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Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to
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Notes: AQA GCSE (9-1) Citizenship Studies will help you: - Develop
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Encourage students to take an active role in citizenship with fully
updated content that will allow them to understand the key issues
and concepts they need to know using clear, detailed explanations
of key terms, supported by real-life case studies that will bring
the topic to life. This book contains: - Extensive coverage of
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relevant websites to allow further subject enrichment This title
has been awarded the Association for Citizenship Teaching Quality
Mark for Citizenship Resources
Strengthen students' understanding of key AQA GCSE topics and
develop the vital skills required to attain the best results
possible in the exams, with this expert-written Student Workbook.
Written by experienced examiner Mike Mitchell, this write-in
Student Workbook: - Actively develops knowledge and the ability to
recall information with consolidation questions and short topic
summaries - Reinforces understanding and boosts confidence with
exam-style practice questions and clear spotlight of the Assessment
Objectives - Encourages independent learning as students can use
the Workbook at home or in class, throughout the course or for
last-minute revision, with answers to tasks and activities supplied
online
The aim of this book is to familiarise English-speaking readers
with the thoughts of the Swiss educationalist and philosopher,
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 -1827), who was a major influence
on such important educators as Frbel and Montessori. The book also
demonstrates that consideration of Pestalozzi's fundamental ideas
can provide helpful guidance for all those who want schools to be
more child-oriented and produce better-educated school-leavers. The
aim of this book is to familiarise English-speaking readers with
the thoughts of the Swiss educationalist and philosopher, Johann
Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 -1827), who was a major influence on such
important educators as Frbel and Montessori. The book also
demonstrates that consideration of Pestalozzi's fundamental ideas
can provide helpful guidance for all those who want schools to be
more child-oriented and produce better-educated school-leavers.
Arthur Brhlmeier takes a practical approach to the educational
philosophy and life of Pestalozzi which will be of great benefit to
all those in the field of education, as well as to parents.
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Hidden Lives (Paperback)
Sylvie Germain; Translated by Mike Mitchell
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R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
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The B rynxes are a middle-class family. Charlam, the grandfather,
who wants to take control after the death of his son, Georges, in a
road accident; Sabine, his daughter-in-law, who mutely but
successfully wards off his encroachment. The three sons, who seem
relatively unaffected by the loss of their father and who make
their own way in life, sometimes to Charlam's approval, sometimes
to his disapproval. Marie, the daughter, whose leg was damaged in
the accident rebels against his authority. dith, the aunt, whose
undiscovered secret is her passion for her nephew, Georges; and
Pierre, whom Sabine chances to encounter; Mr Loyalty, the man she
can rely on in her business and who becomes a kind of honorary
uncle to the children, much to the disgust of Charlam complete the
family group..But that is merely the surface. What gives this novel
its special flavour are the things unseen, the magma of hopes,
desires, fantasies, memories, humiliations, passions and hatreds
bubbling beneath the surface of all their lives, which Sylvie
Germain evokes with the poetic intensity that distinguishes her
novels.
When Leon and Solange entered the church everyone was struck by the
difference in height between them. Even though he was wearing heel
inserts. However after their first child is born, Leon shrinks by
15 inches. This happens again after their second child is born,
until Leon is little more than a Tom Thumb."
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G The Green Face (Paperback)
Gustav Meyrink; Translated by Mike Mitchell; Afterword by Franz Rottensteiner
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R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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The Chipmunks take to the high seas for this second animated comedy
adventure sequel. When their luxury liner becomes grounded on a
remote island during a tropical cruise, the Chipmunks soon discover
their secluded paradise is not as deserted as it seems. As they
struggle to contend with the heat, the insects and the close
proximity to one another, the Chipmunks begin to develop a few very
strange personality traits.
Shrek has settled down to married life with Fiona. The triplets are
a year old now, and life has become a boring routine.
Rumpelstilskin offers Shrek some hope: a return to his carefree
days, in return for one day of Shrek's life. Unfortunately
Rumpelstilskin picks the day Shrek was born, meaning he does not
exist, and no one knows him. With only one day to get a kiss from
Fiona to break the spell, Shrek has his work cut out convincing his
friends that they are his friends.
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The LEGO Movie 2 (Blu-ray disc)
Mike Mitchell; Starring Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish
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R133
Discovery Miles 1 330
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Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks and Will Arnett return to lend their
voices to this CGI-animated adventure sequel based on the line of toys
made by Lego. When Apocalypseburg is invaded by alien Duplos and his
friends are kidnapped by General Mayhem (Stephanie Beatriz), Emmet
(Pratt) sets off on an adventure to outer space to save them. There, he
teams up with Rex Dangervest (Pratt) and heads to the Systar System to
confront Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi (Tiffany Haddish) and rescue his friends.
But will the gang be able to prevent the dreaded Ourmomageddon?
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Class (Paperback)
Hermann Ungar; Translated by Mike Mitchell
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R230
Discovery Miles 2 300
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Josef Blau is a high school teacher who comes from a poor
background, poorer than that of most of his pupils. The insecurity
this causes him leads to an obsession with order and discipline. He
senses his pupils watching him, waiting for the slightest weakness;
the least infringement, he feels, will lead to the complete
collapse of this tightly ordered world. The other focus of his
obsession is his attractive wife. Despite al the evidence and her
assurances, he cannot believe she will be faithful to him. He
forces her to shave her hair and wear clothes that are no more than
shapeless sacks, yet still cannot conquer his fears. Catastrophe is
looming and, once the first breach is made inevitable. 'We are all
schoolchildren, ' Blau says, 'in one great class...
[An] engrossing literary debut...Writing in Adolfo's voice gives
this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. - Kirkus Reviews
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels"
and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the genius-forger
who committed his know-how and convictions to serve the French
Resistance during World War II, saving thousands of Jewish
families, and many others over the course of 30 years for various
causes around the world." - TED.com A detailed and touching story
traversing a century in clandestine shadow crossings, where
Adolfo's skill meant life...or death. - Liberation, France
Riveting. - Haaretz, Israel Technical prowess, creativity, and
self-denial drive the plot in the incredibly lucky life of Adolfo
Kaminsky narrated in this exciting historical document. - Elle
Magazine, France; 2010 Reader's Choice Award Undoubtedly one of the
most captivating books of the season. - Paris Today A pointed,
sober biography ...of one of the world's best forgers. - Der
Spiegel If made into a film, the life of Adolfo Kaminsky would have
the ingredients of suspense thriller, war movie, historical
tragedy, intimate drama, romantic comedy and scenes of terror. - O
Globo, Brazil A thrilling book. - la Repubblica Federal, Italy
Kaminsky has lived, in the shadows, the brightest hours of the
Resistance. - Le Monde Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes
readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and
clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance,
the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth
century. Recruited as a young Jewish teenager for his knowledge of
dyes, Kaminsky became the primary forger for the French Resistance
during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Then, as a professional
photographer, Kaminsky spent the next twenty-five years
clandestinely producing thousands of counterfeit documents for
immigrants, exiles, underground political operatives, and pacifists
across the globe. Kaminsky kept his past cloaked in secrecy well
into his eighties, until his daughter convinced him to share the
details of the life-threatening work he did on behalf of people
fighting for justice and peace throughout the world.
A two-volume book in which Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and
former investigative journalist for Le Monde, shares his research
and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's
role in the Holocaust. In the first volume, "Operation Yellow
Star," Rajsfus meticulously analyzes archival documents,
demonstrating the extent of police collaboration with the Vichy
regime and how it facilitated the persecution, deportation, and
ultimately the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Examining
long-unseen arrest records and transcripts, Rajsfus seeks to
understand how and why many average French citizens resisted Nazi
occupation while others were willingly complicit. In the second
book, "Black Thursday," Rajsfus recounts his own experiences of
July 16, 1942, when he and his family were arrested as part of the
Vel' d'Hiv roundup, the largest ever in France, of 13,000 Jews.
While most of those detained during the two-day sweep eventually
died in Auschwitz, the author survived and has spent the rest of
his life grappling with his country's betrayal. Together, the two
volumes by Rajsfus offer a damning expose of the bureaucracy of
genocide, laying bare how cultural bias, political self-interest,
and the influence of right-wing media led to the implementation of
the Yellow Star as a segregationist device and determined France's
culpability in the Holocaust. Maurice Rajsfus is the author of
thirty books and from 1994--2012 he created and circulated "Que
fait la police," a "Cop Watch" bulletin detailing human rights
abuses. He lives in Paris with his wife, sons and grandchildren.
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Simplicissimus (Paperback)
Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen; Translated by Mike Mitchell
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R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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Mike Mitchell's new translation replaces S. Goodrich's 1912 version
of the first German bestselling novel. Simplicissimus is the
eternal innocent, caught in the middle of the Thirty Years War.
Here is the first English bio of the cult author of The Golem,
written by a prize-winning scholar. The remarkable life and the
fantastic legend that was Meyrink, allowing him and those who knew
him to speak in their own words wherever possible. The illegitimate
son of an aristocratic politician and an actress, Meyrink
established himself as a banker in Prague, while achieving
notoriety as a dandy and rake, while also being a successful
sportsman. About to commit suicide, he chanced on a pamphlet about
life after death, put his revolver away and started a lifelong
interest in the occult. He unmasked false mediums and experimented
with alchemy, drugs and clairvoyancy until an affair of honor led
him to challenge the whole of the Prague officer corps, setting
machinations in motion which resulted in his being wrongly
imprisoned. His bank then collapsed and he became a writer. Stories
collected around him, so that it is often difficult to distinguish
fact from fiction.
[An] engrossing literary debut...Writing in Adolfo's voice gives
this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. - Kirkus Reviews
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels"
and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the genius-forger
who committed his know-how and convictions to serve the French
Resistance during World War II, saving thousands of Jewish
families, and many others over the course of 30 years for various
causes around the world." - TED.com A detailed and touching story
traversing a century in clandestine shadow crossings, where
Adolfo's skill meant life...or death. - Liberation, France
Riveting. - Haaretz, Israel Technical prowess, creativity, and
self-denial drive the plot in the incredibly lucky life of Adolfo
Kaminsky narrated in this exciting historical document. - Elle
Magazine, France; 2010 Reader's Choice Award Undoubtedly one of the
most captivating books of the season. - Paris Today A pointed,
sober biography ...of one of the world's best forgers. - Der
Spiegel If made into a film, the life of Adolfo Kaminsky would have
the ingredients of suspense thriller, war movie, historical
tragedy, intimate drama, romantic comedy and scenes of terror. - O
Globo, Brazil A thrilling book. - la Repubblica Federal, Italy
Kaminsky has lived, in the shadows, the brightest hours of the
Resistance. - Le Monde Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes
readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and
clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance,
the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth
century. Recruited as a young Jewish teenager for his knowledge of
dyes, Kaminsky became the primary forger for the French Resistance
during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Then, as a professional
photographer, Kaminsky spent the next twenty-five years
clandestinely producing thousands of counterfeit documents for
immigrants, exiles, underground political operatives, and pacifists
across the globe. Kaminsky kept his past cloaked in secrecy well
into his eighties, until his daughter convinced him to share the
details of the life-threatening work he did on behalf of people
fighting for justice and peace throughout the world.
Stirring, poignant stories humanize great historical tragedies with
interviews and accounts of individuals affected by the clashes of
communism and fascism. “Powerful inquiries spurred by
photos—history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly
forgotten.” —Kirkus Reviews “A missionary voice of human
dignity.” —World Literature Today Erich Hackl, 2017 recipient
of the internationally-recognized Human Rights Award of Upper
Austria and winner of multiple literature prizes, brings three
little-known and inspiring biographies to light: young Gisela
Tschofenig’s hidden life in the Austrian resistance and her fate;
a fragmented interview with Wilhelm Brasse, the Polish political
prisoner who photographed Auschwitz inmates and saved evidence of
Mengele’s horrific crimes; and the multi-generational story of
the Klagsbrunns, who fled Nazism in Vienna only to find another
kind of terror in the fascist dictatorship of 1950s Brazil.
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