Roots, family histories of familiar words

Roots, family histories of familiar words

Davies,Peter

McGraw=Hill

"Learning to Think: Thinking to Learn" has grown out of a conference organized by the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) in July 1989. Its purpose is to discuss and advance the state of knowledge about how young people think and reason. Thinking is a normal activity for every normal human being, ordinary life depends on our ability to think. Thus the prime objectives of formal education in all disciplines have always been the refining and shaping of the powers of thought. This book explores three broad ways of thinking in the context of education, looking firstly at the 'skills' approach, secondly at the 'infusion model' and thirdly at the belief that the traditional disciplines and pedagogy of education already provide for the development of thinking.

Learning to Think: Thinking to Learn - The Proceedings of the 1989 OECD Conference Organized by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (Economics)

Politics & Social Sciences

MacLure, Stuart

Social Sciences

Emerald Publishing

Mare's Milk and Wild Honey: A Shropshire Boyhood

History

Europe

David&Charles

Peter Davies recreates the sounds, sights and smells of rural Shropshire after the Second World War. It was a time of simple pleasure and innocent discovery, enthusiasm as well as sadness, encompassing the poignancy of young love and the tragic death of Peter's father. His youth was populated by characters as colorful as John the Waggoner and as engaging as Lisbet the Danish visitor who played the 'cello. His recollections are lyrical and heartfelt but conveyed without sentimentality in an affectionate but discerning recreation of adolescence.

A Corner of Paradise

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Tribology: Principles and design applications

The text gives descriptions of surface properties and surface contact, friction, wear, tribological properties of solid materials and lubricating systems.

Tribology: Principles and Design Applications

Science & Math

Halling J

Arnell, R.Derek

Whomes, Terence

Physics

Palgrave

This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War. British economic intelligence has a longer pedigree than the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and was the vanguard of intelligence coordination in Whitehall, yet it remains a missing field in intelligence studies. This book is the first history of this core government capability and shows how central it was to the post-war evolution of Whitehall's national intelligence machinery. It places special emphasis on the Joint Intelligence Bureau and Defence Intelligence Staff - two vital organisations in the Ministry of Defence underpinning the whole Whitehall intelligence edifice, but almost totally ignored by historians. Intelligence in Whitehall was not conducted in a parallel universe. This contrasts with the conventional wisdom which accepts the uniqueness of intelligence as a government activity and is symbolised by the historical profile of the JIC. The study draws on the official archives to show that the mantra of the existence of a semi-autonomous UK intelligence community cannot be sustained against the historical evidence of government departments using the machinery of government to advance their traditional priorities. Rivalries within and between agencies and departments, and their determination to resist any central encroachment on their authority, emasculated a truly professional multi-skilled capability in Whitehall at the very moment when it was needed to address emerging global economic issues. This book will be of much interest to students of British government and politics, intelligence studies, defence studies, security studies and international relations in general.

The Authorised History of British Defence Economic Intelligence (Government Official History Series)

Reference

Routledge

Peter Davies's book on the Kent State shootings focuses with relentless clarity on the unanswered questions of the case, setting out what is known and what is not known, and eloquently attempting to convince us-hardest task of all-that we ought to care about what happened on that fatal day, and about the failure of justice which followed.

Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

From fleece, yarn, and dyeing to looms and weaves, the visual language, tribal weavers, and meaning, origins, and aesthetics of the kilim, this book provides an ideal and up-to-date summary of the subject. It is illustrated with over 80 colorful examples, fine ethnographic photographs, and drawings that explain structural features and designs. 80 col. 70 b+w illus

Antique Kilims of Anatolia

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

W.W.Norton&Company

Written by the author of The Last Election, this is an exploration of the trends, fears and madness of the modern world. Charlie Fish wants a quiet life but gets caught up in a guerilla firefight. He meets Melinda Isenhope, a dissident ecologist, and they become involved in political intrigue.

Dollarville

Random House]

Human Rights

To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a collection of world experts have chartered the advances made, as well as detailing what remains to be done in the next forty years. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of history, international affairs, politics and philosophy.

Politics & Government

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