This book is intended to be a core text for primary school teachers in training, induction and beyond. It is primarily aimed at those who are not science specialists, providing them with an accessible and useful tool to enable them to gain confidence in their ability to teach science successfully. It can also be used by those with a more secure scientific background, to help them develop their science teaching across the breadth of the primary curriculum.

In 1970, Abbie Hoffman conceived the idea for his most ambitious book project yet. He had begun criss-crossing the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting along in America--some illegal, but most of them having to do with survival techniques. Steal This Book captures the spirit of those years, describing actions and techniques that were already in use in all 50 states. Illustrations, photos & cartoons.

What happens to the big bang singularity within string theory? Did time have a beginning? These and other pre-eminent questions, whose implications go far beyond the boundaries of physics and even of science, lie at the forefront of today's research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. Maurizio Gasperini succeeds in this book in drawing a thorough - yet very accessible and captivating - panorama of the various answers that have so far emerged to those basic questions.