This is a lively and engaging introduction to education as an academic subject, taking into account both theory and practice. Covering the schooling system, the nature of knowledge and methods of teaching, it analyses the viewpoints of both teachers and pupils.
This is a lively and engaging introduction to education as an academic subject, taking into account both theory and practice. Covering the schooling s...
Reviewers of this five-star comic novel have been ecstatic about its kinky humor, calling "Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan" "hysterically funny and outrageous," and "a very funny sci-fi, gothic horror." Michael Silverstein's book is a wild riff about some very strange doings under the streets of Gotham in 1973. A criminal society has taken root there along with a pollution-spawned new chain of life, both of which must be destroyed by an elite, secretly created military unit headed by a guy planning a coup d'etat. All that stands in the way of New York City descending into utter chaos, the...
Reviewers of this five-star comic novel have been ecstatic about its kinky humor, calling "Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan" "hysterically funny and out...
The Big Belch is ..".great stuff " says Stanford Professor Robert Proctor. Bill McKibben ..".enjoyed The Big Belch] much." ..".The characters and illustrations are quirky and delightful..." ..".is terrific, I was laughing throughout..." - Judy Morgan ..".book is terrific I was laughing throughout the read and the mountain of drawings was excellent." - Steve Donegan "Entertaining, funny, and enlightening, with wonderfully drawn characters who reveal their personalities as the story progresses ... The illustrations ... are uniquely the work of this artist, and go far beyond the call of duty in...
The Big Belch is ..".great stuff " says Stanford Professor Robert Proctor. Bill McKibben ..".enjoyed The Big Belch] much." ..".The characters and ill...
Whether he was watching head-butting contests in the basement of a of 1950s Brooklyn tenement, picking up laundry in a former Nazi concentration camp as a Jewish-American soldier, or navigating the Kafkaesque hearing room where the city of Boston relegates challenges to parking tickets, Michael Silverstein's peculiar life was filled with unexpected turns, and unlikely (but irresistible) humor. Mike was a man who lived in a (literal) windmill in Spain, and tilted at (metaphorical) windmills everywhere else. He cleaned toilets for the Queen of England's secretary, and was a featured speaker at...
Whether he was watching head-butting contests in the basement of a of 1950s Brooklyn tenement, picking up laundry in a former Nazi concentration camp ...
