This CD-ROM is a powerful teaching tool for 7-11 year olds, led by an energetic animated host who engages the player in discussion about the principles of science and responds intelligently to the player's answers and actions. With 30 interactive experiments plus two bonus games players can discover important science principles at first hand, and they don't have to clear up the mess afterwards! Based in Rosie's treehouse, this is a biological learning centre, where children learn all about the human body, plants and animals.
For students trying to make sense of performativity and related concepts such as the speech act, ‘ordinary language’, and iterability, and for those seeking to understand the place of these ideas in contemporary performance theory, this clear guide will prove indispensable. Performativity offers not only a path through challenging critical terrain, but a new understanding of just what is at stake in the exploration of this field.
Contract Law, 2nd edition, is the ideal resource for OCR and WJEC students studying Contract Law as their A2 option and is an excellent introductory text for students of other law courses. Addressing the new 2007 specifications and assessment methods, the text provides authoritative coverage of Contract Law using an accessible and clear writing style to ensure that complex issues can be easily understood.
The new edition of this popular course in translation from French into English offers a challenging practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved.
In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present. Students will welcome this clear, concise guide, which: *traces the use of the concept through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era *looks closely at the work of Socrates and the more contemporary theorists Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze *explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions of irony *applies theories of irony to literary texts Making even the most difficult debates accessible and clear, this is the ideal student introduction to the many theories of irony.
