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The effective education of gifted children is one of the most
significant challenges facing educational systems in many countries
around the world, made particularly difficult by the forces of
globalization. "Conceptions of Giftedness "describes the unique and
varied ways cultures conceive of giftedness. As language influences
perception, different ideas of giftedness may embody different ways
of thinking, especially in the areas of creativity and problem
solving. This important new volume in special education encourages
the understanding, appreciation, and preservation of our "
intellectual diversity."
The effective education of gifted children is one of the most
significant challenges facing educational systems in many countries
around the world, made particularly difficult by the forces of
globalization. "Conceptions of Giftedness "describes the unique and
varied ways cultures conceive of giftedness. As language influences
perception, different ideas of giftedness may embody different ways
of thinking, especially in the areas of creativity and problem
solving. This important new volume in special education encourages
the understanding, appreciation, and preservation of our "
intellectual diversity."
A novel of secrets and revenge within a seventeenth-century English family. Longlisted for the Orange Prize 1672. A generation after the Civil War, Jonathan Dymond, a cider maker, has so far enjoyed a quiet life. But when he discovers a letter from his dying uncle, hinting an inheritance and revenge, he is determined to unravel the mystery in his family. Under the pretence of his cider business, Jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, Tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her own...
A sensational tale of obsession and murder from the author of The Wilding. England, 1640s. Jacob Cullen is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to develop a dangerous interest in god-fearing revolutionary pamphlets. He is on the brink of marriage to his virginal sweetheart, but is unsure of his emotional needs, and in possession of a boiling point he reaches all too often. But Jacob is also afraid of being discovered as the murderer of a local boy and, as armed horsemen arrive on the very day of his wedding feast, it prompts a series of impetuous, temper-fuelled bad decisions: Jacob flees, dragging his new wife and one of his brothers with him. He proceeds to wreak havoc on the lives of others but mostly on his own fortunes - as a servant, a husband, a brother, a soldier, and, critically, as friend, co-conspirator and lover of another man disaffected by the lurch from freedom to tyranny now apparent in Cromwell's New Model Army. To step outside the law, outside the state, outside the established and natural order of things seems to supply the only prospect of happiness... Gripping, unusual, packed with heady ingredients, As Meat Loves Salt plunges you into a world turned upside down by political fervour, inflammatory pamphleteering, social flux, grisly combat, apocalyptically evangelical Christianity, sexual confusion, and murder most foul.
Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like. Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland. But Zedland has secrets of his own and Sophia comes to suspect that her marriage is not what it seems. In cramped rooms in Covent Garden, Betsy-Ann shuffles a pack of cards. A gambler, dealer in second-hand goods, and living with a grave robber, her life could not be more different to Sophia's - but she too discovers that she has been lied to. As both women take steps to discover the truth, their lives come together through a dramatic series of events, taking the reader through the streets of 1760s London: a city wearing a genteel civility on its surface and rife with hypocrisy, oppression and violence lurking underneath.
"This is an outstanding debut novel, a fresh and unusual
achievement . . . As the title implies, it has all the dirt, stink,
rasp and flavour of the time." - The Daily Telegraph (London)
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Lives of the Cardinal De Richelieu…
George Payne Rainsford James
Paperback
R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
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