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Peter Riley
The Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics series provides non-specialist primary school teachers with subject knowledge and full teaching programmes in a variety of key primary curriculum subjects.
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There are so many concepts to discover when studying sound: frequency, pitch, the speed of sound, decibels, and more! Readers explore these topics in this colorful, illustrated volume. Activities and…
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What makes light? Kids might give a variety of answers to this question: the sun, a lightbulb, a fire. All of these light sources are explored in this colorful volume…
Twisting, pushing, pulling, stretching--these are all ways we can physically use force and see how it affects things. Of course, there are many other forces on Earth that we can't…
Electricity is so much more than just plugging a lamp into the wall to make it light. Its power is found in batteries--in a flashlight and in a car--as well…
I took [Watson] into this woman's office and there was the American flag, and I stood her up with her mop hanging down, with the American flag hanging down, Grant…
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Walt Whitman
A new edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a defining piece of American literature.
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Endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full curriculum framework. Spark engagement and understanding with an investigative and experimental approach and the strongest emphasis on Scientific Enquiry.
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We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education to gain endorsement for this forthcoming title.
Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary Science Stage 8 is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education
Presents a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece, mostly in the vicinity of Argos and thus at the hub of early Greek power.
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The Derbyshire Poems brings back into print two important earlier collections (from the 1970s and 1980s) by Peter Riley, Lines on the Liver and Tracks and Mineshafts, together with the…
The Dance at Mociu brings together some thirty stories of Transylvania: not stories in the conventional sense, they range from meditation to epiphany, from observation to recordings of a world…
Due North is a poem in twelve chapters concerned with human movement northwards or out in the quest for work, subsistence, settlement and gratification, and in danger of getting trapped…
Dawn Songs consists of three essays on music. A short one on Derek Bailey as heard in 1970; a moderate-size one on surviving west gallery choral pieces performed in pubs…
Peter Riley invited responses from poets to the song, ‘Last Kind Words Blues’, recorded in 1930 in a makeshift Wisconsin studio, and then issued as a 78 rpm disc, with…
"Proof..." is an account in the simplest, declarative language of the wren's song, the life of the refugee, mortality, the poet's task, the Manchester Insurrection and the forgotten books.
Collects poems and sequences by the Cambridge-based author, some of which are derived from experiencing an unfamiliar place, such as highland and wilderness (the Pyrannees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence…
An extensive update to a successful and very popular series, rewritten to work for the new science curriculum.
An extensive update to a successful and very popular series, rewritten to work for the new science curriculum
What will you discover when you open up the curiosity box?
Build confidence and understanding throughout the year with hundreds of additional practice questions.
A comprehensive update to a successful series, specifically designed to support the new science curriculum at upper KS2.
Moving Up with Science is the ideal next step for learning about science.
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Titles in this series introduce the first concepts that surround the physical sciences. The text is written to develop a child’s understanding of science as well as the language related…
For more than 50 years, Peter Riley’s creative and critical voice has given shape and substance to modern English-language poetry as a prize-winning poet and editor and writer of imaginative…
A comprehensive textbook that covers the Life Processes and Living Things requirements of Key Stage 3 Science and the Common Entrance Examination at 13+
A comprehensive textbook that covers the Physical Processes requirements of Key Stage 3 Science and the Common Entrance Examination at 13+
