What Should Schools Teach?: Disciplines, Subjects and the Pursuit of Truth By Alka Sehgal Cuthbert; Alex Standish
2021 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1787358763 | PDF | 6 MB
A robust rationale on what schools should teach and how.The design of school curricula involves deep thought about the nature of knowledge and its value to learners and society. Such a serious responsibility raises a number of questions: What is knowledge for? What knowledge is important for children to learn? How do we decide what knowledge matters in each school subject? The blurring of distinctions between pedagogy and curriculum, as well as that between experience and knowledge, has resulted in a confusing message for teachers about the part that each plays in the education of children. This book aims to dispel confusion through a robust rationale for what schools should teach, offering key understanding to teachers of the relationship between knowledge and their own pedagogy. This second edition includes new chapters on chemistry, drama, music, and religious education, as well as an updated chapter on biology. A revised introduction reflects on the emerging discourse around decolonizing the curriculum and on the relationship between the knowledge that children encounter at school and in their homes.

What Gardeners Grow
by Bloom;Gandyra, Melanie;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0711272905 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 8.73 MB

Bohan Li, "Web and Big dаta: 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, Nanjing, China, November 25-27, 2022, Proceedings, Part III"
English | ISBN: 3031252004 | 2023 | 484 pages | PDF | 33 MB
This three-volume set, LNCS 13421, 13422 and 13423, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2022.

Bohan Li, "Web and Big dаta: 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, Nanjing, China, November 25-27, 2022, Proceedings, Part II"
English | ISBN: 3031251970 | 2023 | 578 pages | PDF | 47 MB
This three-volume set, LNCS 13421, 13422 and 13423, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2022.

Bohan Li, "Web and Big dаta: 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, Nanjing, China, November 25-27, 2022, Proceedings Part I"
English | ISBN: 3031251571 | 2023 | 596 pages | PDF | 42 MB
This three-volume set, LNCS 13421, 13422 and 13423, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2022.

Mark D. Williams, "Weather Disasters: How to Prepare For and Survive Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Blizzards, and Other Catastrophes"
English | 2018 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1510728627 | EPUB | 119,3 mb
Floods. Blizzards. Landslides. Earthquakes. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Severe weather happens every day across the globe. We see and hear of the devastating consequences whenever we tune into the evening news: property ravaged, communities destroyed, and lives lost. But although these events are unstoppable, you can prepare.

Leah Kaminsky, "We're All Going to Die"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1460749995 | EPUB | pages: 293 | 0.6 mb
Ever since I can remember I have harboured a profound fear of death. Even as a child, something as small as a dying moth crawling around in circles, leaving powdery traces of itself on the bathroom floo, could set off a flood of tears. Skull motifs on T-shirts, tattoos and jewellery have always made me squirm. I am scared of becoming ill, of dying, ever anxious about my own safety as well as the wellbeing of my family and friends. So how on earth did I choose a career in medicine, where I am constantly surrounded by people facing the threat of death? Until recent generations, death was very much a part of the fabric of life. Death avoidance, or the reluctance to engage in any thought or discussion around the subject, is a relatively new development in Western society. Nowadays, with the advent of mass immunisation, pharmaceuticals and other medical advances, we have almost forgotten that 'in the good old days' disease was most often a death sentence. nLess than a century ago, 10 per cent of infants didn't make it to their first birthday. Taking a stroll through an old section of a local cemetery is a sobering reminder of this, with many tiny graves lining the pathways. Religion once played a central role in providing a strong frame of reference for people to deal with death anxiety. The increasing secularisation of society sees many freefalling into a black hole of terror in the face of death, left trying to find another way to deal with this reality.

Victoria Kahn, "Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0691171246, 069111773X | EPUB | pages: 392 | 1.5 mb
Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law.

Robert Kandel, "Water from Heaven: The Story of Water from the Big Bang to the Rise of Civilization, and Beyond"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0231122454, 0231122446, 0231507755 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 18.8 mb
From where―and what―does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our world's oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms by way of slight variations in Earth's orbit and rotation. The book then takes the measure of water today in all its states, solid and gaseous as well as liquid.

Watching Earth from Space: How Surveillance Helps Us - and Harms Us by Pat Norris
English | PDF | 2010 | 299 Pages | ISBN : 1441969373 | 198.78 MB
Are satellites a threat to individual privacy? - How bad is climate change and global warming? - Why can we not find Osama bin Laden? - Does the world have enough fresh water? Watching Earth from Space gives you the answers to these and many other burning questions of the day. This is the story of how our planet is being monitored by hundreds of space-borne instruments for both military and peaceful reasons. It highlights the technical challenges of those instruments and describes the agencies that gather useful information from them.