Product Description: The aim of school inspection is to identify strengths and weaknesses in order that schools may improve educational quality and raise standards. This text examines the role of school inspectors and advises teachers and heads on methodologies for internal review and improvement.

Product Description: Fruit and cream, perhaps spiked with wine or spices, is a refreshing and different way to end a meal. Even more unusual is a fruit soup for a first course, or even a main one. This book contains fruit based soups, some definitely desserts and others that can be served anytime...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Effective LEAs and School Improvement examines the ways in which Local Education Authorities can support and challenge schools to raise educational standards. The book includes case studies of effective LEAs and interludes from heads and governors on their experience of working with LEAs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cooking With Bananas from breakfasts to delicious soups or salads,fixing bananas as a main dish or bananas in side dishes. Lovely drinks for that wild quench. Easy recipes for banana lovers to dieters.Bananas are available year around.

Product Description: The desserts in MAGIC SOY DESSERTS COOKBOOKfrom luscious Spicy Tofu Pumpkin Pie to delightful Soynut Butter Fruit Drop to the Chilled Strawberry Tofu Soup is sweet that truly combines good health with great taste. There's a to die for treat to suit every taste...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive introduction to working with people with learning disabilities, this guide provides the theoretical understanding needed to inform good practice and to help improve the quality of life of people within this group. Using accessible language and case examples, the authors discuss both psychological and practical theories, including: * person-centred and behavioural approaches * anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive approaches * systems theory * task centred approach * role theory...read more

Product Description: This book provides practical tips to arm doctors with the knowledge to sharpen their communication skills thus improving their relationships with patients - and avoiding errors and litigation. It is stimulating and easy-to-read and is written with a 'how to' approach in a straightforward journalistic style by noted experts in the field...read more

Product Description: This concise, attractive and inspirational book aims to do two things. Firstly it celebrates the importance of teachers. It reminds current teachers why they joined the profession and it encourages others to join. Secondly it reflects on the key elements of teaching - the craft and artistry (pedagogy) of teaching...read more

John Carpenter is a seminal figure in the history of horror and science fiction filmmaking. His work in these genres has been highly influential in their ongoing development. This book gives Carpenter's output the sustained critical treatment it deserves. It comprises essays that address the whole of Carpenter's work, as well as others which focus on a smaller number of key films. Some essays take on wide-ranging issues such as Carpenter's approach to remakes and the question of genre, while others are organized around a specific theme or technical aspect of Carpenter's film-making. The text's key strength is that it draws upon an international group of scholars offering a variety of expertise. Films discussed include Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978) and its subsequent sequels, Escape from New York (1981), Escape from L.A.(1996), The Fog (1980), The Thing (1982), Village of the Damned (1995) and Ghosts of Mars(2001). The book also features an exclusive interview with John Carpenter.

Jim is a shy orphan boy who loses his job on a farm and decides to live alone in the nearby forest. Angela is a rich and beautiful landowner's daughter who comes riding by Jim's hideout one day. Drawn to each other, they embark on a passionate affair. This book chronicles one man's struggle to rise again from the depths of despair.

Product Description: Mangoes are the most popular hand fruit in the world. For Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese and Thai populations, mangoes are the “apple” of their fruit world. The tropical mango is dancing its big flavor beat into the heartland of America...read more

Product Description: There is universal interest in the 'good school'. Parents want to find one, teachers seek to teach in one and children deserve to attend one. This book makes the assumption that success is possible in every school. The authors have selected material from the original book, What Makes A Good School?, adding many new ideas from their extensive work on school improvement over the last 15 years, set in the context of the many changes and new agendas that are a feature of schools today...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1990. Native Song is the first book of poetry by David Woods, a powerful and prominent voice from Canada's black community. Native Song takes readers into the hearts and lives of the people of Nova Scotia's black communities, including Uniacke Square, North Preston, Hammonds Plains, and Weymouth Falls...read more

Product Description: Take control of your own learning in this innovative new book for nurses and doctors. You'll be taught to solve practical problems and to take a simple, logical approach to common paediatric disorders. * Clear learning objectives help you understand the most important lessons to be learned...read more

Product Description: A major new work by the performance group Ridiculusmus. Challenging, vividly imaginative and utterly absorbing play.

Product Description: Vermont Prayers and Other Prayers is a compilation of poems written over the last 43 years. The author's poetry explores nature, people, and spirituality. Many of his works were inspiried by the peaceful environs Otter Creek.