Product Description: Even though sharks are the apex predators of the oceans, they arent as aggressive as some people think. The anatomy, behaviors, and territories of several kinds of sharks are all explained in this volume that explores the ocean depths and one of its most powerful species...read more

Product Description: With a rich historical perspective, this volume supplies readers with a comprehensive understanding of the basics of matter. A timeline of important scientists and their contributions, engaging material about the trickier aspects of matter, and fun experiments that show how matter can alter states will give readers a different perspective of the world...read more

Product Description: There has been a major 'turn' towards narrative, biographical and life history approaches in the academy over the last 30 years. What are some of the new directions in narrative research? How do narrative research approaches help us to understand the world differently? What do we learn by listening to stories and narratives? How do narratives extend our understanding that other research approaches do not? This collection of work grows from a symposium organised to explore new directions in narrative research...read more

Product Description: The comparative education field has been slow to catch on to the potential of the kind of qualitative methodologies advocated in the sociology of education and in curriculum evaluation. This book may fill the gap in literature available which discusses the methodology of case-study research in education in a Third World context...read more