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The pressure on schools to improve and to raise achievement continues to be a dominant issue in both school and government policies. School Effectiveness and School Improvement seeks to develop the debate further, providing academics and practitioners alike with

- a summary and discussion of research on school effectiveness and school improvement up to the present;

- new perspectives on these fields, developed from other traditions of thinking and research;

- a consideration of the role of organization theory;

- an integrated view of these current perspectives;...

No one lives within a continuous stream of peak experiences. Everyday life is both ordinary and marvelous. While sailing your mind in the sky, don't forget to have your car serviced regularly.

Light Waves continues the themes of Morita and Naikan psychotherapy found in David Reynolds' highly popular Constructive Living (UH Press, 1984) and The Quiet Therapies: Japanese Pathways to Personal Growth (UH Press, 1980). A book of reflections--inspired in part by the Denkoroku, a work written by a Soto Zen monk--Light Waves will appeal to readers of any faith. It reiterates the spiritual...

"You can't be happy all the time. You can't feel comfortable all the time. You can't have the feelings you want when you want them for as long as you want them. Life just doesn't operate like that. Maybe you have tried counseling or therapy or diets or meditation or chemicals or some sort of esoteric magic to work on your feelings, to fix your life or make it perfect. Nothing worked as well as you had hoped. Reading this book won't solve your life problems either. But it will give you some suggestions that are sensible, practical and doable--suggestions about how to work on your life. Work...

The prospect looked grim for Jed; alone, his escape pod crashed on an uncharted planet with no hope of rescue. But after he died a painful grizzly death in the dry desert things began to look up.
The lifeless planet that Jed now roams turns out to hold a secret vital to the existence of life itself.

David Reynolds-Moreton takes us on a journey of discovery through strange and hostile landscapes, and into the depths of a machine so staggeringly vast and at the same time utterly believable. Whether you see the twist at the end coming or not, you'll be completely drawn...

Fed up to the back teeth with Earth's population, greedy, warring and corrupt, Cresswell decides to up-sticks and spend the rest of his days in a space tug mining asteroids. At last with all the peace and solitude that he craved, life was more bearable apart from the regular descent to the smelting stations to sell his haul.

But there are a lot of strange things out in the asteroid belt; Cresswell encounters a stricken alien craft and with a heroism he never knew he had rescues the sole occupant. From that point on, the pair embark on an astounding voyage of discovery taking them to...

Marooned on an uncharted Planet, Kal wanders the savage wilderness on the edge of survival until he stumbles upon The Tribe living in a cave, near extinction and threatened by the local wildlife.
Kal instigates the technical and cultural birthing of the tiny people which takes off at a breathtaking pace. But there is another technological force at play on the strange planet, a relic of some past civilisation, or something more current?

A murder trial, a jury deliberating intensely on the death penalty, venal political corruption, and a staunch investigation set the stage for this story of two judges. One is a respected, seasoned veteran of the bench who has risen from Magistrate Court Judge to District Court and then to the Chief Justiceship of the state's Supreme Court; the other a young Administrative Law Judge, riveted by his duty, immovable and undeterred by enticement or violence, and unwilling to be silenced or swerve him from his sworn oath to uphold the law. Set in the cities and courthouses, the mesas,...

Dumped on an alien world, with no memory of his past, and among a strange bunch of people who had filled their own blank memories with myth and legend, what do you do?

If you just agree with the others, you stand a good chance of losing what little sanity you have left, and then what?
You could try to find the truth behind the myths, but if you do, you are labelled a heretic.
It takes a very tough character and a very thick skin to unravel the mysteries the man with no identity found himself submerged in.

Huddled inside their cave complex, life moves at a...

Jassic Koblintz or as he was known to the greater universe, Jas was destined for great things. Cherry-Picked from university by 'The Grey Man' and indoctrinated into the great and secret organisation within the Confederation of Planets formally known as 'The Seekers', but to those in the know, 'The Sweepers'.
His undercover work to seek out and CORRECT members of society on planets within the Confederation exceeded all expectations - and soon, that work was to take on a far greater significance.

"David Reynolds-Moreton lifts the lid on the secret forces that seek to...

Nature always fights back. Even after Mankind had scorched the Earth with nuclear fire, the forests regrew. New life now flourishes where it can, strange and savage. The distant descendants of the last survivors of Armageddon now live high in the interconnected branches of the vast forest, eeking out a simple existence.

The Story Tellers passed on tales of the Giants, and the Time of the Great Lights, but there is little or no understanding of what has gone before; the old world erased and forgotten.

Kel, and his new friend Moss embark on a journey to discover...

Long after the mighty dogs of war had barked their last three primitive settlements struggle to survive, distant but connected by a fragile wooden trackway. Brent sails the trackways between the settlements, ferrying materials and goods from his forest edge settlement and the metalworkers and outwards to the glass workers.
The desert wastelands between the three settlements are being consumed by an unknown force, gigantic funnels into which the parched sands are being slowly sucked. But there is something more, a malevolent cloud-like presence haunts the desert.
Brent is...

He woke up in the midst of a terrifying storm, alone in an ice-cave. He has no memory of where, who or even, after examining himself WHAT he was.
As the storm passed, he recalled one fact - he served an unknown master, forced to collect crystals from the icy wastes outside in return for a drug that would grant temporary relief from the pain of remembering his past.

But outside, his world was changing, the ice melting and with that his resolve to discover the truth mounted.

"Filled with amazing landscapes and creatures D.B. Reynolds-Moreton crafts...