Richard Smith: 228 books

The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -1) Become familiar with a variety of writing styles2) Pick out the characteristics of effective writing3) Understand the contrasts between the written and spoken word4) Follow the 'golden rules' of effective...

When two brothers find an old fridge in the woods that's a portal to the past, they hatch a get-rich scheme—leading safaris to the Ice Age. But things go wrong quickly. Their clients get eaten. Dangerous animals escape into modern day Maine. And a ruthless repairman from the manufacturer arrives, determined to destroy the fridge and anyone who knows anything about it.

The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -1) Focus upon a variety of immediate and long-term goals2) Prioritize their work3) Apply particularly helpful study techniques4) Distinguish between ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ research5) Distinguish...

Enhanced and updated, this Fourth Edition of Richard E. Smith’s highly successful text examines the growing role of the principal in planning, hiring, staff development, supervision, and other human resource functions. The Fourth Edition includes new sections on ethics, induction, and the role of...

The study skills in this booklet should enable the student to: -1) Prepare effectively for exams2) Recognize the qualities needed to obtain a good exam pass3) Handle exam questions with quiet confidence4) Follow a definite timetable when answering exam questions5)...

The study skills in this section should enable students to: -1) Write gripping paragraph openings2) Control the 'direction' of the paragraph3) Employ brief (as well as long) sentences4) Punctuate the work accordingly5) Make the work comprehensible to outside parties6) Close paragraphs in a brisk, business-like manner

The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -1) Understand and remember the characteristics of effective thinking2) Remove obstacles to effective thinking3) Avoid the common flaws in poor thinking4) Improve thinking ability5) Handle evidence competently6)...

The study skills in this section should enablestudents to: -1) Follow essay conventions2) Sift relevant from irrelevant information3) Retain control over the middle part of the essay4) Present effective arguments5) Place an analysis of causes into neat categories6)...

Questions of discipline and order arise wherever formal education is practised, and are particularly acute for those training to teach or in their first school posts. For many years now writing on these topics has tended to depict teaching as the deployment of ‘skills’ and ‘techniques’ and...

What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks? Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have extraordinary...

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This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. It reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.

Going straight meant crooked planning. He'd never make it unless he somehow managed to...

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