Winning Ways to Learn : Ages 3, 4, & 5

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3 - 5 years. The proven approach of the 'work sampling' in a new, easy to use, format for teachers and parents alike. Over 600 activities to boost children's school readiness and success. Paperback, 184 pages.

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Unlimited Possibilites.......2004-04-28

There are so many activities to do with your children. Almost all are at no cost,little prepwork, and unstuctured. Some are just suggestions that will make the answers you give to their common questions a little deeper. There are suggestions for on the spot discussions(i.e.-playing with a firetruck and asking what a firefighter wears, what equipment do they use and so on).
When I was reading it I had to put it down after each section because the information is so overwhelming it takes time to absorb, think about what you just read and how it can apply to your life.

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By the second half of the 14th century, the once mighty Byzantine Empire had been reduced to little more than the city of Constantinople. In 1391, the Ottoman ruler Sultan Bayazid I 'The Lightning' besieged the city. Pope Boniface IX preached a crusade and a French-led army of 10,000 marched east. At Nicopolis they met the Ottoman army in battle. Ignoring the advice of their Hungarian and Transylvanian allies, the Crusaders charged the Turks and were in turn smashed by the Ottoman heavy cavalry. The last Crusade ended on the banks of the Danube as the Crusaders desperately sought to escape from the pursuing Turks.

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Arrogance at work !.......2000-11-18

But not in this work. The title of this review is a quotation of the French Admiral de Vienne who uttered it at the sight of the over hastily advancing French and Burgundian knights."When truth and reason cannot be heard,than must arrogance rule".Thus giving a perfect one-sentence description of the battle. What are the good points in this book: -The description of the crusading spirit of the nobel-classes in France and Burgundy. -Showing the arrogance of the French knighthood when it comes to the use of lower-class or mercenary infantry which they won`t have on their nobel crusade(resulting in a total lack of siege capacity and equipment). -Showing the lack of willingness by these knights to consider tactics and terrain as notable factors for the outcome of the battle at least when these would restrict their quest for glory and showing of personal bravery.(Thus they discarded the advise of their mostly Hungarian (there are practicaly no Austrians in this story) and Wallachian allies to wait with their attack until their army contingents had time to group. -The book has a good breakdown of Ottoman army organisation which has astonishingly many parallels to the European fashion. -Shows well the similarities and differences in habit when it comes to bravery of the (infantry) fighting man and cultural ethic. -Many typical Nicolle photographs of the landscape and pieces of armor.(Must have photographed every picture ,statuette and effigy containing a piece of armor from Skandinavia to the Sahara). -Dry, scholary and unbiased style of writing, the author really cares about his intellectural integrity (God behold him so). -It is really interesting to see the Christian Serbs crushing the last attempt of the Christian army to turn the battle.(And this 7 years after the battle of the "Amselfeld"). All in all an interesting book on an interesting battle with good pictures and maps.

P.S.:Now I wait for Mohacs.

Treacherous sides on a pitiful campaign.......2000-06-07

This book clearly laid out the last part of the Crusades fought with sticks-and-swords. The place was far remove from Jerusalem, but the competing powers each rested on a long heritage of crusading history.

The argument relied on the traditional assumption that the Austrians had over calculated their Balkan allies' fighting will. Their pompous mounted knights waited for and listed to no one. This very attitude cost them the whole campaign, although started successfully, when they reached the outskirts of Nicopolis (Bulgaria).

For once, history mentioned some goodness for the 'Serbs' when they finished off the last remaining Austrian's knights for the Ottomans. Only the wide river of Danube saved the Christian Coalition Army from total destruction.

You won't find any fancy strategy devised by the Ottoman on this battle, but everything seemed went wrong for the Christian army. Several colored pictures nicely decorate this piece of work.

Another fine effort pulled by the team at Osprey Publishing, it's where you relied on when speaking about military history.

Lives up to high standard of series.......2000-04-22

Nothing fancy about this book - just another very solid history lesson from Dr.Nicolle.

Nicopolis 1396 : The Last Crusade (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

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Nicopolis 1396 : The Last Crusade (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
David Nicolle
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Nicopolis 1396: The Last Crusade (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
David Nicolle
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An exploration of Bertrand Russell's writings during the interwar years, a period when he advocated the scientific outlook to insure the survival of humanity in an age of potential self-distruction.

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Denton on Science, and Religion, And Not on the Next War.......2007-05-24

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell will probably be remembered most through the ages for his contributions to mathematical logic at the beginning of the 20th century. But the First World War proved to be a watershed event for Russell personally. He spoke of how one of the war's effects on him was to render the world of "abstract ideas" "thin and rather trivial" in the light of the suffering perpetrated by the prevailing havoc.
Peter H. Denton is Assistant Professor in the Departments of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the University of Winnipeg. In his book The ABC of Armageddon: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion, and the Next War, he treats of Bertrand Russell's interwar period relative to the problem that Denton never tires of describing as "the old savage in the new civilization." To be sure, Russell had brooded over how science liberated us from needs in certain areas, on the one hand, while, on the other, fostering an industrial culture that is less free. Above all, Russell had warned that "Material progress has increased men's power of injuring one another, and there has been no correlative moral progress." And Denton explains that, however disinclined Russell had become to the "abstract world of ideas," he had hardly "become a disciple of Henry Ford." Rather "[t]he misrepresentation of science as nothing more than technique, in which the value of knowledge was measured not by its truth but by its utility, aroused Russell's ire throughout the interwar period."
Denton begins his book with a discussion of Russell's contemporaries who also addressed science's role in society. Chapter 2 is basically a synopsis of Russell's Prospects for Industrial Civilisation and The Scientific Outlook. Chapter 3 covers Russell's views on religion and the implications for religion of the then new revelations in physics. Chapters 4 and 5 are about the philosophic implications of the advances in physics for the rivalry between science and religion and how Russell saw the differences between science and religion as ultimately irreconcilable. Finally, Chapters 6 and 7 are a discussion of how the endeavors of Russell to cope with "the old savage in the new civilization" were doomed to failure because of his philosophy's lack of an "operational metaphysic."
The ABC of Armageddon is highly readable. The footnotes are good, and many helpful summaries are provided. This enables the book to be used as a convenient guide for the relevant primary source material. In the book's preface, Denton expresses his hope that, by concentrating on Russell's "largely neglected" contribution to the public discussion of the world's state between the World Wars, as well as the assorted notions to which Russell was responding, he can contribute to "a similar conversation at the start of our century." The book's biggest disappointment, however, is that it ultimately fails to make any headway in providing such a contribution.
Rather than propose fresh insights into the 21st century's counterparts to such problems, Denton is content to have his narrative culminate in contentions that Russell's irreligion prevented a coherent context for checking the growth of science as technique. As Denton would have it, "Russell's support of the inevitable conflict between science and religion...doomed his attempt to distinguish science as the pursuit of knowledge from science as the application of technique." Again, "In considering religion primarily as a social phenomenon, and in criticizing the social and historical role of Christianity in western culture, he [Russell] robbed himself of a basis on which to discuss the universal character of 'values'....Russell found himself without defensible reasons for maintaining the interests of the individual against the organization of the State." And, finally, "Russell's failure to articulate a functional social morality other than one based on power may be attributed to his separation of facts from values, a separation of the knowledge proper to science from the values proper to ethics."
While it is one thing to claim (however debatably) that Bertrand Russell's philosophy suffers from the foregoing defects, it is altogether another thing to suggest that Russell himself experienced any such misgivings about his own philosophy. Indeed, Denton's narrative in this area is ambiguous enough that readers not directly familiar with Russell are easily led into believing that Russell himself experienced misgivings about his philosophy that are in reality only Denton's. While Denton's reservations about Russell's philosophy are enough to render his book suspect, Denton's tendency to imply that his own misgivings about Russell's philosophy were shared by no less than Russell himself make this work all the more so.

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Covering some 12,000 titles published mainly in the past decade, most of which have been recommended in at least two sources, this thematic work offers you a state-of-the-art reading guide and selection tool for teen reading material, both fiction and nonfiction. This highly affordable, authoritative guide enables you to thoroughly evaluate your young teen literature collection and to create thematic and genre-oriented reading lists for curriculum-related and recreational reading. The entries provide annotations with lively but succinct plot summaries and indications of ISBNs, book length, price, reading level, and review citations. Award-winning and series titles are noted as well. If you work with teens and teen literature, this guide is a must-purchase. Grades 9-12.

Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers, Supplement to the First Edition: Grades 6-9 (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)

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Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers, Supplement to the First Edition: Grades 6-9 (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
John T. Gillespie , and Catherine Barr
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This highly affordable and authoritative guide enables you to thoroughly evaluate your young teen literature collection and to create thematic and genre-oriented reading lists for curriculum-related and recreational reading. The entries provide annotations with lively, succinct plot summaries and indications of ISBNs, price, reading level, and review citations. Award-winning and series titles are noted. A supplement to the first edition, this edition covers more than 2,900 titles published from early 2004 to early 2006, most of which have been recommended in at least two sources. It is a thematic work offering a state-of-the-art reading guide and selection tool for young teen reading material, both fiction and nonfiction. If you work with teens and teen literature, this guide is a must-purchase.

Best Books for High School Readers, Supplement to the First Edition: Grades 9-12 (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)

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Best Books for High School Readers, Supplement to the First Edition: Grades 9-12 (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
John T. Gillespie , and Catherine Barr
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This supplement to the first edition covers more than 2,600 titles published from June 2004 to June 2006, most of which have been recommended in at least two sources. This thematic work offers a state-of-the-art reading guide and selection tool for teen reading material, both fiction and nonfiction. It provides annotations with succinct plot summaries, ISBNs, book length, price, reading level, and review citations. Award-winning and series titles are also noted. The guide is an invaluable resource for anyone working with teens or teen literature.

Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers: Grades 6-9 (Best Books for Young Teen Readers)

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Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers: Grades 6-9 (Best Books for Young Teen Readers)
John T. Gillespie , and Catherine Barr
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Covering over 14,000 titles published mainly from late 1999 through 2003, most of which have been recommended in at least two sources, this thematic work offers a state-of-the-art reading guide and selection tool for young teen fiction and nonfiction reading material. This highly affordable and authoritative guide enables you to thoroughl evaluate your young-teen literature collection and creat thematic and genre-oriented reading lists for curriculum-related and recreational reading. The entries provide annotations with lively but succinct plot summaries, along with indications of ISBN, book length, price, reading level, and review citations. Award-winning and series titles are also noted. If you work with teens and teen literature, this guide is a must-purchase. Grades 6-9.

Present Imperfect: Imagining Utopia (Fiction--Topics and Types)

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J.Suzanne Ravise
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Social Studies Readers Theatre for Young Adults: Scripts and Script Development

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Kathy Howard Latrobe , Carol Casey , and Linda A. Gann
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Teaching Design and Technology in Secondary Schools: A Reader (OU Flexible PGCE)

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Teaching Design and Technology in Secondary Schools: A Reader (OU Flexible PGCE)
Owen-Jackson
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Design and technology is one of the newest subjects on the school curriculum, and one that continues to develop. The articles within comprise a stimulating and comprehensive overview of the issues and ideas surrounding this area of study.

Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools: A Reader (Ou Flexible Pgce Series)

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Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools: A Reader (Ou Flexible Pgce Series)
Margaret Smith
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Understanding of what the study and teaching of geography can and should encompass has changed considerably in recent years and continues to develop. A wide-range curriculum takes in fieldwork, ICT, issues of language, matters of environmental and global concern and, most recently, citizenship.
Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools: A reader brings together a wide range of key writings that look at the central issues, debates and ideas surrounding geography education today. It encourages students to reflect critically upon the issues in order to develop their understanding of these issues and to consider the implications for their classroom practice.
This series brings together collections of articles by highly experiences educators which introduce, explore and illuminate the issues surrounding the teaching of national curriculum subjects. They are invaluable resources for those studying to become teachers, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practitioners, particularly those mentoring students and NQTs.

Teaching Science in Secondary Schools: A Reader (Ou Flexible Pgce Series)

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Recent years have seen a huge emphasis placed upon science as a core element of the school curriculum. Teaching Science in the Secondary School introduces and explores issues entailed in the teaching and learning of this subject.

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