Covers various core skills. This title introduces the skills needed to succeed in Higher Education. It includes checklists, record sheets and practical activities.

Illustrated with photographs of performances chosen by RSC Directors, tis title features on-page notes which explain words and phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience. It is suitable for undergraduates or A-level students of Literature or Drama; lecturers or teachers of Literature or Drama.

This is a new edition of a hugely popular title. Mastering Arabic is the most accessible, carefully-paced and lively introductory Arabic course on the market using an effective tried and tested methodology which works across a wide range of learner backgrounds.

Addressing various stages of the essay writing process, this book teaches you how to analyse the question and break down difficult terms and concepts; generate your own ideas; evaluate and criticise arguments; express your thoughts coherently and develop your own style of writing; and plan and structure your essay from introduction to conclusion.

Described by The Times as 'the book no writer should be without', the new edition of The Writer's Handbook is the definitive guide for everyone in the writing profession. Includes free online access to The Writer's Handbook website offering its comprehensive directory and even more resources and advice for writers. A must-buy for writers.

An international selection of 15 short stories by distinguished modern writers including Peter Carey, Zadie Smith and Bernard Malamud. Featuring the theme of 'difference', each story has something to say about cultural encounters, often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting. With biographic and photographic portraits.

A guide to contract law for those embarking on a first degree or conversion course in law. It contains key information as well as more complex issues to serve as a course companion, and also to aid revision in preparation for exams.

Offers Spanish IWLP course and includes 2 CDs. This title is useful for HE students. It includes tailor-made foundations languages, with exercises and pairwork and groupwork opportunities and a self-study section.

In 1811, Mary Anning discovered the first ever dinosaur skeleton and became a fossil hunter, attracting the attention of the scientific world. Until then, it was believed that animals did not become extinct, but the bizarre nature of the fossils Anning found made it impossible to ignore the truth about evolution.

The author of Fermat's Last Theorem tackles the cause of the last century's most destructive event - the discovery of nuclear power. Aczel presents the fascinating story of the rival scientists who uncovered uranium's potential and reveals the ongoing tale of an element that is never far from today's headlines.

This book provides cutting-edge material elaborating on monetary circuit theory and post-Keynesian monetary economics. It contributes to a new approach to monetary analysis, which provides original insights into the complex fields of money, banking, and finance.

Globalization is a 'buzz-word' for the twenty-first century, but this volume argues that it is not possible to understand the current global economy without understanding the multinational.

Contains Gruffalo,Smartest Giant and Monkey Puzzle Hardback books in a slipcase.

Revised edition of this popular beginner's classroom text now including 2 CDs with each copy. Foundations Languages courses are tailor-made for HE students on IWLPs, with lively exercises and integrated pairwork and groupwork opportunities plus a comprehensive self-study section. The course fits neatly into the 20-24 week teaching year.

This book contends that there is a fundamental logic underlying the participation of non-elites in the nationalist enterprise. In order to understand this logic we must cast aside the standard myopia ingrained in most Rational Choice analysis.

When one thinks of the New Deal era, the issue of the environment does not immediately come to mind. Yet New Deal policies had a huge impact on environmental thinking, defining a new role for the federal government in the scientific management of the natural environment.

In Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World: What Went Right, Julie Chernov Hwang presents a compelling and innovative new theory and framework for examining the variation in Islamist mobilization strategies in Muslim Asia and the Middle East.

This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a time of global recession, the existing democratic system is resilient enough to meet the challenges posed by the xenophobic and racist groups.

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobilization and social transformation. This book challenges some of the preconceptions that have hindered the Restoration being understood on its own terms.

This volume comprises thirteen original research papers and three overview papers presenting new work using a number of experimental techniques from psycho- and neurolinguistics in the three key areas of current semantics and pragmatics: implicature, negation and presupposition.