Words and Minds
Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done. Examining everyday language and drawing on a wide range of research, but always with a light style, Neil Mercer provides...
Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and pra...
Guided Construction of Knowledge
This book is about how people help other people to learn. Human life depends on knowledge being jointly created and shared: we rely on others for developing our understanding and for acquiring practical and intellectual skills. Yet most research o...
Common Knowledge (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice. The authors present a study of education as the c...
Interthinking: Putting talk to work
Through using spoken language, people are able to think creatively and productively together. This ability to 'interthink' is an important product of our evolutionary history that is just as important for our survival today. Many kinds of work act...
Interthinking: Putting talk to work
Through using spoken language, people are able to think creatively and productively together. This ability to 'interthink' is an important product of our evolutionary history that is just as important for our survival today. Many kinds of work act...
Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking
This book draws on extensive research to provide a ground-breaking new account of the relationship between dialogue and children's learning development. It closely relates the research findings to real-life classrooms, so that it is of practical v...
Exploring Talk in School
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 Classroom talk, by which children make sense of what their peers and teachers mean, is the most important educational tool for guiding the development of understandi...
Exploring Talk in School
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 Classroom talk, by which children make sense of what their peers and teachers mean, is the most important educational tool for guiding the development of understandi...
Neil Simon's Memoirs
The complete memoirs of Neil Simon, the greatest--and most successful--American playwright of all time, the author of such iconic works as Lost in Yonkers, The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, and The Goodbye Girl, now with an insightful Introduction by Nathan Lane.This omnibus edition combines Neil Simon's two memoirs, Rewrites and The Play Goes On, into one volume that spans his extraordinary five-decade career in theater, television, and film. Rewrites takes Simon through his first love, his first play, and his first brush with failure. There is the humor of growing up in Washington Heights (the inspiration for his play Brighton Beach Memoirs) where, despite his parents' rocky marriage and many separations, he learned to see the funny side of family drama, as when his mother thought she saw a body on the floor in their apartment--and it turned out to be the clothes his father discarded in the hallway after a night of carousing. He describes his marriage to his beloved wife, Joan, and
Neil Young - Harvest
The bestselling album of 1972, Neil Young's Harvest gave us the classics Old Man and Heart of Gold. Here are those hits and eight more in arrangements for Piano, Voice and Guitar. This souvenir songbook also includes hand-written lyric pages and photos throughout.
Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education
The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas and themes that make up the exciting and diverse field of Dialogic Education. With contributions from the world's leading re...
Using English
Using English provides an invaluable introduction to the study of English for students of language and linguistics. It examines the way in which the English language is used today in different contexts and in many parts of the world, by both nativ...
Music to Die For: Mick Mercer
Music to Die For: Mick Mercer [Bok]
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
"These dark and imaginative tales feature an odd and subtly linked world of bizarre venereal diseases, a creepy old woman who feasts on raw meat, a man obsessed with a skin model from a magazine, and a story within a story about ghosts&am...
Neil LaBute: Plays 2
'LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don't like to talk about, sometimes even to think about.' Newsday Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaBute's work. The Shape of Things peels back the skin of modern...
The Neil Gaiman Collection
'It's virtually impossible to read more than ten words by Neil Gaiman and not wish he would tell you the rest of the story' OBSERVER A box set collection of five iconic novels by Neil Gaiman. NEVERWHERE. STARDUST. AMERICAN GODS. ANANSI BOYS. THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE. -- NEIL GAIMAN. WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES. 'To give him his full title: Neil Gaiman, Architect of Worlds, Svengali of Plot, Shaman of Character, Exploder of Cliché, Master Craftsman of Style, Dreamer Laureate of the Republic of Letters' DAVID MITCHELL 'Beyond all the borders that divide us, there is a place of infinite possibilities and pure magic. I think of Neil Gaiman as a writer who wears the key to that land around his neck - the key to Storyland' ELIF SHAFAK -- NEVERWHERE: Under the streets of London lies a world most people could never dream of. And for Richard Mayhew, it's just the beginning. STARDUST: Young Tristran Thorn goes over his town's ancient wall into the mysterious land of Faerie - a world
Neil Gaiman Box Set
Neil Gaiman Mass Market Box Set
Neil Young - Greatest Hits
(Easy Guitar). Now even beginning guitarists can play 16 Neil Young classics Includes easy arrangements in notes & tab for: After the Gold Rush * Cinnamon Girl * Harvest Moon * Heart of Gold * Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) * Like a Hurricane * Old Man * Rockin' in the Free World * Southern Man * and more, plus photos and lyric sheets.
Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy
Captain of Celtic and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British football. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006/7 season in this paperback edition, is an extraordinary tale of re...
Fingerpicking Neil Young Greatest Hits
(Guitar Solo). This fantastic collection offers fingerpicking arrangements in notes & tab for 16 Neil Young classics Includes: After the Gold Rush * Cinnamon Girl * Harvest Moon * Heart of Gold * Helpless * Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) * Like a Hurricane * Ohio * Old Man * Rockin' in the Free World * Southern Man * and more, plus a helpful introduction to fingerstyle guitar and loads of photos, design pages, and lyric sheets.
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust
Half a crusading epic, half based in Tolkien-esque mythology, Neil Gaiman's award-winning graphic novel fantasy is now back in a brand-new edition! It is here in Wall that young Tristran Thorn loses his heart to the town beauty--a woman who is as ...
The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1
A deluxe oversized collection of comic stories from celebrated and award-winning writer Neil Gaiman, in conjunction with some of comics' most acclaimed creators. In these four essential Gaiman tales, a familiar detective finds himself...
Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell Box Set
_______________ From award-winning author Neil Gaiman comes this collector's edition box set, which contains paperback editions of three of his bestselling novels: The Graveyard Book, Coraline, and Fortunately, The Milk. Each book in this set is i...
Made in Sheffield: Neil Warnock - My Story
Renowned for his outspoken, colourful character, Neil Warnock here exclusively tells the story of his life in football. Warnock began his career as a player in 1967, and over the next eleven years played with a number of clubs including Scunthorpe...
Neil Young - Greatest Hits - Strum & Sing Guitar
(Strum & Sing Guitar). This fantastic collection offers just the guitar chords and the lyrics for 16 Neil Young classics Includes: After the Gold Rush * Cinnamon Girl * Harvest Moon * Heart of Gold * Helpless * Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) * Like a Hurricane * Ohio * Old Man * Rockin' in the Free World * Southern Man * and more.
Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol IV
Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautiful...