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, animations, tools and games to ensure they are rich, lively and engaging.

Challenge and stretch Year 2 pupils with this resource designed to broaden and deepen children''s mathematical understanding. This book supports the classroom teacher in delivering structured guidance and support for gifted children who are exceeding age-related expectations in mathematics. - contains 36 photocopiable newspaper-style issues packed with investigations, problem-solving activities and maths challenges- specific teacher guidance (and answers) in the accompanying teachers notes for all 36 issues- all content is within the years programme of study- evaluate children''s learning and identify the next steps for progression with detailed assessment guidance- encourage children to apply their mathematical knowledge and skills across the curriculum with cross-curricular activities

Challenge and stretch Year 1 pupils with this resource designed to broaden and deepen children''s mathematical understanding. This book supports the classroom teacher in delivering structured guidance and support for gifted children who are exceeding age-related expectations in mathematics. - contains 36 photocopiable newspaper-style issues packed with investigations, problem-solving activities and maths challenges- specific teacher guidance (and answers) in the accompanying teachers notes for all 36 issues- all content is within the years programme of study- evaluate children''s learning and identify the next steps for progression with detailed assessment guidance- encourage children to apply their mathematical knowledge and skills across the curriculum with cross-curricular activities

A fascinating insight into the author''s journey along part of the Great Silk Road through Uzbekistan where he discovers a wealth of original and restored architecture dating back to the time when Genghis Khan came, conquered and destroyed it in the 13th century. Local hero Amir Temur (Tamerlane) rebuilt the stunning minarets, mosques, madrassahs and mausoleums to make it the centre of his great 14th century Empire. The Russians and the British played out their ''Great Game'' espionage activities there in the 19th century.The country was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991 and since then, as an independent country, Uzbekistan is now able to show its historical and architectural treasures off the world. The author takes you on a journey to the major sites in Tashkent, Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand, many of which are now on the UNESCO World Heritage List. His anecdotal stories describe his experiences as he meets local people in the bazaars and relates historical events to modern day life.

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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.

A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King''s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill''s famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill''s defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain''s Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke''s book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.

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 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

The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II -and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct-and Keynes''s doctrine of corrective action in an imperfect world became more relevant than ever. Keynes was not a traditional economist: He was a polemicist, iconoclastic public intellectual, peer of the realm, and political operative, as well as an openly homosexual Bohemian who befriended Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. In Keynes, noted historian Peter Clarke provides a timely and masterful accounting of Keynes''s life and work, bringing his genius and skepticism alive for an era fraught with economic difficulties that he surely would have relished solving.

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 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.

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.

In 12th Century England, Guillame Mareschal is an old soldier whose family have held Herraton Bonville since the conquest. 40 years earlier, during the Anarchy of Stephen, his father Ralphe sustained a fatal wound. Guillame, ageing and uneasy, embarks on an expedition for revenge and the truth. In the mid 19th Century, Herton Home Farm is occupied by the Digweed family. William, head of the family, has moved on from his humble past. But social advancement is under threat from the relationship between his eldest daughter and a boatman called Jago. 1999, and Pete Florence is a landscape gardener facing hardship who lands the job of reconstructing the garden and grounds at the old Herton Home Farm in the nick of time. Tony Cawsand is a local archaealogist whose interest in the large mound in the grounds leads to he and Florence having to work side by side. Cawsand has an adopted daughter, Joanne, a strange balkan refugee. Florence is fascinated.

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 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.

Collins New Primary Maths Assessment Pack 5 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.

This volume provides a complete guide to the global impact and cultural significance of new religious movements.