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Based on extensive research, this accessible and timely book presents a broad contemporary and critical analysis of the field of the education of children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities, in terms of the interaction and tension between different perspectives and positions.

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John Julius Norwich is a leading writer, historian and broadcaster and author of two bestselling collections of Christmas Crackers. Quentin Blake is one of Britain's finest illustrators, and best known for his own picture books and his collaboration with Roald Dahl. He was appointed the country's first Children's Laureate in 1999.

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All shall be well and all manner of things shall be well'. - but what else do we know of ths fourteenth -century a chlorite beyond the fact that she lved somewhere near Norwich and was an early universalist and feminist (God as mother as well as father ...).? Nothing, except that her intimate beautiful writings bring us nearer than perhaps, our own selves. Another in the Callender Peace Studies, and Mediaeval Texts.

Over the course of forty years, Oscar Norwich accumulated the world's greatest private collection of African maps. This catalog comprises a record of foreign knowledge of the continent from the "Age of Exploration" to modern times, and demonstrates how the rest of the world was quick to learn the shape of the African continent but slow to grasp the realities of its interior. From the fabulous creatures depicted on early maps to the blank "regi...

This book takes an in-depth look at how education and psychology relate to each other, and at the current state of this relationship. Through comprehensive analysis of the ideological, historical, social and professional contexts of this interaction, the author develops the theme that, despite basic differences in aims, the fields are interconnected.

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Wann kamen die ersten Menschen auf den Gedanken, in Städten zusammenzuleben und Bauwerke zu errichten, um Götter zu preisen und Herrscher zu ehren? Dieses Buch vermittelt nicht allein geschichtliche Hintergründe früher Urbanisierung, sondern dokumentiert die von unseren Vorfahren geschaffene Weltkunst und -architektur in prächtigen Bildern. Die Reise entführt den Leser vom Nahen Osten aus nach Afrika, Europa und Asien bis nach Amerika. Histori...

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A popular history of some of the most illustrious and iniquitous figures of the past, from the acclaimed historian. Norwich traces the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself to the present pope Benedict XVI. Norwich has no religious axe to grind, so provides an impartial view.

The Master of Game Edward of Norwich. Edited by William A. and F. N. Baillie-Grohman. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt "Of exceptional interest for the light shed on the ethos, style, and tastes of the secular aristocracy of the later Middle Ages. . . . A real boon to the historian. . . . For those of us who still admire and cherish the huntsman's now threatened world, The Master of Game has a particular appeal."--London Review of Books The Ma...

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Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history. "Sicily, " said Goethe, "is the key to everything." It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily's strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes, and...

With the same dazzling intelligence and narrative mastery he brought to his acclaimed three-volume history of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich produces a shorter, more accessible chronicle of the world's longest-lived Christian empire. of b&w, illustrations. of color illustrations.

A one-volume narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919. Written in the racy, readable prose for which author Norwich is famous, this is colorful, character-driven history. He tackles a vast subject--vast in time, from the oldest surviving pyramid to the First World War, vast in geography, from Gibraltar to Jerusalem, and vast in culture, including as it does the civilizations of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, Greece, C...