Collection of essays exploring Horace's place in English literature and culture.

This title sets out to provide the a concise interpretation of the period 1945 to 2000. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds they inhabited.

Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru or imposter? Marcel Duchamp has been called all these. Arousing passion and controversy, he has exerted a great influence on art. This monograph, written with the support of Duchamp's widow, offers to challenge received ideas and misunderstanding.

Learning and Teaching Update System leadership is a new and growing phenomenon in education. It refers to leadership that goes beyond a single school, where leaders work directly for the success and welfare of students in other institutions as well as their own. This book is useful to school leaders, senior teachers, and educational policy makers.

Offers an overview of the subject of counterfeiting in the twenty-first century - not the traditional notion of counterfeiting fake currency, but the counterfeiting of luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, and engine parts. This book tells real-world examples of how counterfeiting can occur and how readers can protect their products and brands from it.

Explores the range of media employed by both Dada and Surrealism, whilst at the same time establishing the aesthetic differences between the movements. This book also examines the Dadaist obsession with the body-as-mechanism in relation to the Surrealists' return to the fetishized/eroticized body.

A guide for teachers who wish to conduct research in their classrooms and for schools that wish to improve their practice. It describes how classroom research helps teachers to enhance their teaching, to test the assumptions of educational theory in practice and to implement and evaluate whole school developments.

Argues that, for 'every school a great school' to become a reality, requires a move from individual school improvement efforts and short term objectives to a sustainable system-wide response that seeks to re-establish a balance between national prescription and schools leading reform. This book is suitable for teachers, managers, and researchers.

John Dryden (1631-1700) was the dominant literary figure of his age. Drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden , this work includes a selection of his most important work.

This book brings together the different strands of improvement strategies, including action research, systematic problem solving, educational change, teacher effectiveness and staff development, to provide a comprehensive account of this topic.

Models of Learning, Tools for Teaching .

An overview of the life and work of this most celebrated late-seventeenth century English poet, in the light of the latest research. This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century. It is unusual in stressing not only the poet's responses to the events, personalities, and ideas of his own

Helps you to develop rigorous partnerships, take managed risks and deploy resources creatively in order to build sustained improvements in student learning and well-being. This book is suitable for school leaders and senior teachers, educational policy makers and advisors, as well as those involved or interested in education and its leadership.

This book is the first to attempt to bring together the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement, in a coherent way, by leading writers and practitioners in these fields.

Aims to locate school improvement within a theoretical and practical framework, to illustrate the challenges facing school improvement strategies from a policy context, to demonstrate the evolution of school improvement strategies. This book deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, and more.