The Leading eBooks Store Online

for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...

New to eBooks.com?

Learn more
Browse our categories
  • Bestsellers - This Week
  • Foreign Language Study
  • Pets
  • Bestsellers - Last 6 months
  • Games
  • Philosophy
  • Archaeology
  • Gardening
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Graphic Books
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Health & Fitness
  • Political Science
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • History
  • Psychology & Psychiatry
  • Body Mind & Spirit
  • House & Home
  • Reference
  • Business & Economics
  • Humor
  • Religion
  • Children's & Young Adult Fiction
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Romance
  • Computers
  • Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Science
  • Crafts & Hobbies
  • Law
  • Science Fiction
  • Current Events
  • Literary Collections
  • Self-Help
  • Drama
  • Literary Criticism
  • Sex
  • Education
  • Literary Fiction
  • Social Science
  • The Environment
  • Mathematics
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Family & Relationships
  • Media
  • Study Aids
  • Fantasy
  • Medical
  • Technology
  • Fiction
  • Music
  • Transportation
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Food and Wine
  • Performing Arts
  • True Crime
  • Foreign Language Books

Most popular at the top

  • Telling Timeby Patricia J. Murphy

    Dorling Kindersley 2007; US$ 3.99

    Each book in the DK Readers series is specially crafted to suit the interests and learning stages of beginning readers. Telling Time is an engrossing history of timekeeping, from obelisks and sundials to the atomic clocks of today. more...

  • DK Readers: Let's Play Soccerby Patricia J. Murphy

    Dorling Kindersley 2008; US$ 3.99

    Photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children?s interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Jake?s uncle takes him on a behind-the-scenes tour of a local playhouse, and then it?s time for the show! more...

  • Journey of a Pioneerby Patricia J. Murphy

    Dorling Kindersley 2008; US$ 3.99

    Photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children?s interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Journey of a Pioneer follows the adventures of a young girl as her family travels west in covered wagons along the famous... more...

  • Rethinking Single Sex Teachingby Gabrielle Ivinson; Patricia Murphy

    McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 217.00

    Offers a theoretically informed look at the debate about single-sex teaching. Drawing on classroom observations and interviews with teachers and students, this book illustrates the effect of single-sex classrooms on learners and on the versions of subject knowledge made available to them. It is intended for teachers, academics and policy makers. more...

  • DK Readers: Bugs and Usby DK Publishing; Patricia J. Murphy

    DK Publishing 2012; US$ 3.99

    In this brand-new Level 1 DK Reader, learn all about the lives of creepy crawlies - what they eat, where they live, and how they help humans. For children who are just beginning to read and who have a limited vocabulary, these Level 1 books-about everything from tadpoles to puppies-use word repetition and simple sentences to convey meaning. Picture... more...

  • Learning and Practiceby Patricia F Murphy; Kathy Hall

    SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 56.00

    By examining ideas about learning that transcend typical boundaries, such as school/workplace or home/school, this book emphasies the socially negotiated and embedded nature of meaning-making and how learners learn to use the cognitive tools of their cultural community through participation in social activity. The editors argue that this is the means... more...

  • Knowledge and Practiceby Patricia F Murphy; Robert McCormick

    SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 54.00

    Longstanding cultural heritages about the nature of knowledge continue to dominate Western education. Yet the ways of knowing represented through teaching and workplace practices, including assessment, and their relationship to views of learning, are often ignored in debates about learning. This book provides a rich collection of readings that challenge... more...

  • Equity in the Classroomby Caroline V. Gipps; Patricia F. Murphy

    Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 65.95

    Concerned with pedagogy and the learning achievement of both girls and boys, this book examines international trends in subject performance throughout schooling and looks critically at a range of interventions in difference contexts and countries, all aimed at enhancing equity in schools and higher education institutions.; The book argues that pedagogy... more...

  • Reconsidering Science Learningby Patricia Murphy; Eileen Scanlon; Jeff Thomas; Elizabeth Whitelegg

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 53.95

    This informative book looks at science learning in a wide range of contexts. It is divided into three parts. Part one deals with the arguments put forward for studying science, and includes a discussion on what science learners need to know about the nature of science and how decisions about what forms science curricula are made. Part two includes... more...

  • Subject Learning in the Primary Curriculumby Jill Bourne; Mary Briggs; Patricia Murphy; Michelle Selinger

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95

    The emphasis on subject knowledge in primary curricula is a world-wide phenomenon and has become increasingly the focus of attention in England, with the introduction of the National Curriculum and the appointment of subject co-ordinators in schools. Yet what exactly constitutes a subject and its practice remains controversial. The book is organised... more...