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Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential reading, admired and envied for the quality of its writers and for its trenchant but fair-minded views.

Astor grew up at Cliveden, the country house on the Thames which his grandfather had bought when he turned his back on New York, the source of the family fortune. His liberal-minded father was a constant support, but his relations with his mother, Nancy, were always embattled. At...

Talks about the era in which the masses were given access to what had previously been the preserve of a wealthy few - books. This title recounts how Allen Lane came to launch his Penguins for the price of a packet of cigarettes; how they became enormously

A useful guide for young scientists and an aid in their science fair showcases. This book offers 15 unique experiments with clear instructions, explanations and recommendations that encourage young students to challenge their mind and make the most out of their science fair experience.

Astonishingly precocious in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by an acute sense of failure and romantic yearning. His two greatest books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise, "are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism, and merciless self-knowledge. He was an essayist and parodist of genius, a superb literary journalist, and nurturer of some of the finest writers of his time. Jeremy Lewis is the ideal biographer of Connollysympathetic to his doubts and failings, celebratory of his achievements, and delighted by his humor. This book is an...

This book is about the use of Commercial computer games to train and to educate young kids. This new strategy may be very useful in the near future.

This book provides a critical review of research into how children come to understand the social world, an area often known as children's -theories of mind-.

• Takes an integrated approach to the development of children's social understanding
• Brings out the connections between mental state understanding and children's understanding of language, social skills, morality and emotions.
  Sets research within a historical and theoretical context
• Contributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly in its discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its...

This book provides a critical review of research into how children come to understand the social world, an area often known as children's -theories of mind-.

• Takes an integrated approach to the development of children's social understanding
• Brings out the connections between mental state understanding and children's understanding of language, social skills, morality and emotions.
  Sets research within a historical and theoretical context
• Contributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly in its discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its...

First cumulative supplement to the 3rd Edition now available: http: //bit.ly/2t1OxGO

This book provides a detailed survey of the law relating to public interest disclosure. It examines how the system has developed since the coming into force of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), and provides up-to-date practical guidance on the key issues that arise in practice. Analysing the legal framework in the area, both under PIDA and the disparate sources of law that can apply, it provides in-depth commentary on case law and legislative developments. It examines the structure...

This book introduces several core areas of developmental psychology, examining empirical research as well as theoretical debates, looking at new areas of research such as cognitive neuroscience and how it has impacted on our understanding of how children develop.

Contains two core modules which focus on the personal skills required by managers to help underwrite competence in all areas. This book includes the module Manage Activities that describes the principles of managing the processes and activities of any organisation in its efforts to satisfy the needs of their customers.