Hyper-Socialised: How Teachers Enact the Geography Curriculum in Late Capitalism
Hyper-socialised explores the challenges of late capitalist times for education systems, schools and teachers. It looks at how trends of accountability, 'teaching to the test', using pupil voice and reliance on network technologies are all connect...
Diversities in Education
Diversities in Education is a challenging text that will help educators, teacher educators and trainee teachers to be more effective in teaching a range of diverse learners. It covers five major categories of difference: sex and gender; social cla...
Number9dream
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'A novel as accomplished as anything being written.'--Newsweek Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy--an intoxicating ride through Tokyo's dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister's death and his mother's breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses--through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck--a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his
Ghostwritten
'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'Astonishingly accomplished' THE TIMES 'Remarkable' OBSERVER 'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES 'Fabulously atmosphe...
number9dream
'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT Shortlisted for the Booker and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes 'Spellbinding' INDEPENDENT 'Exceptional' LITERARY REVIEW 'Beautifully precise' GUARDIAN 'Marvellou...
Politics and Peace in Northern Ireland
Politics and peace in Northern Ireland analyses the complex and contradictory process of implementing the Good Friday Agreement. Using the lens of security dilemma theory, it begins with an original overview of the conflict, the Agreement and post...
Contextualizing Inclusive Education
Inclusive education is a complex and problematic concept that raises many questions. A team of prominent academics present fresh and critical perspectives on these issues, drawing upon their global resources and knowledge. The over-arching theme o...
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT ? The Sunday Times number one bestseller ? Longlisted for the Booker Prize ? Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize ? Shortlisted for the Commonwealt...
Black Swan Green
'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize 'Gorgeous' DAILY MAIL 'Uproariously funny' EVENING STANDARD 'Spellbinding' TATLER 'Brill...
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - A rollicking history of England's kings and queens from Arthur to Elizabeth I, a tale of power, glory, and excessive beheadings by award-winning British actor and comedian David Mitchell 'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell is] a funny man and a skilled historian.'―The Times Think you know the kings and queens of England? Think again. In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits. Taking us back to King Arthur (spoiler: he didn't exist), Mitchell tells the founding story of post-Roman England up to the reign of Elizabeth I (spoiler: she dies). It's a tale of narcissists, inadequate self-control, middle-management insurrection, uncivil wars, and a few Cnuts, as the English evolved from having their crops
Ecology of Inclusive Education
Educators today face two major challenges. The first, is to develop an education system which meets the needs of an ever more diverse student population. The second, is to successfully implement such a system. This requires nothing less than a rev...
Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'A delight!' Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2 'Very entertaining.' Irish Times ** From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles t...
Mathematical Origami
This book shows the reader how to make a range of robust polyhedra from ordinary printer paper using a technique known as modular origami. Modular origami designs are made by first folding several, or sometimes many, sheets of paper into simple individual modules and then by putting these modules together, normally without the help of any kind of adhesive, to create a finished polyhedral form. Modular origami design has moved on since the hugely popular first edition which has been expanded and revised to present both a wider range of designs, and to introduce new designs which are more robust and offer more potential for mathematical adventures. Ideal for the classroom and fun for any enthusiast of either origami, or mathematics. David Mitchell gives clear step-by-step instructions.
Cloud Atlas
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a young Pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization - the narrators of this novel hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. 'The most exciting British novel of the year' Telegraph 'Nothing short of a miracle' The Times 'Incendiary' Observer 'One of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable' Philip Hensher, Spectator 'Astonishing ... an overwhelming literary creation' Lawrence Norfolk, Independent 'Close to the miraculous ... No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease.' Robert McFarlane, The Sunday Times 'He takes risks no other author would dare to, and almost always pulls it off ... For the third time in a row, Mitchell has excelled himself.' Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday 'Quite startling' Telegraph
Bone Clocks
'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT ? Longlisted for the Booker Prize ? Longlisted for the Folio Prize ? Winner of the World Fantasy Award 'A triumph' GUARDIAN 'Epic' EVENING STANDARD 'Mind-spinning...
Unruly
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. 'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell - a funny man and skilled hist...
Slade House
The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it's already too late. . . . Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling
Slade House
'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any, country' Independent 'Deliciously creepy' SUNDAY TIMES 'Irresistible' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Manically ingenious' GUARDIAN The chilling seventh novel from the critically acclaimed author of ...
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? This book celebrates and commis...
Cloud Atlas (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Soon to be a major motion picture with a wide release for holiday 2012, starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, and Jim Sturgess. It is co-directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski, directors/writers of the groundbreaking Matrix tri...
Utopia Avenue
Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on. This is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief; of stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact; and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close.
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NOW IN A DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITION - The timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future--from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction Printed on exquisite deckle-edged paper, this edition features a stunning full-wrap jacket with luxurious soft-touch finish, a vivid neon-printed case, and full-color endpapers, as well as a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize - A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling
Cloud Atlas
'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC...
David Mitchell: Back Story
David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a st...
Prayer Book and Psalms
From the publisher of the Jordanville Prayer Book and A Psalter for Prayer comes the perfect devotional companion for travel and everyday life. This truly pocket edition brings together prayers for use throughout the day with all one hundred fifty Psalms of David adapted from the classic Miles Coverdale translation. Designed with convenience and affordability in mind to encourage all Christians to “pray without ceasing.”
Crises, Conflict and Disability
People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates, have fewer available resources and less access to help, especially in refugee camps...
What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education
This fully revised and updated third edition presents teachers with a range of up-to-date evidence-based strategies they can use to tackle the challenges of inclusive education. An essential resource for the busy educator, each of the twenty-nine ...
Crises, Conflict and Disability
People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates, have fewer available resources and less access to help, especially in refugee camps...
