Read and discover all about food around the world... Where are cacao trees grown? What drink can you make from cherries?
Read and Discover is specially designed to make reading other subjects in English easy and fun. Students read about Science, Arts, and Social Studies - and develop their language skills at the same time. Colour photos help understanding and stunning diagrams develop critical thinking skills. The flexible design allows free reading and supported reading by giving clear signposts to activities and projects at the back.
Education - An 'Impossible Profession'?: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms
In classrooms and lectures we learn not only about academic topics but also about ourselves, our peers and how people and ideas interact. Education – An Impossible Profession extends the ways in which we might think about these processes by offering a refreshing reconsideration of key educational experiences including those of: being judged and assessed, both formally and informally, adapting to different groups for different purposes, struggling to think under pressure, learning to recognise and adapt to the expectations of others.
Samurai Sano Ichiro, our guide through the intricacies of life and death in 17th-century Japan in Laura Joh Rowland's evocative and accessible mysteries is called the Shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People. All of these skills--plus a strong sense of survival--are needed in this story about what happens when Dutch traders arrive in Nagasaki in 1690. The foreigners are isolated in a small section of the city, and most ordinary citizens are forbidden to make contact with them--on penalty of beheading.
Two boys share custody of a dog in this sequel to the Newbery Award winner Dear Mr. Henshaw . Ages 8-12. Leigh Botts, the protagonist of the Newbery winner Dear Mr. Henshaw (Morrow, 1983), is once again recording his thoughts on paper. While cleaning his room, he discovers his old diary and is inspired to start writing again. Now 14, he is still dealing with some of the same issues from earlier days--his parents' divorce, concerns about his father's sincerity and financial stability, and insecurities about his own identity and popularity. He also has a few new worries--namely Geneva, a girl, and Strider, a dog.
This book tells true story about one of the most outstanding politicians, strategist and nation leader who have ever been born in Poland. It is also opportunity to face up to old-fashioned vocabulary and gain some informations about difficult history of Poland.
