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Fetish Lives
Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1997; US$ 6.75Saints and dancers, writers and film stars, Elvis, Madame Tussaud and Mata Hari: just some of the lives explored in these unusual and arresting stories. With imaginative verve, Gail Jones weaves fact and speculation to reveal the 'fetish' aspects in the lives of people, both famous and ordinary. She explores the way they summon forms of yearning and... more...
Five Bells
Picador 2012; US$ 14.99A Picador Paperback Original On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But just as Circular Quay resonates with Australia?s past, each of the four... more...
Black Mirror
Random House Australia 2012; US$ 18.08?I am waiting for this visitor so that I can tell my story and die.? The award-winning novel from Gail JonesVictoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work was largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, but was rediscovered in the seventies... more...
Tales Out of the School Library
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 40.00Tales Out of the School Library: Developing Professional Dispositions is a book that empowers anyone working in the school library to redefine their practice to meet the needs of young learners today. It covers familiar, everyday topics of the most concern to practitionersÑassessment, literacy and reading, diversity, intellectual freedom, communication,... more...
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Wiley 2009; US$ 49.95This easy-to-use manual provides a practical framework for a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a successful cardiac rehabilitation programme. Despite evidence that cardiac rehabilitation programmes reduce risk, there is no standard for hospital-based multidisciplinary programmes - which are thus complex and costly to design and implement Based on... more...
Teaching Matters Most
SAGE Publications 2012; US$ 34.95This book?s three-step process outlines how to envision what great teaching looks like, measure current instruction against that standard, and work relentlessly to improve instruction accordingly. more...
Nanoscale Science
National Science Teachers Association 2007; US$ 24.95Futurists predict that nanotechnology will be the next major scientific revolutionone with an even greater impact than the Industrial Revolution. Nanoscale Science will help your middle and high school students understand the big implications of tiny technology. Using guided inquiry with open-ended exploration where possible, the books... more...
Extreme Science
National Science Teachers Association 2009; US$ 29.95Whether we are imagining microbes or mammoths, dinosaurs or diatoms, molecules or stars, people of all ages are fascinated with the very large and the very small. New technologies have enabled scientists to investigate extremes of science previously unknown. An understanding of scale and scaling effects is of central importance to a scientific understanding... more...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 28.99Much of the common knowledge about standardized tests is simply wrong, and these misunderstandings have led to the distortion of the education of children and the judgments made about them. The Myths of Standardized Tests debunks these assumptions, proposing better ways to judge the success of our schools and offering readers suggestions for ways they... more...
New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement
Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 26.95During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture-which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement-has remained largely neglected by subsequent... more...









