The visionary legacy of Aldous Huxley is as relevant today as ever. Huxley possessed a sober understanding of the human condition as well as an inspired vision of the human potential. This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination and appreciation of Aldous Huxley’s three visionary novels – Brave New World (1932), Ape and Essence (1948), and Island (1962) – to reveal the extent to which Huxley’s prognoses into our possible futures was prophetic. The author...

For many young writers the most difficult part of their task is getting started. They want to write. (Or someone else wants them to write!) But they don't know where to begin. And oftentimes when they do begin, they are overwhelmed by the risks of improper spelling or improper punctuation.This e-book takes away the writer's block and the risks. It gives struggling writers starting points and enough minimal direction to get them writing. It also reminds them that in a rough draft sp...

Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover—making the earliest years a perfect time to begin teaching the foundations of STEM. This book defines what science, technology, engineering, and math education looks like for this age group, and why it is so vital for children to develop STEM knowledge. Expand your understanding of STEM to lay the foundation for children to develop skills in critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity....

Inspired by the author’s research and work with preservice and beginning teachers, this book presents a unique framework to help educators (grades 3–8) embed their efforts to teach social studies for social justice within the context of literacy. It is a resource for using primary and other sources to offer students new ways of thinking about history while meeting Language Arts Common Core Standards demands for information text and critical thinking. Grounded in the daily reali...

This fantasy writing book offers tips to those who want to write fantasy books. It starts out with ideas for your fantasy world. Then it delves into a small example fantasy world. After that we'll look at some marketing and cover ideas that might get your writing jumpstarted. From there it's onto some actual fantasy worlds that appear in print.If you've wanted to write fantasy but just can't make it work, this book will give you tips. Stop dreaming of that awesome book and make it ...

Practitioners and students wishing to know how very young children develop an awareness of ICT will find this text invaluable.ICT has arguably one of the biggest impacts on every-day 21st century life, so its inclusion in the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum reflects the need to encourage forward-looking practice in classrooms and nurseries.This book enables you to help young children develop their knowledge, understanding and skill in the use of ICT, with chapters f...

Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour.Also included is a complete reprint of the text of The Darkening Garden.

Students’ imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination—one of the great workhorses of learning—can be used to make all learning and all teaching more effective. Through techniques that any teacher can learn and easily apply in any classroom, they demonstrate how and why imagination can be used across the curriculum and grade levels to m...

This book explores the practice of teaching secondary English, engaging teachers with theory and policies to enable them to reflect on their processes.

The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made worldwide headlines. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broad context of politics, religion, media, and education, providing a clear analysis of these events and recommendations for teachers and policy makers.

Old English and Samwise Gamgee's Genealogy: Eden and the Unfallen Hobbit is a book developed and released by Witan Publishing to showcase the technologies available in their eBooks. Please download and enjoy for free.

This publication is an edited extract from a much larger and more specific publication: Embedding Equality and Diversity into a Postgraduate Management Programme for International Students – a case study. This publication provides a literature review of domestic and international strategies and considerations when embedding equality and diversity into the curriculum for international and domestic learners and for learners whose first language is not English. It will be particularl...