2015
Britten’s Words
Introduction Why poetry? Mrs Britten W. H. Auden Walter de la Mare Peter Pears William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ William Blake Edith Sitwell Praise We Great Men Visualisation: Screenshots of digital diagrams of the temporal relations between Britten’s songs and the lifetimes of his poets Winter Words Thomas Hardy The song cycles List of poets set
Aftershock
Prologue Introduction: The Spiral Part I ‘Welcome Home, Soldier Boy’: The hard return from war ‘Case One’: ‘Shell shock’ and the origins of military psychiatry ‘The Trigger’: Outwardly untouched, wounded within ‘Delayed Massive Trauma’: Soldiers, therapists and the ‘invention’ of PTSD ‘Lager Therapy’: Pouring petrol on the fire ‘No Safety Catch’: Ex-forces and criminal justice …
Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics in Primary Schools
Subject knowledge for teachers Discriminating sounds and phonemes Challenges Grapheme-phoneme correspondences and ‘tricky’ or common exception words Decoding and encoding text Long vowel digraphs – the advanced alphabetic code Phonics into spelling Effective pedagogy Teaching phonics in the early years Multi-sensory and interactive methods Teaching a systematic structured progression Planning for phonics Tracking and assessing …
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The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
Introduction Getting Started Ground Trees Plants Mosses, Algae, Fungi and Lichens A Walk with Rocks and Wildflowers Sky and Weather Sun Stars Sun Moon A Night Walk Animals A Walk with the Dayak – Part I City, Town and Village A City Walk with Invisible Snakes Coast, Rivers and Lakes Snow and Sand A Walk …
Ardennes 1944
Table of Military Ranks American British German Waffen-SS Victory Fever Antwerp and the German Frontier The Battle for Aachen Into the Winter of War The Hürtgen Forest The Germans Prepare Intelligence Failure Saturday 16 December Sunday 17 December Monday 18 December Skorzeny and Heydte Tuesday 19 December Wednesday 20 December Thursday 21 December Friday 22 …
Im Labyrinth der Lügen
Das unbekannte Land Albträume und Überraschungen Geisterschritte im Museum Ein Brief mit schwarzen Balken Millie Ischtar im Reich der Toten Spuk im Depot Ein böser Verdacht Besuch im Theater Auf der Spur des Professors Der Hieroglyphenstein Lebende Tote und gefälschte Pässe Wo ist Onkel Henri? Überraschung im Hotel Der Trabi vor der Haustür Verrat unter …
The Railway Infrastructure of Scotland
Introduction Former Highland Railway Territory Former Great North of Scotland Railway Territory Former North British Railway Territory Former Caledonian Railway Territory Former Glasgow & South Western Railway Territory