The Death of Progressive Education: How Teachers Lost Control of the Classroom
The first authoritative survey of the changing politics of the classroom since the Second World War. It charts the process by which society moved away from being one in which teachers decided both the content of the school curriculum and how it would be taught towards the present situation in which a host of external influences dictate the nature of the educational experience.
The Small Talk Handbook: Easy Instructions on How to Make Small Talk in Any Situation Small talk with anyone! There's a difference between communicating effectively and making small talk. Even if you have no fear of public speaking, you might still stumble over simple conversation when chatting with your superior, unexpectedly running into a friend, or breaking the ice with someone you just met. The Small Talk Handbook lays down the basics to engaging chitchat and teaches you how to enliven your personal and professional communication - no matter where you are. It offers the necessary tools to focus on verbal strengths, minimize weaknesses, and leave the best impression.
Mercer Mayer's very popular Little Critter stars in a picture book about feeling angry. With minimal text and funny illustrations to spell out every new situation, the book shows the Critter family saying no to everything Little Critter wants to do.
Hay Fever - by Noël Coward - BBC Radio
Comedy of manners where the comfort of guests of a family at a country house is wrecked by familial in-fighting.
A sparkling, witty comedy by one of our most famous and successful playwrights. It is the 1920s, and the self-absorbed Bliss family is hosting an unconventional house party. Everyone has invited a guest for the week-end -- but without consulting the others. Of course the situation rapidly becomes complicated, with delicious shades of farce, when the family starts trying to seduce one another's guests.
The dictionary defines "aphorism" as "a short pithy statement or maxim," but beneath this definition lies a wealth of wit and insight to which neither the word nor any brief description can do justice. This delightful anthology demonstrates just how rewarding the aphorism can be and how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate a hidden truth or reveal the ironies of life. Whatever the situation, whatever the mood, the reader will find in this international array of aphorisms just the right words to give his or her feeling pungent expression.
The Book of Aphorisms will lure the reader back to its pages time and again.
