Best Selling Books by Andrew Miller

***Out now: Andrew Miller''s new novel THE LAND IN WINTER*** ''ANDREW MILLER''S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT'' Hilary Mantel ''ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND'' Sunday Times ''Enthralling'' Financial Times ''Remarkable'' Guardian ''Hypnotic'' Mail on Sunday An extraordinary portrait of modern love and motherhood, the lure of the sea and the unknowability of others, from the critically acclaimed author of Pure Who else has entered Tim''s life the way Maud did? This young woman who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began. As magnetic as she is inscrutable, Maud defies expectations and evades explanation - a daughter, girlfriend and mother who, in the wake of a tragedy, embarks on a dangerous voyage across the Atlantic, not knowing where it will lead . . . PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER ''Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity'' Sarah Hall ''A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts'' Independent on Sunday ''A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative'' The Times ''A wonderful storyteller'' Spectator

This volume reprints — with additions and corrections — seven papers originally published 1962–1973, on the indigenous grammars of Tibet and their linguistic tradition. Two ancient treatises commonly attributed to “Thon-mi Sambhoṭa” are studied extensively, as well as extracts from many other Tibetan texts, with translations, commentaries, and detailed bibliographical data, covering a wide range of linguistic doctrines, from the early 11th to the beginning of the 20th century. The final article incorporates a complete grammatical sketch of Classical Tibetan; this, together with the comprehensive indexes of Tibetan and Indic grammatical and technical terms, proper names, titles, etc., will facilitate the use of the volume as a basic reference-source for all future work on the Tibetan grammarians.

A funny and delightful story of a young ADD-ish boy and the troubles and misadventures he gets up to in school. Curiosity leads Arthur to try and catapult a dead possum with a tree, see how many metres of toilet paper a toilet will flush in one go and see how his teachers react to him faking serious injuries. Amongst these and other episodes, the Vice Principal wants to drug him, his Mum wants to protect him. Arthur just wants to play.

Dogs are dogs and wolves are wolves. Except when they aren''t! Most scientists now agree that the dog is a subspecies of wolf Canis lupus familiaris. And while most wolves look and act differently from most dogs, it can be very hard to make accurate identifications, especially since wolves and dogs can and do interbreed and certain breeds of dogs look and act a lot like wolves. Having spent years employed at Wolf Park, in Indiana, authors Jessica Addams and Andrew Miller have encountered hundreds of so-called wolves that turned out to be dogs, hybrids that exhibit the characteristics of both wolves and dogs, and even pure wolves that act like dogs. Between Dog and Wolf takes a fascinating look at how wolves and dogs are related, why they can be so hard to tell apart and what rescue organizations need to know when they encounter a canine of unknown origins. You will learn: How and why there are so many misconceptions about wolf behavior. What evolutionary forces turned good social hunters (wolves) into animals whose key adaptation was to become good with people (dogs). Which physical and behavioral characteristics displayed by an animal tend to indicate it''s a dog vs. a wolf usually! The state of DNA testing and what it can and can''t tell you about the genetic make-up of dogs and wolves. Praise for Between Dog and Wolf Well written, thoroughly researched and grounded in science, this book is a must-read for all shelter personnel, as well as anyone who wants a deeper insight into the often misunderstood animals known as wolfdogs. Nicole Wilde, author Living with Wolfdogs and Wolfdogs A-Z Intelligently written, good style, and based on an enlightened experience This could be the best dog/wolf book ever written. Ray Coppinger, co-author Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution Animal shelters have to make triage decisions all the time with wolf dog hybrids which are usually deemed defacto too dangerous and euthanized unless they can be quickly placed with a qualified hybrid rescue. Addams and Miller provide a book which provides shelter workers the necessary background on behavior traits and guidelines so that decisions can be based on the behavior of the animals in front of them rather than on a questionable label that merely refers to their supposed ancestry. This book gives shelters tools to make humane decisions about animals turned in as wolf dog hybrids. Pat Goodmann, M.S., has worked with Wolf Park''s wolves since 1974, plays a primary role in teaching Wolf Park''s seminars, and guides its behavioral research program. Jessica Addams and Andrew Miller have nearly twenty years of collective work at Wolf Park, a non-profit education and research facility in Battle Ground, Indiana. Both started as visitors, moved up to long-term internships, and eventually became full-time staff. Besides working with wolves, they have always been involved with animals and the study of animal behavior. Their degrees are in biology and wildlife science. Jessica and Andrew own and train their own dogs and other pets, and read

The biggest danger for beginning teachers is to teach as they were taught. In order to create teaching identities capable of resisting the mind-numbing orthodoxies of the mass-schooling machine, beginning teachers need to interrogate the theories and practices that have shaped them as teachers. Raging against the Mass-Schooling Machine is a compelling autoethnographic account of one beginning teacher’s struggle to transform his future teaching identity by unpacking the bruising encounters that shaped him as a student. This is a must-read book for all teachers wishing to ‘teach against the grain.’ The journey from student to teacher involves almost two decades of junior, primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Few of us critique this journey to see what emotional legacies and taken-for-granted assumptions we carry from one identity to the other. If we remain unconscious of the social and cultural discourses and practices that have shaped and defined us as students and teachers, we may unwittingly reproduce the inequalities, prejudices, and traumas we experienced or observed while growing up, or resort to transmission teaching and authoritarian control because this is the formula of schooling most of us know. Empowering education relies on teachers resisting these toxic scripts and becoming agents of change.

All About Me is based on a programme designed to introduce individual children to their autism diagnosis in the context of their overall personal attributes. Includes practical guidance and tools for parents and professionals on how to approach the subject of a child''s autism diagnosis with downloadable templates and sample lesson plans.

(Japanese version) Three short stories place the birth of Christ in modern times. Each brings a very different perspective. Each brings insight, warmth and a touch of humour. Each sees how Jesus might have worked the social media, healed in the light of modern medicine and handled the fame culture. Driven even addresses that nagging question: ''What would Jesus drive?''

An overview of organizational and curricular development in work experience in the UK in recent years, which draws on the involvement of the authors at national level in consultancy with the DES, NCC, DTI, DoE and many LEAs concerning the role of work experience in the school curriculum.

"Japan''s accomplishments in the ceramic arts through the centuries are among her most important artistic achievements, yet for all but a few specialists the entire field of Japanese ceramics has long remained a wilderness with few guideposts indeed. This has been due partly to the language barrier, but also it has been the result of the many sub-divisions and minor categories under which Japanese ceramic wares have traditionally been classified. ''Japanese ceramics'' for the first time successfully breaks through both these barriers to the enjoyment of Japan''s fine pottery and porcelains, presenting all the important developments from earliest times down to present, illustrated by a lavish collection of large, painstakingly reproduced black-and-white plates, a rich assortment of color plates selected for their faithful representation of the originals, and an extremely large selection of smaller illustrations showing representative examples of each of the many wares discussed in the interesting text. Though the text presents its account historically, its chief emphasis is on Japanese ceramic wares as art, to be viewed against their own historical background, but above all as art deserving study and appreciation in its own right. Another important innovation of the text is its treatment of Japanese ceramics under a relatively small number of major categories, bringing understandable order to the maze of intricate kiln and other designations which have often rendered the field needlessly obscure. The authoritativeness of the text and the authenticity of the specimens illustrated--many of them rare items from private collections seldom to be seen even in Japan--are assumed by the eminence of the scholars of whose work the book has grown. A map of kiln sites and an index, complete with Japanese characters for proper names and ware designations, make the volume one for reference as well as aesthetic enjoyment." -- Publisher''s description

The Government is failing to clearly and effectively communicate climate science to the public. There is little evidence of co-ordination amongst Government, government agencies and public bodies on communicating climate science, despite various policies at national and regional level to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The mandate to act on climate can only be maintained if the electorate are convinced that the Government is acting on the basis of strong scientific evidence. Ministers therefore need to do more to demonstrate that is the case and consistently reflect the Government approach in all their communications, especially with the media. The report also criticises the BBC for its reporting on the issue. It points out that BBC News teams continue to make mistakes in their coverage of climate science by giving opinions and scientific fact the same weight. The BBC is called to develop clear editorial guidelines for all commentators and presenters on the facts of climate that should be used to challenge statements, from either side of the climate policy debate, that stray too far from the scientific facts. It is important that climate science is presented separately from any subsequent policy response. Government should work with the learned societies and national academies to develop a source of information on climate science that is discrete from policy delivery, comprehensible to the general public and responsive to both current developments and uncertainties in the science

Operational excellence is a mindset, and it achieves breakthrough results. It''s about finding money and performance boosts in areas. Redefining Operational Excellence covers it all: processes, people, and operations. This revelatory guide presents a groundbreaking way of doing things that will benefit organizations and their customers.

Moscou, début des années 2000. Nick Platt, jeune ressortissant anglais, travaille dans un grand cabinet comme avocat d''affaires. Peu regardant sur la moralité de ses clients, il aime à se perdre dans le monde fascinant de la nuit où se mêlent entrepreneurs louches, oligarques richissimes et jeunes filles en quête d''ascension sociale. Un jour dans le métro il porte secours à deux ravissantes soeurs, Masha et Katya, victimes d''un pickpocket. Peu à peu, Nick commence à ressentir pour Masha un sentiment qu''il se plaît à voir comme de l''amour. Les jeunes filles lui demandent alors d''aider leur vieille tante à trouver un nouvel appartement. Perce-neige examine l''attrait irrésistible du péché et met en scène des personnages au coeur aussi froid que l''hiver russe, un pays où les secrets, et les cadavres, ne remontent à la surface que lorsque l''épaisse couche de neige entame son dégel...