Authors:Beve Hornsby, Frula Shear, Julie Pool, Julie Pool,
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Keywords: writing, spelling, reading, teaching, omega, alpha
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $43.40
ISBN-10: 0435104233
ISBN-13: 9780435104238

Part of a three-stage programme which provides help in teaching reading, writing and spelling to both adults and children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia. This teacher’s handbook contains detailed lesson plans for each stage of the course.

Author: Daniel Pool
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: daily, facts, life, nineteenth, england, century, whist, hunting, ate, austen, charles, dickens, fox, jane
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1993-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0671793373
ISBN-13: 9780671793371

Dozens of short essays provides a panoramic view of British life during the nineteenth century, including information on social niceties, definitions of British phrases, and details about sex, government, law, money, and social institutions.

Author: Robert Pool
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: technology, sloan, series, shapes, society, engineering
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-07-17
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195107721
ISBN-13: 9780195107722

Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, the author of Eve’s Rib illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in this highly readable account of how technology and the modern world shape each other.

Author: Christopher Pool
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: archaeology, world, cambridge, mesoamerica, olmec
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 052178882X
ISBN-13: 9780521788823

Between 1500 and 500 BC the Olmecs flourished in the tropical lowlands of Mexico’s Gulf Coast, creating the most complex of Mesoamerica’s early societies and its first monumental art. Emphasising the strategies of political leaders and the environmental and social diversity within the Olmec region, this up-to-date and comprehensive study describes the history of Olmec research, synthesises recent scholarship on the ecology, economy, socio-political organisation and ideology of Olmec society, and evaluates current debates over the influence of the Olmecs on their contemporaries and

Author: Robert Pool
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: epidemic, obesity, fighting
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195118537
ISBN-13: 9780195118537

When the leptin gene was discovered in 1994, news articles predicted that there might soon be an easy, pharmaceutical solution to the growing public health crisis of obesity. Yet this scientific breakthrough merely proved once again how difficult the fight against fat really is. Despite the many appetite-suppressants, diet pills, and weight-loss programs available today, approximately 30 percent of Americans are obese. And that number is expanding rapidly. Fat is the engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Covering the entire twentieth century, Robert

Author: Robert Pool
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: technology, sloan, series, shapes, society, engineering
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-07-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195129113
ISBN-13: 9780195129113

We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, Pool illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in a book that will revolutionize how we think about technology. We tend to think that reason guides technological development, that engineering expertise alone determine

Author: Robert Pool
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keywords: workshop, summary, knowledge, data, converting, bioinformatics
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 2002-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0309072565
ISBN-13: 9780309072564