David Coates: 10 books
Challenges in Primary Science
Meeting the Needs of Able Young Scientists at Key Stage Two
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to challenge able children to develop their potential and to extend their thinking in primary science. It links theory to practice to develop understanding of what it means to be an able scientist; and empowers teachers to build on their existing...
by David Coates
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The global economy is dominated by a powerful set of established and emerging capitalisms, from the long-standing capitalist economies of the West to the rising economies of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. An understanding of capitalism is therefore fundamental to understanding...
by David Coates; Peter Siavelis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Getting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico. The scale and character of illegal immigration is only one facet of the immigration problem currently before Congress...
Models of Capitalism
Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.
A Critique of Silviculture
Managing for Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while still providing needed wood products. A Critique of Silviculture...
Apocalyptic Fears VI
An Anthology of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A Multi-Author Anthology of Short Stories! Nineteen stories and hundreds of pages of apocalyptic fiction for a bargain price. This is Volume 6. Look for other books in series for more great reading!
When the world falls apart, when civilization collapses, when life as we know it ends, our greatest...
The Matrix of Race
Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The Matrix of Race, for race and ethnic relations courses, is written by three leading scholars -- Rodney D. Coates, David L. Brunsma, and Abby L. Ferber -- and reflects a very contemporary way of looking at race, minorities, and intergroup relations. Older texts use a "categorical" approach...
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this...
Local Places, Global Processes
histories of environmental change in Britain and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our perceptions of change, and what kind of change might be for good or ill,...
by Jane A Medwell, Professor David Wray, Dr Hilary Minns
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Now with online resources to support teaching practice!
An extensive knowledge of the primary English curriculum is not enough for trainee teachers, they need to know how to teach English in the primary classroom.
This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary English...