Conversaciones con Ian McEwan reúne catorce entrevistas que abarcan cuarenta años de la trayectoria del autor de Expiación, Sábado y Chesil Beach. En diálogo con prestigiosos escritores como Martin Amis, Zadie Smith y David Remnick, y el psicólogo Steven Pinker, entre otros, McEwan desgrana su visión del proceso creativo y sus obsesiones narrativas con la agudeza, el humor y la inteligencia que le caracterizan como prosista. Desde la fijación por las pulsiones humanas más oscuras que acota...

Un niño llamado Emilio se zambulle en la bañera y de pronto su baño se convierte en una aventura salvaje: burbujas, rugidos, animales emergentes... hasta que mamá aparece y... ¿Qué sucederá?

Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools, everyone was surprised by how difficult it was to assess charter school performance. The first part of this book focuses on how to improve estimates of charter schools' performance, especi...

Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archaeol...

The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges.This text (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in its previous editions) is the only full...

Riveting radio dramatisations of Charles Dickens' fifteen full-length novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes fifteen of his most popular novels.This collection includes the episodic adventure Nicholas Nickleby, comic tale The Pickwick Papers, poignant melodrama The Old Curiosity Shop, the much-loved Oliver Twist. Plus, th...

Enthralling radio dramatisations of eight of Charles Dickens' much-loved novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this second digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes eight of his classic novels.This collection includes the epic masterpiece David Copperfield, described by Dickens as his ‘favourite child’; suspenseful mystery Bleak House; Dickens’ most openly political novel, Hard Ti...