'This book tackles some of the most important educational questions of the day...It is rare to find a book on education which is theoretically sophisticated and practically relevant: this book is.' - "From the Foreword by Hugh Lauder". What is it in the twenty-first century that we want young people, and adults returning to study, to know? What is it about the kind of knowledge...(展开全部)

Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political process...(展开全部)

Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political process...(展开全部)

This authored book provides an innovative and systematic account of key debates within the social psychology of knowledge, using the theory of social representations as a guide. This account is then elaborated and integrated into a conceptually coherent theoretical framework to further the social psychological dimensions of the relationship between representations, knowledge an...(展开全部)

For centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster for the world’s growing population. In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore...(展开全部)

Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disdain. Although the form of the play was not...(展开全部)

Look Back in Anger has its unarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre, and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the "angry young man". ----John Russel Taylor When the play was first produced by the English Stage Company London's Royal Court Theatre, Kenneth Tynan wrote in the Observer:...(展开全部)

Death in ther Back Seat is the first book writtten by Dorothy Cameron Disney. In this classic mystery, Mr. and Mrs. Storm, a painter and a writer, plan to live a simple life in an isolated cottage in the country away from their New York apartment, but find themselves accused of murder and swept in a series of dangerous events.

Death in ther Back Seat is the first book writtten by Dorothy Cameron Disney. In this classic mystery, Mr. and Mrs. Storm, a painter and a writer, plan to live a simple life in an isolated cottage in the country away from their New York apartment, but find themselves accused of murder and swept in a series of dangerous events.