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100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Supporting Pupils with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties by Roy Howarth
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: 100 Ideas for Teachers Ser.
Research has found that any one class might contain two to six children with profound social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Without effective intervention and response, this can have a profound impact on the progress of these children, as well as the delivery of the curriculum to all pupils. R ...Show more
101 Days to Make a Change : Daily Strategies to Move from Knowing to Being by Roy Leighton
Category: Health and Wellbeing
101 Days To Make a Change is a constructive and compassionate companion that will help get you back in the driving seat of your life - in just over three months. Its expansive ideology is grounded by an achievable process with a realistic timeframe to help chart progress and acknowledge results. Th ...Show more
75 Years of Marvel Comics by Roy Thomas
Category: Children's Graphic Novels
A mighty history. Marvel from its golden age to the silver screen. From the very first issue of pulp impresario Martin Goodman's Marvel Comics in 1939, the comic book creators of Marvel's Golden Age flipped the traditional fantasy script by placing the inhuman and the invincible into the real world. Wit ...Show more
A Boat for Bridget by James Roy
Category: Children's | Series: UQP Young Adult Fiction Ser.
Meet Bridget. Bridget's father loves to sail. Her mother loves to garden. Is there a problem? Not until Will's love for the sea draws him back to the thrill and excitement of ocean racing, a world he left behind before Bridget was born.From the author of Captain Mackcomes a story in the tradition of the ...Show more
A Brand from the Burning by Roy Hattersley
Category: Biography Memoir
John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy and people. Throughout a life tortured by doubt about true faith and tormented by a series of bizarre re ...Show more
A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution by Roy Bainton
Category: Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
'Lenin? Yes, he was a good man -- he ran the whole country -- and he did it on a worker's wages.' The view of a Red Army veteran is in contrast to that of a young Russian entrepreneur: 'Lenin and Trotsky were totally evil -- they turned my country into a nightmare.' The Revolution of 1917 remains contro ...Show more
A Brief History of Painting: 2000 BC to AD2000 by Roy Bolton
Category: Fiction
The urge to create pictures of our world has been with us ever since early man daubed a fingerful of pigment on a rock, or used primitive colours to create exquisite images of the beasts he hunted - images so breathtakingly powerful they have never been surpassed, however sophisticated we have become. T ...Show more
A Brief History of Tea by Roy Moxham
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
Behind the wholesome image of the world's most popular drink lies a strangely murky and often violent past. When tea began to be imported into the West from China in the seventeenth century, its high price and heavy taxes made it an immediate target for smuggling and dispute at every level, culminating ...Show more
A Brief History of the Paradox by Roy A. Sorensen
Category: Fiction
Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities by Roy Sorensen
Category: Philosophy and Religion
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltair ...Show more
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas by Roy Sorensen
Category: Philosophy and Religion
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltair ...Show more
A History of Football in Australia by Roy Hay
Category: Sports and Hobbies
In coming years football will continue to excite sports fans throughout Australia. The Socceroos will contest the world's leading nations on the international stage. The Asian Football Confederation Cup of Nations will be held in Australia in 2015. The Matildas will defend their Asian championship crown ...Show more