Warwicks Special event

$20.00 NZD

Category: Upcoming

The Reincarnated Giant - An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction by Mingwei Song (Editor); Theodore Huters (Editor)

$66.00 NZD

Category: Upcoming | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.

A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This anthology showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China in fifteen short stories and novel excerpts. The Reincarnated Giant is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of the A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This anthology showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China in fifteen short stories and novel excerpts. The Reincarnated Giant is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of the genre. ...Show more

The Hidden Life of Life - A Walk Through the Reaches of Time by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

$39.99 NZD

Category: Upcoming | Series: Animalibus Ser.

An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture l An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet, from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards. Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution--that all living things evolve in a series of cooperative relationships--Thomas takes readers on a journey through the progression of life. Along the way she shares the universal likenesses, experiences, and environments of "Gaia's creatures," from amoebas in plant soil to the pets we love, from proud primates to Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers on the African savanna. Fervently rejecting "anthropodenial," the notion that nonhuman life does not share characteristics with humans, Thomas instead shows that paramecia can learn, plants can communicate, humans aren't really as special as we think we are--and that it doesn't take a scientist to marvel at the smallest inhabitants of the natural world and their connections to all living things. A unique voice on anthropology and animal behavior, Thomas challenges scientific convention and the jargon that prevents us all from understanding all living things better. This joyfully written book is a fascinating look at the challenges and behaviors shared by creatures from bacteria to larvae to parasitic fungi, a potted hyacinth to the author herself, and all those in between. ...Show more

Thrive: In your first three years in teaching by Martha Boyne, Emily Clements, Ben Wright

$39.99 NZD

Category: Upcoming

Unlike most books for trainee teachers, Thrive doesn't just offer guidance on how to survive your first three years of teaching: it also shows you how to thrive.Thrive is a product of the collective experience and anecdotal wisdom of three successful third year teachers from three different subject area Unlike most books for trainee teachers, Thrive doesn't just offer guidance on how to survive your first three years of teaching: it also shows you how to thrive.Thrive is a product of the collective experience and anecdotal wisdom of three successful third year teachers from three different subject areas - as well as learned insights from a professional tutor and a senior university lecturer - elegantly combined to help newly qualified teachers lay the foundations for a successful teaching career, long after the challenging first years are behind them.Covering the PGCE, NQT and RQT years of study, Thrive gets to grips with the basics of teaching - from behaviour management to lesson planning, through to differentiation and providing for SEND - and offers tried-and-tested strategies designed to equip the trainee teacher with the confidence to take ownership of the classroom, handle increased expectations and take on post-study responsibility without the guiding hand of his or her mentor.Suitable for trainee teachers, NQTs, teacher -trainers and anyone considering entering the profession. ...Show more

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton

$35.00 NZD

Category: Upcoming

A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer​ While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little re A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer​ While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory, 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points. For ordinary people, and also for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence. Ashton mines Victorian letters and gossip, diaries, court records, newspapers, and other contemporary sources to uncover historically crucial moments in the lives of three protagonists--Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Disraeli. She also introduces others who gained renown in the headlines of the day, among them George Eliot, Karl Marx, William Thackeray, and Edward Bulwer Lytton. Ashton reveals invisible threads of connection among Londoners at every social level in 1858, bringing the celebrated city and its citizens vibrantly to life. ...Show more