A practical and accessible text for trainee primary school teachers examining the 'new literacies' and exploring their place in primary schools.  Meer

This practical resource provides evidence-based strategies for enhancing social skills for children and adolescents diagnosed with high-functioning autism.  Meer

Taking tea is one of the quintessentially English occasions, and who is a greater authority on the subject than the sumptuous Ritz London Hotel?  Meer

Advances in Insect Physiology is committed to publishing eclectic volumes containing comprehensive and in-depth reviews on all aspects of insect physiology.  Meer

Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold, honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood. an exhausted mother longing for adult conversation but whose son unwittingly precludes it; and a teenage girl whose fraught encounter with a harried mum of one brings newfound appreciation for her own capable mother of four.  Meer

In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger - the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor - carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are different has become strong.  Meer

An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself.  Meer

A lyrical and spellbinding story of love, loss, and war from a standout new voice in fiction.  Meer

An essential text for primary trainees providing guidance on embedding primary ICT across the curriculum and strengthening ICT subject knowledge.  Meer

Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching illustrates how the drive for profit in commercial ELT affects the manner in which language is taught.  Meer

Simpson offers a reflective and theoretical explanation of the ways in which unionists conceive of the past in the present post-conflict environment. He considers the ways in which scholarly literature has often painted an outdated and inaccurate portrait of a highly complex people.  Meer

John Simpson's bestselling memoir of his childhood, through which he also paints a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s.  Meer

This volume on the Reagan and Bush years provides a collection of National Security Council records from the two most recent administrations. It includes 250 previously classified directives gathered through Freedom of Information Act requests, archival research, and the study of court records.  Meer

The history of the ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, is one that has generated a great deal of interest amongst historians in recent years.  Meer

Originally published in 1988 the central issue of this book is city centre decline and the potential of adequate planning and transport for halting and reversing this decline.  Meer

The Guests Editors have assembled expert authors to present clinical reviews on the current knowledge and best practices for high-risk pregnancies. Authors are writing on Genetics: update on prenatal screening and diagnosis; Screening for congenital heart disease; What you need to know when managing twins; Short cervix dilemma; preterm labor: approach to decreasing complications of prematurity; Optimizing outcomes for the growth-restricted fetus; Preeclampsia: short- and long-term implications; pregnancy risk associated with obesity; prevention of first cesarean delivery, and diagnosis and management of placenta accreta.  Meer

Perhaps the most powerful feature of the Romantic imagination is its ability to dissolve existing form and order and create it anew. The Romantic investigation of the functions of the imagination also leads to important insights concerning its problems and dangers.  Meer