This exciting new publication featuring chapters from some of the foremost practitioners in the field of modern languages today closely examines research-based analysis, structural contexts and classroom practice in teaching and learning. After analysing the current situation, each author proposes radical solutions to current problems and the whole book provides much needed fresh thinking on methodology and pedagogy.

Like food and water, sleep is essential for all. In this excellent study aid, the author looks at the nature and purpose of sleeping andrelated disorders, dreamingand hypnosis. This clear and focused introductionprovides a fantasticentry point for studentsseeking a deeper understanding of altered states of awareness.

The Politics of the New Germany continues to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date textbook on contemporary German Politics. The text takes a new approach to understanding politics in the post-unification Federal Republic. Assuming only elementary knowledge, it focuses on a series of the most important debates and issues in Germany today with the aim of helping students understand both the workings of the country's key institutions and some of the most important policy challenges facing German politicians. For this second edition, the content has been comprehensively...

Suitable for those concerned with addressing offending behaviour, this book: combines theoretical and contextual debates with practice-orientated concerns, key skills and interventions; offers a discussion of the types of work that are typically undertaken with offenders; and analyses treatment of minority and vulnerable offender populations.

This book analyses the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), one of Europe's most successful and influential political parties. The CDU might have been expected to struggle in the circumstances of a more diverse, secular reunified Germany, yet it has prospered to an extent almost unparalleled in western Europe. Chapters consider the CDU's policies (the factors driving them, their variation across Germany, the relationship to women, and the welfare state), its organisational development and change, and its position within the party system. Contributors particularly emphasise the...

Written by the highly experienced author-examiner team of Simon Green, Rob Lewis and Julia Willerton, our new editions of the popular Nelson Thornes AQA A Level series have been extensively revised to provide authoritative, accurate and comprehensive coverage of the new 2015 specification. This new edition for AQA Psychology A Level Year 2 will help you to develop core Psychology skills and encourage you to become a competent researcher and independent learner.

The only textbook that fully supports the Oxford AQA International A Level Psychology specification (9685), for first teaching from September 2018. Offers students a stimulating, effective, introduction to A Level Psychology, in a global context.