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'Afropean' is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University...
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Continuum
Pub. Date
2009
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This is an accessible, practical guide, packed with advice that puts to rest all parents' fears about being able to help their children with their homework. It clarifies why maths is important and exactly what can be done at home to help your child at school.
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Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
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'This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. For my generation television was the one thing that united everyone. There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).' In his...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000
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This is a handbook for teachers of drama which takes into account developments in the teaching of drama in the past ten years. Thirty new conventions in the categories of narrative, context, poetic and reflective drama have been developed.
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2005
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'Teaching Dance Studies' features contributions from eminent figures, including Bill Evans, a specialist in Laban/Bartenieff studies, Ilene Fox, head of the Dance Notation Bureau and Susan Foster, one of the leading dance theoreticians in the country.
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QED Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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This title includes background information, troubleshooting and extra activities to support children (and grown-ups!) in learning key coding concepts. The series introduces coding through clear and concise information, teamed with simple and practical tasks, from drawing shapes, giving instructions in code, building games, and much more!
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Longman
Pub. Date
2010
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This book aims to provide ready-made science lesson ideas that will considerably reduce the workload for many overburdened teachers. They can be easily adapted to suit varying levels of ability, and bring science to life. The structure of the book mirrors the QCA scheme of work.
11) Teach EFL
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Teach Yourself
Pub. Date
2014
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Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, 'Teach English as a Foreign Language' provides instant help with common problems and quick tips for success.
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Blackwell
Pub. Date
2003
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This textbook offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of teaching English as a foreign/second language. It is written both for teachers and for those taking professional courses in English language teaching.
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Paul Chapman
Pub. Date
2004
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Written by a team of experienced authors, this volume encourages teachers to become the best kind of secondary English teacher. The ideas presented in the book are based upon theory and an understanding of the essential nature of language and texts derived from research findings.
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2006
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Essay writing is an essential skill for students at all academic levels, and the ability to produce clear, well-argued essays is key to good coursework and passing exams. This text offers the new or under-confident essay writer all the guidance and advice needed to develop and improve their skills.
15) A promised land
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest...
16) Three mothers: how the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin shaped a nation
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William Collins
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, all born into the beginning of the 20th century and its deadly landscape of racial prejudice. Jim Crow. Exploitation. Unpoliced violence. Police violence. It was a society that would deny their sons? humanity from the beginning as it had denied...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
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The fruit of a two-year research project, this book provides an historical account of the teaching of history in 20th century England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current debate over teaching in schools, a debate which seems likely to go on for several years.
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
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Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction. The...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
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This title covers all the elements of primary spelling and vocabulary that teachers need to know by focusing on the key aspects of English language development, such as typical structures and coventions, historical influences, useful tools and methods for learning. Topics covered include: a brief history of the English language; children and language; dictionaries, thesauruses and technology; understanding words; the rules of spelling; Teaching spelling;...