Author: Nicholas Thomas Description: An incisive, evocative history of the experience of an empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of an empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized b...Read More

Author: Tracey Banivanua Mar Description: An account charting the winds of decolonisation as they blew into the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. Tracey Banivanua Mar examines how Indigenous peoples responded to the overlook...Read More

Author: Aravind Adiga Description: Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger'. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escap...Read More

Author: Guido Mazzoni Description: Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzo...Read More

Authors: Stuart Sim & Borin Van Loon Description: The last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultura...Read More

Author: Martin Puchner Description: In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change-and how we might change pa...Read More

Authors: Diane Jass Ketelhut, Michael Shane Tutwiler Description: When implemented effectively, technology has great potential to positively connect with learning, assessment, and motivation in the context of science education and inquiry. Written...Read More

Author: Peter Loxley Description: The book offers primary teachers the subject and pedagogical knowledge, as well as the confidence they need to integrate the seeds of big ideas into their curriculum. It provides models of good practice which exem...Read More

Authors: Wynne Harlen, Anne Qualter Description: The Teaching of Science in Primary Schools provides essential information for students, trainees, and practising teachers about the why, what and how of teaching primary science. Paying particular a...Read More

Author: Edward Royce Description: Classical Social Theory and Modern Society introduces students to these three thinkers and shows their continued relevance today. The first chapter sets the stage by situating the work of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber...Read More