Lively & thought provoking!at a key time in the development of primary mathematics teaching & learning. It offers a very much richer model of mathematics learning than is available to many young learners & has the potential to have a real impact on the way mathematics is taught.
- Jan Winter Bristol University UK What is good mathematics teaching? What is mathematics teaching good for? Who is mathematics teaching for? Under-pinned by findings from the largest research programme into primary mathematics funded in recent years Transforming Primary Mathematics offers a clear practical approach to implementing fundamental change in curriculum classroom environment & teaching styles. It offers an inspiring sometimes controversial & often unconventional look at the subject of mathematics by: Endorsing the use of a new mathematics -- one based on problem solving modelling & inquiry not on abstract rules memorising & regurgitation Arguing that there is more to maths teaching than death by a thousand worksheets Challenging norms such as the practice of sorting children into sets based on their perceived mathematical ability Advocating an environment where teachers are encouraged to take risks Looking at how best to prepare learners for an unknown future Encouraging reflection on teachers own beliefs & values about mathematics. Transforming Primary Mathematics is for all primary school teachers who want to make mathematics welcoming engaging inclusive & successful.
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This book is about really 'difficult' children & how through the Nurtured Heart Approach of Howard Glasser & Jennifer Easley their lives & the lives of those who care about them can be transformed for the better. Already a major bestseller in the USA this book offers parents & carers a new way of helping their intense child change & succeed. The Nurtured Heart Approach is about strategically creating actual experiences of success for children within the context of their activities & their relationships. The Approach is constructed in steps. Each step is defined by a recommended strategy that adds to the preceding steps in a way that builds a progressive framework & a complete system for parenting the most challenging child. Such techniques should be applied only as intensively as the situation merits. The authors reject the 'ritalin based' approach believing instead that a challenging child can have an essential change of nature & can begin to use his or her intensity in remarkably positive ways. ...

There have been a number of significant changes in transfusion science in the last five to ten years & this new edition of Transfusion Science covers these in some detail. * A new chapter introduces readers to the current applications of emerging techniques in transfusion science. * Platelet immune disorders & haemolytic anaemias are now covered. * The need for leucodepletion & methods for pathogen reduction are described. * The latest nomenclature for blood group genes has been adopted. * Current practice in blood group serology is reviewed. * Recent legislative changes for quality assurance in transfusion in the UK are now also covered. Case studies & colour photographs are now provided to illustrate concepts & to aid understanding & a revised series of self-assessment questions & learning outcomes are also provided. An understanding of transfusion science is vital for all biomedical science students. Transfusion Science second edition explains all the basic principles alongside descriptions of the applications now possible as a result of modern analytical techniques. This book is essential reading for all students studying courses on transfusion & transplantation. ...

Caro gallant & adventurous is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long & hopelessly by young scientist Ted Tice she is to find that love brings passion sorrow betrayal & finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass & the characters weave in & out of each others lives love death & two slow-burning secrets wait in ambush for them. ...

Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds that hangs suspended between triumph & catastrophe the dismantling of the Wall & the fall of the Twin Towers in the shadow of suicide terrorism & global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. There is Temudjin Oh an unkillable assassin who journeys between the high passes of Nepal a version of Victorian London & a wintry Venice; Adrian Cubbish restlessly greedy City trader; & the Philosopher a state-sponsored torturer who moves between the time zones with sinister ease. Transition is a high-definition hyper-real apocalyptic fable for terrible times. ...

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded & rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal & cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative. ...

Written by Warren Ellis Art by Darick Robertson Jerome K. Moore Keith Aiken Ray Kryssing Dick Giordano Kim De Mulder & Rodney Ramos Cover by Darick Robertson DCs new editions of TRANSMETROPOLITAN begin here with this volume collecting issues 1-6 of the acclaimed Vertigo series from writer Warren Ellis & artist Darick Robertson! After years of selfimposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation & indecency cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job he hates & a city he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd century surroundings. In this first volume Spider ventures into the dangerous Angels 8 district home of the Transients
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Written by Warren Ellis Art by Darick Robertson & Rodney Ramos Cover by Darick Robertson In this second volume of TRANSMETROPOLITAN which now has been reconfigured to collect issues 7-12 renegade journalist Spider Jerusalem targets three of societys most worshipped & warped pillars: politics religion & television. When Spider tries to shed light on the atrocities of these institutions he finds himself fleeing a group of hit men/kidnappers in possession of his ex-wifes frozen head a distorted creature alleging to be his son & a vicious talking police dog. Advance-solicited; on sale May 20
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Episcopal bishop Timothy Archer is haunted by the suicides of his son & mistress & must cope with the implications of the discovery of a religious artefact. These events drive him into a quest for the identity of Christ. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is Philip K. Dicks last completed novel & a learned moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. ...

The heir to Martina Cole's crown with a story of murder the underworld violence & treachery. The Butlers are the kings of the East End. Vinny & Roy Butler are the apple of their mum's eye & although Queenie knows they can play dirty when it comes to family they look after business & make her proud. Nothing & no one can bring the Butler's down. But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person & his cards are marked. & with the brothers joined at the hip Roy may just be in the firing line too... One bloody night sets Vinny on the path of desperate vengeance but will the Butlers emerge stronger than ever or is the East End code of honour as good as dead? ...