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Going Back for Our Future II - Carrying Forward the Spirit of Pioneers of Science Education (Hardcover): Jon E Pedersen, Kevin... Going Back for Our Future II - Carrying Forward the Spirit of Pioneers of Science Education (Hardcover)
Jon E Pedersen, Kevin D. Finson, Barbara S. Spector, Paul Jablon
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who were the pioneers in science education, and what motivated them to do what they did?" This book is the second volume of an attempt to capture and record some of the answers to these questions-either from the pioneers themselves or from those persons who worked most closely with them. As with the first volume, we have attempted to include as many pioneers as possible, but we know that there are still many that are not included in this or the previous volume. As we have posed questions, rummaged through files and oft?neglected books, and probed the memories of many individuals, we have come to realize our list of true pioneers is ever growing. As we consider our list of pioneers, we know that there are names on the list that most of us readily recognize. We also fully realize that there are names of whom few of us have heard-yet who were significant in their roles as mentors or idea development and teaching. We continue to be impressed with our science education "family tree" ever branching out to more individuals and connections. The stories in this volume continue to demonstrate how vital this network was in supporting the individual pioneers during their journey in difficult times and continues to be for those of us today in our own enterprise.

Therapist in the Wry - Notes from the Crumbling Edge of Mental Health (Paperback): Michael Szilagyi Therapist in the Wry - Notes from the Crumbling Edge of Mental Health (Paperback)
Michael Szilagyi
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Liquidation of Raoul Wallenberg (Paperback): Nigel Bance The Liquidation of Raoul Wallenberg (Paperback)
Nigel Bance
R478 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R42 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Sins of Jack Saul: The True Story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street Scandal (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Glenn... The Sins of Jack Saul: The True Story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street Scandal (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Glenn Chandler
R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the Queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the second edition, including much new information, of the full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, an Irish Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the aristocracy, and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Glenn Chandler, creator of Taggart, explores his colourful but tragic life and reveals for the first time the true story about what really went on behind the velvet curtains of 19 Cleveland Street.

Australia - A German Traveller in the Age of Gold (Paperback): Friedrich Gerst acker Australia - A German Traveller in the Age of Gold (Paperback)
Friedrich Gerst acker; Edited by Peter Monteath
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Age of Uncertainty - how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world (Hardcover): Tobias Hurter The Age of Uncertainty - how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world (Hardcover)
Tobias Hurter; Translated by David Shaw
R765 R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Save R141 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only revolutionise physics; they redefined our world and the reality we live in. In The Age of Uncertainty, Tobias Hurter brings to life the golden age of physics and its dazzling, flawed, and unforgettable heroes and heroines. The work of the twentieth century's most important physicists produced scientific breakthroughs that led to an entirely new view of physics - and a view of the universe that is still not fully understood today, even as evidence for its accuracy is all around us. The men and women who made these discoveries were intellectual adventurers, renegades, dandies, and nerds, some bound together by deep friendship; others, by bitter enmity. But the age of relativity theory and quantum mechanics was also the age of wars and revolutions. The discovery of radioactivity transformed science, but also led to the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Throughout The Age of Uncertainty, Hurter reminds us about the entanglement of science and world events, for we cannot observe the world without changing it.

Going Back for Our Future II - Carrying Forward the Spirit of Pioneers of Science Education (Paperback): Jon E Pedersen, Kevin... Going Back for Our Future II - Carrying Forward the Spirit of Pioneers of Science Education (Paperback)
Jon E Pedersen, Kevin D. Finson, Barbara S. Spector, Paul Jablon
R1,595 Discovery Miles 15 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who were the pioneers in science education, and what motivated them to do what they did?" This book is the second volume of an attempt to capture and record some of the answers to these questions-either from the pioneers themselves or from those persons who worked most closely with them. As with the first volume, we have attempted to include as many pioneers as possible, but we know that there are still many that are not included in this or the previous volume. As we have posed questions, rummaged through files and oft?neglected books, and probed the memories of many individuals, we have come to realize our list of true pioneers is ever growing. As we consider our list of pioneers, we know that there are names on the list that most of us readily recognize. We also fully realize that there are names of whom few of us have heard-yet who were significant in their roles as mentors or idea development and teaching. We continue to be impressed with our science education "family tree" ever branching out to more individuals and connections. The stories in this volume continue to demonstrate how vital this network was in supporting the individual pioneers during their journey in difficult times and continues to be for those of us today in our own enterprise.

The Palestine Yearbook 2015: The Genocide the World Ignores (Paperback): Diana Lodge The Palestine Yearbook 2015: The Genocide the World Ignores (Paperback)
Diana Lodge
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Skyway - The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought it Down (Paperback): Bill DeYoung Skyway - The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought it Down (Paperback)
Bill DeYoung
R540 R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Save R63 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On the morning of May 9, 1980, during sudden violent weather, a 600-foot freighter struck a support pier of the fifteen-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The main span splintered and collapsed 150 feet into Tampa Bay. Seven cars and a Greyhound bus fell over the broken edge and into the churning water below. Thirty-five people died. Skyway tells the entire story of this horrific event. Through personal interviews and extensive research, Bill DeYoung pieces together the harrowing moments of the collision, including the first-person accounts of witnesses and survivors. The result is a gripping retelling of the worst ship-bridge collision in U.S. history.

Chernobyl the Zone 2016 (Paperback): Francisco Sanchez Chernobyl the Zone 2016 (Paperback)
Francisco Sanchez; Illustrated by Natacha Bustos
R446 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Proper People - Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There (Paperback): David Scrimgeour Proper People - Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There (Paperback)
David Scrimgeour
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

While many excellent books have been published about the nineteenth century county asylums in England, comparatively little has been written about the tens of thousands of real people, mostly 'pauper lunatics', who passed through their doors. Social historians starved of material providing a deep insight into the lives of patients have many questions to answer. Why were they in an asylum? What was their life really like? How were they treated? What happened to them? What was the impact on their families? Proper People shines a powerful light on the lives of just some of the patients admitted to the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire between 1818 and 1869. Using transcribed extracts from the surviving patients' case notes, other original asylum records and contemporary newspaper reports a picture of early asylum life is painted using the actual words of the asylum physicians, attendants, poor law officials, magistrates, asylum visitors, press reporters, patients' families and, on occasions, the patients themselves. Readers will be able to imagine being a fly on the Asylum wall.

Hamish - His Story (Paperback): Angela Mair, Craig Mair Hamish - His Story (Paperback)
Angela Mair, Craig Mair
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Shadow of Shackleton's Cross (Paperback): Beverley McLeod In the Shadow of Shackleton's Cross (Paperback)
Beverley McLeod; Illustrated by Nigel Bonner
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The memoir of a young girls experiences in the Antarctic whaling community of South Georgia. It is a story of love and fear, the light and dark side of such a harsh environment and the impact it had on her and on her family. A The six year-old girl arrives at King Edward Point, a settlement of eight houses huddled at the foot of a mountain on the Antarctic island of South Georgia. Around the bay is Grytviken, the most successful Whaling Station in the world at that time. This is the story of the four years she spent without going to school and largely with only herself for company. It is also the story of the Whaling industry and of the people whose livelihoods depended upon it.

And the Regiment Blind with Dust and Smoke (Paperback): John Thompson And the Regiment Blind with Dust and Smoke (Paperback)
John Thompson
R190 R157 Discovery Miles 1 570 Save R33 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Ragbag of My Mind (Paperback): Bob Blane The Ragbag of My Mind (Paperback)
Bob Blane
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
History, Heroism and Home - A Family's Story Through Two Thousand Years of History (Paperback): Terence Kearey History, Heroism and Home - A Family's Story Through Two Thousand Years of History (Paperback)
Terence Kearey; Edited by Chris Newton
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1816 the author's great-great grandfather, Thomas Kearey, arrived in England to seek his fortune. He was the latest - but by no means the last - in a line of strong and resourceful men. This book is the story of the Keareys, and of their place in history through the centuries. It relates how the Ciardha ('Ciar's people') in the Ireland of the Dark Ages evolved into the modern Keareys, how holders of that name laboured, loved and fought through the centuries, and how in more recent times they were proud to fight with honour for their adopted country of Britain in two world wars. Terence Kearey has woven the carefully-researched story of what happened to his family over the centuries into the economic and social history of these islands, explaining how his ancestors coped with, and in some cases helped to change, the vicissitudes of poverty, war and economic and social change. The result is a detailed and vivid picture of a past that is quickly fading from memory.

Racing Classic Motorcycles - First you have to finish (Paperback): Andy Reynolds Racing Classic Motorcycles - First you have to finish (Paperback)
Andy Reynolds
R617 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R112 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The story of a classic motorcycle racer who was fortunate enough to be able to ride many of the best machines from the period, at the highest level, and on many of the most famous road racing courses in the world. There are tales of success, friendships, and the loss of racing pals. Machine preparation and mechanical failures feature heavily, and the story recounts the author's frustrations and joys. Andy Reynolds maintained and built many of the bikes he raced, and ultimately retired from riding to become both a machine scrutineer and a sponsor. All aspects of motorcycle racing are covered in the author's easy-to-read and entertaining narrative, and it is a fascinating read for any motorcycle enthusiast. Come into the world of Classic Racing Motorcycles - but bring your cheque book and medical insurance!

Where Have All the Mothers Gone? - Stories of Courage and Hope During Childbirth Among the World's Poorest Women... Where Have All the Mothers Gone? - Stories of Courage and Hope During Childbirth Among the World's Poorest Women (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jean Chamberlain Froese
R834 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R159 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While childbirth is a normal part of most women's lives and a process which usually proceeds without any real risk, for the world's poorest women this is often not the case. Poverty, malnutrition, female genital mutilation, child marriage and AIDS put these women in a high risk bracket from Day 1 of their pregnancies. To make matters worse, when things go wrong they often have no easy access to healthcare, when they get to a clinic or hospital skilled staff may not be available or, if they are, the drugs and equipment they need may well not be at their disposal. War, natural disasters and a lack of infrastructure, not to mention corruption and entrenched cultural attitudes which are not sympathetic towards the challenges women face present yet more problems. In this book the author, an obstetrician gynaecologist with extensive experience of working in developing countries, provides an insight into these and other problems by telling individual women's stories. Each account highlights a different problem. For this special study edition university lecturer and teacher Sylvie Donna has written questions to go with each account to help facilitate reflection and discussion; the questions can either be used for personal study or by tutors in seminars; the book's index will help students complete assignments, think through issues and develop potential solutions. Work which is already being carried out to help vulnerable populations is also outlined by the author, Dr Jean Chamberlain Froese, who founded the Canadian charity Save the Mothers, and by her husband, freelance journalist Thomas Froese. Where relevant, statistics are also provided so as to give readers a clearer picture of the real situation facing women and healthcare providers in some of the world's poorest countries.

Big Brother Big Banker - All Seeing - All Knowing - All Lying (Paperback): Steven M. Bishop Big Brother Big Banker - All Seeing - All Knowing - All Lying (Paperback)
Steven M. Bishop
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Big Brother - Big Banker reveals how a few of the world's richest men conceived and formulated a plan to absorb and control the wealth and resources of the world - including everyone and everything in it. These men made a pact to secretly pool their money and resources to influence all nations on the planet, establishing what they have termed a New World Order. 'They' are deadly serious, implementing covert plans that will ultimately control the entire human race.

The First Treasure Divers - The True Story of How Two Brothers Invented the Diving Helmet and Sought Sunken Treasure and Fame... The First Treasure Divers - The True Story of How Two Brothers Invented the Diving Helmet and Sought Sunken Treasure and Fame (Paperback)
John Bevan
R401 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The recorded history of the diving industry has been fundamentally corrupted over the past 150 years. The result is a complete misunderstanding of how it all began. Who invented the diving helmet? Refer to any encyclopaedia or history book and the answer you will find will almost certainly be wrong. The First Treasure Divers reveals the true and fascinating story. It blows away the myths and deliberate misinformation that have crept into the historical record. Thanks to the painstaking research the author has carried out over the past 25 years, the falsehoods are peeled away to unveil the true, definitive account. It follows the lives of two brothers as they struggle to turn their newly-invented diving helmet to advantage and how they wrestle with apathetic and even hostile authorities for recognition of their invention. It thunders through sunken treasure adventures to the heroism and horrors of the Crimean War. The impact of the invention of the diving helmet is immense. In the 180 years since the Deane brothers carried out the first ever commercial helmet dive off the Isle of Wight on the south coast of England, the diving business has expanded to a global industry with an annual turnover in excess of $3,000,000,000. From another point of view, the life-support technology developed in the diving industry provided the knowledge for keeping the pioneering, high altitude pilots alive, which in turn evolved into the life-support systems of the astronauts who walked on the moon.

The Islamic Civilization (Paperback): Mustafa Siba'i The Islamic Civilization (Paperback)
Mustafa Siba'i
R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Reluctant Messenger of Science and Religion - Science and the World's Religions Are Pieces to a Puzzle That Need Each... The Reluctant Messenger of Science and Religion - Science and the World's Religions Are Pieces to a Puzzle That Need Each Other to Form a Complete Picture (Paperback)
Stephen W. Boston; As told to Evelyn McKnight Boston Ph.D.
R512 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R76 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Science teaches evolution. Genesis describes creation. Christianity, Judaism, and Sufism teach resurrection. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism teach reincarnation. The Reluctant Messenger of Science and Religion resolves these paradoxes.

Chester and Lydia meet in a debate. One wins. One loses. Neither are ever the same.

Lydia discovers a secret from her past that destroyed her family. She tries to ignore it, but her nightmares won’t let her. Chester’s greed for gold and revenge lead him to ancient knowledge which the powers of darkness fight to suppress.

When the information last came to light, thousands died. Somehow, Chester must safely reveal it to the world.

The Travels (Paperback): Marco Polo The Travels (Paperback)
Marco Polo; Translated by Nigel Cliff
R373 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R59 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time. For this edition - the first completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years - Nigel Cliff has gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh, authoritative new version. The volume also contains invaluable editorial materials, including an introduction describing the world as it stood on the eve of Polo's departure, and examining the fantastical notions the West had developed of the East.

N-4 Down - The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia (Hardcover): Mark Piesing N-4 Down - The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia (Hardcover)
Mark Piesing
R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia-code-named N-4-was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles' greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen's body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic's most enduring mysteries . . . During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany's luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain's Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships. But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific-often deadly-conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen-the first man to reach the South Pole-partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls. In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration, Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice flows,unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival. Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed-but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . . Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of earth's extremes.

Notes from a Summer Cottage - The Intimate Life of the Outside World (Hardcover): Nina Burton Notes from a Summer Cottage - The Intimate Life of the Outside World (Hardcover)
Nina Burton
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'I went for a walk around the garden. A great tit warbled above a patch of coltsfoot. I felt a thousand discoveries awaited...' Notes from a Summer Cottage by Nina Burton is a beautifully written nature memoir about the time spent renovating a cottage in the Swedish countryside, and all the species that she encountered her during her stay. Did you know that there are more ants altogether than the number of seconds that have passed since the Big Bang? And that in relation to their size, their anthill cities can be larger than London and New York? Or, that a bird's migratory instinct is so strong that an injured stork once escaped captivity and was found six weeks later having walked 150 kilometres, following the migratory path of his flock on foot? What begins with a renovation of a an old summer cottage swiftly turns into an exploration of nature, life and philosophy, in which Nina Burton reveals the inner lives and hitherto unknown habits of the animals with which she shares. Within the walls, the ceiling and the floor of the cottage and its surrounding garden, she encounters a host of animals-ants, honey bees, foxes, squirrels, blackbirds, badgers, pigeons, deer and many more-all of whom have made her house and garden their home, and all of whom cause Nina to reflect on their role within our world.

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