New Releases by Peter Clarke

Collins International Primary Maths supports best practice in primary maths teaching, whilst encouraging teacher professionalism and autonomy. A wealth of supporting digital assets are provided for every lesson, including slideshows, tools and games to ensure they are rich, lively and engaging. Collins International Primary Maths supports best practice in primary maths teaching, whilst encouraging teacher professionalism and autonomy. Each Progress Book page offers assessment questions which allow learners to apply what they have learned and demonstrate mastery and understanding of mathematical concepts. Questions throughout the course develop learners'' Thinking and Working Mathematically skills and each unit offers an opportunity for personal reflection on progress.

Baby Moses and the River of Faith" is a captivating installment in the "Little Blessings: Baby Bible Heroes'' Faithful Beginnings" series, tailored for readers aged 0-3. The story unfolds against the backdrop of miracles and whispers of divine plans in a land filled with wonders. In this tale, baby Moses enters the world under a cloud of uncertainty, with his mother facing a difficult choice. Woven into a carefully crafted basket, Moses is set adrift in the river, cradled by the gentle flow, embarking on a journey unknown. His sister Miriam watches from afar, anchored in hope and trust in God''s unfolding plan. As the river carries Moses through twists and turns, he becomes an unexpected recipient of royal kindness. Pharaoh''s daughter lifts him from the river''s embrace, setting the stage for a miraculous journey. Miriam steps forward courageously, offering to find a nurse for the baby. The narrative follows Moses as he grows in the palace, surrounded by luxury, yet carrying the whispers of God''s plan in his heart. From this tiny beginning, Moses evolves into a young man who chooses the path of courage, justice, and a steadfast commitment to God. The story beautifully captures Moses'' encounters with divine presence, including the burning bush and the parting of the Red Sea. From interpreting dreams to leading the Israelites, Moses'' journey reflects trust, resilience, and unwavering faith in God''s guidance. The tale closes with Moses gazing upon the Promised Land, illustrating how a humble basket journeyed through faith''s twists and turns to become a powerful testament to God''s plan. "Baby Moses and the River of Faith" serves as an engaging introduction to faith, trust, and the miraculous interventions of a loving God for the youngest readers.

Kids Across Kulture: Bracey Beeks Explores Vibrant India and Russia" is a children''s book authored by Peter Clarke. The story follows the adventures of the young protagonist, Bracey Beeks, as they delve into the rich cultures of India and Russia. Through Bracey''s exploration, young readers gain insight into the diverse traditions, vibrant customs, and colorful landscapes of these two culturally distinct countries. The narrative encourages cultural understanding and appreciation, making it an educational and engaging read for children.

"The Busy Ant Maths program ensures confidence from the start for teachers and pupils, embedding best practice across the school. Using the planning tool on Collins Connect together with this guide offers you a complete solution for planning and delivering inspiring math lessons, helping promote learning and raising attainment for all children. Written by an expert author team with over 50 years'' combined classroom experience, Busy Ant Maths is a flexible, whole-school mathematics program that ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start. "

Used in conjunction with the Teacher''s Guide, Progress Guide and Homework Guide, the Busy Ant Maths Pupil Book 1C is the best way to ensure that pupils achieve all the learning objectives of the new Primary Maths National Curriculum. Collins Busy Ant Maths Activity Book 1C is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths. Each page features lots of hands-on, highly visual activities with a low level of text to give pupils confidence in learning maths. Activity Book 1C contains: * fun activities to consolidate the objectives covered in the daily maths lesson * objectives at the top of each page so the child is in control of their own learning * space to record answers, providing structure to each exercise * simple text. * engaging, colourful graphics.

Functional safety is the task of developing and implementing automatic safety systems used to manage risks in many industries where hazardous processes and machinery are used. Functional Safety from Scratch: A Practical Guide to Process Industry Applications provides a practical guide to functional safety, as applied in the chemical process industry, including the oil and gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and energy sectors. Written by a seasoned professional with many years of functional safety experience, this book explains the purpose of the relevant international standard IEC 61511 and how to achieve compliance efficiently. It provides in-depth coverage of the entire lifecycle of a functional safety system, assuming no prior knowledge of functional safety and only a basic understanding of process safety concepts. SIL assessment, the functional safety management plan, the safety requirements specification, verification, validation and functional safety assessment are covered in particular detail. Functional Safety from Scratch: A Practical Guide to Process Industry Applications is a highly practical source for process and instrumentation engineers, engineering managers and consultants, whether new to the field or already experienced. - Focuses on the ''how to'' aspects of functional safety - Provides detailed explanation and guidance on how to develop the safety requirements specification - Includes extensive coverage of safety lifecycle verification, SIS validation, and functional safety assessment - Provides numerous practical exercises to confirm understanding and promote further thought - Includes tips for those preparing for functional safety examinations - Oriented towards an international audience, especially those for whom English is not their first language

Uses an accessible narrative frame to explore key issues - like truth, probability, expediency, pragmatism - in Keynes''s unique career.

Collins International Maths Foundation and Foundation Plus provide inspirational, fun and age-appropriate learning for children in early years and kindergarten classes.The materials have been developed in consultation with expert practitioners to be easy to use in the classroom and to support children following a range of early years curricula and who are preparing for their first year of primary education in an international school, including schools following the Cambridge Assessment International Education primary framework.The course introduces young children to maths concepts in an age-appropriate way through topic-based discovery and activity-based learning, with plenty of opportunities to explore maths through games and hands-on exploration. Careful progression ensures children develop the skills they need to be ready for maths in their first year of primary and beyond.Each level comprises Activity Books A, B and C - one for each term - supported by a carefully selected collection of colourful stimulus materials in the Reading Anthology and Teacher''s Guide. Schools can opt to use the course over one or two school years.The engaging and brightly illustrated Activity Books provide age-appropriate practice that is fun for children, that allow teachers to see and record progress, and that show parents what is being covered in class.Collins International Maths Foundation and Foundation Plus can be used on their own, or alongside Collins International English Foundation and Foundation Plus and Collins International Science Foundation and Foundation Plus to provide a comprehensive early-years programme.

Collins International Maths Foundation and Foundation Plus provide inspirational, fun and age-appropriate learning for children in early years and kindergarten classes. The materials have been developed in consultation with expert practitioners to be easy to use in the classroom and to support children following a range of early years curricula and who are preparing for their first year of primary education in an international school, including schools following the Cambridge Assessment International Education primary framework. The course introduces young children to maths concepts in an age-appropriate way through topic-based discovery and activity-based learning, with plenty of opportunities to explore maths through games and hands-on exploration. Careful progression ensures children develop the skills they need to be ready for maths in their first year of primary and beyond. Each level comprises Activity Books A, B and C - one for each term - supported by a carefully selected collection of colourful stimulus materials in the Reading Anthology and Teacher''s Guide. Schools can opt to use the course over one or two school years. The engaging and brightly illustrated Activity Books provide age-appropriate practice that is fun for children, that allow teachers to see and record progress, and that show parents what is being covered in class. Collins International Maths Foundation and Foundation Plus can be used on their own, or alongside Collins International English Foundation and Foundation Plus and Collins International Science Foundation and Foundation Plus to provide a comprehensive early-years programme.

Ensure every pupil is fluent in the times tables up to and including 12x12 for success in the Multiplication Tables Check. This whole-school resource gives teachers new tools to help children memorise, recognise patterns, and secure mastery of the multiplication tables.Make every minute count using the quick-fire tasks for lesson starters, times tables sessions or in small windows before or after break times.- Master the multiplication tables with varied and purposeful practice.- Develop rapid recall with whole-class, paired and individual games.- Reduce workload with over 1000 pages of ready-to-use interactive PowerPoints, activity sheets, games boards, cards and more to download when you buy the book.- Practice single or multiple tables at a time, with games suitable for use from Year 2 onwards.Created by leading expert, Peter Clarke, Busy Ant Maths ensures confidence from the start for teachers and pupils, embedding best practice across the school. Peter Clarke has many years'' experience in primary classroom teaching, leading curriculum development and writing best-selling maths resources.

Do you break out into a cold sweat when faced with having to write something in your business?Are you always stretched by a lack of time in your business and, as a result, the quality of your business writing suffers?Do you wake up in the middle of the night worried about your business and whether something you have written will achieve the desired outcomes?If so, rest assured, you''re not alone.There are many small business owners who, for one reason or another, are challenged when it comes to writing something in their businesses.Everything you write in your business whether it''s on a screen or on paper is either directly promoting or reflecting back on the quality of your business. It will also impact on how your prospective customers view you and your business.The importance of getting your business writing accurate and error-free is paramount if you are going to achieve your goals.In this book you will discover how to overcome your challenges through using a simple 7-step plan that will help your business to grow by attracting new customers with error-free writing and content.This book is for you if:- You are a small business owner- Your business writing is a challenge for whatever reason- You could have a simple process plan to follow when you are writing something in your business that will help to alleviate your worries.

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017 ''War, comrades,'' declared Trotsky, ''is a great locomotive of history.'' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and mass armies, certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level. Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures. In Britain two wartime prime ministers – first David Lloyd George, later Winston Churchill – found their careers made and unmade by the unprecedented challenges they faced. In the United States, two presidents elected in peacetime – Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt – likewise found that war drastically changed their agenda. And it was through the experience of war that the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were shaped and came to exert wide influence. When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, President Wilson famously declared: ''The world must be made safe for democracy.'' This liberal prospectus was to be tested in the subsequent peace treaty, one that was to be bitterly remembered by Germans for its ''war guilt clause''. But both in the making of the war and the making of the peace the issue of guilt did not suddenly materialise out of thin air. As Clarke''s narrative shows, it was an integral component of the Anglo-American liberal tradition. The Locomotive of War is a forensic and punctilious examination of both the interplay between key figures in the context of the unprecedented all-out wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45 and the broader dynamics of history in this extraordinary period. Deeply revealing and insightful, it is history of the highest calibre.

Much progress has been made to understand the intricacies of the brain''s workings. Some have claimed, and many assumed, that these findings have challenged faith in God to the point of destruction. Are we not mere neural machines? Are religious experiences not just ''in the mind'', the products of abnormal ''brain events''? Is faith not just a side effect of evolution? Not so, according to neuroscientist Peter Clarke, after a lifetime''s study of the brain. In this comprehensive book, the current state of neuroscientific evidence is weighed up alongside ideas of what it means to be human, the idea of the soul, near-death experiences, and questions of free will and responsibility. He engages with the leading thinkers in these areas, including Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Daniel Wegner.

How to Run a Profitable (Hospitality) Hotel, Resort, Restaurant, Food, and Beverage Business is a management guide focusing on improving product and service offerings, while setting desired monetary goals. The intent is to corner your market by providing a superior, consistent level of performance to exceed guest expectations. Through your commitment to profit, you will recognize that guest satisfaction is the critical ingredient. In order to create a quality product and provide excellent service, a concerted focus on attention to detail is required. Assimilate these valued objectives; they will enable you to recognize a clear pathway to positive operational and financial results. “You deserve to make a profit!” Put acceptable standards in place through “expect what you inspect” ; provide guests a clean, comfortable property with attentive services; making profit is a direct result of running a dynamic property. The objective is to provide guests what they expect, because they are paying for it; use the “Standard Model” concept and structured change by creating your action plan; provide outstanding food and beverage product and service quality; nuild a sales plan for managing your marketplace niche.

Fluency in Number Facts - Teacher''s Guide Year 5 and Year 6 for upper Key Stage 2 contains a bank of whole-class activities with supporting Interactive Whiteboard display resources to teach new facts and revise known facts. The accompanying CD provides mental maths tests to support preparation for SATs testing and a host of other resources.

In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines, scrambling to sell new projects or cajoling his publishers for more advance money. He signed a contract for the English-Speaking project in 1932, a time when his political career seemed over. The magnum opus was to be delivered in 1939, but in that year, history overtook history-writing. When the Nazis swept across Europe, Churchill was summoned from political exile to become Prime Minister. The English-Speaking Peoples would have to wait.The book would indeed be written and become a bestseller, after Churchill left public life. But even before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his speeches and his leadership. In these pages, Peter Clarke follows Churchill''s monumental quest to chronicle the English-Speaking Peoples - a quest that helped to define the enduring ''special relationship'' between Britain and America. In the process, Clarke gives us not just an untold chapter in literary history, but a fresh perspective on this iconic figure: a life of Churchill the author.

''Collins Easy Learning'' practice skills books help children develop their literacy and numeracy skills, through lots of fun activities. Helpful tips and answers are included to help support learning.

Collins New Primary Maths: Cross-Curricular Word Problems 6 encourages children to practise the skills of using and applying maths. The activities build problem-solving skills while developing other key maths concepts, and challenge children to apply their mathematical knowledge to other curricular contexts, such as science, history and geography. * Contains 40 differentiated word problems, each matched to an objective from the Renewed Framework, and a cross-curricular topic * Can be easily integrated with the daily mathematics lesson * Guidance is given on how to assess pupil''s progress * Comes with a CD of editable Word files, so you can tailor the investigations to the needs of your class.

Assisting Maths Teaching Guide 5 provides detailed lesson plans to save you time in your intervention planning. With its rigorous and practical approach, the Teaching Guide gives you everything you need to plan a personalised programme of work for those children who require additional maths support, leaving you free to focus on your teaching. Assisting Maths Teaching Guide 5 provides: * 12 units of work covering all strands of the renewed maths framework. Each unit is broken down into manageable objectives, with a detailed session plan for each objective * session plans consisting of a series of group, paired and individual activities aimed at teaching and consolidating understanding of the relevant objective * AfL questions, monitoring forms to assess pupil progress throughout intervention, plus strategies for children exiting intervention * a flexible ''''dip-in'''' resource that can be easily adapted to meet the needs of individual children, and different classroom and school organisational arrangements * a consistent approach to teaching, learning and assessment through the cycle of: review and assess, teach, practise, apply, review and assess * a practical, hands-on and highly visual approach to teaching and learning which uses a variety of models and images * a resource which highlights and models key vocabulary, and has at its core the discussion of mathematical ideas and methods * lesson plans and planning charts provided as editable Word files on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing you to create a personalised programme of study for those children requiring extra support. individual children, and different classroom and school organisational arrangements * a consistent approach to teaching, learning and assessment through the cycle of: review and assess, teach, practise, apply, review and assess * a practical, hands-on and highly visual approach to teaching and learning which uses a variety of models and images * a resource which highlights and models key vocabulary, and has at its core the discussion of mathematical ideas and methods * lesson plans and planning charts provided as editable Word files on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing you to create a personalised programme of study for those children requiring extra support. individual children, and different classroom and school organisational arrangements * a consistent approach to teaching, learning and assessment through the cycle of: review and assess, teach, practise, apply, review and assess * a practical, hands-on and highly visual approach to teaching and learning which uses a variety of models and images * a resource which highlights and models key vocabulary, and has at its core the discussion of mathematical ideas and methods * lesson plans and planning charts provided as editable Word files on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing you to create a personalised programme of study for those children requiring extra support. individual children, and different classroom and school organisational arrangements * a consistent approach to teaching, learning and assessment through the cycle of: review and assess, teach, practise, apply, review and assess * a practical, hands-on and highly visual approach to teaching and learning which uses a variety of models and images * a resource which highlights and models key vocabulary, and has at its core the discussion of mathematical ideas and methods * lesson plans and planning charts provided as editable Word files on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing you to create a personalised programme of study for those children requiring extra support. highly visual approach to teaching and learning which uses a variety of models and images * a resource which highlights and models key vocabulary, and has at its core the discussion of mathematical ideas and methods * lesson plans and planning charts provided as editable Word files on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing you to create a personalised programme of study for those children requiring extra support.

A timely and concise accounting of John Maynard Keynes''s life and work by a renowned historian and Keynes scholar.

Collins New Primary Maths: Speaking and Listening 6 is a series of activities that can be used during the daily maths lesson to improve children''s speaking, listening and memory skills. Each activity offers questions for the teacher to ask the class, a sheet for children to record the answers, as well as further questions for discussion. * Contains around 30 x 20-minute activities, each matched to an objective from the Renewed Framework * Perfect for the starter or plenary sessions * Guidance is given on how to assess pupil''s progress * Comes with a CD of editable Word files, so you can tailor the activities to the needs of your class.

Discusses the decline in the British empire''s power after the second World War, and the political issues behind the rise of the United States as a world superpower.

Collins New Primary Maths Assessment Pack 2 offers fantastic support in assessment and record-keeping to allow you to track children''s progress with ease. Assessment Pack 2 contains three types of assessment: • Adult-directed tasks: used at any time throughout the year when you want to check a child''s, or a group of children''s understanding of a particular objective • Self-assessment tasks: completed by each child at the end of a unit • Tests: taken at the end of each term to provide an indication of how individual children, and the class as a whole, have performed during a term, to inform future planning, and to aid teacher assessment when assigning an overall National Curriculum level in mathematics. Assessment Pack 2 also contains record-keeping sheets, and is ideal for Assessing Pupil''s Progress.

Collins New Primary Maths Assessment Pack 3 offers fantastic support in assessment and record-keeping to allow you to track children''s progress with ease.

Homework Pack 6 offers engaging photocopiable activities to consolidate and extend key skills. Homework Pack 6 contains: • photocopiable sheets to accompany each teaching unit • fun activities that encourage practice of the objectives covered in the daily maths lesson • objectives at the top of each page so the child is in control of their own learning • simple instructions for the child • three clear levels of differentiation.

The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century. In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected subject, presenting a wealth of new evidence drawn from manuscripts and archival sources. He begins by exploring the basic legal and moral problem raised by the interdict: how could a sanction that punished many for the sins of the few be justified? From the twelfth-century, jurists and theologians argued that those who consented to the crimes of others shared in the responsibility and punishment for them. Hence important questions are raised about medieval ideas of community, especially about the relationship between its head and members. The book goes on to explore how the interdict was meant to work according to the medieval canonists, and how it actually worked in practice. In particular it examines princely and popular reactions to interdicts and how these encouraged the papacy to reform the sanction in order to make it more effective. Evidence including detailed case-studies of the interdict in action, is drawn from across thirteenth-century Europe - a time when the papacy''s legislative activity and interference in the affairs of secular rulers were at their height.

Stimulate children to work collaboratively with Maths Plus Groups Work - and have fun too! Groups Work Year 5 Teacher Book provides 15 problem-solving group activities.

Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing a century of national experience, Hope and Glory superbly conveys the diverse aspects of three generations who lived through unparalleled change.

The star stories is an reading series for English main and additional language learners. These stories are written for South Africans by South Africans.