Author: Debra McGregor
Publisher: Open University Press
Keywords: developing, learning, thinking
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 033521780X
ISBN-13: 9780335217809

"This highly informative book provides a comprehensive guide to the teaching of thinking skills in primary and secondary education." Learning and Teaching Update It is now recognised that thinking skills, such as problem-solving, analysis, synthesis, creativity and evaluation, can be nurtured and developed, and education professionals can play a significant role in shaping the way that children learn and think. As a result, schools are being encouraged to make greater use of thinking skills in lessons and the general emphasis on cognition has developed considerably. This book offers

Authors:Debra Di Blasi, Debra DiBlasi,
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: amp, drought
Number of Pages: 89
Published: 1997-02
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0811213323
ISBN-13: 9780811213325

Authors:Debra Di Blasi, Debra DiBlasi,
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
Keywords: fictions, amp, chronicles, jiri
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-03-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1573661368
ISBN-13: 9781573661362

These audacious stories shine with artistic nuance and fearless emotional intensity. Tragic, lyrical, hilarious, and politically controversial, they exist in a world where fact is as strange as fiction, and fiction is often disguised as fact. "The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions" is divided into three sections, each a unique literary experiment. In "Snapshots: A Genealogy in Flight," Debra Di Blasi draws inspiration from real family photographs to create a haunting portrait of successive generations of a fictionalized Midwest family. "Hyperfictions" features writing that is interactive an

Author: Jon McGregor
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: things, remarkable, speaks, nobody
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0618344586
ISBN-13: 9780618344581

Risky in conception, hip and yet soulful, this is a prose poem of a novel -- intense, lyrical, and highly evocative -- with a mystery at its center, which keeps the reader in suspense until the final page. In a tour de force that could be described as Altmanesque, we are invited into the private lives of the residents of a quiet urban street in England over the course of a single day. In delicate, intricately observed closeup, we witness the hopes, fears, and unspoken despairs of a diverse community: the man with painfully scarred hands who tried in vain to save his wife from a burning house a

Author: P. K. McGregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: networks, communication
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: $181.99
ISBN-10: 0521823617
ISBN-13: 9780521823616

Summarizing research progress and prospects in the rapidly expanding area of animal communication networks, this book differs from other works on animal communication because it covers several animal groups and types of signal. It also highlights research at the interface with other disciplines (for example, psychology and physiology) and is intended for researchers in the field, advanced students and high-level undergraduates.Book DescriptionThis book is about how and why animals communicate. It summarises research progress and prospects in the rapidly expanding topic of animal communication

Author: R. S. McGregor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: dictionary, english, hindi, oxford
Number of Pages: 1103
Published: 1997-05-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 019864339X
ISBN-13: 9780198643395

The first new Hindi-English dictionary in over a century, The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary is the comprehensive reference to modern standardized language, both spoken and literary. This handy paperback dictionary is designed to meet the needs of the growing number of people now learning to speak Hindi. It provides translations for over 36,000 headwords, using illustrative material to show words in use. Students of Hindi and South Asian studies of all kinds will find extensive coverage of historical Hindi, together with the most up-to-date colloquial and literary vocabulary. In addition,

Author: Liz McGregor
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: african, south, times, life, khabzela
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1770090800
ISBN-13: 9781770090804

The central question raised by this timely and compelling biography is why Fana Khaba, aka Khabzela, a popular South African DJ and youth icon who succumbed to AIDS, did not take anti-retroviral medication to save his own life. The answer reveals a lot about many South Africans’ understanding of AIDS as well as the mendacity of the government’s approach to the disease. More than just the retelling of a young celebrity’s life, this story explores several facets and conditions of modern South Africa and its culture, emphasizing the fragility of the frontier generation whose dev