James Britton’s work addresses central educational questions that are as relevant today as they were half a century ago. Britton was the architect of a theory of language and learning which has influenced the thinking and practice of generations of teachers across the anglophone world. This Reader helps teachers and students explore his theories of the relationships between language and thought, between thinking and feeling, the links between unconscious and conscious ways of knowing, and ...

The Vygotsky Anthology brings together, for the first time, a selection of extracts from the best translations available of Vygotsky’s writings, spanning the entire arc of his career.Vygotsky was arguably one of the greatest educational psychologists of the 20th century. Grounded in his experience as a teacher, an expert in special education, a research psychologist and an outstanding theorist, the editors of this unique anthology chart his enormous influence on profession...

Harold Rosen was a leader of thought in the world of English teaching in the second half of the twentieth century. He and his colleagues forged and sustained a new understanding of the purpose and possibilities of the subject English within the school curriculum. Beyond the constituency of people teaching English in secondary schools, Harold's teachings, writings and activities illuminated many more people's understanding of the relationship between language and learning in any context, wh...

Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current language and literacy curriculum and its assessment arrangements for 3- to 11-year-olds in England, and of developments in the area during the past thirty years.The book restates fundamental truths about how pupils speak, read and write English with confidence and control. It des...

Curriculum and Assessment in English 11 to 19: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current English curriculum and its associated examinations for 11- to 19-year-olds in England, and of developments in the area during the past thirty years.The book restates fundamental truths about how students speak, read and write English with confidence and control. It describes how...

Tom Jones is brought up by the generous Mr Allworthy on his Somerset estate, where Tom eventually falls in love with his beautiful neighbour, Sophia Western. Because of his partially unknown parentage, however, their respective guardians are against the match. When Tom is banished due to his occasionally heated temper and sexual encounters with local girls, he has an adventure full of danger and surprise. Ultimately he follows Sophia to London, who herself is fleeing from an undesirable ar...

Emily Burton has boundary issues.A powerful psychic empath, she feels the emotions of everyone around her as if they are her own… and it’s driving her mad. In a last-ditch effort to overwhelm her empathic senses, she flees small-town Wisconsin for Manhattan. There she’ll give her true self a week to emerge from the chaos. If that doesn’t work there’s always her father’s gun.Emily’s plan is simple enough—she just doesn’t count on falling in love. Tumbled into a growing roman...

Constable McFarlan has a problem—his town’s on fire.A once prosperous mining community nestled deep in the hollows of the Appalachian Mountains, Shard, Kentucky was the picture of Small Town America. But in 1989 The Fire changed everything. A mysterious accident set the coal seam ablaze and Shard began a slow death burn. As the smolder spread beneath the streets, houses disappeared into fiery sinkholes and sulfurous smoke poured from kitchen taps. Most of the town moved on. More th...

Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"), a retired airline pilot now running his own investigation firm, is sent a client by his old friend Guy Robbins, an attorney on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. The client is a horribly disfigured young female marine biologist who is Director of a research lab on Cat Island, twelve miles off the coast ofGulfport. Her disfigurement is the result of an attack by a tiger shark during a dive to the wreck of a World War Two German submarine sank during t...

Clarissa Tyler came from a good home with loving parents and a wide circle of friends. She, and her fiancé Nick, both prepared for college graduation and dreamed of a successful life together.Until the accident happened. Until Nick died and that sheltered world collapsed.She wakes in a remote and unfamiliar hospital after two months in a physician-induced fugue state. She is surrounded by an eccentric staff that won't provide any details about the accident. She is given a g...

When Special Agent Catherine Macgregor arrives home from work to find her front door ajar, deep concern immediately engulfs her. With her gun drawn she enters, her baby sitter is brutally murdered, and her nine-year-old daughter Abigail is missing - abducted.Banned from working on the case by her superior nothing will stop this mother from doing what-ever is within her power throughout many twists, and turns, as she attempts to track down her daughter alive before it's too late.

The Wilkie Collins Collection presents four of the best titles by the Victorian master novelist - The Moonstone, No Name, The Woman In White and After Dark.