Society & Social Sciences

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...

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...

Best-selling resources to support teachers with the Renewed Literacy Framework with interactive activities on CD-ROM for interactive whiteboards. *...

50 Maths Lessons for More Able Learners is a new series of books that will provide a range of standalone activities covering the objectives for a t...

100 inspirational interactive whiteboard lessons for every year group - perfect for the busy or less confident interactive whiteboard user. * Essen...

100 inspirational interactive whiteboard lessons for every year group - perfect for the busy or less confident interactive whiteboard user. * Essen...

A comprehensive scheme for science, restructured to match QCA Science Scheme of Work. * Even better coverage of the Science curriculum, with the in...

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

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

These are best-selling resources to support teachers with the Renewed Literacy Framework with interactive activities on CD-ROM for interactive whit...

These are best-selling resources to support teachers with the Renewed Literacy Framework with interactive activities on CD-ROM for interactive whit...

A series of books of ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacher guidance that help teachers to do shared and guided writing with whole class ...

Unlock the secrets of academic excellence with this insightful book, based on the author's groundbreaking thesis at Cambridge. Dive deep into a wor...

What sort of people are MPs and what is the job that they do? Are they, in spite of being 'celebrities in their own constituencies, well-known, res...

The post-Communist world has seen a dramatic revival of ethnicity and nationalism. The volume explores the contemporary sources, scope and intensit...

Middle East oil and Anglo-American special relations were among the most contentious issues during the Cold War. Oil is crucial to our understandin...

Dress [with] Sense is the perfect guide for fashion lovers of all ages keen to embrace a more ethical and environment-friendly approach to their wa...

What should you do when results don't match your expectations? How is it possible to make the best of existing evidence? Is it acceptable to adapt ...

This guide provides students with practical advice and ideas to help them work effectively with other people and get the most out of their group pr...

'Gracie tells the story of her struggle and eventual triumph as a way of encouraging us, of changing our society, of giving us all courage . . . Eq...

Linguistic, ethnic, and economic diversity is a major factor influencing how school reform ought to be accomplished at local, state, and government...

The European Union and European identity were until recently the objects of separate branches of scholarship and inquiry. With the entry of Central...

This book offers a scholarly yet accessible overview of the role of lobbying in American politics. It draws upon extant research as well as origina...

This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains how the pre...

This book presents a study of co-offering relations among youths under twenty-one suspected of criminal offences in Stockholm during 1991-5. In tot...

This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and co...

Researchers in a growing number of fields - public policy, law, business, medicine, psychology, engineering, and others - are working to understand...

This book provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding cross-national cultural differences. Focusing on France and America, it analy...

Joining Society asks precise questions: To what are the young socialized? Which skills, modes of thinking or action are required from them and what...

To date little is known about the everyday activities that make up the majority of people's learning lives. This book presents a critical approach ...

Human behavior is very flexible and ontogenetic potential adds to the scope of variability of developmental paths. Therefore, development in the li...

The present national reform agendas stress that rigorous content and high expectations be accessible to all students, including students from group...

This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which q...

In the last twenty to thirty years, a new way to understand complex systems has emerged in the natural sciences - an approach often called non-line...