PARKINSON'S LAWTo the very young, to school-teachers, as also to those who compile textbooks about constitutional history, politics, and current affairs the world is a more or less rational place. They visualize the election of representatives, freely chosen from among those the people trust. They picture the process by which the wisest and best of these become ministers of state. They imagine how captains of industry, freely elected by shareholders, choose for managerial responsibility those who have proved their ability in a humbler role. Books exist in which assumptions such as these are boldly stated or tacidy implied.
Wegerif zooms in on the most important ingredient of all in a learning-to-learn classroom culture - the kinds of talk that are allowed and encouraged - and brings together both scholarly and practical approaches in a highly fruitful and accessible way. This is a thought-provoking and readable book, which makes a very good case for the importance of teaching thinking skills and encouraging creativity through dialogue.
What's your poison? Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. Left with a bad taste in their mouths - and not just from the food - the two amateur detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck, which is forcing their favorite pub into bankruptcy.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 21 January 2012
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Camilleri’s alternately brooding and life-loving Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano may be the most agonizingly human lead character in the mystery genre. The inspector’s all-too-recognizable shortcomings, from lethargy to lust, are on view in this latest episode in which a summer rental—procured by Salvo for friends of his girlfriend, Livia—becomes a kind of Italian Amityville horror.
Added by: hmimi | Karma: 167.25 | Black Hole | 17 January 2012
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JEAN-FRAN~OIS LYOTARD-ROUTLEDGE CRITICAL THINKERS
Jean-Fran yoi s Lyotard (1925-98) was one of the foremost critical thinke rs of the second half of the twentieth century. He is most famous for his groundbreaking analyses of postmodernism and postmodernity, which will form the main foc us of this book and will be introduced fully later on. These came into foc us in his 1979 book, The Postm odern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, which has been widely di scu ssed by cr it ics and is often set as a key text on degr ee co urses in English, Cultural and Media Studies, Philosophy and Sociology.
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