The final level of the Fix-It Phonics system reviews and develops on what was learnt in the first two levels and introduces more advanced spelling patterns.
Introduces young learners to the shapes and sounds of Aa-Zz, basic English vocabulary, listening and speaking skills. This work features a flexible 21 unit course and incorporates an 18 page training
Provides story summaries for various blends, digraphs and trigraphs taught in the "Letterland Teacher's Guide". This title features picture-coded examples on each page that help children identify the
Features 48 copymasters to learn correct letter formation from the start, which help practise components of letters within scenes, and provide hollow letters large enough for 'rainbow writing', handwr
Contains 59 photocopiable work sheets to help consolidate and reinforce lessons on blends and digraphs. This title helps children explore spelling patterns at the beginnings, middles and endings of wo
Includes 48 copymasters designed to consolidate the teaching content of the "Advanced Teacher's Guide". This work serves as a useful resource for class or group work on common beginnings and endings o
Published in 1903, this was the original ""way to a manis heart,"" featuring authentic American recipes, European cooking, and Jewish favorites. It was put together by the cooking students at the Milw
The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, encompasses as it does politics, society, literature, the arts, and antiquarianism, constitutes a conspectus of the life and thought of the eightee
In over 140 reproduced artworks, this book records eleven iconic walks across the length and breadth of Britain, from Allt Coire Pheiginn in Scotland to Zennor Head in Cornwall. It is inspired and inf
Introducing the beginner to the art of ceramics, this book demonstrates the most basic techniques of the craft in step-by-step sequence and also leads the reader to an appreciation of the art of worki
All of Wright's periods are represented, and the many colour illustrations show how present-day occupants harmonize and live with their glorious dwellings. A full catalogue of products lists items ava
Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is one of the most important and controversial artists of the twentieth century. This book, the first to analyze the essence of his work, begins with Kiefer's arrival on the in
Daniel Galera's father shoots himself, and all he's left with is the old cattle dog and a vague desire for explanation. He loves swimming so he drifts south to Garopaba, a quiet little town on the Bra
Suitable for those who profess a love for art and literature, this title provides insight on subjects as varied as ageing, golf, dinosaurs, make-up and the author's own fiction.
The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's acclaimed and controversial French bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT, THE PRIX RENAUDOT AND THE GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE David Kols
Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, full of psychologists and college professors, is proud of its fine schools, its girls' soccer teams, its leafy streets
Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiratio
Why are so many children in Euro-American cultures unhappy - and why is it that children in many traditional cultures seem happier? This title explores these questions and more.
One single mum With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best. But it's hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn't... One chaotic family Jess's gifted daughter Tanzie is b
The popular RTÉ series Teens in the Wild showed David Coleman doing what he does best: taking families who were locked in conflict and turning things around. It wasn't always easy, but the results wer
Karl Whitney's Hidden City: a brilliant portrait of Dublin Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described by Gorse as 'Dublin's best psych
The staggering story of the rise and fall of Ireland's richest man: Sean Quinn. A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of som
Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage. Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling t
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a c
If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a political identity and representative institutions, then the English have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. This account gives u
Both beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries. Behind its great red walls and towers many of the most startling events in Russia's history have been acted
Reporting America is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cooke's key dispatches on the key moments, movements, men and women of post-war America. Alistair Cooke was the greatest, and most humane, of
Written by the author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, this title offers a fresh account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. It focuses on the
Focuses on the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called the Modern. The author creates a dramatic Folie Baudelaire: a place where you can encounter Baudel
Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life itself as a succession of moments. We identify certain truths as 'eternal' constants, from moral principles to the laws of mathematics and
What are the causes of violence? Can it be treated? And might it one day be stopped? Are some criminals born, not made? What causes violence and how can we treat it? In this title, the author explains
From the author of Pardon My French and A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi, this is the charming and hilariously funny story of one man's attempt to travel the entire length of the Seine by boat When Charles
As a teenager, the author trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and on beaches across the world. This work explores what it is lik
The Compatibility Gene is a scientific adventure story set in a new field of genetic discovery - that of the crucial genes that define our relationships, our health and our individuality. Here, Daniel
Tells the unexpected stories of some unusual, and familiar, typographical marks and reveals a history of writing. This book charts the lives of some of the most intriguing examples, like how the pilcr
