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An insightful collection of essays that explore the development of children’s imagination and capacities, from pictures and stories through to scientific thinking.
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David Mitchell
David Mitchell’s connection with cricket began when his grandad took him to Bradford in 1961 to watch Yorkshire play the Australians. It was the start of a lifelong passion for…
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Face masks, hand sanitiser, Zoom meetings, daily Amazon deliveries, social distancing - a way of life that we have become all too used to after the country was locked down…
Paper Crystals are enchanting sculptures made from simple units folded from ordinary paper which lock firmly together without any need for sticky tape or glue. Paper Crystals are enchanting to…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
The contributors to this book examine the relationships that exist between the social, political, economic and cultural contexts of inclusive education as it is being implemented - or in some…
Offers an introduction to the range of topics encompassed by the discipline and takes a practical approach, focusing on the core competencies required by undergraduates, practical skills required by trainees…
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Building with Butterflies shows you how to build stunning modular origami sculptures from simple units folded from ordinary paper without the use of cuts or glue. Clear diagrams and instructions…
Through a lucid and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of perversity in Sartre and Nietzsche, Mitchell argues that understanding the human as a ‘perversion’ of something other than itself allows…
‘One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country’ (Independent) turns his unique eye on the dark end of the 1960s in his enthralling new novel, a…
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Children and adults love pattern. Fascination with Escher and with the Alhambra and other patterns lead to intrigue into making them, understanding them and inventing them. Now in Tarquins long…
Containing Important Particulars In Relation To Its Trade, Manufactures, Commerce, Shipping, Antiquities, Eminent Men, Town Houses Of The Neighboring Country Gentry In Former Years, Etc.
Experienced Waldorf teachers from around the world explore the unique approach to science in Waldorf schools. Covers a wide array of subjects and topics including astronomy, biology and zoology.
Originally published in 1967. The common aim of all logical enquiry is to discover and analyse correctly the forms of valid argument. In this book concise expositions of traditional, Aristotelian…
A rich collection of essays that show why Michael and Michaelmas continue to be significant for our modern world.
Origami Alfresco is a quirky and unusual portfolio of clear diagrams for 50 of David Mitchell’s simple yet amazing origami designs, created from the contrast between the white and coloured…
This unique and original book presents a series of simple but fascinating puzzles that are set and solved by folding paper. They will challenge, amuse and perplex you for hours…
This rich collection of essays of different aspects of administering a Waldorf school will provide support for the efforts to create a community of collaborative leadership and teacher administered programs…
This book provides the reader with a text that encompasses the full range of oral and maxillofacial surgery while also addressing the core competencies necessary for undergraduates and those in…
Offering over 70 strategies to help educators respond to the challenge of an increasingly diverse student population, this unique book provides a blueprint for an education system which places children…
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Discover who we are and how we got here by pre-ordering comedian and student of history David Mitchell's UNRULY: A History of England's Kings and…
The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya - Tea, Love and War tells the unique true…
Juxtaposes photographs of the same railway location separated in time. This book includes photographs of GWR main lines from Brent Knoll and Frome to Wellington and Whiteball and the Minehead…
A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and s pans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of…
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches…
Cased edition of the second edition of the major work on mathematical orgami - for durability and for library sales.
Thirteen chapters provide monthly snapshots of Jason Taylor’s life in small-town England. Whether battling his stammer, navigating the social hierarchy of his schoolmates, or watching the slow disintegration of his…
One of TIME magazine’s most influential novelists in the world presents a bold and epic novel about a rarely visited point in history–18th-century Japan–in a work as exquisitely rendered as…
Thorndike Press large print basic –Title page verso.
In his captivating third novel, Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre, and time to offer a meditation on humanity’s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead.
A sensation upon its publication in England, Ghostwritten –now in paperback–is the story of nine strangers in nine countries whose lives are entwined in a strange chain of circumstance.
Originally published in 2005. David Mitchell provides a better understanding of the role presidents play in the decision-making process in terms of their influence on two key steps in the…
A Booker Prize finalist, this is the story of a young innocent’s exhilarating misadventures in Tokyo while searching for the father he never knew.