' at home were writing a household encyclopaedia...read more

Product Description: Join little Skipper, a curious puppy in an orange life preserver, as she meets a galaxy of sea dogs from past and present. Inspired by the exhibit Sea Dogs! Great Tails of the Sea, at Mystic Seaport, What is a Sea Dog? combines poetry, history, and fun in a celebration of the many dogs who love the water...read more

Product Description: An addition to the classic Art of Coarse. . . series. You already have an idea of what Coarse Drinking is if you have ever telephoned your host to apologise for your appalling behaviour at the party the night before.

Product Description: In real life, as everyone knows, sex at its best is coarse. The romantic novelists, the sex therapists and the tabloid confessions may have you believe otherwise, but Michael Green knows the truth, and here, in the most hilarious and penetrating of his bestselling 'The Art of Coarse...read more

Product Description: "One of the funniest books about any game". - Sunday ExpressThis best-selling classic, now updated for the Coarse Rugby player of the 1990s, includes all of the truly fine points of the game.

The comic actor, respected pianist and music enthusiast presents a collection of anecdotes from the worlds of classical, jazz, pop, and rock music, interspersed with reminiscences from his own musical career

Product Description: Book by John n Mary Jensen

The author describes his lifelong involvement with music, and shares humorous anecdotes about composers, musicians, and conductors