Richard Edwards: 43 books
Emerging Approaches to Educational Research
Tracing the Socio-Material
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural...
by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds – and...
by Helen Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context and practice.
Updated throughout for this...
Postmodernism and Education
Different Voices, Different Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies.
Globalisation & Pedagogy
Space, Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understandings of their implications and assumptions. It is the examination of these changes and developments that is the subject of this book.
The authors examine a number of questions posed by the rapid march...
Improving Learning in College
Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
What's the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends?
Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum....
Crisis as an Opportunity
Organizational and Community Responses to Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Natural and human-made disasters appear to be increasing in frequency and scope, commanding extensive media attention. Growing sensitivity to issues of preparedness and community response has created a greater interest among academics and practitioners.
The Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina,...
by Kumar Abhinav, Richard Edwards, Alan Whone
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Rapid Neurology and Neurosurgery is a must for all medical students and junior doctors - it is a quick and easy on-the-ward or clinic reference and the perfect revision tool for those approaching finals, undergraduate neurology and neurosurgery examinations, and the Membership of Royal College of...
The Sixth Ghost Story MEGAPACK®
25 Classic Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
We return for another selection of 25 ghost stories in the classic tradition -- chosen from the vast storehouse of history's fiction for your personal delectation. As in our last meeting, we remind you that there are many kinds of ghosts, from the kind to cruel, the savage to the sad, and readers...
by Richard T. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This book is two things in one: A helpful do-it-yourself manual that shares Richard T. Edwards’ proven tips from a longtime career as a freelance writer … and a memoir of that same writer’s experiences, a photojournalist’s journey that began during the Vietnam War. Edwards breaks out the different...
THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics
Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Haunted Island, Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...
by Richard T. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Does this sound like your typical Vietnam book?
Richard T. Edwards rebuilt an AH-1G Cobra almost by himself, got left on Firebase T Bone with Mortar rounds blowing off around him. He found parts where there were none, met the 5th Dimension in Osaka, Japan, got flown up to the DMZ and took a...
by Richard Baxter, Thomas Watson, Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
From the Foreword:
It is with great delight that I present to you this first edition of The Digital Puritan. A great advantage to the lover of Puritan literature is the growing abundance of texts made available on the Internet in recent years. However, this same advantage often serves as...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...