Chris Edwards: 18 books
by Chris Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
If you have ever started a fitness plan and then lost your focus, this is the book for you.
Author Chris Edwards is a specialist in personal development. As a teenager in the 1970s he decided to run in an annual Sydney fun run 50 consecutive times. Today, as one of the City2Surf Legends, with...
by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Chris Edwards has gone from running a stall on Wakefield market to masterminding a single price shopping chain with more than 300 stores across the United Kingdom. The remarkable retail rise to fame of his Poundworld business was fascinatingly featured in 2015’s highly-rated BBC1 series, Pound Shop...
BALLS
It Takes Some to Get Some
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Changing your gender from female to male takes balls. And if you’re going to do it in front of 500 coworkers at one of the top ad agencies in the country, you better have a pretty big set!
At a time when the term “transgender” didn’t really exist, and with support from family, friends,...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum
From the Mongol Empire to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum
From the Reformation to the Beginning of the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum
From the Fall of the Western Roman Empire to Death of Genghis Khan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum
From the Napoleonic Era to the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy-Based Curriculum
From Human Origins to Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Teaching Genius
Redefining Education with Lessons from Science and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The history and philosophy of science provide a deep well of lessons and analogies for educators. Historically, geniuses are produced by certain recurring historical patterns which, once understood, can be synthesized into practical curricular and professional development guides for teachers and administrators....
The Fragmented World
Competing Perspectives on Trade, Money and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This comprehensive textbook, first published in 1985, on the world economic, written specifically for non-specialists, compares neo-classical, neo-Ricardian and Marxist theories and policies in international economics.
Theories of trade and money, and issues such as international debt crisis,...
Insights on Insincerity
How Educators Can Enhance the Classroom Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Erasmus praised folly and the Romantics waxed poetically about love, but no one until now has traced the history and impact of insincerity on society and the humanities. Insincerity arises when someone feels one way but acts another and an insincere situation looks to have one purpose but really hides...
Novum Organum II
Going beyond the Scientific Research Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In 1620, the British politician and philosopher Francis Bacon published Novum Organum (New Method) and formalized the previously scattershot methods of scientific experimentation into a method able to be replicated. In due time, the Western world would build an intellectual empire on the basis of...
Beyond Obsolete
How to Upgrade Classroom Practice and School Structure
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Americans have seen it all in education over the last twenty years: charter schools, vouchers, private schools, ever-changing sets of technology, increased funding for schools, decreased funding for schools, accountability measures for teachers, and on and on. These schemes never seem to make any...
by Chris Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As an Oxford student, Stephen Hawking never expected that people across the world would know his name, or that his hobby of stargazing would lead him to be one of the world’s greatest scientists. Stephen Hawking made cosmology, or the study of the universe, accessible to everyone.
He was...
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