New Releases by Peter Clarke

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.

Learning how to use and apply maths to solve problems is a critical aspect of children''s mathematical development during their time at primary school. Our We Can Do It! series offers stimulating problem-solving challenges that inspire genuine mathematical thinking.

Learning how to use and apply maths to solve problems is a critical aspect of children''s mathematical development during their time at primary school. Our We Can Do It! series offers stimulating problem-solving challenges that inspire genuine mathematical thinking.

This series supports the development of number fluency through individual and paired activity. Children can monitor their own progress and work together to support each other.

Learning how to use and apply maths to solve problems is a critical aspect of children''s mathematical development during their time at primary school. Our We Can Do It! series offers stimulating problem-solving challenges that inspire genuine mathematical thinking.

Perfect for quick and easy lesson starters, plenaries or homework, this series of books for Years 1 to 6 helps children practise arithmetical skills, individually and in pairs, to become fluent in the number system and mental calculation.

Fluency in Number Facts - Facts and Games Book Year 3 and Year 4 for lower Key Stage 2 contain two sections: Maths facts and Paired games. Maths facts provide comprehensive lists of all the maths facts children need to know at each key stage and Paired games provide a fun way for children to practise and consolidate maths facts. Pupil Fluency Book for Y3/Y4 contains: * games and activities arranged according to the three Key Aspects: Number, place value and rounding, Addition and subtraction and Multiplication and division * objectives at the top of each page so the child is in control of their own learning * clear and accessible lists of the key addition, subtraction, multiplication and division number facts that children need to be able to recall instantly * a bank of paired games to help children become fluent in each of the three Key Aspects * engaging and colourful artwork.

''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.

Looks at the Prime Minister''s writing career over the course of his life, culminating in his four-volume "History of the English-Speaking Peoples."

Enriching Maths Resource Pack 1 provides a bank of activities for children working above age-related expectations, which can be slotted in alongside the maths programme for your class. The engaging activities enrich and extend the objectives you’re already teaching, offering breadth and depth for those children who need an extra challenge. Enriching Maths Resource Pack 1 features: • a bank of easy-to-use activities, saving you time in thinking up new enrichment ideas • support for practitioners in identifying and teaching gifted pupils, including those who are not subject specialists • fun activities in a newspaper-style format that will ensure children use and apply their mathematical knowledge, skills and understanding • links to the entire primary curriculum, via a range of cross-curricular contexts • puzzles that require children to read, consider, then choose the methods and equipment to solve the problem, fostering independent thinking and working • All materials are available as editable Word files on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing you to tailor them to the needs of your pupils.

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.

In the midst of our current economic crisis, we peer anxiously into an uncertain future and try to put things in perspective by looking to the past. One name above all keeps on cropping up: John Maynard Keynes, who first came to public attention on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 1920s, when the depression in Britain engaged his attention, with the argument that unemployment needed a radical remedy. And then came the great meltdown of 2008, which caused the ideas of the economist to be rediscovered and rehabilitated.

Assisting Maths Discussion Book 1 is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths. Assisting Maths Discussion Book 1 contains: * visual representations of mathematical concepts to promote speaking and listening * very little text so the focus remains on the maths * engaging, colourful graphics * fun games to practise and consolidate the maths skills learned during the session

Collins New Primary Maths: Investigations 2 encourages children to practise and consolidate the skills of using and applying mathematics. The investigations build problem-solving skills while developing other key mathematical skills and concepts, and enable children to apply their mathematical knowledge to other areas of the curriculum. * Contains approximately 60 investigations, each matched to an objective from the Renewed Framework * 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

Collins New Primary Maths: Investigations 5 encourages children to practise and consolidate the skills of using and applying mathematics. The investigations build problem-solving skills while developing other key mathematical skills and concepts, and enable children to apply their mathematical knowledge to other areas of the curriculum. * Contains approximately 60 investigations, each matched to an objective from the Renewed Framework * 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.

Collins New Primary Maths: Speaking and Listening F 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.

Learning how to use and apply maths to solve problems is a critical aspect of children''s mathematical development during their time at primary school. Our We Can Do It series offers stimulating problem-solving challenges that inspire genuine mathematical thinking.

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.

Teacher''s Guide accompanied by: Speaking and Listening 1; Cross-curricular word problems 1; Assessment pack 1; Investigations 1; Differentiation pack 1; Homework pack 1; Activity book 1A, 1B and 1C; 4 CDs

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.

Collins New Primary Maths Differentiation Pack 3 features challenging supplementary activities to help children to consolidate or extend their understanding of particular objectives. Differentiation Pack 3 contains: * photocopiable worksheets to accompany each teaching unit, with support worksheets for children yet to master the objective and extension worksheets to challenge children who have mastered the objective * objectives at the top of each page so the child is in control of their own learning * simple instructions for the child.

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.

Collins New Primary Maths Assessment Pack 6 offers fantastic support in assessment and record-keeping to allow you to track children''s progress with ease.

Peter B. Clarke’s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point. Ranging from North America and Europe to Japan, Latin America, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, it is the perfect introduction to NRMs such as Falun Gong, Aum Shirikyo, the Brahma Kumaris, the Ikhwan or Muslim Brotherhood, Sufism, the Engaged Buddhist and Engaged Hindi movements, Messianic Judaism and Rastafarianism. Charting the cultural significance and global impact of NRMs, he discusses the ways in which various religious traditions are shaping, rather than displacing, each other’s understanding of notions such as transcendence and faith, good and evil, of the meaning, purpose and function of religion, and of religious belonging. He then examines the responses of governments, churches, the media and general public to new religious movements, as well as the reaction to older, increasingly influential religions, such as Buddhism and Islam, in new geographical and cultural contexts. Taking into account the degree of continuity between old and new religions, each chapter contains not only an account of the rise of the NRMs and new forms of spirituality in a particular region, but also an overview of change in the regions’ mainstream religions.

Stimulate children to work collaboratively with Maths Plus Groups Work -- and have fun too! Groups Work Year 6 Teacher Book provides 15 problem-solving group activities.

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 lessons are arranged in themes, which expose learners to real-life situations. Language is embedded within the themes and is taught in context.