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  • THE WAVERING FLEDGE OF LIGHT
    LAWRENCE WRAY
    This collection of poems begins with the Sonoran Desert, a return to personal and social histories. Poems crisscross the desert to bear witness to the live repercussions of past and contemporary events, from Bisbee, Arizona, in 1917 to the border country one hundred years later. The vision widens to chart a contemplative orientation between the desert as a place of refuge and b...

    $213.00

  • THE WAVERING FLEDGE OF LIGHT
    LAWRENCE WRAY
    This collection of poems begins with the Sonoran Desert, a return to personal and social histories. Poems crisscross the desert to bear witness to the live repercussions of past and contemporary events, from Bisbee, Arizona, in 1917 to the border country one hundred years later. The vision widens to chart a contemplative orientation between the desert as a place of refuge and b...

    $213.00

  • SPORTS ECONOMICS FOR NON-ECONOMISTS
    WRAY VAMPLEW
    This book cuts through the jargon and complicated formulae to focus on the key concepts in sports economics, introducing the fundamentals in a concise and engaging way to give the reader without a background in economics the tools with which to read and apply sports economics in their work. Full of real-world cases and stories, the book offers a short economic history of sport ...

    $1,120.00

  • PRIMARY ENGLISH: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
    JANE MEDWELL / DAVID WRAY / GEORGE MOORE / VIVIENNE GRIFFITHS
    All the subject knowledge you need to teach primary English. If you are training to be a primary school teacher, you need to understand what you need to know about primary English before you can teach it. Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. To help you master this, this comprehensive text includes subject k...

    $856.42

  • CRITICAL READING AND WRITING FOR POSTGRADUATES
    MIKE WALLACE / ALISON WRAY
    Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work.  If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral presentations, this proven guide helps you develop a reflective and advanced critical approach to your research and writing. New t...

    $798.26

  • PIONEERS OF MILL CREEK CANYON
    SHANNON WRAY
    The pioneers of Mill Creek Canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains were visionaries, eccentrics and adventurers. Daniel Sexton married a Native American wife hoping to gain the secret to a mine, while Peter Forsee, a world-weary sheriff, married a widow who was sheltering two outlaw sons. Sylvanus Thurman's burros carried travelers into the wild and sometimes took them for a wil...

    $229.00

  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH FOOTBALL
    WRAY VAMPLEW / DAVE RUSSELL / RICHARD WIL COX
    This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts, journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering the history and organization of football in Britain. Over 250 entries focus on key organisations or individuals, famous clubs, major competitions, events, venues and incidents, institutions...

    $1,320.00

  • SPORT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    DILWYN PORTER / ‎WRAY VAMPLEW
    Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport. This important volume offers clearer definitions of both sports products and sports entrepreneurship, gives due regard to social entrepreneurs, and assesses the continuing relevance of ...

    $1,200.00

  • IN SEARCH OF TRUTH
    SHARON WRAY
    "Twisty plots, fantastic characters, and pitch perfect pacing. Fabulous!"—ALLISON BRENNAN, New York Times Bestselling Author Buried treasure… buried feelings…all about to surface… Anthropologist Allison Pinckney is stunned when she inherits the key to a seventeenth century pirate cipher that makes her the target of two brutal arms dealers. Now, to save those she loves, she must...

    $263.00

  • ONE DARK WISH
    SHARON WRAY
    "Twisty plots, fantastic characters, and pitch-perfect pacing. Fabulous!" — ALLISON BRENNAN, New York Times bestselling author Her life must be forfeit for his to be redeemed Historian Sarah Munro is not used to being shot at, but that's just what happens while she's poking around cemeteries on Georgia's Isle of Grace, searching for the key to a centuries-old cipher. Her quest ...

    $162.00

  • NO LITTLE PLANS
    IAN WRAY
    Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand have claimed, that planning leads to dictatorship, that the state is wholly destructive, and that prosperity is owed entirely to the workings of a free market? To answer these questions Ian Wray’s book goes in search o...

    $1,200.00

  • NEOLIBERALISM, MANAGEMENT AND RELIGION
    EDWARD WRAY-BLISS
    The use of non-secular, religious, concepts in contemporary managerial discourse to legitimise leadership, organisation and work has been undertheorised. Concepts such as organisational soul, Spiritual Leadership, a wider deification (and demonisation) of leaders, and the mantra of individual freedom each evoke long religio-historical roots. The deployment of such terms in the ...

    $1,200.00

  • METHODOLOGY IN SPORTS HISTORY
    WRAY VAMPLEW
    The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other historical disciplines. At its heart, history remains a genre of empirical knowledge that is based upon the remains of the past...

    $1,200.00

  • NUMBERS AND NARRATIVES
    WRAY VAMPLEW
    This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history. The author notes that sport can have peculiar economics as in no other industry do rival businesses have to cooperate to produce a sellable output. He also demonstrates, via a case study of early gate-money football in Scotland, that sports producers were not always seeking profits,...

    $1,320.00

  • SUPPORTING FAMILIES AND CARERS
    MARY E. BRAINE / JULIE WRAY
    Understanding the perspective of carers is an essential aspect of nursing. Supporting Families and Carers: A Nursing Perspective offers insights into the fundamental principles of caring for families and carers irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality or religion. This book discusses the concepts and theories that underpin our understanding of the behaviours and feelin...

    $1,100.00

  • EVERY DEEP DESIRE
    SHARON WRAY
    The adventure and mystery of National Treasure meets the fierce military men of Maya Banks's KGI series in the marshes off the coast of Georgia. Desires run deep and betrayal turns deadly in this thrilling romantic suspense from award-winning author Sharon Wray. Rafe Montfort was a decorated Green Beret, the best of the best, until a disastrous mission and an unforgivable betra...

    $162.00

  • REGULATING MARRIAGE MIGRATION INTO THE UK
    HELENA WRAY
    Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic issue in the UK as elsewhere in Europe. This timely analysis is a comprehensive examination of the regulation of marriage migration into the UK. With international relevance, the book uses the analysis to examine the relationship between government priorities and the dynamics of transnational family life. The book is one of ...

    $1,460.00

  • PEDAL POWER
    J. HARRY WRAY
    This book examines the surging national interest in bike-friendly public policies and argues that this growth is likely to escalate. Currents in U.S. culture that have supported the dominance of the car are edging toward exhaustion. At the same time, other factors including congestion, contentious and unreliable energy resources, rising pollution, and global warming support the...

    $1,320.00

  • GREAT BRITISH PLANS
    IAN WRAY
    Can the British plan? Sometimes it seems unlikely. Across the world we see grand designs and visionary projects: new airport terminals, nuclear power stations, high-speed railways, and glittering buildings. It all seems an unattainable goal on Britain’s small and crowded island; and yet perhaps this is too pessimistic. For the British have always planned, and much of what they ...

    $1,460.00

  • LITERACY AND LANGUAGE IN THE PRIMARY YEARS
    JANE MEDWELL / DAVID WRAY
    Linking the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening, this book offers a distinctive holistic approach to literacy and language acquisition. It emphasizes the value of active, collaborative learning, and includes sections on literacy accross the primary curriculum, new technology and assessment. Each chapter is linked to a component of the National Curriculum Pro...

    $800.00

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF MONEY MANAGER CAPITALISM
    ERIC TYMOIGNE / L. RANDALL WRAY
    The book studies the trends that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, as well as the unfolding of the crisis, in order to provide policy recommendations to improve financial stability. The book starts with changes in monetary policy and income distribution from the 1970s. These changes profoundly modified the foundations of economic growth in the US by ...

    $1,560.00

  • PROJECTS IN LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE STUDIES
    ALISON WRAY / AILEEN BLOOMER
    Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies, Third Edition, is your essential guide when embarking on a research project in linguistics or English language. It is clearly divided into the subject areas that most appeal to you as a student: psycholinguistics; first- and second-language acquisition; structure and meaning; sociolinguistics; language and gender; accents and dialec...

    $1,240.00

  • TEACHING AND LEARNING LITERACY
    DAVID WRAY
    David Wray offers a range of practical suggestions for enhancing literacy work in primary and secondary schools (KS 1-3). The book is based on the idea that the purpose of literacy teaching is to enable pupils to understand and create meaningful, whole texts. It deliberately takes a cross-curricular view of literacy and will appeal to teachers who specialize in a range of subje...

    $1,060.00

  • GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AND RESULTS
    JERRY ELLIG / MAURICE MCTIGUE / HENRY WRAY
    The complexity of governments today makes the accountability desired by citizens difficult to achieve. Written to address performance policies within state and national governments, Government Performance and Results: An Evaluation of GPRA’s First Decade summarizes lessons learned from a 10-year research project that evaluated performance reports produced by federal agencies un...

    $1,940.00

  • SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION: THE KEY CONCEPTS
    TIM CHANDLER / WRAY VAMPLEW / MIKE CRONIN
    An accessible and fully cross-referenced A-Z guide, this book has been written specifically for students of sport studies and physical education, introducing basic terms and concepts. Entries cover such diverse subjects as coaching, drug testing, hooliganism, cultural imperialism, economics, gay games, amateurism, extreme sports, exercise physiology and Olympism. This revised s...

    $780.00

  • EXTENDING LITERACY
    MAUREEN LEWIS / DAVID WRAY
    One of the most problematic areas in the teaching and development of literacy appears to concern children's interactions with non-fiction books. Many surveys and reports have commented on the tendency for children to do little more than copy out sections of non-fiction texts. The Exeter Extending Literacy (EXEL) project was set up with the aim of exploring ways in which non-fic...

    $1,420.00

  • CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS AND SOCIAL LEARNING
    KRISTIINA KUMPULAINEN / DAVID WRAY
    Today's classroom presents a wealth of opportunities for social interaction amongst pupils, leading to increased interest in teachers and researchers into the social nature of learning. While classroom interaction can be a valuable tool for learning, it does not necessarily lead to useful learning experiences. Through case studies, this book highlights the use of new analytical...

    $2,000.00

  • TEACHING LITERACY EFFECTIVELY IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
    RICHARD FOX / JANE MEDWELL / LOUISE POULSON / DAVID WRAY
    This book discusses the implications arising from the authors' research into what constitutes an effective teacher of literacy. They have been able to identify what effective teachers know, understand and do which enable them to put effective teaching of literacy into practice in the primary phase. By identifying the strategies used by these teachers, the authors show how these...

    $1,100.00

  • ENGLISH 7-11
    DAVID WRAY
    This book focuses on approaches to the teaching of primary English at Key Stage 2 in the context of the National Curriculum. Through a series of guided activities, teachers are encouraged to reflect upon particular teaching strategies and activities such as: an analysis of language and literacy, the processes of language and literacy, the use of topic work, a critical look at c...

    $1,520.00

  • CRITICAL READING AND WRITING FOR POSTGRADUATES
    MIKE WALLACE, ALISON WRAY
    Step into academic success with Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, your trusted companion for reviewing and writing convincingly about the research literature. This detailed guide takes you through the essentials: deciding what to read, developing techniques for evaluating the claims in texts, building strong arguments through structured literature reviews and diss...

    $1,232.10


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