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In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at
John Burnside's first novel, his profoundly disturbing and beautifully-written story of scientific curiousity gone awry. In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate
Over 17 years and nine collections, John Burnside has built--in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue--'a poetic corpus of the first significance,' a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the charmed half-light of the liminal, a domestic world
'Black Cat Bone' -- John Burnside''s last collection -- won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In this absorbing, brilliant new collection -- his first since 'Black Cat Bone' -- John Burnside examines our shared experience of this mortal world: how we are 'all one breath' and --- with that
A major new account of poetry in the twentieth
Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is
Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Gradually, Jean offers a heart-breaking account, not only of her own history - a lost lover, a family scarred by war - but of the American century
From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday miracles on the
A young girl, Liv, lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. Then two boys drown within weeks of each other under mysterious circumstances, in the still, moonlit waters off the shores of Liv's home. Were the deaths accidental or were the boys lured to their doom by a
Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. This book examines the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding in order
Buongiorno Italia! is the highly successful course for beginners learning Italian. Whether learning at home or in a class, you will learn to use and understand basic colloquial Italian in a wide range of everyday
Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication
Visible Learning Guide to Student Achievement critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today. A revision of the International Guide to Student Achievement, this updated edition provides readers with a more accessible compendium of research summaries - with a particular
In November 2008, John Hattie's ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.Visible
To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song s goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own,' Shaker artists expressed an aesthetic that had much in common with the old Japanese notion, attributed to Hokusai, that to paint
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On publication in 2009 John Hattie's Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to improve children's learning. Not what was fashionable, not what political and educational vested interests wanted to champion, but what actually produced the
Inquiry, laboratory, project-based learning, discovery learning--which science instructional approach is most effective? In Visible Learning for Science, the authors reveal that it's not which strategy, but when, and plot a vital K-12 framework for choosing the right approach at the right time,
Recently at the Visible Learning Conference, Professor John Hattie stood up in his opening address and said, 'I'm looking at you all and thinking 'What if I got this wrong?'' I feel the same way when educators ask to visit and I always end up in the same place - that Keilor Views is a living,
Take a deep dive into deep learning Deep learning provides the means for discerning patterns in the data that drive online business and social media outlets. Deep Learning for Dummies gives you the information you need to take the mystery out of the topic--and all of the underlying technologies
NOBODY TO CALL With a mother unfit for purpose and a brother who despises her, working girl Amber can rely on no one but herself - until the meanest pimp in Manchester, Kev Pike, offers her his protection. Unfortunately, this attracts the fury of Cora, a prostitute no one wants to get on the wrong
This book provides a comprehensive overview of assessment that is used to support learning, practice-based theory on assessment for learning, and formative assessment to support individual development and motivate learners. Readers will find research-informed insights from a wide variety of