Tall and short. Straight and queer. Sports has got a new frontier.A rhyming romp through professional and amateur sports, Play Proud highlights sixty historic and modern queer athletes, from Billie Jean King to Megan Rapinoe, Johnny Weir to Carl Nassib. Readers will be on a first-name basis with each of them as they race through the wide world of sports, discovering role models who play hard, play fair, and play proud. The triumphs of the...

Tell the story of Wales over the last 1000 years, as you discover how Welsh history, cynefin, culture and language are connected, from the past to the present.Underpinned by the four purposes of the new Curriculum for Wales, this book empowers pupils with the knowledge and skills that they need for learning, life and work.> Design a curriculum that is unique to your school. Use the content flexibly to craft a historical education t...

A funny, fascinating and personal look at 100 years of history in the BBC archivesHistorian Greg Jenner uses a random date generator to visit somewhere in the BBC's vast archives of remarkable sound clips from the last 100 years. Using that clip as a jumping-off point to explore what has changed between then and now, Greg talks to experts and those connected to the archived people, places, and ideas, including Stephen Fry, writer Naomi Alderman, playwright Nell Ley...

Exam board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in WJEC GCSE History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam preparation tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.With My Revision Notes every student can:- Plan and...

Target success in WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam preparation tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.With My Revision Notes every student can:- Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner- Consolidate subject knowledge by worki...

Exam board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in WJEC GCSE History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam preparation tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.With My Revision Notes every student can:- Plan and...

"An excellent and supremely accessible guide to some key issues in development geography"- Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics"Provides a clearly stated, informed and strongly structured pathway through the key literatures and debates"- Jonathan Rigg, Durham UniversityOrganized around 24 short essays, Key Concepts in Development Geography is an introductory text that provides student...

Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis’s double-award-winning Politics of Population.Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by...

The NAACP’s fight against segregated education — the first public interest litigation campaign — culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and the political and legal skills of staff members such as Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Thurgood Marshal...

This is the first book on the history of the Tumbuka that traces their origin from the Luba Kingdom in the present Democratic Republic of Congo to where they are settled today. It details their leaders, the routes they used, the kingdom they formed, and the many cultural practices they have followed, and how from the eighteenth century, their kingdom was invaded and ruled by many non-Tumbuka ethnic groups that were eventually absorbed in their culture. The study was overdue. Fortunately, t...

Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the leading History publisher for secondary schools.Blends in-depth coverage of topics with activities and strategies to help students to acquire...

The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this provocative and engaging book. Merit's history, he contends, is best understood within the context of its often conflicting interaction with the other ideals of the Founding, equal rights and government by consent. Merit implies difference; eq...