Written by well-respected authors the suite provides a comprehensive structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 framework & seamlessly progresses into the next stage. This engaging course supports teaching of the Science framework both theoretically & practically with full coverage of the Scientific Enquiry framework integrated throughout the series. This Coursebook for Stage 8 gives a thorough introduction to the concepts & offers a wealth of ideas for hands-on activities to make the subject matter come to life. ...

Written by well-respected authors the suite provides a comprehensive structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 framework & seamlessly progresses into the next stage. This Teachers Resource CD-ROM for Stage 7 gives suggestions for how to introduce concepts in the classroom & how to deal with common misconceptions. A large collection of worksheets offers more ideas for practical & other activities. Answers to all questions in the Coursebook & Workbook as well as guidance & safety notes for all practical activities are also included. ...

Written by well-respected authors the suite provides a comprehensive structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 framework & seamlessly progresses into the next stage. This engaging course supports teaching of the Science framework both theoretically & practically with full coverage of the Scientific Enquiry framework integrated throughout the series. This Workbook for Stage 7 contains exercises that develop students' ability to apply their knowledge as well as Scientific Enquiry skills relating to planning experiments & recording results. ...

Written by well-respected authors the suite provides a comprehensive structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 framework & seamlessly progresses into the next stage. This engaging course supports teaching of the Science framework both theoretically & practically with full coverage of the Scientific Enquiry framework integrated throughout the series. This Workbook for Stage 8 contains exercises that develop students' ability to apply their knowledge as well as Scientific Enquiry skills relating to planning experiments & recording results. ...

Designed to follow the latest CIE IGCSE syllabus this revision guide will provide revision material which is presented in a clear concise but not too condensed format appropriate for international students aged 14-16. They may be used for study & homework throughout the year but are predominantly intended as a student revision purchase. Suitable for all students it will stretch those of a lower ability while challenging & providing a wealth of exam practice for students of higher ability. Big ideas" will help to guide revision & show students what learning outcomes they should be aiming for. Visual & EAL learners will be supported by the diagrams & figures that are used to illustrate all concepts ranging from the elementary to the complex. Core & Extended material is distinguished & questions are separated into different levels. We provide everything needed to ensure exam success including questions & answers revision & assessment advice." ...

Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics & religion but not always adequately understood. The 2007 edition of this Companion brings the story of the movements continuing importance & impact up to date. Additional essays which complement those in the original edition expand upon the issues by dealing with gender & sexuality & the important matter of epistemology. In the light of a more conservative ethos in Roman Catholicism & in theology generally liberation theology is often said to have been an intellectual movement tied to a particular period of ecumenical & political theology. These essays indicate its continuing importance in different contexts & enable readers to locate its distinctive intellectual ethos within the evolving contextual & cultural concerns of theology & religious studies. This book will be of interest to students of theology as well as to sociologists political theorists & historians. ...

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative first published in 1997 provides a unique & valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling & methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry & in connection with a variety of media from film & television to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character dialogue genre or language shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example & indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative a glossary of key terms & a comprehensive index this is an essential resource for both students & scholars in many fields including language & literature composition & rhetoric creative writing jurisprudence communication & media studies & the social sciences. ...

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy acquaints the student reader with the forms contexts critical & theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex & demanding theatre genre but the thirteen essays written by leading scholars in Britain & North America are clear concise & informative. They address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated developed & diversified as well as how it has fared on stage as text & in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespearean tragedies (medieval classical & contemporary) cultural backgrounds (political religious social & psychological) & the subgenres of Shakespeare's tragedy (love tragedy revenge tragedy & classical tragedy) as well as the critical & theatrical receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies & in addition Titus Andronicus Romeo & Juliet Julius Caesar Antony & Cleopatra Coriolanus & Timon of Athens. ...

For more than a thousand years the adventures of King Arthur & his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chretien de Troyes Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival Sir Gawain & the Green Knight & Malory's Le Morte d' Arthur. In the nineteenth century interest in the Arthurian legend revived with Tennyson Wagner & Twain. This Companion outlines the evolution of the legend from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot & analyses how some of the major motifs of the legend have been passed down in both medieval & modern texts. With a map of Arthur's Britain a chronology of key texts & a guide to further reading this volume itself will contribute to the continuing fascination with the King & his many legends. ...

Situated between the Victorians & Modernism the fin de siecle is an exciting & rewarding period to study. In the literature & art of the 1890s the processes of literary & cultural change can be seen in action. In this more than any previous decade literature was an active & controversial participant within debates over morality aesthetics politics & science as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde Aubrey Beardsley H. G. Wells Bram Stoker & Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent occasionally even notorious writers & artists of the period challenging establishment values & producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume

Includes:: the main currents of radical & innovative thinking in the period as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian & twentieth-century literature art & cultural history.

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