What can we learn about Van Morrison’s life and work as a songwriter through his songs? This book looks closely at the lyrics and music from a selection of his songs. Some are very well-known - ‘Brown Eyed Girl’, ‘Cleaning Windows’ and ‘The Healing Game’. Others are less familiar.Through these songs the book offers insights into some of the most important ideas that the songwriter has explored across his five-decade plus career, starting from the Them period and extending through h...

In Engaging Schooling, the authors use case studies to engagingly demonstrate how schools can use pedagogical change to enable students from low SES backgrounds to benefit academically and socially from their schooling.The book, which builds on Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty from the same research team, deals with key issues around the reshaping of schooling and teaching, focusing on structures for mentoring and research practice among teachers. It sign...

Alex, a young boy in the United States, is just one of the millions of military children accustomed to facing the difficulties of being a military child.Through a series of books: It's Not Goodbye It's See You Later, Deployment Difficulties, and Military Brats, Alex will tell his stories of dealing with deployment, moving, and being called a military brat.Through these tales, you will see Alex tends to be a little mischievous at times, but it is h...