David Benson: 37 books
Creating Outstanding Classrooms
A whole-school approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This timely new book outlines a whole-school approach to embedding a sustainable model of teaching and learning that puts the learner at the heart of the system. It provides an entire framework for ensuring all students achieve above their expectations; incorporating school vision, teacher professional...
Politics and the Environment
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Politics and the Environment has established itself as one of the most comprehensive textbooks in this area. This new edition has been completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features and the theory-to-practice focus which made the first two editions so successful.
This text is...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
by Andy Conway, David Wake, A.A. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Take a walk down Birmingham's main street, at the heart of England, and experience 400 years of historical fiction, fantasy, time travel, crime and comedy.
An unlikely threesome re-enact Jaws on the Brindley Place canals; a Polish immigrant escaping the 1980 Solidarity crackdown tries to find...
Comin' Right at Ya
How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when country fans hate hippies and Western swing. It sounds like a joke but—more than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later—Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world....
by E.F. Benson, David Stuart Davies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
‘His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a...
Household Accounts
Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she argues...
by Raymond Benson, Richard Christian Matheson, David J. Schow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
More than 160 short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors. This volume will introduce you to horror, mystery, fantasy and thrills, from the dark worlds of Lovecraft to the cutting-edge suspense of the mean streets of the cities of the world. This monster collection speaks in the voices...
The Greatest Classics of Science Fiction
The War of The Worlds, Anthem, Frankenstein, The Lost World, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20.000 Leagues under the Sea, Flatland, Iron Heel, Looking Backward, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
This meticulously edited SF Collection is jam-packed with the greatest dystopias, space adventures and apocalyptic tales, and formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea H. G. Wells:...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
Reaching a Generation for Christ
A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1997
Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...
Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales
The Phantom of the Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Turn of the Screw, The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, A Haunted Island, Black Magic, The Beetle, The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental…...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales
The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America, A Traveler in Time, The Guardians…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Philip F....