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Privacy in the Age of Neuroscience
Neural technologies are intruding deeply into our lives. David Grant argues we can take advantage of them by reconceptualizing privacy.
Composition in the Age of Austerity
"How neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. How neoliberal political economy dictates direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods, and the ways of assessing writing also shapes directions of scholarship"--Provided by publisher.
The Social Profit Handbook
How to Articulate and Assess What Success Looks Like The Social Profit Handbook offers those who lead, govern, and support mission-driven organizations and businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performance. For-profit institutions measure their success primarily by monetary gains. But nonprofit institutions are different; they aim for social profit. How do you measure the success of these social profit institutions, where missions are focused on the well-being of people, place, and planet? Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers strategies—from creatin...
Elephant
When international publishing supremo Jamie Gallagher is fired at the age of forty-six, he decides to take a long, hard look at his life. Can the reasons for the booze, the cynicism and the fact that his wife and children don't talk to him be found in his past? So he sets off on a road to nowhere - the roadtrip of his life. And he's looking for reasons to be cheerful. David Grant's novel, soundtracked by the music a generation will never forget, is a hilarious journey through the haze of one man's memory.
Bioactive Glasses
The field of bioactive glasses has been expanding continuously over recent years. This book aims to give the material's scientist an up-to-date reference and guide for education, studies and research.
Fast
A group of students arrange a sponsored 24-hour fast to raise money for charity. Two of the students, Charlie and Holly, brag that they could carry on, and in refusing to back down they end up embarking on a dangerous fast that lasts for days. The national media picks up the story, setting up a donations hotline and spurring the two on until a story breaks that threatens to ruin everything. Played out entirely through chats in the school canteen, the script relies on the realistic and often hilarious dialogue that is David Grant's trademark. What's the hook? Snappy, comic dialogue and hugely relevant issues. What are the themes? Celebrity, media and friendship. Teaching points Perfect for reading around a classroom, full-blown performance or for close analysis as a text, this is a play about a range of important issues presented with humour and sensitivity. * Realistic dialogue coupled with witty insights make this the ideal play for Key Stage 3. * Explores interesting topics in a way that is accessible to Key Stage 3 students. * Supported by back-of-book activities and free online teaching resources including lesson plans mapped to the Framework.
A Line Intersected
San Diego architect Michael Collwood finds his life shattered after his beautiful wife is murdered with an intentional drug overdose, and the police name him as the prime suspect. After two years the investigation grows cold and Michael has lost everything else: his career, hishome, his friends, and his self-respect. Drinking heavily, he hikes far into the desert where he plans to end his ravaged life. But while therehe witnesses a small plane crash and finds a dead pilot at the site, one hundred kilos of cocaine, and two million in cash. Michael realizes he now has the opportunity to find his wife¿s killers, and he returns to San Diego with one thought on his mind: revenge. But Michael discovers he represents a threat to a politically ambitious mayor, the DEA, and the Tijuana drug cartel. In his quest to find his wife¿s killers, Michael finds the only person he can trust is a wise, old man who is homeless but believes he is living in the 18th century.
