Product Description: The domestication of the horse was one of the most significant events in the development of many human societies, ushering in new modes of transport and warfare and generating social and political change. This volume seeks to examine the origins of horse husbandry and pastoralism - especially nomadic pastoralism - in the Eurasian steppe...read more

Product Description: The history and archaeology of the Scythians and other steppe peoples are relatively familiar, but what of their predecessors who colonized and occupied this vast region, from the Carpathians to China, before the Iron Age? The papers in this volume provide an overview and reassessment of our knowledge of the period from Neolithic to Iron Age in an area which covers approximately one-sixth of the earth's land surface...read more

(view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume invites readers to look at professional development schools (PDS) through three lenses: policy, politics and practice. Chapter authors describe how PDS participants have changed both the kind of work they do and the ways in which they work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written by nationally respected experts, this collection addresses the substantive, political, and organisational questions that arise with the creation of professional practice schools. Basing their writings on practical experience, contributors integrate the restructuring of schools with the redesigning of teacher education, placing student learning at the core of any plan for change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)