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This Science and Technology Committee report on practical experiments in school science lessons and science field trips concludes that many students are receiving poor practical science experiences during their secondary school education. There was no credible evidence to support the frequently cited explanation of health and safety concerns for a decline in practicals and trips. Instead, more focus is needed on what happens after teachers have been recruited to the profession: knowledge and practical skills must be maintained and developed in order for high quality science education to be delivered. High quality science facilities and qualified and experienced technical support are vital. A career structure for technical staff should be provided and the government should ensure schools provide science facilities to match its aspirations for science education. Practical science is relatively expensive and carries little cachet for parents comparing schools. The inspection regime and the requirements set for exam boards should therefore drive higher quality with more and better practical science lessons. The Committee also found a lack of coherence in the provision of science educational materials. It urges the science community to utilise the STEM directories - the online database of STEM enhancement and enrichment activities for schools and colleges - and calls on the government to secure the future of the directories which provide vital contacts between schools and scientists. Finally, the committee urges the government to provide a detailed strategy on how it intends to achieve its ambition to increase participation in school science subjects.

Uma metáfora de um país à beira da revolução Vencedor do Costa Book Prize e considerado pelo The Guardian um dos dez melhores romances históricos de todos os tempos, Puro, de Andrew Miller, analisa de maneira inteligente, por meio de fatos, a sociedade francesa quatro anos antes da Revolução. 1785. Jean-Baptiste Baratte, um jovem engenheiro iluminista, tido como amante de Voltaire, recebe uma missão desafiadora do rei Luís XVI: livrar-se da igreja e do cemitério de Les Innocents. No início, o protagonista percebe nessa empreitada uma chance de limpar o fardo da história, a tarefa perfeita para um homem moderno, do futuro, da razão. Ele logo sente, porém, que a igreja e o cemitério são apenas prenúncios de uma queda maior que ainda está por vir. Miller utiliza seu herói, Jean-Baptiste, e a destruição da igreja e do cemitério como formas de dramatizar uma das grandes questões do Iluminismo: qual é a situação do passado? É algo a ser valorizado e preservado ou deveria ser simplesmente esquecido? Esse aniquilamento é utilizado pelo autor como uma metáfora do progresso e da disposição de deixar o passado corrupto e tirânico para trás. Puro possui um estilo elegante, é primorosamente escrito e tem um final diferente do que o leitor possa imaginar. Um livro sobre a impureza da sociedade da época, o que o protagonista reconhece como a sujeira do mundo. Uma trama que se resume a favor da bagunça, do enfrentamento. "Miller escreve como um poeta, com uma simplicidade enganosa. Suas frases e imagens são destilações intensas, evocando com clareza os detalhes fugazes da existência." (The Guardian)

1785. Nel cuore profondo di Parigi, l''antico cimitero degli Innocenti è ormai fatiscente, al punto da creare problemi di salute pubblica, soprattutto per chi vive nelle sue vicinanze. Per questo il re decide di affidare al giovane ingegnere Jean-Baptiste Baratte il compito, davvero immane, di demolirlo. Sulle prime, Baratte vede in questo lavoro una splendida opportunità per spazzar via il fardello del passato e aprire le porte al futuro: un compito adatto a un uomo moderno come lui, un illuminato dalla Ragione. Ma si tratta di scendere nelle viscere della città, tra i suoi figli più umili; si tratta di avvicinarsi a un''umanità che di solito sta nell''ombra: organisti, preti pazzi, locandieri, minatori del nord, prostitute. Una dura scuola di vita per un ingegnere alle prime armi, ignaro dei costumi del popolo e delle sue superstizioni e leggende. Ma una ragazzina gli farà da guida, e una giovane donna gli farà scoprire, accanto al regno della distruzione, quanto si possa essere sensibili, in ogni situazione, al richiamo dell''amore. Un viaggio nella Storia, negli inferi, nell''avventura, nell''amore: il ritorno dell''acclamato autore di Il talento del dolore.

Nachdem Clem Glass ein Massaker in Afrika miterlebt hatte, findet er sich in seinem Leben nicht mehr zurecht. Bis ihn sein Vater bittet, sich um die Schwester zu kümmern, die schwere Depressionen hat. Ihr Zustand bessert sich allmählich, doch dann erfährt Clem, dass sich der Anstifter des Massakers gerade in der Nähe aufhält.

Ganador del Premio IMPAC por El insensible —publicada también con este sello editorial—, el británico Andrew Miller aborda en esta última novela la realidad de un mundo donde la brutalidad coexiste con la compasión, señalando la línea peligrosamente fina que separa el optimismo del autoengaño.Clem Glass, veterano fotógrafo de prensa, cree que ha cubierto con su cámara suficientes conflictos bélicos como para estar inmunizado contra la barbarie. Pero se equivoca; nada de lo que ha vivido hasta el momento es comparable a la matanza de la que fue testigo en la iglesia de N., un lugar de África que recuerda a Ruanda. La inaudita crueldad de aquel acon-tecimiento revela una dimensión infernal del alma humana, cuya visión conmocionará al fotógrafo y dará un vuelco a su existencia. De regreso a Londres, Clem intenta sin éxito recobrar la normalidad, pero una inesperada crisis nerviosa de su hermana Clare, profesora universitaria, lo arranca de su letargo. Los hermanos Glass se instalan en una casa rural en Somerset, donde pasaban las vacaciones cuando eran niños. Allí, en un cálido entorno familiar, ambos inician una lenta cura, pero la calma se rompe cuando Clem se entera de que el responsable de la masacre africana se encuentra en Bruselas. Sin dudarlo, parte en busca del culpable de sus pesadillas, pero una vez allí tendrá que enfrentarse a una cuestión aún más importante: ¿es la venganza una solución? Con una prosa incisiva y sin concesiones, un ritmo vivo y una cuidada estructura, el autor sondea las turbias aguas de un desmoronamiento psicológico y traza algunas de las líneas clave de la topografía emocional de nuestra época. Los optimistas confirma a Miller como uno de los cronistas más lúcidos de los inagotables vericuetos del alma humana.

Jean-Baptiste Baratte, een jonge en ambitieuze ingenieur uit Normandië krijgt opdracht van de koning om in het hart van Parijs een overvolle eeuwenoude begraafplaats te verdelgen. De oude graven vloeien over van de lijken en de stank lijkt zelfs de adem van de omwonenden te vervuilen. Baratte ziet in deze opdracht zijn kans om geschiedenis te schrijven. Als moderne, door de Verlichting aangeraakte man gelooft hij dat de ratio hierin een passende rol zal spelen. Maar al snel vraagt hij zich af of de vernietiging van het oude kerkhof ook zijn eigen ondergang zal betekenen.

Ganador del Premio IMPAC 1999, el inglés Andrew Miller destaca por la claridad y exactitud de su prosa, una de las más refinadas de la literatura británica actual. En esta ambiciosa obra —la tercera publicada en castellano después de El insensible y El ocaso de un seductor—, Miller entra de lleno en los innumerables contornos que definen la condición humana, la heroica batalla del individuo por lograr una percepción de sí mismo que le permita sobreponerse a la angustiosa certeza de su fragilidad. Agotando los últimos instantes de su vida, Alice Valentine ocupa sus noches de insomnio en recorrer los caminos de su memoria, deteniéndose en los hombres que han pasado por su vida: su padre, su amante, su marido alcohólico, sus dos hijos. El menor, Alec, ha ido a cuidarla, y aunque aterrorizado por la inminente desaparición de su madre, intenta encontrar refugio en su trabajo, la traducción de una obra de teatro llamada Oxígeno. Mientras tanto, en San Francisco, Larry, el mayor, se prepara para reunirse con su madre y su hermano, a sabiendas de que será difícil disimular que su carrera de actor está en la vía muerta, las drogas lo han atrapado y su matrimonio hace aguas. Por último, en París, László Lázár, el refugiado político húngaro cuya obra de teatro está traduciendo Alec, parece haberlo conquistado todo, y, sin embargo, no logra deshacerse de sus recuerdos ni borrar de su memoria el grito de ayuda que dejó sin contestar en 1956, durante el levantamiento contra la opresión rusa. Así pues, para los cuatro ha llegado el momento de valorar los caminos que escogieron y las oportunidades a las que renunciaron, los logros y los fracasos, el sentido de las cosas. Y cada uno se enfrentará a un nuevo reto, como un acto de liberación, aunque no sea necesariamente el que ellos habían previsto.

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Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.

Snowdrops'' is a chilling story of love and moral freefall - of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man.Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to help with a dubious family endeavor.

An 18th Century English surgeon is born immune to pain, making him oblivious to the suffering of others. This accounts for his professional success which attracts the attention of the Empress of Russia. On the way to treat her, he runs into a witch who gives him the sensation of pain. That sends him mad but he recovers, emerging from the asylum with the knowledge that without pain one is not really human.

Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to help with a dubious family endeavor.

En 1785, Jean-Baptiste Baratte, jeune ingénieur normand tout juste diplômé, est chargé par le ministre du roi de vider le cimetière des Saints-Innocents avant de le détruire. Situé en plein coeur de Paris, c''est le plus ancien de la ville; depuis plusieurs années déjà, il déborde et l''odeur nauséabonde qui s''en dégage menace la santé des riverains. Jean-Baptiste envisage d''abord sa mission comme une chance d''en finir avec un passé archaïque, une tâche à la hauteur de sa modernité d''homme épris de la philosophie des Lumières. Il ne tarde pourtant pas à se demander si cette démolition n''est pas le prélude à sa propre destruction. Andrew Miller plonge le lecteur dans le Paris de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, celui des petites gens et des commerçants qui vivent autour du cimetière, et restitue brillamment le bouillonnement intellectuel dont la France est le théâtre à la veille de la Révolution.

The western European Nick is in Moscow to carry there the lights of the free economy, but also to exploit the potential wealth that is offered by post-Soviet Russia, a country of hedonism and despair, corruption and innocence, with magical ntatses and luxury nightclubs, where secrets-and-corpses revealed only when it starts to melt the snow. In Moscow, Nick knows the charming Massa.The love story of a vulnerable man in a corrupt society.