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  • READING
    ROGER BEARD
    The field of reading is a compelling one, characterised by many debates and discussions. It is also amenable to investigations through a range of theories and research studies. In this book, eight leading authorities provide a ‘state-of-the-art’ overview of reading, using perspectives that have informed their work. There are overviews from linguistic, psychological, sociologica...

    $1,160.00

  • EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING DESIGN
    COLIN BEARD
    Experiential Learning Design comprehensively demonstrates the key theories and applications for the design of experiential approaches to learning and training. Learning is gradually moving away from management and delivery of content, and toward experiences that encourage learners to engage and take greater responsibility for their own progress. This book’s empirically sound, m...

    $1,160.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY IN SOCIETY
    JAMES M. BEARD / RUTH ANN MURPHY
    This self-contained text offers all the information necessary for readers to understand the topics surrounding environmental science and the chemistry underlying various issues. Environmental Chemistry in Society, Third Edition, provides a foundation in science, chemistry, and toxicology, including the laws of thermodynamics, chemical bonding, and environmental toxins. This tex...

    $2,540.00

  • MADE IN YUGOSLAVIA
    DANIJELA Š. BEARD / ‎LJERKA V. RASMUSSEN
    Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of music in the region t...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF POLITICS
    CHARLES BEARD
    Originally published in 1922, this volume is composed of four lectures which the author gave at Amherst College in 1916 on the Clark Foundation. The founders of this lectureship desired to help carry forward the eternal quest of mankind for ways and means with which to control its social destiny for noble ends. This book includes chapters on the doctrines of the philosophers, e...

    $980.00

  • EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
    COLIN BEARD / JOHN P. WILSON
    In a fast-paced and innovative world, traditional training methods can no longer be relied on to improve performance, engagement or promote behavioural change. Experience-based learning, in which the experience is central to the learning process, is more affordable, appealing and effective than ever before. Experiential Learning combines in-depth theory with international case ...

    $979.00

  • TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
    MARJORIE POWELL / JOSEPH W. BEARD
    Originally published in 1984, the field of research on teaching had expanded dramatically in the 15 years covered by this bibliography, 1965 to 1980. The expansion had included studies conducted for many purposes. This bibliography contains relevant citations to the research which has been conducted for the purposes of increasing our understanding of the science, art and craft ...

    $960.00

  • TEACHER ATTITUDES
    MARJORIE POWELL / JOSEPH W. BEARD
    Teachers’ attitudes have been a subject of study and interest for many years. Originally published in 1986, this bibliography attempts to review the large field of research between the years 1965 and 1984. To identify all the sources of information, and to list documents that discuss research on teachers’ attitudes. It does not include an assessment of the quality of the resear...

    $640.00

  • PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE COMING OF THE WAR, 1941
    CHARLES BEARD
    Conceived by Charles Beard as a sequel to his provocative study of American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940, President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War outraged a nation, permanently damaging Beard's status as America's most influential historian.Beard's main argument is that both Democratic and Republican leaders, but Roosevelt above all, worked quietly in 1940 and ...

    $1,340.00

  • THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF POLITICS
    CHARLES BEARD
    Economic interpretations of history are irrevocably identified with the name of Charles A. Beard. This is mainly due to his early book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). Yet, in Beard's later work, The Economic Basis of Politics (1922), he articulates the main principles of his method and argues for its applicability to understanding of ...

    $1,320.00

  • AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
    CHARLES BEARD
    In his piercing introduction to An Economic Interpretation the author wrote that 'whoever leaves economic pressures out of history or out of discussion of public questions is in mortal peril of substituting mythology for reality.' It was Beard's view that the founding fathers, especially Madison, Jay, and Hamilton, never made such a miscalculation. Indeed, these statesmen place...

    $1,320.00

  • MENTORING DIVERSE LEADERS
    AUDREY J. MURRELL AND STACY BLAKE-BEARD
    Mentoring Diverse Leaders provides up-to-date research on the impact of mentoring relationships in organizations, particularly as they relate to cultivating diverse leadership. Contributions from experts in the fields of psychology, business, law, non-profit management, and engineering draw connections between mentoring research, theory, and practice in both domestic and global...

    $1,580.00

  • UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
    JILL BEARD
    University libraries around the world have embraced the possibilities of the digital learning environment, facilitating its use and proactively seeking to develop the provision of electronic resources and services. The digital environment offers opportunities and challenges for librarians in all aspects of their work - in information literacy, virtual reference, institutional r...

    $1,120.00

  • MUSICOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
    DAVID BEARD / KENNETH GLOAG
    Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including: Autobiography Music and Conflict Deconstruction Postcolonialism Disability Music after 9/11 Masculinit...

    $1,100.00

  • INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
    CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD
    First published in 2005. Taking a look at the Industrial Revolution from 1760 in English Agriculture, Manufacturing and politics and also discussing the mechanical revolution and its economic and social effects., this book puts forward that the civilised world has been changed, and social duties, morals, habits, habitations, and connections all altered by the discoveries of a f...

    $860.00

  • AN OUTLINE OF PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
    R.M. BEARD
    First published in 2006. This is a book for students and teachers who wish to know more about Piaget's work but who find it too difficult, or time-consuming, to read much in the original. Its purpose is two-fold: both to make some of his ideas and observations available fairly quickly to the reader, and to introduce most of his special vocabulary, so facilitating reading in the...

    $5,300.00

  • ADVENTURE TOURISM
    COLIN BEARD / JOHN SWARBROOKE / SUZANNE LECKIE / GILL POMFRET
    Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, including: Gorilla watching holidays,Trekking on Mount Everest, Diving holidays, and Outward Bound packages....

    $1,660.00

  • THE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING TOOLKIT
    COLIN BEARD
    The Experiential Learning Toolkit presents a diverse range of practical exercises based on the theory of experiential learning, which is concerned with learning through direct experience to create more effective, engaging and embedded learning. Author Colin Beard has compiled more than thirty internationally tried and tested learning 'experiences', which cover corporate trainin...

    $1,599.00

  • BLUE BLOOD & MUTINY
    PATRICIA BEARD
    The behind the scenes story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street's most prestigious financial institution. In March 2005 the business world woke up to an unprecedented full-page ad in the  Wall Street Journal calling for the removal of Morgan Stanley's CEO. It was paid for by a cohort of eight former Morgan Stanley executives, including an ex-chairman and an ex-preside...

    $314.00

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DESIRE
    JENNIFER BEARD
    Containing the best interdisciplinary work in international law, this book offers an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of the genealogy of Western capitalist ‘development’. Putting forth ground-breaking arguments and challenging the traditional boundaries of thinking about the concept of development and underdevelopment, it provides readers with a new perspective on th...

    $660.00

  • LANGUAGE CHANGE
    ADRIAN BEARD
    The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and ...

    $680.00

  • HOW TEXTS WORK
    ADRIAN BEARD
    How Texts Work: explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts analyzes a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Ibsen's A Doll's House to an 18-30s brochure, Internet chatrooms and George Bush's September 11 speech offers a step-by-step guide to approaching texts and structu...

    $680.00

  • LET NO ONE DESPISE YOU
    TONY BEARD
    Paul wrote to Timothy instructing him to not be despised for his youth. But isn't that at least a little like what the church does to its youth today? Perhaps the church does not despise its youth, but isn't it at least a little dismissive of them? Instead of being integrated into the body of the church, youth are being entertained and occupied. What happens when they become yo...

    $373.00

  • EL COLISEO
    BEARD MARY, HOPKINS KEITH
    La Roma imperial fue un estado guerrero. El Coliseo (inaugurado en el año 80 d.C.) fue el monumento de Roma a la guerra. Como una catedral de la muerte, se alzaba sobre la ciudad e invitaba a sus ciudadanos, 50,000 a la vez, a presenciar juegos gladiatorios asesinos. Ahora es visitado por dos millones de personas al año (Hitler estuvo entre ellos). Dos destacados historiadores ...
    En stock

    $279.00

  • EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
    COLIN BEARD
    Experiential Learning enables educators, trainers, coaches and facilitators to unleash some of the more potent ingredients of learning through experience. It presents a simple model: the Learning Combination Lock, which illustrates the wide range of factors that can be altered to enhance the learning experience. The theory is brought to life with hundreds of examples from aroun...

    $749.00

  • FETAL PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE: THE BASIS OF PERINATOLOGY
    BEARD, RICHARD W. / NATHANIELSZ, PETER W.
    Fetal Physiology and Medicine ...

    $1,195.00

  • MUJERES Y PODER
    BEARD MARY
    En stock

    $229.00

  • TALKING CLASSICS
    MARY BEARD
    The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a museum...

    $241.53

  • MOTIVATING STUDENTS
    RUTH M. BEARD / ISABEL J. SENIOR
    First published in 1980, Motivating Students examines the nature of motivation among students in higher education, drawing on extensive research and interviews with students from English polytechnics and universities. Ruth M. Beard and Isabel J. Senior address a persistent concern among educators: understanding what drives student engagement and academic success. The book explo...

    $800.00

  • DESIGNING AND APPLYING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    COLIN BEARD
    This insightful text is aimed specifically at educationalists and Higher Education lecturers who wish to adopt a more balanced, holistic, and inclusive approach to designing learning experiences. As lecturers are urged to adopt research-based teaching, it recognises the complexity of student learning and explains how knowledge can be constructed in various ways, not just social...

    $800.00


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