Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.

Realism and the Aim of Science is the first volume of the Postcript. Popper here formulates and explains his non-justificationist theory of knowledge: science aims at true explanatory theories, yet it can never prove, or justify, any theory to be true,...

Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicized that experience. Since 1945, debates in Germany about the past that would not fade away have been reasonably well-known. But in this book, Richard Bosworth maintains that Germany is not unique. He argues that in Britain, France, Italy, the USSR and Japan, as well as in Germany, the traumatic history of the long Second World War has remained crucial to the culture and the politics of post-war societies. Each has felt a compelling need to interpret this past event...

This book shows how teachers can improve their competence whilst taking account of factors such as children's ability, background and needs as well as the nature of the topic and resources available.

Group work has in recent years become the object of considerable controversy. This workbook shows teachers how effective group work, flexibly used, can be and how to discover what works for them.

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.