Rodin Educational Consultancyhas developed a range of Teaching Tools to Empower Thinking. With over 30,000 copies sold, Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies is a popular resource for teachers, with easy to use tools and worksheets for empowering students to think, and engage in a lifelong love of learning.
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Good books are like meek animals that stretch when we caress their backs, and that show us their bellies so we go and play with them; but they also do not hesitate to give us a good bite to free us from the claws of routine. To create these noble creatures, in Cataplum we dig like moles through the collective memory and explore the roots that connect us as Latin-Americans; thus, we recover our oral tradition, our playful language and its diverse and endless possibilities. As truffle-seeking pigs, we have developed an acute nose to find texts of authors from past and actual times. As rabbits we jump here and there tracking down illustrators with new proposals. And as eagles we strive to see, from a distance, how image and texts can coexist in harmony. In sum, our catalogue has been conceived as a living creature; one that begun as something very little, like bear cubs, but capable of becoming a fabulous living being; one that combines the best qualities of noble animals and have the power to captivate us.
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Im Nachkriegsmünchen ist er verfemt, und so geht er mit seiner Frau und den drei Töchtern nach Bolivien, der exzentrische Hans Ertl, einst Riefenstahls erster Kameramann und Rommels ›Leibphotograph‹. Doch auch das neue Leben ist reich an Spannungen, und für seine nächste Expedition, die Suche nach der verlorenen Inkastadt Paititi, muss die ganze Familie einen hohen Preis zahlen. Insbesondere Monika, die älteste Tochter und ihrem Vater frappierend ähnlich, scheint jeden Halt zu verlieren. Was als persönliche Sinnkrise beginnt, wird zu ihrer politischen Radikalisierung führen und sie zu immer extremeren Maßnahmen treiben. Rodrigo Hasbún hat eine spektakuläre historische Episode zu einem hochexplosiven Kammerspiel verdichtet. Er erzählt von den Hoffnungen und Ernüchterungen einer deutschen Familie im südamerikanischen Exil und von den unentrinnbaren Fliehkräften der Geschichte.
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Es gehört zu den erstaunlichsten Phänomenen der Wissenschafts- und Disziplinentwicklung, daß, obwohl die Technik seit geraumer Zeit zu einer der bestimmenden Größen moderner Gesellschaften geworden ist, es bis heute keine ausgereifte Soziologie der Technik gibt. Dieser Band soll dazu beitragen, wenigstens in Ansätzen die bezeichnete Lücke zu schließen. Das Spektrum der hier vorgestellten Arbeiten ist breit angelegt: Überlegungen zu einer Theorie der Technik, historisch-soziologische Analysen, empirisch ausgerichtete Untersuchungen, programmatische Forschungsansätze und klassisch gewordene Arbeiten zum Themenkomplex. Dabei werden unterschiedliche techniksoziologische Bezüge zu dem politischen, wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Bereich hergestellt. Dies ist Ausdruck der Tatsache, daß die technische Entwicklung keine isolierte Größe bildet, wie vor nicht langer Zeit noch oft behauptet wurde. Im Gegenteil: die Bedingungen und Folgen der Technik bleiben weitgehend unverständlich, solange es nicht gelingt, sie in einen breiteren Kontext zu stellen. Dieses Ziel könnte mit Hilfe soziologischer Analysen greifbarer werden.
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Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fasincating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes. ;
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Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes.
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There he stands, the man the whole of Spain cheered, before whom the most catholic regents Isabella and Ferdinand rose to their feet, his eyes on his ship Capitana, devoured by shipworm, stranded off Jamaica. Some of the crew mutiny, the locals can no longer be fobbed off with glass beads, the Spanish on the nearby island of Hispaniola do not help, the world doesn‘t want anything to do with him, the demanding whinger. He, Christopher Columbus, is a John Lackland, a king without land, a conqueror without conquest. Between fiction and historical truth, Wolfgang Wissler recounts the legendary sailor‘s last expedition in an entirely new way – and what a story it is!
