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Thinking and Learning with ICT

Raising Achievement in Primary Classrooms

By: Rupert Wegerif,Lyn Dawes

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Thinking and Learning with ICT

Raising Achievement in Primary Classrooms

By: Rupert Wegerif,Lyn Dawes

Primary teachers need to incorporate the use of computers in their daily lesson plans, but how can this be done most effectively to promote learning skills in the classroom? In this fascinating book, Lyn Dawes and Rupert Wegerif outline a strategy for enhancing the effectiveness of computers for teaching and learning with an emphasis on: * raising pupil achievement in the core subject areas * developing collaborative learning in small groups * using group discussions as a way of improving general communication, as well as thinking and reasoning skills. The approach is to use computers as a support for collaborative learning in small groups and this book presents ways to prepare pupils for talking, learning and thinking together around computers. Excerpts from pupils' discussions illustrate the main issues and guidance on lesson planning and developing and choosing appropriate software is also provided. Thinking and Learning with ICT will be a valuable resource for primary teachers and student teachers.

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Routledge

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113440736X

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9781134407361

Personalised Learning for the Learning Person

By: Rupert Ward

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Personalised Learning for the Learning Person

By: Rupert Ward

The learning environment must change if we are to encourage learners to engage with learning opportunities and develop effective learning solutions which meet all of our needs. This book considers policy, pedagogy and practice to address how we might achieve this critical transformation.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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178973147X

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Dialogic

Education for the Internet Age

By: Rupert Wegerif

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Dialogic

Education for the Internet Age

By: Rupert Wegerif

In Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age, Rupert Wegerif argues that the traditional model of schooling, is built on the logic of print and tends to assume that there is a single true representation of reality, which schools exist to transmit to new generations.

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Routledge

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0415536782

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9780415536783

Texas

The Lone Star State

By: Rupert N. Richardson,Cary D. Wintz,Angela Boswell,Adrian Anderson,Ernest Wallace

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Texas

The Lone Star State

By: Rupert N. Richardson,Cary D. Wintz,Angela Boswell,Adrian Anderson,Ernest Wallace

Now in its 11th edition, Texas: The Lone Star State offers a balanced, scholarly overview of the second largest state in the United States, spanning from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically, this comprehensive survey introduces undergraduates to the varied history of Texas with an accessible narrative and over 100 illustrations and maps. This new edition broadens the discussion of postwar social and political dynamics within the state, including the development of key industries and changing demographics. Other new features include: New maps reflecting county by county results for the most recent presidential elections Expanded discussions on immigration and border security The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas and a look to the future Updated bibliographies to reflect the most recent scholarship This textbook is essential reading for students of American history.

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Routledge

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1000403769

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9781000403763

A Statistical History of Pro Football

Players, Teams and Concepts

By: Rupert Patrick

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A Statistical History of Pro Football

Players, Teams and Concepts

By: Rupert Patrick

Drawing on the author's 30-year study of football statistics, this book presents new methods for analyzing the game in different ways. An examination of known distances for missed field goals offers an accurate method for evaluating placekickers. Reassessments of punters and running backs are included, along with an overhaul of the NFL's passer rating system. Topics previously unexplored through statistics are covered, such as momentum, defining "What is a dynasty?" and "What is a Cinderella team?

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McFarland

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1476640890

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9781476640891

Dialogic Education and Technology

Expanding the Space of Learning

By: Rupert Wegerif

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Dialogic Education and Technology

Expanding the Space of Learning

By: Rupert Wegerif

This book empowers people to go beyond themselves into new spheres of learning, thinking and creativity. Drawing on recent work in communications theory as well as psychology, computer science and philosophy, it reveals some key characteristics of learning dialogues. It also demonstrates ways in which computers and networks can deepen, enrich and expand such dialogues. The book’s central argument is that this dialogic perspective in education and the latest developments in information and communications technology make ideal partners.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387711422

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9780387711423

Hospital Ships

By: Rupert Goodman

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Hospital Ships

By: Rupert Goodman

The story of hospital ships is a fascinating one indeed, about which little has been written except for isolated tragedies such as the sinking of the Centaur off the Australian coast in 1943.

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Boolarong Press

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1925236498

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9781925236491

Classroom Talk in Practice Teachers' Experiences of Oracy in Action

By: Rupert Knight

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Classroom Talk in Practice Teachers' Experiences of Oracy in Action

By: Rupert Knight

This thought provoking and highly informative book is a perfect handbook for teachers and school leaders interested in improving the quality of talk in their classrooms." Amy Gaunt and Alice Stott, Directors at Voice 21 and authors of Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: the Oracy Imperative. “For practising teachers, it offers a guide to how to exercise sound professional judgement in selecting and sustaining strategies that place talk at the centre of teaching and learning, so that all students benefit.” Alan Howe, Education Consultant and Associate with Oracy Cambridge Purposeful classroom talk, or oracy, is increasingly recognised as fundamental for supporting both personal and academic development and for enhancing genuine participation in learning. Based on classroom observations and interviews, this book offers an analysis of schools’ responses to improving the quality of both learning to talk and talking to learn. The book explores classroom talk through the analysis and comparison of examples drawn from diverse schools and age groups, across primary and secondary education settings. Alongside a wealth of practical strategies, the book offers an insight into the realities of implementation, helping teachers to make well-informed judgments about developing classroom talk within their own schools. This book features: •Examples of lesson activities and resources, accompanied by explanations and advice from practitioners •Vivid depictions of real classroom practice with comprehensive analysis linked to up-to-date research and theory •Questions and prompts to promote reflection on the reader’s own context •An emphasis on teachers’ professional judgement and informed implementation of oracy practices A holistic and accessible resource, this book is aimed at experienced, early career and student teachers, as well as other education professionals. Rupert Knight was a teacher in schools in London and Nottingham. He currently works at the University of Nottingham, UK, on teacher education and other postgraduate courses. Rupert is the author of Classroom Talk and he continues to work closely with teachers to develop the use of spoken language in the classroom.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335250041

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9780335250042

Mind Expanding: Teaching For Thinking And Creativity In Primary Education

Teaching for Thinking and Creativity in Primary Education

By: Wegerif, Rupert

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Mind Expanding: Teaching For Thinking And Creativity In Primary Education

Teaching for Thinking and Creativity in Primary Education

By: Wegerif, Rupert

There is considerable interest in education around the world in flexible thinking and learning skills but very little consensus as to the nature of these skills and how best to promote them in schools. This book puts forward a clear and practical framework for understanding thinking, creativity and learning to learn as the fruits of engagement in dialogue. It also outlines in detail how this framework can be applied to teaching across the curriculum at both primary and secondary level, drawing on the best practices associated with the teaching thinking; creativity; and learning to learn movements explaining their success in terms of dialogic theory. In particular the book incorporates aspects of a number of thinking skills approaches, such as Lipmanï¿½s Philosophy for Children approach, as well as features of contemporary innovations in education such as assessment for learning and the development of creativity. Each chapter opens with a vignette to set the scene and continue into a light and popularly written exposition of theory, before moving on to a description of practice and concluding with practical guidelines for how to teach for thinking and creativity in schools and classrooms. The first six chapters in the book have more of a focus on developing core theoretical themes and the following six chapters in the second half of the book focus more on practice-led themes. The relationship between theory and practice is treated as flexible and dynamic, theory being developed by practice as much as practice implementing theory.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335233732

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9780335233731

The Complete Book of Aunts

By: Rupert Christiansen

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The Complete Book of Aunts

By: Rupert Christiansen

Of all our blood relations, an aunt offers the most potential for uncomplicated friendship. The Complete Book of Aunts is an entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises and varieties, culled from real-life, literary and historical sources. Bewitching illustrations and anecdotes illuminate various aunt types: Bargain Aunts, Mothering Aunts, Damned Bad Aunts, and X-Rated Aunts. With stories and poems about famous or historical aunts, Christiansen and Brophy attempt to uncover what "aunt-ness" is.

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Twelve

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0446553492

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9780446553490

Pop Cult

Religion and Popular Music

By: Rupert Till

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Pop Cult

Religion and Popular Music

By: Rupert Till

Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society.>

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A&C Black

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0826445926

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9780826445926

Schrödinger Operators: Eigenvalues and Lieb–Thirring Inequalities

By: Rupert L. Frank,Ari Laptev,Timo Weidl

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Schrödinger Operators: Eigenvalues and Lieb–Thirring Inequalities

By: Rupert L. Frank,Ari Laptev,Timo Weidl

Takes readers from the very basic facts to the most recent results on eigenvalues of Laplace and Schrödinger operators.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009218468

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9781009218467

Creolization and Contraband

Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World

By: Linda M. Rupert

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Creolization and Contraband

Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World

By: Linda M. Rupert

When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island’s main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern Curaçao. The other was smuggling. Both developments, she argues, were informal adaptations to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires thrust different peoples together. Creolization and Contraband uses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers, smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction. Far from marginal, these extra-official exchanges were the very building blocks of colonial society.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820343684

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9780820343686

The Biopolitics of Dementia

A Neurocritical Perspective

By: James Rupert Fletcher

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The Biopolitics of Dementia

A Neurocritical Perspective

By: James Rupert Fletcher

This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience. This biopolitics generates dementia’s public profile and is implicated in several problems, including the failure of drug discovery, the spread of stigma, the perpetuation of social inequalities and the lack of support that is available to people affected by dementia. Through a failure to critically engage with neuropsychiatric biopolitics, much dementia studies is complicit in these problems. Drawing on insights from critical psychiatry and critical gerontology, this book explores these problems and the relations between them, revealing how they are facilitated by neuro-agnostic dementia studies work that lacks robust biopolitical critiques and sociopolitical alternatives. In response, the book makes the case for a more biopolitically engaged "neurocritical" dementia studies and shows how such a tradition might be realised through the promotion of a promissory sociopolitics of dementia.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003803911

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9781003803911

Why Climate Breakdown Matters

By: Rupert Read

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Why Climate Breakdown Matters

By: Rupert Read

Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350212032

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9781350212039

Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners

The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War

By: Rupert Wieloch

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Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners

The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War

By: Rupert Wieloch

The dramatic account of 15 British soldiers abandoned in Bolshevik Russia during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. In Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners, Rupert Wieloch details how the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 affected the Allied war effort. The threat drove the formation of an Allied force, including British, American, French, Czech, Italian, Greek, and Japanese troops, stationed across Russia to support the anti-Bolsheviks (the “White Russians”). But war-weariness and equivocation led Allied powers to dispatch just enough troops to maintain a show of interest in Russia’s fate, but not enough to give the “Whites” a real chance of victory. Among these troops is Emmerson MacMillan, an American engineer, who joins the British army in 1918. He becomes one of a select group of British soldiers ordered to “remain to the last” and organize the evacuation of refugees from Omsk in November 1919. After saving thousands of lives, they depart on the last train out of the city before it is seized by the Bolsheviks. But their mad dash for freedom through freezing temperatures ends when they are captured in Krasnoyarsk. Abandoned without communications, they endure a fearful detention and become an embarrassment to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and War Secretary Winston Churchill. After a traumatic incarceration, they survive against all the odds and are eventually released. As a new Cold War heats up, it is even more important to understand the origins of the modern relationship between Russia and the West. This stirring tale of courage and adventure only lifts the lid on an episode that sowed distrust and precipitated events in World War II and today.

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Casemate Publishers

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1612007546

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9781612007540

Precedent in English Law

By: Rupert Cross,J. W. Harris

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Precedent in English Law

By: Rupert Cross,J. W. Harris

This fourth edition of Precedent in English Law presents a basic guide to the current doctrine of precedent in England, set in the wider context of the jurisprudential problems which any treatment of this topic involves. Such problems include the nature of _ratio_ _decidendi_ of a precedent and of its binding force, the significance of precedents alongside other sources of law, their role in legal reasoning, and the account which must be taken of them by any general theory of law. Considerable re-writing has been undertaken to update case-law and take account of the possible implications for the doctrine of precedent of the impact of European Community law, making it an indispensable work of reference for readers interested in the past history, present state, and future developments of English rules of precedent.

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Clarendon Press

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0191024449

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9780191024443

Where the Truth Lies

A Novel

By: Rupert Holmes

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Where the Truth Lies

A Novel

By: Rupert Holmes

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE O’Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews, is bent on unearthing secrets long ago buried by the handsome showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. These two highly desirable men, once inseparable (and insatiable, where women were concerned), were driven apart by a bizarre and unexplained death in which one of them may have played the part of murderer. As the tart-tongued, eye-catching O’Connor ventures deeper into this unsolved mystery, she finds herself compromisingly coiled around both men, knowing more about them than they realize and less than she might like, but increasingly fearful that she now knows far too much.

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Random House

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1588363287

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9781588363282

Conquistadors

By: Rupert Matthews

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Conquistadors

By: Rupert Matthews

The native people of the Americas never had a chance against European soldiers. The troops of the conquistadors had guns and armor, not to mention new diseases! As readers are drawn through the bloody history of early settlement in the New World, they’ll learn about the conquistadors’ wish for gold and to convert the native peoples to Christianity. Chapters focusing on major conquistadors—including de Coronado, Pizarro, Cortes, and more—incorporate major topics from the social studies curriculum. Full-color maps show the European domination of the Americas and enhance the main content’s detailed account of what they found there.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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1482431637

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9781482431636

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind

By: Robert D. Rupert

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Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind

By: Robert D. Rupert

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment.

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Oxford University Press

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0199888647

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9780199888641

The African Baobab

By: Rupert Watson

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The African Baobab

By: Rupert Watson

The baobab is surely the botanical symbol of Africa, instantly recognizable from afar and a compelling icon of the African landscape. This age-old ‘upside-down tree’ invariably inspires wonder, awe and mystery, and has intrigued travellers for hundreds of years. In this absorbing and inspired account of The African Baobab, author Rupert Watson explores the life and times of this fascinating tree, from its early Madagascan beginnings to its present status on the continent and its future in a changing Africa. He effortlessly mixes natural science, history and personal experience, drawing on extracts from the journals of early explorers who, on encountering these extraordinary trees, measured and sketched them for a sceptical audience back home; and he presents intriguing, detailed accounts of the baobab’s eccentric growth and reproductive habits, its present-day distribution, and its wide impact on everyday African life. The author takes a close look at the myriad uses of baobabs over the ages: their hollow centres have served as prisons, toilets, wells and bars, and some specimens have even been used as a refuge in battle or as burial sites. Their fibre, seeds and fruit are credited with hundreds of applications, both practical and medicinal. Many locals feel a spiritual connection to these trees – believing them to possess mystical powers – and use them in rituals to promote healing or luck. Other relationships between humans and the baobab are explored too, often illustrated by delightful anecdotes. The rich and enthusiastic text is complemented by evocative, colourful images that show the curious baobab in all its many stages, moods and guises – and sometimes in the most unlikely places. This book cannot fail to inspire.

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400

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1775841693

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9781775841692

The Complete Detective

The Life and Strange and Exciting Cases of Raymond Schindler, Master Detective

By: Rupert Hughes

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The Complete Detective

The Life and Strange and Exciting Cases of Raymond Schindler, Master Detective

By: Rupert Hughes

To anyone who has followed his career, Ray Schindler was the greatest detective of the mid-twentieth century. He was a pioneer in scientific detection before modern forensic science, and he handled more than 10,000 cases covering almost every crime recorded on the police blotter. Rupert Hughes acts as a faithful Dr. Watson to Schindler’s Holmes, and guides us from case to case, watching a man who can’t be excited, can’t be stampeded , and can’t be frightened; a man who matches ingenuity of crime with an even greater mental resourcefulness; a man who has a dogged determination and a big fighting heart. Ray Schindler’s biography is the story of a great investigator, of a life that is packed with exciting adventures, and of criminals who are outwitted, out-fought, and defeated. Mere fictional detective stories pale in comparison to the real life drama inherent in every one of Ray Schindler’s cases.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1590774558

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9781590774557

Classroom Talk

By: Rupert Knight

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Classroom Talk

By: Rupert Knight

This book summarises the theoretical principles behind talk in school and briefly maps the research tradition in this field. It examines the evidence relating to a variety of forms of classroom talk, including whole school culture and oracy; classroom environments conducive to talk; whole class teacher-pupil talk and pupil-pupil peer talk. The final chapter explores up-to-date issues and influences relating to talk, such as mastery learning, informed by international comparisons. Firmly grounded in evidence and the latest thinking, the book also offers practical advice for everyday implementation and evaluation of these principles. Evidence-based teaching is fast becoming a new orthodoxy. There are many strong voices, including policy voices, advocating its adoption. Understanding the underlying principles allows you to better evaluate the benefits of different approaches to evidence-based teaching and how they relate to your own school context.

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