Product Description: A chance meeting between a world famous author and a shy librarian leads into a world of danger that unknown to her involves her fiancee being drawn into a mercenary incursion into the closed world of North Korea

Product Description: Extremes of love and hatred during the 2nd Boer war. Sir Sydney Sommerton is traumatized by a savage Boer attack and he undertakes a bitter vendetta of revenge against the Boers and their families. His young wife at home in England also experiences extremes of love making at the hand of her husbands friend...read more

Product Description: A search for a long lost GI father, reveals a whole new human story of a young man who fought his way through the landings in North Africa, Sicily, and Omaha Beach, POW during the winter of 1944/45. Returned to the States, and never got to see his daughter he had to leave behind

Product Description: Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere...read more

Product Description: Five WW2 veterans friends wife is murdered horrifically and the law fails. They wreak retribution on the perpetrators but their plans go awry.

Product Description: As Tom Owen watches the rising water cover his guilty secret, he discovers that he is being watched, and returns home, only to be haunted by his memories of the war and the love he lost. Betrayal, robbery and murder, invade his mind, unaware that events would soon resurrect them again with tragic consequences and startling coincidence...read more

Product Description: The authors Colin Richards family biography including a genealogical profile of connecting families

Product Description: The true antics of a university estates department, and the characters who worked there. A wok of satyr, or generally embarrassing ones colleagues

Product Description: This book provides an account of the lives of the inhabitants of the village of Barnhouse, a late Neolithic settlement complex in Orkney. The excavation of Barnhouse between 1986 and 1993 constitutes the largest investigation of a Neolithic settlement in northern Britain since the 1920s...read more

Primary education is currently at the centre of political attention. Reform is constantly under consideration, though the leading proponents of reform are often far removed from the classroom and the world of hard-pressed, demoralised primary teachers. Colin Richards rectifies this by communicating the big picture of primary school culture. He takes the world of the primary school since Plowden (1967) and traces perennial and emergent issues - the issues that need to be understood in order to make a difference to the future of primary education. Through constructive criticism of the national curriculum, OFSTED, ITT and teaching methodology the book will influence and improve the understanding of policy makers, headteachers, governors and teachers and students.

Product Description: Informed professional debate about primary teacher education is long overdue. This book provides a sense of direction and impetus in this debate by focusing on pressing topical issues of policy and provision. There is focus on the current national scrutiny of initial and inservice teacher training, which is resulting in the development of a National Curriculum for ITE, the proposal of a General Teaching Council, and Continuing Professional Development initiatives from the TTA...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A team of highly regarded contributors were invited to take a rational look at the future of primary schools, particularly during the first 20 years of the next millennium. They were asked to consider many questions, including: What are the roots of primary education? What is the justification for a radical agenda? How well is the system working and in what ways could it further optimize its effectiveness in the interests of the participants? What is a primary school, and what purpose does it serve, and what ends does it have in view? Are these ends appropriate for the future? This book, then, represents the thinking of key scholars and researchers working in the area of primary education and will be essential reading for those involved with the education of primary-aged children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These books were compiled to help the professional development of primary school teachers, and represent wholly enlarged, updated and revised editions of the three primary source books published by Falmer Press in 1985.