This is a reissue of a text originally published in 1937, with new editions appearing in 1940 and 1948. The text is based on Joseph's teaching at Saint Mary's College, which explored the links between logic, grammar, and rhetoric, as well as induction, poetics, figurative language, and poetry. This

A collection of essays and articles, featuring ideas on how to teach children. Taking into account how children actually learn, this book shows us the difference between learning and schooling.

Explores both the benefits and disadvantages of the developments in global communication. The author discusses the annoyance and dangers of BlackBerrys in meeting rooms, hands-free kits in conversation, and using a phone or iPod whilst driving.

'What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy'. Revised and updated edition.

This work offers a perspective on the causes of the social and economic problems that plague contemporary America. It examines the relationship between ethnicity and intelligence and presents the view that America's population is becoming polarized between an educated elite and uneducated poor.

A guide to perfect punctuation for those who care about precise writing.

Asking questions about human motivation and living and reaching some conclusions, this book aims to be at the heart of things we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams.

Full title: 'The School and Society and the Child and the Curriculum'.

Decades into our future, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful Neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called a young lady's illustrated primer, designed to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.

Talks about homework - its negative effects, and why it's so widely accepted. This book examines the usual defences of homework - that it promotes higher educational achievement, reinforces learning, and teaches study skills and responsibility. It shows how none of these assumptions actually passes the test of logic, research, or experience.

Here, Tatum asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences. Using real-life examples and research, she presents evidence that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about facilitating communication across racial and ethnic divides.

Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximise classroom learning time.