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First Experiences with Biff, Chip & Kipper introduce your child to new situations through entertaining and sensitively written stories. Each story is packed with facts and humour, making them perfect for reading together. In this story Biff, Chip and Kipper are very excited about going on a plane. Join them on their adventure!

Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world...

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features of its history, geography, and culture since the beginning of the white settlement in New South Wales in 1788. Drawing attention to the distinctive features of Australian life he places contemporary developments in a historical perspective, highlighting the importance of Australia's indigenous culture and making connections between Australia and the wider word. Balancing the successful growth of Australian institutions and democratic traditions, he considers the struggles that occurred in the making of modern Australia.

At Home With English is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 5-7 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of tasks such as filling in missing letters, copying, matching rhyming words, making lists, and reordering sentences children learn about vowels, different word endings and beginnings, blending letters together, and how to build sentences. The full colour illustrations encourage using a pencil in a controlled way and improve hand-eye coordination. The illustrated step-by-step activities are simple enough for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in writing at primary school.

At Home With Letter Forms is full of learning activities for young children to do at home. Children, from 3 years old, learn to write letters with confidence. The book uses a variety of fun tasks such as tracing, colouring, and join-the-dot activities to develop hand-eye coordination, promote recognition of vowels, and encourage children to form different letter shapes. The fun illustrations encourage using a pencil in a controlled way. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in writing for a child's first years at school.

At Home With Maths is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 5-7 years, to do at home. Each double page is devoted to a different maths topic and, using a variety of tasks such as drawing, tracing, filling in missing numbers, children will learn about patterns, shapes, adding, subtracting, measuring, money, diagrams, and time. Each page is divided into a Warm Up task devoted to number work, a Learn About task to teach a particular concept, and Now Try These tasks to give a practical application. The colour illustrated step-by-step activities are simple enough for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each double page spread! This book is ideal to build confidence in maths at primary school.

At Home With Numbers is full of learning activities for young children to do at home. Children, from 3 years old, will learn to recognize and understand the numbers 1 to 5 through drawing, colouring, and matching activities. The book uses a variety of fun tasks to get children counting and sequencing, identifying sets of particular quantities, understanding the terms 'more' and 'less' and doing some basic addition and subtraction. The fun illustrations encourage using a pencil in a controlled way and improve hand-eye coordination. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in numeracy for a child's first years at school.

At Home With Pattern and Shape is full of learning activities for young children to do at home. Children from 3 years old, will begin to understand patterns, shapes, and sizes. The book uses a variety of fun tasks such as colouring and matching activities to develop visual discrimination, three-dimensional awareness, try simple measuring as well as to start using the right vocabulary. The fun illustrations encourage using a pencil in a controlled way and improve hand-eye coordination. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in pattern and shape, and size recognition for a child's first years at school.

At Home With ABC is full of learning activities for young children to do at home. Children, from 3 years old, can practice saying and writing the alphabet, from a to z. Each page gives a letter and asks the child to trace it and write it independently. The fun illustrations encourage using a pencil in a controlled way which develops pencil grip and improves letter formation. The activities encourage children to learn alphabetical order, to recognize lower case letters, and to know the names of each letter and its sound. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in literacy for a child's first years at school.

A fresh new look for the Oxford Junior Dictionary which features thousands of words and phrases in alphabetical order, in a clear and accessible design. Each entry contains simple, easy-to-read numbered meanings, word classes, and age-appropriate example sentences. These are taken from well-known children's authors, such as Dick King-Smith, Jacqueline Wilson, and Roald Dahl. They show the words actually in use to reinforce meaning, and inspire children to use language more effectively, making them more independent in their reading and writing. Tinted panels provide extra language information on overused words, words belonging to the same family, and key language topics (such as connectives or apostrophes). This is powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, a unique electronic database of millions of words of writing for children. Extra material carefully levelled for this age includes information on spelling success, punctuation, simple grammar, key overused words (with alternatives) as well as word origins, prefixes and suffixes. Navigation is easy with the guidewords, and the full alphabet on every page with a dark blue tab on the letter of the page. For free additional word games, puzzles, and activities, go online to the www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools website.

Often overshadowed by his major novels, Fitzgerald's short stories demonstrate the same originality and inventive range, as he chronicles with wry and astute observation the temper of the hedonistic 1920s. Here is the only critical edition of Tales of the Jazz Age available in paperback as first published. It was Fitzgerald's second collection of stories, and it contains some of the best of his short fiction, including May Day and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, two of his greatest, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, recently adapted into a full-length movie. The collection also highlights Fitzgerald's ability to work in a variety of forms--parody, a one-act play, fantasy — with unrivalled versatility. Fitzgerald scholar Jackson R. Bryer provides an in-depth appreciation of the stories and examines the making of the volume and its reception. The volume also includes an up-to-date bibliography, a chronology of the author's life and work, and explanatory notes identifying contemporary references and allusions.

This course book presents a lively resource full of case studies, extracts, quotations, statistics and activities to allow students to fully understand complex and controversial issues. It follows an approach that includes the wider aims of the IB through connections to TOK, international-mindedness and the IB learner profile. It has been written by an IB Consultant and Examiner and has been extensively reviewed by teachers, consultants and the IB. With material integrated to include international and historical perspectives, students will be encouraged to think critically and make connections to other subjects and to world issues.

Part of a completely new offering for IB Mathematics, this text provides extensive practice, detailed examination support, the latest GDC support and a free eBook, in addition to offering the most thorough syllabus coverage, which is crucial for the IB student. Uniquely developed with the IB, you can trust it takes the best approach. With carefully stepped activities with extensive practice, students will gain confidence in their skills. Activities make cross-curricular and real-world connections, while emphasising the historical and cultural aspects of the theory, in line with the Learner Profile. An eBook gives students ultimate flexibility in their study, including animations to simplify challenging concepts, interactive worked solutions and full and up-to-date GDC instructions for the most commonly used calculators.

Everything parents need to know about support their child as they learn to read! This Phonics and First Stories Handbook is full of practical advice and ideas to use at home. This easy-to-use book guides you through all the stages of your child's early reading development and: BL explains the skills children need to develop, including all you need to know about phonics BL provides supporting activities and games BL answers your questions and concerns.

This timeless story opens with Mole leaving his spring-cleaning and going above ground to explore the world beyond his burrow. Making friends with Ratty, the two become inseparable and together they spend long summer days enjoying the delights of the river and its banks. Then they meet the impetuous Toad and the distinguished though slightly stern Mr Badger and find themselves caught up in a series of adventures to rescue Toad from his own reckless behaviour and return him safely to Toad Hall. Stolen cars, prison sentences, daring escapes, and dastardly villains all feature in this classic tale of high-adventure and rock-solid friendship. The Wind in the Willows is a story full of beautifully-drawn characters. It is cherished from one generation to the next and so makes a perfect choice for a gift book as it will be enjoyed in equal measure by those tucked up in bed to hear the story for the first time and those who remember many of its lines fondly as they read the story aloud for their young listeners. This is a sumptuous and contemporary gift edition, with stunning illustrations from David Roberts.

This new course provides students and teachers with current, meaningful, and practical activities along a theme based approach to help students to develop skills, gain confidence and enjoy the study of English. Each book provides reading, writing, listening and speaking activities that support the development of skills, knowledge, values and attitudes. Students will find the content and activities motivating and relevant to many areas of their study. With internationally minded content and opportunities for enquiry based learning, this series provides lively and colourful resources for a wide range of students.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are the pressure points? What could be done about them? Dani Rodrik examines the back-story from its seventeenth-century origins through the milestones of the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Agreement, and the Washington Consensus, to the present day. Although economic globalization has enabled unprecedented levels of prosperity in advanced countries and has been a boon to hundreds of millions of poor workers in China and elsewhere in Asia, it is a concept that rests on shaky pillars, he contends. Its long-term sustainability is not a given. The heart of Rodrik's argument is a fundamental 'trilemma': that we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization. Give too much power to governments, and you have protectionism. Give markets too much freedom, and you have an unstable world economy with little social and political support from those it is supposed to help. Rodrik argues for smart globalization, not maximum globalization.

Business Result is a five-level business English course that gives students the communication skills they need for immediate use at work. Business Result helps those who need to communicate better in English at work, by teaching a range of business communication skills. A list of outcomes in every unit shows students the language and skills they will learn. Tips and advice from the Cranfield School of Management introduces an authoritative business perspective, and applies professional theory to real situations

The first ever 4th edition from the world's most trusted course — New Headway Intermediate, completely rewritten and packed with new material.

Finlay (a little dinosaur) is counting out jelly beans to share with his friend. He is sitting on a grassy mound. A big dinosaur comes along and demands the jelly beans. He is rather rude, a bit of a show-off, and he thinks that Finlay's friend is a figment of his imagination. What follows is a lot of posturing from the big dinosaur as he attempts to prove his worth with various antics on and around the grassy mound. As the book progresses it will gradually become clear to the reader that the 'grassy mound' is in fact, Finlay's friend, the really, really, really big dinosaur! The big dinosaur certainly doesn't realize until his bravado propels him into a dark cave that turns out to be the mouth of the really, really, really big dinosaur. It's only then that the big dinosaur learns that in order to make friends it's a good idea not to show off and it's a good idea to be prepared to share.

Business Result is a five-level business English course that gives students the communication skills they need for immediate use at work. Business Result helps those who need to communicate better in English at work, by teaching a range of business communication skills. A list of outcomes in every unit shows students the language and skills they will learn. Tips and advice from the Cranfield School of Management introduces an authoritative business perspective, and applies professional theory to real situations.

A new edition of the best-selling English File, improved throughout with brand new digital components to use inside and outside the classroom. English File Third edition — the best way to get your students talking. The English File concept remains the same — fun, enjoyable lessons which get students talking through the right mix of language, motivation, and opportunity — but now the content and the components have been updated and improved for students and teachers. The English File third edition digital components help to make the most of teaching and learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom. The digital package includes: iTools (a digital classroom resource), iTutor and iChecker for students, Pronunciation App for mobiles, Online Workbook, Student's and Teacher's websites.

The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all levels. Written by leading academics and renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explain the intellectual challenges of each area of the law. Company Law gives an authoritative and accurate account of the key principles and demystifies this complex area of the law without oversimplification. Chapter introductions will orientate readers with the various aspects of company law and further reading will provide the tools for further research and study. Self-test questions are an invaluable aid to reinforcing learning and supporting revision and will assist with examination recall.

The all new Oxford First Thesaurus, with new contemporary 3D artwork and easy-to-use page design, is the best thesaurus for children in their early school years. It is powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, a unique electronic database of millions of words of writing for children. The colourful, simple layout gives entries in alphabetical order along with hundreds of carefully-levelled synonyms for each entry and engaging full colour illustrations. To make navigation as easy as ABC, we have included the full alphabet on every page with coloured tabs, the letter of the page is highlighted. There is a full index of all the words that are included in the book at the back. It is the ideal companion to the Oxford First Dictionary. Go online for free downloadable word games, puzzles, and activities on the www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools website.