Authors:Mike Harrison, Mr Mike Harrison, Mike Wintle,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: primary, school, across, practice, assessment, coordinating
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0750706988
ISBN-13: 9780750706988

This book is specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co-ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style, while providing a wealth of tips, case studies and photocopiable material that teachers can use immediately. There are special volumes dedicated to dealing with Ofsted, creating whole school policy and the demands of co-ordinating several subjects within a small school. The entire set of 16 volumes is available from RoutledgeFalmer and details of the series can be seen on our website.

Author: Justin Wintle
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: culture, modern, makers, new, concise
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415477824
ISBN-13: 9780415477826

A Who’s Who of Western culture, from Woody Allen to Emile Zola... Containing four hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists, scientists, sociologists, major political figures, composers, film-makers and many other culturally significant individuals and is thoroughly international in its purview. Next to Karl Marx is Bob Marley, with John Ruskin is Salman Rushdie, alongside Darwin is Luigi Dallapiccola, Deng Xiaoping rubs shoulder

Author: Justin Wintle
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: culture, makers, volume, modern
Number of Pages: 655
Published: 2002-02-08
List price: $425.00
ISBN-10: 0415265835
ISBN-13: 9780415265836

With more than 500 contributions from over 240 specialists, this volume provides lively and clearly written expositions of those figures who have done most to shape our views in the period since 1914. Music, cinema, drama, art, fiction, poetry, philosophy, sociology and anthropology are just some of the fields covered in this indispensable volume. Figures covered include: Malinowski, Kafka, George Orwell, Lenin, Gaudi, Gramsci, Freud, Malcolm X, Henry Miller, Miles Davis, James Joyce, Ravel, Veblen and Edward Sapir.

Author: Michael Wintle
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: identity, studia, imagologica, modernity, assigning, constructing, image, culture
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 2006-10-15
List price: $73.00
ISBN-10: 9042020644
ISBN-13: 9789042020641

The pervading theme of this book is the construction and allocation of identity, especially through images and imagery. The essays analyse how the dominant social discourses and imageries construct identity or assign subject positions in relation to the categories of race, nation, region, gender and language. The volume is designed to inform the study of those categories in cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy and history. Its coverage is geographically global, multidisciplinary, and theoretically eclectic, but also accessible. The authors inc

Author: Justin Wintle
Publisher: Rough Guides
Keywords: china, history, guide, rough
Number of Pages: 459
Published: 2002-12-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1858287642
ISBN-13: 9781858287645

INTRODUCTION What we now know as China began to emerge four to five thousand years ago, in the fertile flatlands of the middle Yellow River. In the second millennium BC first the shadowy Xia, then the Shang, and finally the cultivated Zhou dynasty created an integrated, expansive kingdom that spread north, east and south, swallowing up smaller, now mainly forgotten states and peoples. Then in 221 BC the semi-alien Qin, coming from the Wei River valley in the west, forged the ‘empire’ itself, centred on the same heartland. In due course, the territories ruled from the ‘dragon throne

Author: Justin Wintle
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: culture, makers, volume, century, nineteenth
Number of Pages: 655
Published: 2002-02-08
List price: $350.00
ISBN-10: 0415265843
ISBN-13: 9780415265843

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays. Figures covered include: Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.

Author: Justin Wintle
Publisher: Signal Books Ltd
Keywords: country, boat, inside, vietnam, romancing
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2006-07-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1904955150
ISBN-13: 9781904955153