Robin Alexander: 9 books

Ein dramatisches Kapitel jüngster deutscher Geschichte – und ein Insider-Report aus dem Innern der Macht. Die Grenzöffnung für Flüchtlinge im Herbst 2015 hat das Land gespalten – die einen preisen Angela Merkels moralische Haltung, die andern geißeln die Preisgabe von Souveränität....

Detailed accounts of two influential initiatives of the 1990s, whose educational and political lessons remain highly relevant: systemic and pedagogic reform in one of Britain’s largest cities, and the controversial ‘three wise men’ government enquiry into primary teaching to which it led. Alexander's...

Seven authoritative contributions to the emerging field of pedagogy and to comparative, cultural and policy studies in education. A must for those who want to do more than merely comply with received versions of ‘best practice’.   Pedagogy is at last gaining the attention in English-speaking...

Familie, das bedeutet für viele junge Paare: Schluss mit Feiern und Ausschlafen. Das geht gar nicht!, denken sie entsetzt. Doch, meint Robin Alexander. Die meisten wissen nur nicht, wie es geht. Sein Buch ist eine handfeste Anleitung für Anfänger: Wie Väter (und Mütter!) würdevoll mit einem...

Getting to the heart of primary education: six contrasting studies of teachers, teaching, learning and classroom discourse, all set in a historical frame. Contains extended lesson transcripts for re-analysis. The five studies in this book span the tumultuous period from the mid 1980s to the...

This suspense thriller is based in contemporary South Africa, touching on Transnistria. A love story, sex, violence, gangsters, corporate politics, drugs, money laundering, corruption, betrayal, sex trafficking and illegal arms dealing are all somehow connected. The events transpire over a few months...

[Re]Awakenings are the starting points for life-changing experiences; a new plane of existence, an alternate reality or cyber-reality. This genre-spanning anthology of new speculative fiction explores that theme with a spectrum of tales, from science fiction to fantasy to paranormal; in styles from...

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered...

This is a unique book about Intellectual Property. It is aimed not only at law students studying the subject but also at interested users of IP - business people, inventors, scientists, designers and the like. It provides an outline of the basic legal principles which underpin and reguilate the subject,...