Peat: 39 books

This comprehensive and practical book covers the basics of grammar as well as the broad brush issues such as writing a grant application and selling to your potential audience. The clear explanations are expanded and lightened with helpful examples and telling quotes from the giants of good writing. These experienced writers and teachers make scientific writing enjoyable.

Teaching Outstanding Persuasive Writing is a must-have for the busy teacher. Packed full of tried-and-tested effective strategies for teaching persuasive texts, the book is divided into four sections. 1. Structural models that really work! 2. Thirteen easy-to-teach opening strategies....

This book contains interviews with physicists, biologists, and chemists who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought. The conversations—with Bohm, Pattee, Penrose, Rosen, Rosenfeld, Somorjai, Weizsäcker, Wheeler, and Nobel prizewinners Heisenberg,...

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society. What do exemplary scientists and organisations do to bridge the gaps between these groups and help their research to make the greatest impact? How...

Medical Statistics provides the necessary statistical tools to enable researchers to undertake and understand evidence-based clinical research. It is a practical guide to conducting statistical research and interpreting statistics in the context of how the participants were recruited, how the...

50+ iPad Lessons for Teaching Non-fiction Writing provides teachers with a broad range of innovative ways to use apps in order to support pupils’ understanding of non-fiction genres. Raising writing standards is a key issue in many schools and the 50+ series of books by Lee and Alan help teachers...

Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at...

50+ iPad Lessons for Exciting Sentences provides busy teachers with a broad range of ideas for developing vocabulary, sentence structure and appropriate punctuation. This book offers a ‘way forward’ for teachers, and whole schools, seeking ways to develop grammar in an engaging manner. The...

Raising writing standards is a key issue in many schools and the ‘50+’ series of books by Lee and Alan have been designed to help teachers to integrate ‘cutting edge’ technology and literacy. The latest in the series, 50+ iPad Lessons for Teaching Fiction, provides teachers with...

Beyond Safeland where the twins live is a world of fun-filled humorous adventure, lovable creatures and a few untrustworthy characters. Charlie the chimp lost his brother George when all the monkeys in the Great Forest were captured, and the race is on to find and rescue them. The unseen King Adonai...

Who was Jesus before he was Jesus? What was his Earthly mission? For centuries, the Christian faith has centered on the resurrection of Jesus, the “only Son of God”. Wars have been fought, boundaries redrawn, countless lives lost, and rivers of blood shed for this mythical Jesus. This is the true biography of his soul, tracing his incarnations back through time.