Author: Tom Nairn
Publisher: Common Ground
Keywords: britain
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2003-07
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1863355081
ISBN-13: 9781863355087

In this twenty-fifth annivery edition of The Break-Up of Britain, Tom Nairn reviews the arguments of his classic study and expands his thesis into the new millenium. He confirms his contention that civic nationalism-but not ethnonationalism-will play an increasing role in the breakdown of the United Kingdom. This, he says, has now assumed an even more rapid pace than when the book was first published. the cumulative strains of Thatcherism and Blairism have had their effect. "The Break-Up of Britain", he writes in the new Introduction "began its life in a still imposing, if narrowing ri

Author: Jon Hawkes
Publisher: Common Ground Pub
Keywords: public, planning, role, essential, sustainability, culture, pillar
Number of Pages: 69
Published: 2001-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1863350497
ISBN-13: 9781863350495

Author: Mary Kalantzis; Bill Cope; Learning by Design Proj
Publisher: Common Ground
Keywords: design, learning
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1863355871
ISBN-13: 9781863355872

Humans learn by nature, from the moment of each persons’ birth and for the whole of their lives. Most learning is incidental to living. Some learning, however, is by design. This learning we call "education". Learning by Design explores the relationships between the widening circles of pedagogy, curriculum and education. It examines the changing social context of education today and the ways in which teaching and learning might respond to these changes. Along the way, the book redefines the key terms of the debate about the natures of learning, moving in the direction of a socio-cultu

Author: Anne Pender
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Keywords: satirist, stead, christina
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1863350837
ISBN-13: 9781863350839

Christina Stead was an accomplished satirist, yet critics have chosen to ignore the satire in her fiction. In this study, Anne Pender reviews Stead’s novels as inheritors of the tradition of satire that dates back to the Roman satires of Horace and Juvenal. Pender’s work focuses on Stead’s attempt to interpret the history of her own period through satire. The work establishes Stead as a satirist by demonstrating the way in which she adopted the techniques associated with satire— the castigation of folly and vice— but also provides an analysis of Stead’s experimentation with the genre, tr

Author: Dusan Velickovic
Publisher: Common Ground Publicatio
Keywords: martial, law, belgrade, bombardment, days, mundi, true, stories, amor
Number of Pages: 102
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1863350411
ISBN-13: 9781863350419

Ironic, witty, all about the lightness of being, as tragi-comic as a Kundera could make it, or a Hannah Arendt would have, Dusan Velickovic’s beautifully-voiced work gives us the stories of a human being in a time and place called Belgrade, Serbia, his home, centre of the world’s attention and target for the world’s smartest bombs... When the danger from NATO’s bombs could be matched only by that from Milosevic’s secret police. To resist hating the world, Velickovic must find his own way of loving the world... Too old to flee, but far too young to be killed by a stray bomb or an assasin’

Authors:Shanthi Balraj Baboo, Ambigapathy Pandian,
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Keywords: communicate, learning
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2002-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1863350853
ISBN-13: 9781863350853

The current information and communication age means that we are living in highly communication-dependant times. As such, it is important to equip students with a wide range of knowledge and skills with which to negotiate and shape their living environment. Learning to Communicate observes that learning, language and communications are intricately linked and that language is a major means by which people learn and communicate. It is vital that those engaged in learning activities assist learners to understand and communicate their ideas and express throught in meaningful ways. This boo

Author: Hazel Edwards
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Keywords: writing, travel, boring, non
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1863350381
ISBN-13: 9781863350389

Whether you are writing for personal enjoyment, or to share your experiences with readers of magazines, books or newspapers, make it non-boring! Author, traveller and educator, Hazel Edwards, shares tips for recording your travels in a non-boring way. Whether you’re writing just for yourself or for a commercial audience, Hazel Edwards suggests techniques based on successfully published features. Idea collecting, "Why keep a travel journal when you’ve already got a camera?"; topicality, "What if they have a revolution after you’ve written a relaxing holiday piece?"; unusual angles;