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Exam Board: Salters Nuffield Level: A level Subject: Science /
Biology First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 An
ActiveBook is included with every Student Book, giving your
students easy online access to the content in the Student Book.
They can make it their own with notes, highlights and links to
their wider reading. Perfect for supporting revision activities.
Student Book 1 supports a standalone AS course and provides the
first year of a two-year A level course; Student Books 1and 2
together support the full A level course. A cumulative approach to
learning constantly builds on what has previously been learnt. Each
topic is introduced within a wider context. Concepts are revisited
and developed in later topics. Integrated math sand stats support
directs students to online maths resources. Thinking Bigger spreads
require students to use knowledge in new contexts and think about
connections and develop essential assessment skills throughout
course. Real-life articles engage students with current biological
writing and develop scientific literacy skills needed for A level
and beyond. Checkpoints consolidate knowledge through summarizing
tasks Practical activities provide opportunities for students to
practise their skills and develop understanding of practical
requirements. Material has been updated to reflect revisions,
additions and deletions to changes in the subject content.
Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in
which animals are the heroes. Firkin and the Grey Gangsters was in
1936 a metaphor for the fear of takeover by corporate America -
Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle
against a horde of grey squirrel invaders from America. Firkin
speaks in Scots. The Sheep who wasn't a Sheep is about the thoughts
going through the head of a sheep, swimming between one Outer Isle
and the other. The White Drake is a farmyard drake in Perthshire
learning about flying.
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Auntie Robbo (Paperback)
Ann Scott-Moncrieff; Illustrated by Christopher Brooker
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Hector is an 11-year-old boy living near Edinburgh with his great
auntie Robbo who is in her eighties. A woman calling herself his
step-mother arrives from England and Hector and Auntie Robbo
realise that they have to run away. The chase leads all over the
north of Scotland, narrowly escaping police and the authorities,
adopting three homeless children on the way. Originally refused
publication in London because it was deemed critical of the
English, Auntie Robbo was first published in the U.S. in 1940.
After success in print it was taken on by Constable in 1959 and
later was published in India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
Denmark and Germany.
Anne Scott has never housed her books in order of theme or author
yet she knows where each of them is and the kind of life it has
led. Some have been gifts but most have been chosen in bookshops
unique in their style and possibilities. They have been observers
of discovery, decisions, and marvels with her, following the line
of her time and place. Some are everyday shops with a shelf of
books in a corner, some are beginning again after long lives as
churches, printing presses, medieval houses, a petrol-station.
There are a few the author is too late to see: early print-houses
and booksellers here too in this book, searched for and described,
side by side with all the bookshops open now and busy with readers.
Not one is like another. In one way, the book is a sequence about
writing. But first it is a map of books and a life.
In 1953 pioneering journalist Anne Scott-James started to write a
weekly column for the Sunday Express newspaper. 'The Anne
Scott-James Page' set the bar for a new way of writing. Scott-James
perfected the art of the short, sharp column - and many of the
topics she covered are equally on-trend today. She cogently
expressed her views on men, children, fashion, beauty, food,
interiors, travel, and anything else that took her fancy. Political
opinions might be squashed between thoughts on eyebrow tweezing and
a piece on swimsuit lines. Scott-James was a great believer in
entertaining her readers, and her columns are sharp, witty, to the
point, often very funny, sometimes very moving. In Hold the Front
Page! a selection of the Sunday Express columns is brought together
with a commentary by her daughter, writer Clare Hastings, and with
photographs from the Scott-James/Hastings family albums and
drawings by Osbert Lancaster, Scott-James's third husband, to
provide a fascinating insight into the 1950s - and into the public
and private life of one of the most celebrated columnists of the
twentieth century.
Anne Scott has never housed her books in order of theme or author
yet she knows where each of them is and the kind of life it has
led. Some have been gifts but most have been chosen in bookshops
unique in their style and possibilities. They have been observers
of discovery, decisions, and marvels with her, following the line
of her time and place. Some are everyday shops with a shelf of
books in a corner, some are beginning again after long lives as
churches, printing presses, medieval houses, a petrol-station.
There are a few the author is too late to see: early print-houses
and booksellers here too in this book, searched for and described,
side by side with all the bookshops open now and busy with readers.
Not one is like another. In one way, the book is a sequence about
writing. But first it is a map of books and a life.
Five children escape from a Children's Home, run away and steal a
boat, which they sail around the Outer Hebrides. The book had a
huge print run from London Methuen, but their warehouses were
bombed in 1940 in Paternoster Row; 5 million books were lost in the
fires caused by tens of thousands of incendiary bombs.
Consequently, there were very few copies in circulation. This is
the resurrection of a successful children's adventure story.
In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans
transformed lynching from a largely clandestine strategy of
extralegal punishment into a form of racialized recreation in which
crowd involvement was integral to the mode and methods of the
violence. Scott powerfully documents how lynchings came to function
not only as tools for debasing the status of Black people but also
as highly anticipated occasions for entertainment, making memories
with friends and neighbors, and reifying whiteness. In focusing on
the sense of pleasure and normality that prevailed among the white
spectatorship, this comprehensive study of Texas lynchings sheds
new light on the practice understood as one of the chief strategies
of racial domination in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century
South.
Welcome to the Enchanted Pony Academy, where glittery ponies learn
how to use their magic! Electra loves to be outside, running as
fast as she can--and she's fast! So now that it's time to learn to
ride with the children at Enchanted Pony Academy, Electra couldn't
be more excited. But riding is a lot harder than it looks. When
Electra accidentally throws a prince onto the dirt, the other
children are afraid to get in the saddle. Can she find her perfect
match and keep working toward becoming a royal pony -- before time
runs out? Will the Academy help Daisy discover her magic and make
all her dreams come true . . . or will she learn that there's been
a huge mistake?
Fans of Rainbow Magic and Mermaid Tales will love this new series
full of adventures under the sea! Be brave and keep the seas
safe!Nixie can't wait to join the Royal Mermaid Rescue Crew. Along
with a magical seapony partner, she'll save merpeople in danger and
use her natural creativity to keep the seas safe! But then Nixie
gets matched with Rip -- a super-speedy seapony who's at the top of
his class, but also a strict rule-follower. Rip and Nixie couldn't
be more different!Will Nixie be able to befriend Rip...or will she
have to look for another fish in the sea?
Gender Communication Theories and Analyses surveys the field of
gender and communication with a particular focus on gender and
communication theories and methods. How have theories about gender
and communication evolved and been influenced by first-, second-,
and third-wave feminisms? And similarly, how have feminist
communication scholars been inspired by existing methods and
aspired to generate their own? The goal of the text is to help
readers develop analytic focus and knowledge about their underlying
assumptions that gender communication scholars use in their work.
Features and Benefits: Applies theoretical and methodological
lenses to contemporary cases, allowing readers to see gender and
communcation theory work in action. Presents a comprehensive
introduction to particular feminist theories and methodologies.
Provides effective end-of-chapter cases and sample analyses that
help readers see the kinds of questions and analyses that a
particular theory and method bring into play. Discusses
contemporary research in gender and communication and expands on
future directions for research.
This book comprehensively explores social, political and cultural
dimensions of health in contemporary society. It addresses many
issues and pertinent questions, including the following: Are we
over diagnosed and over medicated? How can patients participate in
their own care? Do pharmaceutical companies coerce us into
medication regimes? What drives inequalities in health outcomes?
What is the experience of health care for indigenous communities?
Why do different countries have such different health care systems?
How do we respond to life-changing conditions? Can we achieve a
'good death'? How do new genetics shape our identities? Is public
health a force of liberation or disempowerment? The book
incorporates the range of levels of influence on health, covering
individual patient experiences, the health professions,
multinational corporations, the state, global organisations as well
as examining trends in social organisation, cultural expression and
technological developments. It volume provides an accessible, yet
in-depth, overview and discussion of the sociology of health. The
chapters include an illustrative case study and further readings
relating to the topic.
This book follows a physically disabled researcher's journey from
stigmatized embodiment on her way to creating accessible
storytelling performances. These unique performances function not
only as traditional, peer-reviewed forms of critical qualitative
research, but also as 'narrative teaching productions' that guide
students and their audiences in the pursuit of social justice and
equality. The book begins by developing the author's personal
standpoint, and provides an evocative discussion of the multiple
perceptions and identities experienced by those with disabled
bodies. It negotiates how performance research can be created and
conducted within the confines of course learning objectives, moves
through complications encountered in research design and data
collection, and explores a range of insightful responses from
community members, social activists, and performance critics, as
well as more traditional academic audiences. Critical
autoethnographic personal narratives, performance scripts, and
poetry are used to illuminate struggles over legitimate
methodological practice and storytelling performance pedagogy. Each
chapter confronts the fear of mortality that presses us to
stigmatize those who remind us of our inescapably vulnerable
embodiments and offers hope for an inclusive, adaptable culture.
The book will be compelling reading for scholars in Performance
Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Narrative
Methodology, Ethnography, Higher Education, Autoethnography,
Creative Nonfiction and everyone interested embodiment and/or
storytelling for social change. Please visit
www.uncwstorytelling.org/chapter-summaries-1 to access
supplementary material for the book.
Stress has become a near-universal experience as well as a rising
public health concern. According to many measures, people today are
dealing with stressors that are greater in number and severity than
in the past several decades, and this stress is taking a toll on
our collective wellness. Bringing considerable content from her
popular stress management Web site on About.com, Elizabeth Scott
distills information about stress management into central ideas and
strategies for consumers. These include learning to reduce the
stress response and stressors, practicing long-term resilience
habits, and putting positive psychology research into action. These
various perspectives provide a multilayered framework for
understanding stress and approaching stress management that is
inspirational, action-oriented, and backed by foundational and
recent knowledge in the field. The quick-to-read "8 keys" format of
the book can be utilized on many levels so that busy readers can
quickly find relief from stress.
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