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Theory and Practice of Education
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 130.00"To fellow academics may I say this: Don't put it unread on your students' reading list. Tackle it for yourself, for this is seminal.". Professor Michael Bassey (Praise for Theory of Education ). The eagerly-awaited sequel to the award-winning Theory of Education considers issues of perennial interest to educators. In his compelling... more...
Theory of Education
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 130.00To date, theory in Education Studies has been dominated by a particular view of what should count as 'scientific' theory. David Turner argues that this approach does not necessarily provide a firm foundation for policy planning and professional activity. Using examples from linear programming, game theory, decision theory and chaos theory,... more...
Using the Medical Model in Education
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00Medicine, and particularly neuroscience, appears to offer the kind of educational quick fixes that politicians and the public would love to have. Following media reports of drugs that seemingly improve learning and memory, David Turner examines commonly held beliefs about learning, knowledge and intelligence, and critically assesses such claims. Using... more...
Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher?
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2011; US$ 17.99Did the Cettis Warbler inspire the opening notes of the last movement of Beethovens Second Symphony?Is the emu natures most devoted dad?Find out the answers to these ornithological conundrums and others this engaging book that delves into literature, science, religion, fine art and popular culture to reveal how a bird can be far more... more...
Quality in Higher Education
Springer 2012; US$ 39.95The quality of higher education is a hot topic, especially as students around the world are asked to pay more towards their own education, and expect to get what they pay for. In addition, league tables, both national and international, have come to dominate discussion, with several governments, and many institutions, setting themselves the goal of... more...
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process,... more...
Fashioning Adultery
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 46.00This book provides the first major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources it charts and explains crucial shifts in perceptions of marital infidelity and the development of a more rational understanding of adultery. more...
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the... more...
The Fall of English France 1449-53
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.99For the overwhelming majority of people outside the French-speaking world the Hundred Years War consisted of a sequence of major English victories, above all Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt. The only significant victor or 'hero' on the French side was Joan of Arc, and she ended up being burned at the stake. Yet somehow the war ended in a French victory... more...
Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher?
Summersdale 2012; US$ 15.99An engaging guide that illustrates the significance of birds throughout history Did the Cettia's Warbler inspire the opening notes of the last movement of Beethoven's Second Symphony? Who among a host of rivals wrote the best poem about the nightingale? And is there a James Bond film named after a duck? Find out the answers to these... more...









