Vertebrate Paleontology: Biology and Evolution

Presents an outline of the history of the vertebrates, based on studies by palaeontologists around the world.

Science & Math

Benton, Michael

Biological Sciences

Unwin Hyman

Teaching Literature: Nine to Fourteen (Oxford Studies in Education)

Fox, Geoff

Oxford University Press

Touchstones 5: A Teaching Anthology

Reference

Peter Benton

Words, Language & Grammar

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

This book for GCSE attempts to help the reader to read paintings and poems. The book displays the work of an artist beside the work of poets who have drawn their inspiration for a particular poem from that particular painting. The work of artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, L.S.Lowry, Jan Van Eyck, Vincent Van Gogh, John Constable, Claude Monet, Pieter Bruegel, Francisco Goya, Salvador Dali and David Hockney, is featured beside the work of poets such as Wendy Cope, Fleur Adcock, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Sylvia Plath, W.H.Auden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Tennyson, William Blake, U.A.Fanthorpe, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon.

Double Vision

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Hodder Educ.

This is a poetry anthology compiled specifically to cover National Curriculum requirements at GCSE/Standard Grade. One section contains an anthology of ten featured poets which provides six key poems by each of the six contemporary and four pre-20th century poets. Another section provides a thematic anthology of poems by many contemporary and pre-20th century poets. The teaching section provides pupils of all abilities with guidance on ways into even the most complex poems. Another section offers help with the skill of comparing and contrasting poetry. Providing reading, writing, speaking and listening activities, as well as opportunities for written coursework and oral assessment, "New Touchstones" offers all the materials needed to span the study of KS 3. Poetry by Chaucer, Tennyson, Keats, Edward Thomas, D.H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes is featured.

New Touchstones Poetry: Anthology 11-14

Literature & Fiction

Benton, Peter

Poetry

Hodder&Stoughton

Young Readers Respond To Poems

Routledge

Michael Benton's book develops the concept of spectatorship as an answer to these questions. It explores the similarities and differences in our experiences of literature and the visual arts, and discusses their implications for pedagogy and their applications in cross-curricular work in the classroom. Teachers will find that, while many of the visual and verbal texts may be familiar, the approaches to them offer fresh insights and a rich agenda for the classroom. Shakespeare, Fielding, Hogarth, Blake, Wordsworth, Constable, Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Wilfred Owen, Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - the range of authors and artists discussed is both extensive and relevant to the National Curriculum and to post-16 and undergraduate courses.

Studies in the Spectator Role: Literature, Painting and Pedagogy

British & Irish

Studies in the Spectator Role

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

"Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." ―James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to Gaia
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: 90 percent of life was destroyed, including saber-toothed reptiles and their rhinoceros-sized prey on land, as well as vast numbers of fish and other species in the sea.
This book documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent rekindling of the idea of catastrophism. Was the end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia? The evidence has been accumulating through the 1990s and into the new millennium, and Michael Benton gives his verdict at the very end. From field camps in Greenland and Russia to the laboratory bench, When Life Nearly Died involves geologists, paleontologists, environmental modelers, geochemists, astronomers, and experts on biodiversity and conservation. Their working methods are vividly described and explained, and the current disputes are revealed. The implications of our understanding of crises in the past for the current biodiversity crisis are also presented in detail. 46 b/w illustrations. 46 illustrations

Benton, Michael J.

History

Thames&Hudson

"The focus is the most severe mass extinction known in earth's history….The science on which the book is based is up-to-date, thorough, and balanced. Highly recommended."—Choice Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: ninety percent of life was destroyed, including saber-toothed reptiles and their rhinoceros-sized prey on land, as well as vast numbers of fish and other species in the sea. This book documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent rekindling of the idea of catastrophism. Was the end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia? The evidence has been accumulating through the 1990s and into the new millennium, and Michael Benton gives his verdict at the end of the volume. From field camps in Greenland and Russia to the laboratory bench, When Life Nearly Died involves geologists, paleontologists, environmental modelers, geochemists, astronomers, and experts on biodiversity and conservation. Their working methods are vividly described and explained, and the current disputes are revealed. The implications of our understanding of crises in the past for the current biodiversity crisis are also presented in detail. 46 illustrations.

Ancient Civilizations

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