Expectations have been raised in Australia and comparable countries for an 'education revolution' that will secure success for all students in all settings. Such a revolution must ensure the alignment of educational outcomes, the skills required for a strong economy, and the needs of a harmonious society. Why not the Best Schools? offers a ten-point, ten-year plan for an education revolution that will result in the transformation of Australia's schools.
Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society. Listening, Note Taking, Discussion. SB + Audio
Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society develops students’ listening and note-taking skills using a variety of recorded materials, including both informal interviews and formal classroom lectures. These engaging materials introduce students to stimulating topics in sociology, such as peer pressure, gender roles, and the influence of the media.
Academic Encounters: Life in Society. Reading, Study Skills, Writing. SB
Academic Encounters: Life in Society is a reading, study skills, and writing book that uses authentic readings from college textbooks to introduce students to stimulating topics in sociology. High-interest topics include: alternative lifestyles, gender roles, cults and propaganda. Exercises that accompany the readings teach important reading and study skills, such as skimming, reading critically, and test takings.
The Nineteenth Century provides the most comprehensive account available in any Western language of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation state.
The first volume of The New Medieval History covers the transitional period between the later Roman world and the early middle ages, c. 500 to c. 700. This was an era of developing consciousness and profound change in Europe, Byzantium and the Arab world, an era in which the foundations of medieval society were laid and to which many of our modern myths of national and religious identity can be traced.
