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  • Defying Decrepitude

    by Alan Peacock ...
    One of our most distinguished economists, Sir Alan Peacock, also happens to be a nonagenarian.As an academic and former civil servant, Peacock is well-situated to analyse the costs and benefits of retirement and the courses of action that we can take in anticipation of a lengthening lifespan.In trying to make sense of old age by writing of his later life and memoirs, he explores the Maxims of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Heritage Game

    Economics, Policy, and Practice

    by Alan Peacock, Ilde Rizzo ...
    A notable feature in cultural life is the growing demand to preserve and promote public access to historical buildings and sites, and artistic treasures of the past. Governments are increasingly involved in financing and regulating private attempts to meet this growing demand as well as extending their own provision of these treasures in state and locally owned museums and galleries. These ... Read more

    $95.19 CAD

  • Science Skills

    A Problem Solving Activities Book

    by Alan Peacock ...
    This is a practical book for pupils, designed to teach the basic skills of scientific investigation and problem solving. With an emphasis on skills not facts, it is practical in approach, describing over 100 activities. No specialised apparatus is required and the investigations it covers are flexible enought to relate to any science course. ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Economic Theory of Fiscal Policy

    by Alan Peacock, G. K. Shaw ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1971, this book uses the famous Tinbergen/Theil approach to the theory of economic policy, demonstrating the place of fiscal policy in a realistic policy context. The volume marries analytical developments in macroeconomics to the influence on the economy of the system of public finance. Attention is given to the problem co-ordinating fiscal policy with other policy ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Anxious to do Good

    Learning to be an Economist the Hard Way

    by Alan Peacock ...
    After nearly three and a half -- rather too exciting -- years as a young war-time sailor, Alan Peacock expected to return to a life of quiet contemplation. Instead he became an activist economist frequently engaged in controversies about the conduct of economic policy lasting all his professional life. His earlier experiences at trying to ‘do good’ will resonate with all those who have attempted ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom

    by Alan Peacock, Jack Wiseman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1961, this book became widely used as a textbook, as an important source of primary data on British government expenditure statistics and as the point of departure for further empirical and analytical studies of the behaviour of governments. The book was recognised as one of the formative influences in the development of a positive theory of government expenditure which ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Science for Curriculum Leaders

    by Elizabeth Clayden, Alan Peacock ...
    The ten modules here cover both areas of particular concern in the teaching of science - organising the classroom for investigations, reviewing science coverage on a whole school basis - and the ways in which issues of more general concern in the primary curriculum (the multicultural dimension, planning for individual progression, assessment etc.), affect the teaching of science. ... Read more

    $272.08 CAD

  • Primary Science

    A Guide to Teaching Practice

    Why is science hard to teach? What types of scientific investigation can you use in the primary classroom?Touching on current curriculum concerns and the wider challenges of developing high-quality science education, this bookis an indispensable overview of important areas of teaching every aspiring primary school teacher needs to understand including: the role of science in the curriculum, ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Teacher education through classroom evaluation

    The principles and practice of IT-INSET

    by Patricia M E Ashton, Euan S. Henderson, Alan Peacock ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First Published in 1989 Teacher education through classroom evaluation is about the IT- INSET (Initial Training- In-Service Education and Training) approach to improving children’s learning. It argues that continuous improvement depends upon the quality of teachers’ theorising about learning and teaching. With help of case studies, it discusses important themes like evaluation strategy; IT- INSET ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • National Income and Social Accounting

    by Ronald Cooper, Profesor Harold C Edey, Harold C. Edey, Professor Sir Alan T Peacock, Alan T. Peacock ...
    'A very useful introduction to the techniques of social accounting' Bankers' Magazine.'Remarkable feat of compression and expositionit will surely remain for a long time the best summary of macro-accounting techniques' Accounting Research.This volume covers developments both in the scope and content of official economic statistics of national income and expenditure and in their use for short ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey

    A BBC Radio Collection

    by Thomas Love Peacock ...
    Narrated by Daniel Massey, Alan Dudley, Andrew Branch, Caroline Gruber, John Baddeley, Carleton Hobbs, Esme Percy, Frank Duncan, Norman Shelley, Full Cast, Kenneth Williams, Michael Horden ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 40 min

    Three stunning full-cast dramatisation of Thomas Love Peacock’s classic storiesListen now to this collection of three of the finest stories from Thomas Love Peacock. A contemporary and close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love Peacock was born in 1785 and wrote satirical novels discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. Packed with witty dialogue, intriguing ideas and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Primary Science: Teaching Theory and Practice

    by John Sharp, Rob Johnsey, Shirley Simon, Alan Cross, Diane Harris, Graham A Peacock, Robin James Smith ...
    Series series Achieving QTS Series
    All you need to know about the theory and practice of teaching primary science.If you are training to be a primary school teacher, a knowledge of the primary science curriculum is not enough, you need to know HOW to teach science in primary schools.This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary science. It takes a focused look at the practical aspects of teaching and covers ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD