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Bentley's Miscellany
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A Rage to Live
'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.
Inside Immigration Detention
As states around the globe detain foreigners in greater numbers, a critical, academic examination of the social and cultural world of immigration detention centers is long overdue. This groundbreaking study based on extensive fieldwork in the British system unveils the world of immigration detention - its culture, politics, and impact on detainees.
John Catt Guide to International Schools 2011
This guide has been designed with the reader inmind. In the editorial section are articles written by experts in their field covering a wide variety of issues parents are likely to come across when choosing a school for their child. The dirctories contain basic information about all the schools in each country complete with contact details. Some schools provide more information on what they offer and include photographs. In the appendix is up-to-date information about international curricula and the examinations, tests and qualifications available, cobntact details for Ministries of Education worldwide and a useful list of educational acronyms and abbreviations.
Curriculum
Martin Robinson's Curriculum: Athena versus the machine explores the educational value of a curriculum rooted in the pursuit of wisdom and advocates the enshrinement of such a curriculum as the central concern of an academic institution. Rather than being seen as a data-driven machine, a school should be viewed as a place that enables children to develop thoughtful perspectives on the world, through which they can pursue wisdom and be free to join in with the ancient and continuing conversation: 'What is it to be human?' Teachers need to be liberated from policy-led prescription in order to design curricula which bring the subjects being studied, rather than the blind pursuit of measurable o...
Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf
Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, linking inter- and multidisciplinary scholarship to the intellectual and creative projects of Virginia Woolf and her modernist peers.
The John Catt Guide to International Schools 2010/11
Contains up-to-date information on the full range of international schools, including single-sex, co-educational, day and boarding schools, this guide will assist parents and children in choosing the right international school for them.
