Mark Easton's Britain Etc.looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects - one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain. With each lettered chapter, the reader is invited to look at the United Kingdom in a new way: standing back to see our small islands in a global or historical context, and then diving down to scrutinise vital details that may be overlooked. Taken together, the essays reveal a Britain that cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar and a carrot all take on new significance once you have read Britain Etc. As the UK welcomes millions of visitors to its shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the psyche of Britain; a nation's obsessions, prejudices, values and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, what are the natives like, and how did we get to where we are?
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A spellbinding serial voyage in which encounters with islands across time are gathered, displayed and reburnished. Memoir becomes morality, as the oldest human myths challenge present neglect and political malfunction." – Iain Sinclair "Illuminating, incisive and beautifully written." – Kirsty Young "From ancient Crete to modern Canvey, this is a fascinating voyage around island identity, exploring isolation and imagination through a wealth of stories from around the world." – Martha Kearney "A timely and original exploration of the liminalities of islands and the waters that envelop them: by turns beguiling, enchanting and ultimately affirming." – Sir Anthony Seldon "This is a huge theme which Mark Easton pursues with vigorous and beautifully clear prose. His archipelagic fascination is contagious. Read this and the maps in your mind will never be quite the same again." – Peter Hennessy *** No man is an island, wrote John Donne. BBC Home Editor Mark Easton argues the opposite: that we are all islands, and it is upon the contradictory shoreline where isolation meets connectedness, where 'us' meets 'them', that we find out who we truly are. Suggesting that a continental bias has blinded us, Easton chronicles a sweep of 250 million years of island history: from Pangaea (the supercontinent mother of all islands) to the first intrepid islanders pointing their canoes over the horizon, from exploration to occupation, exploitation to liberation, a hopeful journey to paradise and a chastening reminder of our planet's fragility. But that is only half of this mesmerising book: aided by the muse he names Pangaea, Easton also interweaves reflections on what he calls 'the psychological islands that form the great archipelago of humankind'. Taking readers on an enchanting adventure, he illustrates how understanding islands and island syndrome might help humanity get closer to the truth about itself. Brave, intelligent and haunting, Islands is a deep dive into geography, myth, literature, politics and philosophy that reveals nothing less than a map of the human heart.
Mark McClintock Easton was born in Huntington, West Virginia into a military family. He has lived in Spain and Saudi Arabia as well as many different states from Florida to Alaska. He didn't actually start to live however until November 7th, 1993 when Jesus took up residence in his heart. The road has been rocky for him since then, but it's been thrills, romance and adventure since that day. Finish What You Started in Me is his first novel and only God knows if it is his last.
A beautiful taste of the southwest. Enjoy this unlined notebook featuring a photograph by artist Mark Easton. This journal has a cream interior, with ladder accents on every other page. Generously sized at 6" x 9", yet small enough to tuck in a bag to jot down your thoughts while on the go. 6"x9" Softcover, glossy finish 120 pages (60 sheets) Unlined Cream interior Ladder accents on every other page
As the day ends, record your thoughts with the sunset... Enjoy this unlined notebook featuring a photograph by artist Mark Easton. The journal has a cream interior, with a desert horizon accent on every page. Generously sized at 6" x 9", yet small enough to tuck in a bag to jot down your thoughts while on the go. 6"x9" Softcover, glossy finish 120 pages (60 sheets) Unlined Cream interior Desert horizon on every page
A perfect place to collect your thoughts.... Bring a piece of Kachemak Bay home. Enjoy this unlined notebook featuring a photograph by artist Mark Easton. The journal has a cream interior, with meditative stone accents on every page. Generously sized at 6" x 9", yet small enough to tuck in a bag to jot down your thoughts while on the go. 6"x9" Softcover, glossy finish 120 pages (60 sheets) Unlined Cream interior Stone accents on every page
Record your dreams in this starry night journal... Enjoy this unlined notebook featuring an acrylic painting by artist Mark Easton. The journal has a cream interior, with star accents on every page. Generously sized at 6" x 9", yet small enough to tuck in a bag to jot down your thoughts while on the go. 6"x9" Softcover, glossy finish 120 pages (60 sheets) Unlined Cream interior Star accents on every page
Oxford Big Ideas Geography Australian CurriculumStudent Book + obook/assess Explicitly integrates content and skills from both strands of the Australian Curriculum Geography:- Geographical Knowledge and Understanding- Geographical Inquiry and Skills.Provides comprehensive coverage of 'Concepts for geographical understanding' - concepts are clearly explained and supported with worked examples, then revisited with increasing complexity throughout each chapter to reinforce student understanding.Organises learning around meaningful inquiry-based questions, or big ideas, that are closely mapped to the content of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.Provides a complete teaching and learning program from Year 7 to 10 across a range of print, digital, and blended resources. The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps, videos and other interactives.For all related titles in this series, please click here
Bawwwwk! This notebook will give you something to crow about! Enjoy this whimsical rooster, from an acrylic painting by artist Mark Easton. This unlined notebook has a cream interior, with chicken track accents on every page. Generously sized at 6" x 9", yet small enough to tuck in a bag to jot down your thoughts while on the go. 6"x9" Softcover, glossy finish 120 pages (60 sheets) Unlined Cream interior Chicken track accents on every page
Oxford Big Ideas Geography Australian CurriculumStudent Book + obook/assess Explicitly integrates content and skills from both strands of the Australian Curriculum Geography:- Geographical Knowledge and Understanding- Geographical Inquiry and Skills.Provides comprehensive coverage of 'Concepts for geographical understanding' - concepts are clearly explained and supported with worked examples, then revisited with increasing complexity throughout each chapter to reinforce student understanding.Organises learning around meaningful inquiry-based questions, or big ideas, that are closely mapped to the content of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.Provides a complete teaching and learning program from Year 7 to 10 across a range of print, digital, and blended resources. The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps, videos and other interactives.For all related titles in this series, please click here
Humanities Alive Economics and Citizenship caters for Level 6 of the new Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS), specifically as they apply for the Humanitieis - Economics and Civics and Citizenship domains.The visually stimulating content is presented to engage learners, and help them to understand and adapt essential information and skills. Interdisciplinary learning, through the four domains of Communication, ICT, Thinking and Design, Creativity and Technology, is embedded in the activities and extended through a range of supporting worksheets. Links are also made to domains within the Physical, Personal and Social Learning strand.Features Structured activities, geared to the essential learning standards, and catering for a wide range of abilities and intelligences Skillbooster activities that address inquiry-based, reasoning and interpretation skills Check and challenge sections at the end of every chapter to revise, apply and extend understanding and knowledge A supporting CD-ROM that includes an electronic copy of Humanities Alive Economics and Citizenship, links for all activity panels to Microsoft Word files, and a range of interactive multimedia programs to reinforce and test recall and higher order skills.
Each Teacher Kit includes all pages from the student book scaffolded with wraparound notes on teaching strategies, lesson planning tips, assessment advice and suggested answers--everything you need to seamlessly integrate Oxford Australian Curriculum resources into your teaching program. obook assess teacher is the obook student text enhanced with additional teacher-focused functionality. It provides complete instructional clarity and tailored instruction. The accompanying assess tool enables teachers to schedule tests, view class progress and results and create reports.For all related titles in this series, please click here
Oxford Big Ideas Geography Australian CurriculumStudent Book + obook/assess Explicitly integrates content and skills from both strands of the Australian Curriculum Geography:- Geographical Knowledge and Understanding- Geographical Inquiry and Skills.Provides comprehensive coverage of 'Concepts for geographical understanding' - concepts are clearly explained and supported with worked examples, then revisited with increasing complexity throughout each chapter to reinforce student understanding.Organises learning around meaningful inquiry-based questions, or big ideas, that are closely mapped to the content of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.Provides a complete teaching and learning program from Year 7 to 10 across a range of print, digital, and blended resources. The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps, videos and other interactives.For all related titles in this series, please click here
Student Book + obook/assess Oxford Big Ideas Geography | History Australian Curriculum provides complete coverage of Australian Curriculum: Geography and Australian Curriculum: History across Years 7 to 10. Each level is packaged in a way that:supports the full delivery of all course content within the available class timeenables teachers to adopt a semesterised approach or deliver discrete year-long coursesprovides interim Civics & Citizenship and Commerce units for schools (in digital format only), until final ACARA syllabus is released. The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps and timelines, videos and other interactives.For all related titles in this series, please click here
The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by â_~page viewâ_T. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps, videos and other interactives.Your activation code is printed on a card which will be mailed to you; this will incur a postage cost. Oxford Big Ideas Geography|History Australian Curriculum provides complete coverage of Australian Curriculum: Geography and Australian Curriculum: History across Years 7 to 10. Each level is packaged in a way that:supports the full delivery of all course content within the available class timeenables teachers to adopt a semesterised approach or deliver discrete year-long coursesprovides interim Civics & Citizenship and Commerce units for schools (in digital format only), until final ACARA syllabus is released.
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