New Releases by Peter Clarke

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.

In 1966 and 1969 Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky contested two epic battles for the world crown. In the first of these Petrosian became the only world champion to actually win a title defence for 32 years when his inspired defensive technique thwarted all of Spassky''s aggressive intentions. In the second of these two ferocious fights Spassky eventually broke through to seize the world title. En route the two great players created some of the most beautiful chess ever witnessed at this high level, sparkling with numerous sacrifices of rook for bishop or knight, piece sacrifices to inaugurate enduring attacks and even a stunning queen sacrifice by Petrosian in game 10 of the first encounter.

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

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

This title contains material for teaching mathematics in line with the National Curriculum Key Stage 1.

Collins Primary Maths is based on the learning objectives of the Framework for Teaching Mathematics (part of the National Strategy). The scheme takes interactive whole-class teaching as its main method of delivery, but provides opportunities for differentiated group work and individual practice. This text provides comprehensive extension work to stretch pupils to level 5 and beyond. It is objective-driven to ensure the utmost flexibility, starting with the year 6 objectives and extending towards the year 7 objectives. The guide contains flexible daily lesson plans, resource masters and assessment materials.

''Maths Call'' is a series of yearly teaching resources providing 10-20 minute class activities for either the beginning or plenary stages of the daily maths lesson. Each file contains 30 activities, which focus on a particular framework objective.

Children love loop card games. Use them with the whole class to sharpen mental and oral number skills. The cards add pace to the lesson as they require rapid recall of number facts and figuring out. Each loop consists of 33 cards. Loop Cards Sets A and B cover the primary and early secondary age ranges. Set A (Years 5 and 6) is suitable for ages 9 to 11 and includes number sequences, fractions, addition and subraction, multiplication and division.

The first compilation that brings together publications on New Religious Movements (NRMs) from across Western Europe, this useful work includes titles written in most European languages. The Introduction provides an overview of NRMs since 1960 and places them in a global perspective. The literature, from the late 1970s to the present, covers areas of study such as sociology, psychology, history, theology, and more, and will be of interest to scholars and students in many disciplines. The work is a companion piece to Diane Choquette''s New Religious Movements in the United States and Canada: A Critical Assessment (Greenwood, 1985). The authors, experts in NRMs throughout the world, discuss various explanatory models that account for the emergence of NRMs and look at the way they have spread throughout the countries of Western Europe. Membership and impact are discussed, as well as the response of the wider society. The label new is addressed and some attempts at classification are presented.

A guide to getting the best possible medical care offers tips on making decisions among treatment options, communicating with physicians, and creating an effective system of social support.

Britain in the 20th century is in many senses uncharted territory for historians, territory by and large left to sociologists and political theorists. In a series of essays on British political leaders from Gladstone and Salisbury through Lloyd George, Churchill and Attlee to Thatcher, Peter Clarke looks at the questions of how individual leaders have shaped the history of the UK, interacting with the social and economic forces beloved of sociologists, tackling the questions of how important is political leadership, and how much is history determined by socio-economic trends and how much by the decisions of individuals.

The name of John Maynard Keynes is still the focus of political and economic controversy, and in the course of it, "what Keynes really meant" has suffered much distortion. This book represents a quest for the historical Keynes. It follows the story of an argument which arose out of the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the wars and provides an account of Keynes''s thinking in the years that led up to the General Theory, making it comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

This book is about the relationship between liberalism and socialism in Britain in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.