Product Description: This is a book that noone coming to grips with management responsibility while also facing pressure to produce can afford to be without. Across professional services, in finance, law, accountancy, consulting, publishing, Player Managers are the forgotten heroes of the modern, knowledge based workplace...read more

Young people, in particular, want to learn more about contributing to the conservation of the planet, and formal education is beginning to reflect this. The National Curriculum in England and Wales, for instance, includes environmental education as a compulsory cross-curricular theme, and in Australia and the USA there are similar moves to ensure that all students are given an opportunity to learn in this area. The authors, experienced teachers and teacher educators in primary and secondary schools, here explain what environmental education is and how it can best be implemented at school and classroom level. In this handbook, school heads and curriculum co-ordinators will find advice on establishing a whole school policy and motivating the staff who need to implement it. Class teachers will find practical ideas for planning and assessing environmental education in the whole curriculum context. Throughout the book, case studies drawn from a variety of settings allow teachers to see how environmental education can work for them.

Product Description: This completely revised and updated second edition of Geography in the Early Years presents a lively and comprehensive overview of teaching and learning in geography. Theoretical aspects of early years teaching in geography are complemented by up-to-date research findings and illustrated with discussion, a wealth of case studies, and suggestions for the development and implementation of sound geographical work in practice...read more

Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts: Part 1 is a concise history of the development of environmental education from an international perspective; Part 2 is an overview of the 'global agenda', or subject knowledge of environmental education; Part 3 introduces perspectives on theory and research in environmental education; Part 4 moves on to practice, and presents an integrated model for planning environmental education programmes; Part 5 brings together invited contributors who talk about environmental education in their own countries - from 15 countries including China, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the USA; Part 6 returns to the core questions of how progress can be made, and how we can maximise the potential of environmental education for the twenty first century.

Product Description: In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of their impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence and a list of their major writings and suggested further reading. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Who were the Aztecs? When was the Battle of Britain? What is the Bayeux Tapestry? The Questions Dictionary of History provides an A-Z of major events in world history. The book provides snapshots of famous people, key facts and events and illustrations so that children can consolidate their learning...read more

Product Description: Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: <div>An essential reference source for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 classrooms, The Questions Dictionary of Geography and Environment introduces children to key geographical vocabulary and specialist terms. The dictionary is fully illustrated with clearly worded explanations for each entry...read more

Describes the plants, animals, and human inhabitants of a tropical rain forest and discusses the importance of these unique environments and threats to their survival.

Product Description: Spirit of the Environment brings spiritual and religious concerns to environmental issues. Providing a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' relationship to the natural world through the restrictive lenses of 'science', 'ecology', or even 'morality', this book offers a fresh perspective to the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A powerful framework for managers and teams to succeed in a changing environment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Case studies and contributions from around the world, most of which were presented at the 1994 IUCN General Assembly. Part 1: covers some research and theoretical bases for planning communications and education programs. Part 2: reports case studies from NGOs which draw out elements for success in planning education programs...read more

An easy-to-read introduction to sunshine, the powerful rays of light produced by the sun (view table of contents)

Describes the world's oceans, discussing marine plants and animals, how people use the ocean's resources, and protecting oceans from pollution

Describes the world's deserts, discussing plant and animal life, resources, how people survive in the desert, and why desert lands are growing in size

Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An easy-to-read introduction to the moving air which affects weather and life worldwide

Describes the phenomenon of rain, how and why it falls, how it can be measured and predicted, and its effect on the world and its life

An easy-to-read introduction to ice, snow, and other conditions which often accompany cold temperatures

Describes the polar lands, discussing plant and animal life, how people survive at the poles, environmental threats, and protecting polar lands (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text, designed to be of interest to the teenagers who will inherit the present environmental problems, investigates the issues behind the destruction of the world's rain forests. The book looks at topics such as why we are destroying these forests, how this destruction is affecting the world's climate and what individuals can do to stop the destruction...read more

Product Description: This marks a new selection of books aimed specifically at teenagers, which presents issues of conservation in their global perspective. In this particular book the author explains what radiation and nuclear waste are and how they are formed...read more