Teaching Music Differently explores what music teachers do and why. It offers insightful analysis of eight in-depth studies of teachers in a range of settings – the early years, a special school, primary and secondary schools, a college, a prison, a conservatoire and a community choir – and demonstrates that pedagogy is not simply the delivery of a curriculum or an enactment of a teaching plan. Rather, a teacher’s pedagogy is complex, nuanced and influenced by a multitude of facto...

Becoming a Research-Informed School examines the reasons why teachers and leaders use research to improve their schools, and explores how teachers select, understand and use research to enhance learning experiences in fast-moving classroom environments. It analyses what teachers and school leaders actually do, to use research in their schools, and how they build a research-informed culture.Based firmly in data from real schools and considering the experiences of over 150 e...

The New York Times bestselling author returns to science fiction with an eerie, transcendent novel of the near future.Errol's father has been dead for several years. Yet lately Errol has been awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a prank, or a message from the grave? When he hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table, he decides to investigate.Curious and not a little unnerved, Errol sneaks into th...

“Elmore Leonard is in a class of one….The greatest crime writer who ever lived.”—Dennis Lehane“Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist…the best in the business.”—Washington Post44 novels and still going strong! The incomparable Elmore Leonard—“The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times)—is back with Djibouti, a gripping, twisting, playful, and always surprising tale of modern-day piracy. Djibouti sparkles...

'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD__________________________________They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance.Cross is met with shocking news that his niece has been brutally murdered. He vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that his niece was mixed up in one of Washing...

'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD**__________________________________They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance.**Cross is met with shocking news that his niece has been brutally murdered. He vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that his niece was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes where eve...

____________________________'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series____________________________The fifteenth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross seriesDetective Alex Cross delves deep into the past - to a story p...

“Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River“You know from the first sentence that you’re in the hands of the original Daddy Cool....This one’ll kill you.”—Stephen KingElmore Leonard is eternal. In Road Dogs, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and “America’s greatest crime master” (Newsweek*) brings back three of his favorite ch...

“An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game.”—Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son“The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey’s Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories,

Brought to you by Penguin.'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD____________________________________Detective Alex Cross is stretched to breaking point as two killers hit Washington, DCA controversial senator is found murdered in his bed. On the other side of town, a young girl ...

Brought to you by Penguin.'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD______________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he knows that this won't be ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The twenty-first novel in the bestselling Alex Cross seriesDetective Alex Cross is being hunted down and his world is crashing around him.Alex Cross has devoted his life to protecting others, his only refuge from the horrors of his job is his family - and his enemies know it.He's never faced a foe like this before. One by one, everyone he loves is being taken from him....