General Science

GARDNER

Children's Books

Pearson\Prentice Hall

The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice. It views public history as a dynamic process combining historical research and a wide range of work with and for the public, informed by a conceptual context. The editors acknowledge the imprecision bedeviling attempts to define public history, and use this book as an opportunity to shape the field by taking a deliberately broad view. They include professional historians who work outside the academy in a range of institutions and sites, and those who are politically committed to communicating history to the wide range of audiences. This volume provides the information and inspiration needed by a practitioner to succeed in the wide range of workplaces that characterizes public history today, for university teachers of public history to assist their students, and for working public historians to keep up to date with recent research. This handbook locates public history as a professional practice within an intellectual framework that is increasingly transnational, technological, and democratic. While the nation state remains the primary means of identification, increased mobility and the digital revolution have occasioned a much broader outlook and awareness of the world beyond national borders. It addresses squarely the tech-savvy, media-literate citizens of the world, the"digital natives" of the twenty-first century, in a way that recognizes the revolution in shared authority that has swept museum work, oral history, and much of public history practice. This volume also provides both currently practicing historians and those entering the field a map for understanding the historical landscape of the future: not just to the historiographical debates of the academy but also the boom in commemoration and history outside the academy evident in many countries since the 1990s, which now constitutes the historical culture in each country. Public historians need to understand both contexts, and to negotiate their implications for questions of historical authority and the public historian's work. The boom in popular history is characterized by a significant increase in both making and consuming history in a range of historical activities such as genealogy, family history, and popular collecting; cultural tourism, historic sites, and memorial museums; increased memorialization, both formal and informal, from roadside memorials to state funded shrines and memorial Internet sites; increased publication of historical novels, biographies, and movies and TV series set in the past. Much of this, as well as a vast array of new community cultural projects, has been facilitated by the digital technologies that have increased the accessibility of historical information, the democratization of practice, and the demand for sharing authority.

OHB PUBLIC HISTORY OHBK (Oxford Handbooks)

History

World

Oxford University Press

Howe

BROCKWAY

Pearson Higher Education

Comp Copy Literature a Portable Anthology

Bedford/Saint Martin's

Instructor's Annotated Edition Your College Experience: Strategies for Success (9th Edition, 2011)

Bedford/St.Martins

Developing Teacher Assessment

"The authors are well-known in the Assessment field and this work presents their highly original analysis... [It] promotes a professional learning approach that will undoubtedly help educationalists in schools and across the schools sector in their quest to improve learning." Professor Mary James, University of Cambridge, UK. This book explores the processes involved in developing assessment practice. It argues that the role of teacher assessment needs to be put firmly at the forefront of the educational agenda and that assessment by teachers needs to be developed in a widespread, high quality and sustainable fashion.
 The authors, all members of the influential Assessment Reform Group, argue that the target-driven approach of external testing leads to problems, including 'teaching to the test' to the detriment of the wider curriculum, and motivational problems. In this book, they tackle the differences between formative and summative assessment and ask the question: "What is quality teacher assessment?"
 There is coverage of key professional learning dimensions including: 
<ul>
<li> The purposes of assessment </li>
<li> The need for evidence to support innovation </li>
<li> The process and steps to develop new practice </li>
<li> Perceptions of what counts as quality assessment in schools</li>
</ul> The authors draw on these various perspectives to explain how teachers and schools can build on existing practice, and develop new practices, and how the system should react to support them. This book is essential reading for teachers, head teachers, local authority professionals, policy makers and academics.

Developing teacher assessment

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

Secret agent Boysie Oakes feels completely alone.  He is on the run and terrified, travelling from Paris, across France, and down to his old stamping ground, the Cote d'Azur.   But who is chasing him? And why?   Nobody escapes the past, and Boysie is no exception - events are catching up with him like hounds descending upon a screeching hare.   A nemesis comes first in the shape of his former boss in the Department - the oily James George Mostyn.   Sought out by Mostyn, Boysie finds himself back on active service and forced to sit on SEAT - Special Executive for Anti-Terrorism.   A routine conference in Paris, however, reveals the truth.   Both Mostyn and Boysie are being set up at the wrong end of a series of ruthless liquidations, and somebody has to lose.   Before he can shout for a lifebuoy, Boysie finds himself on the run - both from the French police and security organisations, who want him for murder; and from the shadows of the past, who want him dead.   ‘A Killer for a Song’ is the seventh in the Boysie Oakes series of novels by John Gardner. Tightly written and packed with incredible twists, ‘A Killer for a Song’ is a brilliant continuation of the story of Gardner’s cowardly professional assassin.   It is perfect for fans of classic British spy fiction, including Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and Desmond Bagley.   Praise for the Boysie Oakes series:   “Gardner’s at the top of his form.” Daily Mirror   “Boysie Oakes is at the top of his form in this topical thriller.” Guardian   “All very entertaining in a crazy sort of way.” Morning Star   Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960’s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker. Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.   Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

Killer for a Song

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Flamingo

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Hodder&Stoughton

A Friend Like Henry

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hodder

MindTap for Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 16th Edition [Instant Access], 2 terms

Cengage Learning US

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