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Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a changing World
Edited by Hugo de Burgh, Anna Fazackerley and Jeremy Black
“This is a timely and provocative book addressing some of the key challenges facing the HE sector in a series of papers by the leaders and innovators in the field.” Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS, Vice President and MRC Research Professor, The University of Manchester.
Contributors include: Sir Harry Kroto, David Palfreyman, Bernard Lamb, Kenneth Minogue, Boris Johnson, Bill Rammell, Terence Kealey, Alex Reed and other leading authorities in the HE field.
ISBN 095546420X RRP £15.99 |
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Truancy Dr Michael Connolly
4 essays by renowned experts in the field looking at the subject of Truancy £12.99 Paperback |
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Science vs Superstition The case for a new scientific enlightenment
Edited by: James Panton and Oliver Marc Hartwich
The enemies of the future are those people who have given up on the very principles on which the enlightenment is founded, preferring mysticism to rationality, ideology to evidence and superstition to science. This collection of essays challenges the common belief that in today’s world the is no such thing as progress which is not dangerous of at least questionable. If the attack on science continues it will endanger the very foundations of the social economic and cultural success of the past three centuries.
ISBN 0-9551909-8-3 RRP £9.99
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Inside the Secret Garden The progressive decay of liberal education
Tom Burkard Foreword by Dennis O’Keeffe
Despite unprecedented increases in education spending, standards are plummeting, and at least 20% of our children can’t even read. Tom Burkard shows how an intellectually misguided elite - claiming to be experts in child development and psychology - have subverted the will of the people and used our children as guinea pigs in a grand “experiment” that has gone horribly wrong.
Tom Burkard highlights the central paradox of progressive education - that despite the professed aim of creating a more democratic society it would be almost impossible to design a system better suited to perpetrating both class divisions and the gulf between the have and have-nots
ISBN 0955464218 RRP £12.99 |
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Crescent and Delta (published Oct 2008) The Bangladesh Story
David Urch Edited by John Clarke
Proceeds of the sale go to the University of Buckingham Bangladesh Scholarship
In 2007 the media gave comprehensive coverage to India and Pakistan on the 60th anniversary of independence. Nothing was said about East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Crescent and Delta redresses this injustice.
This is the story of Bengal; now at last a state that can enjoy independence and, free of exploitation, be allowed to enjoy its beauty and natural riches. By no means free of problems, many caused by globalisation and climate change, the state of Bangladesh has a last its destiny in its own hands.
David Urch’s vivid narrative tells the history but also evokes the people and the place describing the long history of outside influence that has created modern Bangladesh. Despite centuries of external domination the Bangladeshis remain a proud and unique people and able at last to benefit themselves from their own rich and diverse country.
ISBN 0955464242 RRP £20.00 |
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The Dickens Index The Dickens Society
Published in collaboration with the Dickens Society this book provides the updated index for the Society Journal to the present. £38 Hardback £25 Paperback |
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Why Chimps have large Testes and other bollocks Dr Terence Kealey
Collected pieces from Times, Telegraph and Spectator of this well renowned author whose recent book Sex, Science and Profits has been riding high in the book sales lists. £12.99 Paperback |
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Wealth without Cost Dr Bracewell-Milnes 1st part of a two volume magnum opus looking at a new area of economic thought. £30 Hardback
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The Power of Numbers Richard Ehrman Published in collaboration with The Policy Exchange this book provides a radical reassessment of population growth. £12.99 Paperback
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Compassionate Economics Jesse Norman Published with the Policy Exchange this book is the Cameronian view of economics and follows the successful Compassionate Conservatism £12.99 paperback
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Shakin the Ketchup Bottle (published Nov 2008) The Queen’s English Society
A fascinating collection of ideas observations anecdotes and some really curious bits culled from “Quest”. The magazine of the Queen’s English Society
How can a slim chance and a fat chance mean the same? This is a book full of controversy or should that be controversy? It is about whether spelling matters said John Gilpin as he rowed his horse across the river.
This collection contains some of the bits that the editors have enjoyed most over the years since its first publication. The English are known for their sense of humour and their ability to laugh at themselves whilst retaining a pride in their traditions. Perhaps the way that the English language can laugh at itself goes to the very heart of Englishness. But there is an important sub text to all this amusement. The use of humour is the best way to illustrate and then learn the important lessons that are essential if we are to retain our ability to communicate clearly.
This book is for all those who love the language and who are amused by its lunacy, tickled by its inconsistencies but respect and want to preserve something of its majesty. It will make all readers entirely gruntled.
ISBN 978-0-9554642-7-0 RRP £15.99 Society Members £12.99
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The Head Speaks Challenges and Visions in Education
Edited by Julian Lovelock Foreword by Sir Eric Anderson
Despite unprecedented increases in education spending, standards are plummeting, and at least 20% of our children can’t even read. Tom Burkard shows how an intellectually misguided elite - claiming to be experts in child development and psychology - have subverted the will of the people and used our children as guinea pigs in a grand “experiment” that has gone horribly wrong.
Tom Burkard highlights the central paradox of progressive education - that despite the professed aim of creating a more democratic society it would be almost impossible to design a system better suited to perpetrating both class divisions and the gulf between the have and have-nots
ISBN 0955464218 RRP £12.99 |
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A Silent Gene Theory of Evolution Warwick Collins A real rival to the theory of natural selection £15.99 Hardback
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