Set against the backdrop of the desert landscapes of Nevada and Arizona, a powerful debut collection of ten short stories captures the gritty world of misfit characters living on the edge, following t
Poetry. A skunk, a dead jellyfish, fruitfLies--these are some of the landmarks in SKUNK NIGHT SONNETS, whose world mankind is lucky enough to share with the rest of nature. The rural New England outlo
In Ukraine, Victor had a business, a family and a home, but things have changed and he's fled to the UK in search of a better life. Now he's doing everything from gutting fish to picking carrots.But V
With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges us to embrace humanity’s imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy.
Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy uses sociological explanations to describe how the school system in the United States developed, and why reform is a constant. The American public school system i
When Philip Balcer arrives at a Franciscan monastery on the southern Maine coast for a private retreat, it is clear that he is spiritually troubled. Haunted by the memory of holding his older brother,
Professor Mick Waters, former director of the curriculum at the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency, where he gained a heroic reputation, is now the president of the Curriculum Foundation. He's the d
A group of West London parents are driven by desperation to take the new government up on their offer and start their own ?free school'. They want to create an education that their children will enjoy
'Agile' is one of the biggest buzzwords of the last decade. Agile methods often come across as rather more complicated than they really are. This book is an attempt to unravel that complexity. To s
The troubled and bloody relationship between Africa and Europe spills into the personal lives and loves of two generations. In his new play, World Music, Steve Waters draws from the tragic history of
A hard-hitting play about New Labour from the author of World Music, published alongside the premiere at the Sheffield Crucible in October 2004.The mid-80s. Four bright Oxford students set up a radica
1949. Small town Colorado. A group of regular American students struggle to accept a foreigner in their midst; their unthinking behaviour will have terrible consequences that are to change world histo
CAMEOA small space in time in the city of Edinburgh; twelve people’s lives are scattered around the cluster of streets, their individual worlds weaving and intertwining. From the gates of Saughton pri
