Product Description: Japanese in a Flash Volume 1 is an excellent new language learning resource for travelers and those who want to learn Japanese quickly and easily. These Japanese flash cards consist of a complete boxed set of flash cards for Japanese character recognition, vocabulary learning, study and testing, Japanese in a Flash has a full range of features to help beginners and intermediate learners...read more

Product Description: Essential Japanese Kanji, Volume 2 is an easy approach to learning the most basic kanji encountered in everyday situations in Japan.Packed with fun quizzes and useful exercises for those wishing to improve their Japanese ability, this new edition has been repackaged in a more compact, value-for-money size while losing none of the content that has made it a long-selling favorite...read more

Product Description: Vietnamese in a Flash: Volume I is an excellent new Vietnamese language learning resource for beginning students.With a full range of features to help beginners and intermediate learners, these Vietnamese flash cards are an excellent learning tool for anyone who wants to learn Vietnamese vocabulary and master the Vietnamese language...read more

Product Description: From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity...read more

Writing is not a subject; it is part of reading, of speaking, and of listening.  Being a writer means being a reader, articulating stories and characters, listening to tales and learning from other writers. Through teaching exciting and engaging lessons you can help children to discover stories, create worlds, record events, mould characters and inspire each other as writers. Inspiring Writing in Primary Schools helps you to teach writing and to know what a good writing lesson looks and feels like.  It gives you all the background theory you need to encourage purposeful writing across the curriculum. It includes exemplar lessons and offers them alongside a detailed exploration of what makes them good, and the theory behind them.   As a teacher or trainee teacher, you can respond more imaginatively to the way you approach and teach writing.  This text will help you to seize the opportunity of the new curriculum and inspire fabulous writing in your classroom. "Packed with accessible advice, engaging examples of research-informed practice and new ideas for ways to involve and support young writers, it offers primary teachers a breath of fresh air. Emerging from the memorable work of BookTrust’s Everybody Writes initiative (which was co-led by Liz Chamberlain) and drawing on her own doctoral research (which involved exploring three young writers’ practices at home and at school), the resultant mix of practice and theory - theory and practice is very energising. The authors take a real world view of writing and recognise and respect each child as a writer and each teacher as a professional - a potentially creative pedagogue." - Teresa Cremin   

Product Description: ''This is a story of life at Rosa Parks Middle School as teachers, administrators, and consultants take up a school improvement project, but it is also the story of life in an urban middle school under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its larger operational context of generalized, bureaucratized distrust...read more

Product Description: This long-awaited translation of Johannes Pedersen's Danish work Den Arabiske Bog (1946) describes in vivid detail the production of books in medieval Islam, and outlines the role of literature and scholarship in Islamic society.Originally published in 1984...read more