Ideal for students of any subject, this highly accessible and practical study guide gives you quick and easy strategies to help you make decisive progress in the subjects you find difficult or uninteresting, leaving you free to concentrate on the subjects you love.
Richard Palmer draws on his extensive experience of secondary school teaching to
give proven subject-specific advice that will help students from 15-19
show you how to understand more about a topic through both online and...
Do you have a weak subject you just have to pass?
Ideal for students of any subject, this highly accessible and practical study guide gives ...
Contemporary sport could not function without the involvement of voluntary organisations, from local grass-roots clubs to international agencies such as the International Olympic Committee. This book presents the principles and practices necessary for effective management of voluntary sport organisations around the world.
Contemporary sport could not function without the involvement of voluntary organisations, from local grass-roots clubs to international agencies such ...
Write in Style offers practical advice on all types of writing from essays and articles to minutes and reportage. The main areas covered are: sentences, punctuation and paragraphs; finding and using the right style; how to write essays, reports, minutes and summaries; and a comprehensive guide to English grammar.
Write in Style offers practical advice on all types of writing from essays and articles to minutes and reportage. The main areas covered are: sentence...
The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a successful problem-solving approach in the natural sciences from laser physics, quantum chaos, and meteorology to computer simulations of cell growth in biology. It is now recognized that many of our social, ecological, and political problems are also of a global, complex, and nonlinear nature. And one of the most exciting contemporary topics is the idea that even the human mind is governed largely by the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems. Mainzer gives a wide-ranging survey of the role of complexity and evolution in nature and in the...
The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a successful problem-solving approach in the natural sciences from laser physics, quantum chaos, an...
This lively and stimulating book offers an enlightening new approach to effective study. Without minimising the importance of good organisation and hard work, the author stresses throughout that study must and can be fun.
Delivered with characteristic humour and wisdom, Richard Palmer updates and reinvigorates a classic, best-selling book with new sections on computers and the internet, as well as chapters covering important areas such as:
memory and review
essay planning and writing
note-taking
time management
using resources
...
This lively and stimulating book offers an enlightening new approach to effective study. Without minimising the importance of good organisation and...
Packed full of invaluable and practical advice, tips, quizzes and self-assessment exercises for fifteen to eighteen year olds, this guide, written with the keenest and most ambitious students in mind, will help you to maximise your academic potenitial and achieve the results you need. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this study guide will help you to:
assess your own strengths and weaknesses
make the best use of available resources
effectively manage your time and prioritise your workload
develop essay-writing and note-taking...
Packed full of invaluable and practical advice, tips, quizzes and self-assessment exercises for fifteen to eighteen year olds, this guide, written ...
Ideal for students of any subject, this highly accessible and practical study guide gives you quick and easy strategies to help you make decisive progress in the subjects you find difficult or uninteresting, leaving you free to concentrate on the subjects you love.
Richard Palmer draws on his extensive experience of secondary school teaching to
give proven subject-specific advice that will help students from 15-19
show you how to understand more about a topic through both online and...
Do you have a weak subject you just have to pass?
Ideal for students of any subject, this highly accessible and practical study guide gives ...
The style and approach is particularly suited to current student needs as the author stresses the importance of adopting a positive response to study. The lively and enthusiastic tone, and the practical advice on everything from planning revision to designing CVs gives this book enormous appeal to all, from A-level to mature students.
The style and approach is particularly suited to current student needs as the author stresses the importance of adopting a positive response to study....
Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduring public appeal and the variety of criticism that has recently been applied to his work. Richard Palmer suggests that the ostensible simplicity of Larkin's writing, which continues to attract so many readers to him, is deceptive, masking as it does one of the richest and most resonant of oeuvres in twentieth-century poetry. Penetrating the many masks of Larkin, the book sheds new and considerable light on the hitherto largely ignored...
Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduri...
Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduring public appeal and the variety of criticism that has recently been applied to his work. Richard Palmer suggests that the ostensible simplicity of Larkin's writing, which continues to attract so many readers to him, is deceptive, masking as it does one of the richest and most resonant of oeuvres in twentieth-century poetry. Penetrating the many masks of Larkin, the book sheds new and considerable light on the hitherto largely ignored...
Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduri...
