Society & social sciences

A comprehensive scheme for science, restructured to match QCA Science Scheme of Work. The key features of the book include: even better coverage of...

Review Here, from stubble to stewing pot, are all the facts that can be assembled; science, literature, mythology, superstition, semantics, venery...

Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. But for all its obvious importance, learning has...

On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Chr...

In The Equality Illusion, 'the most influential young feminist in the country' (Guardian) and UK Feminista founder Kat Banyard argues passionately ...

Product Description Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans – oppressive a...

A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our nati...

The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world – a repentant jihadist and an idealistic journa...

Two people are firefighters and do the same job. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: 'That's amazing, you are ...

Your teen brain is amazing! These fun and easy "brain hacks" will help you make the most of your growing mind, deal with ALL the feelings, build fr...

'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data ... a p...

*** 'Brave and vividly evoked, should haunt Kier Starmer et al.' - The Telegraph 'Where Did I Go Right? is sharp, considered, insightful, and hel...

In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the...

Review One of the best commentators on defence and diplomacy . . . always a reliably authoritative presence . . . Concise and cogently argued, Urb...

Review A joy to read: penetrating, questioning and witty. ― Sunday Times His genius is the way in which he voices all those things we knew instin...

About the Author Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Aw...

DON'T HURRY, BE HAPPY. Almost everyone complains about the hectic pace of their lives. These days, our culture teaches that faster is better. But i...

What do you remember from your school days? Analysing poems that didn't make sense? The dreaded set texts? The Super Tutor celebrates the love of l...

This accessible and much-needed resource sets out advice on how to develop character and encourage wellbeing in pupils aged 5-11. Schools are incr...

About the Author Dr Sanna Balsari-Palsule is a behavioural scientist and expert in the psychology of personality. An associate at Judge Business S...

'A frankly brilliant book' The Guardian 'This book will make you think differently about our world' - FT 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide...

Aside for the secretaries of state, those lofty roles at the Home Office, MOD, Exchequer, and Foreign office, the ministers of the UK are a cast of...

Review Byrne's book is about scientific parenting, and it is very welcome indeed ... At its best it is an overview of what we know about child dev...

Review Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an important, courageous book -- Melanie Reid ― The Times Bindel . . . has written a R...

Review At last, a scrupulously honest insight into private boarding education in Britain - ranging from the abuse to which it subjects the child, ...

'A PROBING EXPLORATION OF THE CREATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF INACTIVITY' FINANCIAL TIMES 'To do nothing at all is the most difficult th...

Review Extract: How can we live with those who are different from us? This is an old question and a tricky one. It may also be the most urgent pro...

Review In all the best ways, The Meat Paradox complicates the ongoing debate between omnivores and herbivores. It's a funny, reverent reminder tha...

The Queen's Agent by John Cooper is the definitive book about Francis Walsingham, the first great English spy master and the man who saved Elizabet...

Product Description "Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, aut...

All serious politicians are supposed to possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament he ha...

With new, updated material, P. J. O'Rourke covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential candidates circa June 2015, through ...

Review Charming and well written ... [a] readable and practical guide to understanding the people around you. ― New ScientistSam Gosling is an...

About the Author Ronald Giphart is an award-winning and best-selling novelist with a strong interest in psychology and human behaviour. He met...

Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning...

The second set in the series, The Year's Work in English Studies Volume 77 edited by Peter Kitson, and The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural The...

Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable alternatives with different distributive consequences, t...

This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of hal...

This volume, first published in 1999, describes children's development in its cultural context. It stresses the point that children's development i...

This study demonstrates that in a time of massive change characterized by the emergence of entirely new political systems and a fundamental reorgan...

The time-consuming process of finding, making and gathering together the resources needed when starting a new area of study in science can be solve...

This series provides practical dip-in activities to support the 'Early Learning Goals'. The ideas will provide a collection of quick-to-use timed a...

Get your early years children singing with a song for every occasion! No musical ability is required - we've sung so you don't have to! This title ...

"Themes for Early Years" is back - fully revised and better than ever with a fantastic CD-ROM! This title features on screen drag and drop activiti...

This is a comprehensive scheme for science, restructured to match QCA Science Scheme of Work. It offers even better coverage of the Science curricu...